What is the scariest movie you ever watched or walked out on? Mine was the Exorcist. How about you?

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[Alpeduez21]

1. I walked out of the exorcist. I was really strung out on speed and the music

Just really got to me. It was stretching my nerves TIGHT. Couldn’t deal with it

The Ring scared the bejeezus out of me. Slept with a light on for three days after that. I was forty something when I saw it

When a Stranger Calls had me checking behind curtains and in closets for months

I don’t watch scary movies anymore

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3. I agree,Alpeduez21. Netflix has a ton on them. I do not watch.

[chowder66]

137. Henry:Portrait of a Serial Killer

I love horror but that one got under my skin.

[yorkster]

2. The Haunting. 1963 film based on

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson.

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4. Thank you very much, yorkster for sharing

[iscooterliberally]

5. I took a girl to go see Pet Cemetery back in the late 80s or early 90s

It was the first version of the movie. I was OK with it, but right before the ending my date got up and ran out of the theater. I didn't see the ending of that movie until years later. I had to get up and go after her. I wanted to stay and finish the movie, but I decided I would eventually see it again.

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20. That was very nice of you to go be with your girlfriend. I had read the book by Stephen King, So I knew when to close my

eyes. Thank you very muchiscooterliberally.

[Coldwater]

6. First time watching

1) The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) directed by Tobe Hooper

2) Midnight showing of the Night of the Living Dead,

3) Dawn of the Dead

4) The Exorcist

[debm55]

23. Thank you very much, Coldwater. I have only seen two of your choices. I was in the Night of the Living Dead. as a zombie

as it was filmed in the Pittsburgh area. The Exorcist, I had read previously to seeing the movie. But the movie scared me more than the book

[Coldwater]

97. WOW, that's cool

I know that extras in the movie Dawn of the Dead (1978) were basically given T-Shirts in lieu of pay, so how much did George A Romero pay his zombies in his original Night of the Living Dead (1968) with a substantially lower budget.

[debm55]

99. I got nothing. It was just the experience of being in a movie,

[Coldwater]

115. Over the past 2 years

"The Walking Dead: Dead City" has been filming in Massachusetts, and the production team is seeking extras to portray various roles, including zombies, soldiers, and post-apocalyptic survivors.

It's pretty cool but I'm too busy working.

[debm55]

117. Thank you very much, Coldwater.That sounds very interesting.

[electric_blue68]

74. Omg. At my first after college F/T job, a work colleague in the Next Room was Loudly describing The Chainsaw Massacre...

... to someone with her! 😦

[mwmisses4289]

7. The first alien movie.

I spent most of it in the theatre lobby, while my friends stayed in the theatre.
I flat out refuse to watch horror movies- I have a vivid enough imagination, I don't need to see it splashed across a screen!

[debm55]

24. Thank you very much, mwmisses4289. I watched it at the theater. I was glad when it was over.

[electric_blue68]

78. Ohhhh, that was something. SCARY! Never rewatched or saw the others

[OldBaldy1701E]

184. Same.

Except that I relished every bit of it. I am a horror fan from the age of five! I saw 'The Exorcist' when I was eleven (my babysitter snuck me into a screening at her college).

Alien was the first move to give me nightmares. I was freaking fifteen at the time, partying my ass off and rocking out clubs in the local area. That movie hit me in a way that pushed all of my buttons. Probably because it was so 'out there'. Geiger should have won an Oscar for giving generations nightmares with that design and creation. All hail Ridley Scott for making a masterpiece.

I envy anyone who has never seen it, nor really has much knowledge of it. Same with 'Psycho' and 'Jaws'. What a ride...

[Dorothy V]

8. "The Exorcist" scared the willies out of me, but

When I was about 5 years old I went with my folks to the Base theater and there was a movie on called "Tarantula". My little self took one look at the giant spider and started screaming. I wouldn't stop screaming. My folks had to snatch me up and get me out of there. I wound up with a bad case of arachnophobia that I have been trying to do something about for years now. I have finally got to the point where I can look at a picture of a spider without freaking out, just get a tad nervous, and am actually getting comfortable with the little jumping spiders - took me over 60 years to reach this point. Talk about a long-lived reaction!

