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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!

 
Rod Serling didn't do horror very often in The Twilight Zone (most stories are ironic and/or humorous), but when he did.. Watch out.

Full TZ episodes can be viewed for free on CBS's website. So many great ones:

Nothing in the Dark
Walking Distance
A Stop at Willoughby
The Hunt
The After Hours
The Night of the Meek (wonderful holiday episode, Art Carney is amazing)

http://www.cbs.com/classics/the_twilight_zone/
 
Betty Davis

My two most favorite horror films were "Hush,Hush Sweet Charlotte" where Betty plays an older plantation herris who was blamed for a murder she didn't commit.Her estate is about to be torn down to run a freeway through and she fights the state tooth and nail to keep the construction workers from terring her house down.Her cousin (who happens to know who the real murderess is)comes to take advantage of her wealth and she along with a local physician(who happens to be a town drunk)plot to drug Betty enough to make her go crazy and cause the money offered for the property to go into their greatty little hands.Betty happens to overhear them speaking of their royalties comming as soon as she is admitted to the local nut house and, being on the balcony where there sat huge vases full of dirt and plants hearing them talk,Betty slides the vase and kills them both instantly. One note here,one of my favorite tv actresses,Agnes Moorehead.She played a housekeeper and was verry suspicious of Betty's cousin.She found the vile containing the drug they were injecting fought a losing battle falling down a flight of winding stairs,breaking her neck. The stare in her eyes was so,so hypnottic! Such a frightfull movie but great plot,great acting and edge of your seat,fingernails in mouth drama!!!

The other movie she starred in with Joan Crofford, "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" was a surrealistic type along with,almost psychodelic proportions. In this movie,she played the villiness who was severely jealous of her sister's wealth and fame as an actress.In a severe auto accident,Joan becomes a parraplegic and has to spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair.Betty has to take care of her and as much of a true bitch as we have heard of her being in real life,Joan plays this innocent victem of abuse and horror.Some of the torture and abuse Betty throws to her is unbelievable and will make you crawl to the edge of your sofa.great movie!

Both of these are at least 2.5 hours long but well worth that extra bag of microwave popcorn!!!

Oh man, that scene where the doctor is shot with a blank and he plays dead and Betty's cousin makes her ride along while they dump him into a nearby swamp and he beats them back home,then Betty tries to go back to her bed only to be completely shocked by this swampy monster coming after her who just happens to be her doctor all mudded up with dead leaves and mud all over him drives her into a complete breakdown right there on the stairs!---Hush!Hush! Sweet Charlotte! LOL
 
I can't think of a movie that affected me much, but my brother had one:

When he was really little (maybe 2-3 years old) the movie King Kong freaked him out so badly that he would cry if someone mentioned Hong Kong.

Think I'll remind him--and his children--about that on Thursday.

veg
 
Others

Another one that got to me was first Howling movie. Also the Halloween movies, with the exception of the one that had nothing to do with Michael Myers number 3. I didn't care much for Nightmare on Elm Street or Friday the 13th.
 
Oh Geeze!

I thought of another one.
It was Karen Black staring in "Trilogy of Terror"!
That freaking doll scared me to death in the last story!
I think that this was a made for Television movie. I am not 100% sure however where I saw it. I just remember. She was very convincing in the role.
Brent
 
I got two!

First was when I was seven years old. My Daddy took me and two friends to a Saturday Matinee up in town. I'm sure he didn't know what "The Blob" was all about. We lasted about five minutes, until the scene when the old man pokes at the rock with his stick. The Blob comes out onto the stick, oozes down the stick, and starts eating his arm. Three little girls scream, hide under their seats, and start crying. I was petrified, poor Daddy was mortified.

The next summer, I was on vacation at a cousin's house. We were allowed to watch Chiller Theater (with Chilly Billy Cardile). The movie was the original version of "Invaders From Mars". Boy did that one creep me out. The whole idea of your parents coming back home, and not really being your parents anymore scared me silly for a couple of months.

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Movie that skeeved me out the most?

The guy I was dating at the time dragged me to "Forrest Gump."

Didn't like the movie ONE BIT, have never been a big fan of Tom Hanks.

I am not a "heartwarming" or "uplifting" sort of guy.

Lawrence/Maytagbear
 
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I LOVED the movies from the 70's. The Screaming Woman is one of my very favorites, along with The Victim with Elizabeth Montgomery, and Satan's Triangle with Kim Novak. The last scene in Satan's Triangle truly gave me the creeps for a long time. Also, anyone like The Dark Secret of Harvest Home? If you can find the full four hour mini series version it is worth watching!
 
Night of the Living Dead

The original black and white version of Night of the Living Dead. That movie creeped me out watching it. I remember I was babysitting in a strange house at night and watching it in a room with sliding glass doors with no curtain on it. It was creepy. I too remember a few B movies such as Carnival of Souls and Horror of Party Beach with fish monsters that come out of the lake. Not real scary but a good B movie anyway.

Doug
 

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