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I'm a life long horror fan. That being said most horror movies (even the ones I love) don't really 'scare' me because I know it's just a movie. However, when I was a kid, I'm talking young kid here, before kindergarten, I saw Troll, and it scared the living jeebus out of me. Watching it now, it's laughable, but growing up I couldn't watch even part of it without it keeping me up at night.

Does this sound familiar to anyone else? If so, what movie was it that scared the poo out of you as a kid.

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Nightmare on Elm Street. Watched this at a sleepover party, of course I was the one right on the edge of the room next to the door(we all set our sleeping bags in a row along the room next to each other), was looking round the side the whole night after watching Nightmare on Elm Street...

Apart from that film, the only thing to really really scare me in the Horror world was a British television programme called Ghost Watch. Eek!!

You can see an edited video here of all the sightings throughout the programme of Mr. Pipes, don't watch if you want to see the whole programme.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmSswG04zvc



As did, not a Horror, the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Not the whole film, only the character JUDGE DOOM, especially in his evil form... I couldn't sleep because the image of him in loony form kept appearing on the ceiling of my bedroom.

Urgh, especially this:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfhV5oC-WK8&feature=related

Ghost Watch was superb. Looking back at it now though it's hard to see how so many people were fooled by it. The presenters were fine but the acting by the family was terrible.

For me, 2 films used to terrify me when I was young. Salem's Lot and The Thing.

Yeah it was the early 90s when it was shown, and for me anyway it was at an age where I didn't really notice dodgy acting, I would have been too scared lol.

As a kid my sister was terrified the Big Bertha (I think that was her name) from Peewee's big adventure, the scene were the trucker's face went all claymation and grotesque. I still give her shit about that, and then she just reminds me of troll and I shut up.

When I was a kid, I was scared shitless by one of the characters from Moomin.

http://www.kijo.no/wp-content/uploads/hufsa.jpg

At the age of 10 or so I watched Nightmare on Elm Street III after my dad fell asleep. That frightened me for years to come.

Leprechaun I

I was scared of the Leprechaun, I didn't really understand what was going on in the films.

When I was younger Michaels Myers breathin under his mask used to scare the shit out of me.

The Shining scared the holy hell out of me when I was younger. My mom tricked me into watching it when I was about 11 years old and I didn't sleep at all that night.

Only movie that scared me when I was young.

Hellraiser. I think I was about 4 years old when I saw it. Scared the living shit out me.

Nightmare on Elmstreet: Dream Warriors I accidently saw it when I was 3 years, well I think it left a mark on me

The melting guy from Robocop 1 scared the shit out of me aswell

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]Chucky....

I was always afraid of dolls coming to life & killing me, so when it was in the movies, I had another reason to fear.

IT and Poltergeist III. I couldn't get past the scene in Poltergeist III when the girl was pulled into a puddle by the hands of the poltergeist.

Nothing really scared me that I could remember but Pet Sematary was creepy and so was Maximum Overdrive.

Halloween 2 (really don't know why, now thinking about it) and Ghostwatch, for those to young or outside the UK, here is what it was about:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostwatch

The mummy and the haunting re-make....dunno why but those movies made me sh*t myself when I was young, now when I see them though nothing

That's the thing about seeing a horror movie when you're young - not matter how jaded you can get later, the memories of you being scared when you were young just stick in your DNA.
The first Halloween was maybe the first film that unnerved me.
The first couple of Friday the 13ths made me scared at night whenever we were at the cottage.

Originally posted by BackFire
The Shining scared the holy hell out of me when I was younger. My mom tricked me into watching it when I was about 11 years old and I didn't sleep at all that night.

Only movie that scared me when I was young.

I saw the Shining when I was around the same age, pretty scary stuff. The scene where we see the guy in the bear suit, scared the crap out of me.

