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"The Shining" was it for me. Went alone. Could not get that movie out of my head for days and very very frightened to go to bed at night. Today it seems ridiculous, but I was young and very impressionable then.
won't hang a hand/foot over the bed in case something grabs it. Driving alone at night sometimes afraid to look in the rearview mirror, lest i see some "thing" slithering and undulating chasing the car. Closets with an open door at night. Absolutely frozen terrified of puppets, ventriloquist dummies. Would not go into a cemetery at night if you paid me $10,000 (yeah i know, the dead can't hurt you.... still...)
MOVIE-RELATED FEARS:
basements (vampires lurking there in the movie Salem's Lot). Will not go into a basement EVER
the characters Butteball and Chatterer (movie Hellraiser). Was so paralyzed with fright could not watch the entire film
will not look into a mirror in the dark (movie Candyman)
"On the Beach" has stayed in my head since the first time I saw it. Besides the people lining up to get the pills I thought the scenes of people going about business as usual were disturbing. Planting bulbs, doing home maintenance,etc.
Jaws. I saw it when I was young and pretty much ruined any kind of ocean swimming for me unless it's really shallow.
The Blair Witch Project. I used to enjoy wandering off into the woods, off the trails and just see where I end up but I tend to stay on trails and not wander off anymore.
well I dont know if this is a fear or not but me and my sister took a bunch of girls and my brother to friday the 13th the original one and when we stopped at a girls house at the end of a hill . We had to all walk up the hill with her and her parents were not home . One girls hair got caught in a tree and she screamed bloody murder and we all had to search her house . I mean search behind shower curtains , under beds you name it , it got searched .When we got back in the car my sister told all of us "We are never taking that girl to another movie " and to my recollection we never did ....I wonder if that girl still searches her house after scary movies .LOL
I can't remember the name of it - but it was about an earwig bug that goes in this guys ear, borrows through his head and goes out the other ear. Then he learns that it laid eggs in his brain and he starts going nuts. To this day, I make sure my ear is covered with something before I go to sleep.
Two instances of this that I know of. As mentioned, Night Gallery, The Caterpillar:
And Star Trek, Wrath of Kahn paid homage to, or borrowed the plot idea.
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Originally Posted by jmking
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!
If that freaked you out, don't watch Stephen King's The Mist, 2007.The ending won't do it for you at all. [no smiley]
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