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Posted: Nov 26 2009 10:30 am

I remember I was very little and other people watched movies (my mother, aunt, uncle, etc) and sometimes I got really scared. Some movies thata scared me were The Stuff (I just recently watched it again, no reason to fear), Shakma, aboaut a baboon with rabies or something, crazy fucking monkey. Finally I remember a night that I screamed and cryed and the movie was Superman (Maybe III). There was like an electrical desperfect and someone got fucked, I don't know, "There's nothing wrong, It's Superman" they would tell me, but I had a reaally bad trip then...
I think I was 4 or 5....

Joined: Nov 11 2009 Location: Cajun Country Posts: 1511

Yeah I remember I snuck downstairs late at night one time to watch A Nightmare on Elm Street and I got really scared. It didn't help that all the lights were off and I was alone.

Posted: Nov 27 2009 10:44 am

The intros to 'Are You Afraid of the Dark?' and 'Tales from the Crypt' used to creep me out a little.

Posted: Nov 27 2009 09:54 pm

God, I remember Pet Cemetary. The scene when the kid gets hit by the truck always made my stomech churn, that and when he comes back and shanks that old dude was scary as shit.

When I was younger, I was terrified of The Shining. It is still today, one of my favorite movies, and because it really is freaky as shit. All of Stanley Kubrick's work has always been a little strange. The camera work, cut scenes, and long still shots and well shit, just the direction alone make that movie eerie.

Besides the well known, mainstream horror movies that I was afraid of, I also was down right beside myself with Killer Klowns From Outter Space, as fuckin' cheesy as it was.

Posted: Nov 28 2009 03:27 pm

I was about 8 and there was this creepy ass Nazi zombie exploitation film that came on channel 57 during some afternoon. A bunch of zombie Nazis crawled out of this lake in Europe and just started butchering these swimmers, and there was an underwater shot where they were dragging one in. I'd seen it when I was little and not slept for like 3 days afterwards, and found it again recently at my local video store, w hich stocks tons of hard to find and cult movies. I might rent it again, but I can't remember the name. There's a zombie Nazi on the cover, though, so that narrows things down a little.

Joined: Oct 01 2009 Posts: 5316

There was a strange movie that was on TV once, I'm pretty sure it wasn't Jaws or any of the sequels, but it had a bunch of kids swimming and an old man who I think might've been a teacher. Anyways, something comes and attacks them and kills a few of them, while the rest get in the lifeboat. I turned it off soon after that though.

Posted: Nov 28 2009 05:21 pm

5 words.

The People Under The Stairs.

I was terrified.

Joined: May 22 2009 Location: Cincinnati, OH Posts: 353

aeonic wrote:

I was about 8 and there was this creepy ass Nazi zombie exploitation film that came on channel 57 during some afternoon. A bunch of zombie Nazis crawled out of this lake in Europe and just started butchering these swimmers, and there was an underwater shot where they were dragging one in. I'd seen it when I was little and not slept for like 3 days afterwards, and found it again recently at my local video store, w hich stocks tons of hard to find and cult movies. I might rent it again, but I can't remember the name. There's a zombie Nazi on the cover, though, so that narrows things down a little.

Sounds like Shock Waves, great movie.

Posted: Nov 28 2009 05:41 pm

That's it exactly, phantasmzombie. What the Hell it was doing on broadcast television during a Saturday afternoon, that's beyond me. That channel used to show some weird crap, though, and it's actually immortalized in the song "Stuart" by the Dead Milkmen.

Posted: Nov 29 2009 04:10 am

The Tar Man Zombie from Return of the Living Dead scared the shit out of me when I first saw it, and I was like 11. Embarrassed

Joined: Jan 13 2010 Location: Tulsa, OK Posts: 11

Speaking of the Tales from the Crypt intro, my dad used to always spook me every time the crypt keeper popped out of the coffin and started cackling. That scared the be-jesus out of me. And I remember one particular episode where a guy was gambling and he kept getting his fingers chopped off, one by one. I jumped every time that happened.

Arachnophobia freaked me out about going to bed the night after watching it. Back then, it wasn't too far-fetched to believe that a foot-wide spider might crawl down my wall and pop up while I was sleeping.

Also, I went to church when I was about 10 years old, and one day after church I came home and there was this movie about cyborgs on Fox. The bad cyborg was about to fall into a pit and he was hanging on to the good cyborg's arm, and slowly tearing it off, while he screamed in anguish. That fucked w/ me so bad, I had to change the channel.

Posted: Jan 13 2010 03:35 pm

i was scared of gremlins 2 as a child especially when billy gets strapped in the dentist chair. that terrified me. as an adult just the idea behind open water terrified me, but the acting took away from the suspense

Posted: Jan 16 2010 04:39 am

Add another tally for Unsolved Mysteries. At least from reading this forum, it seems that this show's primary purpose was not to entertain/educate adults, but to scare the crap out of small children.

...Just went and listened to the theme. Damn.

Are You Afraid of the Dark? didn't really freak me out too much as a kid. Me and my friends loved the stories but didn't really find them scary.

As far as movies go, Tremors made me a bit nervous when I was a tyke. Today it's just some story about freakish worm monsters, but when I was like 8 it was about badass vicious heat-seeking predators that came from underground, the one place nobody should be able to sneak up on you from.

Posted: Jan 16 2010 12:03 pm

I remember a movie that I watched when I was like 6. It was weird as shit with an old western ghost town, with zombies, alive books, and lots and lots of goo. I have no idea what it was called. If anyone knows please tell me.

Joined: Aug 04 2009 Posts: 2515

Gremlins - just everything about it
Arachnophobia - since i am scared of spiders Sad

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Also this film with Bees i can't remember what it was called but i remember there being this house and the bees were closing in on it. Nearly bricked myself.

Posted: Jan 18 2010 04:06 pm

Sightings. That show scared the shit out of me.

Unsolved Mysteries is still fucking creepy. Though the intro isn't as scary now, and Dennis Farina isn't very scary, especially from the call center or whatever that place is he is doing the hosting from. But the show is still creepy. But back in the day, with the much more creepy theme and Robert Stack, looking like a ghost, walking in grave yards, funeral homes, and that sort of thing, it was very very fucking creepy.

Now, I always DVR episodes of A Haunting. It should be scary. But it's not really that bad. I think it's because I've decided there is nothing creepy about my house, so nothing really scares me here.

I guess Gremlins scared me a little when I was little. But the movie wasn't what was so bad. Somebody bought me a Stripe figure that was around 8 inches tall. My dad kept it in his dresser because it scared the shit out of me and gave me nightmares. I barely remember being afraid of the movie. For the most part, I just remember it being funny. But I vividly remember that figure scaring the fuck out of me.

The Shining is still creepy as fuck.

Birds. It's not really a scary movie, but everytime I go down an alley and see a bunch of birds on the buildings it makes me a little nervous.

Joined: Dec 19 2009 Posts: 26

The Shining scared the shit out of me when I was a kid. To this day I get freaked out by the 2 little girls when they flash on the screen the first time. ( I totally lied, it freaks me out EVERY time they are on the screen.) Also that episode of "Are You Afraid of The Dark?" where the fuckin kid loses his coat and freezes to death gave me nightmares when I first saw it on SNICK years ago.

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The music to Halloween still makes me feel kind of anxious.

Joined: Aug 04 2009 Posts: 2515

scamrock wrote:

I guess Gremlins scared me a little when I was little. But the movie wasn't what was so bad. I barely remember being afraid of the movie. For the most part, I just remember it being funny. But I vividly remember that figure scaring the fuck out of me.

You don't remember the bit then where the Gremlin is hiding in the Christmas tree and it attacks a woman with a knife?

I can't find a clip of that part but it's just before this part.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zReX7OpfZXY

Can't embed..

Posted: Jan 31 2010 04:58 am

Alowishus wrote:

scamrock wrote:

I guess Gremlins scared me a little when I was little. But the movie wasn't what was so bad. I barely remember being afraid of the movie. For the most part, I just remember it being funny. But I vividly remember that figure scaring the fuck out of me.

You don't remember the bit then where the Gremlin is hiding in the Christmas tree and it attacks a woman with a knife?

I can't find a clip of that part but it's just before this part.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zReX7OpfZXY

Can't embed..

I remember the part. But I was allowed to watch just whatever. So I had seen all sorts of shit by then. So that didn't bother me too much. The Gremlins themselves scared me a little, but not too bad. But that Stripe figure scared the shit out of me for some reason.