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I remember duel on tv around about 75..when I was 6!! Also a movie involing a dead body rising from a bath about 77..or earlier ..it wasnt the black and white la diabolieqe (spelling?) ,,,mus have been a tv remake..scared the poo outa me and no mistake.
so did first run of salems lot..but that was a bit later ..1979 think!..heard this is getting remade?? A tv movie remake of a tv movie??
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I remember watching Invasion of the Body Snatchers. (the 1978 version) I think I watched it when I was either 8 or 9 years old and it absolutely scared the life out of me, don't think I slept too well after watching it.:eek:
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Nightmare on Elm Street when I was 8. I watched it at my mate's whos parents will let him watch everything - everyone has one :). I had nightmares for weeks.
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I saw the last 45 minutes of The Omen on TV when I was 8. Loved the beheading scene. :D
The Mephisto Waltz when I was about 9 or 10.
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GhostBusters scared the crap out of me when I saw it ..I must have been around 7.
Specificly Slimer :eek: :eek: :eek:
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The 1958 version of The Fly.
It wasn't the film itself so much that scared me, but what happened later. I was just dropping off to sleep that night when one of the blinds in my room (I had pull down blinds) took that moment to roll back up with a noise like the end of the world. I literally went through the roof, and it took a long long time for me to calm down afterwards. :(
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When I was about eight years old, I stayed up to watch a film called "Dont be afraid of the dark", and I can safely say it was one of the most frightening experiences of my childhood.
I didn't even get to see the demons that appeared in the film, because you hear them speaking before you actually see them, and I was so petrified by the voices that I ran out of the living room and straight to my bed.
I even started shouting down the stairs to my mum pleading with her to turn down the sound on the tv, I was that frightened I would still hear the voices in my room.
I saw it again for the first time about four years ago, and I expected to have a bit of a laugh at it, but instead I thought it was still quite a frightening film.
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that wasnt that tv movie with them daft puppets in was it??
Going on the replies so far can safely say Im an old git.. saw nightmare on elm st when it was first on video In 1985!!:(
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I know its not a film but Ghostwatch as at the time I thought it was real. I didnt sleep that night. :(
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Poltergeist, and it still creeps me out to this day.
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Captain Clegg, when I was about 5.
The memory of the skeletons on horseback, stayed with me for ages.
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Saw "Night of the Demon" and "The Ghoul" on BBC2 when they still used to do summer horror double-bills. "Night of the Demon" scared the poo out of me, mainly 'cos the hamster in the hall used to make the same sound on its wheel that the demon did....
Another BBC2 season included "Ghost Train", "Half-Way House" and "Dead of Night" . It was the latter film that spooked me at around 6pm when it was shown. Never played Sardines since.
Steve
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salem's Lot scared the bejesus out of me when I was younger, that bit with the guy 'teacher, look at me' and the kid scratching on the window:eek:
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Probably either The Spiral Staircase, or The Haunting. I'm not sure when Don't Look Now was first shown on tv, but that certainly scared the bejezus out of me:D .
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Halloween and Ghostwatch, I was around 10 when I first watched these, think they were on the same night, I can remember as I got no sleep that night! :eek:
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I must have been about 8 or so and I'll never forget the film, scared me more than anything in my whole life, it was:
GREMLINS
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I must have been about 8 or so and I'll never forget the film, scared me more than anything in my whole life, it was:
GREMLINS!!!
And I still haven't watched it again to this day!!!!!
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TRILOGY OF TERROR - the episode 'Prey' with the voodoo doll that comes to life.
Saw it when I was 15, and at the time it scared the hell out of me.
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Bambi :(
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Originally posted by Malick
TRILOGY OF TERROR - the episode 'Prey' with the voodoo doll that comes to life.
Ooh, good one :thumbs: . I taped that off the telly a while back, i must dig it out and watch it again.
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"Isle of the Dead" - scared the life out of me when I was 5.
Incidentally, "Don't Look Now" was first shown on December 27th 1979, when the BBC made the idiotic decision to chop out the entire lovemaking scene.
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Originally posted by Mike
Incidentally, "Don't Look Now" was first shown on December 27th 1979, when the BBC made the idiotic decision to chop out the entire lovemaking scene.
