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At least one nightmare, right here. It was the melting one that really got to me.
I remember asking a lot of adults if heads could really explode that way before I finally accepted their reassurances that they did not(without good reason at least).
edit-Thinking back on it...man...a lot of ostensibly kid-friendly movies made in the 80's sure were loaded with nightmare fuel.
That one didn't bother me as a kid. Terminator did though - especially the scene where he's all defleshed and he's stalking down the hall (towards the end of the movie).
I was pretty awestruck and shivered, but it didn't give me any nightmares.
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Only movie to ever give me nightmares was Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978).
I was surprised there was such gore in a PG film. I thought I was watching reanimator or something. People's faces melting. Belloq's face explodes like something out of scanners. PG?
IIRC, they actually had to superimpose the fire over Belloq's head in order to keep it PG.
As if that made it any better. "Oh hey, now it looks like his head is exploding IN THE FIRES OF HELL."
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The melting got me more than the exploding.
I do remember thinking, "Wow, that's harsh, even for Nazis"
As to Terminator, I was proud of myself with 1 and 2. In both cases I realzied the Terminator wasn't 'dead' before the movie showed it. +1 for paying attention! :-)
the 80's films didn't bother me too much but when you watch the original walking tall starring joe don bakker and you see him and his wife get shot up in a drive by, the car flip over and when he crawls from the wreckage he checks on his unmoving wife and the film shows her skull split open and you can see her brain that freaked me a little. I think I was like 4 or 5.
Nah, that never bothered me.
However, when younger me caught the re-runs of the original Jonny Quest, the "The Invisible Monster" episode really freaked me out.
Alien didn't give people nightmares? I couldn't get anything out of my attic storage that year without scanning the rafters constantly for a hiding alien.
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The only movie that ever freaked me out was some horrible D-grade movie where one of the characters falls into a pool of blood and maggots. Having had to clean out a few abandoned houses as a youngster and seen more than my fair share of them, I'm deathly creeped out by maggots.
That being said, I'm not sure if I've ever had a nightmare, from a movie or anything else. Invulnerable dream-self me is not prone to getting scared, I guess. :)
I am overly sensitive to movies where people get embarassed 'though, and there are points during some movies (such as American Pie 2, where the main character is up on the roof with his hand glued down his pants trying to get the policemen not to shoot him) where I have to get up and leave the room.
Murder, monsters and mayhem are fine, but the inevitable romantic comedy scene where the character makes a complete blithering idiot of himself in front of the girl he's trying to woo? That's my kryptonite.
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Though Invasion of the Body Snatchers is the only movie to give me nightmares, there is something that came out recently that freaks me out, though no nightmares, The Episode 'Blink' From Series 3 of the new Doctor Who. Those Angel Statues just freak me out! If I sit there and think about that episode I get the shivers, I am getting the shivers right now talking about it.
For some reason on first viewing Poltergeist sort off freaked me out.
The only movie that ever really scared me while I was growing up was the Excorcist.
A Dr Who episode I watched as a kid where some deformed mutated man hiding under a victorian bed tries to reach the girl sleeping... He fails and keeps crawling up.
That creeped me out though now I have no idea which episode it was.
No nightmares from RotLA though. Temple of Doom was worse in my opinion (the banquet, human sacrifice) but didn't give me nightmares either...
Raiders of the Lost Ark never gave me anywhere near the willies that Alien and The Thing (John Carpenter's version) did. I had trouble sleeping after watching them on cable as a young teenager (way back in the early '80s). The slasher films (Friday the 13th, Holloween, Nightmare on Elm Street, etc.) never really got to me on a gut level the way those two movies did, either.
I think the only other movie that's affected me on a similar gut level is Saving Private Ryan (the Normandy landing at the beginning). Not with the same emotional reaction, but very profoundly.
At least one nightmare, right here. It was the melting one that really got to me.
I remember asking a lot of adults if heads could really explode that way before I finally accepted their reassurances that they did not(without good reason at least).
edit-Thinking back on it...man...a lot of ostensibly kid-friendly movies made in the 80's sure were loaded with nightmare fuel.
