FabSwingers.com forum: What films scarred you for life?

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Gremlins and Jaws, allowed to watch both before I was 10.

Going to bed was tough..

I was convinced a Gremlin was sitting watching me as the red LED lights of the TV and VCR were twinkling red.

But Jaws proper got me. I had to leap from my hallway carpet to my bed. My bedroom carpet was blue and I was convinced if I touched it Jaws would breach right out of my floor boards and bite me in half. If I made it to bed OK, I'd imagine I was on a sinking boat with Brody and the guys..

Thanks Mum!

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By *s_macWoman
over a year ago

Traffic land

Friday 13th for me. It was shown at a friends birthday party and we were only at primary school

I to this day can't watch horror films or anything more than slapstick violence really, the gore really bothers me

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By *eesideMan
over a year ago

margate sumwear by the sea

Nun

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

IT absolutely horrible film watched it once and never in a millions year or if someone paid me xx

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By *ire_bladeMan
over a year ago

Manchester

My wedding video

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Snowman and his dog. About a stranger who steals children, hotwires planes, steals them. His group of friends play with the boy and on top of it he is a ghost of the original snowman.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Nightmare on Elm Street for me. The days of watching most of a film hidden behind a pillow..

I do remember watching the video to Thriller as a child and being petrified..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

4 Weddings and a Funeral. Still sends shivers down my spine,

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"My wedding video "

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Friday 13th for me. It was shown at a friends birthday party and we were only at primary school

I to this day can't watch horror films or anything more than slapstick violence really, the gore really bothers me

Unnecessarily gory films I don't like, but if it's used to good effect.. Like Saving Private Ryan. Or Reservoir Dogs.. I'm all for it. But Friday 13th gore and nearly every horror before or after don't do it for me. Maybe it's because Scream was the first one I watched... I'd avoided Nightmare on Elm Street etc. Till then. But Scream was a piss take, so I laugh at most of the entire genre a bit.. Chucky from Childs Play wasn't nice though, that's a mean Doll.

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By *harpDressed ManMan
over a year ago

Here occasionally, but mostly somewhere else

Wolf Creek. Awful.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"IT absolutely horrible film watched it once and never in a millions year or if someone paid me xx"

Never seen it, but I'm about to read the book.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Silence of the Lambs

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I watched the first ring movie when I was 10/11 and that scared the monkeys out of me. Won't watch it or any of the others even now.

And that boat ride bit on Willie Wonka and the Chocolate factory was scary as hell, even though I loved the rest of the film. Miss T

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By *s_macWoman
over a year ago

Traffic land

"Friday 13th for me. It was shown at a friends birthday party and we were only at primary school

I to this day can't watch horror films or anything more than slapstick violence really, the gore really bothers me

I can't do any at all, so have to avoid all sorts of things. I can remember warching Casino at the cinema and the scene with the baseball bats I had my date's jacket over my head with my hands trying to cover my ears

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By *uietlyBohemianCouple
over a year ago

Newcastle-under-Lyme

Watership down. Some scenes in there were traumatising!

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Aracnaphobia and a combo of my dad telling me stories of camel spiders, whilst living in the middle east and camping in desert.. Has made me Aracnaphobic. Definitely. I've even tried to get over it but I can't.

My dad joked when I joined the army.. "What if the bullets start flying and you jump into a trench with a tarantula in it?"

"Quite honestly dad, I'd scream like a 6yr old and run to the enemy for help"

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Watership down. Some scenes in there were traumatising!"

I'm not going back there, I'm going to pretend you never wrote that

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm not into horror i use to but when i was younger i when to the movies with a female we watched this movie it was really frighting she grad me in my privates so hard i was sore for a few days...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Watership down. Some scenes in there were traumatising!"

Definitely. I left the cinema (aged 8) sobbing hysterically and haven't watched it since...even the song Bright Eyes sets me off

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Friday 13th for me. It was shown at a friends birthday party and we were only at primary school

I to this day can't watch horror films or anything more than slapstick violence really, the gore really bothers me

Lmfao! But that's what life is truly like for a crazy few and the violence and gore are part of a true, or similar event in reality. I get it though.. Ive seen two big tough guys faint because they saw a little blood.. Like a drop or two

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By *htcMan
over a year ago

none really

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Toy story really freaked me out, bit weird

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Nun

This...... they are stories! They are not real....!

