What was the one movie, character or scene that plagued your nightmares as a child?

[sneakers]

What was the one movie, character or scene that plagued your nightmares as a child?

for me it was those dog things from Ghostbusters....I ALWAYS fast forwarded during this scene as a little kid:
http://i.imgur.com/ai4SE.jpg


also, gremlins: I was 4 when I first watched this movie, (my sister was 7 and she had it), and these things scared the crap out of me.

http://i.imgur.com/VOjYU.jpg


Honorable mention: That scene from the Temple of Doom where they have the banquet and a guy cuts open a snake and all little baby snakes come out....I did not eat anything cylindrical (hot dogs, mac and cheese, etc) for 2 years.

[MOtorboat]

Exorcist.

And any demon-like thing that crawls on the ceiling. To this day it still creeps me out. I think it was The Last Exorcist where there was a fan and the possessed girl was crawling on the ceiling. I woke up that night, and my fan was going...creeped me out for a few seconds.

[chazoe60]

Jaws, the overhead scene with the guy getting chomped on the little sail boat.

[MasterShake]

The only one that jumps to mind is that damn clown toy in poltergeist. 80's movies screwed up a lot of kids.

[Skinny]

Elephant Man.


http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cOF8kLZT0yU/UElTalpqZ9I/AAAAAAAAAY8/NLn1I-b9nCs/s1600/the+elephant+man.jpg


I had nightmares for a week.

[ShaneFalco]

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[NightTerror218]

chuckie

[Northman]

The only one that jumps to mind is that damn clown toy in poltergeist. 80's movies screwed up a lot of kids.

Yea, that scene was pretty brutal. But i dont think it screwed up a lot of people, i turned out just fine. :D

[Buff]

The ghost episodes of Unsolved Mysteries used to really freak me out.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJReMt4sskA

[chazoe60]

The twins saying "come play with us Danny" as blood flooded the hallway in the Shining. Best horror movie ever made.

[MasterShake]

You can stay at the Stephen King suite at the hotel in Estes Park where he came up with the story. Would be a cool thing to do on Halloween.

[MasterShake]

Oh, and this damn troll thing from Cat's Eye gave me a few great nightmares:

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I loved those old horror anthology movies like Cats Eye, Creepshow, and the Twilight Zone movie. Those were like staples on HBO and Cinemax back in the 80's and 90's along with some good stuff like Phantasm, Hellrasier, Ghoulies, Critters... man I miss those type of movies. I just can't get into the modern horror genre like The Ring. Sometimes you just want a good monster movie with no psychological element. Just cheap scares and bad special effects.

[Thnikkaman]

The girl from Twighlight Zone the movie who removed the mouth of her sister.

[gnomeflinger]

The guy in Poltergeist who hallucinated pulling the skin off his face. I didn't get nightmares from movies, but I thought that was the grossest thing ever.

However, what did creep me out was this game on the Atari. It was called "Hunt the Wumpus." The goal was to get to some goal before the Wumpus got you. You knew the Wumpus was near when you saw blood spots. When the Wumpus got you, it played the Death March. My father would laugh whenever I ran out of the room. One time he had friends over. He used me as entertainment when they played the game. I didn't appreciate being scared and being laughed at.

[MasterShake]

The girl from Twighlight Zone the movie who removed the mouth of her sister.

You mean the little boy who could wish for anything? That one was good. I like when he put his other sister in the cartoon. Another good one was the big swamp slime that was attacking the people on the raft. I think that was Creepshow? All those movies get mixed up in my head.

Speaking of Twilight Zone... I think they should play this scene on every in flight movie:

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u14/Kenobi1_bucket/tumblr_maxmhdtNys1qedb29o1_500.gif

[Thnikkaman]

Then there is epic stuff like this:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I16_8l0yS-g

[MasterShake]

I must have a bunch of repressed memories thanks to this thread. I saw Fire in the Sky exactly once. That was enough for me based on this scene alone:

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[MasterShake]

The guy in Poltergeist who hallucinated pulling the skin off his face. I didn't get nightmares from movies, but I thought that was the grossest thing ever.

