Scary Movies of Your Childhood

[Pryderi]

Anyone remember seeing "Trilogy of Terror" with Karen Black and the Zuni doll?

[qb]

1. Karen Black was a favorite of mine, and I enjoyed this trilogy.

I cut my teeth on "Night of the Living Dead" at age 6 when my dad took the whole family to a film festival.

[redqueen]

2. Yeah... that was pretty scary.

Used to freak my aunt right out anytime we imitated that noise even.

The one that got to me was The Exorcist. Still freaks me out.

[Dr. Strange]

3. Castle of Blood, maybe.

I haven't found it yet to check it out, but I think it's a movie that scared me somewhat when I was a kid.

And, of course, there's the soul-scarring Lidsville (tv show, not a movie):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btpd8zg5VWA

[Resuscitated Ethics]

4. Crowhaven Farm (1970)

the Tuesday Movie of the Week totally rocked

Hope Lange gets a stress test--

http://www.lastdriveinontheleft.com/crow-secret.html

[BeachBaby]

5. I'd have to go with "The Exorcist"

for the obvious reasons. :scared:

[TZ]

20. I have a story about that.

I never saw it until I was in my teens. I was at the house of a woman my dad was dating at the time and I remember sitting in a lounge chair watching it, tensely..Meanwhile unbeknownst to me, her grown son snuck up behind me and at a key point in the movie, reached around from behind and GRABBED me with both arms. I screamed..LOUDLY. Never quite trusted him again

[mcctatas]

6. When I was little my twisted father took me to see

'Sasquatch, the Legend of Bigfoot'. I was so scared that I couldn't fall asleep and my mom was so pissed that he took me to it she made him lay down with me so I could. Long story short, my dad is a pretty hirsute guy and he slept in a tshirt and shorts so when I rolled over in my sleep and brushed against a huge hairy beast I freaked the fuck out and woke up most of the faculty apartment complex :P

[PaddyBlueEyes]

27. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA

Thats awesome!!

[mcctatas]

46. Why am I not surprised...

a twisted fuck like you would find that entertaining? ;)

[leeroysphitz]

66. By now you must know that your father can never be turned from the darkside...

[Cabcere]

7. I saw "The Exorcist" at a slumber party when I was about 12.

I think the puking bothered me more than the whole "demonic possession" thing, actually - seriously emetophobic, here. (Also, I used to love split pea soup...haven't eaten it since.) :scared:

[quakerboy]

8. Some unknown movie

about leaches that came in through the plumbing and sucked you dry on the toilet or where ever you happened to be. If anyone knows it, It might be good to know the name of my childhood fears

Found that little gem(without my parents knowing, we had no tv and I was unsupervised at a friends house) right about the time I got to have my own room(in the basement, with my own unfinished restroom). There was a short but significant period of time where I painstakingly built a cap over the toilet each night using many layers of hairspray and TP atop the water. not sure how I thought that was going to solve the problem, but at least I was slightly more able to sleep.

Also some show, found at the same unsupervised friends home, that had a title something along the lines of 100 gruesome way to die. Thats always a good thing for the 8ish year old psyche, seeing death after bloody death.

[Pryderi]

10. Squirm?

[Orrex]

43. No--that was the biting worms angered by electricity

Great 70's horror-camp, though.

An egg creme!
:puke:

[quakerboy]

47. I dont think so.

I'm not a terribly visual person, thankfully, so I might not recognize it even if i saw it today, but I clearly remember it being slugs/leaches or something more of that type. Though, looking Squirm up on amazon, the next movie down was "slugs" which seems more like what I conceptually remember.

[AlCzervik]

9. Burnt offerings.

The Exorcist, still scares me.

[last_texas_dem]

11. _Cat's Eye_

I simultaneously enjoyed and was creeped out by this movie when I was five years old. The one that got to me the most when I was little was the third part of the trilogy, where the monster is coming out of the wall to suck young Drew Barrymore's breath and eventually has his plan foiled by the cat. Now, I think the first one, where the guy is having his entire life monitored by the "stop smoking" agency seems creepier. :scared:

[IndianaJones]

12. Salems Lot. That kid scratching at the window. nt.

[AlCzervik]

13. The Glick boy.

nightmarish.

