FREAKED OUT BY A MOVIE!!!!!!!

[cloud_chaser1]

The first movie that ever freaked me out was "The Thing From Outer Space" in which James Arness was the monster. I was literally under my seat.
Last night, I watched, on DVD, "Batman Begins". It was freak out time again. Now, the movie is anything but scary and we all know the story of how Bruce Wayne comes to be the Caped Crusader and why. But there was an aspect of that movie that scared the dickens out of me.
That was the star of the film, Christian Bales. This guy is almost a clone of GWB. His face, his stilted body movenemts, his mouth are exactly like Shrub's and to top it off, he spoke using the same platitudes as as Chimp uses.
The movie was pretty bad but to even vaguely imagine Smirk as a caped super hero was unbearable and then, at the end, to watch him just barely kiss the woman who will become the next Mrs Tom Cruise was the final straw.
I would have changed the title of the movie from Batman Begins....to
BUTTMAN begins, because he is such an ass. Maybe Bales would consider cosmetic surgery. Ya think?

[Loonman]

1. First time I saw "The Ring"

American version: when she crawls out of the TV.



Also Kubrick's The Shining, that whole damn movie freaked me out and still does.

[KittyWampus]

2. Not gonna watch Batman but MY scary childhood movie was The BLOB!

[Shell Beau]

3. I have to say the Exorcism of Emily Rose was freaky!

[cloud_chaser1]

4. But

Emily Rose didnt look like Bush.
Arghhhhhhhh!

[jackelope72]

5. Pet Sematary did it for me.

I was a Senior in high school, and it traumatized me for a while. Also "The Exorcist" and "Helter Skelter".

[Ladyhawk]

12. Funny, but I laughed when I saw Pet Sematery (or however you misspell it).

The movie that freaked me out the worst was a fundy flick called A Distant Thunder. I believe I was either in junior high or nearly there, but my parents allowed me to view it at our church. Now I've heard that the movie is particularly cheesey, but back then, it didn't seem that way to me. I thought it was describing events that were really going to happen and that if I wasn't good enough to be caught up in the rapture, I'd have to go to the guillotine for Jesus.

I was messed up for YEARS after seeing that movie.

On edit: Okay, I didn't laugh the first time I saw Pet Sematery...I think it was the second time. The movie was a little freaky, but the book (which I had read first) was particularly so.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

6. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (70s version)

The HOWL at the end. :scared:

[hippiechick]

7. Audrey Rose, with Anthony Hopkins

I was 10 or 11 and I'm still not sure why to this day, but the ending of the movie sent me into hysterics.

It still makes me very melancholy to watch ... which I can't explain.

[Dukkha]

8. for me it was Salem's Lot

Saw it on TV when I was a kid. the children vampires floating through the windows and the master Vampire Kurt Balrow. creeeeepy

[Arkana]

9. Final Destination

That was a mental game by the end--the scariest kind of horror flick.

[Shell Beau]

11. The second one is good too! They were freaky.

[WillParkinson]

10. For me it was the first Friday The 13th...

Because the killer wasn't an immortal hellbent crazed psychopath but a mom who went through a traumatic event.

Very frightening to see her revenge.

[Enraged_Ape]

13. Christian Bale like the Chimp? Is this a joke?

I see absolutely no resemblance whatsoever. I think Bale is actually more of a James Brolin type. And Bale (note that it's not Bales) is also a pretty good actor.

Sorry you didn't like BB (which I happen to think is the best movie I've seen all year), but regardless of your feelings, you should take a chance and check Bale out in a very underappreciated movie called Equilibrium.

[cloud_chaser1]

17. Thank, I will.

Maybe its just me and only me, but I saw Bush each time the camera took a closeup of Bales.
But my all time freak out movie was Hayley Mills in the Parent Trap!!!!!!! I saw that in 1959.

:rofl:

[Enraged_Ape]

25. You'll like Equilibrium.

It's got a very progressive message to it. It was a cool Orwellian sci-fi movie that came and went entirely below the radar, though I don't for the life of me know why. You'll hear a lot of DU science-fiction fans talk about it in these forums.