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By *mmabluTV/TS
over a year ago

upton wirral

Sleeping Beauty the witch scared me to death when I was very young reminded me of my mother lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Actually untrue.....my Auntie made me go and watch "bedknobs and Broomsticks" when I was about 6

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Even then I figured I had never seen such utter crap in my life!

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By *s_macWoman
over a year ago

Traffic land

"Watership down. Some scenes in there were traumatising!"

Oh God yes! My ex husband loved that film, it should have been a sign

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"IT absolutely horrible film watched it once and never in a millions year or if someone paid me xx

Never seen it, but I'm about to read the book. "

Ooooh, I'm around 70 pages into a reread of it! One of my favourite Stephen Kings but a 1,375 page read is hard to do regularly

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Threads....scared the bejesus out of me..

Still does

A x

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By *inchyorksMan
over a year ago

huddersfield

Jaws was one, far too young to watch it and the original terminator, at the end the bloody thing just kept coming at Sarah Conner lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

SALEMS LOT

The scratching on the window haunts me just thinking of it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

And a film has never scarred me for life, but I'll never watch the adaptation of Pet Sematary ever. The book disturbs me enough.

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By *oward1978Man
over a year ago

Rotherham

A little known TV movie called Small Sacrifices. Saw it when I was about 12 years old. All in all it's a pretty crappy movie, as TV movies often are. However, it's based on a true story about a mother who murders two of her children in cold blood with a third miraculously surviving to ultimately help testify against her. Just totally freaked me out as a kid. Gave me nightmares in fact. Something about knowing it was based on a true story made it seem worse somehow.

I've not being able to watch it since, even though it does turn up in the listings from time to time. It still haunts me.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I couldn't watch Ghostbusters 2 when I was a kid mainly because of the villain Vigo the Carpathian. When he poked his head out of the painting, I was done.

I didn't watch that movie until many years later and it is now one of my many favourite classics along with the first Ghostbusters movie

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"And a film has never scarred me for life, but I'll never watch the adaptation of Pet Sematary ever. The book disturbs me enough."
amityville horror film and nook

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"SALEMS LOT

The scratching on the window haunts me just thinking of it. "

Oh nononononono. That's my favourite book ever and some scenes in the book are scarier than in the film but we do not talk about scratching at the window.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Sleeping Beauty the witch scared me to death when I was very young reminded me of my mother lol"

It is very understandable that Maleficent is a very scary villain. I always found her fascinating really as she is the only Disney villain that is pure evil.

I think what gives me chills is when she is in the fireplace which I believe is the scariest part of the movie. I've read comments on YouTube about how people are still scared by that scene

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I couldn't watch Ghostbusters 2 when I was a kid mainly because of the villain Vigo the Carpathian. When he poked his head out of the painting, I was done.

I didn't watch that movie until many years later and it is now one of my many favourite classics along with the first Ghostbusters movie"

Ghostbusters did me too! One though.. I'd had a couple of years of cartoon series and wasn't fully prepared for the film lmfao... It was the librarian ghost. Turned out to be slimer I think

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"SALEMS LOT

The scratching on the window haunts me just thinking of it. "

Yes!!! Watched it when I was maybe 8/9? Read the book & that's even more terrifying!

Jaws & Candyman both have me hiding under the duvet too

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I couldn't watch Ghostbusters 2 when I was a kid mainly because of the villain Vigo the Carpathian. When he poked his head out of the painting, I was done.

I didn't watch that movie until many years later and it is now one of my many favourite classics along with the first Ghostbusters movie

Ghostbusters did me too! One though.. I'd had a couple of years of cartoon series and wasn't fully prepared for the film lmfao... It was the librarian ghost. Turned out to be slimer I think "

I still hide my eyes at the librarian ghost in the film

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"IT absolutely horrible film watched it once and never in a millions year or if someone paid me xx

Never seen it, but I'm about to read the book.

Ooooh, I'm around 70 pages into a reread of it! One of my favourite Stephen Kings but a 1,375 page read is hard to do regularly

I go back to Lord of the rings about once every ten years.. But I start at Simarillion.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I couldn't watch Ghostbusters 2 when I was a kid mainly because of the villain Vigo the Carpathian. When he poked his head out of the painting, I was done.