[JMCKUSICK]

10. Wow, that must've been scary

Hi Dorothy! so nice to see your smiling words lol

[Dorothy V]

22. Scary? Try terrifying! And nice to see you too! 😁

[LogDog75]

13. The Exorcist was scary when it came out

One of the guys I worked with at the time The Exorcist came and he told me this story. He and his brother were sharing an apartment and they took their 15-year old brother to see the movie at a late showing. After the movie, they called their mother and told her their brother was going to stay at their apartment instead getting home late. While their 15-year old brother was asleep, they crept into the bedroom went on opposite sides of the bed. Then, they picked up the bed and started shaking it violently causing their younger brother to wake up screaming. The guy said it took them awhile to calm their younger brother down but that it was funny.

[debm55]

25. Oh Dorothy V. I am so sorry for you.

[wcmagumba]

9. "The Devils Rain", "The Keep" and "Carrie" come to mind...

I didn't walk out of any of these but still scary to me and my girlfriend

[debm55]

26. Thank you very much for sharing with us. I only saw Carrie and it was scary.

[BeyondGeography]

40. The ending of Carrie...

Probably the biggest freak-out I ever had at the movies.

[Goonch]

11. The War of the Worlds (1953) when I was a kid ;-{)

[debm55]

28. Thank you very much, Goonch. I have never seen the movie, but watching your clip, it looks frightening.

[Ilsa]

130. It was because of the creeping alien "eye" or whatever.

The tension was thick with the run, escape, hide actions.

[debm55]

132. That scares me, just reading about it.

[Ilsa]

135. Similar treatment in the Tom Cruise/Dakota Fanning

modern movie. A theme in the movie was that these giant machines would sweep people up and then a moment later it would spew an iron red mist exhaust.

[debm55]

150. Thank you , lisa, I'm glad I missed it.

[displacedvermoter]

57. "Everyone knows when you wave the white flag

you want to friends"!!!

[Mysterian]

153. Greatest sci-fi movie ever

The "God saved us" part is kind of heavy but doesn't ruin the movie.

[HappyH]

12. The Exorcist was scary.

I had a date to see it, I had actually seen it the previous week. She made it till the scene where Linda’s head went all the way around. Well, we had to leave then, went back to where my date was staying. She went to turn on the TV and I heard her scream. The TV had come on to an Exorcist ad, the scene where Linda’s head turned all the way round!

[debm55]

31. Thank you very much, HappyH, for sharing with us. I had read the book before seeing. So I knew when to close my eyes. I

am glad you were a gentleman and left with your date. It was a very intense movie.

[WestMichRad]

14. Apocalypse Now

Scary, in a way, to me… and deeply appalling. (Shudder…)

[debm55]

34. Thank you very much, WestMichRad. I have never seen, but heard it was very intense.

[Jilly_in_VA]

15. I walked out on

Night of the Living Dead. I was pregnant and it just made me sick.

[MIButterfly]

17. The Night of the Living Dead. Isn't that the one where they tried everything

to stop them and finally in the end, they simply shot them? Couldn't they have done that in the first five minutes?

[leftieNanner]

52. As I remember

The humans in the house are trying to stay alive until dawn, and after the sun rises and they know they are safe, they walk out the front door and THEY are shot

Ugh

[MIButterfly]

63. Really?

LOL! I guess I don't remember that one very well at all.



Who shot the people who walked outside? Were the zombies armed?

[leftieNanner]

64. No the zombies weren't armed

It was the zombie hunters. Supposedly the good guys.

Awful ending.

[LoisB]

116. There was one guy left at the end. Surprisingly, it was the Black guy. He walked out and got

shot by the sheriffs who thought he was a ghoul. This is in the original film which I have seen at least 5 times. I have never watched any of the subsequent ones.

[debm55]

36. Thank you very much. Jilly_in_VA. There is no movie, to stay in when you are pregnant and getting sick. PS. I was a

Zombie in the film. I have only seen it once. and for the life of me, I could not identify myself. It was filmed in the Pittsburgh area

[Nittersing]

45. Wait just a gol durn minute!!!

You were a zombie in Night of the Living Dead????!!!!????

I think there needs to be a thread about this.

[debm55]

54. It was shot in the Pittsburgh area as were the others. I think I mentioned it a couple of times. The last one was filmed

at the Monroeville Mall.Anyone that wanted to be a zombie came in dressed like a zombie and was in the film.

[crud]

109. Some friends of mine went to the Monroeville filming

I graduated from Edinboro, with a lot of Pittsburgh students.

