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For what it's worth, it's a lot different when you're 6 or 7, particularly before you got exposed to the horror movies of the 80s/90s.

Also, you did yourself a disservice by just looking for a clip. The rest of the movie really worked up to the creepy factor. Maybe not "scary" by today's standards, but it was there.

I feel the same way about modern splatterporn though. True horror movies actually climb into your head for a while before they drown the camera in fake viscera, if they do it at all.

 daedalus wrote:
For what it's worth, it's a lot different when you're 6 or 7, particularly before you got exposed to the horror movies of the 80s/90s.

Also, you did yourself a disservice by just looking for a clip. The rest of the movie really worked up to the creepy factor. Maybe not "scary" by today's standards, but it was there.

I feel the same way about modern splatterporn though. True horror movies actually climb into your head for a while before they drown the camera in fake viscera, if they do it at all.

Damn.. now I feel bad. It was that good of a film then.... I should have just watch the whole film. I do enjoy 50s scifi stuff.

But I understand....my 5 year old can't watch Beauty and the Beast cartoon by Disney because of Beast scares her. I keep telling her... It is a Disney Cartoon!

Exposed Edges, not height but edges without handrails/barriers. Not sure if its fear or professional caution.

I'm fine with height, I'm building two 24 storey towers and often to be found on the roof on many on London's high buildings but an edge without some form of protection sets bells off in my head.

I refurbished the Strand Palace Theatre many years ago and all elevations had a lovely parapet wall covered in carved stone sculpture and cappings above a 25-30m drop. I'd happily hang over that and inspect exiting state of repair etc, but I wouldn't go within 10' of an internal lightwell that had a 2 storey drop next to it because there was noting to hang on to.

Oh and anything near my kids scares me, cars, animals, tables, duvets, tissue paper, string, ANYTHING! Parental paranoia + Professional Heath and Safety awareness training = one enormous headache!

 notprop wrote:
Exposed Edges, not height but edges without handrails/barriers. Not sure if its fear or professional caution.

I'm fine with height, I'm building two 24 storey towers and often to be found on the roof on many on London's high buildings but an edge without some form of protection sets bells off in my head.

I refurbished the Strand Palace Theatre many years ago and all elevations had a lovely parapet wall covered in carved stone sculpture and cappings above a 25-30m drop. I'd happily hang over that and inspect exiting state of repair etc, but I wouldn't go within 10' of an internal lightwell that had a 2 storey drop next to it because there was noting to hang on to.

Oh and anything near my kids scares me, cars, animals, tables, duvets, tissue paper, string, ANYTHING! Parental paranoia + Professional Heath and Safety awareness training = one enormous headache!

I'm the same way with my kid, but the thread is really dumb things. This is not a dumb thing. I don't think so anyway. If you are not scare, you are not a good parent

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 Bullockist wrote:
Horses, freakin horses, i hate them, they can take their overly long head and large rump and giddyup away from me.

But weirdest thing I have ever been scared of was blair witch project, i actually had to sleep in a housemates bedroom as it freaked me out so much. I may or may not have been doing drugs at the time.

I'm with you on this. The movie feels like you just witness 3 people who were killed by a witch. It is a shock or PTSD or something for me. It took a few days for me to shake it off. Damn...I know it was not real...but my heart keeps feeling sorry for the three. I still won't watch that film today, yet... I have no problem watching faces of death.

The wife and I laughed and laughed at that movie.

1. No Texan goes camping unarmed. Its against the Cowboy Code.
2. Dude this is the East Coast. Just walk in a straight line. Camping is not difficult. We kept joking that if they panned the camera up they'd see the sign for a Piggly Wiggly...

King Ramses from Courage the Cowardly Dog. He scared me shitless when I was a young'n.

 TheCustomLime wrote:
King Ramses from Courage the Cowardly Dog. He scared me shitless when I was a young'n.

Oh man I remember this. I had a cousin who refused to watch Courage the Cowardly Dog because she was scared of all the episodes XD

 Ensis Ferrae wrote:

Bullockist wrote:Horses, freakin horses, i hate them, they can take their overly long head and large rump and giddyup away from me.

This as well... God, they have those giant gnawing teeth on them on one end... and the other end, with those deadly kickin' legs.... Feth that!!! we have internal combustion engines for a fething reason!!

It's because cars don't crap on the street, they're ''cleaner" - that was what they said back when the car first appeared. Take that greenies.

