What movie/death/villian gave you nightmares as a kid...

[BlynS2]

Freddy did it for me. I didn't even have to see the movie. Whenever halloween was around and they had out freddy merchandise, like his glove and stuff it freaked me out. They would always run clips of his movies too around that time and that was all I needed to get freaked out. I was like 9 or 10 then. LOL. It's weird to see what scared me so much back then and what now I love watching.

[ANTBond007]

The Shape did it for me. Freddy was freaky, but he just got too comical over time. I was never scared of Jason, simply because he didn't get "scary" until I was too old to care. And I didn't see Texas Chainsaw Massacre until I was 13.

So, definately the Shape.

[PackBacker]

Poltergeist. The dude peeling off his face.

[QUENTIN]

The subliminal shots of the demon superimposed over Linda Blair's face in The Exorcist. That's about it I've never really been scared by a movie (except maybe when I was REALLY young) movies just don't scare me especially since most horror movies are really crappy IMHO.

[yvonne]

when i was younger the blob and freddy scared me...i wont lie...i still get freaked out if i am watching nightmare alone, lol....yvonne

[TheNuke]

When i was smalller they ran a Twilight Zone marathon and I watched almost all of them I couldn't get enough of twist endings.

I saw the Hitchhiker episode and it freaked the hell outta me. For a couple months afterward I could imagine him being in my basement. I live in the basement, whenever i would walk up the stair i would imagine him at the bottom waving at me. That's one freaky ass episode.

[BlynS2]

I'm with you on the Twilight Zone stuff. Especially, Twilight Zone the Movie, with Dan Akroyd. When they pull over and he's all, "Do you wanna see something really scary" and he turns back to the camera with this demon-monster-like face and like eats his friend who was driving. I WAS SOOOOO FREAKED OUT. I still can't watch that part of the movie sometimes.

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[JoBlo]

Although I didn't really like the movie all that much, the last scene from THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT had me spooked for a couple of days. I just kept thinking about it while falling asleep and it just creeped me out.

Oh yeah, and HANGING UP starring Meg Ryan and Lisa Kudrow is STILL giving me nightmares! /ubb/smile.gif

[Rindy]

JoBlo,

Amen. That movie didn't bother me at ALL while I was in the theater watching it, but after I left, DAMN! Those little stick men still freak me out.

I'm 25 and I couldn't sleep for 2 weeks.. My hubby didn't understand the whole night lite thing, either.

[ToasT]

Eventhough The Blair Witch Project was more like a comedy, the last scene of the film creeped me and my cousins out for days. But the horror movie that still reigns as king of the "Scare tha' CRAP out of you!" awards goes to Halloween. Greatest of all time.

[SirReel]

The Thing. John Carpenter's best piece of work easily, creeped the shit right outta me. Especially when the dog gets it - yikes, I couldn't go a near a German Sheppard for months. Nightmares, bed-wettings - the whole bit.

[barbarella_cult]

Believe it or not, Dream scape scared the shit out of me as a kid. (That snake man. eww). Plus the scenes in Poltergeist really got to me. (tree, clown, face and chicken.) ewww.

[Barnumyay]

for me, i couldn't sleep for a long time after seeing IT, and also i got nightmares from Freddy and the Exorcist, just like everyone else almost.

[raven52]

When I was 4 my brother made me watch The Howlling and I could not sleep for days but when I got older I rented the movie and I really liked it.If you have not seen it rent it.It's still one of the scariest movies out there but PLEASE don't rent any of the sequals they are horrable movies.

[retardinAz]

When I was a kid, I was scared of two villains: Chucky and Vego. If none of you know who Vego was, he was the evil villain in Ghostbusters Two. I was such a tool back then.

[Mr. Meat]

I was scared of Vego's assistant, that weird little man.(forgot his name)

[retardinAz]

His name was french or something, Yanosch.