Rawhead rex and Tale from the darkside. You know the last story..,the one where the guy gets hooked up with a gargoyle and shit. Don't know why, but that and the opening sequence to Twilight Zone. That was the type of horror i went for

I used to watch a lot of horror movies as a kid, but few scared me. Here are the select few : P.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre-The ORIGINAL- Scared the shit out of me because the realism (no blood, gritty film) and I thought it was a completely true story.

IT- C'mon it was about a demon CLOWN.

Halloween- The music scared my nuts off.

Candyman- Everytime I took a shit I stared at the mirror in shear terror.

Originally posted by Ladyluck
Hellraiser. I think I was about 4 years old when I saw it. Scared the living shit out me.

Hellraiser freaked me out.

Nightmare on Elm Street was top tier too.

1958's "The Fly" Saw it when it was first in the theater. And when Patricia Medina pulled the bag off of David Hedison's head to reveal he had the head of a fly, I found myself on the theater floor, cowering behind the seats in front of me.

Little Nemo.......... its not horror but the image of the Nightmare Relm scared me for yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeears and i constantly had nightmares about being sucked into it

IT used to **** with me SOO badly.

Hellraiser

Originally posted by Wanderer11
Hellraiser

Oh yeah, ditto. The part where the girly is in the hospital then the walls open up and she sees some demon climbing between the walls... scary. At least I think that was in Hellraiser, been years since i've seen that.

I remember a hospital in Hellraiser II.

I still have nightmears of

ALIEN 1979

Evil Dead Part 2 is what created an impact. I was 6 & I screamed my lungs out while watching it. After that for a couple of nights I peed in my pants.

The Exorcist (unedited version).

I was 6 back then. One of the most traumatic experiences in my life.

I was afraid of michael myers, when i watched his 4th movie around eight years old, on halloween night. After that, I couldn't even let go of the person closest to me for a long time.

original salems lot and witchboard.

Ravenous

I remember I insisted that I sleep in my parents room for a week after I watched that movie

Birds.

The zombie chasing Barbara to her car at the beginning of Night of the Living Dead freaked me out as a kid.

A Nightmare on Elmstreet - The scene where Nancy is in the bathtub, and you see Freddy's glove appear between her legs, made me scream and run out of the room when I was a kid

Stephen King's It - The boogeyman x 10000

Akira - Do I really need to say anything?

An American Werewolf in London - Any glimpse of a werewolf was haunting, the transformation scenes were so scary, and his zombie buddy, whew

The Company of Wolves - Just plain weird. Part where the guy rips his skin off, whew

The crypt keeper always scared the shit out of me too.

Nothing really scared me when I was little, the only movie I can think of that made me abit tense was It, but I liked the movie because it had Tim Curry in it, though some scenes were freaky. I love it.

Friday the 13th. And now, when I don't find it all that scary, there's still a certain creepy stigma about it.

Eight Legged Freaks scared me when I was younger,and Blade did to...but now I love Blade.

When I was a kid, I was scared so easily. Hard to choose.
But, I'm gonna say Stephen King's It.

I would have to say The Blob.

I forgot to mention, Red Dawn. That movie really made me shit my pants.That was the first time that i realized what could happen if America lost a war with another country. I was seeing Russians chinks and japs paratrooping down. I was scared to death man. Yeah, Red Dawn messed me up more than any horror movie.

Originally posted by jinXed by JaNx
... I was seeing Russians chinks and japs paratrooping down...

BWHAHAHAHAHAHA ! -- At "chinks" and "japs".

Probably Chucky
Or Gremlins

PennyWise The Dancing clown

Chucky scared the crap out of me...I was staying the night with my best friend and she had one of those dolls...it was staring at us from a high shelf...That damn doll ended up sleeping in a bathtub a wing away from her bedroom...

And Nightmare on Elmstreet...I don't know anyone who was not scared of that. I am excited to take my child to see the remake and see if it scares her the way the original scared me!

