After the thread about gore and violence in the TFTC pin and exposing this material to kids.  It made me think back to the stuff that I saw when I was a kid and what horror movies scarred me the most.

I know there are a few Horror Movie buffs in the crowd.  Just thought it would be fun to talk about what the most scariest film you saw.

-For me it was Poltergeist probably because I was so young at the time, and the only movie I can remember before that is Popeye or Bambi - Specifically the closet scene where everyone is getting sucked in.  Made me very weary of opening my closet for a long time.

Coincidently, its because of horror movies that I discovered what I wanted to do as a career. Visual FX industry if you wondering.  Many thanks to the baby sitter who let me watch Poltergeist when I was 5.  Having fun ever since.

michael jackson's thriller! (i was like, 6 years old, and this scared the bejesus outta me. nightmares for weeks, the whole nine.)

Maybe Jaws!!  Awesome!!  especially at the time!!

Dave

House

Saw that at the babysitters when I was like 5-6 on First Choice The Superchannel!

scared the living daylights out of me on many an occasion...the bursting out of the closet scene, kid playing in the backyard scene, fish on the wall scene, etc etc

However I watched it later on in life and found it to be quite a funny horror-comedy.
The sequels weren't bad either...

The Exorcist!

Watched it just before I went to bed and I was the only one who slept in the basement.
It came out in 1973 but was only shown on TV in about 75 or 76. I think I was about 8 or 9 and Horror movies just were not as scary anymore after that one.

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When I was very young, my brother would watch "Tales from the Darkside" on TV. Not a movie, I know, but that show scared the hell out of me. I remember one scene in which someone hammered a nail into the wall and it started to bleed. Made me want to run into the street screaming. And the title scene/theme song where all the colours go negative and the music turns to a loud church organ that sounds like every key is being pressed simultaneously and the narrator says (in his best Sinistar voice) "...but there is a DARK SIDE". Creepy.

More recently, I found that The Blair Witch Project scared the piss outta me. It didn't help that I was a camp counseller in the backwoods of Massachusetts at the time.

And The Ring was another one that shot my nerves for a day or two.

Wait!!   Trilogy of Terror!! With the Little Devil Doll with the knife!! That was great!!

Dave

Pet Cematary...  First and last horror flick I saw on the big screen.

Did enjoy the Nightmare on Elm street series tho..

Mike

I'll second jaws ...

then there is Evil dead. I was 9 when I saw it... 10 minutes away from my house ... at night... and I had to come back next to "the forest" ... O man did I run !!

Me being a huge horror movie buff, it is actually funny that the movie that scared me the most is ... a science-fiction movie!!!

A few years ago when it was in theatres, I went to see Event Horizon with my wife. It stars Lawrence Fishburne and Sam Neill (of JP fame). Now, if you probably watch this movie at home on the tube, you will probably find it just ok... but this is one of those movies where the big screen does it justice, BIG TIME. There is a scare a minute for quite some time in the movie, and oddly enough compared to most movies, REALLY when you don't expect it at all!

To this day, this is THE ONLY movie where I walked out of the theater shaking and completely exhausted!!

So if you have a big screen tv, rent this movie, sit 3 feet from the screen, and put the volume at 11 on 10...

Toilet paper and a fresh pair of underwear recommended!

RUNNER UPS:

The Shining (Jack Nicholson forgot his pills... 'nuff said.)
The Exorcist (DVD uncut version is even scary to this day...William Peter Blatty (maker of the movie) is one sick mofo)
Friday the 13th (pretty scary for a 7-year-old, funny now)
Poltergeist (I was nine then... since then, I HATE frickin CLOWNS... even today, can't stand em)
The Evil Dead (I almost mess my pants in 1983 (good ole VHS)... and I have seen it 47 times to this day! I even own the Book of the Dead DVD)

i too like sparky am a horror fan and at a young age i was taken to the drive-in and thearters to see them all.  enjoy some of the classics like jaws and texas chainsaw.  was a very young boy when my mom and aunt came back from the theater seeing Exorcist.  they said that there were ambulances coming to get some of the theater goers who couldn't handle it.  they laugh through most of the movie.  so thats what i grew up with.  that and getting lock down in a basement where a man killed himself and my family also turning off all the lights.  was down there for over two hours.  they left and then came back.  i don't scare easy.


