What Scary Movies Really Shook You and Stayed With You?

[Mediaguy]

When I was a kid, there was "Let's Scare Jessica to Death" - the whole thing was creepy, especially the scene in the orchard and the part where the little hedgehog or whatever it was is chopped up in a glass jar...







And Beyond the Door, especially the part where the kids first call out for their mother when the drawers start slamming, and she does the white-eye throat bulge - or the scene reminiscent of when me and my kid sis witnessed our own mom's first epilepsy Grand Mal seizure, and the kids run into her room and though lying on her stomach, she turns her head around 180 degrees with that psycho possessed look:




Brrr...

 

[Dieseler]

Back in the day it when it came out had to be

The Exorcist.

 

[Eddie.Willers]

Somehow, "The Shining" still scares the bejesus out of me...

 

[Mediaguy]

Back in the day it when it came out had to be

The Exorcist.

Actually by the time I actually got to see it, I was older; I was actually more shaken by Jaws - but we were pretty young and we snuck in to see "Beyond the Door" which is a cheap Italian knock-off of The Exorcist, but the premium theatres were harder to sneak into than the repertories and second-run places.

Somehow, "The Shining" still scares the bejesus out of me...

Apart from Jack Nicholson, that one had the guy in the plushy rabbit suit, the two twin girls in the hallway, and that blood flood from the elevator... yeah a definite roadmark to cinematic trauma

 

[bassnut]

"Bambi". I'm still traumatized.

 

[AJMoore]

Bass, that was awful. I took my daughter to a showing in the 80's when she was young (apparently so was I) and cried all over again.

The scariest (or should I say nerve racking) movie for me was The Deer Hunter (no relation to Bambi). I was tense the whole movie, edge of my seat, scared for the actors, it was over my level.

 

[spaceballsrules]

Pet Sematary. /thread

 

[bobthesalesclerk]

Sister Act 2

Ughhh...*shudder*

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[Mediaguy]

I *did* mean when you were a kid - or am I so much older than everyone here lol?

I just remembered other scenes that blew me away/scarred me:

The Flying Monkeys from The Wizard of Oz

The Werewolves from Laurel & Hardy's Babes in Toyland

The Morlocks from the original The Time Machine

and The Bulging Door scene from the original The Haunting (that one had me literally duck under the covers - I was watching it on a little camping TV after lights out with a little earphone and couldn't yelp! but I didn't get caught... ).

 

[kumquat]

Eyes Without A Face

 

[Honigschmidt]

Back in the day it when it came out had to be

The Exorcist.

That movie still sticks with me so many years later.

I'm a big zombie movie fan so the original Dawn of the Dead, along with the remake still get me in the "There's no way out of this" dread that I like in my horror movies.

Side Movie with Story: Some of my friends work in the special effects departments for Hollywood. Before Blair Witch came out to the public they got a hold of a pre-screening copy. When they showed it to me, they did not tell me I was watching a fake documentary. The whole time I was watching it I thought it was real and wow did it scare the crud out of me.

 

[Eddie.Willers]

...The Morlocks from the original The Time Machine

Aaah! Those Orginal Morlocks were bad mofos indeed and somehow scarier than the remade ones from a few years ago - that talking/reasoning 'Uber-Morlock' somehow spoiled the effect.

 

[sillybear]

recently it would be The Visitors with Liv Taylor (sp?) but from child hood would be The changling....old one without the home wrecker Angelina Jolie

 

[36tinybells]

The Crawling Hand... I was a little kid in the top bunk bed, could see the t.v. from my bed. Was supposed to be asleep, but my mom was watching an old horror movie and so was I, lol. Gave me nightmares for years! I still hate that movie!

 

[Mac]

Audition...

 

[Playa_hamm420]

Oh hands down MR. Brooks

Watching that movie 1/4 way thru i got up and checked all the locks on my doors and scoped all rooms in my house... im still checking rooms as i go by them ... CREEPY movie! But a 10/10 !!!

 

[Governa]

All the 'Alien' movies, 1 to 4.

 

[Turnip]

All the 'Alien' movies, 1 to 4.

Scary as werent they.!
Alfred Hichcocks Pyscho (the old classic ) was another one, all those years ago when it first came out,
I went along to see it with a girl from work, her fiance' and his brother. They were both hulking great big lifesavers, the Movie frightened the tripes out of them both,
(occasionally I still get a bit funny about shower curtains,)

 

[Adam the Aussie]

I was really young when I first saw Evil Dead, it scared the crap out of me.

 

[AutumnWolf]

I just remembered other scenes that blew me away/scarred me:

The Flying Monkeys from The Wizard of Oz

OMG - those damn flying monkeys scarred me for life!