| William Warner | 02 Oct 2026 7:43 p.m. PST |
Ads on television for The Creature From the Black Lagoon creeped me out. Also The Killer Shrews. I was too young to see any of these movies, but the ads on TV were quite enough, thank you. |
| VMF218 | 03 Oct 2026 9:53 a.m. PST |
Movies have never really caused any worry, at least not after 5 when I figured out family could be the real, and very tangible monsters. Horror movies elicit an "Isn't that cute" reaction. |
IronDuke596  | 03 Oct 2026 1:55 p.m. PST |
House on the Haunted Hill. |
| Extrabio1947 | 03 Oct 2026 3:42 p.m. PST |
The Blob. I had nightmares of that thing oozing up the steps to my bedroom. |
| khanscom | 03 Oct 2026 3:43 p.m. PST |
Not a movie, but a TV public service announcement. A marionette educating us about Muscular Dystrophy-- creepy. |
 Flashman14 | 04 Oct 2026 4:10 a.m. PST |
Jaws. Even our swimming pool was unsafe. I also remember significant discomfort watching Romero's The Crazies, where haz mat suited goons gun down women and children to contain a viral outbreak. Phantasm with the lobotomizing Golden Snitch.
Finally, the first kill in the original Friday the 13th haunted me for years. None of these are particularly affective today. |
 Old Contemptible | 04 Oct 2026 5:20 a.m. PST |
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 John the OFM | 04 Oct 2026 10:18 p.m. PST |
Standard reply to anything on this thread.
"Your parents let you watch that???" |
| cfielitz | 06 Oct 2026 5:16 a.m. PST |
When I was in the third grade, my teacher ask the class to write a report on what scared you. The local Chicago FOX affiliate showed old 50s and 60s scifi and horror movies on Sunday afternoons. I was addicted to them but some of them, particularly if it involved hideous, murderous mutants. I wrote that those movies scared me. When I got my graded paper back, the note on it said, "well, why don't you just stop watching those movies?" That never seemed to have occurred to me. |
| Uesugi Kenshin | 06 Oct 2026 1:47 p.m. PST |
My family got the first pay movie channel in Los Angeles when I was about 7. So I saw all the classics growing up. Exorcist
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Jaws
Halloween
Aliens
Dawn of the Dead
The Omen
The Day After |
| Flashman14 | 09 Oct 2026 5:00 a.m. PST |
Gen X was famously unsupervised as kids. |
begins to think about terrain for Team Yankee.