I didn't watch that movie until many years later and it is now one of my many favourite classics along with the first Ghostbusters movie

Ghostbusters did me too! One though.. I'd had a couple of years of cartoon series and wasn't fully prepared for the film lmfao... It was the librarian ghost. Turned out to be slimer I think "

Yeah the first movie didn't bother me as much but it did have some unnerving scenes like when them demonic arms hold Dana in her armchair when she was about to be possessed by Zuul. Pretty scary shit

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Jaws was one, far too young to watch it and the original terminator, at the end the bloody thing just kept coming at Sarah Conner lol"

You'll like this then hopefully... Alien, I saw Alien's first, so respected the chest hugger moments. What I'd forgotten was.. I watched Alien's with a load of friends and its essentially a war film. Alien is a different kettle of fish when your 13 and home alone.. I got as far as the cat watching the Alien catch its first crew member, all reflected in its eyes.. Turned the fucking film off till I was an adult

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By *oward1978Man
over a year ago

Rotherham

"I couldn't watch Ghostbusters 2 when I was a kid mainly because of the villain Vigo the Carpathian. When he poked his head out of the painting, I was done.

I didn't watch that movie until many years later and it is now one of my many favourite classics along with the first Ghostbusters movie

Ghostbusters did me too! One though.. I'd had a couple of years of cartoon series and wasn't fully prepared for the film lmfao... It was the librarian ghost. Turned out to be slimer I think

I still hide my eyes at the librarian ghost in the film

Oh my, I thought it was just me who freaked out at that. I saw it at the cinema when it first came out (I was about 6 years old). My mother still tells the story, much to my embarrassment about how they had to practically peel me off the ceiling I jumped so much, when that old woman jumps out of the screen at you!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I don't like the bit in Beetlejuice when he turns into a snake

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A Nightmare on Elm Street..I remember watching it on video at my house in broad daylight with my friend but it still scared the crap out of us

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I don't like the bit in Beetlejuice when he turns into a snake

I still can't watch that movie. The cartoon never bothered me but the movie is something I will never watch again

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I don't like the bit in Beetlejuice when he turns into a snake

I still can't watch that movie. The cartoon never bothered me but the movie is something I will never watch again"

I haven't watched it for a while.

Oh, also the fact that my parents took me to see Nightmare Before Christmas at the cinema when I was 5, the promo for it in the lobby scared me so much I hid under their coats for the full film and wouldn't watch it until I was 16.

One of my favourite films now though

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I remember being scared by the death scenes at the end of Raiders of The Lost Ark and The Last Crusade. I can still remember being frozen in fear seeing the Nazis getting killed by Ark's lightning and Toht's head melting and when Donovan started aging rapidly after drinking from the wrong grail, I shot right out of the room

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Arachnophobia and alive.

I'm scared of both spiders and South American college football teams

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By *ucyfur77Woman
over a year ago

Pleasuretown

"I remember being scared by the death scenes at the end of Raiders of The Lost Ark and The Last Crusade. I can still remember being frozen in fear seeing the Nazis getting killed by Ark's lightning and Toht's head melting and when Donovan started aging rapidly after drinking from the wrong grail, I shot right out of the room"

I thought it was kinda awesome

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I don't like the bit in Beetlejuice when he turns into a snake

I still can't watch that movie. The cartoon never bothered me but the movie is something I will never watch again

I haven't watched it for a while.

One of my favourite films now though

Aww. I did something similar for when Jurassic Park first came out. As soon as the lawyer got eaten by the T-Rex, I ended up sitting in the cinema foyer for the rest of the movie as it scared me that much.

I like the songs in Nightmare Before Christmas. I've even sung some of the songs on YouTube

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Karate Kid...

I fell off a wall do my best crane kick and cut my elbow open, I'm still scarred

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Aracnaphobia and a combo of my dad telling me stories of camel spiders, whilst living in the middle east and camping in desert.. Has made me Aracnaphobic. Definitely. I've even tried to get over it but I can't.

My dad joked when I joined the army.. "What if the bullets start flying and you jump into a trench with a tarantula in it?"

"Quite honestly dad, I'd scream like a 6yr old and run to the enemy for help""

That film did the same to me! I cant even see pictures of them!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I thought it was kinda awesome

Yeah I find those scenes very awesome as well. It was just something that really scared me as a kid.

Temple of Doom was always my favourite but I still remember leaving the room when it came to the banquet mainly because of the eyeball soup. I don't know why but it was just something about gouged out eyes that creeped me out

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The bit in reservoir dogs where the guys walking around singing stuck in the middle with you while cutting that guys face up tied to a chair

I was like WTF

It proper stuck I my head

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By *tephanjMan
over a year ago

Kettering

The original saw film was quite scary

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My dad joked when I joined the army.. "What if the bullets start flying and you jump into a trench with a tarantula in it?"