I can't remember what movie it was I was only 6 wwhen I watched it but my stupid babysitter was watching it and he didn't want to turn it off even though he wasn't supposed to be watching me but all I think it was called poltergeist or something but I remember heads falling from an oven and people screaming and I remember crying and running to my room.
That terrified the crap out of me. I had nightmares about it for about a year and it sucks cause now I wanna know what the movie was but I cant find it.

Originally posted by MildPossession
Nightmare on Elm Street. Watched this at a sleepover party, of course I was the one right on the edge of the room next to the door(we all set our sleeping bags in a row along the room next to each other), was looking round the side the whole night after watching Nightmare on Elm Street...


Dito, it was "A Nightmare on Elm Street: Wes Craven's New Nightmare", it was the first ever horror film I watched and it was at a sleepover, I was still in Primary School so I guess i may have been 10 years old?

But I musto had to sleep with the light on for about a year afterwards, I was shit scared.


It may have been a few years later when I saw the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, I too also thought it was so real, YOU felt like you were being chasewd through the woods. I actually couldnt walk home myself that night haha.


Nowadays, I LOVE horror films, I cant remember the last time i was scared by a flick.
I am in love with Freddy Kruger now and worship his movies, they are hilarious.


Discos - once upon time I was a little scaredy-cat

E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
As a child, that movie scared the crap out of me.
....not really that scarry anymore though...

The intro to the Incredible Hulk 80's. Terrified me!

aliens scared me.

NOES scared the hell out of me as a kid. Ghostwatch too. But the one that really scared me as a child was Psycho 2 I saw it when I was about 6 and just couldn't sleep. Incidentally, I watched Ghostwatch a couple of years ago and it is quite poor but as a child I was terrified,

As a child it was The Witches (1990), not a movie you would consider to scare anyone but it freaked me out.

I saw "Trilogy of Terror" when I was like 4 years old and I'll never forget that doll sticking the knife underneath the door. That freaked me out. The desire to kill so unsatiable. Anyway, it was inappropriate for a 4 year old, I guess.

Return of the Living Dead; At 8 I was too young to understand the yumor, but old enough to read the disclaimer at the beginning that said everything in the movie was real.

Between that, the midget zombie, running zombies, and a half a zombie on a metal slab crying out for brains, tarman was gonna be my boogyman for a number of months to come.

Also, there's an Amazing Stories episode where a guy kept seeing something that looked like Darkman in the mirror, and everytime he looked into a reflection the creature would get closer and closer to him. That FREAKED my little brain out when I was a child.... Had me not wanting to look into the mirror for ages..... in all honesty it's still kinda stuck with me.

The scene from the King Kong remake where the carnitics got Lumpy.

As a kid the two horror movies that scarred my imagination were Poltergeist & The Amityvile Horror.

Poltergeist because it happened in a normal everyday suburban house & family.
I remember as a kid, late at night, I stare intently at the kitchen table utterly convinced that if I took my eyes off them, they'd start moving & piling on top of eachother.

The bit about Amityvile Horror that scared me the most was the room they discovered in the basement that was painted completely in red, supposedly where the killings were done.

It didn't help that my family had just moved to a new place that had an outhouse in the back. The previous tenents had painted the interior of the outhouse in red. I was 7 years old at the time...WHO THE HELL PAINTS AN OUTHOUSE RED?!!?

Water World.

definitely Stephen King's IT, that clown always creeped me right the **** out

Originally posted by General_Iroh
definitely Stephen King's IT, that clown always creeped me right the **** out


Totally agree dude,he still creeps me out now and I'm 25...Dead serious

Originally posted by Ihategeogra
]Chucky....

I was always afraid of dolls coming to life & killing me, so when it was in the movies, I had another reason to fear.



My grandfather and I watched a lot of horror movies when I was a kid, and the two that scared me the most were Child's Play, and Leprechaun. I don't know if it was because they were similar heights to me or what, but they scared the crap out of me. It didn't help that my cousin had dolls that were the same size as chucky sitting around.