Bale has been phenomenal in a lot of movies, including "The Machinist" (for which he lost about 60 pounds, then gained it all back a couple of months later for Batman Begins), "Equilibrium", and of course, "American Psycho". This guy is a freakin' chameleon, and he is one of my favorite actors.

He also happens to be (reportedly) quite left of the political spectrum.

[Enraged_Ape]

26. Wizard of Oz: Flying Monkeys

That's all I have to say about that. I swear those monkeys have been more responsible for childhood nightmares than ANYTHING in motion pictures.

And thanks to Mike Malloy, they still frighten me today.

[toey]

14. children of the corn

My mom took me to my cousin's house so she could babysit me while my mom was out. 1st time I had been to this particular cousin's house in the middle of the country (surrounded by cornfields). I was obviously not old enough to be home alone so I'm guessing I was between 9 and 11 and my cousin went upstairs with her b/f and left me alone IN THE DARK watching "Children of the Corn." I still can't watch it to this day although cornfields don't freak me out at all.

[Jed Dilligan]

15. Dawn of the Dead (the original)

It was a lot of laughs while I was watching (about age 13) but it got to me later. I had a summer of insomnia, probably puberty-related, where I would lie in bed and convince myself the dead were rising. I think maybe zombies in a mall was just too believable in the 80s.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

16. I needed psychiatric care

after watching The Day After in the 1980's. It is about nuclear war.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

21. I had a similar experience with our version called 'Threads'

[kaiden]

18. Darby O'Gill and the Little People.

A very young Sean Connery was in it. He wasn't scary; the banshee was.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

22. OH MY GOD

Yes! I saw that as a child and it totally freaked me out and I wasn't easy to scare!

I rented it recently just to see what it was that had done me in. That coach scene with the Banshee is ROUGH.

Damn that Walt Disney! Stupid Nazi!

[Atlas Mugged]

19. 'Alien'

Completely fipped me out.

[antigone382]

34. I saw Aliens when I was a kid...freaked me out for years.

And then my brothers went and told me that the stuff they used to make the alien slime (corn syrup) was in Wendy's Frosties--I know corn syrup is in everything, but for years afterwards I was grossed out every time I even *thought* about eating a Frosty.

Another one that freaked me out was the remake of the Twilight Zone movie--the creature on the wing. To this day I can't sleep unless all the windows are covered up at night.

[Atlas Mugged]

36. Corn syrup?

I thought it was KY lubricant!

But eating alien slime in a Frosty is enough to really disturb a child.

[LSK]

20. Amityville Horror

I saw it when I was 6. I couldnt sleep for several days. To this day, it still creeps me out.

[0007]

23. Wow! Thanks for the warning

[LaraMN]

24. When I was five, the Wizard of Oz scared the shit out of me.

More recently-- the Grudge. The make-up effects just creeped me out. That and the kid crawling up from under the covers with his ghastly face. I hid under the covers and psyched myself out something terrible when I went to bed after watching that. :scared:

[DawgHouse]

29. Those angry trees throwing apples...

:scared:

[ThoughtCriminal]

27. Testament

Very disturbing.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

28. Prince of Darkness.

Very creepy.

[rene moon]

30. What? Sorry , But Bale is so hot

And he doesnt look like Bush! Are yiu sure you werent smoking the funny weed?

BB is a great film.

[suzbaby]

31. "It"

the Stephen King movie. I saw that movie as a kid and for MONTHS I went to the bathroom by running in, doing whatever had to be done as quickly as possible, and running out like the devil was chasing me.
That movie still gives me the creeps actually. There's just something about a demonic clown. That and Tim Curry was terrifying as Pennywise. :scared:

[proud patriot]

32. "them"

the movie with the giant ants

[lizziegrace]

33. They're Here!

Poltergeist.

[hfojvt]

35. the secret life of Walter

McChimpy.

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

37. The Changeling

with George C. Scott... the scene with the little old child wheelchair coming down the stairs by itself :scared:

[unpossibles]

38. I really liked Batman Begins. n/t