[Liberty4eva]

What are the scariest movies you can remember seeing when you were a kid? These are 5 films that got under my skin and caused me some sleepless nights.

1. Blair Witch Project
2. The Thing (1982)
3. Predator
4. The Fly (1986)
5. Jaws

[Crimson Dynamo]

Jaws
The Exorcist
Halloween

[Liberty4eva]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Jaws
The Exorcist
Halloween

viva la 70s

[Niamh.]

Salems Lot
IT
Rosemarys Baby

[Denver]

Monsters Inc

[Shaun]

I think I didn't like the basement scene in Home Alone when I was a toddler, lol (in fact most of the siege stuff was gross, especially when he steps on a nail )

Any film that involved being in the ocean scared me - Jaws, Waterworld - I think I still have an underlying fear of the ocean.

[Tom4784]

Salem's Lot and American Werewolf in London, I've watched Salem's Lot since and it's not too scary (but those vamp kids are still freaky as ****) and I will never watch AWIL again, that **** traumatised me as a child.

[Lostie!]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

IT

Yeah, that used to traumatise me.

This part especially.

Youtube video

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

Salem's Lot and American Werewolf in London, I've watched Salem's Lot since and it's not too scary (but those vamp kids are still freaky as ****) and I will never watch AWIL again, that **** traumatised me as a child.

The kid vampire knocking on the window asking to be let in

Also, Pet cemetery...basically anything Stephen king

[Lostie!]

Oh, I hope Luke doesn't look at this thread.

[Babayaro.]

The scene in The Sixth Sense with sick coming out of the girl's mouth terrified me and Resident Evil was pretty scary when I was younger too, not so much now though.

[Northern Monkey]

Nightmare on Elm Street.I saw it when i was pretty young.The bit where she's getting ripped to pieces in bed and when you see the body bag in the school.I was scared to go to sleep for a while and kept imagining i heard squeaking metal claws on the drain pipe.

[LaLaLand]

Anything with Freddie Krueger in, ARACHNOPHOBIA omg I couldn't function for weeks after without thinking there were spiders everywhere!

[Ithinkiloveyoutoo]

The omen
Jesus of nazareth.

[Kyle]

Watership Down.

That film was brutal.

[Jason.]

A Clockwork Orange always creeped me out when I was younger but I love it now that I'm older and have seen it several times.

[Crimson Dynamo]

hammer house of horror

[Jessica.]

Se7en and the exorcist Saw them both when I was about 7

[James]

You are all choosing proper horror films, hah. I was going to say the Wicked Witch of the West from the Wizard of Oz - especially the scene where she is standing on the Tin-Man's cabin and she tries to set fire to the scarecrow.

I didn't watch horror films when I was that young.

[GiRTh]

Exorcist, The Hitcher

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Salems Lot
IT
Rosemarys Baby

Salem's Lot was actually one very scary movie in my opinion.

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

hammer house of horror

They had some crackingly scary films in the Hammer series.

Do you remember 'Hitchcock's Half Hour' LT? It was a weekly series of half hour films by Alfred Hitchcock and when I was a really small kid, I saw one which haunted me for months.

It was set in an isolated small Private Hospital in the American 'backwoods' and one night, the hospital were awaiting a new matron from 'out of town' arriving, when there's a bad storm which takes down the phone lines.

The last thing that a young male orderly, the old male janitor and three nurses - one of whom, is a beautiful blond called 'Stella' - hear on the radio, before that too is down, is that a very violent, deranged serial killer has escaped from a Men's Prison in one of the neighbouring counties.

The middle-aged Matron duly arrives at night - having battled her way through the storm in her car - and is alarmed to hear that a psychotic killer is on the loose, but she settles into her duties.

It's not long before a door blows open in the storm and upon investigation, the janitor finds it's been forced from outside. Then, amid some great 'spooky' effects - the lights failing, then flickering back on, the lightening flashes casting eerie shadows, shutters banging in the gales - a very deep and chilling male voice can be heard coming from somewhere down a darkened corridor; "Such a pretty neck".

When the janitor and orderly investigate, one of the bed-ridden patients has been strangled but there is no sign of the killer.

The Orderly is sent out into the storm to walk to the nearest town and alert the sheriff, and one by one, both patients and staff are bumped off as the chilling words; "Such a pretty neck" is heard in the darkness of distant rooms.

The Orderly does not return and the janitor elects to go to bring the Sheriff leaving just the terrified Matron and Stella.

The show ends with Stella and the Matron coming into a room where the half glazed outside door is opened back to the wall. As the storm outside rages, a lightning flash briefly shows the figure of someone standing behind the door.

Stella and the Matron hide behind some furniture as the door swings closed again, revealing that the 'figure' hiding behind it, was really the dead body of the freshly strangled janitor, who has been 'propped up' against the wall.

Finally, with Stella and the Matron clinging to each other in fear in the darkness, a man's deep voice pierces the blackness; "Such a pretty neck".

Illuminated by the lightning from outside, we see Stella's terrified face as she realises that the deep,voice has just issued from the 'Matron'.

As the 'Matron' strangles her to a chorus of; "Such a pretty neck, Stella", Stella pulls off 'her' wig and the psycho killer is revealed.

The 'Matron' was totally convincing as a woman, and I don't think that ANYONE saw the 'ending coming, and I found that episode much more shocking and scary than many of the films which were contemporary, or which have followed since.

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by James

You are all choosing proper horror films, hah. I was going to say the Wicked Witch of the West from the Wizard of Oz - especially the scene where she is standing on the Tin-Man's cabin and she tries to set fire to the scarecrow.

I didn't watch horror films when I was that young.

...even in more recent times, I've found some of the Disney villains/antagonists quite scary...Claude Frollo in Hunchback and Scar in Lion King.....oh and Madame Medusa in The Rescuers../such a dark character...

[Ammi]

..actually, Disney movies are pretty terrifying, I'm surprised we all survive childhood and watching them...

[Natalie.]

Arachnophobia, I hate that film
The Witches