I remember back when I was in primary (elementary) school, I must have been at least between 7 & 9 years old, my sister (who was big on scaring my ass) decided one day to show me a movie... Candyman. It scared the holy bahjeezus outta me. After that movie I couldn't sleep right for at least a month. I remember quite vividly a recurring nightmare I had after I saw that movie, I would be walking up some winding circular stairs, in a cathedral/Phantom of the Opera underground lair type place, only to come to a set of double wooden doors on the other side of which was the Candyman (minus hook hand) playing an organ. Upon my entering the room, he would turn around rise from his chair and proceed to strange me until I woke up just before I suffocate.
Needless to say I don't know if I could bare to watch Candyman again or say his name 5 times in front of a mirror, even to this day. Though the temptation to watch all 3 movies again has come over me recently...
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Candyman ****ed with me pretty good as a kid, too. The made-for-TV movie, Stephen King's IT just about ruined my life though! Event Horizon was another one later in life that messed with my head.
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Oh man, when my sister first rented Stephen King's IT, my mum wouldn't let me watch it because it was apparently too scary and i was "too young to watch", same thing goes for scream although i saw that later on and well.. it wasn't nearly as scary as i though it would be. Guess all the years of desensitization has done a number on me.
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"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it"
— Henry Ford
That brilliant quote has kept me going through the toughest times of my life.
Boy have I... back in my youth, my aunt worked in a video store, and she'd take home a boat load of suspense and horror movies. These are some that got stuck in my head back then.
Night of the Living Dead (I think it was the 90s remake)- This one really made me lose sleep. For like a year straight I'd have zombie related dreams. Usually, I'm stuck in a car, in an attic, a shower, or any enclosed areas and I'd get gored in the neck. Oftentimes that one particular zombie with backwards feet would be there too. Worst yet, I'd have normal dreams that creep into a zombie nightmare at the end. Those ones I really hated.
Alien (or was it Aliens?)- Didn't have nightmares, but I did have trouble eating for like a day or 2. I guess the gut busters will do that to anyone.
Some creepy doll movie- I don't remember the name, but I remember it being apart of a series of unrelated toy horror movies. It involved a group of antique dolls that only killed adults. The scene that really got to me was where an old guy was in his work shed and one of the dolls jabbed one of his eyes with a corkscrew (or an icepick). I recall dreaming that I got gutted by one of them with that same pick.
The Ring- Never had nightmares now that I think about it, but I remember having trouble falling asleep for like a week in fear that I would have nightmares.
Some creepy doll movie- I don't remember the name, but I remember it being apart of a series of unrelated toy horror movies. It involved a group of antique dolls that only killed adults. The scene that really got to me was where an old guy was in his work shed and one of the dolls jabbed one of his eyes with a corkscrew (or an icepick). I recall dreaming that I got gutted by one of them with that same pick.
Maybe one of the Puppet Master movies. I still like those.
I used to have dreams occasionally of Freddy Krueger chasing me through an empty void with floating doors. I would run through, shut the door, & then run for the next when he came knocking for me to open up. Given, I was 5-6 years old. I pretty much grew up watching Child's Play, Friday the 13th, Halloween, etc. from the time I was 3 or 4.
Speaking of The Ring, i used to have a T.V in the room outside my room. It was positioned so that it faced me directly, and my room door is always open because the lock is non-existent. O_O'
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"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it"
— Henry Ford
That brilliant quote has kept me going through the toughest times of my life.
Night of the Living Dead (I think it was the 90s remake)- This one really made me lose sleep. For like a year straight I'd have zombie related dreams. Usually, I'm stuck in a car, in an attic, a shower, or any enclosed areas and I'd get gored in the neck. Oftentimes that one particular zombie with backwards feet would be there too. Worst yet, I'd have normal dreams that creep into a zombie nightmare at the end. Those ones I really hated.
Alien (or was it Aliens?)- Didn't have nightmares, but I did have trouble eating for like a day or 2. I guess the gut busters will do that to anyone.