[debm55]

110. Thank you very much, crud.

[MIButterfly]

16. The Exorcist. I watched the whole thing.

Having been raised semi-Catholic (my mother was agnostic, but my grandmother took me to Mass), that movie scared the bejeezus out of me. That was when it first came out.

I never watched it again but I've often wondered if it would affect me the same way all these years later. Would the special effects be laughable to me now? I don’t think I'll ever know because I'm still reluctant to find out!

[debm55]

38. I only saw The Exorcist once. I had read the book when the movie came out. so I knew when to close my eyes. Never saw it

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again.It scared me more then the book.

[msongs]

18. silence of the lambs. had to turn away for a few bits nt

[debm55]

39. Same here, msongs.same here.

[Mister Ed]

80. It was awful. Sure wish we hadn't brought Grandma.

Critics raved about it, but never mentioned that it was saturated with a brand of depravity that not everyone would find entertaining.

[ultralite001]

19. I walked out of the original "Wicker Man"...

It was required for a film class... It was too triggering...

[debm55]

41. Oh my, ultralite001. that is very triggering. Is is a classic or something to be shown in a collage film class?

[UTUSN]

21. "Them" about radioactive giant ants. I was about 6 and my teenaged sisters took me.

That night, maybe a couple of nights, chairs had to be pushed next to our parents' bed for me to sleep on. Later on, Mother and I had a thing going for the Twilight Zone and I would be on the floor next to her in her chair, pressed together and both of us occasionally screaming and jumping.

The Shining a couple of times, but The Exorcist only in pieces years after it was in theaters, nothing more of that genre that I think of. Heard about Chainsaw Massacre but wouldn't think of seeing that. Oh, Silence of the Lambs once.

The non-violent parts of The Shining and Twilight Zone were chilling - where NICHOLSON as an "author" was typing and typing away at his book, a yard high stack of typed pages, and it's revealed all it all was was "All work and no play..." . And the Zone where a farm type old woman alone on a vast prairie was harassed by tiny astronauts and it's revealed in closeup of the space ship, "United States of America."

Years afterward, when I learned who James WHITMORE and James ARNESS were, I never made the connection they were in Them.

The ant sound!

[debm55]

43. Thank you , UTUSN. I never saw Them. or the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.or the Shining. I did see the episode of the

Twilight Zone. I remember the episode of the astronauts. The older woman played Granny in the Beverly Hillbillies. I was shocked as I thought the spacemen were the bad guys. then they show the space ship and it had the USA on it. The old woman was a giant. I never watched it again as it was twist to one's expectations.

[electric_blue68]

79. Ob, yeah. I saw that on TV around 8 or 9 yrs old.

Didn't scare me too much.

[BeneteauBum]

27. I laughed through the entire movie

Just too absurd….
Peace ☮️

[debm55]

47. Thank you BeneteauBum. I read the book before seeing the movie. Parts were taken out of the movie. Really creepy parts.

I only saw it the one time.

[Chipper Chat]

29. Alien

[debm55]

49. Thank you for sharing with us. Chipper Chat.

[wcmagumba]

30. "The Keep" trailer...

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50. I never saw it , but the trailer looks scary.

[Coldwater]

98. I read the book

and I was going to see the movie but after watching the review of 'The Keep' by Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel, I changed my mind.

[wcmagumba]

188. I haven't read the book but I did like the movie and thought it was scary...

[wcmagumba]

32. "The Devil's Rain" trailer...

[debm55]

65. Thank you, wcmagumba.Now I am scared.

[wcmagumba]

95. I saw this at a drive in theatre, just being outside in the dark made it extra scary...

[displacedvermoter]

33. Night of the Demon

Dana Andrews

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56. Creepy movie.. I didn't see that one.

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[SheltieLover]

35. Psycho

I was only 5 when it was released. Not sure how old I was when I saw it, but...



Lol



Ps - I treat my mind like a drain, I do not pollute it with ugly stuff lest it become a sewer. (Not judging anyone else's choices.)

[debm55]

46. Thank you SheltieLover , I saw it in my college film class. If you notice the knife never touches Janet Leigh. But we

put it in our mind that it did. That was the only time I saw it.

[SheltieLover]

51. Yup. Our minds fill in the blanks.

[RandySF]

37. Paranormal Activity

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48. Thank you very much, RandySF.

[marked50]

42. The Exorcist.

Went with a few friends ( acutally me and the others were siblings from a catholic family- late teens to early twenties) and I had no idea really what the movie was about. It was a total freakout. One friend had to leave.