However, what did creep me out was this game on the Atari. It was called "Hunt the Wumpus." The goal was to get to some goal before the Wumpus got you. You knew the Wumpus was near when you saw blood spots. When the Wumpus got you, it played the Death March. My father would laugh whenever I ran out of the room. One time he had friends over. He used me as entertainment when they played the game. I didn't appreciate being scared and being laughed at.

I still contend top to bottom Poltergeist was the scariest movie I saw as a child. I think that movie and Temple of Doom (both from "family friendly" Stephen Spielberg no less) helped usher in the era of the PG-13 movie. I remember going to see both of those with my parents when I was pretty young. Nothing like seeing a dudes heart ripped out and go up in flames then go to get a happy meal at McDonalds afterwards!

[Northman]

You can stay at the Stephen King suite at the hotel in Estes Park where he came up with the story. Would be a cool thing to do on Halloween.

I remember while attending Campion that we had a school dance there. Unfortuantely they wouldnt let us roam around outside the ballroom.

[Northman]

The original Nightmare on Elm Street was a doozy before they made Kruger a comedian. And still one of my alltime favorites is this flick, saw it when i was 20 something and it still gives me chills. Argento at his best.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ1jmAVbNgc

[MOtorboat]

Then there is epic stuff like this:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I16_8l0yS-g

LOVE that movie.

:coffee:

[Dirk]

The little cloaked guys from Phantasm freaked me out a ton for some reason.

[OrangeHoof]

I was never fond of scary films so I didn't watch many but the movie scene that disturbed me most was the climax of "Bonnie and Clyde" when the two were pelted with bullets in slow motion from seemingly every angle. I would have had the same reaction to the Sonny Corleone shooting in "The Godfather" but I was older by the time I saw that. I was probably 10 or 11 when I saw B&C.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6egrQZ9w_2c

[NightTrainLayne]

The first scary movie I ever saw was Children of the Corn.

I was pretty scared of Isaac and Malachi coming around for a few nights. Up to that point I had never been scared to go to bed. For a few nights afterwards, every tree branch shadow through the window was a potential killer.

I have never seen it again. .. .probably not that scary after all.

[shank]

I used to be creeped out by a christmas story. the whole movie. it wasn't scary, it just made me uncomfortable - still does kinda.

[slim]

The first scary movie I ever saw was Children of the Corn.

I was pretty scared of Isaac and Malachi coming around for a few nights. Up to that point I had never been scared to go to bed. For a few nights afterwards, every tree branch shadow through the window was a potential killer.

I have never seen it again. .. .probably not that scary after all.

I don't care who you are, Malachi is just creepy.

[Timmy!]

I remember I watched Aliens on HBO when I was like 8. Scared the shit outta me.....love that movie.

[sneakers]

also, candyman....still to this day I won't say candyman 5 times in a mirror if someone paid me to do it.

http://www.adventuresinpoortaste.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/candyman2.jpg

[MOtorboat]

I love the Children of the Corn series.

[CoachChaz]

Two movies...

The Brood (1979)
Magic (1978)

Scared the shit out of me as a kid. Not so much as an adult

[MasterShake]

Two movies...

The Brood (1979)
Magic (1978)

Scared the shit out of me as a kid. Not so much as an adult

Was Magic the one with that damn freaky puppet? I may have a repressed memory of that movie.

[slim]

Annie

[weazel]

The scary horse in "Mars Attacks", it made a return in "sex and the city" as well.

http://content6.flixster.com/rtactor/40/43/40432_pro.jpg

[weazel]

Alien vs Predator was scary too...

http://blog.ourstage.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/alien-vs-predator2-300x300.png

[rjent]

I know I am dating myself LOL and most of you punks won't even know it but:

The Fly/Return of the Fly 1958


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyIZ4wh_9Kg&feature=player_detailpage

[MasterShake]

I know I am dating myself LOL and most of you punks won't even know it but:

The Fly/Return of the Fly 1958


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyIZ4wh_9Kg&feature=player_detailpage

The remake with Jeff Goldblum was good too.

