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What movie was the bane of your existence as a child?

Started by Darkcide, February 10, 2010, 09:19:58 AM

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Darkcide

What was the one film that absolutely terrified you back in your younger days?

Mine had to be Candyman, I think it was Tony Todd's voice and the bees that got to me. I used to hate that damn movie when I was a little kid though.

Scott

The original "Walking Tall" Dad really got into that movie for some reason, and we had to go see it at the drive in movie theater at least 20 times.

Mathim

The animated Hobbit. I was like 3 when this daycare center I was at showed it to me and two other 'naughty' children to punish us. Scared the living shit out of us. "The Terror of the Ring" chant done in the creepy voice the guy had...boy, conservative Christians really have a screwed up way of disciplining their kids. On top of that, in kindergarten my teacher played a tape recording of "Where the Wild Things Are" in a horribly scary voice and again, gave me and half the class nightmares for half a decade. I really should have tried to sue.
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jouzinka

When I was little, I'm sure the 'Neverending Story' and Gmok were something that scared the hell out of me. Still does, by the way. Also, the Czech tale 'The Maiden and the Monster' was a terrifying watch.
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Samael

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Oh yeah, the Gmork is a great choice...
Still disturbing to this day...


Poltergeist scared the hell out of me. Especially Poltergeist two. Anyone remember the scene where the Dad emptied a bottle of tequila and swallowed the worm, which possessed him then?
Years of checking the bottom of every bottle I did drink from followed watching that movie...

Which was followed by the worm vomit scene...
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jouzinka

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So delightfully awful. Geez, the skin on my neck CRAWLS at the sight of the beast.

Still can't stop watching him. *shudders*

Another film that really scared me when I watched it was the Clash of the Titans... It was probably not suitable for my age, because I didn't understand it back then, still terrified me.
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Samael

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...*is guilty of having just rewatched both the Poltergeist and the Gmork scene on Youtube*

...Yep, still as effective as before *shudders*

Oh, Clash of titans, the satyr like guy, and the Medusa...
The kraken was awesome, but that Satyr guy just gave me the creeps.

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Sabby

They.

Total mind fuck, that movie, without so much as a drop of closure at the end. Most depressing and traumatizing film for a 10 year old...

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Darkcide

My cousin was really friendly when we were kids. Horror movies wouldn't scare her, like the Exorcist didn't do anything. But Ghostbuster's terrified her.

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This movie scared the piss outta me when I was younger (it came out in 91, so I was 11), and it still kinda freaks me out to watch it today.  Just the absolutely horrendous things this judge did to people set to a comedic vein just really creeped me out. lol  Demi Moore looked pretty good in it, though. :)

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I honestly can't remember, although I do know I got freaked out one hell of a lot by the lion that came on before Tom and Jerry and other cartoons.
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A babysitter showed me Candyman as a child. I don't think I went into the bathroom alone at night for at least a year. I guess I should watch it again. To this day I have not seen it again.

Sabby

Almost forgot. Arachnophobia. Watched that thing over and over... yeah, terrified of spiders, but couldn't look away.

jouzinka

Quote from: Samael on February 10, 2010, 03:28:13 PM
...*is guilty of having just rewatched both the Poltergeist and the Gmork scene on Youtube*

...Yep, still as effective as before *shudders*

Funny, how the mind works. Today I know what happens, I know he's there in the cave, I know it's a puppet (an impressive one), I've seen it for hundreds of times at least, yet I'm STILL scared.

The wolf (or werewolf or whatever he's supposed to be), just gives me creeps up and down the spine.
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Samael

Quote from: jouzinka on February 11, 2010, 10:42:27 AM
Funny, how the mind works. Today I know what happens, I know he's there in the cave, I know it's a puppet (an impressive one), I've seen it for hundreds of times at least, yet I'm STILL scared.

The wolf (or werewolf or whatever he's supposed to be), just gives me creeps up and down the spine.

I think it's the eyes.
Whenever those eyes go wide, I want to just walk away, slowly, very slowly.
3:18, as the lightning strikes is one of those scenes where I feel a shiver. Just the way the wolf tilts his head back and widens those eyes. It makes me want to run away. Something in that triggers the "flee" instinct.
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Yakkul

Grease 1 & 2.... my sister watched them over, and over and over again...

*shudders*

Sabby


LadySky

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My Name is Nobody, They Call Me Trinity, They Still Call Me Trinity. A series of spagetti westerns that my father ADORED.

