What movie monster scared you most?

[bobthedrummer]

Which one?
For me it had to be "Caltiki: The Undying Monster" that caused me to check under beds and stuff.

[Dookus]

1. As a kid...

about 6 or 7, I started watching Dark Shadows on TV (not a movie, but close enough). The damned ghost, Jeremiah, scared the shit outta me. I had nightmares for a month - my parents made me sleep downstairs near them because I'd wake up screaming.

The vampires didn't bother me at all... just that damned ghost.

[Melodybe]

2. zombies, zombies remind me of the sheeple and they scare me silly

The Dawn of the Dead is awesome, I hope that the remake doesn't suck.

[NightTrain]

4. Well, the remake of "Night of the Living Dead" was lousy.

So be prepared!

[Supply Side Jesus]

12. remake? did someone say remake??

i liked the remake better than the original NIght of the living dead. Which is very odd for me to say.

[fudge stripe cookays]

45. Zombies scare the living crap out of me!

I saw Night of the Living Dead a few years after my dad died, and then I had a dream.

I dreamed I was one of the people in the farmhouse, (Barbara), and when the zombies broke in the door, instead of saying "Johnnie, Johnnie! It's Johnnie!" I yelled "Daddy! It's daddy!"

And then my dad leaned down and bit a huge chunk out of my shoulder!

I still have that bleeping dream every once in awhile. I always wake up screaming.

[Demonaut]

18. As an adult, Aliens...scared the crap outta me

[NightTrain]

3. The zombie on "Kolchak: The Night Stalker"

I'll never forget the climax of that episode, when Kolchak sneaks into an automobile graveyard and crawls into the back of an old hearse where the zombie lays dormant. Just as Kolchak begins to pour salt into the zombie's mouth, its eyes shoot wide open! Jesus, that scared the fuck out of me!

[solinvictus]

21. As a kid, I loved/hated "The Night Stalker"

About 1979, it used to come on CBS at around 11PM. I'd sneak up and watch it. I loved the one when the female vampire's hand clawed out of the dirt on the roadside.

[Bake]

5. Not a monster, but Psycho scared the bejeezus outta me!

Not a monster in the classical sense, but I first saw Psycho on a stormy Friday night as a 12-year old. To this day I still peek outside the shower curtain periodically!

Bake

[DS1]

6. The vampire in Salem's Lot

Best vampire ever

[flamingyouth]

28. Oh, me too

:scared:

[Alpharetta]

7. "Terror Island"

There were a bunch of giant turtles with snake heads. They'd use their snake head to snag a human and slide on top of him like a snail and extract his bone matter.

Folks would find the body and the skin would be intact but there would be no bones in it.

It was the 1960's and I was a kid. Spooked me pretty good.

[hyphenate]

8. The original "Alien" alien

That scared the bejesus out of me and I had nightmares.

Another one that I never actually saw was on an old One Step Beyond episode, where a "sasquatch" had taken care of this young boy, and then showed up at the farm, eaten everything that was in the smokehouse and left footprints of 18 inches long. Brrrr....

One that bothered me was the raptors in the first Jurassic Park--they were wily and smart, and creepy.

[Alpharetta]

9. Rodney Dangerfield, the abusive dad in "Natural Born Killer"

No blood or gore but to me he was a monster, the most violent and scary person in the movie.

[lucidmadman]

10. Caltiki was a very cool movie...

...directed by Riccardo Freda and Mario Bava useing fake 'English' sounding names. I remember it well. Atmospheric and creepy...

But my answer to the question would have to be Bette Midler...

[bobthedrummer]

11. The idea that your whole house could contain a monster

like that blew my young mind for years.
The id monster from "Forbidden Planet" scared me too.

[hippiechick]

13. Does Leatherface count ?

:scared:


:hi: Bob !!

[bobthedrummer]

15. That whole Texas family counts!

:hi:

[Lostmessage]

14. Henry in portrait of a serial killer

It was a true story and I still get nightmares from that movie.

[MuseRider]

16. When I was a kid

I used to love the old black and white Tarzan movies. In one of them there was a gorilla with a jewel in it's belly button. That darned thing lived in my closet for a long time. Also the old movie "Invaders from Mars" (I think that was the name). The remake was awful but the original scared me silly.

