Kraichgauer
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I've always been a big horror fan since I was a little kid, whether it's fiction, TV, or movies, though I'm hardly immune to getting scared.
As a kid, the old Lon Chaney Jr. Wolfman movies scared me to death. The idea of a half bestial, half human creature, covered with fur was just so terrifying to me. I used to lay awake at night after I went to bed, staring into the darkness, looking for a fur covered Lon Chaney Jr. coming to get me. But guess what, I still watched werewolf movies. Another move that scared me was a made for TV movie called Moon Of The Wolf, And you know something? I bought the movie on DVD a few years ago around Halloween - and I woke up from a nightmare that night after watching it. That little kid I used to be, it seems, is still alive and well somewhere inside me.
But the movie that scared the liver out of me - and still has power over me - was a 1970's horror movie called Prophecy. If you're not familiar with the movie, the monster, mutated bear was the basis of Man-Bear-Pig in the Imagination land episodes of South Park. Even today, thoughts of that hideously ugly, slavering mutant, with raw, mottled flesh where it wasn't covered with fur still give me the chills. You can imagine, I lost a lot of sleep after seeing that movie when I was a kid. Even today, that thing's appeared in my nightmares, even after all these years. When my wife and I had watched the movie together years later, I saw the mutant bear was nothing more than just a guy in a rubber suit, when It wasn't a line puppet. Still, that proved to be inadequate from exorcising the monster from my memories, because there, it's alive and of flesh and blood!
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Dantac
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The Blob.
To this day I look to the ceiling of *every* movie theater. Twice an hour.  |
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hartzofspace
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| Dantac wrote: | The Blob.
To this day I look to the ceiling of *every* movie theater. Twice an hour. |
The original, or the re-make?
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HybridAP
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I love that book so much. It gave me inspiration to restart the book I was working on a few years ago. Oh do I love Stephen King...
I also want to create a horror book or movie one day, but the idea I have is pretty sick...
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Kraichgauer
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| HybridAP wrote: |
I love that book so much. It gave me inspiration to restart the book I was working on a few years ago. Oh do I love Stephen King...
I also want to create a horror book or movie one day, but the idea I have is pretty sick... |
I could not get through that book, no matter how hard I tried, because it was so damn BORING!
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Jory
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| Kraichgauer wrote: | | I could not get through that book, no matter how hard I tried, because it was so damn BORING! |
Welcome to every Stephen King book I've ever read.
He's much better with short stories and novellas. |
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Kraichgauer
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| Jory wrote: | | Kraichgauer wrote: | | I could not get through that book, no matter how hard I tried, because it was so damn BORING! |
Welcome to every Stephen King book I've ever read.
He's much better with short stories and novellas. |
I actually don't mind his novels - just It.
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truthseeker1972
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The clown doll in the movie Poltergeist scared the pants off me when I was a child.
Though it's not a horror film, I remember David Warner's performance as Jack the Ripper in Time After Time scared me more than any other villain in a horror movie that I saw when I was young. |
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hartzofspace
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| truthseeker1972 wrote: | The clown doll in the movie Poltergeist scared the pants off me when I was a child.
Though it's not a horror film, I remember David Warner's performance as Jack the Ripper in Time After Time scared me more than any other villain in a horror movie that I saw when I was young. |
That movie, "Poltergeist" unnerved me for months after watching it. I remember that clown doll; yes, it was pretty scary.
And I actually loved that movie "Time After Time."
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Dantac
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| hartzofspace wrote: | | Dantac wrote: | The Blob.
To this day I look to the ceiling of *every* movie theater. Twice an hour. |
The original, or the re-make? |
Mustve been the re-make.. the original was in black and white no? The one I remember was set like in the 80's in color.
Poltergeist: Oh heck my little sister had the exact same clown toy from that movie. It was creepy.
Another movie that would not let me sleep was CRITTERS. Not because it was scary but because the scene of the kid sleeping with his arm hanging from the bed and the critter jumping up to try and eat it... well, lets just say I stopped sleeping with my feet hanging out the bed for a good while. XD |
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GoonSquad
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The Exorcist is the only movie that ever scared me.
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hartzofspace
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| GoonSquad wrote: | | The Exorcist is the only movie that ever scared me. |
I had completely forgotten about that movie! There is one scene where Regan crawls backwards down the stairs, with her arms and legs like those of a spider. That is one scene that you couldn't pay me to watch willingly ever again!
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Nereid
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| CyclopsSummers wrote: | I second The Thing, with Kurt Russell. However, upon seeing some of the scenes I thought were particularly scary when I was a kid - for instance the part with the defibrillators (those of y'all who seen it know what I'm talking bout), I wasn't that terrified of it anymore... in fact it now looks funny sometimes. Maybe because the effects have gone dated.
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I saw the thing when I was around 10 and it scared the crap outta me! I also remember seeing The Ring in theaters in high school, and that's the only time in my life I've left a movie theater physically trembling from fear. I feel so dumb now when ppl talk about the movie being lame, and picturing them sitting there yawning and mocking the movie and me hiding my eyes.
Scariest book? Probably Scary Stories. Such frightening illustrations!
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GreySun369
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The tanning bed scene from Final Destination 3. Definetly not the way I want to go when my time comes.  |
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snpeden
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Funny Games scared me beyond belief the first time I saw it, though not in the traditional sense. It's one of those movies most people either really love or really hate, and I think it's because it takes the premise of a classic horror movie (someone comes to a house to scare and ultimately murder the arbitrarily chosen occupants) and shows what (I think) it would be like if the situation played out in real life. No creepy music, no half-naked chase scenes, no superhuman cleverness or stupidity on the part of either party. It's hard to describe but I will say that every friend I've shown it to has hated it. I love it though, I think it sparks so much thought on so many related subjects, and honestly could talk about that movie for hours.
Another one that scared me is an old one called the Trilogy of Terror. Not so much anymore, but the short story that inspired the tiki-man film is truly eerie. My bff/college roomie and I read it once before bed (we were having story time lol), and we had to banish all stuffed animals to the hallway for the night. The imagination is too powerful to sleep next to anything inanimate that also has eyeballs, after that one.
The single most terrifying thing from my childhood is a movie I can't even remember fully. It was some B-movie that played on late night sci-fi, where this genius little boy invented a machine that sucked the "power" out of other electronics. Well of course the boy dropped the remote, the toy sucked the power from it and became uncontrollable, and killed his mom when she got home from work. It was on wheels though, so he was safe on his bed...basically designed to punish kids like me who were awake when they shouldn't be. I only saw it because I was tucked in between my parents and they were watching it.
Probably why I was also so fascinated by Maximum Overdrive as a kid. |
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