Movies that Gave you Nightmares...

[Danustouch]

When you were a child, which movies gave you nightmares, if any?

The first time I watched "The Wizard of Oz" I had nightmares of the Wicked Witch.

I watched an old black and white version of Sherlock Holmes "The Hound of the Baskervilles", and had terrible nightmares afterwards, wound up coming down with a terrible fever that night. Always wondered if the two were connected somehow.

Clash of the Titans gave me nightmares,

And when I was ten, I insisted on watching a movie about Jack The Ripper coming back to modern times called "Bridge across Time", and oh MAN did that give me nightmares.

[MistOfTheSea86]

Holy crap that gave me bad dreams. So did Nightmare on Elm Street. And Psycho:D

[Dancin Girl]

The Wizard of OZ tops the list!! Those flyin monkeys scared the pee out of me... of course it didn't help that older sisters were hiding in the dark hallway with blankets over their shoulder waiting to pounce on me!!!

The Birds!! I still have an un natural fear of birds pecking me to death!!!

And, not the movie, but the book, The Stand gave me nightmares made me stay clear of anyone with a cold for a long time!!

[*Adia*]

I remember when my mom used to have meetings for her work, my dad, sister and I would rent really scary movies, only if I (being the yougnest of course) wouldn't say anything or go running to mommy if I was scared.

WELL, I remember this one in paticular. It was called Night of the Living Dead. (one of the numerous versions) At one point in the movie, this nasty...scary old monster is in the basement of the cottage, and it keeps trying to come up through the trap door. It finally gets its head up through the trap door and one of the men stomp on it. :bug: And the monster's eyes popped out, flew across the room and into the throat of some screaming girl.:sick:

That night trying to get to sleep, I woke up in the middle of the night seeing flying eyeballs going across my bedroom over my bed. Needless to say, I was screaming, mom came running in...and dad the evil eye, movie night at our house during mom's meetings just didn't happen again. :ugh:

That's my movie...:)

[Flaire-FireStar]

:huh: I don't really recall any movies that gave me nightmares... Then again, I didn't dream much way back when either. :p

[shnen]

CreepShow 2.
I thought everytime I had a shower that black ooze was going to come out of the drain and pull me back down it, like the lake one in the movie...
I could still probably freak myself out today if I tried!:eek:

[AradiaSupernova]

I don't know why, but no movies have ever really scared me that bad. lol. The Exorcist was boring (my Mom was so freaked when all 3 of us girls fell asleep during that movie "kids these days. so desensitized")

Let me try to think though......to my knowledge, no movies have ever given me a nightmare...except that one Ghost Busters movie where the pink goop comes out of the faucet and then tries to get Segorney(sp?)Weaver.

[Rubi Waters]

My brother made me watch the Blob(the original) when i was about 5... I still have a fear of big gooey things.

[Faery-Wings]

As a little kid- The WIzard of Oz too. THose damn monkeys again! :p

As a little bit older kid (8 or so)- The Omen. I still cannot skate on a pond, at all. *shudder* Even similar scenes in other movies gets my heart going.

Books- Steven King books (mostly Christine) that i would read while I was babysitting in a house that was haunted.

Chris

[Myst]

Any of the Poltergeist movies. Doctor Who used to give me nightmares too.

[tangerine]

Poltergeist and Amityville Horror. I live right near the house that the first Amityville Horror was filmed in and every time we drove by the house (every friggin' day! lol), I had to shut my eyes! I would always think that I would open them and there would be a red-eyed demon hanging onto the car window. :rolleyes: :eek:

[SimplyStrange]

Originally posted by MistOfTheSea86
[The exorcist] Holy crap that gave me bad dreams. So did Nightmare on Elm Street. And Psycho:D

HAHA! I KNEW you were going to say the Exorcist, Mist! I was there with you when you watched it! :p


As for me...

... E.T. ...


OH and Poltergiest (sp?)... and some movie my dad rented when I was like, 8 called "The Kindred" or something like that... some weird alien creature burst out of a watermelon and scared the bejesus outta' me...

And then there was the Book "The Hot Zone" that I read when I was in 8th grade... and on our way on a field trip to Washington DC some guy in the seat next to me like, coughed or sneezed on me (:crazy: :sick: :ugh: ) and I was afraid I'd get Ebola for like, a week...