"Quite honestly dad, I'd scream like a 6yr old and run to the enemy for help""

I'm sorry but I had a little giggle imagining this lol

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By *aroleBaskinWoman
over a year ago

somewhere down the rabbit hole, Aberdeen

Irreversible

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

My dad joked when I joined the army.. "What if the bullets start flying and you jump into a trench with a tarantula in it?"

"Quite honestly dad, I'd scream like a 6yr old and run to the enemy for help"

That film did the same to me! I cant even see pictures of them! "

Tried to cure myself once by asking the animal expert who visited the care home I worked in (yup bum wiping - the lot!) If I could hold one. I explained my irrational fear (tarantula is no worse than a bee sting and I knew it wasn't going to bite me) he seemed to understand, even when I insisted than when I say stop.. He had to get it off in three full seconds or I'd flip, and I didn't want to kill it. I was OK till it moved.. Fuck me! Get it off, get it off.. I had tears in my eyes, but I wasn't crying at I was sweating and heart was hammering..

Even my mum takes the piss, she's worse than I am.. I have to rid her house in Spain of the odd Iberian tarantula that wanders onto the property, probably because she ignores it knowing I can't relax till the trespassing thug has been removed off the premisis.. I can't kill them.. Which means I do the whole shaky glass and paper dance.. And when I catch it I'm like Ace Ventura with the bat.. In Pet Detective 2.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

These monsters used to give me nightmares as a kid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiUNUL9LZgY

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By *otandStickyCouple
over a year ago

Poole

Human centipede....I walked in part way through, I'm glad I didn't see the start and I didn't see it to the end, that was enough!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My dad joked when I joined the army.. "What if the bullets start flying and you jump into a trench with a tarantula in it?"

"Quite honestly dad, I'd scream like a 6yr old and run to the enemy for help"

That film did the same to me! I cant even see pictures of them!

Even the thought of doing that makes me itch and feel queasy!

A lot braver than me, I have to get the hoover out or hope that the dog jumps on it, tbf the first time the dog did that was with a huge spider, he got so many treats that night for being my saviour haha!

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By *ucyfur77Woman
over a year ago

Pleasuretown

I thought it was kinda awesome

Yeah I find those scenes very awesome as well. It was just something that really scared me as a kid.

It was when I was a kid

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Anybody remember trap door?

'Him upstairs' used to scare me to death when I was a kid

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Salems lot... scared the fook out of me... getting goosebumps writing this....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I thought it was kinda awesome

Yeah I find those scenes very awesome as well. It was just something that really scared me as a kid.

It was when I was a kid

Yeah. When it comes to scenes like that, I always find it impressive with how they pulled it off in the special effects for those scenes

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Salems lot... scared the fook out of me... getting goosebumps writing this...."

I remember the Simpsons parodying a scene from that movie in the forth treehouse of horror

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Jaws my first time at the theater lol

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By *r FirecrackerMan
over a year ago

London

"Nightmare on Elm Street for me. The days of watching most of a film hidden behind a pillow..

I do remember watching the video to Thriller as a child and being petrified.. "

Nightmare on elm street, I'm in my 30s and refuse to watch the new version as the old one still visits me from time to time!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Children of the Corn

Scary as hell!

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By *uperchargedMan
over a year ago

Manchester

"SALEMS LOT

The scratching on the window haunts me just thinking of it. "

I didn't sleep for a week after seeing that.

Fantastic vampire horror and a King classic.

It's just the thought of David Soul jumping out of the shadows that really freaks me out.....

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By *uperchargedMan
over a year ago

Manchester

"Anybody remember trap door?

'Him upstairs' used to scare me to death when I was a kid

BURKE!

WHERE'S MY DINNER???!

Ace hangover cure watching these on Saturday mornings though

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By *uperchargedMan
over a year ago

Manchester

"A Nightmare on Elm Street..I remember watching it on video at my house in broad daylight with my friend but it still scared the crap out of us

Saw this at our local flea pit on a Monday night (that was when we had our geeky weekly film night) and I don't think anyone of us slept properly for a week....

"I'm your boyfriend now Nancy....."

What an ace villain Freddy was though....

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By *uperchargedMan
over a year ago

Manchester

The Hitcher.

4 of us coming home after the late showing in a mini (Yes, 4)

It's misty and there's a bloke standing by the side of the road with his thumb out.......