That didn't freak me out. Todt was extremely creepy, but I guess the claymation wasn't scary to me. I cried in the theatre when I saw Temple of Doom, though (the scene when Molaram is ripping Indy's heart out). Kind of intense for a 7 year old.
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For some reason on first viewing Poltergeist sort off freaked me out.
There were a lot of scenes in Poltergeist that were disturbing for a kid to watch.
I remember that the evil clown and the scene where the guy goes into the bathroom and starts peeling his own face off were particularly frightening (for me at least).
I also remember being disturbed by some of the humor in Time Bandits. The boy's parents laughing at people dying on a gameshow. Robin Hood's men killing the poor and taking the gold back. The family that gets stepped on by the giant (when you can hear a baby crying in the house), Evil casually causing his followers to messily explode, and the boy's parents dying at the end when they touch the bit-of-Evil in the toaster.
It doesn't bother me now. I "get it" now - but when I was a kid...
EDIT: oh yeah, and in Beastmaster when Dar frees the little boy from the cage, and then the bird people digest him. *Urp*
I am overly sensitive to movies where people get embarassed 'though, and there are points during some movies (such as American Pie 2, where the main character is up on the roof with his hand glued down his pants trying to get the policemen not to shoot him) where I have to get up and leave the room.Murder, monsters and mayhem are fine, but the inevitable romantic comedy scene where the character makes a complete blithering idiot of himself in front of the girl he's trying to woo? That's my kryptonite.
My feelings exactly, I can´t stand these scenes as well. IMO, this is a sign of immaturity on the authors part if they have to resort to this kind of plot device, trying to provoke malicious joy or Schadenfreude. It is quite lowbrow humor IMO.
There is even a German word for this: Fremdschämen, meaning to be embarassed for somebody elses behaviour. I guess it has something to do with ones sense of dignity, which is then projected to somebody else, or perhaps you unwillingly feel like you are in the same situation.
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Nah, that never bothered me.
However, when younger me caught the re-runs of the original Jonny Quest, the "The Invisible Monster" episode really freaked me out.
Movies didn't really get me either. I may have been a little sheltered, or I'm just a little older than most of you and could process it a little better.
Like Jonny Quest, there were a few cartoons that actually got me. Probably, since they were cartoons, my parents felt that they were "kid-friendly" or "safe".
The one that I still remember are a few episodes from Speed Racer. Namely "The Mammoth Car" and "The Race For Revenge". I actually now have some Speed Racer on DVD and the sounds that the Mammoth Car makes and the voice (which I still can't understand) from the X-3 robot still sends chills down my spine.
...when younger me caught the re-runs of the original Jonny Quest, the "The Invisible Monster" episode really freaked me out.+1
Saw that one first time round, and it freaked me out too.
Same here on the original. The spider-eye monster did too.
I had to leave the theater during Alien. Couldn't stand it when she went back for the cat.
The worst for me was Halloween. I saw it in the fall during college at a midnight showing in a town that looked very much like the one in the movie. Not only did I have to walk home afterwards, I lived alone in an apartment. For months, I kept the closets open and pushed doors all the way back against the wall before I'd enter a room. It was awful.
Yeah the melting got me pretty good. But I shall never be as traumatized as I was when I saw gremlins-- I slept in my parent's room for like a year, and I was still afraid they would roll out and leave me a pile of bones hahaha.
Also I hated pools because I thought they would close over and release sharks - James Bond!
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It's interesting to see what did and didn't scare whom and how they don't match up at all with the next person.
I can't remember having any trouble with Temple of Doom, though Raiders may have prepared me in that regard. Well...I did get bothered a bit by the guy getting conveyer belt'd...
Also I hated pools because I thought they would close over and release sharks - James Bond!
I hated toilets for a week because of another movie and I never even watched the damn thing. I just saw the tape at the video rental place.
For the original sequence?
1/1d6 SAN loss, failed check.
Don't remember any nightmares though.
