Scary

Acies · Post by **Acies** » June 3, 2003, 10:49 pm

Just want to know, was there ever a movie or book anatagonist that managed to scare, inspire you to evil, whatever?

For it me was straight up this guy:

Ebil...

Sometimes · Post by **Sometimes** » June 3, 2003, 11:00 pm

Pennywise? Very scary movie (IT by Stephen King) but the book was much much worse.

I was too scared to dangle my feet over the bed for several years after seeing Jaws for the first time. Yes it was ridiculous, but I was very young.

Taly · Post by **Taly** » June 3, 2003, 11:15 pm

i was very disapointed in the ending.. after they killed the spider i was still waiting for the big monster to come out and play when i found out the spider was the monster. /shrug

Other then that it was a good flick.

When i was younger though Freddy scared me i was always afraid to go to sleep lol

Acies · Post by **Acies** » June 3, 2003, 11:19 pm

Actually it was the book that freaked me out, but the picture of Pennywise is too good

Legenae · Post by **Legenae** » June 3, 2003, 11:22 pm

I REALLY disliked clowns after watching IT.

Deneve · Post by **Deneve** » June 3, 2003, 11:30 pm

neber have liked clowns, they are evil whether they are scary or not

oh and i think teh ring got to me for a night or two, kept thinking that little girl was gonna walk outa the swamp behind my house...

Legenae · Post by **Legenae** » June 3, 2003, 11:31 pm

Deneve wrote:neber have liked clowns, they are evil whether they are scary or not
oh and i think teh ring got to me for a night or two, kept thinking that little girl was gonna walk outa the swamp behind my house...

OMG ME TOO! Only I lived in an apartment, and I kept thinking she would come out of my tv. Very freaky ><

Vetiria · Post by **Vetiria** » June 3, 2003, 11:51 pm

Every spider in Arachnophobia. Ugh, I hate spiders.

Pilsburry · Post by **Pilsburry** » June 3, 2003, 11:54 pm

Freddy got me scared...but only for a night...it was pretty good though, I was fine when I was awake, but going to sleep was another issue.

A combination of movies had me a little scared of monsters under the bed....so I would jump into bed from a good distance away in an effort to keep my feet away from that danger zone. I think it was the "tales from the darkside" episode witht he blue demon under the bed and the end of the movie carrie where the hand came out of the grave combined.

I also didn't like the dark...I mean I wasn't scared of the dark...I had no problems going to bed in the dark that wasn't an issue...but say if I turned off the basement light and had to go upstairs, I did it "quickly". I don't know what did that....maybe all of them.

But I wasn't one of those kids that cried or crawled into bed with mommy.

Oh and one more....I didn't like to close my eyes in the shower because of some movie where blood came out of the shower and the girl didn't know and kept washing in it....I don't know what movie that was....that didn't last long either though. And it wasn't that "scary" to me, more of a "gross".

I haven't had a good scare in years though....maybe since I was 12. I mean you can startle me...scary move and BOOM some loud noise...or jump out from behind a corner and scream in my face....but that's different....(btw it can also get you hurt)

Deneve · Post by **Deneve** » June 4, 2003, 12:25 am

Legenae wrote:
Deneve wrote:neber have liked clowns, they are evil whether they are scary or not
oh and i think teh ring got to me for a night or two, kept thinking that little girl was gonna walk outa the swamp behind my house...
OMG ME TOO! Only I lived in an apartment, and I kept thinking she would come out of my tv. Very freaky ><

yeah the movie itself wasn't really scary, but it messed with your head later on

Etasi · Post by **Etasi** » June 4, 2003, 12:41 am

This doesn't really fit into the original question, but:
When I was really young, I saw one of those commercials for a series of Time Life books. This one was about aliens and such. For some reason, from that point on, I was convinced that aliens lived in our attic, and would go out of my way to avoid walking under the trapdoor that lead to the attic. Kids come up with such fucked up things!