[Mr. Meat]

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer doesn't really fall into the horror genre, but when I rented it, it was in the horror section. While not scary like I can't sleep in the dark scary, it was very twisted and scary. The last scene where it shows Henry and Otis's sister (forgot her name) in the car driving out of the state. She says to Henry that she loves him, and he says, "I guess I love you too." The next scene you see is henry pulling over and getting a suitcase out of the back. He dumps it on the side of the road, and theres blood all over it. You know he killed that woman. And it was all more scary because to think that shit like that really does happen. In fact, there was a real Henry. He claimed to kill over 300 people.

[yvonne]

another one that scared me was that blob thing from creep show, where the girl is trying to outswim it in the lake..... my 2 majors fears in life are to die in the water or in a fire and so i was really scared to watch her try to outswim something like that......yvonne

[retardinAz]

Yeah I remember that, except I think that blob thing was in Creepshow 2. The guy gets to the beach and the thing jumps out of the water and gets him. That freaked me out because for a second, I thought he was safe.

[ColonelColinCaine]

I remeber having dreams where I'd be flying, and suddenly, Freddy and Jason would appear below me. It became harder and harder to stay in the air, until I finally just fell to the ground and snapped my legs in half. Then I'd lay there and watch as they slowly came closer.
The Zuni doll from Trilogy of Terror sent me running, and screaming through the parking lot outside our house late one night.
The blob-thing from Creepshow 2 freaked me out, too. I left a plastic toy in the bathtub once, and when I squeezed it, black stuff oozed out. I thought that was it.
Of course, this was all when I was really little, about four or five.

[QUENTIN]

Hey guys if you liked the blob in the water you should read the Stephen King short story it's even better

[ColonelColinCaine]

I did read the short story, and I must agree. Though I haven't seen Creepshow 2 in a long time, I'll have to say the story was much more gruesome, especially when Deke gets pulled through the raft. I also like the way the blob-thing hypnotized Rachel with its brilliant red and greens.

[kerryanne]

Definitly the Exorcist... The whole time she was possessed gave me the creeps!!!

[yvonne]

QUENTIN: what was the name of the short story? where can i find it? yvonne

[QUENTIN]

yvonne- The short story is called The Raft and you can find it in the King book Skeleton Crew.

[yvonne]

thansk so much QUENTIN! cant wait to get it! yvonne

[QUENTIN]

No problem yvonne, that's what I'm here for. And please tell me what you think of it when your done reading it.

[totally_me]

Am i the only girl out there, who when she was 8 or 9 saw the Amityville Horror and has never been the same since? I saw it for the first time at a drive-in movie w/my family. My Parents watched The Jungle Book and us kids turned around and watched Amityville w/o their knowledge. Needless to say, it totally scared the s**t out of me. RED EYES. The way the Dad was losing it was creepy in itself too.

Another movie is Halloween. Every time i see it, it's like i'm watching it for the first time. I mean, it's so good. It can still scare me after all this time!

[kerryanne]

No- I saw the Amityville Horror and it scared the shit out of me, when I saw the Exorcist for the first time it scared me more. Have you read the book yet, that will creep you out WORSE than the movie.

[Spoiledrichkid]

After l saw halloween 4 l couldnt by myself for like a week.Mike Myers scared the crap out of me.

[totally_me]

Kerryanne ~ I've never read the Exorcist. Is it as scary as reading the Shining? I'll pick it up this week if it is.

[totally_me]

P.S. Or were you talking about Amityville?

[kerryanne]

I'm sorry, I was talking about Amityville... I couldn't read the Exorcist-- the movie was enough for me...

[screamer581]

IT!!!!! That damn clown scared the crap out of me!!!! I haven't watched that movies in years, I should rent again, I am sure it won't be even as close to as scary as it used to be.

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[Tuukka]

The final five minutes of Blair Witch Project are the scariest ever. But Shining is the greatest horror film of all time. I freak out every time I see those twin girls...

[yvonne]

screamer---read the book, its tons and tons better than the movie...even though It is one of my all time faves....yvonne

[Mr. Meat]

I always freak out on The Shinning when you see that guy in the bear suit giving a butler a blow job. It was just too weird you weren't expecting it to happen.