After it was over we went back to the families household. All freaked out. Their mother was a real gounded person that we all spent hours in the past until late a night just talking and visiting. We started to pour our scared guts out to her.

After that we got the final "nail-in-the coffin scare". She said " Oh yeah. These things really happen." And she went over her Catholic history of exorcisms. And she wasn't joking.

[debm55]

44. Thank you marked50. As a Catholic, I knew what was going on and I read the book.before seeing it. never saw it again.

[AllaN01Bear]

53. bambi, yes bambi

the fire scene.
however some ot the movies that were to be scarry, were very funny to me. didnt care for the hack and slash and revenge movies.

[debm55]

75. Thank you very much, Bear. Their have been only two movies I cry at---Bambi and Dumbo.

[stonecutter357]

55. The Evil Dead1981 , walked out !

[debm55]

73. Thank you very much, stonecutter357 for warning us,

[Rastapopoulos]

58. Exorcist II

Not because it was scary, but because it was stupid.

[debm55]

70. Glad I missed it. Thank you Rastapopoulos.

[no_hypocrisy]

59. Dementia 13 (Coppola's first movie)

Halloween Saturday 1963 and I was 6.

Mom dropped me off at the movies ALONE. She had no clue what the movie was about.

I’m sitting in the dark and my eyes widen at the end when an axe splits the head of a doll that truly looked lifelike. I thought I just witnessed the murder of a child.

You decide. The very end.
https://m.

&pp=ygUWZGVtZW50aWEgMTMgZnVsbCBtb3ZpZQ%3D%3D

[debm55]

69. Thank you no_hypocrisy. I would be scared.

[greatauntoftriplets]

60. Psycho.

Parents took my 5-year-older sister and me to see it one Sunday afternoon. I was maybe 10. It horrified me and I got nauseous. My father took me out to the lobby and spent the rest of the movie there with me while my mother and sister watched to the end.

I felt badly for my father, but it wasn't a time to leave me alone. I've never watched it to this day.

The Exorcist and the Omen movies didn't hit me as hard, and I can watch those. They also had plots, and I like looking at Jason Miller.

I cannot watch or read Stephen King or other horror movies. I read the news a lot, and what's going on this country and the world is all the horror that I can stand.

[debm55]

68. Thank you for sharing with us, greatauntoftriplets. And you got that right about what is going on now.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

61. My only walk-out was from "The Devils", a 1971 movie based on the non-fiction book

"The Devils of Loudun" by Aldous Huxley. It's about a convent of nuns in the mid 17th century who become convinced they've been possessed by devils.

It turns out that the man I later married also walked out on that movie.

[debm55]

67. Thank you very much, PoindexterOglethorpe. I only walked out of one movie___The Matrix.

[doc03]

62. The original Invasion of the Body Snatchers

I was only a little kid at the time.

[debm55]

66. Thank you very much, doc03

[electric_blue68]

71. OMG - I Am Legand! 😱😱😱

I'm not sure whatever possessed me to go see this?!! 😵‍💫😵‍💫 😄

I do like Will Smith, and I guess bc it was set in NYC (I'm an NY'r)....
I never watch Zombie films/shows!!

Ugh, the "sunset scene"!!!! Those who've seen it, know what I'm talking about.
The excruciating tension!
I've never been as totally freaked out by a film as that one! Gah!

[debm55]

72. Thank you for warning us, electric_blue68.

[electric_blue68]

76. 🚨 "Danger, Danger; Will Robinson!" 🚨 Indeed!

[BOSSHOG]

77. Friday the 13th. Stay til the end

[debm55]

83. You are a brave soul, BOSSHOG. I can't watch slasher films.

[electric_blue68]

81. Since someone mentioned The Twilight Zone, I'll just mention the Original Outer Limits! Several eps n particular. 😱Gah!

Took me years to get over a a few! I was watching it at ?10 - 11 yrs old.

Just thought of another move - don't remember the name - aliens had built secret tunnels in a desert-y part of The USA, and people were getting sacked down into the sand! Early 1960's.

[debm55]

100. Thank you electric_blue68, I agree, the episodes were scarey in their own way.

[dhol82]

82. The Pawnbroker

Not a horror film in the current usage but that’s what it was for me.
My parents were in a slave labor camp in Germany during WWII. I was born in a displaced persons camp. I heard some of their stories.
I did not expect the movie to affect me so much but, about half way through the film I could not take any more of the horror of this man’s life and had to get out of the theater as quickly as possible. I had the same emotional response when I visited Yad Vashem many years later. Couldn’t wait to push my way to the exit as quickly as possible and breathe.

