Movies that seriously freaked you

[Zaftig]

I am so bad but I love scarey movies. I'm a big chicken sh!t too.

I watched The Exorcist again today after not seeing it for a while and I could have sworn there was a scene when she ran down the stairs backwards but it wasn't in there. . am I thinking of the right movie??

[Audreyvgs]

This is easy. Oh, crap now i have to look it up. I'll edit. this is so easy.

This movie wasn't scary, just psychological torture.
the Day of the Locust, with Donald Sutherland, it was seriously depressing.
I don't even want to describe it.

Bummer Deluxe....thats what freaked me out.

[madasacutsnake]

The Entity

[trisherina]

What my parents were thinking I don't know, letting me watch The Exorcist on HBO in the hotel room at Radium Hot Springs at the age of 12. I hardly slept for a week.

[Zaftig]

Yeah, I watched it when I was young too and it totally screwed me up. Along with Poltergeist. And yeah, I was nuts for watching it today but it didn't freak me out as much as it did back then. Maybe because #1 it was the day and #2 the phone was ringing off the hook.

I did some research and yeah, it was The Exorcist that did have the backwards crabwalk going down the stairs. I watched the director's cut which doesn't have it.

I have a really spooky story that goes along with it if anyone wants to hear. . . or read for that matter.

[melissa]

ooh, yes please!!

[Avalon]

Originally posted by Zaftig
I am so bad but I love scarey movies. I'm a big chicken sh!t too.

I watched The Exorcist again today after not seeing it for a while and I could have sworn there was a scene when she ran down the stairs backwards but it wasn't in there. . am I thinking of the right movie??

It is there on my DVD. I wrote in another thread how I decided to have a horror movie marathon and made it through 3-4 others before The Exocist; had turn on all the lights and call my brother over to stay with me. (Hsb. was fishing; WTF was I thinking watching that crap alone??)

Anyway, the expanded version has alot of extra just plain creepy scenes I seriously hate that flick.

[Zaftig]

OK .. . give me a few. . I'm gonna type it out.

[nycwriters]

Salem's Lot

[lapietra]

I saw "Prince of Darkness" the first time with a friend at about 2am in an empty movie theater - a mutual friend worked there and got us in somehow... it was a long time ago so I can't remember the details. What I do remember is that it freaked me out so bad I couldn't go near mirrors for awhile... amazing how such a crappy movie can scare the bejeebers outta you...

[trisherina]

Candyman did that for me, a bit.

[melissa]

Gremlins.

I was 9 and very sheltered and timid at that point. It was so scary to me.

[Avalon]

Originally posted by lapietra
I saw "Prince of Darkness" the first time with a friend at about 2am in an empty movie theater - a mutual friend worked there and got us in somehow... it was a long time ago so I can't remember the details. What I do remember is that it freaked me out so bad I couldn't go near mirrors for awhile... amazing how such a crappy movie can scare the bejeebers outta you...

I saw that on HBO..the best part was the explanation from the Dish:

People find a barrel full of liquid Satan.

Ooooookay then.....

Archniphobia..only because we saw it in an empty theater as well and we were both convinced we could feel things crawling on us

[Avalon]

Well, I really wanted to hear what Zaf was going to say about the Exorcist, but I have got to go to bed. She must be writing a novel

Night Ladies!

[Zaftig]

OK, sorry it took so long, I trained the man to bring home dinner and he just got home when I started the story.

I went from being a closer for a mortgage company to a manager at Blockbuster. It was a hold-me-over job. Rent’s gotta get paid somehow. On the weekends I was sometimes there until 3am finishing up the end of the night routines. There was always someone else with me. Every once and a while I would get all freaked out by something but shook it off. I was the only one with key’s to the office so I knew when people would go in and out. Those little things had me thinking though. Such as going in the office and the light in the bathroom connected being off when I left the room and on when I came back in. Although no one had been in there in between. Things being moved without the help of any of the staff. I shrugged it off mostly. At closing time we usually turned off 2/3rd’s of the overhead lighting and blast some music on the overhead speakers while cleaning and straightening out. There was also usually a few of us too. Well this one night in particular it was just myself and Gonzalo. Good kid. 17 year old high school drop out. He became a father a little too early and had to work to support his new little family. He sincerely was learning how tough grown up life is. Out of all the gossip monger, trouble making staff, including the shift leaders he never spoke of anyone else. Just kept quite and did his job, a little slowly, but he did it. So as I was saying it was Gonzalo and I. That night we talked about all sorts of stuff. One topic being the land the building was built on. He was telling me that there used to be a factory on that site and people had died there. I thought he was just dishing out a bunch of malarkey but was still a little spooked because of previous happenings. We finished all of the closing duties but I had a lot of office work and balancing. So instead of blasting music while Gonzalo was refining some of his chores he asked if he could watch a movie on the overhead monitors. I didn’t care. I was going to be in the office. I was having such a hard time with the closing balance that by the time I was done I was just wishing for sleep more than anything else. I locked the money in the safe, shut the lights off and left the office. When I came out I called out for Gonzalo and there was no response. Also, all the lights in the store were off except a small one in the front. I thought nothing of it all until I looked up and the tv was black and all of a sudden there was this freaking girl on the screen running down the stairs backwards in a crabwalk. I made haste for the front of the store. He was just chillin’ in the front and had no clue I was calling him. OK, so I just got the jitters and he’s trying to bug me out. All I had left to do was enter the numbers into the national database and leave. I was just done with that when all the cover boxes on one wall start randomly flying off the shelves. Gonzalo and I looked at each other and immediately I entered the security code and we were out of there. Freaked out and glad to be out of the building we agreed to come in after some sleep and in the daylight to clean up before the morning staff came in. I was giving him a ride home so we then got into my car and before I even had my keys out the headlights pop on and windshield wipers flip out! I immediately put the keys in and just started driving. Didn’t know what else to do. I dropped him off and he said “Good luck going home, see ya in the morning!” Yeah, good luck alright. I was alone, in my possessed car, going to my apartment which I lived alone in that was about 100 years old with stained glass windows all over. What I always envisioned as beauty all of a sudden became my own, real live horror home. I got home. Great, front light blew out. Went upstairs. Flipped on the kitchen light and it blew out!!!! By then I my blood pressure was sky rocketing being the anxiety prone freak that I am thinking “I’m gonna die of a heart attack!” I rushed into every other room of the house and flipped on all the lights, which thankfully stayed on! I turned on the TV because I needed some noise and I grabbed the phone disregarding the fact that it was 3:30 in the morning. Called my insomniac friend and he came over with a bunch of movies and I fell asleep when the sky was turning light.

Did a little research after that. . .the old factory and deaths. . . no joke. Go figure.