I'm young, but a few years ago I lived everyday in fear at the thought of my belly button unraveling.
That, and I stood up to late once with my uncle and watched the remake of night of the living dead.
I could not sleep for days.

Don't feel bad, I was terrified at the cop from pet cemetery 2 when I was a kid. Dunno why, but the dude just scared the bajeezus out of me.

One of my earliest memories involves watching that episode of "In Search Of..." -my grandpa loved that show- about the Hindemburg disaster. A couple days later, my parents made a crucial mistake: They took me to an airshow where the main attraction was a Goodyear blimp.

Don't rush to put the blame on them. Up until that day, they must have thought their kid was virtually fearless. Unlike my sister, I wasn't scared of monsters, aliens or ghosts. Rather, I showed a precocious interest in topics that would have scared any other four-year-old dead. "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" was my favorite movie. My grandpa -who shared with me a fascination with all things morbid and paranormal- used to tell me folk tales about vengeful ghosts, deals with the Devil, covens of witches and gigantic man-eating wolves. I learnt to read with Charles Berlitz' "The Bermuda Triangle" and Walter Lord's "A Night to Remember". There was no way on Earth they could have known that just being close to (or, God forbid, ABOARD) a hydrogen-filled death trap would make me snap.

I just can't remember what happened. I still have vivid memories of watching that particular TV show but none of the airshow and the epic panic attack that -apparently- followed. I must have freaked out so bad I lapsed unconscious or something. All I know is from my parents' recollections of the event (that became an item of coffee table chit chat for years to come). That and some vague memories of my father buying me a helium balloon to help me cope with the fact that bags filled with lighter-than-air gases can stay aloft without necessarily bursting into flames and sending dozens to a fiery demise. Well, these probably weren't my father's words, but you get the idea.

I watched the original Amityville Horror on cable when I was 8 or 9. That scene where Margot Kidder is walking up the stairs, hears a noise and pulls up the window shade to see the glowing red eyes of the pig demon. That did it for me. I still keep the blinds closed at night.

When I was staying at my friend's house, I awoke to two eyes staring straight into my face. This triggered the first shot of adrenalin, which startled me awake. Then a couple of milliseconds later as my brain processed more of what I was seeing, it registered that the face was covered in hair had fangs and not human. This is when my body basically switched to DEAFCON 1, my blood must have literally saturated with adrenalin at that point. Everything suddenly went into slow motion as I gasped, dragging air into my lungs though clenched teeth. I must have looked like someone pulling about 5Gs on a roller-coaster as I prepared to fight for my life. Alarm bells ringing in my head "Monster Alert! This is not a drill!!"

That is probably the closest I've ever come to punching a kitten.

 KingCracker wrote:
Don't feel bad, I was terrified at the cop from pet cemetery 2 when I was a kid. Dunno why, but the dude just scared the bajeezus out of me.

He was just so weird. Pet Cemetery 1 and 2 were both creepy. Cujo was also pretty creepy.


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Also, Tim Curry as It. Feth that.

The pool sharks.

Took swimming lessons when I was 5 and when we were learning to jump off the diving board I saw the drain at the bottom of the pool which had a grate over it. I asked what it was for and the lifeguard told me that's where we keep the sharks during the day, but don't get too close in case they get out. I was terrified that there were actually sharks behind the grate and I would freak out because when we were on the diving boards we'd end up going deeper towards the bottom (and closer to to grate) I was afraid I'd get too close and it's pop open releasing the sharks.

Fear from a combination of a sadistic lifeguard and my dad letting me watch Jaws when I was 5 so I was already terrified of sharks, bastards the both of them.

I'm still afraid of supernatural movies. I can watch movies with excessive gore, thrillers, sci-fi horror like Alien and slasher films like the old Jason movies. I have to avoid stuff that has to do with demons and ghosts though, like the Grudge or the Conjuring, otherwise I'll spend most of the night just staring at my door. lol

 BlaxicanX wrote:
I'm still afraid of supernatural movies.

No walls can keep him out...





I'm in the same boat with supernatural horror movies. Blood, guts, gore, hook handed maniacs, aliens, psycho clowns no problem. Demonic elements or witchcraft NOOOPE!

 jreilly89 wrote:

 KingCracker wrote:
Don't feel bad, I was terrified at the cop from pet cemetery 2 when I was a kid. Dunno why, but the dude just scared the bajeezus out of me.