The movie that scared me the most as a kid was Trilogy of Terror. There was one story with a little native running around the house. I was watching it late at night while spending the night my grandparents. They had long before went to bed. They had a chihuaha that kept running around every time he heard a noise. I slept with my head under the covers all night.

I saw a disturbing movie years ago. All I remember is this family (I guess) of monsters were eating him alive like he was a fine delicassey. their mouth and noses kind of morphed into trunks and attached to the guy while another guy helad them down. While they were feeding off him with their faces attached another guy stuck his hand up the guys ass and it came through his mouth....while the guy was still alive. Disturbing. Anyone know the name of the movie? It's probably been out over 15 years.

Recently it would have to be the grudge. But before that it would be aliens when I was 13.

I remember the Exorcist and Poltergeist scaring me as child. The other ones I remember is Demons 1 or 2, the one where the face comes out of the tv. There is also Extro, the last scene in the movie where the woman finds the egg and it explodes in her face. Of course, I have to mention IT... I hate clowns because of that movie.

Originally posted by DarthLazious
I would have to say The Blob.


Glad someone said this one, I watched this when i was about 4 and it scared the shit outta me. I think it was because it could get you anywhere at any time, i always thought it was going to creep under my door and get me

Also NOES scared the shit out of me and my brother so bad that he put a jam sandwich in the VCR so we couldnt play the tape anymore

Originally posted by jinzin
Also, there's an Amazing Stories episode where a guy kept seeing something that looked like Darkman in the mirror, and everytime he looked into a reflection the creature would get closer and closer to him. That FREAKED my little brain out when I was a child.... Had me not wanting to look into the mirror for ages..... in all honesty it's still kinda stuck with me.


That one got to me too.
The episode is called mirror mirror if you wanna check it out again, S1E19
I recently did...i still like the idea, disappointing ending though.

Originally posted by Octo
That one got to me too.
The episode is called mirror mirror if you wanna check it out again, S1E19
I recently did...i still like the idea, disappointing ending though.

Cool! Thanks for the info, I'll go check it out....

I'm a masochist that way.

Yeah, the ending wasn't fantastic, but the impending part was what always got me about that, not so much the results.

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i am crazy about horror movies from my child hood and i watched a movie name Night Breed, The Witch and Evil Dead 1 were the most scary movies of my child hood

Salem"s Lot
The window scratching scene.
Horrifying

Originally posted by German
The movie that scared me the most as a kid was Trilogy of Terror. There was one story with a little native running around the house. I was watching it late at night while spending the night my grandparents. They had long before went to bed. They had a chihuaha that kept running around every time he heard a noise. I slept with my head under the covers all night.

This was second.

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Poltergeist did it for me as a kid.

To this day, the notion of random objects moving on their own still freaks me.

halloween 2

In my early period of life i watched "Evil Dead" that was really scaring for me.
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i had 2, i walked in on wes caven's new nightmare when i was 4 (freddy is now my fav. movie killer) and carnival of souls, the weird dude tht was stalking the girl is f*#king creepy even to this day.

The movie which scared me all the time is the hunting! i can't forget it.

this movie used to scare the hell out of me when i was a kid
http://bmovies.com/movie/carnival-souls

Boogey Man

It" now it just makes me laugh.

The original Hulk. Terrified me.

The show? Never knew there was a movie.

The Lou Farrigno Hulk had a few films. One with Thor and another with DareDevil. He freaked me out when I was a kid. The white eyes, the whole transformation process.
I was 2 or 3 during the shows run and it was huge. When I hit 4, my dad gave me a bunch of old British reprints of first issues of Marvel comic characters and Hulk was one of the featured strips. It was cool that this monster character I feared was actually a kind of anti-hero, a destructive force of nature that would cause collateral damage but never hurt anyone and would be there to fight much worse threats.

the old man from poltergeist

http://www.tabloidprodigy.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/poltergeist.jpg

Originally posted by rudester
the old man from poltergeist

Oh c'mon. He just looks like a sweet old man.

