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In reply to the discussion: What movie scared the crap out of you as a kid? [View all]FailureToCommunicate
(14,038 posts)323. The Birds, Body Snatchers, The Time Machine, and On the Beach! Oh, and "Them!"
(about giant atomic ants run amok).
But none scared me more than Trump's Inauguration coverage.
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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