to think their freaky): the Insidious movies. kinda creepy.
All the others have been mentioned but over the last ten years or so I’d second insidious and the conjuring.
As a kid, the shining, the exorcist and nightmare on elm street.
If I watched Insidious as a kid I would be seriously creeped the fuck out. That was one of the best Horror movies of the past 20 years, IMO. I liked Midsommar and Hereditary recently as well.
and I've never even been afraid of clowns. I think it's because I've always been afraid of spiders and they wrapped people up in cotton candy to kill it like a spider would wrap something up. Freaked me out as a little kid.
I was really afraid of Michael Jackson when I was a kid. Between The Wiz and Thriller, I thought he was just scary.
Critters made me make sure I never slept with my hands or feet off of the bed.
When I was kid, I watched a lot of movies that I shouldn't have seen. Some of them weren't even scary, but they scared me as a kid. Quite a few have them have been listed already...
- Jaws
- Alien
- Hellraiser
- Nightmare on Elm Street
- Killer Klowns from Outer Space (which isn't even scary... it's just dumb)
I fell asleep on our family room floor as a kid. Woke up to find my older brothers and sisters watching this movie and I stuck around too long because I wanted to see what "big kid" movies were like.
Anyway, that's the movie that freaked me out when I'd wake up in the middle of the night and my mind would start racing.
#2 - Jaws screwed up swimming in a lake even, let alone the ocean.
#3 - tv movie Salem's Lot. I couldn't look out a window at night for years afterwards, whether my bedroom window or even the window next to the toilet in the bathroom. All because of this stupid scene:
Also the scene in Cool Runnings when Sanka ruins Yul Brenner's dream by informing him that the postcard he envisions as his future home is actually Buckingham Palace. Left me devastated.
I remember when The Shining came on WHT in September 1981 ,the Giants played the Eagles that day lol .Also check out Doctor Sleep the Shining squeal i thought it was excellent
RE: An early 70s TV show that used to scare the piss out of me...
My parents were going out for the night. My 3 older brothers were authorized to take me to a movie, with one direct order: Do not take him to The Omega Man!
The direct order was repeated several times, I remember clearly.
Of course we went to see The Omega Man! Of course!
This was followed by two weeks of nightmares, with me waking up the entire family, screaming in terror! Night after night after night ...
It took my parents about 2 minutes to figure it out.
You took him to The Omega Man! We told you not to take him to The Omega Man!
I love that movie. Great memories. Two of my brothers have passed, so I hold those memories dear.
Now ask me about the 4 brothers and the ice skating escapade!
My parents were going out for the night. My 3 older brothers were authorized to take me to a movie, with one direct order: Do not take him to The Omega Man!
The direct order was repeated several times, I remember clearly.
Of course we went to see The Omega Man! Of course!
This was followed by two weeks of nightmares, with me waking up the entire family, screaming in terror! Night after night after night ...
It took my parents about 2 minutes to figure it out.
You took him to The Omega Man! We told you not to take him to The Omega Man!
I love that movie. Great memories. Two of my brothers have passed, so I hold those memories dear.
Now ask me about the 4 brothers and the ice skating escapade!
I think it was the first time I realized how much better books are than movies. Amityville movie was lousy.
X...it was one of my favorite books when I was about 14 or so. I went to the movie with a friend on a "dark and stormy night"...no shit...and when I got home I went to my room and dug out the book to reference things. I agree, the movie was lame compared to the book. After reading a few minutes, there was a crack of thunder and the shades on one of my windows released and spun up to the top of the window, scaring the crap out of me. I took the book out of my room, put it in the trash in the bathroom, and dove under my covers for the night.
I got jaded on movies vs books with The Shining. The book was lightyears better than the movie, IMHO. And the movie wasn't bad, it just wasn't the book.
As a small kid, Wizard of Oz with the freaking flying monkeys! However it is my favorite movie of all time. Have probably seen in near 25-30 times.
Now The Exorcist is the one that most affected me. I don't like scary movies and this one was for me scary. I was in High School and couldn't sleep after that. And that movie is mild compared to most creepy movies. Never watched it again...
Jaws was different. I worked on a party boat, so fishing was my thing. I saw plenty of big, really big sharks so a side from the head rolling out of the bottom of the boat, nothing was too scary (well maybe Quint getting eaten).
I think it was the first time I realized how much better books are than movies. Amityville movie was lousy.