[SoxFan]

56. The book was much scarier

It was written back when Stephen King could keep a novel under 800 pages, so the pacing is crisp and the atmospherics are really creepy.

I read it as a teenager, and that damn branch outside my bedroom window freaked me out on more than one occasion.

[kaiden]

14. Darby O'Gill and the Little People.

I had nightmares for years after that -- all featuring Banshees coming to take me away.

[yellowdogintexas]

15. "The Tingler" old Vincent Price vehicle.

[mykpart]

37. I saw The Tingler in a theater when I was a kid,

and the seats were wired to vibrate when the Tingler escaped!

But my scariest movie was a Hammer film called Horrors of the Black Museum, about a serial killer. In one scene, the killer rigged a guillotine over this woman's bed. I couldn't sleep for months!

[yellowdogintexas]

53. OH WOW. I have only seen it on old late night TV. That must have been something

it is a neat movie

[TZ]

16. HOLY FREAKIN GOD!

I never knew what the movie was named, but it scared the SHIT out of me! Now I'm gonna have nightmares ....
AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH....

[skygazer]

17. Double feature at the drive-in when I was about 9

The Legend of Hell House and The Boston Strangler. I don't think I slept for a month after that. :scared:

[Iggo]

57. I saw that at the drive-in, too.

Scared the crap out of me. So much so that my dad "called it" about halfway through. I've never seen the whole movie.

[vard28]

18. Rosemary's Baby

I am in my 40's and I will NEVER watch that movie again!

[DS1]

19. Salem's Lot - prison scene creeped me the hell out

[WCGreen]

21. Sound of Music

Those fucking Nazi's and Rolf really scared the shit out of me...

[Skittles]

22. The Haunting 1963

[Lethe]

29. hey i just watched that last night

it's pretty good compared to the crap that passes for thriller/horror pics today

[Lethe]

30. locking

[Skittles]

58. yes

it rocks for a movie with no blood, gore or real special effects. Did you catch the lesbian undertone? Director toned it down a bit, but it was still cool for back then.

[kayakjohnny]

23. The original 'Bodysnatchers' from probably early 60's.

The 'pods' just bugged the crap out of me. Some guy went to the back of a box truck and opened it up.

There was these bubbling, foamy triangular things, that seemed to be alive. Or remnants of people. Just shit on my parade for quite a while. Had nasty dreams for some time after.

Keep trying to find that scene on youtube. Just to see how hokey now. But can't. Maybe I made it all up in my head.

Even scarier.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

35. That's a great one!

Kevin McCarthy is the lead role. I think it's from the mid 50's.....
:party: don't go to sleep :evilgrin:

[begin_within]

24. A TV movie from 1970 called "How Awful About Allan" scared the wits out of me.

Anthony Perkins, Julie Harris and Joan Hackett were in it.

[Condem]

25. The Omen. The original.

Nightmares for days.

[AzDar]

26. " The Reincarnation Of Peter Proud "; "It's Alive"; and the 'Satanists-chasing-2-couples-

in-an-RV ' movie.:scared:

[PaddyBlueEyes]

28. Children of the Corn

.......

[Lethe]

31. Secret of NIMH

that movie really scared me when i was a kid, but it also made me feel good too, because they survived in the end.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

78. I thought that I was the only one who found that movie rather erie

It's one of my favorite movies still to this day but the scenes where Mrs. Frisby goes to visit the Great Owl and particularly when she first enters the Rats' home (bush) and gets chased around by the guard (because he appears so suddenly- always makes me jump) still creep me out.

[sarge43]

32. Dating myself, The Thing (1951)

About half of my elementary school had an psychotic episode thanks to that movie.