I never knew a mini 1000 could accelerate so quickly......

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Anybody remember trap door?

'Him upstairs' used to scare me to death when I was a kid

BURKE!

WHERE'S MY DINNER???!

Ace hangover cure watching these on Saturday mornings though

Yes, there's something similar on TV now I think.. Grizzly tales for gruesome kids..

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By *oodmessMan
over a year ago

yumsville

I've never been able to watch Chainsaw Massacre all the way through. More recently though and I shudder that I watched it was a recently made film Rupture. Mad, BDSM, medical kidnap, labyrinth, spider, alien head bursting shit. Urrrrrghh

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Who can forget the wheelers from Return to Oz? Holy crap

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By *obbie6ft5Man
over a year ago

canvey

Alien scared the crap out of me

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By *ames6ft5Man
over a year ago

North London / Herts

Timebandits

That's about it.

James

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The bit in reservoir dogs where the guys walking around singing stuck in the middle with you while cutting that guys face up tied to a chair

I was like WTF

It proper stuck I my head"

Michael Madsen, it's the best part of the film

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The bit in reservoir dogs where the guys walking around singing stuck in the middle with you while cutting that guys face up tied to a chair

I was like WTF

It proper stuck I my head

Michael Madsen, it's the best part of the film "

I find it wierd that some people can watch stuff like that and actually enjoy it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Gremlins and Jaws, allowed to watch both before I was 10.

Going to bed was tough..

I was convinced a Gremlin was sitting watching me as the red LED lights of the TV and VCR were twinkling red.

Thanks Mum! "

JAWS...When I was a kid, I saw the film soon after it came out, with my older cousins. As a lifelong surfer, sat out behind the break waiting for your wave was nerve-wracking for a year or two afterwards, and the thought was always there in the back of your mind...what if...

Sometimes if a jellyfish, or a plastic bag full of water, or something else brushes against your legs whilst you're out there, particularly early in the morning or late in the evening, and especially if you're out there alone, the mind still can play tricks. But maybe they aren't tricks...?

Seen the film only the once, and still refuse to watch it again...ever.

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By *ust RachelTV/TS
over a year ago

Horsham

Not a film but a programme, hammer house of horrors.

I used to watch it at night in secret, one night needless to say I scared myself silly.

I was about 11 at the time as well, my own fault really.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Gremlins and Jaws, allowed to watch both before I was 10.

Going to bed was tough..

Gremlins got me. I was 10, someone gave me a Spike teddy from the film as well. I slept with it one night, never again.

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over a year ago

The film tremors used to absolutely terrify me!, I've never watched it as an adult either, I can remember my chest going tight with fear

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By *emplarWarriorMan
over a year ago

Nottingham

Watership down

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Watership down

Oh god Yh this was another!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Jaws and poltergeist.

Remember being a little girl watching jaws and being scared to go a wee afterwards.... and my big sister teasing me that I was too scared to watch it with her.. and like an idiot I succumbed to peer pressure!

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over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Watership down

Oh god Yh this was another!

I didn't get scared. But It was sad, I remember crying at the film. Every time I heard the song I cried. That song is simply like stabbing my childhood heart. Haha. I know. (Shh, don't tell. I'm supposed to be tough)

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By *ikeC81Man
over a year ago

harrow

Labarynth

I still can't watch

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yh I'm a mard ass like that haha I remember crying at whinnie the pooh because tigger called him a silly old bear haha

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Labarynth

I still can't watch "

That's the boss' fave childhood film...,I thought it was bloody weird

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By *emplarWarriorMan
over a year ago

Nottingham

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

The child catcher scene

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Yh I'm a mard ass like that haha I remember crying at whinnie the pooh because tigger called him a silly old bear haha

I just have to look at Eeyore and get a lump in my throat... he just looks so sad all the time!

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over a year ago

"Yh I'm a mard ass like that haha I remember crying at whinnie the pooh because tigger called him a silly old bear haha

I just have to look at Eeyore and get a lump in my throat... he just looks so sad all the time!

Aww Yh he is sad, but maybe that's because he's male and yet his tail attaches with a pink bow

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Yh I'm a mard ass like that haha I remember crying at whinnie the pooh because tigger called him a silly old bear haha

I just have to look at Eeyore and get a lump in my throat... he just looks so sad all the time!

