(There's probably already a thread on this somewhere, and if there is, tell me and I'll kindly delete it)
Well, it's October 1st, the month of Halloween and I figured now would be a good time for some threads about scary movies so: What movies really disturbed you and gave you nightmares when you were a child?
I'm blanking at the present moment, but one that always terrified me was Mars Attacks!.
Nope I'm not joking. I was around 8 ate the time and I saw pictures of it in a book I had on aliens. I was really intrigued. My parents let me rent the tape from the library, I watched half of it and was absolutely terrified when I saw the martians melt the human beings. Watching it now, 7 years later, of course I find it funny but WOW did it scare me!
The Great Mouse Detective- First you have some really gorgeous art direction, some really eery atmosphere from the toy shop (let's remember this is all from the perspective of mice) to Big Ben. Then you add Vincent Price voicing the villain with a truly frightening, action-packed third act. To me it is one of the most underrated things Disney has ever done. Also some of the stuff they got away with for a 'kids' movie is sorta hysterical in retrospect. Guess Disney was so broken in the 80s that nobody noticed it.
Return to Oz- The Wheelers.
Jaws- When the kid gets attacked....
Thriller, the music video- The awesome monster makeup and Vincent Price!
Close Encounters of the Third Kind- I saw ET first so my whole idea of aliens and Spielberg got really shaken seeing this- even if they turned out to be perfectly fine in the end. Again, child in danger.
2. The scene where Dorothy's locked in the castle, and when she looks into the crystal ball and sees Auntie Em, it suddenly turns into the face of the witch.
3. The song "O LI O, LI O LO" as the guards march into the castle.
One of the worst films I ever sat through as a child was 'Care Bears the Moive II: A New Generation'. Not only was it TOO SUGARY SWEET it had a villain that was DOWN RIGHT EVIL. The critic from The New York Times was right that children over the age of four might find it too spooky.
The original House Of Wax. Taking off the glasses did not help. In retrospect, I should have just closed m y eyes. The music always scared the crap out of me.
It wasn't the movie but as a kid I was TERRIFIED of the Child Catcher from CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG. He gave me nightmares and even today when I see him I always think back to when I was a kid and how much he terrified me.I could take Freddy and Jason and Leatherface any day but the Child catcher sent chills down my spine.
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Saw Jurassic Park the day I finished kindergarten and loved it!
Strangely, I loved The Wizard of Oz and Return to Oz. Looking back, I'm wondering why they didn't absolutely terrify me.
I just remembered the movie that REALLY scared me was The Witches. I don't think I ever actually saw the whole movie, but the only thing I can remember is that one part where the witches turn the kids into mice. Couldn't sleep for WEEKS after that!
Sadly, nothing really scared me as a child. Now if you ask me about now, I could give you a whole list.
Like I finally got around to watching the original Friday the 13th last night. Jason's mom scared me so much. And it doesn't help that it was filmed a couple of towns over from me. I know exactly where much of it was filmed.
"I don't want the pretty lights to come and get me."-Homecoming 2005
"You can't pray away the gay."-Callie Torres on Grey's Anatomy.
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I grew up watching gory horror movies but strangely what terrified me was SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES, THE WATCHER IN THE WOODS and the first 5 minutes of GHOSTBUSTERS.
Never watch TV when you are babysitting in an old creaky house. I was taking care of my baby niece and watched an old movie called DEAD OF NIGHT. The final ventriloquist episode, and the twist at the end, totally freaked me out. When I got home, I couldn't turn out the lights, or sleep.
Oddly the first five minutes of Ghostbusters didn't bother me. The part that I refused to watch for a long time was later in the movie with those hands pop out of the chair to grab Sigourney Weaver's character and then the chair slides across the room to her bedroom where the Terror Dog is waiting for her. After the first time I ALWAYS went to go to the bathroom, the kitchen, or anywhere else once she got on the phone with her mother in the lead-up to that moment and would make sure I didn't come back until the next scene had started.
Yeah the hands never bothered me. And watching people get gutted, decapitated or tortured never did anything to me either. But ghosts in movies scared the crap out of me (and for the most part still do with movies like SESSION 9).