Sunday Sunrise - What OLDER movies scared you?

[BlackCatWhiteCat]

Oct 12, 2008 16:01:12 GMT -5 mitchmurdock said:

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.

You know the thing that got ME about psycho was--- SPOILERS!!!!!!!

The very end scene where he runs down the stairs into the basement with the knife. The LOOK on his face made my spine dissolve. BURRR that guy could do creepy.

[olderthansue]

I also have to agree with The Birds. Very creepy. While the Wizard of Oz is not a scary movie, when I was a kid, the flying monkeys always scared me. Bad.

[pfrsue]

Okay, add a third vote for "The Birds". *shudder*

Also, while it doesn't scare me now, "Willard" gave me the heebie jeebies back in the day. Rats. Lots of rats.

[ironica728]

Carrie, Shining, and... Poltergeist. My dad had this joke where he'd say, "We were thinking of naming you Carol Anne," and then I'd freak out... He also thought it would be funny to show me Hellraiser (even though it's from '87) when I was five or six. THANKS, DAD. Thanks.

[BlackCatWhiteCat]

Oct 12, 2008 19:43:53 GMT -5 ironica728 said:

Carrie, Shining, and... Poltergeist. My dad had this joke where he'd say, "We were thinking of naming you Carol Anne," and then I'd freak out... He also thought it would be funny to show me Hellraiser (even though it's from '87) when I was five or six. THANKS, DAD. Thanks.

Hellraiser!!!!!!!

*Crawls into a corner and whimpers*

[StarOpal]

Oh man, The Birds! Definitely scary!

ironica, even though It doesn't qualify for this thread, after seeing the movie with my brother, he got his braces. Well, loving brother that he was, he'd take a flashlight so his silver braces would flash and say, in a dead accurate Pennywise voice, "They all float down here."

My mom, who wouldn't let us watch the actual movies, would tell us Left House On the Left and The Exorcist like ghost stories.

My family is evil.

Oct 12, 2008 20:21:20 GMT -5 BlackCatWhiteCat said:

Hellraiser!!!!!!!

*Crawls into a corner and whimpers*

Oh it's okay BCWC... The box. You opened it. We came.

[Head Mutant]

I'll add mine:

* The Exorcist -- Still don't want to ever watch that a second time. Feels too real in a sense to be entertaining
* Freaks -- Heebie-jeebie central, particularly the last twenty minutes.
* The Shining -- too many creepy, bloody moments to mention
* Alien -- It's old and not as slick, but man there are some great jump moments in here, and some awesome nail-biting suspense
* Jaws -- anyone? anyone?

[olderthansue]

I will go with Jaws.....it was the sudden shark jumping out of the water that got you. That is what I like in a horror movie. Not all the blood and guts, but the things that make you jump in your seat.
As far as the Exorcist goes, my aunt took me to see that when I was about 12-13. I can remember all the controversy about it...people walking out in the first 10 minutes of the movie.
Even at that young age...while I found a lot of the movie grose.....I never really found it all that frightening.

[BlackCatWhiteCat]

I didn't see Jaws until a couple of years ago, when the local military base did a dinner theater based around it (seafood courses and a shark-shaped dessert served while watching the movie on a projection screen. LOTS of fun) and really...I just didn't find it scary at all, either. Different frights for different types, I guess.

[DTH]

Oct 12, 2008 22:14:11 GMT -5 Head Mutant said:

I'll add mine:

* Alien -- It's old and not as slick, but man there are some great jump moments in here, and some awesome nail-biting suspense
* Jaws -- anyone? anyone?

Jaws...ha ha! I remember watching it as a child and being afraid to put my feet on the floor in case a shark got me. I mean, we've all heard of the deadly Carpet Shark....

Alien.... one of my all time favourite films. Love it, love it, love it. I read the novelisation when I was on holiday and was creeped out. However, as much as I love the film, there's a particular scene which ruins the tension for me these days... if I say "Jazz hands", I think fans will know what I mean

I'll not mention anymore in case I ruin it for others...

[BlackCatWhiteCat]

Oct 13, 2008 2:39:43 GMT -5 DTH said:

I mean, we've all heard of the deadly Carpet Shark....

But what about the dastardly Footboard Monster? Much deadlier than the Carpet Shark, for he could grab you if you let your foot wander too close to the foot of the bed and drag you off into the pit beneath your mattresses?

Okay going to bed now before I creep myself out anymore. Glad I have a husband to comfort me (and serve as a shield) these days.

[RobOfTheDead]

Repulsion is probably the most unnerving movie I have ever seen. It's a movie that Roman Polanski did in 1965. It start off normal enough but once Catherin Deneauve starts to break down mentally you go on that downward spiral with her. I can only imagine what it was like on the big screen.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre of course.

I still need to see Black Christmas.

[wdm0744]

I'm not sure why, but "Psycho" didn't really scare me at all. My mom and aunt had built it up so much, though, that I don't think it could have lived up to my expectations.

"Jaws", on the other hand, terrified and fascinated me. I saw it when I was eight or nine, and while I wasn't afraid to put my feet on the carpet, I was really afraid to take a bath, and I wouldn't go in a pool all summer.

I had never heard of "Alien" before a junior-high friend of mine bought the "Alien Trilogy" video game and let me borrow it. I used to freak myself out playing it in the middle of the night in the dark. Not long after, the movie came on television and I decided to watch it. I was all balled up on the couch, covered in sweat. There's something so deep and psychologically terrifying about that film.

Going way back though, I find the original 1932 "Frankenstein" really creepy. The scene where the monster murders Igor and attempts to escape from the dungeon is particulary frightening and the opening scene in the graveyard is very eerie. The Hammer remake from the 1950s, ("The Curse of Frankenstein", I think), is really good too.

[DTH]

I saw it when I was eight or nine, and while I wasn't afraid to put my feet on the carpet, I was really afraid to take a bath, and I wouldn't go in a pool all summer.

Funny, the only place that I was ever afraid of shark attacks was my own living room. True story. Part of me wishes that maybe I'd have been perhaps afraid of water or something more normal. But, alas, it was not to be in my "Childhood From Bizarro World".

I had never heard of "Alien" before a junior-high friend of mine bought the "Alien Trilogy" video game and let me borrow it. I used to freak myself out playing it in the middle of the night in the dark.

Which is why I could never play AvP or AvP 2. They were great games but I prefer NOT being terrified out of my wits by my hobby

Not long after, the movie came on television and I decided to watch it. I was all balled up on the couch, covered in sweat. There's something so deep and psychologically terrifying about that film.

I used to have a 6ft "door poster" of an alien in my room. None of my friends had anything like it and I was all "awesomed" up. That was until I turned the lights off and could only see its silhouette. I've never moved so fast to rip it down!

[starwenn]

"Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte" a 1964 horror vehicle for former grand dames Bette Davis and Olivia DeHavilland. Davis plays the title character, an aging southern belle holding onto her falling-apart antebellum mansion for dear life, and DeHavilland is her scheming cousin. I saw it one cold February night while baby-sitting the day after a blizzard. The family lived in one of the oldest houses in the area, and everything seemed to creak and moan and bang along with the movie. Long story short, the kids slept better than I did that night...and I haven't watched a horror movie alone since!