In space, no one can hear you scream...
Wow! I really liked all of your responses. They ranged from total believer to skeptic. As I was carving my pumpkin last night it occurred to me that different things scare different people. I was having a discussion in my first morning class about scary movies and what things scared them. I told them the story about my first scary movie experience. My parents didn’t let me watch really scary movies while I was growing up. I watched the Creature Features on Saturday afternoon, but those were usually black and white oldies that were, for the most part, corny but not very scary.
It was New Years Eve in my 7th grade year (1979) and my best friend Jerry asked if I could sleep over for the night. My parents agreed and I was off. His parents had been invited to a party and we were supposed to go with them. Once we got to the party we got bored immediately because we were the only kids. His parents suggested that we go to the theater, which was only a couple blocks away, to see a movie. The party would still be going by the time the movies were over so at least we could kill some time until then.
We paid for our tickets and went in without even seeing what was playing. We went to the concession stand to by some popcorn and asked what was playing. The theater employee told us: “Alien” and “Dawn of the Dead”. I had never heard of those movies before but was exited about "Alien" because I liked outer space and alien stories. “Dawn of the Dead” was up first. Only a few minutes into the movie and the gore-fest kicked off full-tilt! Blood, zombies, weird camera angles and dark sets assaulted me on all fronts. The overall feel of the movie was a total sense of hopelessness. No where to go, no one to help and no one to rescue. It completely freaked me out. I desperately wanted to run out of the theater but was literally frozen with fear. That was the longest 90 minutes of my life! Once I had survived that traumatizing event I got to “look forward” to “Alien”. Wrong! This movie was worse than the other because these people are trapped on a spaceship with an alien killing machine. Oh man, what a long night. Once I finally got home I felt a little bit better. At least until it was time to go to bed…
My bedroom was a converted basement beneath the house. Yes, basement. It was very nice actually, with new carpet and plush wall coverings. But that night, it was like a tomb. Once I got into bed I looked up the stairs, located directly ahead of me. My mind began to spin at hyper speed. Zombies and aliens descended those stairs all night that night and for weeks after that. Once I got over that (a few weeks later), I began to develop a morbid love of all things scary and pretty soon, it took some pretty serious scaring to get me riled up. One notable exception is the Exorcist. Enough said! What movie/movies scared you as a kid (or an adult)? Why?
It was New Years Eve in my 7th grade year (1979) and my best friend Jerry asked if I could sleep over for the night. My parents agreed and I was off. His parents had been invited to a party and we were supposed to go with them. Once we got to the party we got bored immediately because we were the only kids. His parents suggested that we go to the theater, which was only a couple blocks away, to see a movie. The party would still be going by the time the movies were over so at least we could kill some time until then.
We paid for our tickets and went in without even seeing what was playing. We went to the concession stand to by some popcorn and asked what was playing. The theater employee told us: “Alien” and “Dawn of the Dead”. I had never heard of those movies before but was exited about "Alien" because I liked outer space and alien stories. “Dawn of the Dead” was up first. Only a few minutes into the movie and the gore-fest kicked off full-tilt! Blood, zombies, weird camera angles and dark sets assaulted me on all fronts. The overall feel of the movie was a total sense of hopelessness. No where to go, no one to help and no one to rescue. It completely freaked me out. I desperately wanted to run out of the theater but was literally frozen with fear. That was the longest 90 minutes of my life! Once I had survived that traumatizing event I got to “look forward” to “Alien”. Wrong! This movie was worse than the other because these people are trapped on a spaceship with an alien killing machine. Oh man, what a long night. Once I finally got home I felt a little bit better. At least until it was time to go to bed…
My bedroom was a converted basement beneath the house. Yes, basement. It was very nice actually, with new carpet and plush wall coverings. But that night, it was like a tomb. Once I got into bed I looked up the stairs, located directly ahead of me. My mind began to spin at hyper speed. Zombies and aliens descended those stairs all night that night and for weeks after that. Once I got over that (a few weeks later), I began to develop a morbid love of all things scary and pretty soon, it took some pretty serious scaring to get me riled up. One notable exception is the Exorcist. Enough said! What movie/movies scared you as a kid (or an adult)? Why?
posted by Craig W. Judd at 12:14 PM
5 Comments:
Karen S.
Chain Saw Mascare, the movie that scared me because you are not expected to see the unexpected scene that is going to happen. Another situation I remember was when I was very little in Missouri my oldest brother was with his friends doing a haunted house and one of his friend had a chain saw and I was carried out crying my head off because I was so scared. Now at my age I don't do scary movies.
When I was a kid, the movie that scared me the most was, "The Fly." I was really young when my parents took me with them to go watch. They didn't find it very appalling, but I sure did. I remember being so scared that I forced my self to go to sleep about half way through the movie, curled up next to my mom. That was awful.
I wasn't allowed to watch scary movies as a kid, they would give me bad dreams. I remember seeing "Nightmare on Elm Street 5" at a young age, and the idea of a man with giant knife fingers and a burned face attacking kids was really disturbing. "Friday the 13th" movies were pretty awful too. Ahh, the 80's.
As I grew up, I would watch the famous 80's slasher flicks as comedies, some of the plots were so predictable, and the actors just make me laugh, now. I guess that perception is everything, and a six year old mind is more receptive that a 15 year olds.
But, the two movies that still chill my spine are "Stephen Kings IT" and "The Exorcist" remake. Clowns, sewer drains and girls walking upside down on a flight of stairs just ain't right.
"Beep, beep, Ritchie!"
Chris Christopherson
The movie that I remember most is the night of the living dead. When I saw that movie all the lights went on for days and even in the day light hours, but time had past and my fear did not seem so bad anymore, until I seen witnessed an other heart stabbing movie. I had a great childhood and I had my share of movies that had me checking under the bed every night, but it seemed that when ever that I seen one of those movies I was always alone in the house and that gave my mind every opportunity to mess with me. Thank God for my kids because the movies that I used to like to see are something of the past because now I watch Veggie Tales and various other educational and spiritual movies and that's OK with me.
Peace Out........
~annie
hmmm....now a days there is NO scary movies...maybe back in the days when I was kid....lets see....hmmm....can't really think right now because I am hungry...
oh yeah I really like the chinese and korean ghost movies like The Eye or hmm....I can't think of the other one but they've re-made some of the scary movies from other countries.....
not really into scary movies....it's just too fake...
~annie
Eddie V. BA
The movie that scared me when I was a little kid his movie that I dont think anyone has heard of called Ghost House. The movie was about a ghost with a posesive clown doll that haunted this house and killed people who when around or inside it. It was creepy because the doll would look normal, but then all of a sudden the doll had a creepy face and then victim would end up dead. The ghost that haunted the house was a little girl that basically let the doll control her to her death, and now her evil spirit with the evil clown doll haunted the house. I don't really remember much about it, but I would love to see it again.
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