Cynthetiq

Do you remember the first time you were scared by a movie, book, play, story? What was it? How old were you?

I was about 7 or 8, at a friend of the family's house, parents were all talking in the living room, and me and the daugther were watching TV in the living room. Movie started, Night of the Living Dead.... I was interested for some reason, how could dead be living?

The graveyard scene opening...

Johnny: [in a creepy voice] They're coming to get you, Barbara!
Barbara: Stop it! You're ignorant!
Johnny: They're coming for you, Barbara!
Barbara: Stop it! You're acting like a child!
Johnny: They're coming for you!
[points to the cemetery zombie]
Johnny: Look, there comes one of them now!
Barbara: He'll hear you!
Johnny: Here he comes now! I'm getting out of here!

SCARED!!!!

and the rest of the movie, I was running in and out of the room. The burning zombies.... ugh! In fact, later on we heard the radio playing and the song, Wildfire by Michael Martin Murphy and that set us off screaming around the room again.

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thespian86

Well I'm generally terrified by most anything; I sometimes, embarrassingly, do the hand in front of the face thing. But hey, I'm okay with that.

The first thing that made me feel sick and frightened as an adult was a Chuck Pakahniuk short about a sexual deviant who gets caught in a pool. It was really disturbing; can't say why.

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The earliest movie that I remember creeping me out was Poltergeist. I was 19 when that came out. I saw just about all the classic slasher/horror movies by that time so I was a bit suprised by my reaction to that movie.

dlish

Australias Most Wanted. Sunday nights 7.30.

Monday morning was rubbish day. During the commercial breaks dad would ask me to take the rubbish out.

now i think about it i think he did it on purpose either

a) to scare the living bejeezuz out of me so he can get a laugh or

b) to build up my character

im thinking A. i know i would have done the same!

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CinnamonGirl

I don't remember which of these I saw first...

The Blob definitely scared the hell out of me. I was over at my dad's girlfriend's house. Her brother and dad were watching The Blob, and her mom and my dad were talking in the kitchen. There's a scene where the teenagers are parking, and the girl... I don't know, falls asleep? Passes out? Something to that effect. The guy decided to take advantage of the situation, and unbuttons her shirt. Then, he reaches in to cop a feel, and her face like...deflates. And the guy proceeds to get eaten.

I had nightmares about that. *shudder* I tried to go hang out in the non-threatening kitchen, but for whatever reason, Dad didn't want me listening to the conversation. I curled up into a ball on a chair in the room between the living room and the kitchen and tried to think happy thoughts.

I don't even know what the other movie was... but it was on HBO and the killer broke through the girl's door with an axe. I assume he used the axe on her as well....I had my head buried in a pillow at that point. The next scene was someone she knew getting in his car and heading over to see her...and the song "Little Bitty Pretty One" was playing on the radio. To this day, that song gives me the creeps.

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Willravel

"The End of the Age" by Pat Robertson scared the balls off of me. He's nuts.

Still, my first scare was probably the Exorcist. I have no clue how old I was, but I wasn't ready for it and it haunted my nightmares for years.

Charlatan

It was either this little dude:



or this bigger dude:

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jewels

The Alien "birth" scene.

Wouldn't go to an R-rated movie after that unless it was a foreign film.

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Poppinjay

Salem's Lot.

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dlish

horror movies wouldnt freak me out. i used to watch salems lot or breakfast.

evil dead was one of my favs
exorcist was a joke to me.. dad always explained that there was a guy behind the camera and it was all fake.

australias most wanted show was no fake

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Ayashe

Jaws scared the hell out of me after I watched it. I remember having dreams about the shark ramming its way through my bedroom wall, not realistic but you know how kids are.

Tully Mars

I don't remember what it was but some made of TV werewolf flick my parents watched when I was about 7. I didn't sleep all night.

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abaya

19, eh. My parents watched that (with me in the room) when I was about 5. Yeah, smart move, there. FREAKED THE SHIT OUT OF ME, that girl and the TV. *shudder*

I was also terrified by the little demon-animal thingy in Cat's Eye... which came out when I was 6 years old, I think. It haunted me every night until I was probably 10 or 11, no joke. I covered my mouth and nose with my bedsheet every night before sleeping for all those years (and demanded having a super bright nightlight), until finally one time I realized that hey... I woke up every morning with the sheet off my nose, and I wasn't dead. And my parents didn't sleep with a sheet over their nose, either. So I figured out that it was probably going to be okay to sleep without a sheet over my face!!

