Moondance | Sunday, June 17, 2001 - 10:36 am  Thanks Juju... I won't! Please take that hat off and put your ears back on... it's scareeee |
Wink | Sunday, June 17, 2001 - 10:49 am  Did someone say "Chuckie"? |
Nancy | Sunday, June 17, 2001 - 11:24 am  lol when i was little(like 4-5) i shared a bedroom with my brother who was two years older..HE had nightmares all the time..what did I do? sleep right thru most of em..a neighbor boy told him that he was a martian and was going to come get him during the night--and he didnt sleep for days!! ;) |
Tess | Sunday, June 17, 2001 - 12:13 pm  When I was in grade school they showed us the movie I think was called "The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T" which creeped me out for years. I saw Jaws when I was in college with a bunch of friends. The theater was completely packed. All the girls in our group were screaming and crying along with everyone else in the theater except the middle aged man sitting next to me. He didn't flinch once until near the end where the shark lunged up and ate the back part of the boat. His eyebrows raised way, way up! I had recently seen The Exorcist as well, that didn't scare me but after Jaws as I would start to drop off to sleep at night I would "see" a shark at the end of my bed. Didn't help at all that the Pacific Ocean was less than a 1/4 mile from our front door. |
Gail | Sunday, June 17, 2001 - 01:03 pm  To this day, I still have not seen The Exorcist. No reason that I haven't, I just haven't seen it. |
Lancecrossfire | Sunday, June 17, 2001 - 01:12 pm  For me it was a movie called "Blood Rust" a saw as a small child. House on Haunted Hill was another that was pretty scary to a little kid. |
Karuuna | Sunday, June 17, 2001 - 01:22 pm  When I was growing up in Pittsburgh, they used to have a show on Saturday nights, called "Chiller Theatre", and they showed one or two horror movies each week. The first one I remember seeing was a b/w called the "Fifty Foot Woman" and it was about a woman who grew into a giant, I can't remember why. I just remember I was way too young for such stuff, and never watched another horror movie, until my mid-20's. Now I still remember the visual image of the 50-foot woman traipsing thru town and I wonder why all of her outer clothing tore when she grew, but somehow her undergarments grew with her. Apparently, they just don't make underwear like they used to!  |
Zeb | Sunday, June 17, 2001 - 01:28 pm  The classic Wolfman movie, Outer Limits, and Twilight Zone used to get to me when I was younger. I also remember a particular movie made like in the 70s (can't remember the name) where a flying saucer crashed into the side of a building and the suspense caused by the aliens was burned into my brain. That one kinda freaked me out when I was like 5 or 6. Now, I wish I could find it again. I'd probably laugh all the way through it. Our society has become so desensitized especially after Friday the 13th was released and then spread all over cable TV. |
Highlander | Sunday, June 17, 2001 - 03:06 pm  There was one Twilight Zone show I think it was or it could have been outer limits. The one with Talking Tina. This kid got a doll I can still remember the doll and the end of the show she said my name is talking tina and I am going to kill you. That was a scary episode. I am pretty sure it was Twilight zone. |
Juju2bigdog | Sunday, June 17, 2001 - 03:30 pm  Talky Tina. Yes, that one was Twilight Zone. Creepy for sure. I don't remember seeing any scary movies as a child, though. Not ones that kept me awake. I must have been sheltered.