As for movies, almost any scary movie haunts me for days afterwards. I couldn't go anywhere in the house without turning on a light first for a few days after I saw The Ring.

Jezdziec Znikad · Post by **Jezdziec Znikad** » June 4, 2003, 1:36 am

Deneve wrote:
Legenae wrote:
Deneve wrote:neber have liked clowns, they are evil whether they are scary or not
oh and i think teh ring got to me for a night or two, kept thinking that little girl was gonna walk outa the swamp behind my house...
OMG ME TOO! Only I lived in an apartment, and I kept thinking she would come out of my tv. Very freaky ><
yeah the movie itself wasn't really scary, but it messed with your head later on

Everytime I fall asleep with the TV on and wake up to dead air, I freak out.

Pilsburry · Post by **Pilsburry** » June 4, 2003, 1:48 am

Etasi wrote:This one was about aliens and such. For some reason, from that point on, I was convinced that aliens lived in our attic, and would go out of my way to avoid walking under the trapdoor that lead to the attic. Kids come up with such fucked up things!

My favorite part is how I thought that if I jumped into bed I would be safe from the monster living under it wanting to eat me while I slept, and you thought by not walking directly under the attic door the aliens wouldn't come down and stick a probe up your ass or whatever it is aliens do.

Kids logic is funny.

P.S. What were the aliens going to do? Standard monster stuff like eat/kill you? Or the movie probe/abduction stuff?

Etasi · Post by **Etasi** » June 4, 2003, 2:38 am

I was too young to really understand the whole abduction thing. It was just a general fear, really. And yes, kids' logic is very stupid!

Drustwyn · Post by **Drustwyn** » June 4, 2003, 3:03 am

When I was a little shitling, my parents refused to let me watch Gremlins. They told me that they were demons, etc..

I went to my cousins house once, and they had a gremlin's poster on the wall.. I became SOOoOOOo scared that they finally took down the poster and threw it in the closet.

We went swimming that day, and I was petrified of the water because my cousin told me that water was what turned things into gremlins.

Gah... religious upbringings are so fun.

Jivundus · Post by **Jivundus** » June 4, 2003, 3:19 am

The movie that did it for me when I was a kid was "The Last House on the Left". My parents told me NEVER to watch that movie because it was so terrible and of course

I had to watch it.

I haven't seen it in years but to a kid that was brought up in the back woods of Maine, it's the most horrifying story.

Dregor Thule · Post by **Dregor Thule** » June 4, 2003, 8:57 am

Scared of Gremlins.. teehee. Have you seen Gremlins 2 yet?

The Ring got to me too, think the part that did it the most was the quick shot where they show the closet being opened and the dead girl inside.. that one took me totally by surprise.

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » June 4, 2003, 9:20 am

This is going to sound stupid, but War of the Worlds on audio tape really fucked with my head as a child. My family drove from Michigan to Utah when I was about 4 or 5 and they pleyed that tape several times over the course of the trip, both there and back. The problem is, for those who are unaware, the whole book/tape was told in the past tense. That's a subtle, but very frightening difference. As a child, I thought that story was true since nobody told me otherwise. I had nightmares about the tripod walkers stalking me through the woods and seeking me out in my neighborhood for years and years.

Next in line is John Carpenter's "The Thing". I saw that at a very impressionable age and it freaked my shit out for years. There are a plethora of disturbing images in that scene, but the dog's face splitting apart was the one that really got to me.

Cartalas · Post by **Cartalas** » June 4, 2003, 9:25 am

The Everquest Instruction Manual.

Kluden · Post by **Kluden** » June 4, 2003, 9:34 am

I'm gonna have to go with the first Jaws movie. I watch it now and have hoot with it, but seeing it for the first time when I was younger...lets just say to this day I hate going out too deep into the ocean...

