jeez was i scared!
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kamloops67
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jaws really did have an effect on me too, when on dry land i can scoff but when out in deep water im always worried that i might not be at the top of the chain anymore. even in fresh water. pffft chicken.
when i was 20 or so i had to swim about 16-20 feet down to retrieve a tool kit for a fire pump out of quesnel lake, it was near dusk and pretty dark down there it took several attempts to get that deep and by the time i got my hands on that flourescent orange tool kit i was darn near in a panic, imagining the sharks, orca ,giant squids and other unnamed ,unseen horrors.
when i got back to camp all the hot water was gone ,so i couldnt get clean and the cook wouldnt let me in the cook shack for supper either.
oh to be young and without influence again lol i wasnt even the one that dropped the tool kit off the wharf
when i was 20 or so i had to swim about 16-20 feet down to retrieve a tool kit for a fire pump out of quesnel lake, it was near dusk and pretty dark down there it took several attempts to get that deep and by the time i got my hands on that flourescent orange tool kit i was darn near in a panic, imagining the sharks, orca ,giant squids and other unnamed ,unseen horrors.
when i got back to camp all the hot water was gone ,so i couldnt get clean and the cook wouldnt let me in the cook shack for supper either.
oh to be young and without influence again lol i wasnt even the one that dropped the tool kit off the wharf
dcxplant
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Wow, reading this is like a who's who of movies!
I was left to my own devices as a kid, so I scared the pants off of myself a couple of times.
The first I was 7 or 8 and the movie was Night of the Living Dead. The scene where the couple and daughter locked themselves in the basement...the moment the daughter opened her eyes, I completely FREAKED OUT. I was terrified the rest of the night, no sleep, nightmares, it was awful.
But I just LOVED that movie! I still love zombie movies, and Night of the Living Dead is my favorite.
I was left to my own devices as a kid, so I scared the pants off of myself a couple of times.
The first I was 7 or 8 and the movie was Night of the Living Dead. The scene where the couple and daughter locked themselves in the basement...the moment the daughter opened her eyes, I completely FREAKED OUT. I was terrified the rest of the night, no sleep, nightmares, it was awful.
But I just LOVED that movie! I still love zombie movies, and Night of the Living Dead is my favorite.
hannstv
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One of my favorite movies!
finesse_r
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My first scary movie that got to me was when I was five or six. An older cousin age nine or ten, and I walked into town (Small town of about 10,000 at the time) to the local movie theater on a Saturday afternoon. We paid our dimes for entry and watched a double feature. The second movie was one of the original Werewolf movies in black and white.
When the theater let out it was after dark and my cousin and I had to walk home in the dark. He being older was probably not too rattled, but neither of us could lay claims to be sophisticated at that time, so he was probably as scared as I was walking home in the dark.
This would have been about 1951 or 1952 and it was pretty common for folks to walk places back then rather than ride as few people owned cars. Also the crime rate was almost zero in that sleepy little town. There were no racial problems, no drug problems, no gangs, and people were just nicer. We still waked to school back then and walked to most other places, although I did get a bicycle not too long after that. But I did not ride it to school, I still walked to school.
When the theater let out it was after dark and my cousin and I had to walk home in the dark. He being older was probably not too rattled, but neither of us could lay claims to be sophisticated at that time, so he was probably as scared as I was walking home in the dark.
This would have been about 1951 or 1952 and it was pretty common for folks to walk places back then rather than ride as few people owned cars. Also the crime rate was almost zero in that sleepy little town. There were no racial problems, no drug problems, no gangs, and people were just nicer. We still waked to school back then and walked to most other places, although I did get a bicycle not too long after that. But I did not ride it to school, I still walked to school.
The Andromeda Strain freaked me out as a kid.
"That Darn Cat" was terrifying. Just thinking about it gives me the willies.
Jaws, Amittyville, Alien, Pet Sematery, and a couple others got to me. I usually read the books first.
Funny story:
My mom was a middle child of 9 kids, and after a particularly scary story (no TV's back then) the kids would check under their beds every night for bears before they went to sleep.
4 or five of the younger ones slept in one room, and the bravest would jump on the first bed and feel underneath, clearing the room as he leaped from bed to bed, while the others looked in the doorway dreading a bear had crawled in the room in the night.
One of my uncles hid under a bed with grandma's fur coat and when the brave sentry stuck his hand under the bed to feel for bears he growled when the hand touched his coat.
My mom said her brave brother's eyes shot open wide and he screamed a blood curdling scream and all the kids ran down the stairs knowing for sure a bear was hot on their heels!!
The uncle with the fur coat was laughing his head off until grandma got ahold of him and my mom said he was beat with a wooden spoon until it broke and then the switch came out!
Can you imagine trying to get those kids to go to sleep in the dark after that night??
They still talk about it at every family reunion and that happened 70+ years ago.
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Funny story:
My mom was a middle child of 9 kids, and after a particularly scary story (no TV's back then) the kids would check under their beds every night for bears before they went to sleep.
4 or five of the younger ones slept in one room, and the bravest would jump on the first bed and feel underneath, clearing the room as he leaped from bed to bed, while the others looked in the doorway dreading a bear had crawled in the room in the night.