Aww Yh he is sad, but maybe that's because he's male and yet his tail attaches with a pink bow

I don't know... but I like a man in pink... and that brings back a happy memory.. the bow was pink but it wasn't tied around a tail! Lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Yh I'm a mard ass like that haha I remember crying at whinnie the pooh because tigger called him a silly old bear haha

I just have to look at Eeyore and get a lump in my throat... he just looks so sad all the time!

Aww Yh he is sad, but maybe that's because he's male and yet his tail attaches with a pink bow

I don't know... but I like a man in pink... and that brings back a happy memory.. the bow was pink but it wasn't tied around a tail! Lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Labarynth

I still can't watch "

Is that the film with the babe?

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By *iss.HoneyWoman
over a year ago

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"Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

The child catcher scene"

That bastard was scary!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Scars heal

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I like to watch "Hostel" & "Wolf Creek" before heading off on holiday road trips,

keeps your mind fresh on the "what ifs"

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By *anmjmosesMan
over a year ago

Northampton

The antichrist with Willem Dafoe.... Scenes of genitalia mutilation and "nut" cracking.... Yikes

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

never mind films, what about TV - Loose women

these ladies leave a damaging scar

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A Serbian Film...

totally one fucked up film

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By *weetChariotMan
over a year ago

High Wycombe

Saving Private Ryan, the knife scene where he slowly pushes it into his heart .... Still haunts me.

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By *im2006Man
over a year ago

London

Champ when his son was saying don't die Champ cried my eyes out

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

IT.

Has well and truly given me the heebie jeebies for clowns...not just the scary kind Oh no...the nice smile happy kind you see at children's party's too

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By *utterflyandArtificeCouple
over a year ago

Trowbridge

It was a film that was made in 1987, starring a young lad in uniform and a fat ginger trollop. It gives me and my bank balance the willies at least once a month and that movie was the recording of the blessing of my first marriage to a moomintroll.

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By *100Man
over a year ago

Essex

I don't know of any films but east enders always gives me nightmare's

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Two more... The dark crystal and Rita, sue and Bob too

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By *onnyJohnMan
over a year ago

Doncaster

Nightmare on elm street the first one... watched it at a mates house and then had to go home, there were 2 street lights outside his house and then a woodland road for around a mile or so, pitch black late at night I tell you, Roger Banister had fook all on me that night.... 4 minute mile ? I pissed it and was still picking up speed at the end of the road...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Midnight Express

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I've got another one. The original Total Recall. When Arnold's character started suffocating at the beginning and his eyes bulge out of their sockets, I still remember covering my eyes as a kid at that bit. I still can't stand the sound of the villain trying to breathe when he is gets killed at the end

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By *on and TammyCouple
over a year ago

Manchester

"Threads....scared the bejesus out of me..

Still does

A x"

This.

They made us watch it in RE in school when I was maybe 12 or 13. No discussion before or after, we just watched it then the bell went for next lesson and off we went. Still staggers me that they did that!

The first 2 Alien films have bits that still make me uncomfortable.

'Kill List' was a horrible watch, stomach in knots whole way through and the ending is fucking grim. Really want to watch it again though.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Gremlins and Jaws, allowed to watch both before I was 10.

Going to bed was tough..

I was convinced a Gremlin was sitting watching me as the red LED lights of the TV and VCR were twinkling red.

Thanks Mum!

Seen the film only the once, and still refuse to watch it again...ever. "

I saw a video clip on Yahoo, I think it was, some time ago taken of a guy surfing a wave and you can see a shark trailing him underneath the curl....it was taken in uk waters too!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Gremlins and Jaws, allowed to watch both before I was 10.

Going to bed was tough..

I was convinced a Gremlin was sitting watching me as the red LED lights of the TV and VCR were twinkling red.

Thanks Mum! "

So with you on Jaws!

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By *angerman85Man
over a year ago

preston

"SALEMS LOT

The scratching on the window haunts me just thinking of it. "

Proper scary !

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By *tace 309TV/TS
over a year ago

durham

The exterminator...the bit where a guy went in a mincing machine and out came next weeks dinner ...sick

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Watership Down. That black bunny floating across the screen and that fecking song. Burst into tears watching it in an English class at Comprehensive.

Never lived it down.

"Remember that time you cried in class watching Watership Down?" yeah....feck off!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Fire in the Sky

Blair witch project

Nightmare on Elm St

I don't like horror films at all and I reckon seeing movies with my cousins at a young age is why

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By *otts PervsCouple
over a year ago

Nottingham

Watership Down

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Genuinely disturbing.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Genuinely disturbing. "

Original or remake

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Genuinely disturbing. "

With Gene Wilder....very, very disturbing.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Gremlins and Jaws, allowed to watch both before I was 10.