[debm55]

84. I am so sorry for your family, dhol82

[Sibelius Fan]

85. I find nothing scary about movies that depend on the supernatural for their scare factor.

I don’t believe in ghosts, goblins, evil powers, vampires etc. Entertainment, but not scary. I can’t suspend disbelief.

Not a fan of gratuitous blood fests, even if based on reality.

Real horror to me: movies about the atrocities committed by the Nazis, etc. Or on actual murder cases. Real people, real horror.

[debm55]

87. Thank you very much, Sibelius Fan for sharing your opinions with us. As my maternal family is Jewish, I understand.

[thucythucy]

86. Nosferatu

The original silent film.

It still frightens me. And I definitely won't see the remakes.

It's not vampires in general--I'm a fan of Buffy. But this particular film creeps me out.

Watch it if you dare!

[debm55]

88. Thank you thucythucy. The silent movie is very scarey. Is it just me or does Nosferatu, look like Steven Miller?

[johnp3907]

144. I'm going to see it with live musical accompaniment later this month!

https://paulbielatowicz.com/nosferatulive/

[debm55]

149. Gee, they put music to it. I' ll pass.

[thucythucy]

158. It doesn't look like it would be the original score.

I'd go see it live if it was the original score, even though I know it would scar me for life.

[Delarage]

89. The Blair Witch Project

I watched it with a friend before we were to go camping at a PA State Park near Latrobe (we were going to watch the Steelers practice at training camp). I almost didn't go because of it.

[debm55]

92. thank you very much, Delarage. Was the State Park, Keystone??? I heard of the Blair Witch Project, but didn't see it.

[Delarage]

122. I think so

It was a long time ago!

[berniesandersmittens]

96. Ditto

My parents were out of town when I was 16 and I was home alone. We lived out in the boondocks, closest neighbor at least a mile through the woods.

Rented that movie and it was terrifying. I don't think I slept at all that night.

[kacekwl]

90. Cape Fear with

Robert De Niro .I don't like slasher blood and gore movies. Thriller and suspense is my style.

[debm55]

93. Agree. Thank you kacekwl.

[crud]

111. De Niro was amazing in that movie

Like all his movies...

[The Blue Flower]

91. trump2.0

nt

[debm55]

94. HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAH. Thank you The Blue Flower.

Fluff Trump.

[Polly Hennessey]

101. Night of the Living Dead.

I couldn’t walk out because we watched it at a drive-in movie. I was a captive audience and it was dark. Popcorn didn’t help 🥺😱

[debm55]

102. Thank you very much, Polly Hennessey.

[applegrove]

103. The Truman Show with Jim Carrey. I had recently figured out that I had been

stalked. I didn't know how bad it was. That would take years. I didn't know what the movie was about. I lasted less than 10 minutes until i got the concept and I told my friend I had to go.

[debm55]

104. Thank you for sharing with us, applegrove.

[TommieMommy]

105. SAW. 😱 That one really got to me

[debm55]

107. Thank you very much, TommieMommy.

[Triciaandmoose]

106. Heist

[debm55]

108. Agree, Thank you very much, Triciaandmoose.

[Niagara]

112. I must be wired differently compared to most people

This is only a small fraction of my horror movie collection. I couldn't fit them all into the photo.



Yes, I'm old school with the DVD's. 👻😈🧛🏼‍♂️

[debm55]

113. Thank you very much, Niagara. You are loved.

[Niagara]

114. You're welcome, Debbie. Awwww. You're so sweet and dearly loved!

[MorbidButterflyTat]

171. The Fog

Jamie Lee Curtis and Janet Leigh.

A forgotten gem.

[debm55]

172. Thank you very much, MorbidButterflyTat.

[Niagara]

176. Both mom and daughter were also in Halloween H2O too

[debm55]

177. Wow, great. Thank you Niagara for sharing with us.

[Niagara]

192. You're welcome, Debbie

[MorbidButterflyTat]

198. I saw that movie when it was new in the theater

I searched out a clip from Halloween H20 because I didn't remember Janet's part.

At the end of this clip, is Janet getting into her car from Psycho? And is the music playing in the background from Psycho?

