I'm not one to lose sleep after watching scary/horror movies but when I was a kid Michael Myers scared the living shit out of me, that mask?

yeah that's the only thing that ever prevented me from falling asleep.

Not to be confused with the similarly titled Nicole Kidman film, The Other was made in 1972 and it told the story of twin boys with paranormal abilities... maybe.

It was creepy and as a kid, I found it most troubling.

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One, two, Freddy's coming for you. / Three, four, better lock your door. / Five, six, grab your crucifix. / Seven, eight, better stay awake. / Nine, ten, never sleep again.

I saw Arachnophobia when I was about 8. My sisters were watching it with their friends and I was hiding behind the couch, secretly watching it. Needless to say I didn't sleep that night - or the following ten nights - and was scarred for life. To this day I'm still scared of spiders like you wouldn't believe it. I regress into a 8-year-old bundle of fear everytime a spider is invading my breathing space with its creepyass legs.

My older sister forced me to watch it with her one night when I was like 7 years old. It is, to this day, the scariest movie i've ever seen.

When I was younger my friends thought it would be cool to watch Chucky at a sleep over.  I didn't sleep a wink that night, I thought all our Cabbage Patch Kids were alive and out to get me. (Don't even get me started on the My Buddy doll!!!!) Of course I had to pretend that I was completely fine and that I wasn't really hiding behind my pillow through the whole thing.   I still don't like dolls!

I remember being kept up as a kid by this:

It wasnt a horror film. It was a feaking Soap!!! In the UK we have a big soap called coronation street. Maybe about 7-10 years ago (i cant remember exactly how old i was) there was this character in it, played by Gaynor Faye...i cant remember the characters name but she was married and had two cute baby twins... 

So she goes for a ride with Jackand Vera in their new car. Unfortunately said car was a present from their criminally inclined delinquent son. The car was one of those illegal botch jobs - 2 cars welded into one. So when they got into a minor car crash the thing crumpled up a bit. No one was majorly hurt and there was no damage to anything... except J and V's faith in their son...and a rather nasty looking bruise on the young mothers leg....

One week on and the bruise was still there. She said it was fine. And then before i knew it she was hanging out the washing, before suddenly collapsing. The bruise had given her a blod clot which had like..spread to her heart or something fittingly convoluted for Soap style drama.

But all i saw was a dramatic mid-housework collapse, and death-by-bruise terror.

I didnt sleep that night and was freaking Paranoid about every pissing bruise i got for the next god knows how long.

Its a good job ive never seen the excorcist. If coronation street keeps me up at night, i think a proper horror film could well kill me!!!

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Ok, so it isn't the scariest movie, but it was the first 'scary movie' I watched as a child. That Gage kid always creeped me out. And the mom at the end! I have had a huge fear of knives since that movie!

Now that I am older, I have to say Silence of the Lambs and the fly scene in The Ring still leave lasting marks. I wouldn't even see the new movie where the dolls come to life because my pre-existing doll/puppet phobia. Still, I love me some campy horror movies, especially in October!

I literally just finished watching Halloween a few minutes ago...the original mind, with Jamie Lee Curtis, not that remake that's just gone out.

Anyway, love horror films & generally scary stuff....the Buffy ep you picked I don't remember being particularly scary but I do remember that one (I think in the 4th season) where these incredibly creepy sort of floating men with horrid smiles came into town, stole everyone's voices so they couldn't scream or talk & then killed a few people by cutting out their hearts...that episode was terrifying! Anyone know which one that was? I just remember it was a well good episode, wouldn't mind watching it again!

Also my no.1 top scary film (regardless of how dated the special effects are ;) ) is Jaws. No matter how many times I watch it, I never fail to get scared. I was 7 when I first saw it cos it was on tv one Saturday night...had nightmares for literally years afterwards! It's now in my official top 5 films of all time...amazing film, terrifying every time ;)

I have a few after-images of V burned into my brain. I seem to remember an alien pulling his fake skin off. And the alien birth!

