The Thing is one of the only films to ever give me nightmares (though I was about 8 when I watched it ).
From Silvermk......whatever number he is (sorry Silver ) Made me think, the one movie that gave me honest to god nightmares, was Pet cemetery 2. The movie was really hoaky, and as an adult I dont get it. But when that movie came out and I watched it, Sheriff Gus, after he died just scared the hell out of me for some reason. I remember being terrified of his neck wound mostly. But for a solid month he haunted my dreams.
SO! Now that I seem like a big ol sissy pants, lets share in the embarrassment eh? What movies,shows, characters, whatever! had scared you as a young one? Or an old one, either way, start spilling the secrets
You said "whatever!" so I will mention a book that did manage it.
Which would be Watchers (Dean Koontz) when I was around 11, and helped make me afraid of the dark with the majority of the books sections detailing The Outsider.
Ha nice! Thanks for keeping the spirit of the thread. I personally am not a book reader, short attention span I guess, so I would never of thought about books doing that.
The only one I can recall oddly enough was Dark Crystal. I was about 6 at the time, something about the damn skeksiss (spelling?) and that red laser that drained souls lol. Seems utterly silly now.
Okay, I'm lame. As a kid I was absolutely horrified of the dark, and the ending of the Thriller video when MJ's eyes glow freaked me out for weeks after seeing it the first time.
The scene in Predator where the camera swings up the tree and the bodies that he skinned are swinging there! scared the crap out of me when I was 8!
also Hellraiser 5 Inferno, was as freaky as hell! the chatterers in coats floating in the background of the bar scene gave me the heebies!
There are others but in order to not sound like a giant sooky wuss bag i'm keeping them to myself, although KC's beard has appeared in my nightmares eating children too!....
My dad's parenting skills led him to believe it would be a good idea for a 8 year old to watch such things as the Exorcist and Carpenter's version of The Thing. Needless to say I had many sleepless nights as a child.
Mr. Self Destruct wrote:A bit NSFW but freaked the living daylights out of me for a while.
Spoiler:
You just scarred me you whore! Another good one from Splatterhouse 3 on the Genesis. At various points you're supposed to save your girlfriend. If you fail in most games, you lose and have to start over, but in this one, you get to keep playing and are treated with wonderful screens that interrupt your side-scroller beat em up gameplay like these:
Trying to play through 'Dead Space'..... I gave up after 3 months and traded it in out of sheer cowardice!
As for movies, well 'Session 9' freaked me out a little and for sheer frights it had to be 'Event Horizon'. Scared the he'll out of me when I saw that the first time
ChainswordHeretic wrote:The Headcrabs in Halflife. I was working second shift when that came out, and always played at night with the lites out so I wouldn't wake the wife.
The worst part was when you realise the guy is still alive and aware of every moment.
ChainswordHeretic wrote:The Headcrabs in Halflife. I was working second shift when that came out, and always played at night with the lites out so I wouldn't wake the wife.
The worst part was when you realise the guy is still alive and aware of every moment.
I remeber one specific scene in the first where you saw a doctor's body convulsing wildly while the Headcrab was attaching to his head...buhh...
And I HATED the Poison Headcrabs from the second...as soon as I heard the rattle noise, I would flip out and try to find it / kill it
ChainswordHeretic wrote:The Headcrabs in Halflife. I was working second shift when that came out, and always played at night with the lites out so I wouldn't wake the wife.
The worst part was when you realise the guy is still alive and aware of every moment.
There is a youtube video where someone reversed the zombie audio from Half-Life 2
You can hear the victim saying, "Dear God Help! HELP ME!"
as for movies, a few scared me as a kid; Nightmare on Elm St., Friday the 13th, etc etc. But the one that really gave me nightmares was Killer Clowns from Outerspace - i half recall a scene where an evil alien clown forces his way through some pipes to get at some teenagers trapped in a bathroom (sounds a bit like a scene from IT too, now that i think about it). i noticed that this movie is on netflix now, i might have to watch it again to see if my fears are still justified.
As for books, theres only ever been one to truely give me nightmares. Gerald's Game by Stephen King. there was something about the way he portrayed Death (as a character) that just stuck with me. id wake up in the middle of the night in a panic, groping for the light switch praying that that same shadow wasnt lurking in the corners of my room.
and for video games, well, they dont really scare me that much anymore. startle, yeah, but not really scare.
I actually had to think about this one for a while, as I honestly couldn't remember the last time a book or movie scared me..even a bit.
As far as I can recall...the last scene in any movie that scared me was in Blacula...when the female Cab driver vampire runs towards the camera and attacks the mortician...I think I was about 4 or 5 at the time.
