Personally I think that Ghostbusters was meant to be funny, and it was, thanks to Bill Murray for the most part.
Share your childhood memories of movies that scared the hell out of you!
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^ Considering the possession part was the only thing I saw, and I was 4 years old, it was scary.
I finally watched the entire movie last year and yes, it's very funny.
I finally watched the entire movie last year and yes, it's very funny.
The librarian!!! After I originally saw the film in the cinema I didn't see it again for years and yet I remembered every moment of the librarian jump scare! Even though I can now see how bad the effect is, I still remember the fear...
That's really too bad that they only let you see that part.
I thought Possessed Sigourney was more sexy than scary, but I can see where a four-year-old might feel differently.
My mom had been watching it one night. I couldn't sleep so I asked if I could watch tv with her. The possessed part happened just as I got settled on the couch. After that scene, I spent the rest of the movie with my head under the blanket.
That's unfortunate.
^ On the bright side, now I think it's funny that I thought it was scary.
I was (and to an extend, still am) squeamish (I considered it a major accomplishment, at 33, to watch The Walking Dead and not be totally freaked out. Four years later, I've been desensitized! Mostly.)
That being said, Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory freaked me out as a kid! Seeing the kids, especially Augustus (I couldn't make it much past the scene of him being stuck in the tube), fall prey to the factory freaked me out. I downplay it now by saying that it takes something every kid loves, candy, and turns it sinister!
Sometime before The Next Generation, my parents stuck me, alone, in a screening of The Wrath of Khan, at the public library. After seeing the Ceti Eels, I left the screening area and went to the kid's room in the library.
As an adult, I look back and realize how squeamish I was. I love both of those movies now and don't feel freaked out, at all. But at the time, they scared (or at least freaked) the Hell out of me!
That being said, Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory freaked me out as a kid! Seeing the kids, especially Augustus (I couldn't make it much past the scene of him being stuck in the tube), fall prey to the factory freaked me out. I downplay it now by saying that it takes something every kid loves, candy, and turns it sinister!
Sometime before The Next Generation, my parents stuck me, alone, in a screening of The Wrath of Khan, at the public library. After seeing the Ceti Eels, I left the screening area and went to the kid's room in the library.
As an adult, I look back and realize how squeamish I was. I love both of those movies now and don't feel freaked out, at all. But at the time, they scared (or at least freaked) the Hell out of me!
Yeah, Willy Wonka disturbed me, too.
If you're talking about the dinner scene, I didn't get that far. The Facehugger popping out of the egg did it for me. I didn't make it much past that.
Yeah, that would have terrified the shit out of 8 year old me. You'd never see a trailer like that now. Lol
^ That wasn't just at the theater either, they showed that on TV which is where I saw it.
It's silly, but the movie that scared me when I was little was Bambi Meets Godzilla. It's a very short animated film, and it's just Bambi eating grass as the opening credits roll. Suddenly, a giant foot crushes him to death. That's the whole movie! I must have been only four. My mom said I just said, "Oh!" and almost cried. It's still floating around on you tube.
The Original Frankenstien/Wolfman/Dracula movies showing here in the UK in the mid 70s on a Saturday night via the weekend horror double bill on BBC2, and i would stay with my wee granny and granda at the weekend, and watch these on their Black and white TV, and when they finished the TV announcer would wish you a goodnight and not to be frightened, and then the Tv would shut down with a high pitch whine, then off to the bed, where every shadow, creak and sound would mean Frankenstein/wolfman/dracula was about to wrap their hands round my neck, of course wraping the covers round your neck means the monster cannot get at you, but still. lol
And 40 years later that memory is still totally sharp and clear as if it had happened last weekend. lol
And 40 years later that memory is still totally sharp and clear as if it had happened last weekend. lol
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