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Sunday Sunrise - What OLDER movies scared you?
« Thread Started on Oct 12, 2008, 7:01am »
As Halloween -- my favorite holiday of the year -- approaches, the topic of scary movies starts to pop up. So today, we're asking you guys what older movies scared you -- or still scare you if you watch them today?

"Older" in this sense is going to be pre-1980.
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Re: Sunday Sunrise - What OLDER movies scared you?
« Reply #1 on Oct 12, 2008, 7:20am »
The scariest movie I have ever seen in my life is easily Rosemary's Baby. I saw it when I was very young & it scared the crap outta me. Since then I thought I'd grown out of it, but I re-watched it a couple weeks ago & it was not any less terrifying.
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« Reply #2 on Oct 12, 2008, 7:38am »
oooh - good question!

I'm not usually scared of movies especially "Boo!" scares, however, genuinely creepy things do get to me (e.g. some scenes from the origin "Pulse").

And yet, the film which got me as a child and still kinda gets me even today: Poltergeist.

Yes, it is silly and not the greatest film, there's something about a tree trying to eat someone and TV static that is creepy as hell.
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« Reply #3 on Oct 12, 2008, 9:23am »
I think one of the common answers might end up being The Exorcist, but there was a different movie that freaked me out: Children of the Corn. Yes, 1984...but still "older."
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« Reply #4 on Oct 12, 2008, 9:27am »
The very end of Carrie definitely freaked me out, and although they were made after 1980, The Fly w' Jeff Goldblum, and Nightbreed also managed to get me to jump clear across the room at certain points.
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« Reply #5 on Oct 12, 2008, 10:35am »
The Exorcist. Always and forever that creepy little girl messes with my head. Oh, and The Shining. Grrr, Jack Nicholson still gives me the creeps. Not to mention that stupid line, "Hello Danny. Come and play with us. Come and play with us, Danny. Forever... and ever... and ever. " *shivers*

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« Reply #6 on Oct 12, 2008, 11:37am »
Wait Until Dark with Audrey Hepburn.
I love scary movies and horror flicks, but Wait Until Dark actually scares me a lot more than the Jason/Freddie/MikeMyers types.
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« Reply #7 on Oct 12, 2008, 12:32pm »
This will really show my age...Whatever Happened to Baby Jane with Bette Davis still creeps me out. Also a movie I only saw one time called Patrick. I have never been able to find it anywhere to watch it again. Oh, and the Dark Shadows movies.
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« Reply #8 on Oct 12, 2008, 1:58pm »
olderthansue, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane is so messed up. Bette Davis singing I've Written a Letter to Daddy is one of those scenes that it would be funny if wasn't so disturbing, and when Joan Crawford takes the cover off that plate... *shivers*

For the longest time after seeing Psycho, when I was... nine(?), I wouldn't take a shower with the curtain closed. And seeing that movie without having the ending spoiled (because EVERYONE knows how it ends), I was totally shocked. I remember telling my family about it and they were like, 'Yeah, and?'

Also, like, last year, I was going to watch the original When a Stranger Calls, but that scene in the beginning when the light comes spilling out from upstairs... oh man. I had to go to work the next day so I turned it off. Hey, you're never too old to be freaked out by a movie.

The original The Haunting scared me. Like the whole movie.

The original Diabolique. I don't wanna give it away, but if you seen it you know the scene. Oh, oh gosh.

When I was a kid, about six or seven, The Thing From Outer Space scared the begeebers out of me. It's the scene where they break out the blowtorch and The Thing is flailing around makes those sounds.

Those are the only "older" movies I can think of right now. For TV, a lot of the old Twilight Zones have stuck with me to this day.
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Re: Sunday Sunrise - What OLDER movies scared you?
« Reply #9 on Oct 12, 2008, 3:08pm »
Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds. Amazing piece of cinema, but it had me creeped out for months, because LOTS of birds started roosting around my high school right after I watched it.
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« Reply #10 on Oct 12, 2008, 3:49pm »

Oct 12, 2008, 3:08pm, deathproof wrote:
Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds.

I second that. Give me a monster big enough to hit with a sword/machine gun/RPG anytime (well not too early in the morning), but all those little fluttery things... terrifying.
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Re: Sunday Sunrise - What OLDER movies scared you?
« Reply #11 on Oct 12, 2008, 4:01pm »

Oct 12, 2008, 1:58pm, StarOpal wrote:
For TV, a lot of the old Twilight Zones have stuck with me to this day.


Oh man, that is so true for me too!
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« Reply #12 on Oct 12, 2008, 4:01pm »
When I was around seven or eight, I went to a Salvador Dali exhibit at the local museum of art. There was a room screening related films, and one of them was, of course, Un Chien Andalou. I loved the film, but the opening scene... you know what I'm talking about. Now I'm studying it in a film course; I know most everything about how it was made, including the construction of that scene; I've looked at stills of the scene on the internet/in books; but I can never keep my eyes open while watching that first scene. Just can't do it.

Others (SPOILERS)? The funny thing about Psycho is that I knew all about the shower scene. However, the bit with Martin Balsam as he's calmly walking up the stairs? Totally freaked me out. Some scenes of The Exorcist are iffy for me not due to the intense makeup, but the one-or-two-frame subliminal images of Captain Howdy (although, that might not count because I think some were added in the post-1980 cut). And, most definitely, the ending of the '78 Invasion of the Body Snatchers. AHHH!!

But this is why I love horror movies. :-)
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Re: Sunday Sunrise - What OLDER movies scared you?
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Oct 12, 2008, 4:01pm, mitchmurdock wrote:
When I was around seven or eight, I went to a Salvador Dali exhibit at the local museum of art. There was a room screening related films, and one of them was, of course, Un Chien Andalou. I loved the film, but the opening scene... you know what I'm talking about. Now I'm studying it in a film course; I know most everything about how it was made, including the construction of that scene; I've looked at stills of the scene on the internet/in books; but I can never keep my eyes open while watching that first scene. Just can't do it.


I just watched Un Chien Andalou in my European film course, & our professor kept rewinding it to show us that scene. It was terrible! I can't get it out of my head.
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Re: Sunday Sunrise - What OLDER movies scared you?
« Reply #14 on Oct 12, 2008, 4:10pm »
I'm not trying to be funny when I say that the boat scene in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate factory scared me as a kid. Gene Wilder's blank gaze and creepy tone while he was singing terrified me.

And this is actually around 1985, but it has to go in here due to the sheer amount of terror it caused me as a child:

What probably terrified me most, and STILL creeps me out to this day is that creepalicious made for TV movie Alice In Wonderland. That horrible scene where the actress (who's name I forgot) starts insanely bleeting out "BETTAAHHHH!!!! MUCH BETTAAAAHHHHH" while turning into a goat. *shivers* And let's not even discuss the nightmares I suffered as a result of the jabberwocky. Guh that movie was CREEEPY.
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