Not the entire movie, but this scene:
What is this?
Oh man this scene haunted me when I was 8 or 9. A couple years ago I convinced my wife to watch this movie, and I eagerly waited to see her reaction to this scene. And when it finally happened, nothing. No reaction at all. I asked her, “wasn’t that scary?” And she replied, “That?! That was the worst costume I’ve ever seen.”
It was all the build up to that point. The fields, the dogs, the encounters where the characters never actually see them. The denial, trying to convince themselves it’s nothing. Animals, or prankster neighbors. Then in an instant, all their worst fears are true.
The banshee from Darby O’Gill and the Little People still creeps me out!
Not scared, but Bridge to Terabithia scarred me for life.
The book similarly scarred us all when we read it in school
That’s the first book I ever encountered with an ending that made me angry.
Office Space. I could handle horror movies but that one instilled a fear of losing my life to the grind. I pretty much set up my whole career to avoid it. On the other hand, I’m in a pretty good place because of it. So I guess thanks, Mike Judge
Corporate Accounts Payable Nina speaking, just a moment! Corporate Accounts Payable Nina speaking, just a moment! Corporate Accounts Payable Nina speaking, just a moment! Corporate Accounts Payable Nina speaking, just a moment!
Robocop. I was around 9 at the time and saw it at a schoolmate’s place (his parents sucked). The scene where Red shoots Murphy’s hand off shocked me. I had nightmares about losing my arm.
I imagine the later part where a bad guy starts melting after getting doused in toxic sludge didn’t do you any favors either!
Not me. My best friend growing up.
Child’s Play came out when we were around 5. My friends parents rented it and planned on watching it after putting him to bed even though he wanted to see the movie (and of course theu told him he was too little). They started watching it and his dad noticed my friend had snuck back down and was watching the TV from the stairs.
Well his parents decided to act like they didn’t notice and left him there to watch the whole movie.
The next day while my friend was at school his parents went out, bought a my buddy doll, and left it sitting up on his bed waiting for him. He had nightmares a good while after that one. Lol
Ravenous and Fire In The Sky.
“The Thing” (1982)
I first saw this movie at the age of 13, in a very dark and creepy unfinished basement. It was terrifying.
Even after all these years, this movie still holds up very well to modern standards and stands out as one of the best sci-fi horror movies of all time. I just watched it again in October (my designated horror movie month) and it still never fails to make me uncomfortable and on edge while watching.
The librarian ghost in Ghostbusters is still pretty creepy, you guys.
I’m very tired and thought you said “libertarian ghost”. Lol. Jesus Christ on a motorbike that would be awkward…
Dooooo youuuu have a moment to talk about the ghost-andard?
“ghost-andard”?
Sounds like “gold standard,” best libertarian-ghost pun I could come up with, without too much effort.
Lol, not bad, not bad. I’m just stupid. xD
There is no way you’ll ever catch me saying Candyman more than once
That was my pick for our Halloween movie this year. The look on my 12 year old’s face during the bee scene was priceless.
I couldn’t even describe a single scene, I watched the whole thing but I was young and only retained the fear
Mars Attacks. The screaming aliens and the guns that turn people into colorful skeletons.
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Coraline. I can watch breakdowns of that movie on YouTube, and even watched a several hour long breakdown of the Beldam and the entire story, but I still can’t watch the movie itself
I see you man they forced us to watch it when I was 5 or 6 at school, since it lasted longer than an hour I have never seen the end … I had nightmares for years I still can’t see that movie I’m 21 and I fear nothing except that ducking movie …
Now that I think about it, they read us Where The Red Fern Grows in 5th grade when I was 11, and the next year they had us watch it
We were barely teenagers and they hit us with that
Yeah that was pure sadism lol
Poltergeist.
It’s only been very recently that I’ve been able to watch that movie and then sleep with the lights off. It just hit at that right time when I was in middle school that it cemented in my mind for life.
I feel like the practical effects still hold up, and the acting definitely holds up from the entire family. Just seeing a mom that freaked out onscreen messed with me as a child.
Also, anyone who watches that now needs to understand the social and cultural context of the 70s and 80s. We had this new technology that could allow recording and sharing of video, but it was slow and low resolution. There was nothing like ubiquitous cell phone cameras of today. So there was this constant sense that maybe mysterious things were happening just beyond your ability to see and document them. Like having bad glasses in a foggy room.
The advent of cell phone cameras really washed away that sense, and made the world feel much more concrete and exposed. But back then, there was still a sense that something like Poltergeist might really be out there happening.
The Fly… fuck.
I watched the old movie from the 50s, it was playing on tv during an afternoon on a weekday, I was homesick. That was in the mid 80s. It scared me a lot, and I never watched the remake with Jeff Goldblum because of this.