[Lavender]

When I was about 8, I stayed up late to watch Frankenstein. Later, it was Birds. I still get goosebumps when I see birds hanging about on the telephone wires. *shudder*

[fey]

I don't really remember a particular movie when I was a kid, but I do remember that there used to be some show that came on (Friday Night Frights?? Or something like that), that used to scare the crap out of me. It had different scary stories each week. Now when I was a teenager, that's when all the "slice 'em, dice 'em" movies came out. Halloween, Friday the 13th, ect. Ugh

[flar7]

Gargoyles(dont know why this B movie did what it did, but it did!)
Exorcist(one of those movies I wish I had never seen)
Faces of Death(the first one, another should never have seen)
Poltergeist I
Godzilla(the corny japanese ones, again dont know why it did?)

oops, forgot Salem's Lot :eek:

[Athena-Nadine]

I've got too vivid an imagination to watch any horror movies. They can all still give me nightmares, though the one that probably scared me the worst when I was a kid has to be The Shining.

[Danustouch]

Anyone remember Ghoulies? Me and my brother conned my mom into renting it for us one night, by saying it was like Gremlins. It was anything BUT! lol. I remember even as a kid, thinking.."this is just disgusting".

[SimplyStrange]

:eek: GREMLINS!! :eek:

THAT movie scared me...

[Flar's Freyja]

Not very many, I like horror movies! But The Birds made an impact on me, I still think of it when I see hundreds of birds lined up on telephone wires........

[emaleth33]

The only one that gave me bad dreams was a movie called SSSSsss it was about a half man half snake and i dreamed i looked down at my hand and i was turning into a snake and there was a mongoose or whatever those animals are that attacks snakes and he was coming right at me that was scary. The exorcist scared me but i didnt have dreams about it. I havent seen a movie that scared me in a very long time now...
Emaleth33

[Twilight Garden]

I actually lived off of horror films. The Omen, Exorcist, Poltergeist; I loved anything that had to do with hauntings or the supernatural. The only thing that actually scared me was in Friday the 13, where the kid gets stabbed from under his bunkbed. I had bunkbeds and couldn't sleep on the bottom bunk for a week. I have no idea why I kept recalling that scene and not anything from any of the other movies I watched.

[Twilight Garden]

My mom was a horror movie freak. She took me and my fourth grade friends into a liquor store to show us the worm in a tequila bottle after watching one of the Poltergeist movies where the dad drinks the worm in his tequila. (Don't know why I felt like telling you all that...?)

[MagickHLHgurl]

Originally posted by tangerine
Poltergeist and Amityville Horror.

OH MY GODDESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I cant watch Poltergeist movies!!!!!! With My name being Caroline....which is close to Carol Anne....i think ya see where im going

[Raven_Stormsong]

lmao I am so glad I am not the only one that was freaked out by the Wizard of Oz, everyone picks on me for that lol. Didn't give me nightmares but was scary lol. The only movie I can recall that I had a nightmare from was The Cell. I had a dream that I was dreaming of a dream in my dream and it was all freaky like the movie, and when I woke up I was terrifed and didn't know if I was awake or not lol.

[Silvanesti]

OH MY GOD!!! THE SCARIEST, MEANIEST MOVIE OF ALL TIMES FOR ME WAS... IT... i have a real aversion to clowns, i remember that when i was like 3 year old I had a party with a clown and the bastard just kept scaring me to death... sniff... well thats it for now

[flar7]

how did you like the little clown doll in poltergeist?:eek:

[stormyray]

I think the movie was called goolies. The demon comming out of the toilet scare me to death. ( I was about 7 when I saw it) I wouln't go to the bathroom alone for months and kept waking up screaming about the toilet monsters:eek:

[Yvonne Belisle]

I can read about killers that are out there and not caught yet and not have a single nightmare but the old black and white horror movies terrify me. I can still see the shower scene from the original psycho and I was very small when I saw it. Or the old Hand. My Aunt used to watch them with me when I was really young and scare the wits out of me while I was sitting there watching. My own kids love horror I have shown them how to do many of the affects so they aren't scared by them. My 11 year old doesn't like most horror though and will have nightmares and my 4 year old can't watch Congo. He can watch lots of others though he loves most horror and watches stuff that makes me jump and he laughs about it! My daughter and eldest are the same way!

[Artemis84]

I got a couple bad dreams from the Twilight Zone episodes (even though I love that show). I also got REALLY scary cochroach dreams from the previews of Joe's Apartment. What can I say, cochroaches give me the creeps.