X...it was one of my favorite books when I was about 14 or so. I went to the movie with a friend on a "dark and stormy night"...no shit...and when I got home I went to my room and dug out the book to reference things. I agree, the movie was lame compared to the book. After reading a few minutes, there was a crack of thunder and the shades on one of my windows released and spun up to the top of the window, scaring the crap out of me. I took the book out of my room, put it in the trash in the bathroom, and dove under my covers for the night.
I got jaded on movies vs books with The Shining. The book was lightyears better than the movie, IMHO. And the movie wasn't bad, it just wasn't the book.
Hah I hear ya. That's funny because as freaky as the movie was, I read Salem's Lot when I was like 12, and I couldn't turn my lights off for a month... LOL. And yeah I love the Shining movie but it doesn't hold a candle to the book.
and I loved that movie! How was that not one of the classics....so fucked up.
Who says it isn't a classic?
I'm a pretty big movie buff in my 30's and probably wouldn't even have f heard of it until this thread if I didn't so happen to catch it. I'd say a key competent of a classic is it is well known through generations. Great movie regardless.
RE: RE: RE: I saw the Omega Man maybe ten years ago or so late on tv one night
and I loved that movie! How was that not one of the classics....so fucked up.
Who says it isn't a classic?
I'm a pretty big movie buff in my 30's and probably wouldn't even have f heard of it until this thread if I didn't so happen to catch it. I'd say a key competent of a classic is it is well known through generations. Great movie regardless.
Piffle.
Lots of flicks are well-known through generations, and more than a few of them are what I call "Emperor's New Clothes Famous." They're really not that great, but somebody, somewhere, at some time decided they were, and now everybody just goes along to get along. (If I really wanted to bring some heat down on me, I'd call it "Big Lebowski Syndrome," lol.) For me, if you get the same rush every time you see it, it's a classic.
Anyway...this is just as much of a classic as the Vincent Price version of Richard Matheson's story, filmed seven years earlier, and light-years better than the 2007 Will Smith version. However, it had the misfortune of being sandwiched between two of Charlton Heston's more memorable sci-fi/action movies - Planet of the Apes and Soylent Green - both of which had blockbuster, holy shit endings, and many more quotable lines. The Omega Man got a little lost in the shuffle.
Also, some critics thought Heston was getting a bit long in the tooth to play the bare-chested action hero. Note that after The Omega Man he usually kept his shirt on, no matter what role he was playing.
It was on TV at some point in the late 70s. I caught the scene in which the sniper positions himself on top of a structure near a freeway and just starts killing drivers. It was definitely traumatizing... I used to imagine that happening to my parents while they were simply doing a daily drive. It's my oldest memory of being introduced to the idea of being killed randomly while in the midst of doing something mundane.
I never thought of this until now, but it might have played a part in my feelings towards gun enthusiasm.
I think it was the first time I realized how much better books are than movies. Amityville movie was lousy.
X...it was one of my favorite books when I was about 14 or so. I went to the movie with a friend on a "dark and stormy night"...no shit...and when I got home I went to my room and dug out the book to reference things. I agree, the movie was lame compared to the book. After reading a few minutes, there was a crack of thunder and the shades on one of my windows released and spun up to the top of the window, scaring the crap out of me. I took the book out of my room, put it in the trash in the bathroom, and dove under my covers for the night.
I got jaded on movies vs books with The Shining. The book was lightyears better than the movie, IMHO. And the movie wasn't bad, it just wasn't the book.
The book "The Amityville Horror" terrorized my FAMILY. After I read it, I talked my Mom and Grandmother into reading it - Grandma used to wake up at 3am every morning, go in the basement and do laundry. So, wiseass I am - I hung a pair of red bicycle reflectors on the back wall of the basement so when she turned on the light, Jodi the pig would be staring at her from the back. It worked perfectly. She wouldn't go down there! "There's an animal in the basement!!"
As much as I love the book "The Shining", I can't agree on the film - I believe Kubrick's version is one of the finest films ever made, period. I don't compare it much to the book at all - to me, he isn't telling the same story really, just using the same people and place - the book is centered on the evil of the hotel, the movie is ALL JACK. The shit Kubrick pulled with all the intentionally disorienting continuity errors (the Overlook itself is an 'impossible'), deep, dark themes (Native American Genocide??!!) while leaving the film on its surface as a fine, simple, crap-yer-pants-suspenseful horror movie - just stunningly brilliant.
