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John Travolta in hairspray.
Movies that scare ya. I mean really SCARE you to the core?
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Same here. Though it was many years later when I worked for the State of TX, I got my fill of that kind of stuff. Ive never been a fan of slasher movies either.
I had 'nuff blood and gore working as a Firefighter/Paramedic back in Baltimore. As a paramedic my Doctor of Record(I worked under his license) was the head of Shock/Trauma at University Hospital in Md.We were trained well....and did not make any major mistakes. After that I was not really going to go see slasher movies. I did see Jaws with a bunch of gals from the hospital where my wife worked. They were easily frightened. No...my wife didn't go. Even with TV...she has never seen the movie
As a kid the movie Robocop scared me. What scared me the most was when they blew Murphy away in that factory. Vowed I'd never set foot in Detroit after seeing that movie. Funny how the world works, I end up living in Michigan.
Remember(was it John Carpenter?)that remake of The Thing? The first time I saw it I was blown away. I was in Carbondale, IL, & the band I was in had the night off. The guitar player hadn't seen it, so we ordered kitchen sink Domino's pizza & watched the movie. Like I said, I had seen it before, so I knew what to expect. The guitar player didn't, though. I think he ate one slice before he had to stop, & I polished that pizza off by myself.
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I've been 'scared' watching many films, but normally only for that fleeting moment of the initial fright. All of it's easily forgotten when I leave the theatre or shut-off the TV.
I searched the thread and didn't see it mentioned. A couple of years old with Ethan Hawke in the lead (Training Day, Uma Thurman's ex).
Insidious
He plays a 'true-crime' author, and moves his family into the house where a father killed his wife and kids. He finds some old-school 8mm film footage, that leads him further down a trail of like crimes.
This one gave me bad dreams.
I searched the thread and didn't see it mentioned. A couple of years old with Ethan Hawke in the lead (Training Day, Uma Thurman's ex).
Insidious
He plays a 'true-crime' author, and moves his family into the house where a father killed his wife and kids. He finds some old-school 8mm film footage, that leads him further down a trail of like crimes.
This one gave me bad dreams.
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The first time I saw "The Exorcist" in the theater it was scary. The 2nd time two days later we got kicked out of the old Alhambra theater when a friend of mine emptied the contents of a can of Campbell's split pea soup from the balcony onto the lower level at a strategic moment.
A few years later "Alien' came out and I won't forget that one. Didn't scare me, but scared the fire out of my date who decided she couldn't sleep by herself that night...
A few years later "Alien' came out and I won't forget that one. Didn't scare me, but scared the fire out of my date who decided she couldn't sleep by herself that night...
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My wife's sister....
My SIL had a knit clown she named 'Andy' that was elongated in the body, arms and legs. She loved that thing and Andy was getting a little dirty. Well, after 'Poltergeist' she put Andy in the attic and in spite of being involved in a few attic cleanups, I don't think I've seen him since. A stuffed Hippo named 'Blueberry' took Andy's place. I'm sure she still has Blueberry and that was over 40 years ago.
My SIL had a knit clown she named 'Andy' that was elongated in the body, arms and legs. She loved that thing and Andy was getting a little dirty. Well, after 'Poltergeist' she put Andy in the attic and in spite of being involved in a few attic cleanups, I don't think I've seen him since. A stuffed Hippo named 'Blueberry' took Andy's place. I'm sure she still has Blueberry and that was over 40 years ago.
A League...
"A League of Their Own" girls baseball team during WWII to replace the thinned out male baseball leagues. Was great during the war and survived somewhat beyond, but it died out. That's the ONLY thing I've ever liked Rosie O'Donnell in. It was kind of poignant. Her Dad had to raise her and the only way he knew was to raise her like a boy and she could hit like crazy.
"A League of Their Own" girls baseball team during WWII to replace the thinned out male baseball leagues. Was great during the war and survived somewhat beyond, but it died out. That's the ONLY thing I've ever liked Rosie O'Donnell in. It was kind of poignant. Her Dad had to raise her and the only way he knew was to raise her like a boy and she could hit like crazy.
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I think I missed commenting here. Maybe I wanted to think awhile.
"Wizard of Oz" had really scary moments and the one that go me the most was when the witch was watching them from the roof of a house. Don't know why but that scared the beejeezes out of me.
Exorcist. When the bed was smoking and that demon appeared by the bed I about had a brick. Nothing else bothered me. But I was weeks getting over that.
When Brody is chumming and the shark comes out of the water for the first time...... Also when Hooper is checking out the wreck underwater and that rotten head pops out of the hole.
Mr. Sardonicus: A man has to dig up his father's body to retrieve a winning lottery ticket. When the moon falls on his fathers grinning grimace, he gets scared and runs off, but has to go back and get the ticket. He gets home and is whimpering, so his wife turns on the light and EEEEEK. He looks like his father. Mr. Sardonicus, grin, get it?
Salem's Lot- came in late one night and stood in front of the TV channel surfing. I came on two guys with what looked like a covered body. I thought, "Oh, this must be a horror movie". One is reciting liturgy while the other tapes two tongue depressors into a cross. I thought it looked interesting and the sheet covering the body twitched. "Wow, I thought, that body is going to come to life." Then this GHOUL jumps up off the table and I backpedaled across the room going "YUH YUH YUH YUH!!!". I loved it and laughed after. That really got me.
The Skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts and the Bronze Man.
My wife was terrified of Nosferatu just from hearing the music.
Disturbing movies - "Eraserhead" wins first place. "Clockwork Orange" (especially if I had not already read the book"
I think I missed commenting here. Maybe I wanted to think awhile.
"Wizard of Oz" had really scary moments and the one that go me the most was when the witch was watching them from the roof of a house. Don't know why but that scared the beejeezes out of me.
Exorcist. When the bed was smoking and that demon appeared by the bed I about had a brick. Nothing else bothered me. But I was weeks getting over that.
When Brody is chumming and the shark comes out of the water for the first time...... Also when Hooper is checking out the wreck underwater and that rotten head pops out of the hole.
Mr. Sardonicus: A man has to dig up his father's body to retrieve a winning lottery ticket. When the moon falls on his fathers grinning grimace, he gets scared and runs off, but has to go back and get the ticket. He gets home and is whimpering, so his wife turns on the light and EEEEEK. He looks like his father. Mr. Sardonicus, grin, get it?
Salem's Lot- came in late one night and stood in front of the TV channel surfing. I came on two guys with what looked like a covered body. I thought, "Oh, this must be a horror movie". One is reciting liturgy while the other tapes two tongue depressors into a cross. I thought it looked interesting and the sheet covering the body twitched. "Wow, I thought, that body is going to come to life." Then this GHOUL jumps up off the table and I backpedaled across the room going "YUH YUH YUH YUH!!!". I loved it and laughed after. That really got me.
The Skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts and the Bronze Man.
My wife was terrified of Nosferatu just from hearing the music.
Disturbing movies - "Eraserhead" wins first place. "Clockwork Orange" (especially if I had not already read the book"
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One that just came to mind that scared the heebie jeebies out of me--was when my dad took one of my brothers and I--to the two-story--now decades since closed: Texas Theaters. We went to go see: Bigfoot. The only thing I remember about that movie--because after this scene--I ran out into the lobby and stayed there the rest of the movie. Anyway,it was the bathroom scene. A guy was sitting on a john reading a paper? and Bigfoot rips through the wall. I think I was about four or so at the time.
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