[bobthedrummer]

19. I didn't like "Invaders from Mars" either

especially the drilling in the head part as well as the looks of the "head" Martian.

[Scurrilous]

79. You mean this guy?

[bobthedrummer]

80. That is the guy, all right

looks shady to me, and what is coming out of the shoulders???

[Scurrilous]

82. Tentacles?

That movie freaked me out also. After watching it as a kid, I was deathly afraid of walking across sand lest I be sucked down into some type of subterranean Martian lair.

[Supply Side Jesus]

17. The large skull/head that jumped out the closet

in Poltergeist. Scared the hell out of me. Had weird dreams with that thing for over a decade.

[Resistance]

20. Ronald Reagan.

:scared:

[Lostmessage]

25. LOL

:toast:

[bigwillq]

22. Candyman-I hope he counts a monster because

he scared the shit out of me. Jumped many times in the theater. Still can't say his name five times in the mirror?

[earthman dave]

23. The rabbit from the twilight zone movie

In the segment with the little kid with godlike reality-altering powers

<shudder>

[FireHeart]

37. Was that the one...

About the boy who sent anyone he didn't like to "The cornfield" ?

[earthman dave]

55. Probably

He sends his sister into a cartoon, and then makes his uncle (or father, i can't remember) do a "magic trick", with a big top hat and that f'kin rabbit. Goddamn that thing was freaky. Maybe what made it so scary was the abject terror of the guy who had to do the "trick".

[zbdent]

24. A couple of odd ones (as a young child):

The birds in "The Birds"

and

some news footage about a South American skyscraper that was on fire. A window was the safe haven for about four or five people, until a fireman tried to get around them, and knocked them off the ledge.

Scared the bejeezus out of me so much that my prayers forever included "keep my house from burning down".

I know, these really aren't movie monsters, but they scared the shi- out of me.

[bubblesby2002]

26. The devil....

...in The Exorcist. I couldn't sleep after seeing that movie, had to get valium from the doctor. Liked valium a lot. Took a while to get off it though.

[psychopomp]

49. Me too!

That scene freaked me out when I was a kid. I don't remember how old I was, but I remember that scene.

I think I was creeped out by "The Fly," the original one, as well. The ending would look ridiculous today, with Vincent Price (?) getting his bug body smashed just after the one with the fly head is crushed.

[sistersofmercy]

27. When I was a little girl, the first time I saw The Wizard of OZ, the bad

witch and her flying monkeys. When she said, "and I'll throw your little dog in the river," it made me cry. My aunt and cousins were visiting, when I walked into the kitchen crying they inquired why, so I told them, my older cousin responded with "It's just a movie!" First movie that both scared me and made me cry.

[Pale Blue Dot]

29. Those G*dd*mn Triffids!

Giant mobile carnivorous plants. "Day of the Triffids" was the best giant mobile carnivorous plant movie EVER.

Also, the human monster in the original version of "The Vanishing" scared the bejesus out of me.

[BigMcLargehuge]

39. if you liked the film: The Triffids, you should DEFINITELY read the book

The Triffids by John Wyndham. One of the best science fiction books ever. Actually, ALL of Wyndhams' stuff is good. The other of his made into a flick was "The Midwich Cuckoos" as "Village of the Damned".

[nuxvomica]

54. That reminds, those damned kids scared me

When I was a kid, all I saw were the movie promos for "Village of The Damned" and they scared the hell out of me. My sisters had these life-size dolls with big iridescent eyes that reminded me of those damned kids.

[TennesseeWalker]

30. The vampire boy in "Salem's Lot". n/t

[Lostmessage]

32. That's one of my favorite movies

I love when the old woman vampire puts her lipstick on after she has bitten a cow.

[Bertha Venation]

31. Hannibal Lecter.

Hands down. He scared me more than Buffalo Bill.

[davidinalameda]

66. amen to that one

[slackmaster]

71. Another vote for Dr. Hannibal Lecter

Buffalo Bill just seemed like a pussy.

[Wonco_the_Sane]

33. JAWS

Great question. Mine is Jaws, and well...still is. :)

[smallprint]

38. same here

Jaws was the scariest because you knew that it could be real...

some more on my list:

2) that evil clown doll from Poltergeist that drags the kid under the bed
3) Nosferatu
4) the Oompa-Loompas from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory freaked me out for some reason
5) Michael Jackson in Thriller when he changes into a werewolf-- he did a damn good job of scaring the shit out of me when I was 8 years old... actually he's still pretty scary

[maveric]

34. "Wolfman" Lon Chaney Jr.