I know a lot of people think that is weak...Jaws that is...but that shit when it first came out (or the early eighties for me

) was damn scary and gets into your head...that makes a truly good thriller in my book

Ajran · Post by **Ajran** » June 4, 2003, 10:04 am

Pilsburry wrote:
Oh and one more....I didn't like to close my eyes in the shower because of some movie where blood came out of the shower and the girl didn't know and kept washing in it....I don't know what movie that was....that didn't last long either though. And it wasn't that "scary" to me, more of a "gross".

Deathship i think has a scene like that where the shower water turns to blood. old old 1970's horror flick about a possessed ocean liner or some such..

Burke · Post by **Burke** » June 4, 2003, 10:33 am

Another showering in blood movie is Doppelganger with Drew Barrymore as the showerer.

John Carpenter's The Thing did a number on me too with that dog scene.

Does anyone remember a TV series called Amazing Stories? It was either produced or directed by Spielberg. Most of these were cool fantasy/what if or slightly comical stories, all very well done.
Only one of them had a parental guidance warning at the beginning of it. It was about a rich and famous horror writer who started seeing someone stalking him whenever he looked into a mirror or reflective surface. Every time he looked the stalker was closer. It finally strangled him I think. I couldn't look in the mirror when I brushed my teeth for months after that. I also had to close the bathroom door so I couldn't see down the hall in the mirror. Kid logic heh.

Fredonia Coldheart · Post by **Fredonia Coldheart** » June 4, 2003, 10:36 am

Cujo - I grew up on a vineyard where there were lots of bats and the neighbor down the street had a saint bernard ...

Wulfran · Post by **Wulfran** » June 4, 2003, 12:24 pm

Arachnophobia creeped me out. I HATE spiders to begin with, and even though I was old enough to know better by the time it came out, it didn't help.

Movie that fucked me up the most as a kid was a documentary I saw when I was about 10 called "The Late Great Planet Earth" (would have been 1980ish... maybe a couple year earlier). TV adds showed a bunch of battle scenes and stuff which had all us 10-12 year old boys thinking this was gonna be an action/war movie. Instead it was a bunch of doom-and-gloom religious types, talking about the prophecies of Nostradamus and the book of Revelations, talking about the "coming of the Day of Judgement" (which should have hit, according to them in the late 90s). It actually gave me nightmares for a while and bothered me because I thought the world was gonna end in a big nuclear blast. Thus began my hatred of fearmongering religious freaks... well after I snapped out of the paralysis that we were all going to die horribly and soon...

Sirensa · Post by **Sirensa** » June 4, 2003, 12:29 pm

No movie ever scared me as much as "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory". The music in it because the theme song to all my nightmares.

Aside from that, the urban legends that kids would tell each other while sitting in dark closets with a flashlight scared me far more than any horror movie.. (ex. Bloody Mary, China Doll, etc.)

Damiarch · Post by **Damiarch** » June 4, 2003, 12:37 pm

The never ending story FREAKED me out as a young kid...don't know why now.

Most recent movie, agree with The Ring. Wouldn't go as far as saying to scared me, but it actually got to me somewhat. I thought the ending was great! I remember seven days later buggin my friends I saw it with, going "welp, today's the day!"

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » June 4, 2003, 12:54 pm

I've been thinking about that "War of the Worlds" nightmare ever since I posted this. To go into some detail, the scene which was described was of people fleeing through the woods as the giant martian tripods casually stalked them. The machines had the infamous heat ray on top, but also had a series of purpose built arms on either side of the saucer, which was mounted upon tripod legs. Anyway, the tripods, standing many stories high, would casually pick up a fleeing person, and bang them against the trunks of trees unitl they stopped struggling. They would then toss them into a "basket". Some people were still alive or concience and they were in that basket with all those bodies. As a child, it freaked my shit out.

There was another point in the tape were the tripods waded into a congested city and dispersed a thick, heavy, posionous gas from thier machines. The smoke suffocated and killed every living thing. Since the smoke was so heavy, it seaped into every nook and cranny. There was no escape.