  but my mom did take me to the drive-in all nighter horror back in 79.  just me and her. nothing really got to us.  but the movie EXTRO had a couple of messed up parts.  if you havn't seen, please try.  the worst was when in alien form and he needs to become human form.  he pushes his alien penis into her throat and just pushes.  seems to empty his insides.  she wakes looking ok.  then she starts throwing up.  her belly seems to be getting bigger by the second.  she is freaking out.  she gets huge and starts to scream in pain.  then she falls down and hands start to rip out from her crouch.    a human man full size starts to pull himself out.  she is dead by the time he is fully out.  but she did died screaming.  the now human man bites threw the umbilical cord.  

  rest of the movie is good.  but that got to me and my mom.  maybe i should let erin watch it when she is at 8 months....

forgot to mention that evil dead is one also that made me shake in my books alittle.

I remember quite well, its was JAWS for me too..

I was young, very young and it was on tv.. i guess my parents didnt know

One scene in particular, i will remember all my life. The guy was diving around a sinked boat and there was a hole in it... then suddenly a dead guy fell thru that hole, I almost mess my pants ! And still remember it after all this time, even thou, i think, i never watched JAWS again after that.

May not look scary if you watch it now but god, i really wasnt expecting this to happen and i didnt sleep for a week !

i just remembered how pet semetary had me freaked out for days

I have to agree about EXTRO. It is a fricken wierd one for sure.

The Mention of Clowns reminds me of one that was a pain in the a** to watch for me! Stephen King's "IT". You just wanted to reach in and kick that clowns a** for them. Gotta Love Tim Curry tho.....

Reading the posts here reminded me..  Event Horizon was pretty F#@*#@# scary.  
i remember wishing for the movie to end ASAP I just couldn't take it anymore.  And yes I too saw it on the BIG screen..

Mike

  IT in book was killer.  had my old flame of mine, read me to sleep with that for a couple weeks.    

   JAWS the movie did keep me out of the water alittle.  at least made me question what the hell just touch my leg while i am swimming.  but JAWS 3-D in the theaters, just gave me a good reason to trip out...

The first Blair Witch Project has been the most scary movie for me. It looks so fuckin real ..

I hate to admit it but the movie that freaked me out the most wasn't a big screen extravganza full of cool special effects.
Nope, it was a cheesy made-for-T.V-movie that I saw when I was 10 or 11.
It starred Carl Weathers, Burl Ives, Connie Selleca, &  a Giant Sea Turtle.

The Bermuda Depths ( 1978 ).
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0077223/


I can only remember bits and pieces of the story line now.
My most vivid memory is the ending scene where Carl weather's character is dragged into the depths of the ocean and his death by the Turtle who he's entangled in harpoon cables with.

Ya, I know it sounds like a lame remake of Moby D*ck but as an Eleven-year-old it really freaked me out.  

As far as modern movies go, I found the closet scene from M. Night Shyamalan's 'Signs' quite shocking.
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0286106/
Oh, and the movie 'Seven' also left me feeling rather unsettled.
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0114369/

Adam

Evil Dead
Evil Dead 2
Army of Darkness

One of my favorite trio's

Brian

What a bunch of wussies;  nearly 2 pages in and nobody has yet to mention CBS broadcasting Salem's Lot in '79?  i was thirteen and mentally scar'd for a few years. not to mention plenty of older kids were scared shitless. pet cemetary ain't got nuthin' on salem's lot.

honorable mention goes to Omega Man with Charles Heston.. needless to say i freak'd out everytime there was a powerfailure that summer.

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What a bunch of wussies;  nearly 2 pages in and nobody has yet to mention CBS broadcasting Salem's Lot in '79?....

Dude, a Giant Sea Turtle would kick a Vampire's a** no problem!

