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Post by ijon on Jan 3, 2006 18:58:19 GMT -5
One reason I love MST so much is that growing up in the '60s those movies were a staple of my programming day. But there was always the risk of a "chicken-heart" moment, like the one Crow has in Being from Another Planet.
Anyway, have you ever as an adult recognized something that terrified you as a kid? It can be fun to see what used to push your buttons back then. Three come to my mind:
The alien hand attacks in Invasion of the Saucer Men. For years I had thought that it had actually been Attack of the the Eye Creatures, it was a relief to find I was wrong!
Robert Culp's psychotic moment in the Outer Limits ep The Architects of Fear. I quite like this one, even if the final reveal of the creature shows just how far effects have come.
The Andromeda Strain. THAT kept me awake at night for the longest time.
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Post by Crowfan on Jan 3, 2006 19:41:27 GMT -5
When I was about 12, I rented the original "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" I didn't sleep for a week. Another movie that scared me was "Psycho" and the first Halloween. I also remember seeing "When a Stranger Calls" about a babysitter terrorized by a maniac in the theater as me and a friend had snuck in to check it out.
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Post by Chuck on Jan 3, 2006 19:45:46 GMT -5
I originally saw Mario Bava's Black Sunday in the theater. THAT one stuck with me for years!
The original version of The Haunting in the theater was also very, very creepy.
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Post by Emperor Cupcake on Jan 3, 2006 19:55:56 GMT -5
I think the first movies I saw that really scared me (and keep in mind I was really young at the time) were Amityville Horror and My Bloody Valentine. (Yes, my parents let me watch slasher movies when I was little. And I turned out JUST FINE.) I've seen them again recently and I can't believe how cheesy and un-scary they are. But then, when I was little, the bubbling cauldron noise at the beginning of "The Monster Mash" used to scare the living crap out of me, for some reason I still don't understand.
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Post by Chuck on Jan 3, 2006 20:13:32 GMT -5
But then, when I was little, the bubbling cauldron noise at the beginning of "The Monster Mash" used to scare the living crap out of me, for some reason I still don't understand. Fear of cooking. Nothing to worry about. Very common. |
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Post by Crowfan on Jan 3, 2006 20:19:12 GMT -5
I think the first movies I saw that really scared me (and keep in mind I was really young at the time) were Amityville Horror and My Bloody Valentine. (Yes, my parents let me watch slasher movies when I was little. And I turned out JUST FINE.) I've seen them again recently and I can't believe how cheesy and un-scary they are. But then, when I was little, the bubbling cauldron noise at the beginning of "The Monster Mash" used to scare the living crap out of me, for some reason I still don't understand. That is so cool. My parents did too, I thought I was the only one whose parents let them see slasher movies, becuase our neighbors always said it was terrible of my parents to take me. I think I turned out okay, too. And I forgot about "My Bloody Valentine" that one was pretty scary. |
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Post by goflyers on Jan 3, 2006 21:06:25 GMT -5
I've yet to revisit Star Trek: First Contact. Damn movie kept me away from trek for 7 years.
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Post by ijon on Jan 3, 2006 21:36:35 GMT -5
Ya ain't missing a thing, based on the glimpses I've caught.
Whoa! Just noticed I've made Toblerone! Still . . . I fail to see . . . why . . . in life . . . we create . . . artificial distinctions . . . between ourselves . . . .
Borromel, the gentle but thorough philosopher.
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Post by mummifiedstalin on Jan 4, 2006 8:52:19 GMT -5
Whoa! Just noticed I've made Toblerone! Still . . . I fail to see . . . why . . . in life . . . we create . . . artificial distinctions . . . between ourselves . . . . Because some of us our better (more valuable, have more worth, are simply better people) than others. As for the movies, I was terrified (and fascinated) by an old Disney movie called Watcher in the Woods. I still think it's pretty creepy at times. (I credit it with my continuing fear of mirrors), but I can remember being put off by the inevitable cheeziness when I watched it decades later. Parts of it, particularly some of the otherworldly imagery, are still pretty spooky to me. |
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Post by Da Worm Fizzle on Jan 4, 2006 14:18:58 GMT -5
Toxic Avenger grossed me out when I was a kid and I didn't want to watch it for years.
Candyman freaked me the hell out when I was young.
Any zombie movies, (I still have an unnatural fear of them, Star Trek: First Contact is just an outerspace zombie flick)
and the scene in the original Canterbury Ghost, (is that the right name?) where they wall the guy up in the beginning. For years I was scared of being in rooms with closed doors to find that when I opened them I'd be walled in and die a slow, painful death.
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Post by Mr. Atari on Jan 4, 2006 16:00:21 GMT -5
I've yet to revisit Star Trek: First Contact. Damn movie kept me away from trek for 7 years. Did it scare you? Or did you just not like it? Many Trekkies think it's the best of the films. I remember being terrified by an old Oscar the Grouch song called "Mushy Muddy" on Sesame Street when I was 4. They had these witch puppets singing backups (a la the Supremes). Scared the hell out of me. |
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Post by ijon on Jan 4, 2006 18:45:40 GMT -5
Whoa! Just noticed I've made Toblerone! Still . . . I fail to see . . . why . . . in life . . . we create . . . artificial distinctions . . . between ourselves . . . . Because some of us our better (more valuable, have more worth, are simply better people) than others. better, Uncle Joe, some of us is better . . . That's the charm of revisiting these things, seeing just how cheesy some of those moments of terror really were. I remember as a kid even finding King Ghidora just the tee-ninsiest bit scary. |
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Post by mummifiedstalin on Jan 4, 2006 20:04:25 GMT -5
Because some of us our better (more valuable, have more worth, are simply better people) than others. better, Uncle Joe, some of us is better . . . That's the charm of revisiting these things, seeing just how cheesy some of those moments of terror really were. I remember as a kid even finding King Ghidora just the tee-ninsiest bit scary. Some can be a singular OR plural indefinite pronoun. Thus the conjugation depends on context. I was hoping to imply that there were many better than others. Thus... |
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Post by ijon on Jan 4, 2006 21:51:46 GMT -5
[chuckles]
Is that an OR or an XOR?
Either way, I'm XORcised.
[groans]
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Post by Melting Manos on Jan 5, 2006 11:42:40 GMT -5
I didn't get scared of too many movies as a kid, but interestingly enough the one that did was An American Werewolf In London. Watching this one for the first time as an adult a few years back was an eye opener. It's a friggin' comedy! I laughed many times throughout the film and couldn't believe this one actually scared the crap out of me. Granted I was only about seven years old at the time, but whenever this subject comes up I always have to bring that film up.
Having said all of that, I think for its age the film holds up really well and I watch it at least once or twice a year. By the way I won't even go near that sham of a sequel they made. I watched about five minutes of it one time and ended up shaking my head in disgust and turning it off. There's a reason you'll find that one for about $5 in the bargain bins!
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