Going to bed was tough..

I was convinced a Gremlin was sitting watching me as the red LED lights of the TV and VCR were twinkling red.

Thanks Mum!

Seen the film only the once, and still refuse to watch it again...ever.

I saw a video clip on Yahoo, I think it was, some time ago taken of a guy surfing a wave and you can see a shark trailing him underneath the curl....it was taken in uk waters too!

No killer sharks in UK waters bar Blue sharks.. And they're deep water scavengers rather than shallow water hunters.

Great whites should be here, we have the right temperature water and a massive seal population. But shark experts can't explain why they don't visit, despite reports The Star and The Sun say they have, they don't.

Jaws also made me an amateur shark fan. I'd chop off a part of my little finger to cage dive and I'm getting a tattoo of a tiger shark on my arm to start a sleeve off with her as the Centre piece.

Surfing comments.. I was once in Bali, in exactly the circumstances described. Alone, far out, but it was raining. The sets coming in had died off and I suddenly heard a splash behind me! I swear I saw a pointed large fin, dip below the water. Bali is volcanic, so the sand churned up by the surf, makes the sea look like mud. I sucked all my limbs in and waited to be chucked off my board. Heart hammering in my chest, I began to paddle in with my lil fingers, and caught the first wave on my stomach and stayed like that all the way in. Gave surfing a break for the rest of the day but was out again the next morning.

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By *elly totsCouple
over a year ago

teesside

Hostel .... no just no

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By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago

Hull

For me when younger, it was the big muscle man at the start of each film, banging that huge gong!!!

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By *londie8399Couple
over a year ago

blackpool

Freddy kruger one two Freddie coming for u 3 4 better lock your door i watched it when i was 9 still gives me the creeps lol

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By *londie8399Couple
over a year ago

blackpool

"Hostel .... no just no

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i dont like that one eithier lol

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By *oyle_45Man
over a year ago

Worthing

Chitty chitty bang bang....that bloody child catcher scared the shit out of me as a kid

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Nightmare on elm street

I can still remember the rhyme

1 2. Freddy is coming for you

3 4 you better lock your door

5 6 get a crucifix

7 8 you better stay up late

9 10 never sleep again

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Genuinely disturbing.

Original or remake "

Original.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It haunts me to lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Genuinely disturbing.

With Gene Wilder....very, very disturbing.

Absolutely.

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By *londie8399Couple
over a year ago

blackpool

"Nightmare on elm street

I can still remember the rhyme

1 2. Freddy is coming for you

3 4 you better lock your door

5 6 get a crucifix

7 8 you better stay up late

9 10 never sleep again "

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By *londie8399Couple
over a year ago

blackpool

"Nightmare on elm street

I can still remember the rhyme

1 2. Freddy is coming for you

3 4 you better lock your door

5 6 get a crucifix

7 8 you better stay up late

9 10 never sleep again "
glad u wrote it couldent remember the rest of it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Candyman

Although the fella who played Candyman was rather hot (i thought)

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By *ingcom76Man
over a year ago

cheltenham

I once went to Blockbusters to rent The Blair Witch Project but all copies were already out so I went for another horror film that they had called Kolobos! I had trouble sleeping for days after that!

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Hostel .... no just no

That does scare me, because I bet it exists somewhere

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By *londie8399Couple
over a year ago

blackpool

Proberly in some creepy place some where i never stay in hostel lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Nightmare on Elm street back in 1984 on pirate video, couldn't sleep properly for days after that.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Jaws!

And the wolf from never ending story made me jump behind the chair in the cinema. Still remember that!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Chucky The Doll in Child's Play!

The Preacher in Poltergeist

The Rubber Shark in Jaws

Steve Martin trying to be Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther remake

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The death scene from Bambi.....

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By *ackDMissMorganCouple
over a year ago

Halifax

Eden lake recently,very harrowing

It when I was younger and the hills have eyes.

Miss

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By *ueenofheartsWoman
over a year ago

Leicestershire

Nightmare on elm street and child's play from when I was younger....

More recently - Hostel - the Psych aspect of that film really fucked me up

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Chucky The Doll in Child's Play!

The Preacher in Poltergeist

The Rubber Shark in Jaws

Steve Martin trying to be Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther remake

What! The shark wasnt real?