In addition  to Poltergeist -- which my gf now wants to see -- I have vague memories of Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things. A horrible babysitter let us watch that when I was about six. Brilliant.

I am no good at all with horror films, I get horrible dreams and have scary moments in daylight. I used to get freaked out by that Roald Dahl movie 'The Witches'. When Angelica Houston pulled off her mask, I remember hiding behind the couch. Mind you, I was about 7 at the time.

The stupid thing is that when I start watching one, I can't make myself stop. I've had quite a few sleepless nights that way.

The movie IT...oh my lord, I was in the eigth grade when the tv networks decided to scare me to no end!!!  It just wasn't me who was completely terrified, my entire bus was for two days...it ended the third day when we saw the ending, which in typical scary-movie-written-by-Stephen-King, really sucked. 

But the clown itself...sweet lord, if I see a clown like that, even today, I'd probably have to have a little throw down first....the throw down would only happen if I couldn't magically develop super-speed to run away.    

Let me start off by saying I rarely get scared. I actually watch almost every scary movie hoping to be scared, but almost every time left disappointed.

Maybe I don't scared because nothing can compare with the movie I still consider to be one of the scariest of all time: The Shining. I saw it about 6 years ago, and ever since, no other movie has come close to being as creepy, save a few exceptions.

When I was younger, I remember being scared to death while watching Twister; not because I was afraid of tornadoes (the movie actually made me want to chase tornadoes like Helen Hunt!), but because there's a brief scene where they show a couple clips from the Shining, the part where the little boy Danny sees the twin girls, and then Jack Nicholson tears down the door with the ax.... OMG scariest thing I had ever seen at age 7!!! So when I actually watched the whole movie 5 years later, I already knew I was in for one hell of a scary movie! Today I still do not like walking down a hotel hallway by myself.

When the Blair Witch Project was about to hit theaters, I was young enough to believe that it was a true story; that 3 film students really did disappear in woods haunted by a witch; and my house backed up to woods, so I was terrified of the movie without even seeing it!! I watched it when I was about 15, and I could look past the low budget documentary feel of the movie and really imagine what it'd be like to be those kids. Yeah I admit, I had to sleep with a light on that night.

Session 9 isn't a very well known movie, but if you like creepy, atmospheric over gory, thriller type scary movies, it's worth a look. Simon's voice will haunt you at night!

Sorry this was so long, but I love talking about movies, and just can't stop myself sometimes!!

-Taylor

PS: the scene in the Exorcist where her eyes roll back in her head, that was a pretty damn scary scene.

I get the shivers mostly from psychological terror other than the nasty kind. In Dreams gave me that ill feeling for the rest of the day...

And my fear of anything insect just kept me on an obssesive checking and rechecking of my sheets before sleeping after watching some movie where a guy put scorpions on his ex's bed and she lied down to uh...  a stinging surprise.

Also, throw a clown or a puppet or a given doll in the flick and I go into fetal position. Chucky popping up in a movie ad in tv when I was a kid was like having a vision of hell.
The Muppets have  been haunting me at night forever...

I love Stephen King adaptations though. They never quite grasp the terror of the paper, which makes for a funny session most of the times.
And I just got a reason to get me some It... =)

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It - Gave me 'nightmares' for a couple of weeks. Used to collect clowns before that. After seeing the movie, I donated all my clowns to my young neighbor under the motto 'here I'm too old for that now'.

The Grudge - That damn sound

The Blair With Project - Watched it when it first came out. In a room filled with people and surrounded by trees. Even though I knew it was not real, freaked me out.

Child's Play - There's a reason I have absolutely NO dolls in my part of the house.

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The scariest movie I've ever seen is by and far Show Girls!  Now that is some scary sh$t!!!

