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Brave Little Toaster. When the air conditioner is freaking out, screaming, right before he burns out... That scared the crap outta me.

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For me, it's definitely still the original Wonka movie. The little people frightened me then, and they were also very frightening in the Wizard of Oz when I watched it. I was young, they were my size, but they had green hair and junk.

I can't force myself to watch them again. They were scarier to me than most horror movies I've since watched.

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When I was a kid - I don't remember exactly how old, but I was younger than 8 - my dad made me watch "House of Usher" (Vincent Price) with him. I had nightmares for weeks afterwards. For years, I refused to watch it again, but when I finally did, I couldn't figure out what I thought was so scary about it. (Maybe the crazy, supposed-to-be-dead chick that got buried alive and scratched her way out to kill her brother???)

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I watched a lot of horror movies when I was little (my favorite movie of all time was JAWS so Adrian Brody confuses me-maybe it scared him cuz his last name is Brody?)
Psycho made it tough to take showers
Halloween (I think) had a scene where he turns the water to scalding hot while the girl's taking a bath, then drowns her in it (so baths and showers scared me for awhile)
Nightmare on Elm St. made sleeping difficult
Poltergeist made me not watch tv for a couple weeks or ever look under my bed
But the one that freaks me out To This Day, 24 years after I saw it in the theater is...E.T.
Just typing in those letters makes me sick. My kids love it, and make fun of me when I shriek and run out of their room with my hands over my ears if I walk in and they're watching it. They're 7 and 3 and tease me about it all the time.
If anyone else out there is petrified of E.T. please let me know so my kids don't think Mommy's crazy! Lol

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Beyond the Valley of the Dolls had a scene where a tied up man was beheaded and his head rolls around and his body lays there jerking. It was too much!!

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I do not remember the exact movie, however I do remember that a cat jumped on a baby in a cradle and sucked out its breath. Even now 20 or 30 years later I still cannot have a cat in a room where I am sleeping.

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The Exorcist

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I saw a lot of science fiction and horror as a kid. The original version of Invasion Of The Body Snatchers was always a creepy movie to me, but the one that gave me nightmares for years was the Japanese version of The Blob. Does anyone else remember ever seeing The H-Men?

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When I was about 10 yrs old, my older brother had me watch 'Pscho' with him. He had seen it before and knew the exact moments to scare the crap out of me! Of course that made it a very scary movie for me!

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"Jaws" freaked me out as a youngster watching it for the first time at the theater. Then it freaked me out again a few weeks later when I saw it again. For years after, there were a few scenes I just could not look at when I happened to watch the movie on tv.

"Funhouse" - I'm not sure when this came out, but I believe it was the early 1980's. This film had a bunch of teenagers locked in a funhouse overnight, where they witness a freaky drooling guy in a mask commit a murder. The "creatures" father discovers the kids and all hell breaks loose. Funhouses were always scary to me anyway; add a drooling, murdering psycho and you have the perfect scare fest.

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I got scared watching Friday the 13th. But I still love that day.

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I remember Jaws and thinking sharks were that mean and would swallow me as a teen ager.

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Did the guy writing this article have to bring up "The Red Balloon"? I watched that as a kid, and to this day I am still scared of both red balloons and balloons floating through the air. *Shudder*

No one here has mentioned the terrifying movie "It". My brother forced me to watch it when I was way too young, like 7, and I have hated clowns ever since. People tease me about it all the time, and it's not funny. Clowns are evil and scary.

I also hate "The Wizard of Oz". Everything about that movie freaks me out: The witch, the tornado, the flying monkeys, the scary trees, and the poppies that make you fall asleep.

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I always thought it was weird that the Oompa Loompas all looked like Ted Kennedy.

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I was a grown man, but "Psycho" scared the living hell out of me and made me apprehensive of showers for a long time.

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The Exorcist by far was the scariest movie.I was about 16yrs.old & made the mistake of getting high with my friends.We were buggin out.

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It was "Cat's Eye" about the cat that sucked the baby's breath out,that was one freaky movie. I had older brothers that made me watch movies in the dark with them and I would get hit if I reached for a light. We watched alot of movies too.
Here is my list:
1."Carnival Of Souls" about dead people and mannequins, 2 things that still scare me.B&W.
2. "The Innocents" A governess accepts a job at a home in the English countryside for two possessed children and the ghosts who possessed them.B&W.
3. "The Haunting of Hill House" the original B&W.
4. "The Other" about twins one evil, one good, one alive, one dead.Set in the 1940's Connecticut where tragedy abounds.Color.
5. "Let's kill Uncle" B&W? not sure,but there was something about a pool and murderous children.
6."The Exorcist" 3 a.m. in the dark and Linda Blair's twisted face.Too much color.
7."The Changeling" with George C. Scott, still gives me the creeps especially whenthe ball comes bouncing down the stairs still wet from him throwing it into the water miles away.Color.
8."The Omen" the photographer and the photos actually was the creepiest thing to me.Color.
9. "Them" about mutant ants.B&W.
10."War of the Worlds" original B&W.
11."The Blob" Steve McQueen fights off a creature that invades his hometown.Color.
12. There is one that I don't know the name. There is a house where a family moves in and things start happening. There is a huge hex sign on the floor of the kids playroom. Weird things in the jars in the kitchen and red eyes floating in the dark.
Well I must stop here, I could go on &on!

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The Twilight Zone. A man is traveling on a plane. He's feeling feverish. Its stormy. Looking out the window, through the rain he thinks he sees something tearing the wing apart. Because he doubts his perception he pulls down the window cover to counteract his fear. His curiosity gets the better of him and he quickly lifts the window cover. The face of a gremlin is pressed against the outside of the window. Sudden shock! I still feel a little residual when I think of it 40 years later.

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The Creature from the Black Lagoon. I was 11 and petrified. Also, there was The House of Wax. I was ten and my Aunt had just died with me alone in the room with her. The star looked like her.

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Also - remember the cult film when they cut the eyeball (it was really a cow's eyeball) on screen with a razor??? I had to walk out of my film class on that one!

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