I've actually never seen Poltergeist, and I feel like I should cuz it's pretty famous.

Originally posted by rudester
the old man from poltergeist

http://www.tabloidprodigy.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/poltergeist.jpg
"God is in, His holy temple...." Agree.

Poltergeist - when the poltergeist is throbbing like an overweight slug on the counter, and then the guy's face starts bubbling and morphing and melting off. That scared the bejeezus out of me.

Whoa, sounds like I need to see this... eer

Originally posted by Patient_Leech
Oh c'mon. He just looks like a sweet old man.

I've actually never seen Poltergeist, and I feel like I should cuz it's pretty famous.

U PL never seen it??? Woe, where have u been for the last 20 something years, under a rock?? Its been on tv as well.

well I've never been able to see starwars, everytime its on I leave the room or its almost done, I've only seen bits and pieces..
Watch it by 1.2.3.

Originally posted by rudester
U PL never seen it??? Woe, where have u been for the last 20 something years, under a rock?? Its been on tv as well.

I don't watch much TV. It's a name I've heard many times, just haven't gotten around to watching it yet. But I have it from Netflix now, so I'll probably watch it soon.

well not even as a kid but in my 20's every scene where the kid sees a ghost, or when one of them passes in front of the screen in sixth sense.

In Pittsburgh on Saturday nights, we were treated to Chiller Theatre on our NBC channel. Chilly Billy (Bill Cardille) was the host and they would run a horror or sci-fi film each week. It ran just after Saturday Night Live.

Originally posted by Patient_Leech
Whoa, sounds like I need to see this... eer

Dude as I stated earlier in this thread, Poltergeist (the movie) has haunted my darkest fears throughout my childhood.

You might think it's cheesy now...but imagine watching it for the 1st time when you were about 10 yrs old & knew nothing about the movie or what a "poltergeist" even meant.

F U SPEILBERG FOR RAPING MY CHILDHOOD

Originally posted by Esau Cairn
Dude as I stated earlier in this thread, Poltergeist (the movie) has haunted my darkest fears throughout my childhood.

You might think it's cheesy now...but imagine watching it for the 1st time when you were about 10 yrs old & knew nothing about the movie or what a "poltergeist" even meant.

F U SPEILBERG FOR RAPING MY CHILDHOOD

Lol I watched Poltergeist when I was 8. I could NOT sleep for weeks and had to barricade my closet. Also refused to sleep near the window xD



But yeah. Poltergeist scared the bejeebus out of me. Another movie that truly freaked me out was Ju-On The Grudge ._.

Originally posted by Esau Cairn
Dude as I stated earlier in this thread, Poltergeist (the movie) has haunted my darkest fears throughout my childhood.

You might think it's cheesy now...but imagine watching it for the 1st time when you were about 10 yrs old & knew nothing about the movie or what a "poltergeist" even meant.

F U SPEILBERG FOR RAPING MY CHILDHOOD

Oh yeah, for a 10 year old it would be pretty effin' scary. When that dude was looking at himself in the mirror, and well, you know... that really didn't seem like PG material to me. But yeah, I thought most of it was pretty cheesy. It was weird because it started out like it was going to be kind of a G-rated spectacle kind of film, but turned scary, particularly at the end. I'm not sure if I'll get around to seeing any of the sequels (how many are there?), but I'd suspect they'd be better.. less cheesy and more gross out scares? (kind of like all those corpses rising up from the ground at the end)

Pennywise from Stephen King's "IT" scared me to death when I was a kid...

Exorcist no doubt scared me as a kid and as an adult it still does!

When i was 8 years old that time the most scariest movie is "EVIL DEAD" scare me so much, its really so horrable movie and i cnt see that type of horror movies in lonliness.

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As a child... it was Alien.

