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The First Film that REALLY Scared you as a kid!
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Everything scared me as a kid, I had absolutely no backbone (I blame being raised in a fatherless home)
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Another shout out for American Werewolf in London.
Went to see it at the Commodore Orpington on my own (was 18 at the time) and there were about 3 other people in the cinema. Felt decidedly jumpy walking home up Spur Road in the dark after that!!0 -
I saw the Triffids drama, but I’d already read the book so knew what was going on. It was good tv, but I bet it’d look dated if you saw it now.SoundAsa£ said:Anyone remember the 1960’s BBC science fiction drama series “The Day of the Triffids”.....that was pretty scary and caused a huge furore at the time......it was the first time The BBC had attempted anything remotely along those lines and some folk were up in arms!
I’m not one for horror films to be honest but The Omen did make me feel a bit uneasy because it had an air of reality about it and all the characters were, in a most disconcerting way, believable.1 -
I have no idea of the film title, it was either on itv or bbc, year 1962/63 but most likely January / February 63, think it was a Saturday, the snow was piling up outside a right old blizzard had been blowing for most of the day, all football iced / snowed off, outside the front room (best room) the house was below freezing, with ice all over the inside of the windows, all I can remember of the bloody film was this huge spider. Never liked them since that day, oh if it helps I had to dig a path out to the outside loo. I suppose that don’t really answer the question but if was around 57 years ago and it was in black and white. As I don’t know the film title I thought I add a little background history 😀.0
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This one for me. Ten years old. Terrible Idea.Chunes said:I watched Scream when I was a kid and it f***ed me up0 -
Wizard of Oz, the early 1960s when kids were still kids...saw it at the the Roxy by the Standard in Blackheath0
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Found it. This shit me up as a 5 year old.ValleyGary said:There used to be a programme on Channel 4 on a Sunday evening around 6pm (early 90's) and it was all scary stories but they used puppets. Cant remember what it was called. The story teller in it sat by a fire with a puppet dog. I cant be making this up cos i wasn't doing drugs by this point.
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In recent years, I wouldn't day say it's particularly scary, but Insidious was a pretty decent horror.0
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i_b_b_o_r_g said:What was the one where there's babysitter who keeps geting drop called, the police trace the call and it's coming from inside the house?
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Theres a sequal to that which was quite watchable in the 90s
When a stranger calls back1 - Sponsored links:
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Psycho - saw it on TV in 1965In the cinema, Alien in 1979.0
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John HurtValleyGary said:
Found it. This shit me up as a 5 year old.ValleyGary said:There used to be a programme on Channel 4 on a Sunday evening around 6pm (early 90's) and it was all scary stories but they used puppets. Cant remember what it was called. The story teller in it sat by a fire with a puppet dog. I cant be making this up cos i wasn't doing drugs by this point.0 -
Alien. Still might be messed up by it.
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As for TV I remember as a kid getting quite scared by Sapphire and Steel. Can recall it being early evening TV but still got me going to bed without any prompting.0
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Checked back for that original airing of Enfield hauntings with Michael Aspel. Oct 95. I was 13. That was definitely the sort of age to spook the crap out of yourself.
don’t know if this also applied to any of you, but remember being reluctant to sleep with my face/side toward the wall for a while after watching scary stuff. Maybe the equivalent of sleeping with the lights on etc. Also remember my mum & dad being given a grandfather clock. The thing used to send chills running down my spine1 -
SPOILERS: Don’t know if this has been answered yet but the short about the guy trapped in a telephone box is Spanish. It has a real sense of escalating dread about it. He makes a call, the door’s stuck, doesn’t get too worried until he’s trapped in there for hours. No one else can open it and eventually the telephone box is loaded onto a truck and driven away. It’s heartbreaking when he sees his son on the journey and instinctively knows he won’t see him again. On the way, he sees another truck loaded with another guy trapped in a phone box and they both stare at each other searchingly, as if to say, ‘I don’t know what’s going on. Do you?’ Then they arrive at their destination: a warehouse full of dead men in telephone boxes!Mortimerwasgod said:I saw a weird film once about a man trapped in a telephone box. No one helped him get out and he was just towed away. Really freaked me out as a kid. Anyone seen it too?!
Plus the other one was a kids birthday party and the pipes burst and all the kids gets covered in blood. May have been a hammer horror short.
Last one! Some story about a man on a train being told he has a devil on his shoulder by an old lady. He cant see it or feel it, but later he somehow gets killed by it. Again I think this was a short story but really scared me. Love to know what programme it was.
Christ my dad made me watch some crap!1 -
I would thank you for the reminder, but as I'm reading this in the dead of night as I can't sleep........gulp!0
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I mentioned it in my post but no one else has mentioned it, so just wondered how popular it was.
Did anyone else or did anyone else know anyone who played Atmosfear0 -
Back in the early 70's when I was about twelve, me and a mate bunked in to the ABC in Woolwich to see The Exorcist (there was a door around the side that had a internal panic bar that could be opened with a coat hanger). I had nightmares about that film for weeks.
I remember that there were religious people outside the entrance handing out leaflets giving five reasons why you shouldn't watch the film.1 - Sponsored links:
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Shittin ell that takes me back, the board game where you played along with the video of a nasty piece of work called the gatekeeper. Although it's a game you could only really play once. I remember a load of us playing it at a friends house for his birthday in the very early ninetiespaulie8290 said:I mentioned it in my post but no one else has mentioned it, so just wondered how popular it was.
Did anyone else or did anyone else know anyone who played Atmosfear0 -
Bambi, when I was 4. I was so terrified by Bambi's dad that I screamed so loud that my sister had to take me out of the cinema.0
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The original The Fly with I think Vincent Price from the fifties.0
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The Dark Crystal, scared the living daylights out of me and I am no way watching the new Netflix remake.
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I really like Carrie. Spacek's performance is superb. However, I didn't find it scary even though the bit at the end is the best jump-out-of-your-seat moment ever._MrDick said:
Same here ... Right at the end of Carrie, that’s a real jump out of your skin moment. As for the Shining ... Here’s Johnny (and that’s not Johnny Williams)ChicagoAddick said:Carrie and The Shining
edit: The Fog (OMG)0 -
Surely you'd lock yourself out of the bathroom, no?sillav nitram said:0 -
As a child, The Wizard of Oz (witch!) and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (The Child Catcher).
More recently, although it didn't scare me, 'The Lovely Bones' (good film) certainly gave me the chills!
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
Bambi was sold out so my parents thought ‘what the heck.’0 -
Not a film but an educational maths/English program they made us watch in the early eighties. It had ' the boy from space' as it's theme.
Scared the shit out of every single boy and girl in the school!
https://youtu.be/5zIbEoGRt-Q
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Nothing on the big or small screen has ever scared me as such.
A few so called "jump-scares" maybe when there's a setup for a loud bang or sudden cut/edit but nothing actually invoking fear.
Watched the original The Evil Dead, Videodrome, Exorcist on VHS long before I was 18 and one or two that got taken off the shelves later as "video nasties" early-mid 80's but never got the "horror". Gratuitous images of woundings and injuries are always an uncomfortable watch but not fearsome.
I avoided "horror" films as a result for decades until recently having heard nothing but good things about 'Prevenge' I made a point of catching it on TV.
Still don't get it. It wasn't horrific, just gratuitous. Some billed it as being comic as well as horrific, nope just contrived. A few shits got their comeuppance but the rest was tawdry.
Whatever that thing is we need to be enervated by "horror" on screen, I seem not to have.0
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