I was a scaredy cat as a kid, so yeah, that scene had me crying for a while. So did gremlins, ghostbusters, and a lot of other movies I can't get enough of now. For some reason the darkness of The Black Hole left me shaking and crying a lot as a kid. I honestly don't know why. However, the one movie that I still can't watch today is The Dark Crystal. Those guys freaked me the hell out and still do- they just look so human-yet-inhuman I can't deal.
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I was a scaredy cat as a kid, so yeah, that scene had me crying for a while. So did gremlins, ghostbusters, and a lot of other movies I can't get enough of now. For some reason the darkness of The Black Hole left me shaking and crying a lot as a kid. I honestly don't know why. However, the one movie that I still can't watch today is The Dark Crystal. Those guys freaked me the hell out and still do- they just look so human-yet-inhuman I can't deal.
The Black Hole was great. The part that always freaked me out as a kid was when Maximillian killed Anthony Perkins' character with his cuisinarte hand.
The Dark Crystal never bothered me, I especially loved the Trial By Stone and the scene where the Mystics all harmonize.
I was a scaredy cat as a kid, so yeah, that scene had me crying for a while. So did gremlins, ghostbusters, and a lot of other movies I can't get enough of now. For some reason the darkness of The Black Hole left me shaking and crying a lot as a kid. I honestly don't know why. However, the one movie that I still can't watch today is The Dark Crystal. Those guys freaked me the hell out and still do- they just look so human-yet-inhuman I can't deal.The Black Hole was great. The part that always freaked me out as a kid was when Maximillian killed Anthony Perkins' character with his cuisinarte hand.
The Dark Crystal never bothered me, I especially loved the Trial By Stone and the scene where the Mystics all harmonize.
The more I think about it, the more I think it has something to do with the animatronics- the robots from that movie freaked me out too.
As a small child the ending of Raiders freaked me out as well. My parents loved it and said they wanted to see it again a week later and I was like no way.
The clown doll in Poltergeist was also terrifying when I saw it.
Also some horror movie about little tiny people who lived in a fireplace and dragged this woman down into it and she became one of them. I think it was called Afraid of the Dark or something.
Of all the silly movies...Large Marge from Pee-Wee's Big Adventure scared me terribly. As an adult it still creeps the hell out of me.
And yes I get embarrased for other people to and hate it. Ben Stiller alwasy seems to play a really nice guy who has horrible things happen to him. Something About Mary, Meet the Parents, Along Came Polly. He plays the same guy and I cant watch them.
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Fifteen years ago, I was teaching middle school, and started an after-school role-playing club. One game was finished, and we were discussing what new game to play. I mentioned the Star Wars RPG. Everybody was against it.
I was baffled.
When they explained, they all mentioned the scene in "Empire" when Vader cuts off Luke's hand. It had given them *all* nightmares as kids, and they never embraced the SW setting as a result.
Legend (you know the one with Tim Curry as the Devil). When they cut off the unicorn's horn, I was in tears and had nightmares about it. I was six or seven at the time.
I was laughing so hard, I almost got thrown out of the theatre.
Of course, I thought (and still think) 'The Exorcist' is the funniest movie ever made.
I don't remember being scarred by RotLA, but the thing that totally freaked me out as a kid was the "space vampire" episode of the old Buck Rogers tv show. I actually checked out some clips from the episode on youtube a few months back and it still got to me after all this time.
I do also have a vague recollection of having nightmares from some movie with an evil clown murdering people on a runaway train, but I'm not sure if that's a real memory or not...
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I do also have a vague recollection of having nightmares from some movie with an evil clown murdering people on a runaway train, but I'm not sure if that's a real memory or not...
No that was real. Sorry. I was having a bad day and my clown-car wouldn't start, so I had to take the train into work...
Legend (you know the one with Tim Curry as the Devil). When they cut off the unicorn's horn, I was in tears and had nightmares about it. I was six or seven at the time.
Ugh, no nightmares, but Legend and The Last Unicorn both had me crying as a kid.
The Land Before Time. **** you sharptooth.