The scene where Dallas runs into it in the ventilation system destroyed me for that night.

Plus the x-files. That shit was creepy when I was a kid.

Dawn of the Dead (78) ver. not the crappy 2004 ver. Also I was only 3 years old.

Originally posted by JediRouge
Dawn of the Dead (78) ver. not the crappy 2004 ver. Also I was only 3 years old.

Scariest part in that was when the mannequin turns out to be a zombie and it jumps out. That scared me shitless and that was only a year or two ago, lol.

Scariest part in that was when the mannequin turns out to be a zombie and it jumps out. That scared me shitless and that was only a year or two ago, lol.


lol... I was 3 or 4 when I first saw it, to me the scariest scene was when the swat team made their way into the room where a a man (zombie) was missing his legs and was crawling for the young swat member... hell I didn't get enough balls to finally watch it until I was fourteen, great now I feel like watching it again...hehehe.

Jaws probably ruined sharks and the ocean for me, but the movie which scared me the most as being plausibly dangerous was John Carpenter's The Thing.

Originally posted by Stealth Moose
but the movie which scared me the most as being plausibly dangerous was John Carpenter's The Thing.

The best horror film of all time bro!

Bump. Now I have a list.

1. Alien. When Dallas is in the ventalation system. Jumped about three feet in the air.

2. All the scare scenes in Signs.

3. When the mom opens the closet door in Poltergiest.

4. When the demons drag away the criminals souls in Ghost.

5. The eating/gnashing scenes in Night of the Living Dead.

Scared? Not just startled or grossed-out?

1. The ghostly moaning sounds from the original "13 Ghosts" gave me the creeps.
2. The original "Paranormal Activity" was creepy.
3. What actually scared the hell out of me as a young child (3 yo), what sent me into a screaming panic? One was an old "I Love Lucy" episode, the one where she wants to prove she can sculpt, but can't, so to impress Ricky she stuck her head through a hole in the table and covered it with clay. When the impressed art collector said he wanted it, Lucy opened her eyes suddenly wide. That moment freaked me out, and gave me nightmares of flying statue heads for years.

The other item was an old Max Fleischer cartoon about a greedy Humpty Dumpty (hey, I was 6 at the time). Just something about the whole drawing style was creepy, and when he and the whole wall fell, I lost it, just like with the Lucy episode.

Nothing else has ever come close to frightening me like those two instances. Since then, I might get the creeps over something, or be startled or grossed-out, but not out-n-out scared witless. Other movies that might scare me, like "Taken" (because I have a daughter), would scare me if I watched them (for real, non-supernatural reasons), so I don't.

That was a great post, very in depth.

As a little kid, the wicked witch in Wizard of Oz scared me bad. So did Guy Smiley on Sesame Street, which is funny considering he was the only human muppet.

Young adult and even today? The Exorcist.
Special mention to the ghost dancing to "Tip Toe Through The Tulips" seen through the window in Insidious. Creeped. Me. Out.

In or around 1974 there was an Exorcist rip-off called Beyond The Door that scared me so bad that the light bills in the house were substantially higher for quite awhile. Some say the movie came before the Exorcist, some say after, but no matter it was a chilling movie. Adding to that scare factor was the ever-present but unseen devil, who you heard breathing in the background. Not only that but the trailer was played regularly around bedtime for us young un's in the 70's, which was an extra scare factor!

Geez!
I just googled the movie. The theatrical poster...that is an unsettling face.

Originally posted by riv6672
Geez!
I just googled the movie. The theatrical poster...that is an unsettling face.

If you think the poster is bad, try the movie on for size! As well as that, as I said before, the TV spot just before bedtime was an added scare. Perhaps one of the most played TV spots.

Night Of The Living Dead 1968 scared me quite bad too. Beyond The Door was bad enough, but when I went to see NOTLD at the drive-in with my cousin at around age 11, I was REALLY scared!

