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Posted: 9/27/2019 11:32:10 PM EST

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Not exactly a horror film, but Fire in the Sky freaked me out as a teenager.

Posted: 9/27/2019 11:40:05 PM EST

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For me its Jaws. That shit happens for real. Not to me in Oklahoma, but it does happen

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Ever swim in the water at Cape Cod. Four feet deep you can't see the bottom, stuff bumps into you all the time.

Posted: 9/27/2019 11:47:57 PM EST

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At the time (important distinction) I had a few:

Prince of Darkness (yeah, Satan scares me)
Alien
Halloween

I remember as a kid being scared of Nightmare on Elm Street. Watching it now it seems like a comedy. The ones above all hold up well.

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As a kid I didn't even watch the movie Halloween but I remember Siskel and Ebert reviewing it on their show At the Movies. They watched the scene where Jamie Lee Curtis was in the closet and Michael Myers was stabbing away and coat hangers were flying. That scene stuck with me for many a night.

Posted: 9/28/2019 12:00:36 AM EST

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Ever swim in the water at Cape Cod. Four feet deep you can't see the bottom, stuff bumps into you all the time.

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I prefer the gulf. Go a few hundred yards out to the sandbar and see to the bottom.

Then while I still lived there, the first GW caught in the area was hauled up by beach fishermen in PC.

Brought back memories.

Posted: 9/28/2019 12:00:59 AM EST

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Halloween is my all time favorite but there are two other ones that I saw when I was young that stick with me but I'll need a little help because I dont remember their titles.

First one was from early 80s, parts I remember is this chick takes a shower and lays on the floor in front of a fish tank with headphones on. Shes smoking a joint I think and killer comes up behind her and cuts her head off and puts it in the fish tank which her friend finds later.

Other movie is a scene in Terror in the Aisles where these demon looking kids are trying to grab someone through a hole in the door and shes screaming.

Those two ring any bells for anyone ?

Oh and Alice sweet Alice scared me when I was young too.

Posted: 9/28/2019 12:02:35 AM EST

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Well, I'll throw in MY old school favorite (Probably pretty "lame" for you youngsters here) "The Haunting" ('Of Hill House. Not that abomination of a re-make from a few years ago but the original Robert Wise, 1963 version). That movie has creeped me out for decades. Wise filmed it in B&W (He could've done it in color) because it made it creepier. Anyway, very cool old flick if you don't need to see teen-aged girls murdered to get your "horror" jollies. BTW, don't EVER EVER EVER go to sleep with your hand hanging over the edge of the bed! lol

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Posted: 9/28/2019 12:10:27 AM EST

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Idiocracy. That movie was a documentary.

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Beat me to it.

The only inaccuracy was the speed in which devolution of society would occur. It's not taking 500 years, like in the movie.

I just saw the ass end of Jimmy Kimmel's show. The finale musical guest was some tatted up chickie. Apparently of some importance to today's music scene. She was standing in a mock cake that looked like an 18th Century hoop dress. Her dance performers on the stage around her were dressed in baby clothes and the auto-tuned voice was singing a song called Strawberry Shortcake.

Posted: 9/28/2019 12:10:30 AM EST

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I'm surprised nobody mentioned 1408.

Posted: 9/28/2019 12:13:07 AM EST

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Yes. The last part still creeps me out after all these years.

Posted: 9/28/2019 12:16:39 AM EST

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Yes. The last part still creeps me out after all these years.

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Another good one. Karen Black was yummy in that movie. I pretty much fell in love with her in "Airport 1975".

Posted: 9/28/2019 9:10:23 AM EST

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I loved scary movies as a kid, and a few actually scared me, as in really creeped me out:

Fantasm, The Shining, Salems Lot, possibly a few more had themes or scenes that stuck with me.

Honesty to me the biggest surprise in this thread are all the mentions of Event Horizon. Seriously? That movie was cheesy as hell. When it came out I thought it was going to be an awesome hard sci fi flick and when it turned into a horror movie, it was like a comedy from then on out.

"Where we're going, you don't need eyes" lol
Honestly I can't beleive that one gives anyone the creeps.

Posted: 9/28/2019 9:26:25 AM EST

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Posted: 9/28/2019 10:06:45 AM EST

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As someone else mentioned, I think it has a LOT to do with what age you were when you saw it.

I get the impression that a lot of people saw the Exorcist (or movies like Poltergeist) when they were young, and it scared the fuck out of them. Other movies they saw later when they were older might actually BE "scarier" but they didn't affect you as much. I think my judgment is definitely affected by that. My parents took me to see Alien when I was 9 or 10, and it scared the living daylights out of me.

I saw movies like the Exorcist, Poltergeist and the Thing when I was older, and I think they are funny movies, not scary at all.

- same with stuff like Jason, Nightmare on Elm Street, and all that kind of stuff.

I do remember seeing a movie called Xtro in the mid 80s, and I remember that being pretty scary.

Posted: 9/28/2019 10:18:20 AM EST

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As someone else mentioned, I think it has a LOT to do with what age you were when you saw it.

I get the impression that a lot of people saw the Exorcist (or movies like Poltergeist) when they were young, and it scared the fuck out of them. Other movies they saw later when they were older might actually BE "scarier" but they didn't affect you as much. I think my judgment is definitely affected by that. My parents took me to see Alien when I was 9 or 10, and it scared the living daylights out of me.