Yeah, it definately affected me. I remember so many details, and I haven't heard or seen anything related to War of the Worlds in a good 10-12 years. If done corectly, they could really make an unbelievably good sci-fi horror film based on that novel using todays special effects.

Jassun · Post by **Jassun** » June 4, 2003, 12:57 pm

The Company of Wolves, based on Little Red Riding Hood.

Holy shit I was scared of wolves after watching that.

In recent years, there has been a trend in the field of fantasy: writers have been revisiting the fertile world of myth and fairy tale and reclaiming that world, investing it with new life and energy. In modern times, fairy tales have become Disneyfied and debased; they have become trite adventures involving leering witches, friendly dwarves, and cuddly talking animals. But in their original forms, fairy tales have a dark, wicked edge. Crows tear out the eyes of Cinderella's sisters, a gorier fate then they receive in the animated version. Hansel and Gretel relish cooking the witch in her own oven. Writers have become fascinated by the bloodier, morally ambivalent aspects of fairy tales, and are now modernizing the old stories while simultaneously going back to their roots.

Before this trend was in vogue, Angela Carter--whose stories always have a dark, wicked, subversive edge--had been reinventing fairy tales for years. In THE COMPANY OF WOLVES, she and Neil Jordan retell the story of Red Riding Hood, enlivening it with werewolves, Rolls Royces, and a visit from Satan.

Read what others have to say about it...

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... ?vi=glance

Fallanthas · Post by **Fallanthas** » June 4, 2003, 1:00 pm

The Shining got to me.....

Monsters and such don't scare me much. Blood doesn't do it either. Butcher a few times a year and you get over that pretty quick.

Insane people.....totally unpredictable.....

Now that's some scary shit.

Toshira · Post by **Toshira** » June 4, 2003, 1:09 pm

Frank Booth.

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » June 4, 2003, 1:45 pm

Sirensa wrote:No movie ever scared me as much as "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory". The music in it because the theme song to all my nightmares.

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory did some permanent damage to my psyche as a kid. Oompa Loompa's still freak me out.

The blueberry chick exploding..the fat kid getting sucked up the tube..../shiver

That movie should have been rated R.

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » June 4, 2003, 1:49 pm

Veruca Salt named their band after the girl, Veruca, in Willy Wonka.

I was only freaked out when they rode the boat through the tunnel and it showed chickens getting their heads chopped off and such. The whole time, Gene Wilder was singing and making mirth of the situation. I didn't really understand what was going on at that point in the movie, I just knew it was freaky and I didn't like it.

Btw, rumor on the street is that Willy Wonka is up for a remake very soon.

Sirensa · Post by **Sirensa** » June 4, 2003, 2:18 pm

Fairweather Pure wrote:Btw, rumor on the street is that Willy Wonka is up for a remake very soon.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

Ooga[foh] · Post by **Ooga[foh]** » June 4, 2003, 2:18 pm

Vetiria wrote:Every spider in Arachnophobia. Ugh, I hate spiders.

I second that, I can't stand spiders. While I no longer freak out seeing the average house spider, it wasn't always so. The house I grew up in was real old and during the summer and spring there would be spiders up in the wall corners etc. Every once in a while you would be laying on the couch or in bed and a spider would crawl up on your leg or arm, etc. After this happening like once or twice a year for pretty much my whole life, Arachnophobia freaked me the fuck out. To this day I'm not a big fan of getting under a house or in a crawl space or attic one bit. I will do it and keep the annoyance to myself, but you can bet your ass I'm doin whatever I can to gtfo asap.

Snakes on the other hand, I still run like a schoolgirl if I see a gardner.

Lor · Post by **Lor** » June 4, 2003, 2:51 pm

Michael Meyers in the first Halloween movie, the clasic shot of jamie lee sitting in the doorway crying thinking she killed michael and then ol' mikey sits up and turns his head toward her... that still gives me the willies to this day, that was like the perfect scene, she was in focus and he was blurred.....yep that freaked me out good.

