OT: Movie/TV program that really scared you

This will get a laugh but, Ghostbusters 2 made me think paintings and pictures could come to life and slime would come out of the faucet and attack me. The first one, I was fine but 2 did something.

When I was young, Gremlins gave me very vivid nightmares.  Just watched American Murder: The Family Next Door.  That was some scary shit in an entirely different way.

Poltergeist really scared the shit out of me as a kid. Slept with the lights on for a few days.

The X-Files had some disturbing episodes for a tv series.

Any modern, honest documentary about our environment, more specifically our oceans. Far scarier than any horror flick could ever be. 

I was in Japan when I first saw the Grudge and went home alone to my Japanese apartment when the movie was finished.  I was freaked the help out for the rest of the night.  My girlfriend(wife now) had a Japanese house that had a crawl space much like the opening scene.  She refused to go up there after watching The Grudge and made me do it.  I still can’t quite handle going into attics and have been back in the states for 12 years.

Not sure why my Dad thought it would be a good idea for me to watch Altered States and The Eyes of Laura Mars with him when I was like 8 - 10 years old. Those f'd me up! Not sure how they'd hold up...

I also remember watching The Dark Crystal at the State Theater, age 7, and screaming out loud when the little dog puppet jumps growling out of its hole. 

More recently, a little off the beaten path, The Descent was a good scary movie.

Never been a big horror movie person, but I remember as a kid keeping my finger on the pause button. Whenever there was a "jump scare," I could just pause it immediately until I had my bearings. And by "as a kid," I mean until I turned 40.

The Strangers.

I made the mistake of watching that while home alone one night in high school...yeah never doing that again. The fact that it's based on a true story and something that is so random it can happen to anyone....yeah no thanks. 

I love horror, but the movie/tv series that got me was ‘Salem’s Lot. Barlow was one scary MFer. Funny thing, the book scared me more than the show. The part in the book about the baby....*shivers*.... anyways...Halloween (1978) is the one movie I have to watch every 31st of October. Classic! The Thing, The Fog, and Prince of Darkness are my favorite scary Carpenter films. Alien is also one of the best movies to watch around this time.

I thought “It Follows” was creepy and not your typical run of the mill horror movie. Also filmed in Michigan.

For me it is the original Amityville Horror, saw it when I was 12-13 years old and I think the fact that it was a “true” story played into it. Add to it the creepy music and ahead of its time use of camera angles. And fuck that damn cat when it jumps on the windowsill a scene that no matter how many times you see it and know it’s coming makes you jump.

Late 70’s movie called “Grizzly” because I spent quite a bit of my childhood in the woods and was probably 9 when I saw it and it was something that could really happen. 

also “Dark Night of the Scarecrow” because I grew up on a farm and I was about 10 years old when I watched it.

Free Solo. It's so scary had to pause it twice to get a drink.

Deliverance 

Death Zones.  A 1975 school bus safety film.  I saw this in 1st grade.  It’s basically a snuff film about how the school bus will kill you if you don’t follow the rules.  Have had a fear of school buses ever since.  They sure did a number on us growing up in the 70s.

Most of my Top Five come from stories written in the 1970s.  1. The Exorcist; 2. Don’t Look Now; 3. The Shining; 4. Jaws; 5. Poltergeist

I’d read The Exorcist not long after it was published in 1971, so I knew what to expect, but when I saw the film during its opening week in a theater in Manhattan in December 1973, I was so stunned that I couldn’t leave my seat until after all the theater lights went on.

Earlier in 1973, I saw Don’t Look Now. I’d never read the Daphne du Maurier short story on which it’s based, so I had no idea what to expect. (It also contains what some consider to be the most erotic sex scene in any horror film.)

I’d also read both Stephen King’s The Shining and Peter Benchley’s Jaws before seeing those films, so I knew what to expect.  Still, there were many moments in both films that were frightening to me when I first saw them.

Choosing between Poltergeist and Alien was tough, but I picked the one that takes place on Earth.

Honorable Mention: Alien, Rosemary’s Baby, The Omen, Get Out, A Quiet Place, The Silence of the Lambs, The Birds, Psycho.

I'm sure I'm alone on this, but Night of the Living Dead (1968) scared the shit out of me when I saw it on TV late one night while home alone during a wind storm. Might've been a little ripped.

I'm pretty old and grew up with Vincent Price. Nothing like Vincent to a grade school kid. The House of Wax was the most memorable for me. Christ he brought Edgar Allen Poe to life.

Day of the Triffids - nightmares as a 5-year-old that I still remember.

Friday the 13th/Blair Witch/Deliverance and I am sure others. Now I give the woods the side-eye. Every f-ing twig snap/leaf rustle/distant banjo/dipshit friend making that noise from the Jason movies. All of it. Just can't.

The Spanish movie Veronica is pretty good. 

The original Halloween and Silence of the Lambs freaked me out. Also, Brian DePalma did a movie called "The Brood" with Samantha Eggar back in the 70's which completely unnerved me. 

I'm really surprised nobody on here listed "Scared Straight" as one of the films. Many school systems use to allow it to be shown to kids to scare them away from a life of crime. 

I mean, it's probably not real scary to an adult watching the film, but it was designed for kids anyway. I was around 8 years old when my elementary school showed it back in the 70's. 

I felt it was rather scary at the time.   

I just today saw Annabelle:Creation in the theaters, it's part of 'The Conjuring Universe' which are usually pretty good. Came out a few years ago but some theaters are re-releasing movies. (Also got to see The Empire Strikes back in theaters this weekend too which was a treat)

Maybe it was just being back in a movie theater for the first time in 6 months but I really liked Annabelle: Creation, very suspenseful and well made; and partially based on the true haunting of a doll which is just creepy.

Insidious is another good modern scary move. Midsommar too.

Halloween is a classic, but I think the "best" maybe not pure scariest, but best made one is Rosemary's Baby.

Hannibal. 2.5 great seasons of murder, psychological horror, and character development. Amazing show.

I was 7 years old when I saw Nightmare on Elm Street, that movie had me shook for damn near a week!

Definitely The Thing. Still great today.

Perhaps even more scary — Jacob’s Ladder. This one gets in deep.

Twin Peaks - season 1, I think episode 1.  Made me feel the horror and the grief.

Hereditary was terrific.

Just rewatched Rosemary's Baby last night. It was terrific.

The night gallery by rod serling used to creep me out.

The Shining scared the crap out of me as a kid, my friend and I watched it on Halloween in the pitch black and had to watch Mr. Mom to recover to make sure we could fall asleep

The original "Salem's Lot"  in 1979. I was 9 years old watching three scary as hell scenes for that time.  

Scene 1- The guy filling in the grave jumps into the grave and opens the casket and the dead kid opens his eyes and bites him! 

Scene 2- The dead friend rises from the grave and appears scratching at Lance Kerwin's window begging him to let him in

Scene 3- Marjorie Glick is dead, lying in the morgue and she decides to rise while David Soul is making a cross and reciting "the Lord is my Sheppard" she looks absolutely hideous   

Check out this scenes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV1V0U41HI4

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