Books: Definetly The Hobbit. I read it when I was eight and Golum freaked me out so bad that I made my dad take the book out of my room at night.

[Psyche Ague]

Um...when I was a kid, it was "The Rats of NIMH," the opening scene. It scared the living crap out of me. And, of course, "The Wizard of Oz" and anything to do with vampyres (that became a good obsession later).

When I was older, it was "The Exorcist," "LOTR" (the Ring Wraiths gave me nightmares! :bug: ), "Psycho," "The Birds," "Friday the 13th" movies, "Jeepers Creepers" (I know, it's really pathetic...I have this thing with eyes...it grosses me out).

What about books? Anything by Stephen King usually scared me, especially The Stand, Salem's Lot, Carrie, The Shining, Firestarter and many many more. The movies of those scared me, too. Also, The Haunting of Hill House (the book) frightened me.

[Lavender]

I don't like anything with clowns. Clowns are scary.

[Psyche Ague]

*shudders* Clowns. I forgot about those. IT was scary, too.

And, like Anya in Buffy, I'm terrified of bunnies and bears...like the Easter Bunny and that giant bear that sits in the mall at Christmas and talks...not the real things. No, I'm NOT crazy...*wrings hands and looks around nervously* :2G:

[Flaire-FireStar]

Originally posted by SimplyStrange


As for me...

... E.T. ...



ET??????? :eek: Just the commercials are freaking me out!!!!

[Theres]

ANYTHING with Shirley Temple!
she gives me nightmares of psychotic little sugar cookies tap-dancing there way into my bed, driving some kind of pure 'family values' imagery up under my fingernails and dragging her pasted on smile down the blackboard of my psyche! definitely the ground glass in my milk and graham crackers.
damn, i guess i won't be sleeping tonight.
aaaaahhhhhhhh!!!

[Garnet]

The Birds. The first time I saw that it scared me silly. For weeks afterwards, anytime I saw more than three birds together, I'd freak out. I couldn't go through the pet dept. at Woolworth's because the parakeets were scary. :rotfl:
I though The Exorcist was just silly.
A movie that still creeps me out (but didn't scare me...you know what I mean?) is Sunset Boulevard "Madame is still the greatest." (I'm an Eric von Stroheim fan)
Another movie that scared me is really old. The Great Gabbo (Eric von Stroheim) When the puppetmaster's assistant finally gets fed up with being treated like dirt & leaves, the puppet turns to von Stroheim & says "But she was so good to us, Gabbo." Just thinking about it makes me shiver.

[Twilight Garden]

I wasn't that young when I first saw Arachniphobia. After I saw it, I would check under and around a toilet before sitting on one. It gave me the creepy crawlies.

[GreenDawn]

Originally posted by Flaire



ET??????? :eek: Just the commercials are freaking me out!!!!

ME TOO, That movie scared (and still does) scare the crap out of me. Way to creepy!!!:blushake:

[StarryDancer]

**looks bemused** Now that's interesting. I would not have thought of ET as a scary movie. But then, different things reach into our psyches.

For me, as a kid...:rotfl: OK, get it over with now. You had problems with Wizard of Oz? I ran screaming from....Peter Pan!
Not from Captain Hook, mind you, but from those Indians!

And when I was a kid, there was a trailer in a movie for something called, I think "The H Man". (Now I'm really dating myself) Something about a guy who could turn into a gelatinous ooze and come in under the door, then solidify again. There was NO ESCAPE from the H Man! Just the trailer gave me nightmares for years.

[DragonDawn]

2 movies top my list. IT and Arachniphobia ( it think thats how its spelled ) anyways those two movies still scare me. After watching Arachniphobia with my sister, we were going to bed and there was this HUGE spider on the wall. I mean he had to be about 3 or 4 inches across! I don't like spiders, and that definitly didn't help any.

[MammaStar]

I didn't necessarily have nightmares, but I KNOW these movies freaked me out....

The Shining
Nightmare on Elm Street--I had a friend who watched this movie at another's sleep over (no not WtchyChk) who had a nightmare about a Freddy Kruegar bunny, if you knew the girl (and Wtchy does) you'd laugh your A$$ off. Plus in the first movie the first girl to die is named Tina......well, all my friends have a blast with that one. Especially in Freshman French Class..:rolleyes:
The Omen & The Exorist. Still won't watch these movies. NEVER EVER!!!!
Stephen King's books freak me more than his movies, except the Stand. the Stand was freaky both in Book form & in movie form.