?si=lhXyyKFfU4UZ6Vzc



I wonder what happened to Laurie's son Josh Hartnett. Hm.


Thanks for the reminder!

[Niagara]

199. Yes, MorbidButterflyTat

Janet is getting into her car from Psycho! And the music playing in the background is from Psycho! You're not imagining things.





It's weird that the Halloween writers traded Laurie's daughter named Jamie for a son named John and then back to a daughter named Karen. It makes my head swim and I'm not sure what movies I'm suppose to disregard.

[Coldwater]

118. Compiled a list of my all-time favorite horror movies

Not including the old classics

The Exorcist (1973) (Directed by William Friedkin)
Night of the Living Dead (1968) (George A Romero)
Dawn of the Dead (1979) (George A Romero)
Dawn of the Dead (2004)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) (Directed by Toby Hooper)
The Shining (1980) (Directed by Stanley Kubrick)
Alien (1979) (Ridley Scott)
Aliens (1986) (Directed by James Cameron)
Halloween (1978) (The Original John Carpenter Version)
Friday the 13th (1980) (Sean Cunningham)
Jeepers Creepers (2001)
The Lost Boys (1987)
Return of the Living Dead (1985) (Directed by Dan O’Bannon)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) (Directed by Wes Craven)
Predator (The only horror movie to star two future governors Jesse Ventura & Arnold)
An American Werewolf in London (1979) (Directed by John Landis)
Jaws (1975) (Steven Spielberg)
Scanners (1980) (David Cronenberg)
The Fly (David Cronenberg version)
The Amityville Horror (1979) (Starring Margot “Where’s Superman When You Need him” Kidder)
Rosemary's Baby (Directed by child molester and former husband of actress Sharon Tate - Roman Polanski)
Child's Play (1988)
Evil Dead II (1987) (Directed by Sam Raimi)
Phantasm (1979)
Candyman (1987) (Written by Clive Barker)
The Hills have Eyes (the remake)
Near Dark (Directed by Kathryn Bigelow)
Hellraiser (1987) (Clive Barker)

[debm55]

119. Wow, What a list. Thank you very much, Coldwater for taking the time to share your selections with us.

[Coldwater]

120. The countdown to Halloween is on

[debm55]

121. Thank you , my friend.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

170. Near Dark

Quite a different image for Bill "Titanic," "Twister," Paxton!!

[debm55]

174. Thank you very much, MorbidButterflyTat.

[a kennedy]

123. Mine was Darby O'Gill and the little people, oh, and Jaws.

[debm55]

124. Thank you very much, a kennedy.

[ProfessorGAC]

125. Squirm

I think it was the summer after I graduated college, so '76.
A huge electrical storm drops high power lines into a swamp and turns the worms into flesh eaters.
It was pretty bad & disgusting.
The other one is Dawn of the Dead. The sequel to your movie. Zombies attacking a mall. Very graphic.
I was never a horror movie guy but I went when friends really wanted to go.
Should have stayed home for those 2.

[debm55]

127. HAHAHAHAH, Thank you ProfessorGAC, Dawn of the Dead was filmed at the Monroeville Mall , I didn't see it. I do like old

horror films--shot it black and white. Do not got to slasher films.. Squirm, I don;t think I would see.

[Coldwater]

140. These guys really nail the

filming locations for Dawn of the Dead

[debm55]

151. Thank you Coldwater. I have never seen this one. Very interesting.

[MLAA]

126. For some reason Gremlins freaked me out.

[debm55]

128. Thank you MLAA. I thought the Gremlins were sweet until the kid dropped water on them.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

129. Jeepers creepers..movie with kids on a bus being stalked by a monster

Could not continue to watch it

[debm55]

131. Thank you , BlueWaveNeverEnd.

[griloco]

133. I hid behind the couch when

the flying monkeys went after Dorothy.
Never walked out of a movie but closed my eyes during the opening of Saving Private Ryan.

[debm55]

156. Thank you griloco. I closed my eyes during the flying monkeys. Still do. I have watch Saving Private Ryan. Went into the

bedroom during the landing on the beach.

[Ilsa]

134. Two hour tv "documentary" in 2002 of A Haunting in Connecticut.

I think it was on the Travel Channel. Eventually the family's priest called in Ed and Lorraine Warren.