The Ring- Never had nightmares now that I think about it, but I remember having trouble falling asleep for like a week in fear that I would have nightmares.
Same here on these 3. The Tom Savini NotLD scared the bejesus out of me as a kid, and has definitely made zombie survival horror dreams a big part of my dream life. I still love the genre though, and constantly seek it out, so, oh well...
I have memories of being horrified by the Bishop eviceration scene in Aliens. The slow-mo synth blood spewing out of him as the queen alien gored him scared me for quite a while!
Finally, saw the US version of the Ring my freshman year in college (when it was released). I was a bit too old to be scared by the movie EXCEPT when the teen's mother has a recollection of finding her disfigured, contorted dead daughter in the closet. The combo of the corpse + jump scare really affected me for a while ~ had to skip that scene whenever I re watched it. I recently took another stab at the movie, and while I was definitely able to handle it now, I still find it more disturbing than many other horror/torture/violent movie scenes.
I don't really get nightmares from horror films, but films with particularly disturbing elements can haunt me. It hasn't happened recently, but I did miss an entire night's sleep after watching The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo (American version).
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I think movies that really scare kids (13 and under) are movies where bad things happen to kids to give them the idea that something really bad can happen to them, and not just to adults and older teens (like slasher movies).
Here is a list of some films which are generally considered the scariest movies of all time; notice one thing most of them have in common - kid involvement:
- The Shining (scariest parts of film are when Danny sees the twin girls '...come play with us Danny...'")
- The Exorcist (anyone can be possessed by a demon - even an innocent, little girl)
- Jaws (little boy eaten alive)
- The Ring (evil little girl who kills...little boy in peril)
- Halloween (little brother kills family...then little kids in trouble at end)
- Rosemary's Baby (evil baby)
- Poltergeist (Carrie-Ann sucked into TV and the famous quote, "...they're here...")
- Night of the Living Dead (little girl in basement is zombified...kills mom w/ garden spade)
- The Omen (little boy is Satan's son on earth)
There were two movies that freaked me out when I was a kid that involved kids. One was the 1979 TV mini-series edition of Stephen King's Salem's Lot. Because this was made for TV, there wasn't much blood or gore, but it was plenty scary and full of suspense moments. One particular scene that really freaked me out (and I'm sure other kids) was the vampire boy/window scenes - I had trouble sleeping after that - any little "scratch" noise made me turn my head to the window to ensure someone wasn't there.
The other was a little-known movie from 1980 called "The Children", but sometimes referred to as "The Children of Ravensback". The synopsis of the movie sounds absolutely campy - a bus full of children on their way home from school drives through a radioactive cloud accidentally released from a nearby nuclear plant and the kids are turned into zombies who can fry people simply by touching them. Yeah, it sounds corny, but the scenes just freaked me out - little kids coming up from behind someone and killing them with pale faces and black fingernails. One particular scene involved a little boy playing hide-n-seek w/ a zombified kid (boy just wanted to play and didn't know any better) and even if the "kill" was off camera, how the scene was shot was just horrifying. Not to mention the music scored for the film was Scott Cunningham who scored the first Friday the 13th films.
When I was 6 years old, I had the pleasure of watching Stephen King's IT at my babysitters.
Needless to say, I had nightmares for weeks. A recurring one was the face in the faucet that occurs near the beginning of the movie, or Pennywise grabbing me while I was on my bike.
Needless to say I don't know if I could bare to watch Candyman again or say his name 5 times in front of a mirror, even to this day. Though the temptation to watch all 3 movies again has come over me recently...
— Henry Ford
That brilliant quote has kept me going through the toughest times of my life.
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— Henry Ford
That brilliant quote has kept me going through the toughest times of my life.
See my MTG DC Comics Card Collection
Night of the Living Dead (I think it was the 90s remake)- This one really made me lose sleep. For like a year straight I'd have zombie related dreams. Usually, I'm stuck in a car, in an attic, a shower, or any enclosed areas and I'd get gored in the neck. Oftentimes that one particular zombie with backwards feet would be there too. Worst yet, I'd have normal dreams that creep into a zombie nightmare at the end. Those ones I really hated.