Making it worse, was when ABC (channel 7) showed it late at night.
I was sitting in the house alone one night when I was a bit older. Actually my dad was asleep on the floor and my mom was upstairs in bed, but I was effectively alone.

The part of the movie with the simulated TV newscast about the dead coming to life was on, and I was freaking out. Not to mention the fact that a loud thump was heard outside, which turned out to be my neighbor coming home from work. But sitting in the dark and hearing that broadcast was a truly scary thing as I was imagining what if it were real...

Originally posted by JediRouge
Scariest part in that was when the mannequin turns out to be a zombie and it jumps out. That scared me shitless and that was only a year or two ago, lol.


lol... I was 3 or 4 when I first saw it, to me the scariest scene was when the swat team made their way into the room where a a man (zombie) was missing his legs and was crawling for the young swat member... hell I didn't get enough balls to finally watch it until I was fourteen, great now I feel like watching it again...hehehe.

Oh man the original Dawn of The Dead? I was about 14 or 15 when the TV spots played at night. I was soooo-disappointed when the NC-17 rating was in effect. However, the local drive-in was run by people we knew for years and they let my cousin and I in (my mom too as she was driving) and the movie was the best I'd ever seen at that time! Aside from the TV spots for Beyond The Door the TV spots for DOTD were the coolest!

Here's one of the original American TV spots that I remember fondly:

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I watch Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead every Halloween! Oh they are wonderful!

Originally posted by riv6672
That must have been someone's idea of a joke...

Yeah, a joke that scared the shit out of an entire generation of us young un's. There too, we always had the original Dawn of The Dead and Zombie TV spots to look forward to, now they were cool!

Originally posted by COG Veteran
I watch Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead every Halloween! Oh they are wonderful!

You, sir, are a true horror fan.

Same here. I watch them on Halloween as well as the old B-movies I used to watch on WNEW 5's Creature Features and WPIX 11 Chiller Theater as a kid in the early 70's.

I feel silly now.
My spouse and i watch Nightmare before Christmas.

Originally posted by riv6672
I feel silly now.
My spouse and i watch Nightmare before Christmas.

Nah...ya' gotta' have a little fun now and then. My heyday, like I said, was the old Chiller Theater and Creature Features shows on Saturday night New York programming. Not sure of where you are in the world, but here's a clip of the opening to the old WPIX 11 Chiller Theater I grew up with in the Tri-State Area.

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I grew up in NYC. Aaaaaahhh!!! To the 6 fingered hand!

Originally posted by riv6672
I grew up in NYC. Aaaaaahhh!!! To the 6 fingered hand!

You remember this then? Very nice! Creature Features was also another great love of mine back then.

Remember they always showed King Kong on Thanksgiving? Channel 9, i think!

Creature Features, what a flash back...

Originally posted by riv6672
Remember they always showed King Kong on Thanksgiving? Channel 9, i think!

Creature Features, what a flash back...

King Kong (or whatever movie they showed) would play all day when I was little. And later they would play 3 Godzilla movies every day after Thanksgiving-it was King Kong vs. Godzilla Godzilla vs. The Smog Monster and Godzilla vs. Megalon

And as far as WOR 9, remember Fright Night at 1 AM Saturday\Sunday morning? Many good memories of that one!

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Haha, yes!

I've got one for you: Saturday afternoon drive in theater, with the badly dubbed kung fu movies!

Originally posted by riv6672
Haha, yes!

I've got one for you: Saturday afternoon drive in theater, with the badly dubbed kung fu movies!

Oooo-h...you mean this ?

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Y'know, another great movie that gave me sleepless nights was the old ABC made-for-TV movie Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark back in 1973. (Yes the one with the little monsters in the fireplace.) The night it premiered on ABC, I had a choice of going out with the youth group my mom and dad were in charge of (and spending the night with a bunch of hippies coming down from the 60's) or staying home and seeing this movie.

