Scary movies... *shiver*

[blinc]

We just got through watching "The Haunting" with Liam Neeson. Ok... this is the second time I've seen it and it still scared me! Heeebie Jeebies! {eek}

What are some movies you've seen that scared you? I love thrillers. Just don't like the after effects. Like sitting here too darn scared to go to bed... the lights go out and it's dark! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!

[jamesglewisf]

The Shining
Jacob's Ladder
Alien series
The Manchurian Candidate

[blinc]

The first time I saw Alien at the movie theatre, I actually had to get up and go out into the lobby. Scared me to death!

Jacob's Ladder... wow, Tim Robbins played an excellent part in that movie. The head movements of the chasers (what were they do you think?) that back and forth, real fast movement... freaked me out! I've seen that movie several times now, get something new out of it everytime.

[kezzer]

My hubby is a scary movie fanatic so they hardly really scare me anymore. Actually at a lot of them I sit and go, hmm, how fake! Last night we watched The Night of The Living Dead. One of my hubby's favorites. The movie IT really scares me though. I hate clowns!! There are a few that really scare me but only if I'm alone during or after the movie. I always check around the corners and stuff and keep all the lights on after watching a good one. That's when I know I've found a real scary movie.

[Anat]

I love scary movies but I never dare watch them by myself. My Tzachi is not a horror fan and neither is any of my friends, so I don't get to watch them too often.

I remember getting very scared of Poltergeist as a kid - though it looks a bit silly now. Practically any decent ghost movies will scare me. I'm usually not scared by the serial killers movies like Shout and the rest.

[Karenluvs6]

The Exorcist <----this movie scared the life out of me!
The Shining
People Under The Stairs
That movie with the guy they called Pinhead
Pumpkinhead
Halloween <----the original, first one
Fire In The Sky

[blinc]

Anat, that movie gave me the willies the first time I saw it too. Yikes!

Karenluvs6 - I know what movie you are talking about, but can't remember the name of it! The one with the puzzle boxes that they turned and it opened a gateway! Aarrggh! What was the name of that movie??? They made a couple of sequels to it too!

[In_His_Shadow]

Hey blinc, I think your talking about "HellRaiser". I love scary movies as does my oldest daughter. We have seen them all.

Kezzer, my daughter is terrified of clowns. Isn't that strange that so many people are afraid of clowns. Must have something to do with being scared at a young age by one.

CJ

[TTP]

What Lies Beneath, enough said right there!

[jamesglewisf]

I thought "The 6th Sense" was pretty scary, and very good.

[Anat]

Yes, I thought so too! The end was the best part and so sad...

[blinc]

I haven't seen "What lies beneath". Is it good and scarey TTP? I love to watch good psychologoical thrillers... not especialy the gore and blood ones. The one's that make you lie in bed and stare with wide eyes into the dark... yeah, those one's I love to watch! :D

The Sixth Sense - I've watched that one a few times. I loved the ending on it... well, just because it wasn't an ending that was expected. That was an excellent movie. Bruce Willis has really come a long way as an actor... I never really used to care for his movies much, but I'm fast becoming a fan. I loved Armageddon - have seen it quite a few times and the ending still gets me weepy. Where he stays on the asteroid.... *sigh* yep, great movie.

[Debby]

My husband and I love scary movies!!! The Haunting was a favorite of mine!! I even love the Chucky movies.....well at least the first three, and the House on Haunted Hill was good.

[TTP]

Originally posted by blinc
I haven't seen "What lies beneath". Is it good and scarey TTP? I love to watch good psychologoical thrillers... not especialy the gore and blood ones. The one's that make you lie in bed and stare with wide eyes into the dark... yeah, those one's I love to watch! :D

Well it definitely gave me the queezeis afterwords! There were a few things I was leary to do...but I won't say what cuz it'll ruin the movie. Watch it though, if you like scary movies I think you'ld enjoy it...it's more just creepy. Also on the lines of scary and creepy movies, watch, "Final Destination," also a pretty good flick.

[Debby]

Oh TTP I forgot to mention that one...Final Destination....but you're right! It was great!!! The ending was interesting, but not what I expected, I really liked it though.One scary movie I did not like though, was the ninth gate, with Kevin Bacon....not worth watching I didnt think.

[Karenluvs6]

Originally posted by In_His_Shadow
Hey blinc, I think your talking about "HellRaiser". I love scary movies as does my oldest daughter. We have seen them all.

Kezzer, my daughter is terrified of clowns. Isn't that strange that so many people are afraid of clowns. Must have something to do with being scared at a young age by one.