Funny, I didn't realize until now that the little girl in the movie was Drew Barrymore...

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Lasereth

I don't remember the first scare (and I doubt anyone really does) but one of my first was when my dad let me watch Robocop when I was 5 or 6. That whole movie is so fucked up when you're 6.

dlish

is that why you've decided that you're going the full burqa now?

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abaya

Nice.

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BadNick

I was about 3 years old. I was born in Austria and my family was still living there before coming to the U.S. just before I turned 4. Near where we lived there was a big castle overlooking a river, somewhere around Salzburg. On one of the open terraces there was a pool you could walk around with a gargoyle face fountain on the castle wall spouting water from its mouth into a pool. I was always afraid to look at that gargoyle...I remember clutching my mother's skirt and wrapping it around my face and hiding behind her. The other memory I have of that place is being very upset when I threw pieces of bread into a fenced yard where the castle's deer lived; I wanted the fawns to get the bread but the big deer ate it...that made me quite upset.

Eweser

Ok, after all the ones previously mentioned, this one's going to sound silly....Snow White. Yes, the animated Disney movie. I guess I was 6 or 7. It showed in a theater near my house and my parents took me. They let me sit down front with a friend (first time experience) and the first time they showed the witch I started crying and she had to take me to find my parents. I'm not a big fan of scary movies. My husband and I went to see What Lies Beneath and I actually hid my face behind his sleeve during parts of it.

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When I was a little kid (maybe 6 or 7) I saw an episode of either Little House on the Prarie or the Waltons, I forget which. One of the girls wanted her big sister to go and pick blackberries with her, the sister didn't want to. The younger sister kept pressing the older one until the older one finally went to pick blackberries with her. The older sister got too close to a bee hive (she didn't know the bees were there), the bees attacked the older sister and stung her over most of her body, to this day I'm terrified of bees and wasps.

lotsofmagnets

not realistic?

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Lotsof . . .

LOL.

Wow, amazing.

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^That's a roof top, not a wall...

My first scare was when I was too young to remember I old I was. I want to say around 5 or 6. It wasn't a movie, but a commercial about drugs. They played some really freaky music, showed skinny and malnourished drug addicts, and skeletons--in particular, the skull. It was night time when I watched it so that made it worse since I was already scared of the dark. Well, everytime I looked at a skull I'm reminded of that commercial and the horrifying music. I didn't snap out of it until I was in my teens.

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snowy

The Wheelers in Return to Oz. I had to look them up on Wikipedia as I have tried to block the visual out of my memory. It still makes me feel icky thinking about it. I was probably 3 or so when my mom decided to watch that movie, not knowing how frightening it would be to me.

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genuinegirly

I was 4.
The Dark Crystal.
A movie that I now adore, I was once petrified of the skeksis so bad that I would conveniently find something else to do whenever a sibling wanted to watch.

The Wheelers were pretty scary. Have you re-watched Return to Oz as an adult? It's pretty odd when you're not looking at it through a child's eyes.

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snowy

Hell no. I can't get over that childhood aversion to it. Plus I'm not much of a movie person anyways.

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Cynthetiq

Both those scared me for sure, I guess I was younger for my first scare, because I do remember both those, Jaws being in 76 before my sister was born.

Actually the gent who posited this very question to me worked for Fangoria conventions for years, this was a standard interview question for the reels. His answer was also Snow White.

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maybird

Haha! Jaws was my first scare too! Now I'm scared to swim in the open. Everytime I'm in open water I imagine something that large underneath me! I panic and start to hang on for dear life...to anyone around me. I almost drowned my brother on the lake because we fell off the sea do and he started talking about large fish underneath me. Hahha...he'll never do THAT again!

But, now I can't even be in a swimming pool at night by myself. I did once, and there was this cleaning machine in the pool, that came up behind me and scared me to death! I hate those damn cleaning machines in the pool...no one understands why and just thinks I'm making it up. But, everything in my body prepares for the "flight or fight" mode! haha