Movie scenes that freaked you out.
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The one movie that truly freaked me out was Jaws - the guy who had his leg bitten off in the estuary was wearing the SAME DAMNED SNEAKERS I WAS!!
Also ever since the birth of my first child I have never been able to deal very well with babies/toddlers in danger. It's gone down a little now as my youngest is nearly 18 years old, and my eldest 25 but still tends to effect me a bit.
Also ever since the birth of my first child I have never been able to deal very well with babies/toddlers in danger. It's gone down a little now as my youngest is nearly 18 years old, and my eldest 25 but still tends to effect me a bit.
Agree. Unlike the original film, this remake did not have an optimistic ending.
The second remake (from '93) didn't either.
Hard Candy. Not my sort of movie, stumbled onto it during a late night flick through the channels, couldn't get it out my head for days afterwards.
Human Centipede is just sick and I believe the sequels are even worse.
Human Centipede is just sick and I believe the sequels are even worse.
The bits in Hellraiser III when ordinary people are turned into Cenobites. And of course the massacre at the nightclub.
As I recall, the "happy ending" in the original 1950s movie was tacked on at the last minute, after the studio objected to the original ending, which had a sweaty, hysterical Kevin McCarthy trying in vain to warn the world:
"You're next!"
A much better ending: scarier and more memorable. I like to pretend that the contrived happy ending, where the army saves the day at the last minute, doesn't exist.
So you never saw Bambi then?
Or Old Yeller.
Heck, The Black Hole was basically a remake of Disney's 20,000 Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, which had some deaths and scary parts, too. (Captain Nemo is killed by a nuclear explosion at the end and there was also the bit with giant squid.)
Now that I think of it, a lot of Disney's old adventure films would probably be PG-rated today, and were not afraid to kill characters. See Davy Crockett, Treasure Island, etc. Davy and his allies were all killed at the Alamo in the end, and I remember Jim Hawkins shooting a pirate in the face in Treasure Island. (In self-defense, of course.)
Can't remember if anyone died in The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh.
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11 Years old and "Fire in the sky" airs on TV
Ugh, that movie freaked me out..... The alien ship had people held captive in the walls. Nasty aliens. Why be so mean?
That movie gave me chills.
I still have a fear of UFO's. I won't watch those "Stories from people that experienced it"/ Re-enactments shows before I sleep.
One 1996 series freaked me out with their "footage" of an "ALIEN" walking into a house or something like that
Couldn't sleep when the street light shined thrown my window. Had to sleep in parents room on the floor.
One 1996 series freaked me out with their "footage" of an "ALIEN" walking into a house or something like that
Couldn't sleep when the street light shined thrown my window. Had to sleep in parents room on the floor.
A couple of things freaked me out when I was younger.
Poltergeist got me. I was fine all the way up until the final scene and then the ghosts started rising from the graves and that left me unable to sleep for a week. I still can't watch the film now.
Ghostwatch (one for the UK forumers). A Halloween special back in the early 90s. Presented as a live documentary presented by some notable British TV presenters of the time (Michael Parkinson, Sarah Greene, etc) about a haunted house. The programme was actually a recorded movie and some of the scarier things were glimpsed as the camera panned across, say, a bedroom curtain before whipping back and seeing nothing at all. It finished off with a possessed Parky saying 'Ring a Ring a Roses'. Another one that caused me to not sleep for a week...
Not a movie but I remember a Knight Rider episode (can't remember the name) with a floating ghostly demonic face saying something horrible and unintelligible. (If I remember, it was a hologram playing something in reverse).
Also, a scene early on in a movie (I want to say The Andromeda Strain but not 100% sure) where somebody cuts open their wrist and powder pours out instead of blood. I have no idea why that freaked me out so much but it did.
Poltergeist got me. I was fine all the way up until the final scene and then the ghosts started rising from the graves and that left me unable to sleep for a week. I still can't watch the film now.
Ghostwatch (one for the UK forumers). A Halloween special back in the early 90s. Presented as a live documentary presented by some notable British TV presenters of the time (Michael Parkinson, Sarah Greene, etc) about a haunted house. The programme was actually a recorded movie and some of the scarier things were glimpsed as the camera panned across, say, a bedroom curtain before whipping back and seeing nothing at all. It finished off with a possessed Parky saying 'Ring a Ring a Roses'. Another one that caused me to not sleep for a week...
Not a movie but I remember a Knight Rider episode (can't remember the name) with a floating ghostly demonic face saying something horrible and unintelligible. (If I remember, it was a hologram playing something in reverse).
Also, a scene early on in a movie (I want to say The Andromeda Strain but not 100% sure) where somebody cuts open their wrist and powder pours out instead of blood. I have no idea why that freaked me out so much but it did.
OK I love the visuals in Close Encounters but yeah that abduction got me too. Why? Why did the little shits take the kid?
Also how much time had passed between his abduction and return? The mother didn't seem to age much if it was years.
Oh yeah, that's a good one. It didn't really freak me out but it was very scary and I remember it so clearly. When I was a kid in the mid '70s at the end of the school year you could buy tickets to summer matinee movies, one a week all summer. G-rated, of course. The tickets were all printed on one sheet with perforations. You'd take your ticket and your mom would drop you and some neighborhood friends off at the movies (or you'd walk, because I lived close enough to the theater), and you'd see a bunch of kids from school and have a good time. I saw Thunderbirds Are Go! that way.
Anyway, the 1950 Treasure Island was one, too. And that scene was soooo effective, because it was a grown man pirate chasing a kid to kill him, a kid like us! And he backed Jim into the mast top, where there was no way to escape, and kept coming, with his scary bearded face coming up over the edge! And he actually stuck Jim in the arm with his big knife before Jim shot him, and he bounced off the side of the ship before he hit the water. I can remember it so clearly and how I felt as a 7 year old.
So yeah, Disney knew very well how to scare a kid!
I'd forgotten that Jim got a knife to the shoulder first!
Yeah, that whole sequence, with the pirate climbing up at Jim, a knife in his teeth, was scary stuff--which was considered G-rated fare for kids back in the day!
(I suspect you could get away with more if you were adapting a venerable piece of literature like Treasure Island or 20,000 Leagues. That made it respectable and educational. Classic literary violence was okay!)
It was a couple days at most. You may want to watch the movie again.
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