Though I do love these movies, my family watched them sooooooooo much when I was a kid they became painful!

Trinity was DISGUSTING!

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I was a very easily frightened child. The Beast in "Beauty and the Beast" is pretty freaky in the early movie. My sister loved the movie.
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Gremlins! Dear god that movie is terrifying. Even now those little monsters give me the heeby jeebies.
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Muninn

Oh, goodness yes, Gmork was a nightmare incarnate.

Also that Alice Through the Looking Glass from the 80's... Carl Channing terrified me.

Oh, and the Jabberwocky scene, too!!

(Though I recently looked up that scene on youtube and it was... not nearly as scary as I remembered).

Schwarzepard

Gmork seems awfully philosophical for an evil nightmare wolf, waxing loquacious about the nature of imaginationland with a kid.

Besides, he's full of crap.  If Fantasia were the product of human hopes and dreams, it would be full of orgies and things a lot scarier than him.

Muninn

Quote from: HeretiKat on March 06, 2010, 01:15:50 AM
Gmork seems awfully philosophical for an evil nightmare wolf, waxing loquacious about the nature of imaginationland with a kid.

Besides, he's full of crap.  If Fantasia were the product of human hopes and dreams, it would be full of orgies and things a lot scarier than him.

Agreed, but thus why The Neverending Story is a *children's* book. ;)

I think Gmork held so much power to terrify younger children simply by his design: Fierce wolf with nasty-long fangs and creepily glowing eyes that glow in the shadows.  Also adding to his creep factor was his never-quite-seen-till-the-end, for me that's what makes or breaks a monster film:  if you show the monster right up from the beginning chances are the scary factor drops significantly, but if you hold out offering only brief glimpses of an eye, a leg, claws, etc (or maybe nothing at all) that adds suspense to the mixture.

jouzinka

Quote from: HeretiKat on March 06, 2010, 01:15:50 AM
Besides, he's full of crap.  If Fantasia were the product of human hopes and dreams, it would be full of orgies and things a lot scarier than him.

Whoever said there weren't orgies in Fantasia? It was a realm of all people's imagination, children and adult alike, they just weren't shown in the movie/book, because it wasn't the focus. :-)

Gmork wasn't scary himself (well, yeah, maybe...), but the power he possessed and the malice that practically oozed from him was what made him sooooo delightfully awful.
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Belladonna

There is one film I can recall that scared me terribly as a youngster, and it is the Exorcist. To this very day, I still cannot view the film.

Additionally, Jaws had the same effect, but fortunately I conquered my fear of the water.

Kip

Like Sabby, Arachnophobia.

I don't mind spiders at all now... but I still can't watch that movie the entire way through.

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Jarod1

When I was a child it was the Aliens movies.

I love them now, but when I younger they scared me.

Jag

These little creeps from Labyrinth:

Chilly Down From Labyrinth

*shudders*

Smiling, dancing, and singing don't cover up the creepy factor.

And the Skeksis from Dark Crystal:

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KieraHaroden

Hmm, only 2 films have ever freaked me out - and I used to be a lover of horror movies!

One of the Alien films, I can't remember which. I was 11 when my mums' ex-boyfriend decided to put on one of the Alien films whilst I was eating my dinner.. but he skipped ahead to a scene where the mother alien had her jaw open, and you could see all the saliva and bits of gore etc on her razor sharp teeth... freaked the crap out of me!

Also, Se7en. Oh. My. God. For some reason I cannot quite understand, this film really, REALLY, freaked me out. I watched it on my own, in the pitch black.. could not go anywhere in the dark for some time after that night. And I have barely watched any horror films since...
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Arhys

Too funny, I count Clash of the Titans as a key early influence in my bondage interest and to this day fantasize about being handcuffed to a stone grotto by the seaside...

Scariest were Poltergeist because of the evil clown, Friday the 13th the original was my first horror film, and Nightmare on Elm Street, mainly because I saw that with a huge group of friends and look like one of the actresses in it.  A friend yelled, omg, that looks like you Arhys!  and for the next year everyone thought it was hilarious to mess with me so I developed some paranoia.

KieraHaroden

If my father had his way when I was born, I was going to be called Carrie-Anne, from Poltergeist. Thank God my mother put her foot down!

I used to be a lover of all horror films - the majority of them just made me laugh, lol. I absolutely love The Labyrinth!
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Quote from: Arhys on March 16, 2010, 09:49:48 AM
Too funny, I count Clash of the Titans as a key early influence in my bondage interest and to this day fantasize about being handcuffed to a stone grotto by the seaside...