That means i was 11 when i first saw it, what a total wussy!:oh-hum:
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Night of the Demon
Quatermass and the Pit
The Omen
Halloween
all seen on tv during my younger days
I can still vividly remember my first viewings of each even though the most recent of these must have been over 20 years ago (I know the omen was 1981, as the Final Conflict was advertised in the ad break)
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Night of The Demon left me literally shaking - dunno how old I was - probably early teens!
The "Help Me..." scene in The Fly didn't do much for my "clean pants" resolution, and staying on an arachnoid theme, the fight with the spider in The Incredible Shrinking Man would have had me cowering behing the sofa, but our 3 piece suite was missing a central element.
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Ghostbusters for me too.
I couldn *never* get past the bit with the woman in the Library.
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Originally posted by tizza
Also a movie involing a dead body rising from a bath about 77..or earlier ..it wasnt the black and white la diabolieqe (spelling?) ,,,mus have been a tv remake How weird! This scene is from a film I watched when I was very young. My dad let me stay up late and watch it with him, and the only thing I remember (apart from feeling terrified for days) was a body rising slowly from the bath tub. There was a woman watching it and she was basically scared to death. I think that was the point of the film. Never been able to remember what it was called though.
Oh and apart from that one memory of a scary movie, for me the earliest film I recall seeing and being affected by is The Changeling. Still makes the hairs stand up to this day! :eek:
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Nightmare on Elm St ... could only watch upto the girl in the body bag! :lol:
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As mentioned above, Salems Lot and the kid floating at the window, tapping, tapping, tapping, to be let in, still creeps me out today. As do loads of other bits in that film.
Another was Creepshow, the final story with the cockroaches, the final scene of that was just shocking.
I remeber one as well, dont remember what it was called, but it was a man who chopped up his wife, and all the seperate pieces came to life and killed him, an arm, a hand, a leg, the torso, all sort of shuffling towards him, spooky scene.
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Theatre of Blood on TV when I was about 8.
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I can't say I was really scared of the actual movies themselves - more the sound. For example, as a child, I had my own video collection of bootlegs - one tape had Evil Dead and Disney's Snow White on it, another had Friday 13th and Quatermass II on it.
The sound of An American Werewolf In London scared the hell out of me when my parents were watching it in another room as I tried to sleep.
The first movie I really remember being terrified by, so that I couldn't sleep for days was Mario Bava's 'Shock', which I got out of the video shop when I was 10. Daria Nicolodi is a scary woman.
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I watched Alien on video when I was about 9, it scared the ***** out of me but I watched it all :) And it has been the only film ever that has put the willies up me and I watched all the slashers/nasties in the 80's early 90's.
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I think my first fright fest was probably 'Quatermass 2'. I think it was in the 1970s and the BBC showed it late. My Mum went off to bed with the message to my Dad - 'Don't let him stay up to late', and then my Dad promptly fell asleep - lol!
Everything seemed ok with 'Quatermass 2' until the MP falls into the Gasometer and comes screaming down the staircase covered in that black corrosive gunge. I must have made so much row that my Mum came down stairs and gave my Dad a right telling off. The scene still jars me even now when I watch it. Brilliant film too!:)
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Originally posted by joconnor
salem's Lot scared the bejesus out of me when I was younger, that bit with the guy 'teacher, look at me' and the kid scratching on the window:eek:
:eek:
same as.. *tap* *tap* *tap* *tap* :gag:
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Frankenstein - The true story (1973, TV movie).
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An ancient movie called Quatermass and the Pit. I found this really scary (I was about 7) My parents didn't know what it would be like and sent me to bed half way through. In the morning they told me that the ending was that "It all turned out to be just a joke". It wasn't of course but that was to settle me down
Saw it many years later in my 20's and it's still a good film despite it's age, plus it can teach some so called horror movies nowadays a thing or two about building up suspense.
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Halloween and An American Werewolf In London - saw them both when I was about nine. Other than those, I saw quite a lot of British Hammer (?) films when I was young. I specifically remember one where someone got their hand chopped off and later was smashing a skeleton round what looked like a 18th century glasshouse. Any ideas what the film is? Can't remember any actors from it so...
Probably the film that scared me (and the rest of my school) more than anything when I was a kid was The House That Bled To Death.
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I can still vividly remember my first viewings of each even though the most recent of these must have been over 20 years ago (I know the omen was 1981, as the Final Conflict was advertised in the ad break)
Yeh thats right..I was thinking it was more 1980 tho , that ad for final conflict was on before the omen started I think?? It had clips from the first two movies in it! The omen had my terrified that night ,it was all everyone was talking about at shool for the next day too! Same when Halloween was premiered, everyone was cacking themselves:eek:
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The Lost Boys was the first scary movie I ever watched. I was very young and watched it with my cousins. Ever since then Ive always been afraid of vampires more than any other monster.