[yvonne]

well i have never seen the shinning but at least i know what to look for know, the bear and the butler.... /ubb/wink.gif

[QUENTIN]

ya, I watched The Shining just last night and that part was a bit freaky cause it was unexpected, and didn't make much sense. And yvonne that's a movie you should definetly check out.

[Mr. Meat]

My friend said that scene had to do something with the devil. I think he said the devil was the butler and a person was the person in the bear suit. Or something. I'm still trying to make sense of that scene. /ubb/confused.gif

[QUENTIN]

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[Mr. Meat]

thanx man

[Jessica3000]

Freddy horrified me as a young child. God he scared me!!

[Jessica3000]

Freddy horrified me as a young child. God he scared me!!

[kerryanne]

I got a really funny story about Freddy... I just like to share, it's in my nature..
My aunt who HATES horror and would get scared by her own shadow, let her daughter talk her into watching a Nightmare on Elm Street. That night she had a dream that Freddy was by her bed, and she kept on telling herself..." it's just a dream, it's just a dream all of this because I watch that stupid movie..." She said then he was right by her head and he was running his knives over her face, and then he whispered in her ear "Is it Dorthy, are you sure it's just a dream." She is 35 and she wet the bed. She was scared shitless... Hahahahaha!!! I always tease her about that. I know it's cruel, but damn that's funny.



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[yvonne]

alright guys, i havent watched a nightmare on elm street movie in maybe 6 months, i for the last week i have been having nightmares about FK chasing me....and of course, in one i was in high school and he was chasing me down the hall...i woke up, scared and turned to my hubby for support....after i physically abused him (joke) to get him awake...he says to me "freddy wouldnt kill you, your his best friend" i know he wasnt feeling good that night but WTF???? now its nearly 3AM and i just had another one...geez this is bad...i am 19 yrs old and cant go back to sleep...lol!

[screamfan]

your not alone yvonne, freddy gives me nightmares too and so does linda blair from excorcist /ubb/frown.gif

[yvonne]

I am glad to know i am not alone...i still feel silly though

[ColonelColinCaine]

To this day I still have nightmares about Freddy. Not as often as Yvonne, but still a lot. He scared me more than anything else when I was little, and he still does kind of freak me out.

[AntonioDelLago]

Myers. Krueger. Cujo-inspired rabid animals.

[APzombie]

I was always more scared on cheesey people more than freaky guys like jason, micheal and freddy. Some dudes that freaked me out were; That old dude in polturgiest 2, and the ghot librarian in ghostbusters (when she was reading, not when she turned into a skeleton).

[Dark Minister]

Man, I remember seeing "Demons" for the first time! I was about 9 or so, and it scared the living piss out of me! The part when the hooker turns into the Demon in the bathroom is sooo creepy! I watched it in the summer and when I went to bed that night I kept the blanket over my head, even though it was hotter than hell in my room. I slept maybe an hour, because I had a dream that the demons were outside my window, scraching at the the screen! Brrr!

Exorcist freaked my ass out as well. TO this day it still gives me the creeps.

[The Rob]

ET, I was 2 when i saw it, that little creature scared the shit outta me!


If I saw Jason\micheal\Freddy now I wouold give them all a big hug.

[Bloodybitch13]

I was four years old and staying at my aunt's house. My cousins who were then 15 were watching a Freddy movie don't remember which one while I was right there in the living room! They were baby sitting me and I just freaked I wond up needing a Nightlitght clear on until seventh grade! I never really forgave them for that.

[Bloodybitch13]

P.S. The shower scene in Psycho scared me too.I wound up taking spounge baths for a month after seeing it.

[Randy_Junior]

Great call on the Zuni Warroior Doll from TOT 1 & 2!! That thing STILL creeps me out!! (What weird is that the SEQUEL did for me what the ORIGINAL did for my MOTHER!!~So I guess it's hereditary to be scared of the lil sh*t!!) I also get creeped out by Puppets in PUPPET MASTER......maybe I just don't do well when it comes to LITTLE KILLERS!! :eek

[AntonioDelLago]

What is TRILOGY OF TERROR 2 about? Never heard of it, so it must have been a direct-to-video (or cable) flick.