Oh man, the scariest thing I've ever seen on TV was one of the Nightmare on Elm Street films. I don't remember which number it was or what happened in it, except that there was this scene in which Freddy Krueger kisses this girl on the lips and her eyes pop out and it was the CREEPIEST thing I have ever seen in my entre life. I think I got so scared and freaked out that Freddy was going to come for me, that I started sobbing hysterically. Oh my God. I still can't remember that without shuddering.

There was also this scene from a Chuckie movie in which Chuckie is in the back of a moving car and somehow stabs the driver through the back of the driver's seat.

Both of these happened when I was about 7. Needless to say, the first horror movie I was able to watch after all of that was The Others, seven years later in 2003. I'm still trying to work up the nerve to watch The Ring...

Hands down, Tale of Two Sisters (aka Janghwa, Hongryeon). Not only is it scary, it's beautifully made. One of my favorite movies of all time, horror or no.

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After seeing The Ring, I came home, turned on all the lights in my room, and stared at my TV for a good two hours. I still get the creeps whenever I think about Samara coming out of the TV at the end.

The movie that really freaked me out, perhaps because it just seemed so possible, was the Sixth Sense. Three scenes in particular--the people hanging in the school, the housewife with the slit wrists, and Mischa Barton throwing up--stuck with me long after the movie ended, and I can still imagine them if I close my eyes.

Oh, and that scene in The Descent where she watches the cave creatures eat one of her friends: TERRIFYING.

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OMG....  I frickin loved V.  I was pretty young where it aired..  but old enough to love it to bits.  I had the trading cards.. my sister and I made replicas of their guns..  I think it started my sci fi obsession :-D

Julie Parrish.. :mrow: Hmm.. now I realize why I always liked her best... 

As for scary.. actually reading 'IT' scared the shit out of me.  It was the first time I was truely creeped out by a book.. and annoyed that I could be creeped out by a book.

I think Silent Hill is a pretty damn creepy movie too.  The game is awesome and I thought the movie completely captured the feel and atmosphere.

There are 2 movies I will _never_ watch.  I wont watch Poltergeist and I wont watch The Exorcist.  Those type of movies freak me out soooo bad.

Guy Smiley from Sesame Street.

He was always chasing me in my dreams.  Didn't trust him back then...still don't trust him now. 

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"Conversations With Dead People" is the scariest episode of Buffy, in my opinion. The brief part where it flashes "Mother's milk is red today" on the wall freaked me out like nothing else. Also, I'm glad you included Supernatural, but not because I find it scary; I just love that show.

I think the most I've ever been freaked out when watching anything was at the beginning of Silent Hill when the air raid sirens first go off and the screen goes completely black. I saw it in the theater, and the dim lights that were supposed to be in that particular room were broken, so it was pitch black in a big room, and the sirens enveloped me. It was fantastic!

The rest of Silent Hill didn't really scare me, though. I think I was too fixated on the subtext between the mom and the cop. Mmm, that was one attractive cop.

Silver Bullet...werewolves scare the crap out of me.

The Gate...little demons the size of chihuahuas, though not as cute, that come at you in masses, and drag you into the pits of hell. No lie.

The Shining...being isolated and surrounded by snow, no way

The Exorcist...classic. "Let Jesus f*** you", come on.

Halloween...went to Salem one halloween and Michael stalked me and my gf for a good thirty minutes. I mean he followed us inside stores and everything. that was enough for me. 

Children of the Corn...Isaac was freaky as hell

Two movies are the scariest : Hellraiser and The Exorcist

-any of you- seen "Audition"? Creepy beyond words; and I love horror films, and they don't, often, affect me. But "Audition" did. The scariest, ragiest of the recent Asian horror films dealing with women's rage. Miike's masterpiece.

Another film on that theme is, of course, the aforementioned "Tale of Two Sisters", but that's far more accessible. Beautiful and moving. In a way, it's the best Ingmar Bergman film I ever saw, though it remains a Korean horror movie. Highly recommended. As is Audition - for those who can stand it.