vito
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Some of you guys scare awfully easy!
Movies that scare ya. I mean really SCARE you to the core?
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Rick_A
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"Nightmare on Elm Street" scared me a bit when I was a kid. I did have issues with nightmares and that movie did not help.
I'm grown up now, and don't get phased by any of that foolishness.
I'm grown up now, and don't get phased by any of that foolishness.
Rick_A
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On Alien (and Aliens)...to this day some of my favorite movies. When it first came out on VHS I watched it nearly endlessly. Going frame by frame on the nasty parts for the first time was quite entertaining.
I think we've left the scary phase of the thread and now we're off with the entertaining ones?
BTW, the scariest part of Alien was the guy alone and looking for the cat. Once again psychological horror well done.
george minze
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The part of any civil war movie scares the life out of me when....
The yankees march into Georgia.
I take it you are not a fan of Gen. Sheraton?
tlay
US Veteran
Heidi! Every time I see her I think of that Chucky doll.
Rahjerz
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I read a book about the Manson cult. They would go into peoples houses at night and crawl around the rooms. Still gives me the chills.
Rahjerz
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The Amazing Colossal Man (1957), electrical towers made me uneasy while growing up. It took me until my thirty's to figure out that the scene of the colossal man tangled up in the high tension wires was the cause of this.
The first movie that scared me was Soylent Green. It was my first wake up call about how messed up things could get. Plus I never looked at school cafeteria food the same way. Later in high school a series called Faces of Death came out on video. It was captured video of real deaths. Someone parachuting and landing in gatorville, etc. Those videos still haunt me.
stormbringerr
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as a kid the original [invasion of the body snatchers ] scared the hell out of me,had a hard time sleeping for weeks.
as an adult [ blue velvet] freaked me pretty good, especially since i knew nothing at all about what it was about when i picked it up
... After watching it alone i then went to bed with a 357 mag. under my pillow.
i like psychological horror movies like cat people, sauna,the 7th seal, etc.. not gore/slasher type movies they bore me..
as an adult [ blue velvet] freaked me pretty good, especially since i knew nothing at all about what it was about when i picked it up
... After watching it alone i then went to bed with a 357 mag. under my pillow.i like psychological horror movies like cat people, sauna,the 7th seal, etc.. not gore/slasher type movies they bore me..
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Can't recall one. Must have been watching with my eyes closed!
chaparrito
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I see several mentions of The Road. If the movie troubled you, try reading the book. C. McCarthy is one of my favorite writers. His No Country For Old Men is also far better than the movie version, which isn't bad.
I avoid scary movies. Don't like 'em. I find real life stressful enough.
The attraction totally escapes me. I s'pose it must be like a roller coaster: Scary but not real, so ya feel thrilled, but safe.
I like roller coasters okay. Maybe three or four times in my sixty plus years, but I do not like horror movies.
Suspense, well done, now that is okay.
The attraction totally escapes me. I s'pose it must be like a roller coaster: Scary but not real, so ya feel thrilled, but safe.
I like roller coasters okay. Maybe three or four times in my sixty plus years, but I do not like horror movies.
Suspense, well done, now that is okay.
zzzippper
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dave holl
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As a kid back in the 50's my pal and I went to the neighborhood theater to see CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON. That one and any Dracula or werewolf movie scared me.
Dave
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zzzippper
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History vs. Hollywood, looks like a good website:
The Conjuring True Story - Real Bathsheba Witch, Real Perron Family
This link compares what really happened to the Hollywood version.
The Conjuring True Story - Real Bathsheba Witch, Real Perron Family
This link compares what really happened to the Hollywood version.
There are lots of movies that claim to be "scary". I guess we all have out favorites, you know, the ones that really make you feel like you might wet your pants. What does it for you?
I've never been affected by the rubber monster movies or the space alien stuff or even the gut and gore type. The first movie I ever saw that upset me was the original "The Exorcist" where the little girls head did the 360. The special FX were awesome. Miss Pam made us sleep with the light on for several nights and she put a claw hammer on her night stand.
We stood in line for 2 hours in the cold misty rain to see it. I can't explain why it got to me. I found it interesting that William Freidkin, the producer, quit making movies for 12 years after he did that one saying that too much weird stuff happened during and right after they finished it. And when he did come back he stayed away from that type movie.
Well, tonight I watched a movie we rented from NetFlix that got to me almost as much as "The Exorcist". It's a new movie and stars nobody I ever heard of. But it was well directed, well acted, and the production design was excellent to highten the scariness of the movie.
The title is "The Conjuring". It's a true story which occurred in 1971. The story of a family that moved into an old farm house built in 1863 and the demonic posession of the house and the mother of the family.
If you google ROGER AND CAROLYN PERRON you can see the family that it happened to and also read about Ed and Lorraine Warren the people who investigated the house. BTW they also were in on the investigation of the Amityville houe and The Haunting in Connecticut.
I know a lot of these flics are phoney but this one and the Warrens is legitimate as far as I can determine. I've been keeping my eye on Miss Pam and so far she hasn't gone for the hammer but I'm gonna keep on keepin' an eye on her just in case.
I just don't know if stuff like this really happens but I do know one thing for sure and for certain. I don't EVER want to experience even a water glass levitating and flying across the room.
We have a considerable collection of movies on VHS, DVD and Blueray. I think I'll pick something on the light side and watch that and then maybe, just maybe, I'll be able to get some sleep.
If you have seen some of the haunted house type movies and weren't impress be careful with this one. It might just grab ya and have you running to the garage to get a hammer of your own. I've seen most of the others and none of them scared me. Some, like Amityville were good movies but not really that scary. But "The Conjuring" did a number on my head.
You've been warned..........
zzzippper
Member
Not many movies or shows scare me but The Blair Witch Project was creepy. About a year after seeing it I was out hunting. Near dusk I packed up and started to walk out of the woods. In the branches I noticed what looked like a human figure made out of sticks. I took a picture and got the hell out of there! In the two dimensional picture you can't make anything out.
zzzippper
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