[nemesis]

the exorcist 3!

[Dr. Movielove]

aliens did it for me..i'm saw some freaky alien movie(not alien) when i was a kid and it scared the hell out of me

[Adam J. Hakari]

Slugworth from "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory". Even after he turned out to be one of Wonka's buddies, I was still unsure about him.

[Randy_Junior]

TRILOGY OF TERROR II did go straight-to-cable in 1997, 22 yrs after the original. The trio of stories included one about a con artist who is scamming to rob a dead man's $$ from his GRAVE, but never knew about the rat infestation problem; the second was about a mother who's (sp.?) child had drown in the ocean behind her mansion~now his ghost has come back to haunt her; the third was the sequel to the Zuni Warrior Doll story, where forensics find the doll charred in Karen Black's oven, bring it back to their lab, and it wreaks havoc all over again. Not all that great, but worth seeing the Zuni Doll's creepy return. /ubb/wink.gif

[Randy_Junior]

SORRY!! Didn't mean to post that twice!! /ubb/tongue.gif

[neco82]

Freddy scared the crap out of me as a kid, but now I find him just a dumb clown.

Pinhead and the cenobites I also found disturbing, and I still do. I can't stand those movies.

[cereal killer]

the cenobites scared the hell out of me when i was but a wee little lad. The shinning left me sleeping with the night light on after i saw the two butchered little girls. the storm of the century sacred me beacuse it had lots of atmosphere when the lady who was half frozen to death came out of the storm she was all blue and freaked out. it blew my mind.

[psychopath]

Zuni doll scary? What the fuck? I laughed my head off at it!

[bromy]

Jaws & Gozer, Gozer= bad chick from Ghostbusters

[AntonioDelLago]

PSYCHOPATH, how old were you when you first encountered the Zuni fetish doll from TRILOGY OF TERROR? I saw the TV-movie when it premiered in 1975, and until then, my only horror movie experiences concerning dolls as villains were confined to old "Twilight Zone" episodes. Definitely scary to those of us from the "old school".

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[Wwl66]

I've never seen the original shining but I did catch the remake back in 97 and that part when the kid goes into the bad room and he's saying that little riddle thing or whatever where he's counting and then he pulls the curtain back and that dead bitch finished it then he runs out and she grabbed him.That freaked me out.That and NMOES 2 scared the shit out of me .I was 9 and every 5 minutes of day there was 15 minutes of night and it freaked me out.And The Blair Witch project cause it plays games with your head.Nothing else really ever scared me.

[Jason Voorhees]

Steven Kings It, I was like 7 when i saw it. I couldnt walk down the hall to my room to go to bed after seeing it for like a week

[APzombie]

the old dude from polturguiest 2 freaked the crap out of me in the flaskback scene, now i laugh at him, the ghotly librarial at the beginning of ghostbuters freaked me out to. I have a poster of Bub from day of the dead hideing behind the shadows and that was kinda chilling.

[Norman Bates]

Definitley Michael Myers. I always have a vision of him standing in my doorway similar to the picture on the back of the original box for Halloween 4

[claire]

Freddy and the girl from the exorcist totally scared me!!
I made sooo many nightmares because of them
Oh, and that clown(i have forgotten his name)was very strange too.

[Dark_Angel]

Ok this may sound stupidly funny, but when I was younger I was scared of the skeleton man on those Tales from the Crypt episodes! Now I think he's sexy! Oh, IT was goddam funny even though clowns freak me out. But I would have to say Chucky in The first CP was scary. I would also like to say that the more screen time that a villan has, the least scary he is. EG, Freddy, Jason, Mike Myers and even my ex-lover Chucky. Peace out!

