Cheesy movies that freaked you out.

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OK, so I was driving along and the song "Overture" from Tommy came on the radio. You know, Tommy, the rock opera by the who? I used the song "Sparks" on one of my previous wash-in videos.

Anyway, there was a movie adaptation of it back in the 70s. Total cheese but there's a scene that freaked me out more than The Elephant Man ever did. It's the scene to the song "Acid Queen" which Tina Turner plays a drugged out prostitute that shoots Tommy full of heroin I'm guessing and he goes on this wild spinning trip in this imagined "machine".

What made this scary? I don't like needles and tina sported a really big one (hehehe), and that iron maiden looking thing with a spin cycle.

Besides The Elephant Man, this is definitely the NuTone exhaust fan of movie props. But the music is great.

So what movie scenes gave you nightmares?

 
Alien

I thought Dallas was hot, hot, hot, so insisted on going to the film.
Big mistake.

Today, I laugh at it, but back then it gave me jelly-knees.

Oh, well, and any TV-Ad for Baracuda Barbie.

Still would be kinda nice to see First Dud in those silk boxers, tho'.
 
While not a movie, the music video to The Talking Heads' "Buring Down the House" used to scare the hell out of me as a half-pint. For some strange reason, Mom and Dad were huge MTV buffs back in the 80's, and I can vividly remember the first time I saw the video to this day during the Top 20 Video Countdown.

IIRC, there was an incident where the song came on the radio while ridding in the car, and I asked Mom to change the sation because the song scared me. Her comment? "I don't blame you."

Even to this day I really don't care for the song.

Ben
 
Jason, you are not right... ;)

The first freak out of my life was The Exorcist. I have never seen the move, I still won't see it. Just seeing a promo pic from the movie kept me awake many, many nights, shaking my own bed so the devil wouldn't be able to...

Another one that freak my sisters and myself was a really bad B horror movie called "Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things". We saw this one night on "Thiller" theater. Freaked us out as kids, but lead to many pranks on eachother in the dark house. Just last year, a friend of mine found the movie and I watched it again. The movie is really bad; the story line is a single thread that you just know where it all ends up. A train wreck you cannot turn away from...
 
Videodrome. Debra Harry/James Woods. Lawd, when that TV set started breathing, I was weak. Let alone that gun with barbs that affixed itself to Woods hand, the VHS tape was creepy too, if not in his gut, it was breathing. alr2903
 
Sleeping Beauty

I had a very vivid memory of my two sisters taking me to the movies in the late fifties. Was some sort of animation, very scary, the three of us in the ladies room (which was very filthy), me screaming my head off and the two of them trying to quiet me down.

Though they remembered the incident, they didn't remember the movie. Until I saw Sleeping Beauty a couple of years ago. The end with the storm, lightening and the brambles, that's what did me in.

Also Jason, yes, I saw Tommy when it was first released on a wide, Cinerama screen at the Cini Capri in Phoenix AZ. Right after I drove to one of the local bars and ordered a BIG gin and tonic! It was just a crazy film!!
 
I don't remember the name of it, but I distinctly remember being freaked out by a CBS late night movie that had to do with Nazi zombies who could live underwater (or something like that)

By the time it came out, my sister was away at college, and I was old enough to be home alone, so my parents were out somewhere. During the finale, someone came and pounded on the front door. Since our house was near a big park that was also a big party spot at night, I was instructed to never open the door at night. Of course, in my fear-addled brain, I thought whoever was pounding on the door (probably a teenager with a dead battery) was an underwater Nazi zombie. I was literally frozen with terror in the living room, but they eventually went away.

Boy, was I a highstrung ninny. Thank God there was no 911 in those days. They would have known me by name. As it was, I would never have remembered the emergency numbers. ;-)
 
The Who's "Tommy" just reminded me... Did anyone see The Who's "Quadrophenia"? Fantastic music, but a TOTAL downer. I remember everyone leaving the theater not talking and wanting a drink!
 
Great Topic!

My mom's youngest sister used to drag me to movies all of my young life. I loved it because she turned me on to all of the silent movies, all movies from the talkies on....
However, if it was a scary movie, I was brought along also.
The Exorcist was the one for me. I was 8 years old in 1974 when she took me to see it with her. She had no idea that it was going to be so scary, and of course I watched the whole movie! I remember we sat in her car in a Kroger parking lot after the movie, so she could talk me down, and make me promise not to tell my mom that she brought me to see it.
For weeks, or months after seeing this movie I would hide under my blanket whenever I would hear the radio promotions with Tubeular Bells playing in the back ground.
I look back on it and laugh. I wish I could still get that scary feeling again as an adult.
Brent
 
The movie Carrie

It wasn't so much Carrie or the pig's blood.
It was Carrie's mother and the way she was tormented at school.
Oh, can you imagine living in that house?
 
Yeah, I wasn't prepared the first time I saw American Werewolf in London. In fact I pretty much stopped going to see "R" rated movies after that, if the rating was for violence.

As a kid, the film that "did it" for me was the opening of the original "Godzilla" film... Distant sounds of an ocean shore, pitch black screen, and then... these slow, giant footsteps... Whoever wrote that sequence was a genius, because it forces your imagination to kick in. What isn't seen can be infinitely scarier than what is seen.
 
poltergiest.......

def poltergiest, it didnt help having lived in a house that was haunted anyway but then to go see that movie....shhesssh

particulay sceen in mind...the lady in the coffin with the long string of pearls. i relived that one nightly for awhile.

at the end.....when the dad rolls the tv out of the motel room onto the balcony.........not scarry but it made me laugh my ass off as i was thinking after all they been through., no shit,Id throw that mother over the balcony.

a re-haunting...a few yaers afterwards when all the cast members started dying mysteriously

honerable mentions.....the second godfather,the amityville horror (james brolin version)

way back in time an episode of creature feature where some woman was able to remove her arms and leave them floating in mid air and another episode where women were given a broach that turned into a massive blood sucking tick that became huge and eventually devoured them

no nightmare mention but creepy all the same in the mid 70s a crazy little movie named simply ARNOLD.Anyone seen it? Starring stella stevens,roddy mcdowel,shirly mcclaine,jami farr.Def a classic wonderful adorable cheese
 
I Have One.........

A B movie called CARNIVAL OF SOULS from 1962. There is a scene where a group of well dressed but tattered and demented looking zombie/living dead types are dancing in an abandoned amusement park late at night. One of them walks out of the crowd seemingly from nowhere and walks towards you until he is right up to you with it's eerie dead face. It's a really schitzed out psycho thriller that is worth the watch if you like your skin to crawl. Another one was the made for TV movie THE SCREAMING WOMAN. Anyone remember that one from the seventies? This movie disturbed me for years.
 
Oh yeah, Poltergeist, Exorcist and Amityville Horror scared the crap out of me too so I stay away from them as much as possible.

Another movie that I couldn't remember the name to but freaked me out was Barbarella starring Jane Fonda. There's a scene where they're captured by these evil alien kids and they send these flesh-eating dolls to chew up their legs. Now that one I can watch today and not get freaked because it is as cheesy as it gets.

 
Piggy....Piggy...

One movie that really freaked me out as a kid was the original Lord of the Flies. Another one was a low budget film called "Who Slew Auntie Roo?" with Shelly Winters. Bad film but she was so over the top. Plus, my mom tells me that when Dark Shadows used to come on, I'd run behind a chair in the living room.
 
Speaking of old TV

The Twilight Zone: Nightmare at 20,000 feet.

Yes, the part where William Shatner opens the curtain and it shows the gremlin. Holy shiat!

 

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