Ennia · Post by **Ennia** » June 4, 2003, 2:58 pm

original Poltergeist - after I saw it I was so scared of thunder storms at night, I also looked up what was there on the piece of land before our developement was built, if it wasn't a cementary lol (it wasn't)

couple scenes from that movie scared me shitless back then, the meat crawling across the countertop, when the boy is looking for his toy clown, when the mom is swimming in unfinished pool with all the corpses popping out

ninja edited a typo

rhyae · Post by **rhyae** » June 4, 2003, 3:33 pm

Movie with the most impact on me as a kid was The Exorcist. Seeing that threw me into some weird state for years, where I was convinced beyond a doubt that I was evil enough to be posessed by the devil.
I thought he followed me around.
The two books that disturbed me the most were Cujo, cos it could actually happen, and The Onion Field, which wasnt scary but very disturbing to me, and for some reason I had nightmares every night until I finished it, and then they stopped.

Zamtuk · Post by **Zamtuk** » June 4, 2003, 4:26 pm

The Amityville Horror BOOK (not the shitty movies) scared the shit out of me, because at the time I lived in an old house surrounded by a forest. Other than that no movies scared me ironically. I've been watching horror movies since I was 4 or 5 years old (no really) and have loved them. Though Night of the Living Dead did shock me a little.

Pilsburry · Post by **Pilsburry** » June 4, 2003, 4:28 pm

No the omvie with the shower of blood wasn't deathship or whatever....it was set in a mansion. I remember another scene where the automatic gate crushed a car or something.

You know how Gene Wilder looks like "crazy"...he looks that way IRL too, I ran across him a few times when I lived in Stamford, CT...he was a member of the video store I worked at when I was 16. He would rent his own movies (I would have thought they would give you a copy along with your 10 million dollar pay check). One day I had the pleasure of telling he couldn't rent because he had a late fee he had to pay, he refused to pay it lol.

Jaws got me a little afraid to swim in the ocean....up until I saw that movie I never really thought about sharks....but when your in the water after that and a dolphin pokes his fin up....your like "holy shit" then you reaize it's not a shark....but if a dolphin is there, sharks could be!!!!

Ebumar · Post by **Ebumar** » June 4, 2003, 4:42 pm

The only movie that has ever scared me was Event Horizon. And it wasnt even a real scare. It was more of a, "holy crap, they just shoed that in a movie, a guy with no eyes." Beyond that, I have been suprised in movies, but never SCARED. The only thing that scares me is my nightmares. Go read Krimson's thread on it. I constantly die in my nightmares.

Deneve · Post by **Deneve** » June 4, 2003, 8:53 pm

Ennia wrote:original Poltergeist - after I saw it I was so scared of thunder storms at night, I also looked up what was there on the piece of land before our developement was built, if it wasn't a cementary lol (it wasn't)

couple scenes from that movie scared me shitless back then, the meat crawling across the countertop, when the boy is looking for his to clown, when the mom is swimming in unfinished pool with all the corpses popping out

just saw poltergeist 1 and 2 on TV the other day, not too bad when i saw em tho

Ennia · Post by **Ennia** » June 4, 2003, 9:11 pm

heh these days when I see Poltergeist I don't get the same chills, it's almost all happy thoughts now, but when you're 11 or 12 you look at it differently.

Poltergeist was my first scary movie. I think it was even my first time in a theater without my parents.
Poltergeist and Gamera Super Monster were my first big screen movie experiences, not counting going with folks on Sundays to watch cartoons.

Kwonryu DragonFist · Post by **Kwonryu DragonFist** » June 4, 2003, 9:44 pm

I saw a movie when i was 7-8 that really scared me.

It was called Without Warning with Jack Palance and it is from 1980.

Its a predecessor to the Predator movies but in this movie, the alien hunted humans by throwing alive , pulsating frisbees looking a bit like sea urchins with a great set of fangs underneath.

The big hunter alien threw these living hunting devices at humans and when the alien "frisbees" connected to the humans head, its fangs started eating and sucking the blood from the human through his temple.

