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There's a Dario Argento film called Demons that scared the living shit out of me as a kid. The claustrophobic sense of being trapped by evil incarnate threatening to infect you. I watched it again a few years back and it's a fairly corny and crappy zombie movie, but it was terrifying when I was 7. Edited by challenge_hanukkah at 23:30:27 10-01-2016 |
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challenge_hanukkah 14,400 posts
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wuntyate 17,494 posts
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Registered 8 years agoI was pretty stoned and drunk when i watched ju-on about 13 or so years ago. Scared the utter fuck out of me. I ran into the hallway screaming about halfway through the film. Much to my flat mates amusement.
Also. Ringu. The end. Say no more. Fuck the shitty remakes and sequels. That last sequence defines horror. -
Mola_Ram 26,196 posts
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Registered 9 years agoThat's one film I wouldn't mind in 3d. -
Youthist 14,724 posts
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Registered 16 years agoretro74 wrote:
School kids on some kind of camping trip right? Yeah that was a really popular horror when I was about 13 or so - was popular as the "scariest movie ever" etc at the time
I like scary films but watched one called The Burning in the 80s that shit me up at the time and I've not seen it again since
Don't know anyone else that's seen it but I expect that it's quite tame compared to some now -
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Registered 11 years agoChainsaw massacre or wolf creek. Both similar in a way, sick and twisted -
Pierre2k 1,468 posts
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Registered 9 years agoI love horror and a few films have creeped me out. In adukthood films like The Ring (I prefer the U.S. version), It Follows and Insidious all left an impression.
However, like others here, the only time I remember being absolutely terrified by a film was as a kid. 2 films in particular:
1) Nightmare on Elm Street. The first movie gave me literal nightmares.
2) Made for TV Stephen King Campire Movie, Salem's Lot. Watched this when I was about 10 or 11 and I was scared for weeks. Used to be scared to pull back the curtain in case a dead friend would be floating there asking me to let him in. Watched again when I was about 16 and found it to be laughably bad and not scary at all, but as a kid it was probably the most scared I've ever been through film.
I see the Wxorcist mentioned and I only watched this for the 1st time when it was rereleased in cinemas back in the late 90s. Read the stories, how it was banned, how it was the scariest movie of all time etc. Couldn't wait to see it and then.......terrible. Not even remotely scary. I honestly think I'm watching a different film to those that heap praise on it? No exaggeration, it's in my personal top 10 worst films ever made. Just irredeemably bad, but given the praise it gets I must be missing something? -
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Registered 9 years agoMola_Ram wrote:
Don't think I could watch the final scene in the Ring, in 3D, and keep clean pants!
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Registered 9 years agoPierre2k wrote:
Well, you'd be in good company with Dale Wilson, aged 37 or 38 of the Greater Vancouver area, who reportedly shat his pants at school.
Mola_Ram wrote:
Don't think I could watch the final scene in the Ring, in 3D, and keep clean pants!
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First film to shit me right up when I was a kid was a film called "Basket case" 2 brothers and one was deformed and kept in a basket only to be unleashed when killing doctors etc. I snuck into our dining room and was watching it on the sly. Ended up having bad nightmares. I re watched it years later and it's awful...and it's a comedy lol. -
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Registered 11 years agoUltrasoundwave wrote:
Oh yeah, I forgot Nightmare on Elm Street - remember seeing bits of it when I was 5 or 6. A hideous boogeyman who kills children in their sleep?, FUCK YOU Wes Craven! 😩
Saw the Texas Chainsaw Massacre (the original, not the fucking remake) way too young, when I was about 10 or 11?, absolutely destroyed my brain, couldn't sleep for days!
The last film that freaked me out was The Black Dahlia, a crap movie from 2006 with Scarlett Johansson and Aaron Eckhart. The film itself is reasonably shit and not that scary, but it did lead to me googling the actual Black Dhalia case:
One of the most terrifying things I've ever read (plus the Internet has real photos from the crime scene, obviously). I'm 30 years old and shit like that is fucking shatteringly frightening.
DO NOT google the Black Dhalia case. Just don't.
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ozthegweat 2,977 posts
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Registered 10 years agoIt. Saw it as a child. The only time in my life when I had nightmares about a movie. And I've been afraid of clowns since. -
Youthist 14,724 posts
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Registered 16 years agoSome parts of Salem's lot are still terrifying today -
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Registered 16 years agoPierre2k wrote:
I didn't think it was bad, but not scary. The bit in the hospital hallway in exorcist 3 freaked me out way more than anything in the original exorcist did
I see the Wxorcist mentioned and I only watched this for the 1st time when it was rereleased in cinemas back in the late 90s. Read the stories, how it was banned, how it was the scariest movie of all time etc. Couldn't wait to see it and then.......terrible. Not even remotely scary. I honestly think I'm watching a different film to those that heap praise on it? No exaggeration, it's in my personal top 10 worst films ever made. Just irredeemably bad, but given the praise it gets I must be missing something? -
As a kid, the films i remember scaring me were Christopher Lee as Dracula, Salem's Lot (absolute pants when I saw it years later) and Exorcist.