[Vinnie V]

When I was little I saw HALLOWEEN and I couldn't sleep for a week, especially with my older cousin putting on a white mask and creeping into my room at night. But the cherry on top was when I was two years old and saw JAWS and right after that I saw a documentary about sharks, a very graphic one. I got so scared I developed a phobia with sharks and ever since then everything having to do with sharks scare me. I can't see a shark on T.V., magazines, cartoons and not even toys. I never stepped into a beach until I was about nine years old and even then I was scared and I still am. I almost got a nervous breakdown when my older brother almost made me go to Universal Studios, knowing about that Jaws ride about three years ago. Hell, I even beat up a some kid last year when he showed me a necklace with a small shark tooth on it. So you see, I always say people should be careful with all these horror movies, because no one knows just how much fear one can develope by watching one.

[AntonioDelLago]

Vinnie V, don't let the Democrats (Leiberman and Hillary CLITon) hear your story...they're blaming everything on violence in the media. Sounds like a cool short story in the making, though.

[screamster]

i definetly agree that pennywise the clown from stephen kings IT is the scariest villain. he scared me when i was a kid and still gives me the major case of the creeps now. you wouldn't expect a villain played by funnyman Tim Curry to be frighting but he is. leatherface is also really freaky.

[Cyclonus]

I feel silly for bringing this up, but, I remember a Disney TV movie called "The Boogedy Man," or something like that. It's about a family that moves into a house cursed by a vengeful ghost. I don't know how I'd respond to it now, but I still remember it freaked me out at the time!

[nightmareman]

That damn clown under the bed in Poltergeist 1. when those damn arms strated strching out i donnt know how long it took me to get over that.

[CAPTAIN BLAKE]

Cyclonus, the made for TV Disney movie you're referring to is MR. BOOGEDY; They also made a sequel to this one about a year after the original. As a child, I was terrified by the Zuni Warrior Fetish doll from TRILOGY OF TERROR, The Tall Man, the ghouls from CHILDREN SHOULDN'T PLAY WITH DEAD THINGS (especially that creepy fake from the slo-mo title sequence), and most of all, Michael Myers.

[SHARP TEETH]

Grimsdyke ( Peter Cushing) in the old version of "Tales from the crypt" and the horrible death of the guy and the razor blades in the same film

[Mean Mr. Mustard]

Ugh,

When I was a little whipper-snapper, I could watch just about anything without getting spooked. I used to picture myself as a brave young lad, fearless and a legend among my young peers. Then I saw "The Changeling" with George C. Scott. It freaked me out and messed me up. After that I turned into a wuss. The part in "Poltergeist" when the ghost comes down the stairs used to freak me out, too.

[malaria]

"The Child Stealer" character in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Genius Roald Dahl co-wrote this movie and it's obvious that this repulsive character was completely down to him. This was the reason I was terrified of strangers offering sweets.

[hoy_man]

had to be the clown in poltergiest......I fucking hate clowns to this day...

[Horror whore]

Freddy almost made me piss myself...

[spleepycampers]

A MIXTURE OF PHANTASM [THE TALL GUY IN BLACK]
JASON AND THE CHACATERS IN THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS

[Mike716]

the two twins in The Shining were soooo freaky to me, and after watching ANOES I would wake up at around 12:00 at night and I wouldn't want to get up to go get a drink of milk because I thought I might be dreamin

[toonman82]

I WAS BORN IN 1982, SO I WAS ONLY 2 WHEN NOES FIRST CAME OUT. ANYWAY, WHEN I WAS LIKE 3 OR 4 THEY SHOWED IT ON TV FOR THE FIRST TIME. I DIDN'T WATCH IT, BUT I LISTENED TO IT AS I LAY IN MY BED. WHEN I WAS TRYING TO SLEEP, I THOUGHT I SAW FREDDY KRUEGER'S SHADOW ON MY WALL. NOW, THOUGH, THOSE MOVIES DON'T SCARE ME AT ALL.

[IronMonger]

Pinhead used to terrify me as a nipper. Many bad dreams, where my mum would transform into Pinhead! I hadn't even seen the actual film, just the video box! Now though, Hellraiser films are one of my favourite series.

[Femme_Fatale]

Freddie and Chucky both gave me the willies as a kid...

I used to check under my bed before I went to sleep every night, and if I woke up at all and it was still dark, Id turn the light on and leave it on til morning... I was actually pretty afraid of the dark as a kid, and in my early teens...