seraphcelene | you're going to need a bigger boat

I remember sneaking out of bed as a kid, hiding behind the living room couch and watching the movies my Mom was watching but wouldn't let ME watch. In retrospect, that wasn't such a good idea. I was scarred. Thank you, Bravo Channel, for reminding me.

100 Scariest Movie Moments recalled to me the fact that an 8-year old really shouldn't be watching the Jaws movies or The Shining, Exorcist or Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Exorcist, I think I was actually 12 and I remember my Mom warning me that I really didn't want to watch that, but I did it anyway. I remember that I was totally freaked out, I do not, however, actually remember the movie. Obviously, I have blocked it out. I've also blocked out most of The Shining. The unfortunate part? I was so young that now, at the grand old age of 29, I can't seem to get myself to re-watch these movies. I Freak Out at the thought.

I'm planning to give Exorcist a shot this weekend in honor of Halloween, an experiment. However, I can't promise NOT to get freaked out within the first ten minutes and turn the channel.

Yeah, I'm a punk. I know.

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See, we are the same age and I remember my mom letting me watch those movies and they didn't bother me. I was also alot younger, because for the most part my cousin would make me watch horror movies when I had the flu.

I would try to watch the Exorcist but every time I did I would fall asleep. I finally watched it on night and I was laughing, because it was so stupid. However my aunt woke up and freaked out. She saw the movie when it first came out and it scared her.

I am SO easily disturbed. See the the reason that I LOVE movies is the exact same reason why I am such a punk when it comes to scary and bloody movies. I have the most ridiculously over active imagination. My brothers watch these movies and their reaction is usually, damn that was some fucked up shit. My response is, okay, great, I'm going to have Thoughts all day and night. I Always have to watch a cartoon or a comedy right after a horror film if it's late and too close to bedtime. I just imagine all the awful things that happened happening in real life. It also doesn't help that I'm blind as a bat, so I see shadows and because I don't know what it is, my brain makes up all kinds of crazy interesting thing. My TV and nightstand, lately, have been a man standing against my bedroom wall. It sucks. I have to sleep with a nightlight just so I don't freak myself out when I wake up in the night.

I wish I had that I could do that. Watch something and just think oh, stupid. And laugh. But. Can't. Oh, Hellraiser was another one of those. I saw the second Hellraiser at a slumber party and I have been haunted by images of that MAN WITHOUT SKIN ever since.

I have to sleep with the light on too. However, it's because I'm a night person and I have to trick my body that the light is really daylight. Since my flat is always dark even during the day it's not a problem.

Sometimes I watch something lighter after a movie because it does lighten the mood. I have nightmares that would make the scariest movie look like a comdey.

*hugs*

I can't watch the first few moments of T1 or T2 (termantior movies) with the skull crushing part. For some reason it makes me feel sick.

Oh, Oh, Skull crushing, bone noises, squishy inside part sounds totally BUG ME OUT!! I always cover my ears right when something is about to get broken or pulled out. It makes my ankles hurt to listen.

*hugs* to you too. oh, scary movies!!!

Seriously, dude.

You wrote that thing about Darla. You know, the thing that gives me daymares and shit?

No I'm not going to elaborate. But you write a bunch of terrifying stuff and then you turn out to be a big weenie who can't watch scary movies, OMG.

Ha ha!

Well, when I was a kid, I was scarred for life by watching "The Wizard of Oz." The part where the house fell on a witch and her feet turned up at the tips and shriveled and pulled under the house? I had nightmares for weeks. I dreamed about witches chasing me and I couldn't run fast enough AAAAAAAAA -

You're so nuts, but in a cute way. ;)

I didn't see "Exorcist" (bad parts anyway) till I was grown up, and my reaction to it now is total irritation that they're *trying* to freak me out by being as gross and nasty as possible.

I saw "The Shining" as an adult too. I guess that was pretty creepy (I kept thinking how it wasn't like that in the book, but it was creepy). I haven't seen the others you mention, but pictures of Pinhead are scary enough!

I kinda tend to get annoyed rather than scared by most supernatural horror movies. I like the really spooky & subtle ones like "The Others," or the fun spoofs like "Sean of the Dead."

What really scares me so I won't watch them are movies about serial killers (non-supernatural stuff). Like "Se7en." Scariest movie I ever saw, and I wish I hadn't!

Hee! I can't believe you called me on that. What can I say, deep down I'm a big ole chicken with a wacky imagination.

I loved Wizard of Oz when I was a kid, although that whole witch melting, house falling thing is pretty dark but I don't think I realized that until I got much older. The flying monkeys are what got me, though! OH! Gosh, in the woods and then they scattered all the Scarecrow all over the forest floor. I hated those damn monkeys. Creepy! Creepy!!

Oh, and clowns. I hate clowns with those shoes and the perpetually smiling faces. Oh, no!

And just for the record, I don't think you can ever run fast enough from witches, it's the broomsticks, you know. *shudders*

See, I like ambiance, better than straight out horror. So, I loved The Others. My favorite scary movies are Poltergeist, Jaws and The Birds. Man, The Birds freaked me out and I was in my second year at uni the first time I saw it. I couldn't watch it by myself. Did you ever notice that there is NO MUSIC in that movie? The soundtrack is the sound the birds make. I went to UCSB and there were alot of gulls on campus because we were *right* on the ocean. Dude, every time I saw a huge flock of gulls I had to find an alternate route to get wherever I was going. I Did Not Trust Them, yo! No way. Birds will Kill you.

My mum never let me watch scary or violent movies when I was a kid (I remember her telling me that I could wait until I was older to watch The Terminator and that I'd appreciate it more when I was older anyway). The first violent movie she let me watch was when Aliens was showed on free-to-air TV. I think I was about 12 at the time.

My dad's girlfriend, on the other hand, tells me that her mother used to drag her to violent horror movies when she was little because her mother couldn't watch them alone.

My dad's girlfriend, on the other hand, tells me that her mother used to drag her to violent horror movies when she was little because her mother couldn't watch them alone. Dude, that's really really wrong. Really.

I agree so very much. And it explains why my dad's girlfriend never understands that in depth discussion of what she did that day in the burns unit isn't dinner table conversation.

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