What was the first movie that really scared you?

[Bugman]

In 1967, my friend Bill and I saw Wait Until Dark starring Audrey Hepburn, with Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna and Jack Weston as the bad guys.

I lifted this from Wiki. Hepburn was nominated for both the Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Actress, and Zimbalist was nominated for a Globe in the supporting category. The film ranked tenth on Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments for its riveting climax. In 2001 the film was also ranked #55 on AFI's 100 Years 100 Thrills.

In an effort to duplicate the suspense on screen, movie theaters dimmed their lights to their legal limits, then turned them off one by one until each light on-screen was shattered, resulting in the theater being plunged into complete darkness.

That was the scariest thing I had seen in a movie up to that time.

 

[maniactickler]

Back around 1978. Phantasm was my first scare.

 

[Mitchell]

The original Amityville Horror in 1979. My parents took me to see it in the theater when it played. I was nine years old at the time, and I was scared out of my wits.


Mitch

 

[porcelaindoll2]

I know this will sound cheesy, but I have to say the Hammer Dracula films with Christopher Lee. Now let me explain why. Vampires turn me on and I thought all of the Dracula's I had seen in other Dracula films were sexy. They all were looking for wife to spend the rest of eternity with. In Lee's films he usually would just turn a girl into a vampire to get revenge on the main male characters. He didn't really want them for a long term relationship and he would normally kill them when they acted to clingy. The first time I saw him break a ladies neck it scared the crap out of me.

 

[kered]

Julie Harris and Claire Bloom in the original The Haunting. I was about 7 years old and didn't sleep for a week.

 

[The Fallen Angel]

the second jason when i was 5

 

[Angel77]

The Exorcist.

 

[Gothika]

^same here

 

[ma1926]

the movie "IT"

 

[prestidigits]

Julie Harris and Claire Bloom in the original The Haunting. I was about 7 years old and didn't sleep for a week.

Thank you, Kered (who spells my name BACKWARD!!!) I saw it on tv when I was about 7 or so; Russ Tamblyn climbed the shaky spiral staircase, he got to the top, the trap door open and the previously lost Claire Booth (I think) suddenly thrust her head out!

I jumped, I wrenched my back, and I've had back problems off and on since!

 

[CrystalLight]

As a little kid: Hook. I saw it when I was in Daycare and the "bigger kids" were watching it. The bugs in the box gave me nightmares for years. Srsly. Years.

As a bigger little kid: The Sixth Sense. I watched it at my girlfriend's house. She lived right down the street from me and afterwards I had to walk home alone and it was all deserted and dreary and fuckign creepy on the street.

As a teen: Nightmare on Elm Street. Watched it at my boyfriend's house. Had never seen it before. Seen all of them since and still the original creeps me out.


Others: It and Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

 

[sasaxrah]

Arachnophobia. Saw it in 4th grade science and I was never the same. I still sometimes check underneath the toilet seat for spiders.

 

[john getty]

Silver Bullet (1985), I was only seven, my grandad had it on video.

 

[Moses25]

The Exorcist. First saw it when I was 7 years old. Never been the same since.

Cheers.

 

[TklDuo-Drew]

"Horror Hotel", from 1963.

This was a film involving witchcraft in Salem, Mass. Totally scared the crap out of me everytime I watched it, especially the final shot at the end.

For atmospheric, disturbing, creepy, and unsettling.....this one's got it all.




Drew

 

[john getty]

Did nobody else find The Excorsist hilarious? Fair enough I was about 13 when I first watched it, with the lights on, and my dad was with me, but I was crying with laughter through most of that film.

 

[Angel77]

Did nobody else find The Excorsist hilarious? Fair enough I was about 13 when I first watched it, with the lights on, and my dad was with me, but I was crying with laughter through most of that film.

Oh I do now. But I was pretty young when I first saw it and it freaked me the fuck out!

But yeah, it's some pretty funny shit now.

 

[Snail Shell]

The Exorcist. No contest.

Snail Shell

 

[kered]

Thank you, Kered (who spells my name BACKWARD!!!) I saw it on tv when I was about 7 or so; Russ Tamblyn climbed the shaky spiral staircase, he got to the top, the trap door open and the previously lost Claire Booth (I think) suddenly thrust her head out!

I jumped, I wrenched my back, and I've had back problems off and on since!

It was that part and when the women were in the room together and the door started warping itself along with the chanting. Geez........back then that was the ultimate.

 

[Carsomyr]

I saw The Shining when I was 5. It fucked me up pretty bad I think, because I've never really been scared by movies since. xD I'm obsessed with zombie films though, because if they're done well they come the closest to giving me a scare!

 

[Lord Doctor]

Carrie, but only the grave scene. Night Flyer's was a little scary in a couple of places, but I've always watched horror with a morbid fascination for some reason

 

[alchemy]

I saw Poltergeist when I was 5.

That clown doll freaked me out.

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[Bohemianne]

When I was young, most zombie films are really scary...

But so far, I find the film "The Gift" unsurpassed. It's starred by Cate Blanchett. The fiddler at the swamp and the cadaver... I was halfway looking because it's really scary and I won't be able to watch it again ever.

 

[Filthyweasel]

Poltergeist the kid getting eaten by the tree. Actually everything that happened to the little brother gave me nightmares, like betting wrapped up in his braces in the sequel.

The only thing the Exorcist did was make me cringe when the doctors were studying her and inserting things in her veins. The rest wasn't all that bad. The demon would wise-crack, which for me defuses all the scary situations. It was the same thing that made Child's Play not scary at all...Chucky's smart mouth was funny as shit.

 

[The Last Laugh]

"Alien", which I first saw when I was about 10 years old. I loved it (and still do), but I barely slept at all that night.