One of my uncles hid under a bed with grandma's fur coat and when the brave sentry stuck his hand under the bed to feel for bears he growled when the hand touched his coat.
My mom said her brave brother's eyes shot open wide and he screamed a blood curdling scream and all the kids ran down the stairs knowing for sure a bear was hot on their heels!!
The uncle with the fur coat was laughing his head off until grandma got ahold of him and my mom said he was beat with a wooden spoon until it broke and then the switch came out!
Can you imagine trying to get those kids to go to sleep in the dark after that night??
They still talk about it at every family reunion and that happened 70+ years ago.
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When I was a little boy, for some reason, guys in gorilla suits scared me. Even the ones on the 3 Stooges. One day I was watching TV, when a commercial for the movie "Konga" ran, oh brother. When I got to go to the Dallas Zoo and see real ones, it never bothered my again. I remember being at the movies when the ad for a coming feature was "Shock Treatment", I knew I wasn't going to that one.
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Gunga Din (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Saw it in grade school about 1950.
Probably the reason I detest bayonets, samurai swords, and other brutal instruments.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_sword
Gunga Din (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Saw it in grade school about 1950.
Probably the reason I detest bayonets, samurai swords, and other brutal instruments.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_sword
If I may add another, my wife and I went to see American Werewolf in London. When we got home there was a sour smell in the kitchen so Mrs J asked me to take out the trash. Now I should have noticed the lid was off the trash can but......anyway I went quietly up to the can and dropped the bag in.....all of a sudden a yeowling and growling and scratching something came tearing out of the trashcan! I almost doo dood in my pants but I was too busy back tracking. My neighbors old gray tom cat got as big a scare as I did.
Just 'cause I was in my forties didn't mean a thing.
Just 'cause I was in my forties didn't mean a thing.
Texas Star
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I've noticed the references to, "Jaws." I read it and had to see the movie. (The book is better, but the movie is very good.)
My wife (now ex) was so scared that she insisted that we leave not even halfway into the film.
I didn't get to see the whole thing until after our divorce seven years later. I own it now and can watch when I want. And I can buy guns when I want, so long as I have the money. Divorce has its merits!
BTW, I'd read all of those shark books that Chief Brody was looking at in the movie, and have newer ones.
We also saw, "The Legend of Boggy Creek" (about a Bigfoot in East Texas) soon after our marriage. That scared her, too, but she came into the bathroom and tried to scare me in the shower. It didn't affect her like, "Jaws" did.
Incidentally, a well known knife writer whom I've known for decades now told me that he knew the producer of that movie and went out to the bean field where there were supposed to be some tracks left by this creature, which is apparently real, and scared even experienced hunting dogs that'd track bears. It alledgedly injured a man who had to be treated at a Texarkana hospital. The tracks were obvious fakes, too long for the width. They'd been made for the semi-documentary. But some Bigfoot tracks in the Pacific NW are too real to dispute. They even have the ridges and whatnot that a real animal would, and the proportions are right. One scientist said that'd be almost impossible to fake; there's too much anatomical detail that'd be known only to specialized primate scientists, and there's probably no way to fake the whorls and arches, etc. I'm satisfied that those tracks are real.
Time for another Bigfoot thread...we haven't had one in awhile.
My wife (now ex) was so scared that she insisted that we leave not even halfway into the film.
I didn't get to see the whole thing until after our divorce seven years later. I own it now and can watch when I want. And I can buy guns when I want, so long as I have the money. Divorce has its merits!
BTW, I'd read all of those shark books that Chief Brody was looking at in the movie, and have newer ones.
We also saw, "The Legend of Boggy Creek" (about a Bigfoot in East Texas) soon after our marriage. That scared her, too, but she came into the bathroom and tried to scare me in the shower. It didn't affect her like, "Jaws" did.
Incidentally, a well known knife writer whom I've known for decades now told me that he knew the producer of that movie and went out to the bean field where there were supposed to be some tracks left by this creature, which is apparently real, and scared even experienced hunting dogs that'd track bears. It alledgedly injured a man who had to be treated at a Texarkana hospital. The tracks were obvious fakes, too long for the width. They'd been made for the semi-documentary. But some Bigfoot tracks in the Pacific NW are too real to dispute. They even have the ridges and whatnot that a real animal would, and the proportions are right. One scientist said that'd be almost impossible to fake; there's too much anatomical detail that'd be known only to specialized primate scientists, and there's probably no way to fake the whorls and arches, etc. I'm satisfied that those tracks are real.
Time for another Bigfoot thread...we haven't had one in awhile.
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Texas Star
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Who's to say that Big Foot doesn't have long, skinny feet?
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I assume that you're being funny. The feet would be anatomically impossible, given the weight of the animal.
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Showgirls..............
Need I say more?
Need I say more?
jlrhiner
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I actually took my open water check out dive 2 weeks after Jaws came out. I was 16.
The Legend of Boggy Creek. Scariest movie ever made.
The Legend of Boggy Creek. Scariest movie ever made.
armenius
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Anyone see "The Body Snatchers".1940's with I believe Boris Karloff and Lon Chaney,or "The Wolf Man".Later on "Psycho".It made me more hydrophobic than Jaws.
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