As a kid he scared the livin shit out of me and gave me nightmares.
A truly frightening creature, and a classic flick.

[JohnKleeb]

35. These are TV monsters more so Bob

Pretty scary eh.

[FireHeart]

36. Caltiki-The Immortal Monster

Definitely scared the hell out of me. But there was one (name I can't remember) about a rocket to mars which brought back some kind of alien fungus or something. It ate everything in sight--and the scene where the astronaut was being devoured by it, his hand sticking up from the goo--really scared the hell out of me.

Then there was "Fiend Without A Face"...now that was a 50's scare masterpiece!

Ahh...the good old days.

[bobthedrummer]

61. "Fiend without a Face" had those invisible brains and spinal cords

that attacked your brain and spinal cord, it was scary to a kid.
I remember the noises they made and them getting shot,lol.

[FireHeart]

67. Yeah

That noise was awful. I saw it first in a theater, durin a horror double feature, and the sounds...ewwwww... :)

[classics]

40. Those bug eyed aliens are pretty scary.

[jimbo fett]

41. CLOWNS!!! Clowns are creepy and scary. They supposed are funny but

they have freakish faces with literally painted on smiles so you know they're not genuinely happy.

If you ever take a kid to the circus they say they'd like to meet a clown but if one comes close the kid will cower in fear.

CLOWNS ARE EVIL!!!!

[BigMcLargehuge]

43. ever hear this song about the fear of clowns?

soon as I saw your post I had to go and find it.


Clowns
by Too Much Joy

From the site: http://www.lyricmall.com

When I was a kid my dad had pictures of these clowns
He hung them on my wall and wouldn't let me take them down
I didn't understand then and I still can't figure out
What those goddamn clowns were so sad about

A clown was my boss at every job I ever had
Clowns run all the record companies that ever said we're bad
A clown pretended to be a girl who pretended to be my friend
Ths world is run by clowns who can't wait for it to end

I have yet to meet a kid not scared to death of clowns
They can't walk and they don't talk they've got painted on frowns

A clown with a gun I hope I never see
Would he shoot himself or shoot me?

A clown taught every class I took at my old high school
Clowns all wear Speedos when they hang out by the pool
Clowns dress up like cops and threaten to call my folks
This town is filled with clowns who don't get my jokes

They fall on their asses
It takes lots of practice

I have nightmares filled with clowns and you're there too
You have a big red nose and stupid floppy shoes
You're becoming one I can see the signs
I hate clowns almost as much as I hate mimes

[soleft]

50. Tim Curry in "It" - very scary clown

[bobthedrummer]

59. My wife and myself loathe the evil inherent to clowns

and everything clownish!
I knew they weren't funny when a child, they are monsters too.

[DarkSim]

42. That monkey making the "State of the Union"

oh nevermind, it wasn't a movie it was just Bush making a speech. Did scare the living crap out of the though.

[SiobhanClancy]

44. Maleficent....

the witch in Disney's Sleeping Beauty:) Don't laugh....I had nightmares for weeks over that thing.

[EV1Ltimm]

46. Rawhead Rex

[soleft]

48. Yes!!! Rawhead Rex!!

I saw a photograph of Rawhead Rex and it scared the crap out of me.

And here he is

[EV1Ltimm]

75. he looks so cheesy now...

but boy howdy, he scared the crap out of me back in the day.

[Beaker]

47. The One-Armed Man from "The Fugitive"(tv series)...

the classic monsters never really scared me all that much, but as a kid, I used to have a lot of nightmares about the one-armed man coming into the house and kidnapping me from my bedroom during the night.

[arwalden]

51. Jaws. (Then Alien)

[tigerbeat]

83. agreed.

both movies scared the pee out of me when i was younger. a very close third is regan from "the exorcist".

[bif]

52. Creature from the Black Lagoon

Hands down.

[bobthedrummer]

87. Ever see "The Monster of Piedros Blancos"?

It was set in a lighthouse, the monster was "The Creature from the Black Lagoon" but much nastier-lots of decapitation in it.

