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Ultimate nightmare movie when I was a kid

posted 16 years ago by warstrikesback
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All my life I was able to deal with movies very well. I knew it's just a movie and it was alright with me.

But when I first watched this one here in 1993 at the age of 11, nights of nightmares and fear followed. Every little noise made me believe there was a gray coming through the wall. Or these guys without faces entering the house in this cold blue light...scary as hell!

A couple of nights I could only sleep with the lights turned on. No other movie has scared me this much again.

[–] cold187um_cpt 16 years ago

yeah this movie freak me out when I was a kid....that scene in the woods when the kid turns around and is a alien

[–] RolloTomasi86 15 years ago

You think 11 is bad. I saw it when I was six. I'm still *beep* up for life.

[–] kitchenaut-1 15 years ago

This was scary in places, but Alien Abduction: Incident In Lake County is 10 times as scary. Think Blair Witch meets Intruders. It made my spine tingle for an hour after watching it.

[–] e5312 12 years ago

Geez so I wasn't the only one! I think I was about 5 when I first saw this (I clearly remember being in kindergarten) and that scene with the alien-faced kid still gives me a hard time.
I wonder what was on my parents' mind that made them make me, their 5 year-old daughter watch this film in the first place?

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[–] j-jameson 15 years ago

I saw this when I was about 10 and I had serious nightmares for years (also because of X-files and Outerlimits).

Well, I have to agree: No other movie has scred me this much (not even close).

I wish I could see the movie again now that Im 25 so I would know better what type of movies definately are not suitable for kids...

[–] JefferyLeininger 15 years ago

I agree.

I saw this when it first aired on the fox network in '91 when i was 13 y.o., and it completely ruined me.

I was never myself again. i didn't sleep well for years and years after.

this was the ultimate nightmare movie, depending on your age when first seen.

it probably wouldn't scare kids these days because of what they are exposed to on a daily basis with current tv programming, movies, etc.

i have watched just about everything horror-sci fi wise too.

the only other movie that scared me at that time in my life was 'george romero's 'day of the dead'

jeff

[–] RyanEvo9 15 years ago

wow i thought i was the only one who had this happen to me, i was messed up for years after seeing this [age 6]
for a while i had to sleep on the sofa while my parents where downstairs because i was that scared to go to bed and i would go insane and freak out and start screaming if i seen a pic of grey in a magazine or on tv and i was like this for years.
i still have a fear of eyes just because of this movie, its so bad its the only reason why i hate spiders as they have these big black eyes and it terrifies me.
only recently ive been able to look at a pic of a grey without freaking out.

[–] j-m-wurtz 15 years ago

OMG! SAME HERE! *beep* weird! I had/still have the same exact expierience with this movie.

[–] BaalMan78 14 years ago

We could make a help group in the 1990s.

Since I was a kid in the 1980s, abductions or any story about ETs visiting Earth attracted my attention at the same that made me scared of death. I watched "documentaries" and films even knowing that I'd have scary nights later. In the night, I also scared any type of noise as well I had a horrible felling that something (somebody?) was watching me. I was 14 in 1992, but still the film scared me.

It's funny because Sci-fi films like Star Wars or Star Trek and even 80s horror films didn't have any impact over me. They were pure fantasy while abductions were "real".

[–] Zombi_Cupcake 11 years ago

Haha we all need help. I haven't been able to sleep without at least a lamp on since.

[–] tonci-stanic 11 years ago

I saw this movie when I was 11 aswell (like most of you here). It KILLED ME! Especially considering that at that age I was starting to get on the whole UFO scene. I still do see it once per year...and it ruins me. I can`t see it all by myself. It has to be someone next to me. I`m a horror movie fan and I have yet to witness anything NEAR as frightening as this one. And it`s based on true events. Please check Intruders book by late Mr. Budd Hopkins. It`s all true (well at least I believe it:). Give it a shot , and anything by John E. Mack. You actually have a woman which had all those things happening to her as in the movie. Al tho things in the movie happened to couple of peoples... I say Movie = scarry as #*$%! Book? Even more scary. ps. feels good to see I`m not the only one who almost died from horror when watching this one.

[–] powczare 14 years ago

I cant believe someone else feels that way. I saw it when I was seven and until i got married i couldnt sleep alone in the dark without a light on somewhere. Even then I still have to be facing or door or window, just to brace myself. No other movie scared me for this long like Intruders.

[–] simian_ninja 14 years ago

Oh god I found the clip...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE9dQxEtw78

Still scary beans yo...

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[–] xdiversionx 10 years ago

I remember sitting at my computer (Commodore 64) in my bedroom.. I was 12 years old... I had this movie playing in the background on my tube TV at the time.. I wasn't really paying attention to it.. but for some reason I turned to watch the scene with the kid and when he turned around I was literally stunned for a few moments..

That part of my life can't be unforgotten.. Much like when I saw Michael Jackson's Thriller music video unveiling even much younger, I was literally freaked out and ghost-white according to my mother after seeing that..

Anyways, so glad I finally figured out where that scene that scared me so bad came from and that I wasn't the only kid around at the time that had this experience.

[–] brookiealeigh775 14 years ago

I vaguely remember this movie. Seems like I remember a kid being in the woods or around some trees and his head turns all the way around really fast... I was like, 5 when I watched it. I know it gave me nightmares for the longest, though.
Was there parts where people's skin was being cut into with alien instruments?

Anyone know where I can watch this now??

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.

[–] madalmeida 13 years ago

Uff, this movie prevented from sleeping for years... scary as hell...or more

[–] zoomp81 12 years ago

This movie scared me as a kid as well. I think there was a scene where an alien put something up this kid's nose? I just remember trying to sleep with my nose covered at night, lol.

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