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My nan let me watch a Dracula film when I was little, and it scared the bejesus out of me! I still won't sleep at night with my neck uncovered :nuts:
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I don't remember how old I was at the time, but the film that I do rememeber that scared the crap out of me when I was very young was watching 'Forbidden Planet' on TV. Not the whole film, just all the scenes with the invisible 'Id' creature, such as seeing only its footprints as its moving and the stairs bending as it enters the space ship and it opening doors all accompanied by the very creepy electronic popping music sound. Plus the scene where its trying to break through the force field around the ship and all you can see is its outline and hear its roaring. Now I'm 34 and I love the film, but whenever I watch those scenes it always makes me smile and remember how scary it was when I was young.
:eek:
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I remember that I found The Amazing Mr Blunden quite scary when I was very young, but the movies that really left an impression were Friday 13th Part 2 and Halloween II
I saw these as a double bill round a friends house when I was 10. (His parents also let him watch anything)
Friend's mum : "Your parents do know that your watching these films, don't they?"
Jon :"Yes, of course!!" (nodding vigorously)
This was in the early 80's when you could still pop to the video store and pick up SS Experiment Camp and Cannibal Ferox.
I had a great summer that year, getting to watch what seemed like hundreds of horror movies!! Ahhh the memories!
:)
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Originally posted by Dave Metcalf
same as.. *tap* *tap* *tap* *tap*
Please stop :(
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I remember watching the film that Maxamillion mentions, where a man chops up his wife, and later that night the hacked off limbs, wrapped in brown paper, come back to kill him. It was called "Asylum".
I was about ten when I saw it, and absolutely terrified.
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Also I rememeber getting scared by roald dahls tales of the unexpected..the one where the bloke deis in the lift and when his wife finds him he has beetles crawling about in his hair:gag: and the one where a bloke cuts his wife up in the bath, the blood up the walls was horrifying at that age!
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Don't look now with Donald Sutherland scared me wet:help:
Especially the scene where that lil dwarf in red raincoat turns around :gag:
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A Jensen
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american werewolf in london, hired in secret and wathed it alone in the house while my parents worked, in the dark, all alone when i was 5 or 6.
scared the crap out of me. couldnt go to sleep with the lights off for months afterwards
one good things, it desensitised me to it so i was ok for other movies afterwards :D
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At cubs/scouts in the late 60s we had some films shown on 16mm. I recall being suitably afraid of the monster from the Id in Forbidden Planet.
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The first film I remember scaring me was Treasure Island, specifically Ben Gunn - I had nightmares about him. Actually, I don't think any other film has affected me in the same way.
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The Wizard of Oz - I must have been about 4-5 and at the bit where the witch is on the broomstick I ran about screaming, hid behind the sofa and **** myself. My mum takes great delight in pointing this out everytime its on TV.
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Originally posted by BigDavie2000
The Wizard of Oz - I must have been about 4-5 and at the bit where the witch is on the broomstick I ran about screaming, hid behind the sofa and **** myself. My mum takes great delight in pointing this out everytime its on TV.
Mums are great at that. And if you have siblings your parents' tales of your misdoings will be confused so that you're told adamantly you did something as a kid you know you didn't!:dork:
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I 'accidentally' watched the Exorcist when I was 8 with my mum & older cousin who had hired the video one afternoon. ******* me up big time for a while!! :gag:
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I remember seeing Salem's Lot and American Werewolf in London when I was a little kid - scared the utter crap out of me and left me sleepless for many days afterwards! :eek:
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I will also add my voice to the Salem's Lot crowd. I was about 8 or 9 when it was first shown on BBC1, split over 2 evenings. The ending of Part one scared the bejesus out of me, but I still begged my parents to let me watch part 2 the next evening!
Also, I begged and begged my dad to hire a film called Xtro from the local video shop, based purely on the fact that the front cover was a rip-off of the poster for E.T. ! The scene where...
a woman gives birth to a full-grown man and basically gets ripped in two!
...stayed with me for quite some time!
I love to see it again but as far as I know it is unavailable on DVD.
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I saw Elm Street one and An American Werewolf in London when I was about 8 or 9.:thumbs:
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The very first movie that really scared the crap out of me was the 1931 version of Frankenstein with Boris Karloff.
