Okay now don't laugh because some of these movies I could not get through as a child. I'm a mamma's boy and whenever someone is lost or a parent dies I got really upset as a kid.
Land Before Time: Never got past the first 5 minutes after the mother dies kept thinking about my mom, cried a bunch and then turned it off.
Brave Little Toaster: Creepy cartoon, to dark and scary.
The Last Fern Gully: Quite possibly the darkest, scariest cartoon ever made.
Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird: This movie is suppose to be funny. Big bird getting kidnapped and turning blue and lost not funny. Waylon Jennings creeped me out in the film. And he was suppose to be the comic relief.
Christmas Eve on Sesame Street: I think this is the one. Yeah it is. Big Bird is lost in the snow late at night freezing. Alone. Not fun. Made me cry think of mother.
Not a movie, but The Outer Limits used to scare the living crap out of me as a kid. I remember watching it while hiding behind the couch, lol. No lie.
Poltergeist was the first movie that really scared the crap outta me. Looking at the sparse and rudimentary special effects in that movie now, compared to what kids could see today, things were really quite simple then.
Speaking of movies that might scare kids There were little kids who had to be no more then 5 at the theatre I was seeing Snakes on a Plane. A little girl left after the death of the horny couple doing the mile high club in the airplane bathroom.
I think it was the first movie I ever saw. It was sometime in the early fifties and I think it was called Invaders from Mars or something like that. I absolutely terrified me, especially when a gigantic spider dropped down on someone that was going through a cave or tunnel. The details are indistinct now, but I'll never forget screaming and throwing my popcorn from my balcony seat all over the people below!
Invaders from Mars 1953
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The Diary of Anne Frank. That movie is stuck in my mind permanently.
Never saw that movie but I did see the play and someone yelled "She's upstairs" when they came to get her.
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Yes, that's the one I meant. I also remember Cleopatra with Elizabeth Taylor somewhere around '54. The snake scene freaked me out. I told my older sister to let me know when the snake was gone because I couldn't watch. There is no way on this earth I'm going to watch Snakes On A Plane. I won't even watch the commercials! Do you get the idea I don't like snakes?
The only snake I've ever seen in the wild was a huge black snake in the forest behind my cousins house on an atv and a garden snake that came right up to my foot but my friend at the time bashed it with a bat. If we had known that garden snakes are good I doubt we would have killed it.
Hmmm................. I remember a scene vividly from Superman 2 when he gave up his superpower to become human. He locked himself up in this crystal box and they showed his skull.... that was really scary. Couldn't sleep for a long time.
I don't enjoy horror movies now............. so anything basically scare the sh..... t outta me.
Carrie scared the crap out of me when I was little. Mind you, my sister hid behind the couch as I was watching it and she reached around and grabbed my ankle right at the scene where the hand comes out of the grave and grabs the girl. That kept me up for a couple nights.
They would be peeling me off the ceiling if that happened to me. That's positively evil!!!
I didn't watch many movies when I was a kid.
But, I could tell you many movies that I would never watch as an adult because these would scare me...ie, scary/thriller movies.
Final Destination was gorry and that is about it that I would watch.
for me it was The Exorcist
Heck, I was trying to remember that movie. I saw that too when I was a kid. The Exorcist. My sister and I both watched that together and I remember we both clinged to each other during the head twisting scene.
Brrrrr....... still somewhat creepy till this day.
Another good one was Alien when it popped out of the guy's tummy. Eeeow.
You know that movie is based off a real story that happend in Saint Louis? I know where the house is.
My sister wanted me to see "Psycho" (1960 version) with her, and I'm glad I didn't. She wouldn't turn off the lights for over two weeks which made it hard to sleep.
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OMG. I get shivers just thinking about that..............................have you seen the place, SD?
Yeah its an old locked up building that is vacant and empty on the campus of Saint Louis University. The house I haven't seen but a radio show down here tried to find it and I think did and there were people living in it.
I think I'm getting the movies confused I'm talking about the exorsist and not carrie. The Exorsist was a true story where it really happend in St. Louis.
Carrie was from the mind of Stephen King. I seen the show recently and I found it more of a sad story than a scary story, poor girl, just wanted to be accepted. Travolta in his younger years is in it too. Other than that, I don't get scared over any movies.
Regardless, they're both scary. I'd pick Carrie to watch over The Exorcist any day. I can't watch that movie even to this day.
I don't like horror flick I think there kinda dumb.
Oh, a couple of scary ones from my 8-12 age range were "THEM," about giant mutant ants, and one of the Sinbad movies with the walking skeletons (still shivers me timbers!) Oh, and some movie that was a loose adaptation of a Lovecraft story-- but I can't remember the name...maybe it was more that it was unsettling more than scary. It didn't help that I had to be home alone after seeing that, though.
A tv movie that scared the poop out of me, in a fun way, was "Triology of Terror"...well, the last of the triology-- the one with the tribal doll on a rampage with a butcher knife. I saw the remake recently-- did not live up to the original terror, hehehe.
Since my teens, though, there hasn't been much that scares me, moviewise (trying clothes on in the dressing room with full mirrors---now THAT'S scary, hehehe). I tend to be the person in the theatre rolling with laughter during the "scary" scenes that Hollywood vomits out in its movies. Ah, well.
Jaws,
... and I always remember it when I was on the deep end of the swimming pool. Darn it!
The Omen.
Good thing I like Sam Neill in Jurassic Park, or otherwise he will always be Damian for me.
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Sportdude!
Land before time is the movie when you are small?
You are still little now!
Bambi, when the mom died.
I vividly remember cried loudly on the theatre. my mom said I was about 5.
oh shucks Orca. Your making me blush.
You're even cuter when you blush...
oh thanks. I need the pep talk at the moment.