So as you can guess, I stayed home and watched the movie, and didn't sleep. While rather dated by today's standards, the film occasionally manages to put me at that point in time when I was little and scared. The 70's era TV horror movie was the king of it's day!

Originally posted by riv6672
Hell yes!!!

And, Dont be Afraid of the Dark is one of the scariest movies i watched as a kid...!

Remember a movie called Gargoyles?
Oh man how could I forget Gargoyles? I saw it when it first premiered on the CBS movie. Cornel Wilde was the professor, and a young Scott Glenn played one of the motorcycle gang who helped the police fight the creatures. Also look for a now-deceased Grayson Hall as the drunken hotel manager. Hall was also Dr, Julia Hoffman in the original Dark Shadows TV series, later played by cult legend Barbara Steele in the TV series remake with Ben Cross as Barnabas.

That was one awesome movie, and it was also the first FX-makeup job of a young Stan Winston. Bernie Casey played the Gargoyle leader, and it's said that a young Richard Moll played one of the Gargoyles. How do I know all of this, why I have the DVD of course!

Hey you're really cool, man. Remembering all this stuff just as much as me. Feel free to drop me a line whenever, you're always welcome! Have one on me!

Ha, thank you!

The make up effects were great in that movie. The gargoyle leader was both scary and handsome. Only thing i can compare it to is the Darkness character in Legend. You really know your stuff...

Originally posted by riv6672
Ha, thank you!

The make up effects were great in that movie. The gargoyle leader was both scary and handsome. Only thing i can compare it to is the Darkness character in Legend. You really know your stuff...

Thanks, but the only reason I "know my stuff" is because I read the back of the DVD cover, LOL Well I'm only half-truthful because I also looked it up on the "Net and the IMDB and all that, so I'm kind of cheating

Nice observation about the Gargoyle leader, he was scary and sort of a ladies man among the single green females in his harem, lol And yes, Darkness from Legend does come to mind with the facial features. Did Stan Winston create him too? Wouldn't surprise me if he did.

I looked it up, and it was a gent named Rob Bottin, who did work on movies like The Howling, ine of the first grown up werewolf movies i remember seeing...

Originally posted by riv6672
I looked it up, and it was a gent named Rob Bottin, who did work on movies like The Howling, ine of the first grown up werewolf movies i remember seeing...

You mean for Legend? Because the IMDB has Stan Winston as the man for Gargoyles.

My bad, yeah i meant Legend!

awesome thread

Gremlins left an impression for sure. For many years.
Even now when I open a kitchen cupboard at night I think of the scene where the Gremlin pops out of the cupboard when Billy dresses his wound at the school.

Evil dead and Insidious chapter 2

I was scared of the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise, but couldn't stop watching the films...looking back, those movies are funny v. scary

Pootie Tang.

The very first horror movie that I saw was Jaws. This movie converted me to the horror addict that I am :P

The original Friday the 13th. Especially that scene at the end when Jason jumped out of the water. I think it was probably the first gory horror movie I ever watched so I wasn't expecting that shock at the end. It almost gave my young heart an attack. Was it ever confirmed whether that actually happened or did the girl just imagine it/dream it?

I only got around to watching that film about 3 years ago but I'll need to see it again to make a fair determination whether the ending was real or not. I am certain however that I nearly s**t myself at that part

Edit: The ending for Deliverance though, now that's a hell of an ambiguous closing scene.

I saw Texas Chainsaw Massacre when I was like 10, back in 1986 and it still creeps me out, but not the new ones the new ones are lame compared to the 1974 version

I saw IT and Killer Clowns from Outer Space, back to back when I was maybe 6 at the most. Ruined clowns for me for a few years.

Watching Ernest Scared Stupid movie now it's not scary but when I was Child it scared the hell out of me.

The Exorcist of course

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Exorcist gave me chills too the first time I saw it. It still kinda creeps me out to this day. Awesome movie that is. Billy Graham was convinced that a demon was living inside that film.