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In reply to the discussion: What movie scared the crap out of you as a kid? [View all]hurple
(1,307 posts)212. Jaws
I was 9. We lived near a lake and went swimming almost every day during the summer...
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Yup... The guy walking out the door unaware it was on the roof, those tentacles...
SaveOurDemocracy
Feb 2017
#278
Night of the living dead (1968 black and white). Seems lame by todays standards, but truly
putitinD
Feb 2017
#4
too funny! I don't know why that movie seemed so scary then. I guess it was just a more
putitinD
Feb 2017
#104
"The Birds", as a kid. Probably because I'd read the story that inspired it, by
Aimee in OKC
Feb 2017
#126
Oh yeah! My heart still pounds thinking about the light inside the refrigerator!
PearliePoo2
Feb 2017
#38
Once we got to see it was giant ants it became less scary. But not knowing anything beyond
uppityperson
Feb 2017
#32
Yes, "Them"!1 - and it didn't get any less scary for me knowing about the ants!1
UTUSN
Feb 2017
#289
I can't recall it all now, but the scene that sticks in my mind was a small chamber, like a tomb,
RKP5637
Feb 2017
#321
I remember reading that Margaret Hamilton would not let her own children watch WoO.
Laffy Kat
Feb 2017
#48
Got me too. I think I was 15 when a buddy and I paid to get into a PG film and slipped
brewens
Feb 2017
#182
Are you talking about the one with Donald Sutherland and Brooke Adams?
TexasBushwhacker
Feb 2017
#259
Original 1955 "Tarantula" - when I saw on TV - never look at a spider the same...
asiliveandbreathe
Feb 2017
#99
It's not a traditional horror movie. It offers a frightening glimpse of the human condition.
LonePirate
Feb 2017
#110
I have agree with you. I started having to have the bedroom lights on. My parents
LiberalArkie
Feb 2017
#108
LOL! Funneee! I do remember that movie, and it scared the crap out of me.
Still Blue in PDX
Feb 2017
#140
I second "Invaders from Mars" because the ground opened up and sucked you under
IcyPeas
Feb 2017
#157
Sorcerer was a great film. The Tangerine Dream soundtrack was great too n/t
TexasBushwhacker
Feb 2017
#261
My Dad took me to see it when I was 13. He loved/loves Horror movie while my Mom detests them.
FrankfurtCat
Feb 2017
#220
My mom & dad never let me watch scary movies when I was a kid, lol. "The Exorcist" seriously
catbyte
Feb 2017
#202
Did they opt for a babysitter after having to deal with your nightmares for weeks?
Doreen
Feb 2017
#306
In my defense, I was only 3 or 4, but I was scared to death of the show: The Banana Splits
FSogol
Feb 2017
#237
Salem's Lot. I was stuck in the basement for hours, afraid I would die if I moved. nt
Denverchick
Feb 2017
#240
My older brother set up some folding chairs and made me re-enact that scene.
tclambert
Feb 2017
#317
I think it was a TV movie, but it was called "Something Evil" and starred Sandy Dennis and
Squinch
Feb 2017
#282
Jaws. I saw enough of it to know that I never wanted to see the whole movie. (eom)
StevieM
Feb 2017
#287
There was this one movie a babysitter was watching that I ended up watching.
Tommy_Carcetti
Feb 2017
#311
The Birds, Body Snatchers, The Time Machine, and On the Beach! Oh, and "Them!"
FailureToCommunicate
Feb 2017
#323
As a kid in the 70's I saw a preview of the "Body Snatchers" remake. I couldn't sleep for days.
Coventina
Feb 2017
#330
Invaders from Mars. They put electrodes in the brain of a boy's dad to control him.
NNadir
Feb 2017
#328