terrifying!

I am 52 years old, and I have never seen the movie all the way through since it came out (when I was 7). I still vividly remember the nightmares I had the night after I saw it, and the banshees were some of the best special effcts done before the modern age of special effects. My daughter is 8 now, and I would not let her watch it, if Disney made it available.

I've had a wonderful evening - but this wasn't it.
-Groucho Marx

Holy cats! I've spent the last 35 years thinking I was:
a) the only person who ever saw this movie.
b) the only person who ever 'bout peed his eight year old pants at the banshee scenes.

I remember at the time we lived in rural south west Missouri. Out in the timber. I swore up and down on windy nights that the banshee was out in the woods waiting for me to fall asleep.

Just to let you know, i recently let my nieces see this, they're 8 and 9 and brought up on scary childrens shows... like when the barracuda eats the fish in finding nemo, and they were scared.

But have any of you found that some americans come to ireland expecting it to be a bit like the movie?

And banshees really exist, i heard one and my aunt died that night and my mum saw and heard it the night her uncle died.

why drink and drive when you can smoke dope and fly

When I was a kid she terrified me, I had watched this movie several times, and I would flinch when this scene was coming.

It scared the crap out of me as a little kid and I'm pretty sure I cried a few times and had nightmares because of it. Eeeeee!

Yeah, I'm one of the club. When I hear the title of this movie all I can think of, was it being freaky, something about a carriage coming for him in the rain and nightmares to follow. Glad to hear others are in agreeance.

"I never say 'I told you so' and I don't like anyone who does"

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My dad always made Reubens and rented Darby O Gil for St. Patrick's day. I'm thinking I need to reinstate this tradition in my hovel away from home. Although being loud and drunk in public certainly has it's place in Irish culture, I think it's also important to acknowledge the mythology (and history) that has been de-emphasised or commercialized. My memory of the film has faded but yes, I was scared by the Banshee. I also remember being enchanted but slightly scared of all the little people. The terror of this movie, however pales in comparison to the sheer fright and enjoyment that both the Labyrinth and the Dark Crystal inspired in me as a child. I don't think I've experienced terror and enchantment similtaneously quite the same since puberty. Kudos to Walt Disney and Jim Henson for being able to retain and re-create the detached facination that innocence generates with terror.