He was just so weird. Pet Cemetery 1 and 2 were both creepy. Cujo was also pretty creepy.


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Also, Tim Curry as It. Feth that.

Yeah Tim Curry does creepy extremely well.

Chickens. Weird walking motion, small dead eyes, vicious temperament... Brrrrr...

Saw War of the Worlds '05 for DVD release in fifth grade with my family.

It left me with mentally running through a lot of what-if scenarios whenever we went skiing up to 2008

Also the thought of having to drive in the state of Califonia still gets me on occasion

 Smacks wrote:
When I was staying at my friend's house, I awoke to two eyes staring straight into my face. This triggered the first shot of adrenalin, which startled me awake. Then a couple of milliseconds later as my brain processed more of what I was seeing, it registered that the face was covered in hair had fangs and not human. This is when my body basically switched to DEAFCON 1, my blood must have literally saturated with adrenalin at that point. Everything suddenly went into slow motion as I gasped, dragging air into my lungs though clenched teeth. I must have looked like someone pulling about 5Gs on a roller-coaster as I prepared to fight for my life. Alarm bells ringing in my head "Monster Alert! This is not a drill!!"

That is probably the closest I've ever come to punching a kitten.

Can't..... Breath....


When I was young I was often freaked out by undead imagery. I couldn't look at the cover of the Goosebumps book: The Curse of Camp Cold Lake, without nightmares. SOme of the things in lost I saw when my dad and I watched it on wendesdays were truly nightmare inducing

2 PC related things:
I was gaming and had a YouTube playlist running, an ad for godzilla (the film) came on and scared the life out of me.
Recently, I was playing a game (I do that a lot) and it bugged out and crashed, making a load screeching noise, I had my headphones off but my heart was racing because of the shock.

This is pretty common but... Santa Claus.

I was 6 years old, was at my aunts on Christmas Eve.
They had some neighbor down the road who was some 6' 4" ringer for Santa, full beard and everything, pretty wide too.
So out of nowhere he seems to almost kick in the front door, brandishing a 3' long strap of 2" diameter jingle bells yelling HO! HO! HO! MERRRRYYYY CHRISTMAAASSS!!!!!
Sounded like the end of times was upon us, worse than getting hit with a flash-bang.
The family says I dove head first under the coffee table and screamed my guts out for a solid hour which started at ear-bleed intensity as he got closer and learned to veer away.
Death-grip on legs of table and would not come out to see "the nice man" who would then always be viewed with suspicion and a locked bedroom door on Christmas Eve.
Needless to say sitting on Santa's lap was out of the question and involved a good footrace if anyone tried to force it probably until I was old enough it did not matter.

So, I usually have a talk with these helpers and ask they keep things pretty low-key so my kids can have a slightly more pleasant memory of the "Jolly old Demon...er... elf".

Things that scare me? I have a phobia of zombies, not the ones off of walking dead, the superhuman ones like off of CoD black ops 2

As a child, I believed that you would die if you were still in the room when a bathtub finished draining.

I still am not comfortable in that situation now.

I got attacked by feral chickens in Iraq. It was a one sided fight. Thank Gawd for body armor and ACH. Buggers are eeevvvviiiiiillllllll

OK, in my area, there's been a few robberies several weeks ago where the MO of the criminals is that they cut to the power. Then when you walk outside to check the box, they smack you over the head with a bat/beat you up, then rob the house.

So around two weeks ago, it was 2:45AM, couldn't sleep, so I was on my computer. Then all the lights went out. I can't even describe how high I jumped, and what it felt like immediately going into fight-or-flight mode.

Puppets. Especially ugly puppets.

Spitting Image scares the gak out of me.
I don't like the Muppet Show either.
And what's that disgusting film with puppets. Adult orientated. About a concert show or some such. I think there's a big walrus that's a gangster or something?
Dark Crystal.
Labyrinth is a great film, but at the beginning when those ugly trolls come for the baby....Jesus. And those skinny pink one's that pull off their own heads...*shiver*
Gremlins traumatised me.

meet the feebles, the best puppet movie ever.

"Sodomy, you might think it's very odd of me that i enjoy the act of sodomy,-dun dun dun dun dun dun dun- SODOMY"

It's a classic.

The IT clown did it for me. Saw IT when I was 4, had nightmares until I was a teenager.

Also the movie Maximum Overdrive, after seeing that at a young age, I still have a fear of all electronics becoming "alive" and trying to kill us.