jeez was i scared!
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Viss
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1963 Alfred Hitchcock "The Birds" scared the snot out of me I was 5 years old, Nightmares for weeks
Dan
It seemed like this movie was on every Friday night in the late sixties early seventies, it scared the bejeezes out of me, but I watched it every time.
Hey, I'm 6"2' and weigh 250 pounds and I wear a 13B. And I'm probably uglier than him too.
nicky4968
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I remember The Crab Monsters. It had its moments.
The one that got me was Godzilla. Not so much the movie, but I had a mile and a half walk home from school. At that time they were shooting some oil wells a few miles away. It sounded exactly like the monster himself.
The one that got me was Godzilla. Not so much the movie, but I had a mile and a half walk home from school. At that time they were shooting some oil wells a few miles away. It sounded exactly like the monster himself.
Here's another I remember.
fat tom
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There have only been two that bothered me in the least. "The Exorcist" and "Jaws". When that kid's head turned all the way around,I had to resist the urge to haul azz right then and there! I was a grown man at the time and I had nightmares,though infrequent,for a year. A YEAR! My wife still kids me about it. I get her back with "Tarantula" and "The Blob". She's terrified of spiders of any description and to this day,she won't sleep with any part of her body hangin' off of the bed (scared the blob is gonna get her).
f.t.
I get her back with "Tarantula" and "The Blob". She's terrified of spiders of any description and to this day,she won't sleep with any part of her body hangin' off of the bed (scared the blob is gonna get her).f.t.
For me it was The Thing. The original one in 1951. I was 8 and it bothered me for years. The next time I saw it I was an adult and the creature was hokey by modern standard but it terrified me as a child. The man in the rubber suit was James Arness who was later Matt Dillon on Gunsmoke.
vito
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For me it was also "The Thing From Another World", the original in 1951. I was 7 or 8 and my older brother took me to see it. At one point I was so scared I wanted to leave but my brother wouldn't let me because he wanted to see the rest of the film. Watching it now, the movie is laughable, but it really scared me when I was a young kid.
My Mom took me to the movies when I was young (she was a real movie fan) and it was some crime film (no idea what the name was). All I remember was a scene where they beat up some guy and leave him in a field and then drive over him with some type of harvester. You don't see anything but hear him scream and know he was just ground up in the blades of the machine. Gave me nightmares for years.
My Mom took me to the movies when I was young (she was a real movie fan) and it was some crime film (no idea what the name was). All I remember was a scene where they beat up some guy and leave him in a field and then drive over him with some type of harvester. You don't see anything but hear him scream and know he was just ground up in the blades of the machine. Gave me nightmares for years.
I've got three. One, like a lot of others was The Wizard of Oz, but it wasn't the Flying Monkeys that got me, I had never seen a monkey, and didn't expect to...it was those darn, talking, grabbing TREES! There were trees everywhere! I remember riding with my dad down a two lane country road one cold winter night, with a full moon lighting up the area almost like daylight, and those TREES, with their bare, twisted branches reaching out over the road...I was scared to half to death.
The other one way "Cyclops" I believe. Place crash on a deserted island again. They found the wreck of another plane, one that had been piloted by a friend, who was carring somekind of radioactive something or other. The radiation had turned their friend into a giant one eyed monster who was trying to kill them. That thing scared me so bad I used to make ink marks on my hand so I could tell if I had been exposed to radiation (this was about the time of the Cuban Missle Crisis I guess, anyway radiation was scaring everybody) and was turning into a giant one eyed monster.
The other one was an episode of "The Three Stooges." Curley fell into a vat of rubber and got covered with it and the rest of the show was them trying to get it off. For some reason that one scared the snot out of me.
Reference to Jaws. Neither the book nor the movie scared me really, good book and movie though, but not long after it my wife and I were down at Nags Head and were walking around the tackle shop on a fishing pier. There was a pretty good sized shark mounted on one wall, 685 pounds if I remember right, a tiger. A asked the guy in the shop where it was caught. He replied, "Right at the end of this pier." Then he said the local Chamber of Commerce didn't really like them fishing for them, because they didn't want the tourists to know how close in they were.