I'm surprised that no mentions of The Amityville Horror (1979) have been made...
I forgot to add that one to my list.

Gee, my list is starting to get rather long... Maybe I am just a wussie.

Adam

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Dude, a Giant Sea Turtle would kick a Vampire's a** no problem!

Are you making fun of gamera?  Even Rocket boosted turtles would have crapped their pants at the ghosts scrapping the windows in salem's lot.

actually, i should purchase the salem's lot  dvd to give it to my neice when she turns 10. "your mommy was your age when it was first on tv, the family tradition must continue. here's some popcorn as well"

--tako

http://www.shrineofgamera.com/

ok .. Sorry sparky but event horizon is one of the worst movie I've ever seen ! méchant navet !!!

Demons from 1986 was a killer for me....I watched the movie at a friend's house instead of going to school....Man did I ever got scared watching that movie.

Evil Dead has to be second!

tartagliag

Fact: 4 million people are killed each year by Giant Sea Turtle attacks!
Also, many of the attacks happen in-land at night, when the Turtles come ashore to lay their radioactive eggs...

The furthest most attack happend in Yuma Arizona on May23rd, 1996. This Savage assault was then suppressed by Govenment Scientists and a Train wreck story was fabricated to hide the truth.
This is also why the movie 'The Bermuda Depths' is no longer seen on T.V.
It's not because it was soo bad... It's because it was soo close to the truth!

You have to wake up people! The danger is real and it stalks us while we sleep.

Adam

MrHide is crazy ... event horizon is amazing and totally scary! good call on that one!!

liked it so much i even bought the dvd. i think a special edition of it came out recently.

The one that  really scared the hell out of me thanks to my inteligent mother was Texas Chainsaw masacare at the age of 6 still remember to this day.

But she also did the a number on me with the following movies till i was 8 then Hellraiser, Scanners then i was kindg of numb

But even Horizon was one that made me jump tho in theaters was really nice to see.
I have it on DVD and when I use my surround sound it still does.

For me it was 'Alien'. Poltergeist and Amityville were nothing compared to it (for me).
Seen it when it came out in 1979, downtown Montreal. Man this was well done.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078748/

H.R. Giger's artwork influenced the pinball 'Space Invader', and I think perhaps
others including possibly Stern 'Viper' and Bally 'Embryon'.

Cheers,
- Sylvain

Also an other one that freaked me out was Race with the Devil.
Tagline: If you're going to race with the devil, you've got to be as fast as Hell!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt00.....bT0x;fc=1;ft=20;fm=1

they redone it for TV and is supposed to air this fall.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt04.....bT0x;fc=2;ft=20;fm=1

The original version of the Omen...... 1979? I was about a year older than Damien I think...at the time, guess it scared me the most since I figured I could always outrun Jason at Camp Crystal Lake, or Drive a car over the Living Dead, melt nickels to make a Silver Bullet in case of Werewolf, but man, there was no way an adult would give me those six knives in order to do what's right and kill Damien!

Funny how things turn out, I'm actually Damien and am running for city council next week.....


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Craig

Well when I was young my uncle had fun renting scary movies when he came over. Can still remember seeing Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead when I was young and was scared for the next 3 nights. Also found the movie IT to be pretty scary  

Pretty funny, as today I am a big Zombie movie fan

BTW, I too found Event Horizon to be a good movie. Scary the first time I saw it. Have it on dvd and seen it about 10 times now, so not as scary. But still a pretty good movie.

BZM

yep.  think it was the orginal dawn of the dead that got hack to bits by censors.  there was a part i think that had the intestines coming out of body and choking someone.  there was another cool movie that got hack to bits back in the day.
  the Re-Animator

http://www.feoamante.com/Movies/PQR/reanima.html

Imagine if you showed the censors back in 1960-70 a movie today like Dawn of the Dead (2004 version). They would probably have a heart attack, lol.

Though even a movie like Dawn of the Dead (2004 version) is hacked. Luckily that's what "Unrated" DVD versions are for