Growing up, it took me a long time to be able to say "Candyman, Candyman, Candyman". I also thought Halloween and Poltergeist were pretty scary. -
Candyman still does it for me. Wouldn't want to watch if I was alone in the house, even today. -
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Registered 16 years agoExorcist had a mass hysteria about how shocking it was, and the fuss in the UK specifically was more about it's offensiveness and having a 12 year old doing obscene things I think.
Sensibilities have changed and it's shock value has faded.
Don't think it's a bad film by any means. It's got a certain mundaneness to it that you saw in a few films from that era, like The Omen or Rosemary's Baby. It's also a feature of the book where iirc there a lot of dwelling on if it's demonic obsession or just a mentally ill child with a crap parent. I think that made it more relatable to audiences, unlike something like other high fantasy horror like Dracula that was "safe" as it was so OTT.
Having said that Rosemary's Baby's a shit film. -
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Registered 16 years agoAlso, I think if a *new* film came out today with a 12 year old actress masturbating with a crucifix, there'd be an outrage. -
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Registered 6 years agoRosemary's Baby is not shit you animal. -
chopsen 21,958 posts
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Registered 16 years agoI've really tried to like it. I've even watched it more than once despite not enjoying it the first time, which is really making an effort. But....meh. It's just...I don't get it! I can't even see what people *could* see it in. -
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wuntyate 17,494 posts
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Registered 8 years agoMore recently, the Gareth Evans directed segment "Safe Haven" in V/H/S/2 (or however the fuck they stylise it) creeped me out so much that I had to paint rainbows on the inside of my eyelids so I could sleep at night. -
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Registered 8 years agoI watched The Omen when I was still fairly young. Scared me absolutely SHITLESS.
I wasn't the nanny hanging herself, it wasn't the guy getting impaled by the flagpole nor David Warner getting his head cut off.
It was the music. It fucked with my head for quite some time.
Every other so-called horror movie has paled in comparison since. Nothing comes close IMO. -
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Registered 7 years agoTexas Chainsaw Massacre was a good one. Went through a phase of collecting Dvd's in my late teens and hadn't seen it before. Was expecting just an out and out slasher. Didn't expecting it to be so psychologically forbidding. Man, the build up and tension in that film is crazy. When Leatherface first appeared, made those fucking horrible noises and planted the hammer in that guys head, who starts fitting on the floor. Fuck man... Everything about that film absolutely got me. The sound design, the grain on the film. Superb.
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I think Blair Witch, laughably.
My excuses are thus:
I was pretty young and these found footage films were a new thing. Also, in the pre internet age (I didn't have it at home at the time), mis-information was rife with this movie. I wasn't sure watching the grainy VHS whether it was real or not.
Cue my 14 year old self shitting a brick when the guy is in the corner at the end.
/gullabletwat
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Pierre2k wrote:
Same. Made the mistake of watching the third one when I was about 8 with some lads thinking we were all mature and well hard watching a horror.
1) Nightmare on Elm Street. The first movie gave me literal nightmares.
It turns out that a movie about a child murderer who invades your dreams isn't the best choice of viewing material for a formative mind. -
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Registered 14 years agoThere's not been many films that really shat me up: one was The Amityvillr Horror when I was 12 or so - I was watching it late at night and when the bit with Rod Steiger gets attacked by flies, and then there's absolute silence, a door slowly opens, and (in my 12-year-old mind) an absolutely horrible voice says GET OUT!
That shit me up a bit. I've watched it again recently and it's completely non-scary but hey, I was 12.
American Werewolf in London used to scare the shit out if me when I was younger. I still don't like the wolf howling sound. I've walked around the middle of nowhere in Yorkshire at night and I've convinced myself I've heard that howling. -
chopsen 21,958 posts
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Registered 16 years agoActually, the internet was pretty instrumental in creating a buzz around Blair Witch. There was a lot of (probably manufactured) debate about if it was real or not leading up to it's release in the US.
By the time it was released here that was all a bit moot, but some people still managed to get sucked in by it.
I saw it in the cinema. There was an audible collective grumble from the audience about how shit it was when the lights came up. Never seen that with a film before... -
@SirBobbyGandalf To be fair my pants were rendered in brown when watching Blair Witch as well. It's still one of my favourite films. It's very marmite though and as many hate it and find it laughable as love it.
More embarassingly, when I worked in the states for a few months shortly afterwards, I was in Maryland and made a point of visiting Burkittsville and actually went hiking in woods not too far from the Black Hills. Needless to say it's easy to see why you could get lost in there...
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