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Remeber seeing Dracula Prince of Darkness when I was about 8 it scared the hell out of me.
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Most of mine already mentioned. Poltergeist was first. The scene where the camera guy was looking in the mirror and pulling chunks of his face off. Also American Warewolf when he had the double dream thing in hospital. Salem's lot was a real scare. I also remember being scared of some of the Creepshow stories. Like the one with the hitch-hiker and the one about the lake.:eek:
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Originally posted by Corrus
I will also add my voice to the Salem's Lot crowd. I was about 8 or 9 when it was first shown on BBC1, split over 2 evenings. The ending of Part one scared the bejesus out of me, but I still begged my parents to let me watch part 2 the next evening!
Also, I begged and begged my dad to hire a film called Xtro from the local video shop, based purely on the fact that the front cover was a rip-off of the poster for E.T. ! The scene where...
a woman gives birth to a full-grown man and basically gets ripped in two!
...stayed with me for quite some time!
I love to see it again but as far as I know it is unavailable on DVD.
It's been on Sky Cinema quite a lot recently - check TV listings.
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I tended to avoid horror films as a youngster, which meant that Medusa in 'The Clash of the Titans' and that scene in 'Superman III' where the woman gets covered in metal were my biggest scare moments. (I've discussed the latter with numerous people of my age - 23/24 - and all agree on its sheer ****-making abilities.)
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not a horror film but i remember that The Medusa Touch
had me sweating bullets when i was a nipper, bit strange as i was alright with films like Halloween and Omen
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Jaws got me when I was a kid - I was sure there were sharks waiting outside my bedroom......strange!
Also another film that I saw a few scenes of when I was at a relatives house, there were these "living frizbees" (sorry, best description I could come up with) either flying around or being thrown. I just remember one scene where there was a man and a woman in a car and one landed on the windscreen. You could see all these tentacles and stuff trying to get in. That stayed with me for along time. Anyone got any ideas what the film might be from that vague childhood recollection?!
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Originally posted by Kelvin McKivitt
Jaws got me when I was a kid - I was sure there were sharks waiting outside my bedroom......strange!
Also another film that I saw a few scenes of when I was at a relatives house, there were these "living frizbees" (sorry, best description I could come up with) either flying around or being thrown. I just remember one scene where there was a man and a woman in a car and one landed on the windscreen. You could see all these tentacles and stuff trying to get in. That stayed with me for along time. Anyone got any ideas what the film might be from that vague childhood recollection?!
You're talking about Without A Warning (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0081764) with Jack Palance.
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Black Christmas - one of the creepiest stalker movies Ive ever seen. I can still hear that guy down the phones crying like a baby one minute and shouting at himself the next :eek:
Also rare in that you never see the killer and he gets away with it!
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Is that the old slasher Rollocop? Sounds like a major spoiler. :nuts:
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Originally posted by John Crichton
You're talking about Without A Warning (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0081764) with Jack Palance.
Wahey! That certainly looks like the one. Cheers!
....and now the nightmares come flooding back!! :eek:
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silver bullet and the omen, scared the bajesus out of me
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Originally posted by agnetha
Probably the film that scared me (and the rest of my school) more than anything when I was a kid was [i]The House That Bled To Death. An episode from the Hammer House of Horror TV series by the same name scared the willies outta me when I was younger too. Most of those stories were insanely creepy!
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Wizard of Oz
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Originally posted by Corrus
I will also add my voice to the Salem's Lot crowd. I was about 8 or 9 when it was first shown on BBC1, split over 2 evenings. The ending of Part one scared the bejesus out of me, but I still begged my parents to let me watch part 2 the next evening!
Also, I begged and begged my dad to hire a film called Xtro from the local video shop, based purely on the fact that the front cover was a rip-off of the poster for E.T. ! The scene where...
a woman gives birth to a full-grown man and basically gets ripped in two!
...stayed with me for quite some time!
I love to see it again but as far as I know it is unavailable on DVD.
It was on Sky Movies (Forget which Channel).
I could never watch it all, when it was on I would sneak a look now and again, I only remembered a few bits, car hitting something on the quiet road, the birth and the toy tank shooting real bullets.
The Changeling really scared me while watching, as did the Shining, the first (the first horror i ever saw)
Poltergiest, the bit with the clown sitting on the chair....then it dissapears!:eek: