The ring
I saw this when I was about 16. Watched it several times including solo in an empty house at 3 am. Now I'm in my 30s and i can still see and hear that little m****r f****r when it's dark at night.
Literally any other movie I shrugged off right after the credits hit
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I'm a grown man. I'm not afraid of some haunted little girl coming out of the tv. That doesn't make any sense. I am, however, still a little concerned about the possibility of watching my possessed mother decapitate herself after crawling on the ceiling and chasing me into an attic.
Soylent Green
1984
Terminator
Children and Men
Un Chien Andalou
Had a girlfriend and clan who were into stuff like this big time. Ugly break-up would have been a scary movie of its own. I had a chair wedged under the doorknob and a golf club in hand for more than a week.
Beast still makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up when out for my pre dawn runs .
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Un Chien Andalou
Had a girlfriend and clan who were into stuff like this big time. Ugly break-up would have been a scary movie of its own. I had a chair wedged under the doorknob and a golf club in hand for more than a week.
I watched that with an eye doctor friend once. He screamed and was very angry at me for putting it on.
To be honest, I've never seen a horror movie, which scared me not with screamers. The Ring for me wasn't scary at all
Bell35 wrote:
The ring
I saw this when I was about 16. Watched it several times including solo in an empty house at 3 am. Now I'm in my 30s and i can still see and hear that little m****r f****r when it's dark at night.
Literally any other movie I shrugged off right after the credits hit
....
Jaws jaws and jaws. The whole world looked at the water differently since then. If you were not alive back then you have no idea. It changed an entire society's psyche. There were no shark/bear movies of any consequence before then. The visceral effect of that chick getting tugged below the surface of the water like a bobber has yet to be rivaled. No movie has had had an effect on the whole country like Jaws.
Nosferatu!
I still swear that guy was real!
Jaws. Saw it when I was like 10 years old and it left a mark.
Salem's Lot- the scene where the kid is floating outside the window. That scared the mess ot of me when I was a kid, took me a long time to get past it.
Jaws was significant. It definitely sent shock waves through the country.
However, I feel it, still, wasn't anything like The Exorcist.
Ask anyone who saw that movie when it first came out in theaters, and they'll tell you the same thing.
It was the first R rated movie I ever saw. Having been raised in a fairly devout catholic family, that movie was a knockout punch to my psyche. This wasn't some "made up monster". From my (and I feel a lot of other peoples) point of view, Satan was very, very, real...
I avoided the Exorcist for a long time, thinking it would freak me out. Finally watched it recently and thought it was well done. Wouldn't say it scared me, but definitely shocked me (the crucifix insertion scene). Can't imagine how wild that scene was back when it was released.
I saw Nightmare on Elm St. when I was way too young to watch a movie like that. It freaked me out in a big way. I watched it when I was older and was amazed at how cheezy it is.
Hereditary is pretty f-ed up. I have never seen a horror movie that was able to sustain such a high level of tension and do so in a way that wasn't gratuitous.
Alien is probably the only one that was really disturbing and still makes me squirm even though I know when all the bad stuff happens. When they shot the famous face hugger scene, they did not tell the cast what was going to happen. The reactions were so real that it made the scene one of the most disturbing in horror history.
Now that I'm older, the movie (The Exorcist), hasn't "stayed with me", much.
But as a 16 year old in 1974, and still carrying the influence of the church, with me...
Well, you can imagine.
Angelo Mysterioso wrote:
Now that I'm older, the movie (The Exorcist), hasn't "stayed with me", much.
But as a 16 year old in 1974, and still carrying the influence of the church, with me...
Well, you can imagine.
Yep! Only movie for which I ever had to step outside for a break. Great production!
Precious Roy wrote:
I saw Nightmare on Elm St. when I was way too young to watch a movie like that. It freaked me out in a big way. I watched it when I was older and was amazed at how cheezy it is.
Hereditary is pretty f-ed up. I have never seen a horror movie that was able to sustain such a high level of tension and do so in a way that wasn't gratuitous.
Alien is probably the only one that was really disturbing and still makes me squirm even though I know when all the bad stuff happens. When they shot the famous face hugger scene, they did not tell the cast what was going to happen. The reactions were so real that it made the scene one of the most disturbing in horror history.
That first Nightmare movie has some of the weirdest music ever, IMO. They never should have made another, alone that movie is just disturbing.
CANDYMAN 1992
The scene in the Wizard of Oz where Dorothy's house gets sucked up into the tornado and Miss Gulch is riding her bike outside the window then turns into the Wicket Witch scared the bejesus out of me as a kid. Still does in fact.
Saw 'The Changeling' with George C. Scott when I was 16. Hated the bathtub for months afterward...
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The scene in the Wizard of Oz where Dorothy's house gets sucked up into the tornado and Miss Gulch is riding her bike outside the window then turns into the Wicket Witch scared the bejesus out of me as a kid. Still does in fact.
Those flying monkeys...the wholly unfriendly way WWotW calls Dorothy "my pretty"...4 yr old me was terrified LOL