I remember riding with my dad down a two lane country road one cold winter night, with a full moon lighting up the area almost like daylight, and those TREES, with their bare, twisted branches reaching out over the road...I was scared to half to death.The other one way "Cyclops" I believe. Place crash on a deserted island again. They found the wreck of another plane, one that had been piloted by a friend, who was carring somekind of radioactive something or other. The radiation had turned their friend into a giant one eyed monster who was trying to kill them. That thing scared me so bad I used to make ink marks on my hand so I could tell if I had been exposed to radiation (this was about the time of the Cuban Missle Crisis I guess, anyway radiation was scaring everybody) and was turning into a giant one eyed monster.
The other one was an episode of "The Three Stooges." Curley fell into a vat of rubber and got covered with it and the rest of the show was them trying to get it off. For some reason that one scared the snot out of me.
Reference to Jaws. Neither the book nor the movie scared me really, good book and movie though, but not long after it my wife and I were down at Nags Head and were walking around the tackle shop on a fishing pier. There was a pretty good sized shark mounted on one wall, 685 pounds if I remember right, a tiger. A asked the guy in the shop where it was caught. He replied, "Right at the end of this pier." Then he said the local Chamber of Commerce didn't really like them fishing for them, because they didn't want the tourists to know how close in they were.
has to be "Night of the Living Dead" (the original black and white version). I didn't sleep at all the first night and it was off and on after that.
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shouldazagged
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I watched it not long ago (I was fourteen when I saw it in the theater) and thought it had aged far better than most of the sci-fi/horror flicks of that era. The director used a more naturalistic dialogue style, and built the tension pretty damn well. It didn't give me nightmares in 1951, but it made an impression. Most of those movies, like "Rocketship XM" (1950) and "Them" are real laughers today.
As I recall, "Rocketship XM" used footage of U.S. tests of captured German V-2 rockets for the launch sequences, and then showed a flight deck that was quite roomy. Don't remember any zero gravity problems aboard, either, but it was a very long time ago.
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Agreed! The original "Night of the Living Dead" scared the beejesus outta me, but it was so riveting. A babysitter let me watch it. I was just a little kid.
kozmic
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I survived the alien, zombie and slasher movies because there was always a scene or detail that was so corny it would make me laugh.
But on Halloween night 1965 (I was 6-1/2) a local radio station aired an uninterrupted, rebroadcast of "War of the Worlds". That scare the living bejeebers out of me.
Back then radio was a major source of news and I had no reason to question what I was hearing was not true. Radio was still a powerful medium in the 60's. I can't imagine how folks felt in the 30's when it was first broadcast. Frightening!!!
But on Halloween night 1965 (I was 6-1/2) a local radio station aired an uninterrupted, rebroadcast of "War of the Worlds". That scare the living bejeebers out of me.
Back then radio was a major source of news and I had no reason to question what I was hearing was not true. Radio was still a powerful medium in the 60's. I can't imagine how folks felt in the 30's when it was first broadcast. Frightening!!!
mike from st pete
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers - Official Trailer [1956] - YouTube
Was he going insane or was it real?
Was he going insane or was it real?
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The one that "got" me was seeing Jaws at the Texas Theater when I was about 6. That scene where the dead guy in a boat pops out and you see his eye hanging by a strand from his eye socket--made me have nightmares for awhile.
These one too as a matter of facto:
These one too as a matter of facto:
ancient-one
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In 1939-40 the Hound of the Baskervilles(spelling?) was one scary movie.
We had to walk about a half of a mile and and the closer that we got to home the faster we moved, ended up running the last block.
We had to walk about a half of a mile and and the closer that we got to home the faster we moved, ended up running the last block.
Margaret Hamilton
Margaret Hamilton was terrifying before she was Cora the coffee lady.
Margaret Hamilton was terrifying before she was Cora the coffee lady.
Nazis
I had nightmares of Nazis breaking down doors and dragging people away.
People today don't realize the terror of a disease like polio. My best friend was one of the victims right before the vaccine came out. 'Pinehaven' became the site of a big shopping center in the early 60's. Before that it was a hospital for polio victims with the iron lungs crammed against each other on both sides from one end of the ward to the other.
I had nightmares of Nazis breaking down doors and dragging people away.
People today don't realize the terror of a disease like polio. My best friend was one of the victims right before the vaccine came out. 'Pinehaven' became the site of a big shopping center in the early 60's. Before that it was a hospital for polio victims with the iron lungs crammed against each other on both sides from one end of the ward to the other.
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