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Faerygdds | Sunday, June 17, 2001 - 03:37 pm  Man... when I was in 2nd grade I BEGGED my parent sto let me watch the Exorcist. I never got past the first 40 minutes of it and have never seen it all the way through. (Although it's on my netflix queue) |
Whit4you | Sunday, June 17, 2001 - 03:57 pm  Well, frankly I don't enjoy being scared by movies (I guess some folks do) but the scariest thing for me ever... was in some babysitting??? movie - where the police said to the girl "We've traced the call, it's coming from inside the house" - I was alone watching that movie - and was soo totally freaked out it wasn't even funny. Now adays it's impossible to be scared by a movie cause the previews show 90^ of the "good" /scary or what-have-you scenes. Just a bit of filler that you don't see in the movie is included in the actual films. Not sure you could call it "scared" or not - but when I was 12ish - I watched from a secret location a movie I wasn't supposed to watch - about a old hotel that had been taken over by ants. The couple had ants crawling all over their body - and so on. Anyhow I couldn't sleep for days and I itched 24/7 and since I wasn't supposed to have watched the movie I couldn't tell my mom why... pretty funny now looking back. The scariest book - ever - for me was Christine (Steven King) - I had total mental visualization of the man(skeleton??orwhatever it was) in that car for weeks. For some reason he wrote it in a way that I had a real clear - like the man/Skeleton??? - in the car was right in front of me. Loved the book but that freaked me out for a very long time. |
Kady | Sunday, June 17, 2001 - 04:15 pm  Wink....I was also scared when I watched The Birds. Hitchcock was the man!!!! All his stuff scared me, but The Birds was the scariest of all. |
Kady | Sunday, June 17, 2001 - 04:23 pm  Roller coasters used to scare me. That was until Matthew finally got tall enough to ride one. I sat on the bench and watched him and his Dad ride his first one. I figured it would have scared him to death. But was I ever wrong. He came off laughing and calling me a chicken. Somehow that sly little talked me into getting on one. (Yes, I am easily conned) I got on saying I would ride it this one time and thats it. I wanted him to see how much it scared me and he promised if I didn't like it...he would never ask again. As I said at the beginning of this...they used to scare me. Now I love them!!!!!    |
Zeb | Sunday, June 17, 2001 - 05:06 pm  Loud noises like train whistles up close, pop guns, and firecrackers used to bother me a lot as a kid too. Now, it's no big deal. |
Lobster | Sunday, June 17, 2001 - 05:46 pm  I saw Jaws when I was 11 and would not go in our pool at night after that. I've seen a lot of scary movies since then, Poltergeist being one of my favorites, but none of them stayed with me like Jaws. That is, until I saw the Blair Witch Project. Now, don't laugh at me. I believe in ghosts and spirits and stuff that goes bump in the night, and that movie scared the bejesus out of me. I couldn't even watch the commercial for Blair Witch because of the screaming. I have since gotten over my fear of Blair Witch, and am now finding myself fascinated by ghosts. I love the show Scariest Places on Earth and also MTV's Fear. Of course, I watch these shows with all the lights on.  |
Grod | Sunday, June 17, 2001 - 07:25 pm  When someone sneaks up behind me and I don't know they are there. I scream and jump. |
Msmarcygirl | Sunday, June 17, 2001 - 08:32 pm  I've always had an absurdly bizarre fear of The Wizard of Oz. Not once have I watched the movie in its entirety. It's not the wicked witch or flying monkeys that get to me. It's those scary little munchkins...I get chills just thinkin' about it. |
Gail | Sunday, June 17, 2001 - 08:49 pm  Msmarcygirl - I just laughed harder just now then I did the entire weekend. That was funny!!! I have to admit - those three weird little muchkin men(I am trying to remember if they were the lollipop guild) were pretty scary. |
Tess | Sunday, June 17, 2001 - 08:57 pm  Thanks, Gail, now I can't get that song out of my head! "We represent the Lollipop Guild, the Lollipop Guild, the Lollipop Guild, and in the name of the Lollipop Guilddddd, we'd like to welcome you to Munchkin Land!" It's going to be a long, long night. |
Gail | Sunday, June 17, 2001 - 09:00 pm  Tess, sounds like you have watched the Wizard of Oz a few times too. I have three Toto dogs so I have also had it on so they could watch it a couple of times too. |
Tess | Sunday, June 17, 2001 - 09:25 pm  I love Toto---he was my favorite in the whole movie! "I'll fix you, my pretty, and your little dog, Toto, too! mwahahahahhaha!" |
Gail | Sunday, June 17, 2001 - 09:32 pm  I say that to my dogs all the time. If you click on my name, you can see one of them. |
Juju2bigdog | Sunday, June 17, 2001 - 10:24 pm  Juju2bigdog and siblings went to a costume party as children dressed as the lollipop guild (we thought it was the lollipop kids). Boo! |
Tksoard | Sunday, June 17, 2001 - 10:29 pm  I thought it was kids too!! Well, after only 40 years, I now know better. |