[debm55]

160. Thank you very much, lisa,

[SWBTATTReg]

136. The Omen

[debm55]

161. Thank you SWBTATTReg. I agree very scary.

[chowder66]

138. I have to add a made for tv show. The Trilogy of Terror.

That devil doll scared the bajeezus out of me.

[subterranean]

143. I remember!

One of the best of the many scary TV movies in the '70s.

[debm55]

163. Thank you subterranean, I watched it. I will pass on the next watch.

[debm55]

164. Thank you, chowder66. Me too.

[hunter]

139. As I've posted here before, "The Big Chill"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Chill_%28film%29

When I saw that movie I'd had a very eventful and interesting life as a somewhat feral child and young adult, everything from homelessness to staying as a guest in the Southern California beach houses of wealthy people, from being picked up and driven home by the police to interviewing them for the campus newspaper, from driving all over the Western United States to living in my broken car. I'd had many interesting jobs, employed by people who knew (or at least suspected) I wouldn't be around for long.

"So when are you going to grow up, Hunter?" was a question I'd been asked and sometimes it was a question I'd asked myself.

I saw that movie and imagined myself as a caterpillar spinning a cocoon around myself and emerging as one of the horrible people... OMG, it was just too much. The dead guy got lucky.

That movie disturbed me more than Eraserhead, which a goth-before-goth-was-a-thing girlfriend had taken me to on a date.

[debm55]

166. Thank you very much, hunter. I saw it once, Didn't like it. Oh, Kevin Costner was the dead man.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

141. Wes Craven's first movie

"Last House on the Left," from 1972. I only saw enough to know it's terribly triggering, an ugly movie I wish I'd never seen, and I suggest everyone avoid it. There's a remake from 2009 I've never seen and never will.

"Session 9" from 2001 is a psychological horror movie I've seen many times, and it's always scary to me. I do recommend it to anyone who likes scary movies, but prefer not to be traumatized for life.

Something I find interesting, Session 9 was directed by Brad Anderson, who also directed and co-wrote "Next Stop Wonderland," another movie I really like, which is a sweet romantic comedy, nothing scary about it.

[debm55]

168. Thank you very much, MorbidButterflyTat.

[subterranean]

142. Psycho used to scare me when I was young.

Particularly the scene at the end where Mrs. Bates' rocking chair turns around, and the truth about her is revealed. I had to close my eyes for that part because I was afraid it would give me nightmares.

[debm55]

169. Thank you very much, subterranean. The scene that most scared me was the mother at the end.

[johnp3907]

145. Not a Horror film but...

The 1984 made for British TV film Threads makes me shudder just thinking about it. I'll never watch it again.

[debm55]

148. Agree. it does seem very scarey. Thank you , johnp3907.

[DET]

146. One Fiction, One True

A Clockwork Orange - saw it at the drive-in with my mother as a kid. Scared the crap out of me, but I have no recollection of it now. The second is a documentary of the horrific conditions at a state mental hospital in the 1960s - Titicut Folies. I didn’t see it until I was middle aged (it was banned for a very long time). My father died in that institution when I was eleven years old. I had the sense from my mother that he had been abused there, but I had no idea how barbaric the conditions really were. Wish I knew more, but I probably never will.

[debm55]

147. Thank you very much, DET, Yes, sometimes truth can be more horrible then fiction.

[broiles]

152. Night of the Hunter with Robert Mitcham.

[debm55]

167. Thank you very much, broiles.

[betsuni]

197. Unforgettable movie, beautiful and chilling, Two little orphans alone in the world pursued by evil.

[gordianot]

154. Went to see the Exorcist with friends late in the evening.

We watched the credits together. When it was time to leave we discovered the the theatre was locked up and every one was gone. Turned around and left the theatre through the emergency exit the perfect ending for a scary move walking out in the dark. Now that was the scariest most memorable part of the entire film

[debm55]

159. Thank you gordianot. Yes, that would be very scary

[Mysterian]

155. I read The Exorcist book when I was about 14 and it scared the crap out of me

so I was prepared for the movie but the movie was freaking awesome.

A movie that actually scared me was probably something about the Manson morders.

[debm55]

157. Thank you Mysterian. I read the book also. To me, it was creepier than the book. My boyfriend wanted to see it. I knew

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what was coming and closed my eyes.

[Mad_Dem_X]

162. I don't really watch scary movies, but

the trailer to The Shining (with the blood coming out of the elevator) scared the living daylights out of me when I first saw it as a kid.

