Just really got to me. It was stretching my nerves TIGHT. Couldn’t deal with it

The Ring scared the bejeezus out of me. Slept with a light on for three days after that. I was forty something when I saw it

When a Stranger Calls had me checking behind curtains and in closets for months

I don’t watch scary movies anymore

I love horror but that one got under my skin.

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson.

It was the first version of the movie. I was OK with it, but right before the ending my date got up and ran out of the theater. I didn't see the ending of that movie until years later. I had to get up and go after her. I wanted to stay and finish the movie, but I decided I would eventually see it again.

eyes. Thank you very muchiscooterliberally.

1) The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) directed by Tobe Hooper

2) Midnight showing of the Night of the Living Dead,

3) Dawn of the Dead

4) The Exorcist

as it was filmed in the Pittsburgh area. The Exorcist, I had read previously to seeing the movie. But the movie scared me more than the book

I know that extras in the movie Dawn of the Dead (1978) were basically given T-Shirts in lieu of pay, so how much did George A Romero pay his zombies in his original Night of the Living Dead (1968) with a substantially lower budget.

"The Walking Dead: Dead City" has been filming in Massachusetts, and the production team is seeking extras to portray various roles, including zombies, soldiers, and post-apocalyptic survivors.

It's pretty cool but I'm too busy working.

... to someone with her! 😦

I spent most of it in the theatre lobby, while my friends stayed in the theatre.
I flat out refuse to watch horror movies- I have a vivid enough imagination, I don't need to see it splashed across a screen!

When I was about 5 years old I went with my folks to the Base theater and there was a movie on called "Tarantula". My little self took one look at the giant spider and started screaming. I wouldn't stop screaming. My folks had to snatch me up and get me out of there. I wound up with a bad case of arachnophobia that I have been trying to do something about for years now. I have finally got to the point where I can look at a picture of a spider without freaking out, just get a tad nervous, and am actually getting comfortable with the little jumping spiders - took me over 60 years to reach this point. Talk about a long-lived reaction!

Hi Dorothy! so nice to see your smiling words lol

One of the guys I worked with at the time The Exorcist came and he told me this story. He and his brother were sharing an apartment and they took their 15-year old brother to see the movie at a late showing. After the movie, they called their mother and told her their brother was going to stay at their apartment instead getting home late. While their 15-year old brother was asleep, they crept into the bedroom went on opposite sides of the bed. Then, they picked up the bed and started shaking it violently causing their younger brother to wake up screaming. The guy said it took them awhile to calm their younger brother down but that it was funny.

I didn't walk out of any of these but still scary to me and my girlfriend

Probably the biggest freak-out I ever had at the movies.

The tension was thick with the run, escape, hide actions.

modern movie. A theme in the movie was that these giant machines would sweep people up and then a moment later it would spew an iron red mist exhaust.

you want to friends"!!!

I had a date to see it, I had actually seen it the previous week. She made it till the scene where Linda’s head went all the way around. Well, we had to leave then, went back to where my date was staying. She went to turn on the TV and I heard her scream. The TV had come on to an Exorcist ad, the scene where Linda’s head turned all the way round!

am glad you were a gentleman and left with your date. It was a very intense movie.

Scary, in a way, to me… and deeply appalling. (Shudder…)

Night of the Living Dead. I was pregnant and it just made me sick.

to stop them and finally in the end, they simply shot them? Couldn't they have done that in the first five minutes?

The humans in the house are trying to stay alive until dawn, and after the sun rises and they know they are safe, they walk out the front door and THEY are shot

Ugh

LOL! I guess I don't remember that one very well at all.



Who shot the people who walked outside? Were the zombies armed?

It was the zombie hunters. Supposedly the good guys.

Awful ending.

shot by the sheriffs who thought he was a ghoul. This is in the original film which I have seen at least 5 times. I have never watched any of the subsequent ones.

Zombie in the film. I have only seen it once. and for the life of me, I could not identify myself. It was filmed in the Pittsburgh area

You were a zombie in Night of the Living Dead????!!!!????