Scariest were Poltergeist because of the evil clown, Friday the 13th the original was my first horror film, and Nightmare on Elm Street, mainly because I saw that with a huge group of friends and look like one of the actresses in it.  A friend yelled, omg, that looks like you Arhys!  and for the next year everyone thought it was hilarious to mess with me so I developed some paranoia.

You need no excuses for NoES. The original film is very scary, even by today's standards.
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Psycho

I am not old enough to see the original when it came out waaaaaay back when, but my grandparents had HBO, Showtime, and Cinemax and went to bed early. That movie freaked me out, and made it almost impossible for me to take a shower. (Baths were fine as the shower curtain could be left open) To this day, when I think I catch a wrong shadow while standing in the shower, I am ready to deliver a naked beat down to whomever might possibly be standing outside the shower. I mean when are we any more vulnerable than when we're standing in the shower, naked, with nothing to defend ourselves but a bar of soap and a wet wash cloth...and a back scrubbed if we're really lucky. Alfred Hitchcock was a bloody genius, and I have to hand it to him for mastering the art of messing with the mind.

Also, on a side note, I agree with Poltergeist as well. My cousin thought it was a great movie to take me to see as a kid. :O That clown just creeped me out. Then as the trauma started to pass, I read Stephen King's "It", and yeah, yeah...killer clown in a storm drain. Clowns to me are creepy anyway, but neither of those helped me out a great deal with that perception.

Oniya

Quote from: HeretiKat on March 06, 2010, 01:15:50 AM
Gmork seems awfully philosophical for an evil nightmare wolf, waxing loquacious about the nature of imaginationland with a kid.

Besides, he's full of crap.  If Fantasia were the product of human hopes and dreams, it would be full of orgies and things a lot scarier than him.

Interestingly enough, if you read the book it turns out that Gmork isn't from Fantasia.  He has crossed over from the 'real world'.
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Arhys

Quote from: thebobmaster on March 16, 2010, 04:24:09 PM
You need no excuses for NoES. The original film is very scary, even by today's standards.

My brother took an old glove, and then pushed old steak knives through the fingers, which he then delighted in hiding in random places in the house just to freak me out.  Evil brother *laughs*


Izu

IT - I saw it when I was four and it scared the hell out of me.

And... Sesame Street - I had a nightmare after I saw the first episode... I think I was 3-4 - the counting vampire was strangling my grandma, counting on each strangle 'Ooone, twooo, threeee' >.< x'D
Oh and also The Cats - I saw it again when I was 3-4, a recorded version of the musical and I had a nightmare again that the cats from the show came to my room and tried to kidnap me.

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We watched the original Chocolate Factory earlier this week.  The little one thought that scene was cool.
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Blitzy

I have only been scared of one horror movie in my life, and it was a cheesy Sci-Fi movie about some electric eel things that killed people. I was... 8?

Nothing else has ever scared me or given me nightmares.

My brain is just fucked up. :D
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LadySky

When I was 12 my cousin let me watch Lord of the Flies, thinking that since I love horror films it would not bother me.

Though I did and still do LOVE horror films, Lord of the Flies scared me senseless. I actually had nightmares for weeks!

The cover of that movie still makes me shiver. Go figure!

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How many here have seen Time Bandits?  Remember the ending scene after the kid gets back to the 'real world'?

Don't touch it!  It's Evil!
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Quote from: LadySky on March 21, 2010, 12:41:13 PM
When I was 12 my cousin let me watch Lord of the Flies, thinking that since I love horror films it would not bother me.

Though I did and still do LOVE horror films, Lord of the Flies scared me senseless. I actually had nightmares for weeks!

The cover of that movie still makes me shiver. Go figure!



The book is absolutely amazing. Covered it in school once, and we had to write our own version of the book. I got an A for mine, and it has been used as references to others who had to cover Lord Of The Flies. ;D Never seen the film version though..
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Michi No Sora is right on the ball with mine...Freaking Skeksis from Dark Crystal used to terrify me.

My dad used to tell me that vultures were little baby Skeksis >< and so I'd scream whenever I'd see them.

Nosferatu

Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

I still can't watch this movie. Scared the everliving hell out of me. And the parts that weren't scary were just downright creepy. And yet I found myself watching it over and over again (I blame my father, who had no sense of what was and was not age-appropriate material for us).

Tachi

It was Cat's Eye I believe. Evil little gremlin thing hiding under the bed and trying to kill you while you sleep.

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