Scariest childhood movie ever!

[mattheadfat]

shining for me also, i rented it with my friend when i was 12 or 13, i had no idea what it was about, i just heard it was really good, and it scared me stiff.

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[akaBruno]

Jaws

I'll never forget that scene where that head pops out of the bottom of the boat. I don't think that the guy in front of me liked it when I kicked him. And I swear, I jumped so high, I sh*t twice before I landed back in my seat again.

[psyklone]

when i was really young i saw grey lady down. scared me so bad .. geez. other than that, nothing really bothered me much. my sister was always freaked out by alice in wonderland, though. that's gotta count for something.

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[techcoor]

LOL!!!!

I remember being FORCED to go see E.T. by my parents. I was like 4, and my brother, 2. We turned around in our seats and had our heads against the seat cushions the ENTIRE movie!!! I remember yelling at our parents for making us see it! I still cant stand that stupid alien!! I did find it funny that Lucas put ET's in Episode 1 - did any of you see them??

[techcoor]

WOOOOHOOOOO!!!!!

MY E.T. REPLY HAS GIVEN ME THE STATUS OF "MEMBER"!!!

[Wiz]

the scariest one i saw as a kid was the exorcist. God, that movie still scares me.

[OuTpaTienT]

Alien. Scared the bejeebers outta me. For a few days after I saw it I would go to sleep with my hands over my face to hopefully fend off any creatures that tried to cling to it.

[OuTpaTienT]

Hey Wiz, I don't mean to pass any judgements on your parents, but NO child should have been allowed to see The Exorist.

[narayan]

"Hellraiser" really messed me up. Holy cow did the "Hellraiser" movies mess me up.

[Wiz]

i watched it at a friends house one night, at his birthday party. we all spent the night and watched it.

[bhess]

I think the scariest movie during the movie was prophesy, and the movie that scared me afterwards was jaws.

[ablang]

As a child, what movie scared you the most?

Mine would have to be "The Shining". My parents took me to the movies at night to see it. As a 10-year old, the imagery of blood flowing down a corridor, and the old laughing hag gave me nightmares for months.

Of course, I laugh about it now, but needless to say, my parents never took me to scary movies again.

[Sweeper]

Prophecy,Alien,Nightmare On Elm Street.....

[DaveLewis]

As one of the resident "old farts" I'll date myself and say that as a kid I was scared in a major way by "The Thing" - the original one starring James Arness (Mat Dillon) as the monster. I'll never forget when the door was opened and you saw the monster standing behind it - just silhouetted against the light.

If you've never seen this movie try to get a copy on tape and take a look. In the "old days" they didn't do blood and gore as much as scare you with the things that you didn't see. Directors did great things with light and shadow and they didn't need 10 million dollars worth of Industrial Light and Magic to create a very believable and very frightening world.

IMHO The Thing was probably the best science fiction/horror flick of the 50's.

The Thing was suggested by a story by the great John Campbell (writing under the pen name Don Stuart) called "Who Goes There?". A great story too - read it sometime after midnight with only one light on the book and a couple of shots of Jack Daniels under your belt. Guaranteed to make the hairs stand up on the back of your neck.

[Brangwen]

The Blob was pretty scarry! But the ones that gave me the willies for a long time were the Dracula flicks of the 60s: remember? As they slid back the stone coffin cover, and the old lady (Dracula's mom, I recall) would sit up real quick and I'd just about die right there! Also, The Exorcist but I still dig the piano music.

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[alondra]

dont remember the name, long ago, in B&W but this one scene a bed, they threw back the blankets and there was something in the middle, a skull or spider or some thing, but I remember I almost wet my self, never forgotten it. I guess today it would take a dismembered body to get the same reaction, progress??? duh, I do appreciate the special effects, tho, problem is now you don't know what is real or not, do all cars blow up, does a car fly thru the air when hitting a 2x4. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[Ashley Rimmer]

I think the one that really got me as a youngster was Scanners, boy did I have some worrying days after that. Kept away from these kind of films ever since.
Ash

[Missing the point]

It has to be The Blob for me too, I was scared Sh*tless for about 3 weeks. I was about 5 years old

[username]

Wizard of Oz. Those **** flying monkeys.

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[Warthog]

Yes! Those monkeys!!! I remember that! I still think they're spooky.... http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

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[socalgal]

LOL... yeah.. those monkeys got me too.

[Nightweaver]

I remember being fairly young when I went to see Raiders of the Last Ark with my parents.. I was fine for the whole movie until the end when everyone started melting...

[alpha]

I don't have a scariest - but my funniest would be "Texas Chainsaw Massacre; the Next Generation"!!
You have to see it - it's just soo funny! See, normaly, the person who's being chased with a chainsaw would be screming, but the wierd transvestite chainsaw loony kept screamin' and I couldn't stop laughin!!! Or, like, when the guy gets the cattle prod and starts jabin' the woman!! I have to see that film again, it's soooooo funny!!

[Warthog]

I think you're a physco.

j/k http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif I've never seen the movie.

Warthog

[chipbgt]

pee wee's big adventure....something just aint right about that man...as we later saw...and the labyrinth scared the junk out of me, more specifically the jumping orange puppet creatures that pulled off body parts and threw them at people...

and anything with marionette puppets...shudder...

[jadison]

I have seen so many "scary"/horror movies it's not even funny, I've probably seen atleast 80% out of all of them!
Let me think...I'd have to say the following scared me a bit:
-The Exorcist
-Poltergeist
-Jaws
-Hellraiser (I & II) you have to see this one
-Nightmare on Elm Street (most of the them)
-Alien I (kinda, not much though)
-The original: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
-The original: Dracula
-The Thing
-Event Horizon--This didn't scare me, but it was the mystery behind it all that got to me

I'll think of some more, until then...

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! :0

-=jd=-

[Target]

Here's a blast from the past that many of you won't remember, but you'll recognize the lead actor from some of his more recent films....

For me, one of the scarier movies I saw was called "Magic" (1978) starring Anthony Hopkins.

[ScaryBinary]

Poltergeist. Just thinking about that little girl watching the static on the TV gives me goose bumps. And all those coffins popping up in the storm....ug.

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