terrifying!


I just want to know if any1 else was terrified by the banshee when they were young

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Man, I just had a 'flashback' dream of my childhood last week of the banshee in this movie and woke up remembering the significance of this film and this scene. I couldn't rememer the name of it and have been asking my family and trying like hell to figure it out. Everyone keeps saying it was the gnome mobile and I knew it wasn't. Now I know! :)

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The Banshee Shadow scared the *beep* out of me! For some reason, I loved scary movies when I was a kid, so I would watch this over and over.

I can see you right now in the kitchen, bending over a hot stove. But I can't see the stove.

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Although I'm somewhat hesitant to admit it, the banshee scared me as a kid as well. In fact, I remember I had very vivid nightmares about it for awhile afterwards...it was one of my earliest "scary" movie experiences. Twenty Years later last summer I was finally able to see the movie again. I was a bit let down by the Banshee this time around however ;)

"He who laughs last didn't get the joke" -Annoymous.

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LMAO! I've never pooed myself watching a film as much as I did as a kiddywink watching this film! I used to run out the room sreamin everytime that bloody banshee came on! I watched it again recently at a friends house, she was laughing at me cause I was hiding behind a cushion but i eventually watched it and my friend was more scared than me!! it's not even that scary on retrospect.

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Not the banshee, but it does include the only three things that scare me.

1. The Irish
2. Midge... er, "Little people"
3. Connery's beastly chest hair

"Use the Force, Fluke!"

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There is only three movies that have ever scared me. One is the Banshee in Darby O'Gill. The second was the orginal Poltergeist, but that was like when I was 6 or 7, and the third was the headles statue in Exorcist 3 when out of nowhere it kills a women.

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I'm 51 years old now but I remember how frightened and intrigued I was by the banshee when I saw this movie as a small child.

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As I just posted on another thread:
Are you kidding me!??!?! I'm over 30 and just reading this posting makes my skin crawl. God, I haven't seen the end of that movie in over 20 years, and I can already hear her wails and screams. I had nightmares for months about her being right outside the door ready to pounce.

To this very day, I can deal with all kinds of horror films, gross-out blood scenes, the quick hand on the shoulder scream, or even foreshadowing something awful to about to happen moments. No problem, BRING IT ON!

The moment you have some sort of supernatural creature rush towards the camera wailing and screaming, I'm back to being a scared little boy inthe corner screaming TURN IT OFF!! TURN IT OFF!!!

Clive Barker, Wes Craven... Do you have any idea (and I guess you do) how embarrasing it is to admit that the scariest movie you've ever seen is a Disney film?

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no movie has ever scared me like the banshee in this one, its been 20 years scince ive seen it and im still spook to watch it

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