After watching Alfred Hitchcock's the birds I was paranoid of crows for about a week, I would have been 15-17 years old at the time (can't remember when I saw it).
Gah, that movie was terrible. I still can't believe they killed some of those animals just for the sake of killing them...like that possom they STABBED IN THE NECK and the turtle the chopped up. IIRC, the director completely disowns that movie.
Back on topic; another movie that I found to be super creepy
I've been spelunking before, and I know how it feels to be crammed into a tight cavern underground with no light, and while being knee to chest deep in water. This one hit it home for me haha
I don't think any movie has given me nightmares that I can remember, but incidentally I was watching John Carpenter's The Thing last night while I tried to sleep (I actually can't sleep without a radio or television on, it's weird), managed to fall asleep, and the creepy ambient music from the credits must've caused some kind of bad dream because I woke up and immediately switched DVDs in a half-awake quasi-panic. Didn't even look at what DVD I was putting in, all I could think in that semi-asleep state was that the music had to stop.
nerdfest09 wrote:The scene in Predator where the camera swings up the tree and the bodies that he skinned are swinging there! scared the crap out of me when I was 8!
also Hellraiser 5 Inferno, was as freaky as hell! the chatterers in coats floating in the background of the bar scene gave me the heebies!
There are others but in order to not sound like a giant sooky wuss bag i'm keeping them to myself, although KC's beard has appeared in my nightmares eating children too!....
Nerdfest09
Holy CRAP! My buddy Nerdfest...in the Off Topic?! GTFO!
I remember after I first watched Predator, I would hear the "over here" sound it made in dreams and such for a good month. No nightmares mind you, but it was creepy anyways
I want to say "what the hell did our parents think when we were growing up?" But... Ill admit, I let my 6 y/o son watch some pretty scary movies with me
biccat wrote:Cujo gave me serious nightmares as a kid.
This.
Coolyo294 wrote:I didn't sleep well the week after I read the Zombie Survival Guide.
This to a much lesser extent only because my older brother saw me reading it and pulled a prank on me while I was asleep...scared the hell outta me...
ChainswordHeretic wrote:The Headcrabs in Halflife. I was working second shift when that came out, and always played at night with the lites out so I wouldn't wake the wife.
Also this...I can't tell you how many times when I first played those games that I was creeping through some dark hole and freaked because a headcrab zombie jumped up at me...but I was much younger then and now I just laugh at them...
The movie "They Live!" also freaked me out when I was younger...those weird rotting faces scared the crap outta me...
KingCracker wrote:I want to say "what the hell did our parents think when we were growing up?" But... Ill admit, I let my 6 y/o son watch some pretty scary movies with me
I loled at aliens in the chestburster scene, and during apollo 18, I kept laughing in all of the "scary" parts, which scared the crap out of my friends.
My nightmares are of not turning in big reports, not movies.
Well, the only things that have successfully scared me are Criminal Minds (some of the cases they have had are just creepy. Especially the woman that stole children and brainwashed them to become her own children and then if they disrespected her, she would throw them into an oven... Worst thing is that was a real crime, arghhhh.)
Then some of the serial killer movies I have seen not the over the top Freddy Revenge, but the normal guy that goes killing people. Reminds me of Lucius the Eternal with freaking blade.
Gah, that movie was terrible. I still can't believe they killed some of those animals just for the sake of killing them...like that possom they STABBED IN THE NECK and the turtle the chopped up. IIRC, the director completely disowns that movie.
Back on topic; another movie that I found to be super creepy
I've been spelunking before, and I know how it feels to be crammed into a tight cavern underground with no light, and while being knee to chest deep in water. This one hit it home for me haha
no most of the actors do the director was proud of it
The thing that got me when i was a wee tacker was an epidsode of The X files. It was on at about 9:30ish, my mum was out and my dad had fallen asleep so i thought i was gonna be cool and watch a big kids show. The episode i caught was the one with the monster that uses crows to herald its arrival and kills you after you see it in a reflection. Dont remember what the ep is called but i wasnt able to look in a mirror for months afterwards and i'd leg it as fast and far as i could if i ever saw a crow. Even to this day if a crow comes out of no where and suprizes me i still get the crap scared out of me.
Brother Azul wrote:The thing that got me when i was a wee tacker was an epidsode of The X files. It was on at about 9:30ish, my mum was out and my dad had fallen asleep so i thought i was gonna be cool and watch a big kids show. The episode i caught was the one with the monster that uses crows to herald its arrival and kills you after you see it in a reflection. Dont remember what the ep is called but i wasnt able to look in a mirror for months afterwards and i'd leg it as fast and far as i could if i ever saw a crow. Even to this day if a crow comes out of no where and suprizes me i still get the crap scared out of me.