(The other half were already batshit)

[Lethe]

33. i never have seen that one, only the remake

lol another kurt russell flick! (hehe)

is the original better than the remake?

[sarge43]

40. I never saw the Russell remake, so I can't do a compare/contrast.

What has stayed with me, yea these many years, is the claustrophobia -- excellent proto Alien effect.

[Orrex]

42. Both are excellent and worth seeing

Terrifying!

[Pryderi]

48. Agreed. Great horror AND suspense!

[Forkboy]

69. My father's favorite movie.

One of mine as well. I love both versions, as a matter of fact. Even the short story on which they're both based was good. :)

[elocs]

34. The original "13 Ghosts" from 1960 with the glasses that let you see the ghosts.

I was 8 and we lived in an apartment in a 100 year old house that had been a governor's mansion, so it had 10' ceilings with windows nearly as long. My mother had long, white lacy curtains that blew with the breeze. I laid in bed in the dark and with the blowing white curtains I was too afraid to get up at night to use the bathroom which was in the hallway and we shared it with an old woman in another apartment. The not going to the bathroom when I needed to go and then falling asleep had predictable results.

[DarkTirade]

72. ... so, in a very roundabout way, that movie literally made you...

er... pee your pants.

[UTUSN]

36. "Them" - gigantic radioactive ants, but this was WAY before anybody's time here n/t

[sarge43]

41. Not everyone's

Biblical epics, MGM musicals, extraterrestrials looking for strange stuff and radioactive mutants were my movie fare circa 50's.

(Yeah, yeah, explains a great deal)

[yellowdogintexas]

45. That's right. I remember that one too nt

[Bullwinkle925]

59. I remember it well ......

went to the drive-in with my sister, mom and her *date* at the time - who subsequently became my beloved step-FATHER!

and, yes - it scared the bejeezus outta me.

[Forkboy]

70. It may have been before my time, but I made up for it by seeing it a 1000 times since.

:)

Great movie, and one of the best in the "big monster" genre.

[Broken_Hero]

38. Jaws....

and The Sound of Music.


:hide:

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

39. Showing my age a bit.

I loved "Invaders from Mars"

from IMDB- A young boy learns that space aliens are taking over the minds of earthlings.

[peekaloo]

44. House on Haunted Hill/House of Wax

damn you Vincent Price!

Saturday afternoons spent in front of the TV meant no sleep that night.

I was a little older when I saw that ABC movie in the OP and yes I remember that doll and the blade under the door!

[Auggie]

50. Yeah, House on Haunted Hill.

Must have been five or six. Scared the crap out of me. So did the Outer Limits on TV.

[MilesColtrane]

49. Yes, TOT got to me.

The Exorcist scared the living fuck out of me.
Equinox freaked me out, mainly because I was only six when I saw it.

There was another made-for-TV movie called Gargoyles that I remember being extra creepy.

Then there was the ultra low budget, The Legend of Boggy Creek.

I also couldn't take the opening titles of the Night Gallery TV series.

[CreekDog]

51. The CBS Late Night Movie

You know, it's not a movie? :wow:

[PVnRT]

52. Life Force

Watching people get their skin sucked off was a bit much when I was about ten.

Also, the original cover of the book "Night Shift" by Stephen King (the one that had the hands with eyes on them) gave me nightmares for a while.

[Aristus]

54. That was the paperback cover. The first edition hardback had a plain buff cover

with the title in a simple black frame......but the frame was bleeding...a little...

That was cool. "Night Shift" is still King's best collection of short fiction.

[SoxFan]

55. I laughed my ass off!

I know, wrong reaction, but come on. Killed by a knick-knack? What do you do for a sequel? Show someone getting sodomized by a lawn gnome?

[Bullwinkle925]

60. ewwwww ..... i'm still shaking .....

'HUSH, HUSH SWEET CHARLOTTE'.......