Alien (or was it Aliens?)- Didn't have nightmares, but I did have trouble eating for like a day or 2. I guess the gut busters will do that to anyone.
Some creepy doll movie- I don't remember the name, but I remember it being apart of a series of unrelated toy horror movies. It involved a group of antique dolls that only killed adults. The scene that really got to me was where an old guy was in his work shed and one of the dolls jabbed one of his eyes with a corkscrew (or an icepick). I recall dreaming that I got gutted by one of them with that same pick.
The Ring- Never had nightmares now that I think about it, but I remember having trouble falling asleep for like a week in fear that I would have nightmares.
Maybe one of the Puppet Master movies. I still like those.
I used to have dreams occasionally of Freddy Krueger chasing me through an empty void with floating doors. I would run through, shut the door, & then run for the next when he came knocking for me to open up. Given, I was 5-6 years old. I pretty much grew up watching Child's Play, Friday the 13th, Halloween, etc. from the time I was 3 or 4.
— Henry Ford
That brilliant quote has kept me going through the toughest times of my life.
See my MTG DC Comics Card Collection
Same here on these 3. The Tom Savini NotLD scared the bejesus out of me as a kid, and has definitely made zombie survival horror dreams a big part of my dream life. I still love the genre though, and constantly seek it out, so, oh well...
I have memories of being horrified by the Bishop eviceration scene in Aliens. The slow-mo synth blood spewing out of him as the queen alien gored him scared me for quite a while!
Finally, saw the US version of the Ring my freshman year in college (when it was released). I was a bit too old to be scared by the movie EXCEPT when the teen's mother has a recollection of finding her disfigured, contorted dead daughter in the closet. The combo of the corpse + jump scare really affected me for a while ~ had to skip that scene whenever I re watched it. I recently took another stab at the movie, and while I was definitely able to handle it now, I still find it more disturbing than many other horror/torture/violent movie scenes.
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Here is a list of some films which are generally considered the scariest movies of all time; notice one thing most of them have in common - kid involvement:
- The Shining (scariest parts of film are when Danny sees the twin girls '...come play with us Danny...'")
- The Exorcist (anyone can be possessed by a demon - even an innocent, little girl)
- Jaws (little boy eaten alive)
- The Ring (evil little girl who kills...little boy in peril)
- Halloween (little brother kills family...then little kids in trouble at end)
- Rosemary's Baby (evil baby)
- Poltergeist (Carrie-Ann sucked into TV and the famous quote, "...they're here...")
- Night of the Living Dead (little girl in basement is zombified...kills mom w/ garden spade)
- The Omen (little boy is Satan's son on earth)
There were two movies that freaked me out when I was a kid that involved kids. One was the 1979 TV mini-series edition of Stephen King's Salem's Lot. Because this was made for TV, there wasn't much blood or gore, but it was plenty scary and full of suspense moments. One particular scene that really freaked me out (and I'm sure other kids) was the vampire boy/window scenes - I had trouble sleeping after that - any little "scratch" noise made me turn my head to the window to ensure someone wasn't there.
The other was a little-known movie from 1980 called "The Children", but sometimes referred to as "The Children of Ravensback". The synopsis of the movie sounds absolutely campy - a bus full of children on their way home from school drives through a radioactive cloud accidentally released from a nearby nuclear plant and the kids are turned into zombies who can fry people simply by touching them. Yeah, it sounds corny, but the scenes just freaked me out - little kids coming up from behind someone and killing them with pale faces and black fingernails. One particular scene involved a little boy playing hide-n-seek w/ a zombified kid (boy just wanted to play and didn't know any better) and even if the "kill" was off camera, how the scene was shot was just horrifying. Not to mention the music scored for the film was Scott Cunningham who scored the first Friday the 13th films.
Needless to say, I had nightmares for weeks. A recurring one was the face in the faucet that occurs near the beginning of the movie, or Pennywise grabbing me while I was on my bike.
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