Now wonder dude the Crow is the symbol of death, and its bad luck too. plus I immedately flash back to Tristram Cinematic from Diablo 1
KingCracker wrote:I want to say "what the hell did our parents think when we were growing up?" But... Ill admit, I let my 6 y/o son watch some pretty scary movies with me
Yeah, but I bet you didn't top it off with this:
Thats hilarious, looks like something my brother the Giant does to his kids. I laugh, but it is really bad parenting
Gah, that movie was terrible. I still can't believe they killed some of those animals just for the sake of killing them...like that possom they STABBED IN THE NECK and the turtle the chopped up. IIRC, the director completely disowns that movie.
Back on topic; another movie that I found to be super creepy
I've been spelunking before, and I know how it feels to be crammed into a tight cavern underground with no light, and while being knee to chest deep in water. This one hit it home for me haha
It would have been better without the lame bad guys. It was great right up until they showed up, then it the Wife and I just started laughing. We'd slaughter them like bad cheese was the consensus.
I don't get nightmares, but this one and having a shark fin appear about four feet from me when crabbing in Texas City made me a nonentity in the ocean:
Funny story. On honeymoon in Mexico went snorkling with wife. In addition to giant jackfish I had a cramp. The Wife kept swimming on but I got into difficulty, and here comes a shark. er!!!!! The Wife's reply when I pleasantly expressed my displeasure at the situation. "Its ok old man. You're insured."
We watched the Shining in Uni after bag of mushrooms and a night out of $1 beers. As soon as I saw the blood gushing out of the elevator, I freaked out. Even though we shut it off, I couldn't sleep that night at all because of the image.
Frazzled wrote:It would have been better without the lame bad guys. It was great right up until they showed up, then it the Wife and I just started laughing. We'd slaughter them like bad cheese was the consensus.
Yep, I'll agree with that. I wasn't a huge fan of the mutant-humans, but it was the cave/atmosphere itself that was insanely creepy
The Thing is one of the only films to ever give me nightmares (though I was about 8 when I watched it ).
From Silvermk......whatever number he is (sorry Silver ) Made me think, the one movie that gave me honest to god nightmares, was Pet cemetery 2. The movie was really hoaky, and as an adult I dont get it. But when that movie came out and I watched it, Sheriff Gus, after he died just scared the hell out of me for some reason. I remember being terrified of his neck wound mostly. But for a solid month he haunted my dreams.
SO! Now that I seem like a big ol sissy pants, lets share in the embarrassment eh? What movies,shows, characters, whatever! had scared you as a young one? Or an old one, either way, start spilling the secrets
Yeah that's crazy, I watched that movie recently and couldn't understand why it freaked me out so much. But it was when the crazed dad came back and killed the wife and son. If really got me for awhile as a young kid. Weird, I didn't think many other people found that part of the movie scary as a kid.
I still find, The Thing freaky. John Carpenter really made that movie eerie. The actors were top notch the story was amazing and the setting was perfect. Isolated, confused and I still don't remember who the THING was. Horror movie perfection. To bad they are making the prequel to the movie. The effects of the original were amazing and the CGI of the prequel is gonna be lame.
The Thing is one of the only films to ever give me nightmares (though I was about 8 when I watched it ).
From Silvermk......whatever number he is (sorry Silver ) Made me think, the one movie that gave me honest to god nightmares, was Pet cemetery 2. The movie was really hoaky, and as an adult I dont get it. But when that movie came out and I watched it, Sheriff Gus, after he died just scared the hell out of me for some reason. I remember being terrified of his neck wound mostly. But for a solid month he haunted my dreams.
SO! Now that I seem like a big ol sissy pants, lets share in the embarrassment eh? What movies,shows, characters, whatever! had scared you as a young one? Or an old one, either way, start spilling the secrets
Yeah that's crazy, I watched that movie recently and couldn't understand why it freaked me out so much. But it was when the crazed dad came back and killed the wife and son. If really got me for awhile as a young kid. Weird, I didn't think many other people found that part of the movie scary as a kid.
I still find, The Thing freaky. John Carpenter really made that movie eerie. The actors were top notch the story was amazing and the setting was perfect. Isolated, confused and I still don't remember who the THING was. Horror movie perfection. To bad they are making the prequel to the movie. The effects of the original were amazing and the CGI of the prequel is gonna be lame.