:scared:

[Frank Cannon]

61. "Bad Ronald" - 1974 ABC Movie of the Week

Troubled teenager accidentally kills a neighbor kid. His mom builds a secret compartment in the house to hide him from the authorities. Mom goes to the hospital for an appendectomy. She dies. New family moves in. Hijinks ensue.

ABC had a lot of great horror movies on TV back in the '70s, often scarier than movies in the theater:

Duel
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
Trilogy of Terror
The Night Stalker
Crowhaven Farm
Dr. Cook's Garden

...and many, many more

[last_texas_dem]

76. Just watched the entire movie on youtube...

Someone has posted it, broken down into eight parts. Here's part one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zW_-fJYQC0

I was rooting for things to come out well for Ronald. He was weird, but mostly just seemed to have really awful luck.

[JenaLaw]

62. "The Little Girl Who Lived Down The Lane'...

...terrified me as a child...and I did not even understand that it was about cannibals!

Of course, I found it on tv again a few years ago, and wondered 'what was so scary?"

[kedrys]

63. The original "War of the Worlds"

Saw it in color on my grandpa's brand-new set (I was maybe 5 or 6), and it scared the piss out of me. I had Martians under my bed for months after that one. :P

[raccoon]

64. Original HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL with Vincent Price. Also THE SCREAMING SKULL. nt

[bif]

65. "Creature of the Black Lagoon" & "Day the Earth Stood Still"

Those scared the crap out of me. And Outer Limits.

[Forkboy]

73. "Creature.." has some really well done parts.

The scene where the creature swims underneath Julie Adams, mimicking her moves is both creepy and kind of an erotic dance at the same time. Overall the movie doesn't get half the attention it deserves, and I doubt the scheduled remake is going to help. It'll probably end up like Anaconda or something. x(

[geardaddy]

67. These two

and

[ceile]

68. When a Stranger Calls

Still freaks me out....

[Pryderi]

80. HAVE YOU CHECKED

THE CHILDREN?
AAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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

?v=0

[applegrove]

71. I saw Chinatown when I was about 11. The ending totally grossed me out. I didn't know

there was such a thing as incest. And the murder...

[Forkboy]

74. The ads for movies usually ended up scaring me more than the movies themselves did.

I could barely watch the ads for Phantasm and The Shining, but when we went to see them neither one was that scary, though Phantasm did make me jump once or twice.

"You play a good game boy, but the game is finished. Now you die."

And Trilogy Of Terror was fantastic. I love Karen Black.

[Bake]

75. Psycho (the original)

I still can't take a shower without looking around the curtain. 40 years later.

Bake

[LanternWaste]

77. 'Jaws' when I was ten or eleven...

'Jaws' when I was ten or eleven. Terrified me-- took me days to forgive my mom for allowing me to see that in the theaters with the only supervision being my jerk older brother... :P

[Proud Liberal Dem]

79. Star Wars Episode V:The Empire Strikes Back

It may not have been "scary" but other than "Revenge of the Sith", "The Empire Strikes Back" was probably the darkest and most suspenseful movie of the entire Star Wars series and I don't believe that Darth Vader ever seemed quite so menacing and scary as he appeared in this movie and there were several quite suspenseful and ominous scenes in this movie- the most notable ones being Luke's creepy encounter with "Darth Vader" inside the tree on Dagobah during his training with Yoda and his subsequent duel with Vader towards the end of the movie, particularly where he shoves Vader off the platform and he briefly disappears and Luke suddenly runs into him in one of the control rooms and Vader starts mercilessly hurling objects at him with the Imperial March theme playing at full blast. The scene during which Han gets frozen by Vader was also pretty creepy as well. When the movie first came out I was about 4 and I had a poster from the movie with Darth Vader and remember always being scared of the poster after I went to bed every night- as though Darth Vader would come out of the poster and get me. I'm not sure that he retained the same level of menace in ROTJ and he didn't even seem particularly creepy in ANH and definitely not in ROTS.

[3dogday]

81. Yes! It totally freaked me out

I think there was a band called The Unspeakable Horror of Karen Black, which is a kick ass band name imo.