[Northman]

also, candyman....still to this day I won't say candyman 5 times in a mirror if someone paid me to do it.

http://www.adventuresinpoortaste.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/candyman2.jpg


Epic movie and im right with you. I dont care if the movie was fake, i still wont sit in the dark and say it 5 times. lol

[MOtorboat]

Epic movie and im right with you. I dont care if the movie was fake, i still wont sit in the dark and say it 5 times. lol

Candyman is a brilliant horror film.

[chazoe60]

Any of you guys ever see Session 9? It's about a group of asbestos removal guys working in an old insane assylum, if stars David Carruso of all people but it's a fantastic horror movie that has great creep factor.

[MOtorboat]

Hell yeah, Candyman is on streaming Netflix. I'm turning it on after the Nugs game is over.

[MOtorboat]

Any of you guys ever see Session 9? It's about a group of asbestos removal guys working in an old insane assylum, if stars David Carruso of all people but it's a fantastic horror movie that has great creep factor.

It seems to ring a bell. But maybe because I've seen it on Netflix and never watched it.

[Timmy!]

http://images.static-bluray.com/movies/covers/39584_large.jpg

This one scared the shit outta me when i was around 7 too....god it was awesome to have hbo in the late 80s.

[chazoe60]

It seems to ring a bell. But maybe because I've seen it on Netflix and never watched it.
You should watch it. Pretty good scary movie.

What's the best horror movie ever made, in your opinion?

For me it's hard to choose between Jaws and The Shining.

[MOtorboat]

You should watch it. Pretty good scary movie.

What's the best horror movie ever made, in your opinion?

For me it's hard to choose between Jaws and The Shining.

Exorcist. By far.

Jaws is a great movie, therefore I put it in a different category that goes into the "movies Buff would watch" category.

The Exorcist doesn't quite fall into that category, so I judge it in terms of horror greatness.

[MOtorboat]

Halloween is also brilliant.

[Dzone]

The Mrs. Bates scene at the end of Psycho...My dad shouldn't have been letting a little kid see something like that. Disturbing

[NightTrainLayne]

I think the best horror movie I've seen would be "Mercy".

So much tension and anxiety built up, and really just two characters involved. Brilliant.

[MasterShake]

http://images.static-bluray.com/movies/covers/39584_large.jpg

This one scared the shit outta me when i was around 7 too....god it was awesome to have hbo in the late 80s.

Those little mini-demons that lived in the tree stump were awesome.

[broncobryce]

Freddie Krueger. I lived on Elm street so that shit scared me.

[Northman]

Was Magic the one with that damn freaky puppet? I may have a repressed memory of that movie.

Dont see "Dead Silence" then. lol

[Dirk]

Exorcist. By far.

Jaws is a great movie, therefore I put it in a different category that goes into the "movies Buff would watch" category.

The Exorcist doesn't quite fall into that category, so I judge it in terms of horror greatness.

I totally agree with you. The Exorcist is one of the creepiest movies ever. I still get a little edgy when I hear the music from the movie.

[sneakers]

Epic movie and im right with you. I dont care if the movie was fake, i still wont sit in the dark and say it 5 times. lol

Plus they filmed it in Cabrini Green, the film crew had to pay off the Gang members who ran the place for "protection".

[rjent]

Exorcist. By far.

Jaws is a great movie, therefore I put it in a different category that goes into the "movies Buff would watch" category.

The Exorcist doesn't quite fall into that category, so I judge it in terms of horror greatness.

Absolutely the Exorcist! And if you think the movie was bad the book is worse. I remember twice when reading the book throwing it across the room.... :lol:

[Dirk]

Absolutely the Exorcist! And if you think the movie was bad the book is worse. I remember twice when reading the book throwing it across the room.... :lol:

I was staying overnight at my aunts house, it was about 11pm and I spotted the Exorcist book on the shelf. I laid down on the floor and started reading it. I finished it before morning. I just couldn't put it down.