Thats the funny part, when you look back as an adult, and wonder just how exactly did that scare me so bad? Like I said with Pet Cemetery 2, Gus scared the hell out of me as a child. I saw it on TV a couple years ago, and thought the same thing....that terrified me? Of lame was I?
When I was around five or six years old I conviced the babysitter to let me watch Creepshow, a Stephen King/George Romero project with special effects by Tom Savini. There was one scene that involved a reanimated corpse bursting from the grave and howling for cake, which sounds funny now but gave me nightmares for weeks after.
Watched Creepshow again recently and it was just laughable... As K.C. said... "just how exactly did that scare me so bad?"
I think one of the only films I have had nightmares about was Rumplestiltskin (sp?) I was about 6 at the time and used to keep having nightmares that he would take me away.
Also the gas-mask creatures from Dr Who freaked me out about, still get shudders when I hear "Are you my Mummy?".
How is all I keep thinking. How can "adults" like that
In much the same way that "adults" can like playing with little toy soldiers I'd imagine...
I mean, let's be perfectly honest...both activities are pretty goofy.
How is all I keep thinking. How can "adults" like that
In much the same way that "adults" can like playing with little toy soldiers I'd imagine... I mean, let's be perfectly honest...both activities are pretty goofy.
I'm with FITZZ. We play with tiny little metal soldiers in a game which is pretty much filled with really smelly creepy people.
So it's like a social version of MLP, just without all the really weird porn.
Also, FITZZ gives me nightmares, to stay on topic. I wish I was kidding.
Its the tear tattoo isnt it? Makes you think hes a serial killer?
But no I wouldnt compare our liking tiny soldiers game to liking that cartoon. Its completely juvenile, and its about uber colorful my little ponies.....you know, little girl toys? I think the vast majority of their fan base is just smoking pot and watching it.....maybe tripping acid, but definitely taking some type of substance to keep it interesting.
Sides, our goofy toys, come with awesome backstories about blowing up gak and killing things and driving huge weapons of war. They are ponies meant for little girls. Thats like comparing Baseball to Ruby. Maybe even farther away then that how about bassfishing to rugby
Not wanting to go to off topic here...
My basic point was that both can be seen as rather " odd" from certain perspectives..." Big guns and cool backstories" not withstanding...if you plunk down a mini in front of Joe Everyday and tell him it's Warlord GratchGroovy and he's bad and uber killy...there's a good chance you'll get the same "raised eyebrow" that you'd get if you told him you were really into Pinky Pony ( or whatever the hell their names are)...
..Now, do I personally watch Ponies...No..but..people in glass houses and all that.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Now, in attempts to get back OT...I thought of another "thing" that, while not giving me any nightmares, did give me the "creeps"....
A short story called " The Boogeyman" by Stephen King that I read when I was young.
I have another one. The marionette scene in poltergiest. Haunted house + at night + thunderstorm + tree scrapeing against window + marionette + CLOWN!!! = childhood night terrors.
I recall an all night session of Quake 4 and Doom 3 with my friends at a sleepover...the trick was to do it on a night with a thunderstorm to give us the atmosphere...no lights either...we were all twelve and had snuck into my older brother's game cabinet while everyone was asleep...
I got a bit of deja vu when I caught my little brother doing the exact same thing one stormy night except with a copy of Dead Space...
This has become a rite of passage in my house...you cant call yourself a man unless you've spent a week having nightmares over a game meant for older teenagers...
Dark side of the moon scared the crap out of me as did aliens 2 when I watched it all alone at home in the middle of the night when I was a little kid.
Boy was it exciting to try and fall asleep after those...
The ring freaked me out. Didn't even know i was going to be watching a horror film going into the cinema.
So I had a nightmare from that. And then after a long bout of the Sims I had a nightmare with the ring mixed with the sims... very strange, picked up a wardrobe to move it and there she was! Hiding under it!!! That probably has to be the strangest nightmare i've had or at least will admit to...
My sister had nightmares for ages after watching white noise. I didn't really get it, it wasn't that scary was it?
White noise? Not really, but sometimes things just get to people.
And yea the Ring never gave me nightmares, but it did feth with me for awhile. I couldnt go into a dark room without turning on the lights for awhile. Though I blame Ju-on for the worst of it. Thats the original Japanese version, that was pretty scary, and THAT is what screwed up the lights for me. The ring was an ok American adaptation but for realz? Watch Ju-on
When I was young the original Alien scared me. After that it was not until years later that I saw a movie that really creeped me out. No Nightmares, and I think I was 19-20 but Event Horizon was creepy as all get out.