Remember "The Incredible Shrinking Man"? Or "Collossus of New York", or the original "The Mask"?

[bif]

88. Incredible Shrinking Man was a great movie

And I didn't find it scary. Wasn't there a philosophical dialogue at the end of the movie? Something about the meaning of life?

[bobthedrummer]

89. Infinity was mentioned as the lead character went into a sub-atomic

state of being as a giant first, as large as galaxies...then on and on...

[nuxvomica]

53. No movie scared me like "The Tingler"

The thought of that thing on your spine growing when you get scared bothered me for days. When I was in college, I got really scared when George Romero spoke on campus and showed "Night of the Living Dead."

[peekaloo]

57. Scream for your life!

not a Dean endorsement.....;-)

[trof]

56. As a kid, Frankenstein.

Used to have nightmares that he was chasing me.

[peekaloo]

58. that voodoo doll with a butcher knife that chased Karen Black

around her apartment in 'Trilogy of Terror'.

[banana republican]

60. The Exorcist

I was in seminary in St. Paul Minn. and a bunch of us went to the movie...

that night some of us heard scratching in the wall of the dorm... Our worst fears were about to be realized.....

[non sociopath skin]

62. Grown up or not,

.. the monster at the end of the first Men in Black movie scared the crap out of me.

The Skin:scared:

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

63. The Pod People in "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"

(Donald Sutherland version)

The way they pointed at you and screamed was too unnatural.

[FireHeart]

78. Naw...

Reminded me of southern republicans. Natural for them.

:evilgrin:

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

85. Well, then you just corroborated my choice, now, didn't you? (nt)

[ohiosmith]

64. The pods in the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers

[liberalitch]

65. in Marathon man

Larry O.
I was fucking terrified.

[Edge]

68. Pennywise the Clown.

Still scares the hell outta me!

[Butterflies]

69. The shark in JAWS

though it's not exactly a monster.

Also characters connected to the Devil: the neighbors in "Rosemary's Baby" and the governess in "The Omen".

[proud patriot]

70. Zombies

Night of the living Dead etc........

[TrogL]

72. Stepford Wives

[laylah]

73. The huge leeches in

you guessed it, "The Leeches". They were in a lake (well duh :silly:) and would attack swimmers, taking them to their underwater "caves" and slowly sucking them dry. I was maybe 10 at the time and never, EVER swam in our local swimmin' hole again!

Jenn

[bobthedrummer]

77. That reminds me of that ghastly leech-like thing in an "X-Files"

it was loose in the sewer pipes of a city. It was pale white with a huge sucker-yuck! Leeches really suck!!!lol...

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

86. "The Host", beginning of season 2.

The monster was nicknamed "Flukeman".

Now, I just gave myself up as a major XF geek, didn't I?

[ZenLefty]

74. the one in that reagan movie

I hear it was based on a true story. :shudder:

[VOX]

76. Long before "Jaws," there was the movie version of "Moby Dick"...

All that thrashing about in the dark waters, and that ghostly harpoon-pincushion of the mighty white whale taking a boat full of screaming men into its jaws...whoa!

I didn't sleep for nights running, and I wouldn't go in the water for months!

(I did bathe, however.)

[bobthedrummer]

81. The xenobites from "Hellraiser"

are creepy too.

[Lizz612]

84. Umm..... Gollum

I know I know... He's a good character in the second book, but he scared me in the books, and in the movies! Oh god! the first scene in the third movie! Oh!
When I was little it was the little eel-y things Khan put in those guys ears. EEeeeewwwww! (Edited for clarity: Star Trek: Return of Khan)

[Flaxbee]

90. "The Living Doll" - Twilight Zone

scared the crapola outta me when I was a child, I refused to have anything to do with dolls (and they still creep me out). Wasn't Telly Savalas in that one, where he keeps trying to kill the doll and then it kills him?

Also, reading "The Boogeyman" by Stephen King (short story), I could never, ever sleep with the closet door open again. I don't remember too much about it now, but I know it absolutely terrified me when I read it, I think I was 12.

[Mobius]

91. Bush

State of the Union Address. Pretty soon thats all we will be allowed to watch.

[toddzilla]

92. michael myers..

just too damn freaky.

and the guy from the phantasm movies "the tall man"