Archive through June 17, 2001

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Gail

Sunday, June 17, 2001 - 07:12 am Click here to edit this post
I was just wondering . . . did you have a movie that scared you when you were younger?

For me, I remember several from when I was growing up. I honestly don't see how kids today even sleep with all the movies they get to see.

This first movie I was scared of was the Wizard of Oz. Several scenes terrified me . . at the beginning with the witch's legs rolled up under the house. Those mean apple trees that three the apples and the flying monkeys. I confess, I am still a little afraid of the apple trees.

The other movie was Charade - It has Cary Grant and Augrey Hepburn, George Kennedy and James Colburn. I think George KEnnedy played a man with one hand missing.

The other scary movie was Goldfinger. Goldfinger's henchman, OddJob scared the crap out of me with that hat he used to throw to decapitate people.

Soeur

Sunday, June 17, 2001 - 07:36 am Click here to edit this post
< insert scary music > I think George Kennedy had a hook for a hand.

< 00000ooooooooooooooooo > odd job smiled when he reached for his hat....

Soeur

Sunday, June 17, 2001 - 07:40 am Click here to edit this post
The original House on the Haunted Hill reduced me to screams and bad dreams. It was black & white with Vincent Price. Some weird compulsion made me watch it each year when it came on (to see if it was still scary?) and I ~inevitably~ had nightmares afterwards.

Hitchcock really knew how to scare people.

Gail

Sunday, June 17, 2001 - 07:40 am Click here to edit this post
That hook terrified me!! Believe it or not, I am heading in to town and I am thinking of looking for both Goldfinger and Charade.

Gail

Sunday, June 17, 2001 - 07:42 am Click here to edit this post
I have the House on the Haunted Hill - I have never watched it though. I am not even sure how I got it.

The Abominable Dr Phibes is a pretty scary movie too. I saw that when I was about 17 I think.

Highlander

Sunday, June 17, 2001 - 07:51 am Click here to edit this post
I have the DVD of charade, I loved that movie. Saw it at Radio City Music Hall when they used to show a movie and the Rockettes.

House on the Haunted Hill terrified me. when the guy fell into the acid and the skeleton came up I dove for the covers. I remember renting it for my son telling him it was really scary, well needless to say he thought it was hokey. The guy that fell in the acid, when the skeleton came up out of the a acid you could see the strings lifting it up. No special effects back then.

Gail

Sunday, June 17, 2001 - 07:54 am Click here to edit this post
I just checked and I do have Charade on VHS - it was hiding behind another movie.

Soeur

Sunday, June 17, 2001 - 08:02 am Click here to edit this post
The Omen was one of the scariest movies I have seen. That scene where the kid intentionally rides his trike into his mom's chair and topples her over the railing to her death??????? His mom was played by Lee Remick and was soooooo nice. He was definitely the devil's spawn. The hounds of h@ll were scary, too.

Tksoard

Sunday, June 17, 2001 - 08:02 am Click here to edit this post
To me, the scariest movie of all time, was (I can't really remember the name, but it was Haunted Hell house, or something like that). The walls would breath, and the lady in the bed was talking to a person (she thought) holding her hand, but no one was there. I saw it when I was in my early teens, and to this day, I DO NOT sleep with a leg or arm out from under the blankets!! Can someone help me out with the name? It had Haunted, Hill, and Hell in the title.

Soeur

Sunday, June 17, 2001 - 08:07 am Click here to edit this post
black & white or colour?

Tksoard

Sunday, June 17, 2001 - 08:08 am Click here to edit this post
Black and white I'm pretty sure.

Soeur

Sunday, June 17, 2001 - 08:10 am Click here to edit this post
was there a group of people who all received weird invitiations to spend a weekend at an isolated mansion?

Ryn

Sunday, June 17, 2001 - 08:10 am Click here to edit this post
2 B movies

One I saw as a kid in the 70's - all I can remember for a name was "The Boggy Creek Monster" - it seems to me it was one of those docu-dramas of the 70's but I know I saw it in a theatre, has nightmares for weeks after that.

More recently - but still a while back - I saw "Evil Dead" on video 15 or so years ago, it bothered me for some reason, didn't "scare me" as much as made me very uneasy.

