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Post by occupant on Jun 23, 2019 16:44:34 GMT -5
What were you most afraid of when you were a child?
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Post by livingdeadgirl on Jun 23, 2019 16:56:16 GMT -5
Well, when I was very young, my older brother told me that there was an invisible hand chasing me, that only he could see. So from time to time he would just randomly warn me that the hand was coming for me. I'd be terrified, and run off screaming.
I loved the TV show "The Addams Family", but Thing would always trigger me.
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Post by occupant on Jun 23, 2019 19:07:59 GMT -5
Sometimes, when I had a nightmare, I'd crawl into bed with my parents. But most nights there was a really scary witch face illuminated in the same place on the ceiling in the corner of their room. Of course it was just the way the moonlight came through the blinds, but I didn't know that...at least that's what I tell myself now.
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Post by endo on Jun 23, 2019 19:34:17 GMT -5
I was fine as a kid, wasn't scared of really anything, until I started watching horror movies. I was around 5 or 6 when my sister got me to watch a horror movie with her. Chamber of Horrors. Looking back at it today, it's terrible, but back then, it scared the crap out of me. So, that started it. Then there was Trilogy of Terror after school one day and that fakking Zuni fetish doll, that scared me so bad I ran out of the house. Another movie watched with my sister. My Mom would yell at her to stop watching movies with me because I was having nightmares, but I was already hooked. I liked being scared. Still do, unfortunately I'm scared by real life more than movies anymore.
Chamber of Horrors trailer, just to show how bad it is...
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Post by occupant on Jun 23, 2019 20:02:52 GMT -5
My brother was nine years older than me and he loved horror movies. I wasn't supposed to watch scary things, but I watched whatever he did when our parents were out and I'd also sneak out of bed and peak around the corner into the living room to watch Twilight Zone and the Outer Limits.
My two most vivid memories of my first horror movies were The Four Heads of Jonathan Drake (creepy shrunken heads gave me nightmares) and Abbot & Costello meet Frankenstein (the end scene where the Frankenstein monster is walking through the fire on the pier haunted my dreams.)
My brother had all his horror models on top of the dresser and I could see them in the moonlight when I was in my bed. I remember Dracula, Frankenstein, the Mummy, the Werewolf and the Creature from the Black Lagoon. There was an empty space he told me was occupied by the Invisible Man...and I believed him! LOL
He used to tease me and tell me the Boogieman was coming for me. My Mom heard him and read him the riot act about scaring me so he was never to say Boogieman to me again. So he changed it to the Man was coming for me - as long as he didn't actually boogie, he felt he had a legal loophole. One night he took a full head rubber Frankenstein mask with marbles in it's eye sockets, and put it on top of a suit and shoes facing toward our bunkbeads. He slid the door of the closet open with a pole (which from the bottom bunk looked like the door was sliding open on its own) and shined a flashlight on "the Man." Beams of light shot out of those marble eyes. Remember Gilda Radner on SNL with the monsters in her room? That was me, I ran screaming bloody murder to my parents while my brother hid the evidence. They brought me back to my room turned on the lights and showed me a perfectly ordinary closet. They told me I had a bad dream and reassured me there was no man in the closet. As I lay in my bed trying to go back to sleep, I heard a whispered sentence which I thought came from the graveyard full of plastic monsters on the dresser..."The man has come."
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Post by endo on Jun 24, 2019 14:33:58 GMT -5
Such awesome stories! My sister is 12 years older than me, so her and her friends were always going to see the latest horror movie in the theaters. I would beg her to take me with them, but her being 18 and me being 6, well I guess I kind of cramped her style. Occasionally my Mom would pull her aside and gently persuade her to take me, but not very often. I was a really high energy kid, so I think my Mom just wanted a break from me for a bit, lol.
Mostly, it was Creature Feature on a Saturday night. I would try so hard to stay up til 11 to catch whatever movie with her, and most of them were awful. Dracula vs. Frankenstein, Twisted Brain aka Horror High, Man Beast, The Giant Claw, stuff like that. But one movie I watched with her terrified me every time. It was about a woman married to a blind man, and he has a laboratory in the house that is made with steel walls and a steel door. One night he's in there, and whatever he's working with blows up and kills him. But, he comes back to her in her dreams, all burned up with white eyes. Nightmares every time of his face.
Tried to remember the name of that movie for years, and had just about given up when I was just checking some stuff on You Tube one night and happened across it. The Night Walker. Got a copy and, while not as scary as I remembered, I still love it.
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Post by occupant on Jul 7, 2019 17:02:19 GMT -5
What in your opinion was the best book to movie horror story you ever saw?
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Post by endo on Jul 7, 2019 22:49:56 GMT -5
The Mist would be in my top five. One of the best converted to film King stories out there, with an even better ending than the story. Another is Misery, just masterfully done. A few things are different, but not really glaringly so, except for the sledge hammer part, but I can see why they toned that down. Oh, and the thumb, but that would be nitpicking.
The Exorcist is pretty much as good a movie as it is a book, it's pretty much all there and both are scary as ish.
I'm sure more will come to me as soon as I post this, but those jump immediately to mind.
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Post by occupant on Jul 7, 2019 23:12:21 GMT -5
Good choices endo. I'd add Rosemary's Baby to your list.
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Post by endo on Jul 7, 2019 23:17:44 GMT -5
I need to read that. I've always meant to, just never got around to it. Ira Levin I think? On my to do list. He also wrote The Stepford Wives which is another really good movie, the original not the later trash. Wonder how that book is? Have you read that occupant?
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Post by occupant on Jul 7, 2019 23:18:35 GMT -5
Great book, kept me up at night!
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Post by occupant on Jul 7, 2019 23:27:59 GMT -5
I need to read that. I've always meant to, just never got around to it. Ira Levin I think? On my to do list. He also wrote The Stepford Wives which is another really good movie, the original not the later trash. Wonder how that book is? Have you read that occupant? No, I never read The Stepford Wives. Bet that's a good read too. Another good book to movie is Silence of the Lambs. That, and Harris' other book, The Red Dragon are bone chilling reads!
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Post by endo on Jul 7, 2019 23:39:59 GMT -5
Never read that either. Not much of a reader nowadays, need to get back into it. I'll look for some audio books of these, love them in the car.
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Post by livingdeadgirl on Jul 8, 2019 8:43:29 GMT -5
Rosemary's Baby, hands down.
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Post by endo on Jul 17, 2019 2:18:11 GMT -5
Really need to read this. Dean Koontz has written some novels that were adapted for the big screen. The only one I've seen was The Funhouse from 1981. Not a bad movie, especially for the time. Others of his have been made, Watchers, Phantoms, Demon Seed...which I'm shocked I haven't seen or don't remember, The Servants of Twilight, he has a bunch.
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