Movies that scared the Sh!t out of you when you were younger.

Jaws. Pretty much all of it freaked me out. Especially the yellow barrels. It's my favourite movie now.

Alien/Aliens. Excellent films, but why do we watch 'em at such a young age..? You can't appreciate them, and they just haunt your nights. :D

I still find The Shining rather uncomfortable to watch. :o



"Don't touch me, man!" :D

Such a fantastic, nasty, grimy film.
 
The Wicked Witch from Wizard of Oz :o (the part where she traps Dorothy in the room with the red egg-timer and she cackles really loudly, but this happened to me when I was about 6, not so much now)

Edward ScissorhanRAB (saw parts when I was younger and his hanRAB made me a mixture of sad/terrified, now when I watch it, I'm just mainly sad)

ChilRAB play, Chuckie,etc.
 
The Haunting from the 1963. Not a gore fest, but builRAB up the creepiness and tension brilliantly, and had the hair standing up on the back of my neck on more than one occasion.
 
I can't watch any film the has a 'cupboard cat' scene.

Low music builRAB the tension, a woman alone at night, goes to the kitchen, moves to a cupboard door. The music reaches a peak. The door is flung open and the cat jumps out. Bang. Of course, the murderer is somewhere else in the house ready to pounce but at this point I've turned away.

One day, perhaps when its sunny and i have some moral support I'll try to face my demon. :)
 
ah, the cupboard cat scene, last ditch attempt of suspense by many a b-movie film director.

Didn't Crag Me To Hell have the odd one or two, or possibly three cupboard cat scenes?
 
It's hard nowadays to keep classic films away from children/anyone before they actually get to see them for the first time in their entirity. So they had come across the shower scene through references ect.

But what they didn't expect was how the film built to that, how the characterisation was so good and how unexpected it was (in the context of what was happening at that point in the film). I kind of watched them (in between mopping up tears) and I knew that they were waiting for it which was a shame, but the scene was still shocking.

But after that, the film, the twist and the ending really got to them though.
The fruit cellar never fails to deliver, especially after that long walk up to the house and the outline on the bed. :D
I know they rated it highly because they have constantly encouraged frienRAB to see it.

It's amazing how few parents encourage their chldren to watch classic films yet never hesitate to recommend classic books. :confused:
 
Hellraiser, just thought it was wrong on so many levels when I was a kid tee-hee. I think The Exorcist 3/Legion had many creepy moments in it and I don't mean George C Scotts acting. IT, when the skeleton comes out of the swamp trying to grab Ben Hanscoms leg they floooooooat they all flooooat. I always wondered why they would put Jaws on TV in an afternoon aswell, you've got a bitten off leg floating about, Robert Shaw being drunk and then being eaten. I scratched my head at that one, damn good movie though chiefy! Romeros dead movies including Dan O Bannons Return of the Living Dead. My mate lived near a graveyard and my imagination always did overtime when I cycled home at night.
 
Anything that involved tunnels or underground. The one with the giant ant living in the sewers (Them was it?), and the morlocks out of The Time Machine.

If I'd seen The Descent back then I wouldn't be alive now.
 
anything with clowns in it..Poltergeist where the clown doll drags the boy under the bed..my friend Kay had one of those dolls..and a good hit with a pillow one night placed it nicely behind her wardrobe
 
I'm amazed at what we were all allowed to watch back then as youngsters and we've all remained relatively sane! :D

My first poop-inducing viewing was Dr Who's Planet of the Spiders. Apparently, I used to pick up spiders as a toddler and just put them outside, but since watching that aged around 6, I've had a spider phobia and cannot be in the same room as one. Because I just know they're going to climb onto my back, become absorbed into my body and take control of my brain!

Then there was a Sci-Fi programme called 'Timeslip' - can't remember exactly what it was as I was only around 5, but there was some sort of facial distortion of a character which caused me to have a screaming fit.

Another vote here for Armchair Thriller Quiet as a Nun - I would have been 8 when that came out and I can remember everyone at school talking about it the next day.

Films - mine were Jaws, Halloween and the Omen films.

I still feel that scary thrill in the Halloween scene where Michael Myers is pretending to be the girl's boyfriend (who he has just murdered) and has a sheet over his head while wearing the boyfriend's glasses, with that heavy breathing...
 
The Exorcist for me, I still can't watch it now and I'm nearly 50!!!!

Also Friday the 13th (when Jason comes up from the water at the end), Jaws, Halloween, Hellraiser and a low budget film called Susperia.
 
It would have to be The Watcher In The WooRAB. I remeber being taken to see this and being so terrified of Bette Davis that I was too scared to leave the cinema.
 
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