I think it was the first time I realized how much better books are than movies. Amityville movie was lousy.
X...it was one of my favorite books when I was about 14 or so. I went to the movie with a friend on a "dark and stormy night"...no shit...and when I got home I went to my room and dug out the book to reference things. I agree, the movie was lame compared to the book. After reading a few minutes, there was a crack of thunder and the shades on one of my windows released and spun up to the top of the window, scaring the crap out of me. I took the book out of my room, put it in the trash in the bathroom, and dove under my covers for the night.
I got jaded on movies vs books with The Shining. The book was lightyears better than the movie, IMHO. And the movie wasn't bad, it just wasn't the book.
The book "The Amityville Horror" terrorized my FAMILY. After I read it, I talked my Mom and Grandmother into reading it - Grandma used to wake up at 3am every morning, go in the basement and do laundry. So, wiseass I am - I hung a pair of red bicycle reflectors on the back wall of the basement so when she turned on the light, Jodi the pig would be staring at her from the back. It worked perfectly. She wouldn't go down there! "There's an animal in the basement!!"
As much as I love the book "The Shining", I can't agree on the film - I believe Kubrick's version is one of the finest films ever made, period. I don't compare it much to the book at all - to me, he isn't telling the same story really, just using the same people and place - the book is centered on the evil of the hotel, the movie is ALL JACK. The shit Kubrick pulled with all the intentionally disorienting continuity errors (the Overlook itself is an 'impossible'), deep, dark themes (Native American Genocide??!!) while leaving the film on its surface as a fine, simple, crap-yer-pants-suspenseful horror movie - just stunningly brilliant.
LOL that's great what you did to your grandmother...I did something similar with those stick type creations from Blair Witch Project to my daughter, who was 13 at the time. Scared the hell out of her, lol!
As for The Shining, I completely agree...I was just saying that like you going to see the AH movie and it being nothing like the book, that's how I felt when I went to see The Shining. I was disappointed that it wasn't like the book, but LOVED the movie and still do. I think our difference in understanding is because AH the movie was downright awful, and you hated it. (So did I) Maybe you thought I hated the Shining movie...I didn't, not at all. I was just trying to point out that I became aware that the movies were not always going to be like the book and to not get my hopes up too high.
What? Why?? That's so messed up lol
Watched that the other night. The lead actor is now the head cop actor on Chicago PD. Kind of funny.
All the others have been mentioned but over the last ten years or so I’d second insidious and the conjuring.
As a kid, the shining, the exorcist and nightmare on elm street.
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to think their freaky): the Insidious movies. kinda creepy.
All the others have been mentioned but over the last ten years or so I’d second insidious and the conjuring.
As a kid, the shining, the exorcist and nightmare on elm street.
If I watched Insidious as a kid I would be seriously creeped the fuck out. That was one of the best Horror movies of the past 20 years, IMO. I liked Midsommar and Hereditary recently as well.
Was just going to post this.
And it didn’t help that they ran an ad for Christine during the movie.
riiight?! -- yo Bro -- Margaret Hamilton's wicked witch of the West scared the Bejuzus out of me - Coold Sweats!!
Amityville horror, the eyes in the window jacked me up for a few years... lol
Critters made me make sure I never slept with my hands or feet off of the bed.
When I was kid, I watched a lot of movies that I shouldn't have seen. Some of them weren't even scary, but they scared me as a kid. Quite a few have them have been listed already...
- Jaws
- Alien
- Hellraiser
- Nightmare on Elm Street
- Killer Klowns from Outer Space (which isn't even scary... it's just dumb)
There was one scene in that movie that freaked me out when I was a kid. I don't even remember what it was... something to do with a cave maybe?
Scared me to my core as a kid. The Shining.
Anyway, that's the movie that freaked me out when I'd wake up in the middle of the night and my mind would start racing.
#2 - Jaws screwed up swimming in a lake even, let alone the ocean.
#3 - tv movie Salem's Lot. I couldn't look out a window at night for years afterwards, whether my bedroom window or even the window next to the toilet in the bathroom. All because of this stupid scene:
Although I watched it anyways because Jennifer Connelly.
Clowns are kind of evil.
Also the scene in Cool Runnings when Sanka ruins Yul Brenner's dream by informing him that the postcard he envisions as his future home is actually Buckingham Palace. Left me devastated.
