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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)

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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
 
I agree that Phantasm was disturbing. But didn't that flying steel ball with the pop-out attachements remind you of an all-purpose kitchen gadget from Ronco?
 
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!
 
Another Japanese cheese classic that gave me nightmares for years was Matango ("Attack of the Mushroom People"), from 1963.

 
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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
 
The Evil Dead

For me it has to be the Evil Dead, the original 1981 version!

The poster really freaked me out as a child (attached)! I used to really wonder what went on in that film. Later I saw it and it was quite funny but very gory.

The thing that really freaked me out was the Omen music. Years later I found out what the lyrics meant and they were genuinely satanic.

Rob

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"Day of the Triffids"-A goofy early 60's horror movie that freaked me out on the way home from the theater.My older brother and I watched this at an Air Force Base theater-we had to walk thru a feild with some trees and plants in it-and in the dark Looked like those TRIFFIDS in the movie-and we both were "scaring" each other on the way home-was kinda fun though-I beleive the first Sci-fi Horror movie I watched at the movie house.And this was a movie where the plants were alien-carried to earth on a bad meteor storm.Plants instead of "animal" or human type monsters-that that also made it more spooky.
 
I was just thinking of that damn doll. That movie freaked me out as a kid, but I had to watch it every time it was on tv. Thanks guys for coming up with the name. When I saw this thread I started googling, but I couldn't remember the name. I kept coming up with Triad of terror in my hazy head. Thanks again, now I am going to have that freakin' thing in my head all day. Whoa, I think I just saw a doll go running by, sh!t.
 
Horror movies

The one that did it for me was The Fog (not the recent remake). It always scared me, as a kid, when they talked about lepers in church and I had a mental image of them. When I saw them in that film they were just as I imagined.
 
In Invaders from Mars, the two parents who spoke decently to their son and were kind and giving, scared the hell out of us. No kids at that time had ever seen anyone with parents like that. When the Martians changed the mom and dad into typical 1950's grouchy abusive parents, we all breathed a sigh of relief.

Of course our fears came back with families on TV like The Andersons and the Cleavers. What crappy parents! They didn't even beat their kids!
 
Oddly enough, it was a Martin and Lewis comedy, "Scared Stiff" that gave me nightmares when I was a kid... the scene with Lewis sitting in an antique chair in the haunted house, with arms that came from behind to grab him, for some reason that image stuck with me and scared me when I was very young. I even got scared of some old luggage in the attic with handles that resembled the covering on the antique chair arms in the movie...

I could watch Twilight Zone, or the original King Kong (with people getting torn apart) without blinking and eye. Leave it to Jerry Lewis to freak me out, lol.
 

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