CJ


I'm not too cool with clowns either.
Ya know, I am scared to death of those ventriloquist dummies!
I've been ever since I was a little girl...we watched that movie called 'Magic'.

[Military Mom]

Oh, yeah, Jacob's Ladder was nightmare fodder for me, too!

Also:

Sixth Sense
Stir of Echoes
Amityville Horror

I also can't watch that new show - darn if I can't recall the name - it's on the sci-fi channel where the guy stands in the middle of the audience and the dead supposedly speak thru him. He comes up to different people, describing a loved one they lost and things in their lives that happened ... gives me the willies and makes me wonder ..

[Moe]

The first time I saw Jaws I was very scared. Especially the part where the shark jumps onto the boat. Also, I like some of the old Alfred Hitchock movies ( Rear Window, North By Northwest, The Birds). They aren't really scary movies, but they have a lot of suspense in them.

[blinc]

Oh Moe, I know just what you mean about Jaws. That movie STILL bothers me. We go out fishing every summer... out there sitting in the bay, it's 90 something degrees with the sun beating down on us. Sometimes I want so desperately to just jump over the side of the boat, into the nice cool water... but that dang movie just scared me so much, I'm scared to death a shark will get me!

It doesn't help that we've caught sharks, most are not maneaters though. My husband did catch a 6' hammerhead once and then just a week or so ago they caught two Great Whites off the coast of Sandbridge, Va... about 10 miles from where we fish. I didn't even know they came through this area.. but guess it's not usual for them to be around, they were migrating and caught in commercial fishing nets. One got away, estimated at 18' and the other caught in the net was 12'. Stupid commercial nets do so much damage! Poor sharks and dolphins.

[TWTCommish]

Movie Guru stepping to the forefront:

Kevin Bacon was not in "The Ninth Gate" - that was Johnny Depp. :) And yes, that movie was very dissapointing, and downright stupid at times.

Final Destination didn't scare me - it shocked me and made me nervous/jumpy while watching it. No lasting effects though.

Scream scared me - the whole "phone" thing was so realistic - it's the kind of thing that COULD happen. Blair Witch creeped me out, too.

So did "The House on Haunted Hill" - not to be confused with "The Haunting" - which I didn't really find scary, or all that good! :p

[Debby]

Oh yes....you're right....it was Johnny Depp....I get confused! LOL

[TWTCommish]

Hehe, no problem. Bacon was in "Hollow Man" most recently. Both are odd/somewhat creepy guys.

[Debby]

Yes they are....I did like Bacon in Stir of Echos though.

[Karenluvs6]

Stir of Echoes was great!
The Sixth Sense was awesome too...I bought that one.
Those Hellraiser movies scared the life out of me.

That little clown doll on 'Poltergeist' always scares me too.

LOL
reminds me of my girls...they have one of those 'My Size Barbie' dolls...It is so funny...they won't sleep with doll in the same room. I always catch them after lights out, taking the doll out to the hall closet and shoving her inside. They always make the baby do it, because they are afraid.

[TWTCommish]

Hey, I can releate. Anyone remember "Mr. Marbles" from Seinfeld? I'll never, *EVER* sleep in the same room as a dummy like that. Those things are just funky.

[OG-]

I slept in a room with one of those dolls once. It was called my Buddy or something. My friend had it. Looked just like Chucky. Oh man was it scary, I swear I heard footsteps at night...

Honestly I can not watch ET. That movie scares the **** out of me. I don't like aliens, the way they are portrayed in movies. And when ET is all shriveled and Grey it traumatized me.

Oh and Fire in the Sky was pretty scary. For the same reason basically.

[TWTCommish]

Yeah, remember the "gook" in that one scene? Yikes. That movie was surprisingly good, and I've only seen half of it recently.

[OG-]

I don't want to remember that movie. Too freaky for me. And I'm the kind of person who wasn't even phased by American Psyhco. I just don't like movie aliens.

[Karenluvs6]

Oh and Fire in the Sky was pretty scary. For the same reason basically.

this movie scared me to death...I like this one!

[Austruck]

I can usually predict whether or not a "scary" movie will torture me at bedtime if I put it into one of two categories:

* This movie could happen in real life.
* This movie is totally sci-fi or fantasy.

That means that zombie movies, alien movies, and monster movies don't creep me out beyond watching them at the time, because I can easily see that it's made up.

But give me a movie that could happen -- serial killers, murders, mayhem, natural disasters -- and I can't sleep for a week!

