Movies that have scared the heck outta yah...

Romper Room. That freaky lady scared the bejesus out of me everytime she looked into her magic mirror and started out calling names of the kids she saw. I hid behind the chair every time. I didn't want her to see me in my underwear!
 
Nothing comes to mind in my recent years, but here are a some from when I was young:

Attack of the Mushroom People - I saw this one afternoon at a friend's house when I was five. I had nightmares about it for months afterwards. I've never seen it since, I imagine today it would look ridiculous to me.

Then there was the Kid Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the Wicked Witch from Wizard of Oz. To me they embodied everything a kid should be afraid of.
 
Gremlins- absolutely terrifying to a young me.
Jaws- I'm still uneasy about being in deep water.
Terminator- LOL, stayed up all night waiting for a cyborg from the future to come kill me.

The Thing ('80's version)- monsters in your blood? Scared the hell out of me!
Some Steven King movie about an ancient bat creature that eats factory workers (?).

And, embarassingly, the Child's Play movies. The notion of a friendly toy murdering me freaked me out, as ridiculous as those movies were.

I haven't been really frightened by a movie since I was about twelve. At least, not in a panic-inducing way. Though the Dawn of the Dead remake had me dreaming about fighting zombies for a few days. :D

Jeremy
 
fixer27 said:
Excorcist, scared the bejubeahs out of me. Jaws a close second
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The only movie that really ever scared me was the Exorcist. The hair on the back of my neck stands up when I here tubular bells. In fact, its standnig up right now as I type this!

Theres some others that I won't watch because they are just too gross (like the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre" , and some have scared me while I was sitting there "schock value" but the Exorcist is the bad boy.
 
TorzJohnson said:
If I remember right, that's the one where the sleeper awakens to see somebody sit up in what he knew to be an empty bed... that face of crumpled linen... It's one of my favorites too.

I'm a big fan of M.R. James' stories. I think one of the best moments in any of his stories is in "The Casting of the Runes" where the man puts his hand under the pillow in the middle of the night. Good Lord, no movie could possibly convey the experience.
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That's the one, you know, people who over use all that CGI stuff in the movies these days should watch some of this old stuff to see how a good film maker can convey a sense of menace with nothing more than a crumpled bed sheet, simple yet effective. Or how about that lone shambling figure in the cemetery at the start of Night of the Living Dead?
 
Ashes said:
Star Wars. The whole series. I have this weird phobia of robots. Because of this, I'm also afraid of The Terminator (series) and Robocop. I have actually watched them all, but never again! Also, the "new" Planet of the Apes.

~ashes
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I am a friend of Ashes..may I see her now..
 
Invasion of the Saucer People. My father drug me to the theater to see it when I was only 4. Maybe that is why I became a sci-fi freak and wound up crying at the theater when Rodan and mate died in the lava.

I'll second
The Wicker Man (just creepy).
Ringu films (liked much better than "The Ring").
Erazer Head (seeing that with Naked Lunch will ruiin your day).
and add Alien (good scare films know when to leave things to the imagination).
I remember when I went to see The Exorcist... someone a row or two in front of me had a ventriloquist's dummy in the seat next to them and turned the head around backwards at a key point in the film. Got a few screams out of some girls behind him.
The Thing (John Carpenter) could have been creepy but the special effects and the low-key made it more of a "gee whiz" film (didn't capture the creepy feeling of John W Campbell's original short story "Who Goes There?")
Ju-on was creepy, but liked The Eye and Inugami better.

edit: I almost forgot... Don't know the name of it and never saw it, but the preview alone creeped me out for months. A guy wakes up on a table in a Victorian style operating room/lab and notices all these tubes coming out of him... he follows them and sees that his organs (heart, lungs, kidney's etc.) are all in little glass jars and tanks surrounding the table he's on, and just starts screaming (guess he wasn't going to escape very easily).
 
Blair Witch Project was pretty creepy.
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The one movie I can recall that actually had me spooked for some time (a few weeks, even) was The Ring. I really don't know why it got to me so badly, but I was acting like some little kid for days after I saw it, turning the lights on and checking under the bed before going to sleep! I got over that though. That was wierd.

Event Horizon was one of my favourite scary movies, but not the one that scared me the most.
 
And in third it has to be aliens, with those face hugger things man
they made me trip out.
 
As a kid, Gremlins and The Shining were horrifying.
As an adult, Event Horizon was pretty creepy.
That's it.
 
As a kid I saw "The Thing from Another World", in 1951, with James Arness (Gunsmoke) as "the Thing". This was pre special effects so you never got a good look at "the Thing", making it all the more effective. An excellent movie, especially if you can find it to rent and compare to the movies of today. In those days your mind had to create the effects. Boy, did this one work on me. :eek: :D
 
Seven ("7even"), where they find the fat guy with his head in the plate of pasta. Yucky and scary and it makes me think twice before even considering getting fat :D
 
I've never been able to suspend disbelief enough to get scared by any movie......until I saw the Mothman Prophecies. I sat alone in my beach house after watching it, jumping at every shadow and every tree branch scratching on the roof.
 
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