I think there needs to be a thread about this.

at the Monroeville Mall.Anyone that wanted to be a zombie came in dressed like a zombie and was in the film.

I graduated from Edinboro, with a lot of Pittsburgh students.

Having been raised semi-Catholic (my mother was agnostic, but my grandmother took me to Mass), that movie scared the bejeezus out of me. That was when it first came out.

I never watched it again but I've often wondered if it would affect me the same way all these years later. Would the special effects be laughable to me now? I don’t think I'll ever know because I'm still reluctant to find out!

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again.It scared me more then the book.

Critics raved about it, but never mentioned that it was saturated with a brand of depravity that not everyone would find entertaining.

It was required for a film class... It was too triggering...

That night, maybe a couple of nights, chairs had to be pushed next to our parents' bed for me to sleep on. Later on, Mother and I had a thing going for the Twilight Zone and I would be on the floor next to her in her chair, pressed together and both of us occasionally screaming and jumping.

The Shining a couple of times, but The Exorcist only in pieces years after it was in theaters, nothing more of that genre that I think of. Heard about Chainsaw Massacre but wouldn't think of seeing that. Oh, Silence of the Lambs once.

The non-violent parts of The Shining and Twilight Zone were chilling - where NICHOLSON as an "author" was typing and typing away at his book, a yard high stack of typed pages, and it's revealed all it all was was "All work and no play..." . And the Zone where a farm type old woman alone on a vast prairie was harassed by tiny astronauts and it's revealed in closeup of the space ship, "United States of America."

Years afterward, when I learned who James WHITMORE and James ARNESS were, I never made the connection they were in Them.

The ant sound!

Twilight Zone. I remember the episode of the astronauts. The older woman played Granny in the Beverly Hillbillies. I was shocked as I thought the spacemen were the bad guys. then they show the space ship and it had the USA on it. The old woman was a giant. I never watched it again as it was twist to one's expectations.

Didn't scare me too much.

Just too absurd….
Peace ☮️

I only saw it the one time.

and I was going to see the movie but after watching the review of 'The Keep' by Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel, I changed my mind.

Dana Andrews

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I was only 5 when it was released. Not sure how old I was when I saw it, but...



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Ps - I treat my mind like a drain, I do not pollute it with ugly stuff lest it become a sewer. (Not judging anyone else's choices.)

put it in our mind that it did. That was the only time I saw it.

Went with a few friends ( acutally me and the others were siblings from a catholic family- late teens to early twenties) and I had no idea really what the movie was about. It was a total freakout. One friend had to leave.

After it was over we went back to the families household. All freaked out. Their mother was a real gounded person that we all spent hours in the past until late a night just talking and visiting. We started to pour our scared guts out to her.

After that we got the final "nail-in-the coffin scare". She said " Oh yeah. These things really happen." And she went over her Catholic history of exorcisms. And she wasn't joking.

the fire scene.
however some ot the movies that were to be scarry, were very funny to me. didnt care for the hack and slash and revenge movies.

Not because it was scary, but because it was stupid.

Halloween Saturday 1963 and I was 6.

Mom dropped me off at the movies ALONE. She had no clue what the movie was about.

I’m sitting in the dark and my eyes widen at the end when an axe splits the head of a doll that truly looked lifelike. I thought I just witnessed the murder of a child.

You decide. The very end.
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Parents took my 5-year-older sister and me to see it one Sunday afternoon. I was maybe 10. It horrified me and I got nauseous. My father took me out to the lobby and spent the rest of the movie there with me while my mother and sister watched to the end.

I felt badly for my father, but it wasn't a time to leave me alone. I've never watched it to this day.

The Exorcist and the Omen movies didn't hit me as hard, and I can watch those. They also had plots, and I like looking at Jason Miller.

I cannot watch or read Stephen King or other horror movies. I read the news a lot, and what's going on this country and the world is all the horror that I can stand.

"The Devils of Loudun" by Aldous Huxley. It's about a convent of nuns in the mid 17th century who become convinced they've been possessed by devils.

