ITT we chit chat about horror movies that scared the crap out of you.

[knight_shadow]

Originally Posted by Animate

I absolutely love Stigmata. I don't really consider it a horror movie though.

Yea, I don't think it's "horror," but it's often lumped in with scary movies.

I really enjoy movies with the religious angle, so if I saw Stigmata today, I'd probably love it. After the lawn furniture debacle, though, I don't know...lol

But what scared the crap out of me growing up was Child's Play. It was right around the time My Buddy became popular and my cousins had me thinking he was gonna come alive and kill me.

I didn't think that movie was scary. I know a lot of people were freaked out by the dolls, but I had one of these and it was a little more frightening lol:



Story: When I was younger, I had a bunk bed, but I took it down to have a hotel room set up. I would always keep the Football Monster on the other bed. One night, I woke up and saw it laying in one spot. I rolled over to try to get back to sleep, but when I turned again, the thing looked like it was sitting in a different spot.

I got rid of that bad boy the next day lol

[WVU alpha phi]

Originally Posted by Alumiyum

Saw Paranormal Activity the other night, finally gave in. My boyfriend has been trying to get me to see it forever. I'll admit it scared me, but I guess because of the hype I was expecting it to be worse than it was. I don't intend to see the second one, though, because everyone has said it's scarier than the first.

I swear I couldn't finish The Exorcist. I know it's shoddy special effects, old, and a little campy, but it's scarier than any new horror movie I've seen. Or maybe just more disturbing.

I'm great with blood, body parts, axe murderers, no problem. I'm not squeamish. But for whatever reason, ghosts and demons...can. not. handle. that. I've been that person that couldn't sleep for 2 weeks after seeing Emily Rose. I'm willing to bet my sleepless nights from Paranormal Activity aren't over either.

100% agree. I saw The Exorcist for the first time when I was 9, and I made my mom turn it off halfway through and put on Father of the Bride because I was so scared that I needed to watch a happy movie. I've since seen the full movie a few times, but each time I'm terrified so I haven't watched it in years. It's her voice that scares me so much.

My mom and dad saw The Exorcist in theatres when they were first married and living in an apartment in Baltimore. The only bathroom was in the basement, and my mom said she was terrified to go down there by herself and shower after seeing the movie, and she was in her 20s.

Paranormal Activity scared me so much that I won't see the second one, even though I want to. I made my boyfriend wake up in the middle of the night for weeks to turn the bathroom light on for me if I had to get up. He's probably happy I won't let myself watch the second one.

Same as you, I can watch any movie about murders/blood/slasher films, whatever. But the second I see something with ghosts, demons, or anything like that, I act like a baby and am too scared to sleep for weeks.

[PeppyGPhiB]

When I saw Scream in the theatre in college, it was scary. I recall how everyone was shrunken down in their seats by the end of the movie.

The Poltergeist movies still scare me a little, especially considering those were real dead bodies in the swimming pool.

When I saw Hostel for the first time, I was really, really disgusted and disturbed by the plot. Just the idea that someplace like that would exist really got to me.

In that "100 Horror Movie Spoilers in 5 Minutes" video posted above, #100, Ghoolies, also scared the crap out of my little brother when we were younger. He was afraid to use the toilet after watching that movie.

[APhi4Ever]

Pet Semetary by Stephen King, that movie was really scary and it still is to me today.

[ASUADPi]

I'm not a horror movie fan. I like suspense movies but the blood/guts and gore every 30 seconds is just something I'm not into seeing.

Langoliers (the TV movie) freaked me out a bit. As it was a TV movie, the special effects weren't what they could be had it been a movie, so I can only imagine how a movie would have been.

Okay, I'm totally going to get laughed at for this next one, but I was 7-8 years old at the time, so please take that into account.

E.T. freaked the crap out of me at that age. . It didn't matter that E.T. was a "friendly" alien, he scared the crap out me. I remember going to bed terrified that an alien would come to earth. I went to bed with every single stuffed animal that I owned, surrounding me on my bed (because in my mind those stuffed animals were going to protect me). My parents could barely find me in the bed to give me a kiss goodnight.

I'm a huge wuss. If I am told the movie is scary I won't see it at a theater. If I do actually see it, it will be in the comfort of my home with every light on.

[southbymidwest]

Wizard of Oz. I was 5 or 6 at the time, my parents let me watch it with them one Sunday night on TV. The flying monkeys had me under my chair, scared witless.

I'll pass on the scary/gory/icky stuff. Which means no to most horror/scary movies. Thank you, I'll pass. I am a Complete and Total Wuss.

[carnation]

Oooh, the witch's green face was scary in Oz and that's probably why I was petrified as a child of Maleficent in Sleeping Beauty. And now she's the new darling at Disney and she's featured in all these rides, parades, and pins as well as the Kingdom Keepers fiction series about Disney World. And I'm like, "WTH! She died!" because the only way my parents could get me to sleep in my own room was to keep reminding me that Prince Philip killed Maleficent.

I emailed the author of Kingdom Keepers when the last book came out and asked, "Why is she the centerpiece of your books? She's supposed to be gone!" and he emailed back, "I have this thing for Maleficent."

[knight_shadow]

Originally Posted by Jen

I watched 28 Days Later last night. Do. Not. Want.

Maybe it's the fact I have health anxiety and the idea of a virus like that freaks the bejeesus out of me. Maybe it was the ookie eye gouging scene or the throwing up blood (and I have a Huge Fear of hearing/seeing/knowing about people throwing up. But it made me have a nightmare.

It did not help that I watched it home alone in the middle of the night.

Eye gouging? I thought that was in 28 Weeks Later?

Originally Posted by carnation

Maleficent"I have this thing for Maleficent."

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