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Old 11-18-2008, 08:05 AM
 
Location: Philaburbia
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Invaders From Mars had all the adults disappearing into sand hills. I was afraid to go to the beach for awhile.
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Old 11-18-2008, 09:23 AM
 
Location: friendswood texas
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As a child I watched Dracula and well slept with the covers snuggly wrapped around my neck for the longest time.

Got over that fear went on to see Cujo. Big mistake considering the neighbor across the street had a St. Bernard dog. Didn't go out in the front yard for ages after that. Took two years before I was able to walk on their side of the street.
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Old 11-18-2008, 11:17 AM
 
Location: Orlando, FL
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I saw Arachnophobia and for months I was scared to take a shower for fear there was spider waiting to get me. I got over it but even now when i wash my hair I think about it
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Old 11-18-2008, 11:56 AM
 
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The movie that disturbed me as a kid, who grew up in DC during the cold war and Cuban missile crisis, was "On the Beach". A Gregory Peck movie about an American Naval Sub and its crew who survived the apocalypse and found its way to the last surviving humans on earth, Australia. What scared the hell out of me was in the movie, a radiation cloud was headed for Australia and everyone was told by the Australian Government to prepare to die. Poison was dispensed to all those who did not want to suffer and it was the parent's responsibility to put their children down, to kill them so that they wouldn't suffer. The movie portrayed parents and their children waiting in long lines to receive this poison before the cloud appeared. For the longest time I always gave my parents that "side eyed" look and kept my ears open to the latest news and our showdown with the Soviets!
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Old 11-18-2008, 02:48 PM
 
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The movie that disturbed me as a kid, who grew up in DC during the cold war and Cuban missile crisis, was "On the Beach". A Gregory Peck movie about an American Naval Sub and its crew who survived the apocalypse and found its way to the last surviving humans on earth, Australia. What scared the hell out of me was in the movie, a radiation cloud was headed for Australia and everyone was told by the Australian Government to prepare to die. Poison was dispensed to all those who did not want to suffer and it was the parent's responsibility to put their children down, to kill them so that they wouldn't suffer. The movie portrayed parents and their children waiting in long lines to receive this poison before the cloud appeared. For the longest time I always gave my parents that "side eyed" look and kept my ears open to the latest news and our showdown with the Soviets!
I never saw that movie, but I read the book when I was about 13 and was so disturbed by the story. I still remember the passages about the little pills and couldn't imagine making that decision. Haunting... I might have to read it again.
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Old 11-18-2008, 03:41 PM
 
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I never saw that movie, but I read the book when I was about 13 and was so disturbed by the story. I still remember the passages about the little pills and couldn't imagine making that decision. Haunting... I might have to read it again.
Disturbing yes. Also in the movie they showed parents tucking their children in bed and then handing them a glass of water and the pill. I saw this movie in the 1960s and never saw it again until a couple of years ago when I bought the DVD. Didn't have the same effect as it did back then. I guess I've become "desensitized".
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Old 11-30-2008, 01:47 PM
 
Location: Colorado Springs!!!!!
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Horror movies have pretty much ruined my life.

I don't swim, because I am afraid a shark will eat me, or dead souls will drag me to the bottom to live with them. That, and I already have a fear of drowning; being able to see the surface but not reach it.

I cannot sleep in a room with mirrored closets. Thanks alot Poltergiest. Although, I think mirrored closests are tacky anyway.

Static-y TVs make me afraid some small, dead, waterlogged, little girl will come to kill me, even though I tried to set her free.

Movies like 28 Days make me want to pop some serious penicillin and wear a SARS mask, preferably one with a monkey or cat on it. Leave it to Asia to turn a serious problem into a fashion statement. Americans would never be able to do that. We'd just freak out and not be able to think of anything positive.

Clowns totally creep me out. My aunt is a clown fanatic, and I had to sleep in the guest room that was plastered with clowns, after watchin IT with my older cousins. Almost died, I swear.

Was worried about nuclear holocaust after a few different movies and the "One, two, three, four...." PSA with the little girl picking the petals off the flower. But I have now accepted my fate as reality and am fine with it. Besides, if Fallout 3 is anything like the nuclear holocaust, there may be a way to survive it. I'm just not sure if I want to.
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Old 11-30-2008, 04:19 PM
 
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I swore I would never name my little boy Gage. (Pet Semetary)
Not a big fan of clowns.
Don't like water I can't see the bottom of.

Too many scary movies when I was a kid!
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Old 11-30-2008, 11:13 PM
 
Location: Houston, TX
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I didn't see it because I know it would have scared me even worse then I was just by seeing the previews "The Dentist." The actual fear stemmed from an experience I had at the dentist, but this movie just confirmed and strengthened my fear.
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Old 12-02-2008, 10:24 PM
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"The Exorcist" with Linda Blair was scary as hell! Still gives me the willies!!
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