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

"The death scene from Bambi.....

He didn't seem to bother for long to me....... says a lot about him.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Anything with clowns in

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"IT absolutely horrible film watched it once and never in a millions year or if someone paid me xx"

Yep scarred for life can not bear clowns!!

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By *opsy RogersWoman
over a year ago

London

Scum. An excellent British film that introduced me to mindless violence. There were people fainting, crying, vomiting and walking out during it and an eerie hush over those of us that stuck it until the end.

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By *opsy RogersWoman
over a year ago

London

...and Schlinders List. Total mind fuck.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Exorcist scared the shit out of me...but having watched it again recently I found it much less convincing. However the Ome still sends shivers down my spine....

Not a cinema film but Salem's Lot with David Soul also crapped me out as a teenager

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"IT absolutely horrible film watched it once and never in a millions year or if someone paid me xx

Yep scarred for life can not bear clowns!! "

It's an actual phobia -

Coulrophobia

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By *icentiousCouple
over a year ago

Up on them there hills

9 1/2 weeks, person I was with shot of to the kitchen to get "things", I was waiting laid down.

She burst into the room (with goods) knocked the internal door off its hinges, the corner of the door hotness on the eyebrow....

27 stitches, scared for life....

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By *icentiousCouple
over a year ago

Up on them there hills

"9 1/2 weeks, person I was with shot of to the kitchen to get "things", I was waiting laid down.

She burst into the room (with goods) knocked the internal door off its hinges, the corner of the door hotness on the eyebrow....

27 stitches, scared for life....

Hit me.... Need to talk to my phone!!!!

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By *ig1gaz1Man
over a year ago

bradford

never liked horrors when I was young hated them with a vengeance

but it dosnt help when youve seen the uncut versions of dawn of the dead or evil dead whilst 13

im exact opposite at 16 love them my daughters the same loves horrors

just dosnt like been made to scream whilst watching them

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By *heaspieswingerMan
over a year ago

Peak District

A Nightmare on Elm Street - watched it when I was about 7. It was the point when I realised that everything I'd seen was some sort of special effects. From that point on, I can't watch a film without trying to figure out how they created an effect.

Oh, and IT. That fooking clown scares the shit out of me.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Serbian film

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By *heaspieswingerMan
over a year ago

Peak District

Almost forgot, Misery. My ankles twitch just thinking about that film

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By *andVBCouple
over a year ago

Wrexham

Gremlins here too OP, coupled with Day of the Triffids.

I was convinced that Triffids walked the world by day and Gremlins by night. So, to my child-brain. the only solution was to live in an aeroplane that circled the earth on the cusp of day and night.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

There was a film we had to watch at school about nuclear war, I can't remember what it was called but it gave me bad dreams for days after! I think m it began with T.

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

Quatermass and the Pit. Saw it on tv as a child. The only film to make me cry in bed afterwards!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The champ. Was allowed to watch it as a child, cried my eyes out now can't watch it cos i know i'll ball my eyes out again

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By *oxy_minxWoman
over a year ago

Scotland - Aberdeen

I continue to break my heart over The Champ as well!

But the hammer house of horrors series used to scare the shit out of me as well, some were really creepy

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Children of the corn, Terminater and T2, Robocop, Gremlins, Hellraiser, Android, Trolls, Conan the Destroyer, Conan the Barbarian, Red Sonja. A family friend gave my parents some videos when I was 9 and didn't think to keep them out of our sight

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By *lik and PaulCouple
over a year ago

Flagrante

Jaws...nearly passed out in the cinema watching it as a kid

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Scream, I think I watched it with my brother. But then he took it one step further and bought the mask, had a week of him coming into my room with it on scaring the shit out of me.

Halloween just gone a guy walked past with a mask on, I just froze to the spot and stared...

Bloody film.

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By *on and TammyCouple
over a year ago

Manchester

"There was a film we had to watch at school about nuclear war, I can't remember what it was called but it gave me bad dreams for days after! I think m it began with T. "

Threads. They made us watch in school too. Bastards.

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By *LikeToPleaseHerMan
over a year ago

Hertfordshire

Human centipede has scarred my innocent soul

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Almost forgot, Misery. My ankles twitch just thinking about that film

Cringed at the thought of Kathy Bates swinging (a sledge hammer) when I read this!

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By *G LanaTV/TS
over a year ago

Gosport

Mississippi burning and The killing fields for the horrors that mankind can do to each other and Ring of bright water for just being too sad.

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