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Movies that Cemented My Fear of Horror and Suspense

Since it is the Halloween season (hooray), I figured this would be the best time for me to do this, though it doesn't really lose much relevance during the course of the year; there's always some kind of horror/suspense film people are going to see.
Okay, granted that I'm a really, REALLY paranoid, skittish person as it is, but the reason that I am such a person can be traced back to these films... and a video game. Hell, the Thriller music video scared me when I was younger.
I should also mention that I can stand some horror/suspense now, but it really depends on the movie itself.
Anyway... here goes.

So, this one isn't going to make sense to anyone. At all. But I saw Little Monsters when I was... three or four. It is the only memory I have from that long ago, and it scared the shit out of me. I don't remember why, but it's where my fears started, and it is therefore worth mentioning.
Not a scary movie in and of itself, but just imagine a little three year old girl, who is naturally paranoid and skittish, watching it as one of her first movies. I was afraid of what could be beneath my bed or in my closet for many years afterward.
Who knew that Howie Mandel would go on to host my mother's favorite game show?

God, do I hate this movie. I don't remember when or where I first saw Child's Play, but I do recall that my brother is a sadistic bastard and I was younger than 10. I remember just running out of the room at some point during the movie only to have him bring me back in and make me watch the rest. He was either trying to break me of my fear or just plain break me. To this day I can't go in a certain room in my grandmother's house because it is full of dolls. If I ever have children, they are not getting anything that can stare back lifelessly (that isn't a stuffed animal).

Yet another movie viewed when I was little because my brother is evil. Leprechaun may have scared me more than Chucky; I can't really remember all that well. I did see this again recently and didn't find it nearly as scary, though the face-skinning and scalping still makes me cringe a little.
Is it just me or does it seem like Warwick Davis doesn't age?

Christine was a film I saw in the mid to late nineties, I believe, and while the movie itself didn't strike me as scary, the idea of an autonomous, murderous car was scary. That and the idea of being crushed in a dead end alleyway. This time it was my uncle that forced me to watch a movie I didn't want to watch. I'm sensing a pattern here.

The weird thing is that I really like this movie. It scared me when I was little, and it still does today (especially the long dead grandma and the flayed policeman), but it scared me nonetheless. Don't remember the circumstances behind me seeing this one.
I do own and love the book.
I cannot watch the sequel, Hannibal, but I own the prequel, Red Dragon. This is really the only film series that I act this way towards; very much a love-hate relationship, since I still cringe at parts of Red Dragon. No real idea why, aside from the fact that Hannibal is much more gory than Red Dragon. Gore and I don't get along.

To this day I don't think I've ever seen the entire movie. Luckily for me, that's because my dad was watching it and my brother wasn't around, so my dad took pity on me and watched it downstairs instead on the tiny TV we had down there.
I don't know what scared me. In fact, I can only remember two scenes from the movie: the little boy escaping the bathroom through the window (not scary) and the twin little girls acting all creepy (scary). I think I saw more of the movie and that's what scared me, but I honestly can't remember what it was and I'll never see it, so I'll never know.

Ok, so I only saw the beginning of this movie when I was little. I think it was more the concept and the insane cat that scared me and made me terrified of cemeteries, not to mention that a little kid getting hit my a semi is kind of disturbing for a little kid (even though you didn't actually see him get hit). That, and Episode 64 from the Simpsons. You know, Treehouse of Horror III. Saw that on air the day it came out (I was 6), but I only remember the third part, the part with zombies (obviously).

You know, for a kid whose parents knew that she hated scary things, they sure allowed me to be subjected to a lot of horror and whatnot when I was young.

I hate this movie. I hate this movie. It gave me nightmares for so very long, and I was probably 11 or 12 when it came out. Event Horizon is exactly the kind of movie that drove me away from the genre at a young age. Not to mention that I know there were others like this; I was just able to block them out somehow.

Okay, let me explain. I never actually played this game (it was my brother's, which he played all the time), but I did watch my brother play it rather often, since there was a severe lack of things to do where we lived and I, the kid that was scared of dogs bigger than me (average dogs were at the time), therefore had nothing better to do.
Doom (can't remember which one) both scared and fascinated me. I'd have nightmares about the big, floating eye-head-thing, but I'd watch him play again the next day. He also played Wolfenstein 3D, but that was more funny than anything else. I may be skittish, but I'm also fairly twisted, because of all the mental-visual blocks I have in place.

I saw this when I was little, again at the fault of my brother; it was on TV and he felt like scaring me. Need I say more?

You know, I'd add zombie movies (aside from Pet Sematary, but I explained that one) to this list, but I've never actually seen any all the way through that weren't Resident Evil (not really that scary) or Shaun of the Dead (scary moments, but too funny to be scary overall). Don't recommend, please; I don't want to see them. Saw the end of Dawn of the Dead and the beginning of one of the recent remakes... didn't like them.

The strange thing about all this is that now... now I can barely tear myself away from things that scare me. Oh, I can do it, but it takes effort. I prefer to avoid it altogether, but its hard when there isn't anything else on TV. So I don't go out of my way to watch horror, but it still happens.
There are a lot of other movies that scared me badly when I was growing up, but I can't think of them all at 4 A.M.

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Trent Comment by Trent on October 28, 2008 at 10:28am
i hate remakes but i would'nt mind a remake of Pet Sematary in theaters i can see that working well
Hey Miss! Comment by Hey Miss! on October 26, 2008 at 1:22pm
This list is really funny! I was scared of everything when I was a kid, too. I completely know what you mean.
Gabriel Comment by Gabriel on October 26, 2008 at 4:29am
For me it was a lot of the 80's horror films. They scared the shit out of me, but now i look back at them and it really makes me laugh.

The one film that still freaks me out to this day is The Exorcist. This movie will forever creep me out, there is no growing up or getting around it.
keyser soze Comment by keyser soze on October 26, 2008 at 12:22am
Theres this 80s low budget horror movie called "Dolls".

I can honestly say it is the one movie that scared the shit out of me! when i was a kid. I mean I literally would not go to my sisters room.
Its all part of the plan Comment by Its all part of the plan on October 25, 2008 at 6:44pm
till this day i havent been able to watch the exorcist because im to scared of it
Mick Home Comment by Mick Home on October 24, 2008 at 7:41am
I simply cannot watch the scene where the guy gets thrown out the airlock in event horizon. You missed out one classic 'The Exorcist' , not a religious person but this movie still scared me.
tibbs Comment by tibbs on October 23, 2008 at 6:23pm
The first time I saw Silence of the Lambs was when I was twelve during Thanksgiving. The whole family was sitting in front of the VCR and eating our turkey. My grandmother screamed at my mom "This isn't a Thanksgiving movie!' Then right when Hannibal Lecter ate that one guy, my grandma threw up out of disgust. We turned off the movie and had to clean up the vomit.
MDS Comment by MDS on October 23, 2008 at 11:53am
Well, Event Horizon is a movie that I hate too. (Only for completely different reasons), and Doom was a blast to play. (Got the the feeling that I'm about the same age as your brother). I got to say that several of the movies here scared the crap out of me too. Especially Halloween. I didn't get to see it in the theaters when it came out because my dad said "You are too young". But when it came out the following year on HBO, Dad sat down with me and my brother and turned the lights off and let us watch it. Scared the SHIT out of me and my brother completely.

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