[MasterShake]

I honestly think all the horror movies I watched growing up really did desensitize me. I am just annoyed with those type of movies today. Even the so-called good ones like Paranormal Activity or The Ring just piss me off. I guess things are just a lot scarier when you watch them on an old TV in a basement at midnight when you are 11 years old! I kind of feel bad for today's kids. Even though they kind find most of these movies on Netflix or elsewhere, there was nothing like going to the local video store and tracking down Evil Dead 2 or something and watching with your friends. Our local store even had the cool "Taboo Section" behind the beaded curtain with things like Faces Of Death or banned movies like Freaks. When my friend got a job there we would stay after closing and watch them all on the wall TVs at the store. Such an awesome time! I still have tons of movie posters from that place that the owner gave me, and a few standups in storage.

[chazoe60]

I honestly think all the horror movies I watched growing up really did desensitize me. I am just annoyed with those type of movies today. Even the so-called good ones like Paranormal Activity or The Ring just piss me off. I guess things are just a lot scarier when you watch them on an old TV in a basement at midnight when you are 11 years old! I kind of feel bad for today's kids. Even though they kind find most of these movies on Netflix or elsewhere, there was nothing like going to the local video store and tracking down Evil Dead 2 or something and watching with your friends. Our local store even had the cool "Taboo Section" behind the beaded curtain with things like Faces Of Death or banned movies like Freaks. When my friend got a job there we would stay after closing and watch them all on the wall TVs at the store. Such an awesome time! I still have tons of movie posters from that place that the owner gave me, and a few standups in storage.
There aren't a lot of "good" horror movies made anymore. There are some, but most of it is torture porn garbage or Japanese remake drivel. Stakeland is good. The Descent is a really good flick IMHO. Basically I get most of my horror fix through The Walking Dead.

[MasterShake]

There aren't a lot of "good" horror movies made anymore. There are some, but most of it is torture porn garbage or Japanese remake drivel. Stakeland is good. The Descent is a really good flick IMHO. Basically I get most of my horror fix through The Walking Dead.

The Walking Dead works so well because it does what the classic horror movies (even going back to Karloff's Frankenstein) did, and that is expose that humanity is the real monster in most cases. I don't need to see some crazy doctor sewing people ass to mouth to know that there are sick people in the world, I think the good horror movies show how visceral we can become when faced with true terror. We can either shrink and cower and die, or become more of a monster than the creature stalking us. No one survived a Freddy Krueger attack by trying to reason with him, they did so by being more sick and twisted than him and making him pay at his own game.

The best examples of how today's filmmakers are getting it wrong is the remakes. Rob Zombie is pretty cool, but he was off base with his Halloween remake. I don't want to feel bad for Michael Myers because he had a bad childhood, I just want some psycho to escape from a mental institution and start killing inexplicably. The true terror and horror comes from violence without cause, and the drama comes from how we react to it. Even movies like Child's Play challenged this idea by showing how even innocence can be corrupted. Maybe I look to much into horror films as a genre, but I mostly just hate how a once great allegory for life has been dumbed down.

[BroncoNut]

Exorcist.

And any demon-like thing that crawls on the ceiling. To this day it still creeps me out. I think it was The Last Exorcist where there was a fan and the possessed girl was crawling on the ceiling. I woke up that night, and my fan was going...creeped me out for a few seconds.

what time was it when you woke up? also, have you been baptized?

[BroncoNut]

my parents named my brother Damien after the priest in the Exorcist (Fr. Damien Carus). It backfired when the Omen came out a year or so later. As for my brother, I call him Eddie because his middle name is Edward and he just seems like an "Ed" type of person to me. Swear to God. Started calling him that when he was 9 or 10. Ed or Eddie. I'm the only one that calls him Ed now I think.

[MOtorboat]

what time was it when you woke up? also, have you been baptized?

I don't remember. 2 or 3 a.m. And yes, I was baptized.