Tksoard

Sunday, June 17, 2001 - 08:18 am Click here to edit this post
Geez Soeur,it was so long ago, and I've been watching for it again. I don't think it was the one you are thinking of. I watch the one with Ronny McDowell(?) where they were invited in. I was waiting for the walls to breath and they never did. This was Haunting of Hell House, I'm pretty sure.

Egbok

Sunday, June 17, 2001 - 08:42 am Click here to edit this post
JAWS made me look at the ocean in a whole new light. It truly took me out of the water as a young teen. Now the bacteria count is what currently keeps me away!

Spygirl

Sunday, June 17, 2001 - 09:21 am Click here to edit this post
I watched Poltergeist when I was in the 6th grade (I think), and it completely destroyed my sleeping habits -- literally. I always had trouble sleeping, but it got out of control after that movie. My parents really shouldn't have let me watch it because it took about two full years before I slept all night again. Some of those nights I didn't fall asleep until 3 or 4am and had to go to school the next morning. It was TERRIBLE.

I remember the scene with the thunderstorm and the tree outside the window that swallowed the little girl...and swimming pool that wasn't finished that had skeletons floating in it. I'm pretty sure that movie is why I am terrified of thunderstorms to this day.

I just hope all those parents out there actively screen TV and movies for their children. What goes in is sometimes what comes out.....

-SpyGirl

Soeur

Sunday, June 17, 2001 - 09:29 am Click here to edit this post
The Shining was too scary to see twice. We did not let our sons watch horror movies when they were younger and both have no interest in seeing any now. They both sleep well at night.

Moondance

Sunday, June 17, 2001 - 09:35 am Click here to edit this post
Clowns scare the bejeebies out of me!

Grooch

Sunday, June 17, 2001 - 10:03 am Click here to edit this post
I saw the movie "The Blob" when I was waaaayyyy to young to be allowed to watch it. I will never forget when the old man took the stick at the beginning of the movie and poked it, and then it climbed up the stick and consumed him. Then to see it slide underneath doors to get people. I can still let it play with my mind and scare me if I want to.

It didn't help that we lived on the edge of the woods, and we would walk through it to take shortcuts. My older sister and brother knew I was afraid of the Blob and would constantly tease me that the Blob would get me. If I had to walk alone, I would run straight through the woods without stopping.

There was also an old abandoned car in the woods around the same time that someone had painted on the side "Man eating car". My brother & sister told me if I was alone, the car would come and eat me, and I believed them. No wonder I am neurotic.

And this was way before Stephen King wrote Christine. A book that still scares me today.

Grooch

Sunday, June 17, 2001 - 10:05 am Click here to edit this post
Moondance, didn't Stephen King do a movie with clowns? Penny something?

Wink

Sunday, June 17, 2001 - 10:07 am Click here to edit this post
I cringe at the noise from exploding fireworks and thunder. Love the lightning but when the thunder boomers start I'm ready to get in the closet with the cat.

The movie "The Birds" freaked me out for an awful long time and it's only been in the last 5 years or so that I've actually enjoyed watching and feeding the birds in my yard. It's still scary to me tho when all the crows line up on telephone lines. I just know they're watching me.

Moondance

Sunday, June 17, 2001 - 10:08 am Click here to edit this post
I don't know G... if it has a clown I won't watch it! :)

Grooch

Sunday, June 17, 2001 - 10:32 am Click here to edit this post
Wink, that was another one that I was to young when I saw it. It scared me too. (Though it seems everything does.)

But I do love watching the crows gather. They know I'm on their side, so I have nothing to worry about. My family has always fed the crows and I assume we are in their good graces. I pity the fool that will try something to us when the crows are around.

Btw, I have the bluejays and grackles pecking on my front window if they see me in the morning and I haven't gone out to feed them yet.

The birds are always around and watching.

Juju2bigdog

Sunday, June 17, 2001 - 10:34 am Click here to edit this post
Grooch, don't know if it was ever a movie, but you are thinking of "It" a book by Stephen King with the ever so scary clown Pennywise. Moon, do not EVER read that book. Not ever.

Grooch

Sunday, June 17, 2001 - 10:36 am Click here to edit this post
That's it! They made it into a TV movie. Clowns freak my aunt out too. And she loves Stephen King, but she hated that one. lol!