DAMN that headless motorcycle rider. I looked forward to and dreaded seeing that show at the same time.
I loved that show as a kid. Kolchak was the ballz... lol
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But The Neverending Story just creeped me out as a kid. Found it really weird and unsettling.
There was one scene in that movie that freaked me out when I was a kid. I don't even remember what it was... something to do with a cave maybe?
I think it was the first time I realized how much better books are than movies. Amityville movie was lousy.
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But The Neverending Story just creeped me out as a kid. Found it really weird and unsettling.
There was one scene in that movie that freaked me out when I was a kid. I don't even remember what it was... something to do with a cave maybe?
Yes!!
The direct order was repeated several times, I remember clearly.
Of course we went to see The Omega Man! Of course!
This was followed by two weeks of nightmares, with me waking up the entire family, screaming in terror! Night after night after night ...
It took my parents about 2 minutes to figure it out.
You took him to The Omega Man! We told you not to take him to The Omega Man!
I love that movie. Great memories. Two of my brothers have passed, so I hold those memories dear.
Now ask me about the 4 brothers and the ice skating escapade!
The direct order was repeated several times, I remember clearly.
Of course we went to see The Omega Man! Of course!
This was followed by two weeks of nightmares, with me waking up the entire family, screaming in terror! Night after night after night ...
It took my parents about 2 minutes to figure it out.
You took him to The Omega Man! We told you not to take him to The Omega Man!
I love that movie. Great memories. Two of my brothers have passed, so I hold those memories dear.
Now ask me about the 4 brothers and the ice skating escapade!
creepy movie.
I think it was the first time I realized how much better books are than movies. Amityville movie was lousy.
X...it was one of my favorite books when I was about 14 or so. I went to the movie with a friend on a "dark and stormy night"...no shit...and when I got home I went to my room and dug out the book to reference things. I agree, the movie was lame compared to the book. After reading a few minutes, there was a crack of thunder and the shades on one of my windows released and spun up to the top of the window, scaring the crap out of me. I took the book out of my room, put it in the trash in the bathroom, and dove under my covers for the night.
I got jaded on movies vs books with The Shining. The book was lightyears better than the movie, IMHO. And the movie wasn't bad, it just wasn't the book.
Now The Exorcist is the one that most affected me. I don't like scary movies and this one was for me scary. I was in High School and couldn't sleep after that. And that movie is mild compared to most creepy movies. Never watched it again...
Jaws was different. I worked on a party boat, so fishing was my thing. I saw plenty of big, really big sharks so a side from the head rolling out of the bottom of the boat, nothing was too scary (well maybe Quint getting eaten).
Lionel Hutz filed a lawsuit against that movie for false advertising.
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...I was about 10 and it fucked me up.
I think it was the first time I realized how much better books are than movies. Amityville movie was lousy.
X...it was one of my favorite books when I was about 14 or so. I went to the movie with a friend on a "dark and stormy night"...no shit...and when I got home I went to my room and dug out the book to reference things. I agree, the movie was lame compared to the book. After reading a few minutes, there was a crack of thunder and the shades on one of my windows released and spun up to the top of the window, scaring the crap out of me. I took the book out of my room, put it in the trash in the bathroom, and dove under my covers for the night.
I got jaded on movies vs books with The Shining. The book was lightyears better than the movie, IMHO. And the movie wasn't bad, it just wasn't the book.
Hah I hear ya. That's funny because as freaky as the movie was, I read Salem's Lot when I was like 12, and I couldn't turn my lights off for a month... LOL. And yeah I love the Shining movie but it doesn't hold a candle to the book.
Me too!
Who says it isn't a classic?
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and I loved that movie! How was that not one of the classics....so fucked up.
Who says it isn't a classic?
I'm a pretty big movie buff in my 30's and probably wouldn't even have f heard of it until this thread if I didn't so happen to catch it. I'd say a key competent of a classic is it is well known through generations. Great movie regardless.
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and I loved that movie! How was that not one of the classics....so fucked up.
Who says it isn't a classic?
I'm a pretty big movie buff in my 30's and probably wouldn't even have f heard of it until this thread if I didn't so happen to catch it. I'd say a key competent of a classic is it is well known through generations. Great movie regardless.
Piffle.