At first, you only saw dead bodies with the strange alien "sea-urchin" sucking blood from the corpses heads, covering their faces mostly.

But in the end, you understood that these strange "facehuggers from the 80's" were not the main evil. They were merely hunting devices for the head honcho alien, which looked like a reject from Roswell with a big head and wearing some weird outfit.

The final battle with Jack Palance using a Rifle and the Alien throwing these living "frisbees" is a must-see!

First i saw this movie and not long after that, i saw The Thing and i think those two movies were the first Sci-Fi Horror movies i've seen (at the age of 7-8) so they scared the crap outta me!

murr · Post by **murr** » June 4, 2003, 11:00 pm

I agree - I've had stupid scares that I can usually shake off from movies (although I don't really watch horror movies, not really my 'thang), but nightmares/dreams are what really get my heart pounding. Don't you just hate waking up in the morning and not being able to distinguish at first if it actually happened or if it was a dream?

Deneve · Post by **Deneve** » June 5, 2003, 12:26 am

Ennia wrote:heh these days when I see Poltergeist I don't get the same chills, it's almost all happy thoughts now, but when you're 11 or 12 you look at it differently.

Poltergeist was my first scary movie. I think it was even my first time in a theater without my parents.
Poltergeist and Gamera Super Monster were my first big screen movie experiences, not counting going with folks on Sundays to watch cartoons.

yeah, horror movies are teh best when you are young enough that you shouldn't be watching them

Voronwë · Post by **Voronwë** » June 5, 2003, 11:56 am

LOL Kwonryu, the Thing scared the piss out of me as a kid too. Especially the part where the monster incorporated the dogs. We had a siberian huskey as a pet, and the combo husky/Thing monster was particularly disturbing to me!

Drolgin Steingrinder · Post by **Drolgin Steingrinder** » June 5, 2003, 12:08 pm

Gah, The Thing was so fucking scary...I watched it late one night when I was alone at home at age 11 or something. I couldn't sleep for days.

Another one that scared me witless was Poltergeist...now it's one of my favorite movies, although it still scares me!

Post by **Sylvus** » June 5, 2003, 12:14 pm

Ennia wrote:heh these days when I see Poltergeist I don't get the same chills, it's almost all happy thoughts now, but when you're 11 or 12 you look at it differently.

Poltergeist was my first scary movie. I think it was even my first time in a theater without my parents.
Poltergeist and Gamera Super Monster were my first big screen movie experiences, not counting going with folks on Sundays to watch cartoons.

When I was 11, my family lived out in the woods on a river and my parents were out of town. My brother (who was 18) and I were watching Poltergeist and I think the first House move or something, and he decided to go out with his girlfriend. So he leaves and I continue watching the movie.

About 20 minutes later I hear this tap on the big picture window behind me. I was a bit frightened so I just ignored it, and a minute later it happened again. Well it gets louder and more frequent and finally it was unbearable and I knew it wasn't just a branch being blown into the window or something. I stood up and without looking back ran into my bedroom and hid under the covers.

A minute later I hear the front door open and I was positive that something was coming to get me. I'm just lying there with my heart pounding, waiting for "it" to come to my bedroom when sure enough, the doorknob starts turning. I was so terrified, then I hear my brother and his girlfriend cracking up laughing. He had left and then come back, and parked way up the road from our house so I wouldn't see him coming and then snuck out behind and tapped on the window. I don't think I've ever been as scared in my whole life.

Boogahz · Post by **Boogahz** » June 5, 2003, 1:32 pm

Having a sitter make my sister and I watch Cujo when she was watching us at our house once.

Then going to her house to be watched, and seeing her pregnant pitbull come charging us at the front door about a week later.

Kylere · Post by **Kylere** » June 5, 2003, 2:48 pm

I was like 8, and on a family reunion camping/cottage thing when Dawn of the Dead came out, saw it at a drive in, and then got stuck in an otherwise empty cottage that night.

It was a LONG night