Posted on 08/13/2010 4:41:24 PM PDT by JoeProBono
Growing up, I was fascinated by Jacques Cousteau and wanted to be an oceanographer just like him.
Then that damn' movie JAWS came out and I saw it.
Not only did it cure me from wanting to be an oceanographer, I still won't go in large bodies of water to go swimming, much less the ocean.
“night of the living dead”
Yeah, me too. I remember the show “Creature Features” shown on a San Francisco-area channel ran ads showing one of the zombies eating a human arm. I never actually saw the movie until I was an adult but that ad was enough...
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
and
Hush, Hush, Sweet Charolette.
I was much too little to see those movies when I did but my parents thought I slept through them. I was just scared to death and tried to keep my eyes closed.
The first Alien movie, completely freaked me out..
Night of the Living Dead.
I believe it... the flying monkeys scared the cr@p out of me when I was a kid.
One more. “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” with Nimoy. The part that most scared me was the final scene with “Amazing Grace” playing on bagpipes.
THE TINGLER scared me so bad I spent most of the movie in the lobby.
The Changeling (1980). Linda Blair’s “The Exorcist” and the original “The Omen” are also scary, but somehow I was not scared as much as with the Changeling.
Play Misty for Me, Scared the hell out of me.
Your pic from the original War of the Worlds says it all for me. When they got to that scene where they’re hiding in the house, and the snakey eyeball thing was crawling in through the window to get them ... I was hiding in the kitchen.
Yipes!
Friday the 13th
Nightmare on Elm Street
That makes 3 of us for “Invaders From Mars”. I saw it again a few years ago and realized I had remembered several things wrong tho only slightly.
It really impressed me. The second time I saw it was a bit of a disappointment, mainly because I had built it up in my mind as so awesome, but the third time it was better as I just sat back and enjoyed it.
“Children of the Corn”
OMG
Definitely “The Exorcist”....and “Salem’s Lot.” The former, very scary and the latter, not so scary today, but scary enough for a little boy. Visions of a young boy floating outside my upstairs window while smiling evilly and scratching nails on the glass...still gives me the heebies.
Some black and white movie with a gigantic black spider, bigger than a house, trying to poke at people hiding in a cave.
The House of Dark Shadows.
I hate vampires to this day.
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