It turns out that the man I later married also walked out on that movie.

I was only a little kid at the time.

I'm not sure whatever possessed me to go see this?!! 😵‍💫😵‍💫 😄

I do like Will Smith, and I guess bc it was set in NYC (I'm an NY'r)....
I never watch Zombie films/shows!!

Ugh, the "sunset scene"!!!! Those who've seen it, know what I'm talking about.
The excruciating tension!
I've never been as totally freaked out by a film as that one! Gah!

Took me years to get over a a few! I was watching it at ?10 - 11 yrs old.

Just thought of another move - don't remember the name - aliens had built secret tunnels in a desert-y part of The USA, and people were getting sacked down into the sand! Early 1960's.

Not a horror film in the current usage but that’s what it was for me.
My parents were in a slave labor camp in Germany during WWII. I was born in a displaced persons camp. I heard some of their stories.
I did not expect the movie to affect me so much but, about half way through the film I could not take any more of the horror of this man’s life and had to get out of the theater as quickly as possible. I had the same emotional response when I visited Yad Vashem many years later. Couldn’t wait to push my way to the exit as quickly as possible and breathe.

I don’t believe in ghosts, goblins, evil powers, vampires etc. Entertainment, but not scary. I can’t suspend disbelief.

Not a fan of gratuitous blood fests, even if based on reality.

Real horror to me: movies about the atrocities committed by the Nazis, etc. Or on actual murder cases. Real people, real horror.

The original silent film.

It still frightens me. And I definitely won't see the remakes.

It's not vampires in general--I'm a fan of Buffy. But this particular film creeps me out.

Watch it if you dare!

I watched it with a friend before we were to go camping at a PA State Park near Latrobe (we were going to watch the Steelers practice at training camp). I almost didn't go because of it.

It was a long time ago!

My parents were out of town when I was 16 and I was home alone. We lived out in the boondocks, closest neighbor at least a mile through the woods.

Rented that movie and it was terrifying. I don't think I slept at all that night.

Robert De Niro .I don't like slasher blood and gore movies. Thriller and suspense is my style.

Like all his movies...

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I couldn’t walk out because we watched it at a drive-in movie. I was a captive audience and it was dark. Popcorn didn’t help 🥺😱

stalked. I didn't know how bad it was. That would take years. I didn't know what the movie was about. I lasted less than 10 minutes until i got the concept and I told my friend I had to go.

This is only a small fraction of my horror movie collection. I couldn't fit them all into the photo.



Yes, I'm old school with the DVD's. 👻😈🧛🏼‍♂️

Not including the old classics

The Exorcist (1973) (Directed by William Friedkin)
Night of the Living Dead (1968) (George A Romero)
Dawn of the Dead (1979) (George A Romero)
Dawn of the Dead (2004)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) (Directed by Toby Hooper)
The Shining (1980) (Directed by Stanley Kubrick)
Alien (1979) (Ridley Scott)
Aliens (1986) (Directed by James Cameron)
Halloween (1978) (The Original John Carpenter Version)
Friday the 13th (1980) (Sean Cunningham)
Jeepers Creepers (2001)
The Lost Boys (1987)
Return of the Living Dead (1985) (Directed by Dan O’Bannon)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) (Directed by Wes Craven)
Predator (The only horror movie to star two future governors Jesse Ventura & Arnold)
An American Werewolf in London (1979) (Directed by John Landis)
Jaws (1975) (Steven Spielberg)
Scanners (1980) (David Cronenberg)
The Fly (David Cronenberg version)
The Amityville Horror (1979) (Starring Margot “Where’s Superman When You Need him” Kidder)
Rosemary's Baby (Directed by child molester and former husband of actress Sharon Tate - Roman Polanski)
Child's Play (1988)
Evil Dead II (1987) (Directed by Sam Raimi)
Phantasm (1979)
Candyman (1987) (Written by Clive Barker)
The Hills have Eyes (the remake)
Near Dark (Directed by Kathryn Bigelow)
Hellraiser (1987) (Clive Barker)