[debm55]

165. Thank you very much, Mad_Dem_X, I like old horror films. No slasher or bloody for me.

[Fichefinder]

173. Do not take acid and see the Exorcist

Don't ask.

[debm55]

175. Thank you very much for the warning. Fichefinder.

[livetohike]

178. Silence of the Lambs. I had a hard time watching

it and only went to the movie theater when it came out because my best friend’s husband and daughter were in a scene. It lasted 3 seconds, but I saw them. Then I spent most of the movie with my eyes closed .

[debm55]

180. Thank you very much, livetohike. I read the book first. The movie was very, very hard to watch.

[poli-junkie]

179. Silence of the Lambs left me

shaking at the end. My central nervous system was shot. The sheer terror of victims in the well freaked me out. Also, Clarice hunting the killer in a pitch black basement was terrifying.

[debm55]

182. Thank you very much,, poli-junkie. It's one movie that I wished I had never seen.

[buzzycrumbhunger]

203. Ugh.

My son wanted to join the Boy Scouts and once they get their hands on you, they suck you into all kinds of volunteer positions (started as a Cub Scout committee member and ended up an damned Unit Commissioner for the district…) Naturally, that meant our family camped a lot, usually at our BS camps here in SW FL. One loooooong, cold weekend, we realized we hadn’t packed enough warm clothing (yes, it gets COLD in Florida!) so I was sent home to gather some goodies. I decided to take my time and have a real shower, warm up, and watch a little something on the tube before I went back.

Of course, I ended up watching Silence of the Lambs in the middle of the night. Alone. I don’t remember exactly what had me so uncomfortable but it didn’t help that I had to make the long drive back and go out in the woods afterward by myself. To this day, I have no desire to watch it again to see if it creeps me out again.

I honestly can’t think of a movie that really traumatized me on its own. I think this was more because it was the middle of the night and I had to make the long trip by myself. I apparently don’t do suspense well.

[Lilithschyld]

181. Hellraiser. Those movies were scary to me as a kid.

I didn't walk out of the theater, but I tried to cover my eyes through part of it. Pinhead was scary, lol.
I still watched all of them, but I was older.

[debm55]

183. Thank you very much for sharing your experience with us. I have not seen it. but your description makes me glad I didn't

[Srkdqltr]

185. I really dislike ugly disgusting and avoid movies like that. I understand the difference between on screen and real.

[Cirsium]

186. Pillow Talk

Pillow Talk with Doris Day and Rock Hudson. Now that was scary. I get chills just thinking about it.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

187. That movie is hilarious!

"You are my inspiration..."

[Cirsium]

193. OMG

I still have nightmares.

[debm55]

191. HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAhA, Cirsium

[Cirsium]

194. Get this

I saw it in a theater in Cairo, Egypt in 1970, dubbed in Arabic.

[debm55]

195. Thank you , It;s not scary, just different because it is a different language.

[Cirsium]

196. I know

...

[Submariner]

189. Looking for Mr. Goodbar in the 70s

Since then, haven't been able to watch a movie where women get beaten or worse.

[debm55]

190. Thank you Submariner. I saw that movie and it helped me get out of an abusive relationship

[malaise]

200. Wait until Dark

with the great Audrey Hepburn.

[debm55]

201. I saw that movie in a high school assembly. the ending was sit on the end of your seat spellbinding. No blood , no gore.

Just a brilliant , suspense movie with a brilliant and lovely actress and a terrific plot.

[malaise]

202. Yes we were you g

Which mad3 it twice as scary

[IbogaProject]

204. Robocop

Or Jacob's Ladder

[debm55]

205. Thank you very much for your selections, IbogaProject

[soldierant]

206. I'm with you on The Exorcist

which didn't so much terrify me in the theater, but when got home I couldn't sleep - jumped at evert little sound and couldn't turn off the lights without panicking..

Number 2 woud be (I think it was called) "The Manitou" I'm not really into horror as a genre, so those may be the only two I have seen.

[debm55]

208. Thank you very much, soldierant for your two selections. I don't like blood and gore movies.

[auntAgonist]

207. Sybil

Not so scary but deeply disturbing.

There is NO way I would/could watch it again.

It was supposed to be a 'true' story but was declared to not be true.

Either way deeply disturbing to say the least.

aA
kesha

[debm55]

209. I watched it in college. If I remember correctly, it was a series of TV. It was very disturbing. Like you I never

watched it again. Once was enough. Thank you auntAgonist.