$pider wrote:When I was young the original Alien scared me. After that it was not until years later that I saw a movie that really creeped me out. No Nightmares, and I think I was 19-20 but Event Horizon was creepy as all get out.
I saw Return of the Jedi in the theatre when I was 5. For years after I had nightmares of the Emperor chasing me through the local mall after closing. That dude was evil!
For me it was a book that mentaly ruined me, the book was The Hound Of Baskervile. I mean a big friking dog chasing people and nomnoming them? What is not to be frigthed of as 10 year old, it did not help that we had a rather insane rotweiler at the time either.
KingCracker wrote:White noise? Not really, but sometimes things just get to people.
And yea the Ring never gave me nightmares, but it did feth with me for awhile. I couldnt go into a dark room without turning on the lights for awhile. Though I blame Ju-on for the worst of it. Thats the original Japanese version, that was pretty scary, and THAT is what screwed up the lights for me. The ring was an ok American adaptation but for realz? Watch Ju-on
Hmm isn't Ju-On the grudge? I watched the american remake and thought it made no sense really.
I thought the ring was called ringu or was that the korean remake?
The first ring film, shutter and dark water were pretty good american remakes i thought
Aliens. Watched it too young and the dreams still haunt me occasionally.
Most of my nightmares revolve around being chased and hunted by a T-rex. For this I blame Jurassic Park, even though I was already 10 when I saw it.
I'm one of those types of people who hates what their subconcious can dredge up at night. I can be fine watching a gory or scary movie during the day, but when I go to sleep... That's why I don't watch a lot of monster movies anymore. Night time sanity protection
KingCracker wrote:White noise? Not really, but sometimes things just get to people.
And yea the Ring never gave me nightmares, but it did feth with me for awhile. I couldnt go into a dark room without turning on the lights for awhile. Though I blame Ju-on for the worst of it. Thats the original Japanese version, that was pretty scary, and THAT is what screwed up the lights for me. The ring was an ok American adaptation but for realz? Watch Ju-on
Hmm isn't Ju-On the grudge? I watched the american remake and thought it made no sense really.
I thought the ring was called ringu or was that the korean remake?
The first ring film, shutter and dark water were pretty good american remakes i thought
You liked Dark Water? Really? I thought that was pretty boring to be honest. But shutter was pretty good, and actually got me a couple times. Yes, Ju-on is the original version of the Grudge, it makes more sense then the American version, I still had to read subtitles and it made more sense
I wasn't really scared by any films as a kid, my imagination conjured up all my childhood fears.
I watched the fellowship of the ring age 5 and I wasn't phased at all. In fact, I loved that film and is how I got into lord of the rings miniatures, and, by extention, warhammer 40k and dakka.
shrike wrote:I wasn't really scared by any films as a kid, my imagination conjured up all my childhood fears.
I watched the fellowship of the ring age 5 and I wasn't phased at all. In fact, I loved that film and is how I got into lord of the rings miniatures, and, by extention, warhammer 40k and dakka.
Shhh you can't have been 5 when that came out! You're making me feel old
First zombie scene in resident evil 1 (11), Ernest scared stupid (8ish), The Thing (11). These are the only things that ever scared me, that my subconscious hasn't blocked.
No, you were right no matter the age, when I first saw one jump up on the ceiling I about gak my pants. I too did the "HOLY HELL WTF IS THAT!!!?!?!???!?!?!" and I died, I paniced so badly I just keep shooting, hit nothing but walls, and died
The WORST is when the licker jumps through the one-way glass after you grab one of the chess-piece keys...Holy Gak, that was one of the scariest things ever!!!
The first time I watched the original War of the Worlds when I was six years old. While the movie is not scary at all but for some reason I woke up in the middle in the night I was still groggy and saw the street light outside of my window. It looked just like the heat ray cannon from the movie. Scared the out of me.
shrike wrote:I wasn't really scared by any films as a kid, my imagination conjured up all my childhood fears.
I watched the fellowship of the ring age 5 and I wasn't phased at all. In fact, I loved that film and is how I got into lord of the rings miniatures, and, by extention, warhammer 40k and dakka.
Shhh you can't have been 5 when that came out! You're making me feel old
) Made me think, the one movie that gave me honest to god nightmares, was Pet cemetery 2. The movie was really hoaky, and as an adult I dont get it. But when that movie came out and I watched it, Sheriff Gus, after he died just scared the hell out of me for some reason. I remember being terrified of his neck wound mostly. But for a solid month he haunted my dreams.
er!!!!! The Wife's reply when I pleasantly expressed my displeasure at the situation. "Its ok old man. You're insured."
