What movie scared you as a child?

I stumbled upon the movie Gargoyles on the IMDB. I remember how frightened I was of it. Especially the scene where the couple was driving in the station wagon, you hear the pants of the gargoyle as it catches up with it, and then they are attacked.

Another one that got me was The World Beyond, which was a TV show. In this one, there were some people on an island being attacked by a mud monster. At one point, the monster lost its hand when they closed the door on it and the hand started moving on its own. I think it grabbed a chic's ankle on the stairs. That damn hand scared me good. I wish I could see this again.

The last one is Prophecy. Boy, did this one give me the shivers.

What movie scared you?

The Day the Earth Stood Still

I grew up watching the Nightmare on Elm Street movies with my cousins as a kid. The dream stuff always freaked me out. The original Halloween also got me some too. BUT, when I finally saw John Carpenter's remake of The Thing a few of years back, there were a couple of scenes that really made my jump out of skin!

The Car! :scared:

The Name Of The Rose... something about a bunch of priests alone, on a hill, by themselves...

The Lost Continent

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Originally Posted by Treibenschnell

Something about a bunch of priests alone, on a hill, by themselves...

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...turns you on? :rolleyes:

The Exorcist. Funny stuff looking back at it now, but at the time.... :scared:

Saw it at a friends house in his basement and had to walk home in the wee hours alone.

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...turns you on? :rolleyes:

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The topic was scared... not turned on. Otherwise I would have said anything with Selma Hayek.

Sick bastard...

The screen door was wiiiiiiide open... I had to come bustin' through! ::Banana::

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The screen door was wiiiiiiide open... I had to come bustin' through! ::Banana::

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Meh...

Ghostbusters. I remember hiding behind the couch during the scene where the gargoyle turns to life and chases people around Manhattan.

I remember watching lots of movies at the drive-in theater as a kid... at a dollar per carload it was a fun night out for us. (Single mom & 2 kids)

Two that stood out as nightmare givers were these:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064393/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079714/

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The Day the Earth Stood Still

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Hal wasn't that in Black & White?
I think it only cost us a quarter to go to the movies back then..::OldMan::

Poltergeist and Jaws. The clown in poltergeist really freaked me out. I was never into the hard core horror flicks.

Ghostbusters was a favorite of mine. It's still my most watched in a theater film. I saw it like 8 times.

"It" based off the stephen king book. that freaking clown was scary. *shudders*

the Exorcist, tops my list
and The Shining, even though the book was way better
The original Friday the 13th

Horror movies are my favorite, I have seen a ton of them and it takes something really gory or sick to phase me now.....but ghost stories always are the best, or possesion.

p.s. Here's a suggestion for the holidays "Black Christmas" sick, twisted, and flat out gross.

From when I was really young, Pinocchio. I actually recall having nightmares about it for years. After that was Poltergeist. I still count when I see lighting.

Depending on the definition of being scared, I didn't think Jaws was that scary till I went to Padre that same summer...and couldn't bring myself to get into the surf.

In terms of pure horror, the original "The Thing" was some scary stuff in 1982.

Poltergeist... especially the scene with the clown. :(

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"It" based off the stephen king book. that freaking clown was scary. *shudders*

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+1

That clown... :scared:

The exorcist was definitely a good one too.

The Shining

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The Day the Earth Stood Still

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Me too! Didn't even have to think about it. I can still see the alien standing in front of his spaceship. I was seven, and was all alone in the family room. Guess everyone else had gone to bed.

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Hal wasn't that in Black & White?
I think it only cost us a quarter to go to the movies back then..::OldMan::

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Yes, it was..........

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Me too! Didn't even have to think about it. I can still see the alien standing in front of his spaceship. I was seven, and was all alone in the family room. Guess everyone else had gone to bed.

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I was standing in my Uncle's den watching it alone. Everyone else was in the kitchen talking and drinking coffee. I don't think I moved until the movie was over, and I really wanted to go into the kitchen, but I HAD to know what happened next.

Wizard of Oz, when the tree started throwing the apples it freaked me out!


http://filmfanatic.org/reviews/wp-co...07/06/Tree.JPG

The Poltergeist clown literally made me pee my pants at a sleep over.

Still talking to a therapist about that one.

The flying monkeys from Wizard of Oz freaked me out.

I remember one time while at my cousins house in the country we planned on camping out overnight. We set up our tent, prepared our campfire and went inside to watch a movie. We watched Children of the Corn. After being thoroughly freaked out we then went out to see we had set up or camp next to a corn field. Needless to say, we slept indoors that night.

+1 on the flying monkeys for the Wizard of Oz. The flying monkeys inspired a recurring dream when I was a kid of monkeys with machine guns coming out of a tornado (lived in OK). :)

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The Poltergeist clown literally made me pee my pants at a sleep over.

Still talking to a therapist about that one.

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I had a Charlie McCarthy ventriloquist doll at the time. Needless to say it went into a trunk for a while... a trunk with some heavy items piled on top. :D