I saw movies like the Exorcist, Poltergeist and the Thing when I was older, and I think they are funny movies, not scary at all.

- same with stuff like Jason, Nightmare on Elm Street, and all that kind of stuff.

I do remember seeing a movie called Xtro in the mid 80s, and I remember that being pretty scary.

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I saw exorcist and poltergeist when I was pretty young. Exorcist was just cheesy. Poltergeist was a little freaky.

I was freaked out by first Nightmare on Elm Street. It's super cheesy now.

I saw one of the newer Friday the 13ths with my cousin. I was cheering for Jason.

Posted: 9/28/2019 11:00:55 AM EST

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Since everyone keeps throwing out the "as a kid" thing I'll add one.

It was a made for TV movie called "Don't be Afraid of the Dark", it was about people buying a house that had little demons loving in the walls. Scared thes shit outta me as a kid.

Posted: 9/28/2019 11:02:33 AM EST

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Posted: 9/28/2019 11:40:54 AM EST

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I think the age thing is a big factor. When I was 4 or 5 I saw The Naked Jungle with Charleton Heston. Completely laughable now, but the scene where the fat guy falls asleep who's supposed to release the water into the moat and wakes up covered in the ants... the last thing you see of him is his hand with ants crawling all over it trying to hold onto the valve handle to flood the moat but slipping off as he dies.

I had bad dreams about that one for quite a while. In the middle of the night I would picture the ant farm on my dresser suddenly falling over and shattering and thousands of killer Marabunta ants flooding out and into my bed.

I'm obviously not saying this is the scariest movie, but it's the only one I clearly remember having bad dreams about.

Posted: 9/28/2019 12:51:44 PM EST

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Not exactly a horror film, but Fire in the Sky freaked me out as a teenager.

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My uncle has known that guy all his life.

Posted: 9/28/2019 1:07:47 PM EST

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When I was little I spent the night at gramma and grampas one night and they watched Wait Until Dark staring Audrey Hepburn who played a blind lady home alone as killers enter her home.

Posted: 9/28/2019 8:45:51 PM EST

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The age thing is definitely a factor. When Kolchak The Night Stalker played on tv, it scared the hell out of me. I remember coming home from trick or treating with my younger sister and then watching the episode called The Knightly Murders and remembering how much it scared me. Today, I love watching that show for the humor

Posted: 9/28/2019 8:55:23 PM EST

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The Posiedon Adventure scared me pretty good as a kid. I had nightmares about that for awhile. Anything with vampires, got me also. Now, nothing so much gets to me. Silence of the Lambs was a little disturbing as well as, Se7en. I've seen a lot of crazies out there from my career in LE and those latter 2 movies reminds me of some of them.

Posted: 9/28/2019 8:56:14 PM EST

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Alien was pretty intense for it's time.

The original Omen was pretty scary also.

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I still don't like to watch Alien. Love Aliens.

Posted: 9/28/2019 9:02:16 PM EST

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For me it has to be Friday the 13th Part 2. The reason? I was 11 and my parents took me to see it at the theatre. No big deal, right? Except this was in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and we then went back to our cabin in the woods. Holy hell was that a nightmare!! Even told me I had to go walk the dog. In the dark woods. At night!

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Posted: 9/28/2019 9:14:29 PM EST

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Captain Marvel.

Barely made it through the trailer and 36 second recap before Avengers: Endgame

Still having nightmares.

Might have PTSD

Posted: 9/28/2019 9:16:44 PM EST

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My brothers and sisters were shown The Exorcist like it was part of our schooling and we were about 8 years old and less. My parents are batshit crazy religious nuts who view Catholics as evil any other time on the planet ... but heroic when it came to saving souls in this movie. They acted like The Exorcist was something that could save our soul and scare us straight. They acted like it was their duty as parents to show us what we were in for if they were right and the Devil was gonna get us. And they hated Catholics, so that worked into the narrative of how they would have to murder and bury us since they knew no Catholics and weren't Catholic so they couldn't save our soul ... all they could do was kill us, bury us, and hope demons stayed away from the other kids.

It was a nightmare on earth. So, yeah, that movie terrorized me as a kid. Especially when my parents cut out glow in the dark eye shaped crap to put on our bedroom wall after we'd watch it. By the way ... we lived in a fucking shack and had floor to ceiling bunks in ONE ROOM for the girls and boys. Then they'd come in once we started screaming in the dark and the eyes were glowing bright enough to read and THEY would start screaming/crying about how close the demons were to getting us and how when we slept they were even closer so we had to keep our thoughts pure so our dreams could be pure because demons could come in even in your dreams and do what happened in that movie.

I hate those fucking people who birthed and abused me with the fiery passion of a million burning suns.

Posted: 9/28/2019 9:36:41 PM EST

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I see Pandorum was mentioned at least once.

First time I saw it I was by myself watching it after dark. It freaked me the fuck out.

The alien movies I saw as a kid and I still cannot watch them alone or in the dark. Nope can’t and won’t do it.

Pitch Black strikes a nerve with me as well although I can watch it. But again its those extremely aggressive and odd creatures that get to me.

Posted: 10/4/2019 3:38:49 PM EST

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Saw it as a kid. That ending really stuck with me for years. Something so unsettling about it. I suppose if I watched it today it wouldn't have the same effect.