Lots of flicks are well-known through generations, and more than a few of them are what I call "Emperor's New Clothes Famous." They're really not that great, but somebody, somewhere, at some time decided they were, and now everybody just goes along to get along. (If I really wanted to bring some heat down on me, I'd call it "Big Lebowski Syndrome," lol.) For me, if you get the same rush every time you see it, it's a classic.
Anyway...this is just as much of a classic as the Vincent Price version of Richard Matheson's story, filmed seven years earlier, and light-years better than the 2007 Will Smith version. However, it had the misfortune of being sandwiched between two of Charlton Heston's more memorable sci-fi/action movies - Planet of the Apes and Soylent Green - both of which had blockbuster, holy shit endings, and many more quotable lines. The Omega Man got a little lost in the shuffle.
Also, some critics thought Heston was getting a bit long in the tooth to play the bare-chested action hero. Note that after The Omega Man he usually kept his shirt on, no matter what role he was playing.
I never thought of this until now, but it might have played a part in my feelings towards gun enthusiasm.
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...I was about 10 and it fucked me up.
I think it was the first time I realized how much better books are than movies. Amityville movie was lousy.
X...it was one of my favorite books when I was about 14 or so. I went to the movie with a friend on a "dark and stormy night"...no shit...and when I got home I went to my room and dug out the book to reference things. I agree, the movie was lame compared to the book. After reading a few minutes, there was a crack of thunder and the shades on one of my windows released and spun up to the top of the window, scaring the crap out of me. I took the book out of my room, put it in the trash in the bathroom, and dove under my covers for the night.
I got jaded on movies vs books with The Shining. The book was lightyears better than the movie, IMHO. And the movie wasn't bad, it just wasn't the book.
As much as I love the book "The Shining", I can't agree on the film - I believe Kubrick's version is one of the finest films ever made, period. I don't compare it much to the book at all - to me, he isn't telling the same story really, just using the same people and place - the book is centered on the evil of the hotel, the movie is ALL JACK. The shit Kubrick pulled with all the intentionally disorienting continuity errors (the Overlook itself is an 'impossible'), deep, dark themes (Native American Genocide??!!) while leaving the film on its surface as a fine, simple, crap-yer-pants-suspenseful horror movie - just stunningly brilliant.
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...I was about 10 and it fucked me up.
I think it was the first time I realized how much better books are than movies. Amityville movie was lousy.
X...it was one of my favorite books when I was about 14 or so. I went to the movie with a friend on a "dark and stormy night"...no shit...and when I got home I went to my room and dug out the book to reference things. I agree, the movie was lame compared to the book. After reading a few minutes, there was a crack of thunder and the shades on one of my windows released and spun up to the top of the window, scaring the crap out of me. I took the book out of my room, put it in the trash in the bathroom, and dove under my covers for the night.
I got jaded on movies vs books with The Shining. The book was lightyears better than the movie, IMHO. And the movie wasn't bad, it just wasn't the book.
The book "The Amityville Horror" terrorized my FAMILY. After I read it, I talked my Mom and Grandmother into reading it - Grandma used to wake up at 3am every morning, go in the basement and do laundry. So, wiseass I am - I hung a pair of red bicycle reflectors on the back wall of the basement so when she turned on the light, Jodi the pig would be staring at her from the back. It worked perfectly. She wouldn't go down there! "There's an animal in the basement!!"
As much as I love the book "The Shining", I can't agree on the film - I believe Kubrick's version is one of the finest films ever made, period. I don't compare it much to the book at all - to me, he isn't telling the same story really, just using the same people and place - the book is centered on the evil of the hotel, the movie is ALL JACK. The shit Kubrick pulled with all the intentionally disorienting continuity errors (the Overlook itself is an 'impossible'), deep, dark themes (Native American Genocide??!!) while leaving the film on its surface as a fine, simple, crap-yer-pants-suspenseful horror movie - just stunningly brilliant.
LOL that's great what you did to your grandmother...I did something similar with those stick type creations from Blair Witch Project to my daughter, who was 13 at the time. Scared the hell out of her, lol!
As for The Shining, I completely agree...I was just saying that like you going to see the AH movie and it being nothing like the book, that's how I felt when I went to see The Shining. I was disappointed that it wasn't like the book, but LOVED the movie and still do. I think our difference in understanding is because AH the movie was downright awful, and you hated it. (So did I) Maybe you thought I hated the Shining movie...I didn't, not at all. I was just trying to point out that I became aware that the movies were not always going to be like the book and to not get my hopes up too high.