[Flaire-FireStar]

Originally posted by GreenDawn


ME TOO, That movie scared (and still does) scare the crap out of me. Way to creepy!!!:blushake:


I've never seen the movie, but just the voice of ET on the commercials freaks me out. :eyebrow:


EeeeeeTTTtt foooooonne hooooooommmeee! :blushake:

[Armitage]

Poltergeist...I did NOT like that clown doll, nor the braces scene...And even when I was little the idea of warping reality creeped me out.

[Radocs]

Arachnaphobia scared the crap out of me years ago. Oddly enough I like spiders now. ^_^
The Secret of NIHM was pretty disturbing.
The Goonies freaked me out. One Eyed Willie(y?)!

While we're talking about clowns has anyone seen that Killer Clowns from Mars (or something like that) movie? A bunch of evil clowns with sharp teeth land in some small town and wrap everyone up in cotton candy... it's not so much scary as it is weird.

[stormyray]

HAs anyone seen Hannabull (sp) yet. ewww the whole brain sceen realy freeked me out .

[Garnet]

I just read about a study done at Washington U in St. Louis that says as little as 10 minutes of watching classic horror movies or sitcoms can have a 'significant short-term influence on reasoning & intelligence'.
Jeremy Gray, the leader of the study, says, "To have the best mental performance & the most efficient Pattern of brain activity You need a match between the type of mood you are in & the type of task you are doing."
Makes you wonder what Steven King watches.

[Danustouch]

I watched ET when it FIRST came out in the movies, and I'm only 26 now..so that should give you an idea of how young I was then. And I was never afraid of him :)

"IT" was pretty scary. It's those blood stained teeth, I think. And the sewer thing. And the fact that he comes out of drains. LOL. Actually, Steven King IS a genius, because he always manages to capture so many of our fears in one movie. Clowns, Blood, Drains, Sewers, things coming out of the water...all of these were featured in "IT", and they've all been things of fear for some child or another. Heh. After watching that for the first time, my boyfriend, my friend and I went out for a walk, and they kept pushing me toward the sewers and doing the voice of Pennywise..."Georgie...c'mere Georgie...they allllllll float down here". lol. That was freaky. Especially since our power had gone out during the middle of the movie. LOL.


Ugh..yeah..that "Brain" Scene in Hannibal was pretty disgusting. It just made me want to vomit.

And I won't watch "Arachnophobia" EVER..since in real life, I DO have Arachnophobia. lol.

[SimplyStrange]

I'm so glad that I wasn't the only one scared by E.T.

It wasn't E.T. himself, as I loved him, but it was the freaky scenes like him waddling around in the dark or the tubes and the scientists...

:eek: :p

[MagickHLHgurl]

Im not the Only one wih an E.T. fear! Man i thought i was nuts! I have to go see the re release though maybe now that im older it wont scare me as much!

[Green Lantern]

Wow. At first, I thought being scared by ET and the Wizard of Oz was a little unusual. However, I think I was about seven or eight when I saw the Exorcist at someone's house, and it scared the pants off me. Nightmares for weeks. I guess at that age, I figured it must've been a documentary.
Anyway, now that so many on this thread have said the Exorcist put 'em to sleep, I've come to realize that an aversion to flying monkeys and waddling aliens with tube-walking scientists isn't very silly at all.
By the way, I watched the Bela Lugosi version of "Dracula" in my youth, had a nightmare that a vampire was tearing at my throat, and woke up with my hands around my own neck. Self-inflicted nightmare pain is nothing less than pathetic!
My windows are SO made of glass, so I'm gonna drop my stones before I even THINK about throwing 'em. 'Nuff said.

Have a great night, all!

Green Lantern

[Dellit Tandannon]

when i was little my baby sitter locked me in a room with her and made me watch friday the 13th part 8. that gave me nightmares for months.

[Flaire-FireStar]

Originally posted by MagickHLHgurl
Im not the Only one wih an E.T. fear! Man i thought i was nuts! I have to go see the re release though maybe now that im older it wont scare me as much!



:blushake: Yer brave... 8O I'm not going anywhere near that movie!

[Old Witch]

It was an old B black and white movie......Fiend Without a Face.......... Turned me against horror...............Myst, you thought Dr. Who was scary.....I thought it was funny and I loved it with all my heart.....Does anyone remember the episode with the Candyman???