[rjent]

There aren't a lot of "good" horror movies made anymore. There are some, but most of it is torture porn garbage or Japanese remake drivel. Stakeland is good. The Descent is a really good flick IMHO. Basically I get most of my horror fix through The Walking Dead.

Hell, until this year, I got mine from watching the Bronco play ..... :lol:

[rjent]

I was staying overnight at my aunts house, it was about 11pm and I spotted the Exorcist book on the shelf. I laid down on the floor and started reading it. I finished it before morning. I just couldn't put it down.

It is an "intense" read ....

[Northman]

I honestly think all the horror movies I watched growing up really did desensitize me. I am just annoyed with those type of movies today. Even the so-called good ones like Paranormal Activity or The Ring just piss me off. I guess things are just a lot scarier when you watch them on an old TV in a basement at midnight when you are 11 years old! I kind of feel bad for today's kids. Even though they kind find most of these movies on Netflix or elsewhere, there was nothing like going to the local video store and tracking down Evil Dead 2 or something and watching with your friends. Our local store even had the cool "Taboo Section" behind the beaded curtain with things like Faces Of Death or banned movies like Freaks. When my friend got a job there we would stay after closing and watch them all on the wall TVs at the store. Such an awesome time! I still have tons of movie posters from that place that the owner gave me, and a few standups in storage.


Totally on the money although i did like The Ring remake. Occasionally i will come across a horror film that still gives me the willies but overall when i go back and watch some older flicks like "The Mauseleum" and see how campy and retarded it is. But when your watching that shit late at night in the dark on a really bad TV it was scary as shit. lol .

Oh, Shake is rolling now. Lets get together with MO and Chaz beat a monkey to death and eat the brains. :lol:

[Northman]

Rob Zombie is pretty cool, but he was off base with his Halloween remake.

I actually didnt mind the first remake. I give him a lot of credit for not just doing "a remake" but actually getting creative. I thought House of a Thousand Corpses was a blatant ripoff of TCM. But Devil's Rejects was much much better and much stronger. The Nightmare On Elm Street looks horrible and the few scenes i saw were just BAD. Fright Night? Dont get me started....

Now i see they are remaking my favorite of alltime in Suspiria and it REALLY pisses me off.

The only remake right now that remotely looks promising is the EVIL DEAD remake but it also involves Raimi and Campbell.

[MasterShake]

I actually didnt mind the first remake. I give him a lot of credit for not just doing "a remake" but actually getting creative. I thought House of a Thousand Corpses was a blatant ripoff of TCM. But Devil's Rejects was much much better and much stronger. The Nightmare On Elm Street looks horrible and the few scenes i saw were just BAD. Fright Night? Dont get me started....

Now i see they are remaking my favorite of alltime in Suspiria and it REALLY pisses me off.

The only remake right now that remotely looks promising is the EVIL DEAD remake but it also involves Raimi and Campbell.

Yeah I want to check out Evil Dead too. That movie evolved really strangely. By the time they got to Army of Darkness it was basically a horror/comedy like Ghostbusters.

[Nomad]

Exorist girl freaked me out and Omen. That vampire dude from Salem's Lot also. All of these movies look cheesy now but I remember after watching Salem's Lot was a little afraid to look out the window when it was dark.

[MOtorboat]

Exorist girl freaked me out and Omen. That vampire dude from Salem's Lot also. All of these movies look cheesy now but I remember after watching Salem's Lot was a little afraid to look out the window when it was dark.

The Salem's Lot book creeped me out pretty good. The movie was too cheesy to do so.

[Nomad]

The Salem's Lot book creeped me out pretty good. The movie was too cheesy to do so.

I think I was 7 yrs old when I saw it through my fingers with my cousins:lol: But yes, watching the movie as an adult, it is cheesy.

[SoCalImport]

Ted Dansen as a waterlogged zombie gave me more than one sleepless night. I'm guessing I was about 10 when I saw creepshow. Oh and the other zombie from that movie "I want my cake, phadellia!" oh, that freaked me out