When I was about ten or eleven, I saw about five minutes of an edited for television version of The Exorcist. I've got plenty of gray hair now and I still haven't seen the entire film all the way through...even though I'm a big horror fan.
shareAs i kid i thought the excorsist was not scary at all, had been raised on 80s and early 90s horror and obvious visual scares worked on me better at the time. But as an adult with kids and adult issues, the premise and atmosphere of the excorsist film puts it in my top 4 scariest flicks( along with excorsist 3 aswell) now
shareWatched a lot of horror as a kid and was mostly unaffected. But I got and still get the heeby jeebies from watching Poltergeist II, and to some extent First Power, which is still somewhat bearable. P-II really just felt scary to me in a way that the plethora of horror films I consumed did not. That said, I can't and don't watch horror anymore unless it veers on the mystery side or the goofy b movie side.
shareI remember that old preacher with the skeletal features and the black hat. He was pretty damn creepy.
shareYes. A thousand times yes.
shareI kind of had the same feeling about one of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies with the nun. I think she was Freddy Kruger’s mom and had been raped by like 100 convicts or something.
When I was young and I would go hunting and walk way back in the woods before the sun was up, and I wasn’t scared of any animals. However, I was always thinking that one night I would turn my flashlight on and the preacher or Freddy Kruger’s mom would be starring at me in the face. 😀
Lol she was haunting. You're supposed to feel sorry for this woman AND at the same time be glad she's warning someone against her crazy son, but there's this feeling of apprehension when you look at her, she doesn't even need the pointy finger glove.
shareI watched it for the first time the other day and the ending is really not that scary. But it is good so you should definitely finish it.
Mine doesn’t correspond to your question because I was traumatized by Candyman as a kid and even though I bought the dvd so I can face by biggest fear now that I’m an adult, I still havent found the cohones to put it in my dvd player.
I’d say The Exorcist as well. I don’t even believe in all that supernatural malarkey but that movie is still really scary! It was a pretty scary book as well, if you like horror novels check it out.
shareTrainspotting.
I hate drugs and that sort of lifestyle just scared me, the hallucination scenes are horrible.
Fair point. The life of a junkie must be pretty horrible.
Certainly scarier than some silly barnyard slasher.
Yes, that's a good one, because it's a different type of scary to some of the other, more traditional horror, films cited already.
Trainspotting is a superb film, but I've only been able to watch it once because some parts are so off-putting and disturbing.
Return to oz 🙁
shareThe wheelers are terrified.
Queen Mombi's heads, and the Nome King turning into a big rock monster, scared me even more than the Wheelers, although I was creeped out when one of Wheelers turned into sand.
shareI find the realistic parts in the insane asylum very scary, especially if you imagine yourself in her place. All the characters are based on her experience in that total institution.
Poor Dorothy 😩
Yes, those scenes are disturbing, and it's a genius conceit to tie the characters, and even one of the machines, in the asylum, to the citizens of Oz. I don't recall that from the books, but it's been so long since I read them.
Still, I've always been most scared by fantastical violence/monsters (real-life violence/darkness is more disturbing to me, than scary per se, if that makes sense). The uncommon valley effect is particularly scary.
The Exorcist FTW! I can't watch it alone and I can't see memes of that scary bitches face in the dark. Once my brain starts going...I can scare myself into not being able to go to the basement to do laundry. I hate that movie and fuck Regan and her stupid Ouija board.
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