I definitely found the "Alien" series creepy, and the original B&W "Night of the Living Dead" is a classic that draws me in every single time (despite the horrid acting, but hey, it was filmed right here in my own backyard in western Pa.!) Same with "Interview with the Vampire" (the book is creepier -- I just don't think Cruise worked well enough with that bleach blonde hair) and "Bram Stoker's Dracula." Creepy! but not sleep-changing.

BUT ... I had a MUCH more difficult time with "Blair Witch" (because it's never explained and COULD be a psycho), "Scream" movies (can't get past the opening scene on any of them), and even "Manchurian Candidate" too. (Thanks Jim for including that one -- it is classic hair-on-the-back-of-the-neck psychological torture and good political commentary. Did you know they originally had to pull the release of that movie because Kennedy was shot just before it was supposed to be released?)

Even "Deep Impact" scared me out, because in some odd sense, it could happen, and they portrayed the inevitable very frankly, and didn't pull any punches about the randomness of who lives or dies in some situations.

Here's one not mentioned, probably because it falls more into the drama category: "Reservoir Dogs." It was just the most horrid thing to watch -- Tim What's-His-Name just takes his good old time dying throughout the entire movie, and he was so convincing that it sickened me. (shudder)

And, here's one that might make you think I'm really deranged: I cannot watch the first half hour of "Saving Private Ryan" ever again. A friend talked me into seeing it in the theatre when it first came out, and I was fighting back tears of panic and regret at having been forced to sit through that endless first scene. I kept apologizing to my friend and going to the restroom at several points in the movie, and if I had brought my purse with me to the restroom, I'd have kept walking out the door! SCARY precisely because of its reality.

I guess I find some aspects of real life scary in their own right and find it hard to lend credence to fantasy scares when there's already so much to REALLY be scared about!

Gee, now I'm in such a good mood! Accck! :)

[OG-]

None of those movies you mentioned scare me. I don't know why. I know they can happen, just doesn't bother me. I've seen it all too much. I haven't been scared by a movie in years. Except for ET, everytime I watch it. I was at my friend house, and he had this little ET statue, and he put it above me while I was sleeping, and turned it on. It scared me to death. I think I had two consecutive heart attacks.

[TWTCommish]

Originally posted by OG-
None of those movies you mentioned scare me. I don't know why. I know they can happen, just doesn't bother me. I've seen it all too much. I haven't been scared by a movie in years. Except for ET, everytime I watch it. I was at my friend house, and he had this little ET statue, and he put it above me while I was sleeping, and turned it on. It scared me to death. I think I had two consecutive heart attacks.

Hahahahaha - I don't usually litally make any laughing noise when I read something funny online, it takes a lot, even though inside I'm laughing quite a bit, but your ET fear has done it: it cracks me up.

I just picture you with your eyes peeking out over the blanket looking around for ET - then someone holds up the doll and you scream and hide - hillarious.

Take this one to Vegas man.

[blinc]

Oh OG, that is a hilarious story. A friend with a wicked sense of humor, what more could you ask for?! *LOL*

[OG-]

We were watching something on TV, it was boring so I fell asleep. I woke up later on, some noise or something, and everyone else was asleep, but this ET doll was looming over me. It's eyes were all light up and everything. I think I peed my pants.

He also has these two doll things, that hold candles and move and stuff. And he surround me with a bunch of those one time I was sleeping, but I expected it. Those doll people are scary!!

[Debby]

Saving Private Ryan scared me too, Austruck. The horror is that it really happened, and could always happen again, and it is so explicit! It terrified me too, don't feel bad.

[blinc]

OG your friend sounds like quite the character... I love people with a mischevious sense of humor. He sounds like a wonderfully funny friend! {toothy}

I watched Saving Private Ryan 3 times... I really didn't find it scarey, just very, very sad.

Outbreak and that other similar movie scared me. So did one called "The day after", which involved what would happen after a nuclear war. Those really disturb my emotional state... as it seems so easily we could destroy ourselves.

[OG-]

Yea Outbreak freaked me out. Because it was so real. Not Saving Private Ryan so much.

Yea my friend can be funny etc. But he can be a punk too. But hes cool. I'd tell him to post here, but his cable modem never works.

[blinc]

Tell him if he doesn't post here... you're gonna take his dolls hostage! {toothy}

Oooh! Ooh! I thought of one that scared me to death. I've seen it once and never, never, never want to see it again. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre! I saw it when I was about 19 or so, and to this day just the thought of it creeps me out bigtime!! Aaaaiieeee!
*runs and hides under bed*
*shiver*
*tremble*
is it safe out there?

[jamesglewisf]

My list hasn't changed much:

The Shining
Jacob's Ladder
Silence of the Lambs
Alien