<p>The TV show Mission Impossible had an opening whereby a fuse to a stick of dynamite burned across the bottom of the TV screen. When I was about 4 or so, that completely gave me the willies - I screamed and would leave the room and hide. I still get a little creeped out by the Mission Impossible theme song. Blech!</p>
<p>I just realized I didn’t mention a movie I saw as an ADULT (I was 41!) that still gives me the creeps: White Squall [White</a> Squall (1996) - IMDb](<a href=“http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118158/]White”>White Squall (1996) - IMDb) </p>
<p>The white squall in question is a storm at sea and the boat sinks… (I’m not giving anything away here) and the woman goes down with the boat, trapped. Yep. Nightmares for months.</p>
<p>mapesy- was it The Crawling Hand? I don’t remember the whole story but it was about an astronaut who dies and his hand crawls around and kills people. I think it takes over someone eventually. Definitely creepy…</p>
<p>I also forgot about Alien and Aliens. Alien is the first movie that I came close to leaving because I was so scared.</p>
<p>Jym, I saw the hand movie in a theater in the mid-60s, so it definitely wasn’t a Twilight Zone episode or Carrie. </p>
<p>takeitallin, The Crawling Hand is from the correct time period, but I just watched the trailer and that’s not it either. I remember seeing this movie, though! Definitely not as scary as the hand movie I’m thinking about.</p>
<p>Just did a bit of googling and I think the film is Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors (1965). I watched the trailer and got the heebie jeebies all over again!</p>
<p>I wasn’t scared of Dark Shadows at all. I loved it! I used to run all the way home from school to watch it. I can close my eyes and vividly hear the theme song.</p>
<p>Ditto the flying monkeys, witch, and evil apple trees in the Wizard of Oz.</p>
<p>Crowhaven Farm–about witches/witch hunters in New England who come back to modern times. (watched this at our middle school–we must’ve had some sick teachers).
The Dark Secret of Harvest Home.</p>
<p>The Fall of the House of Usher. (Movie seen in middle school.)</p>
<p>Audio recording of The Telltale Heart–heard in elementary school. </p>
<p>Anything about aliens/UFO’s. I used to wake up and see an alien standing in my room. (Clothing hanging on a chair.) </p>
<p>The book–The Amityville Horror–I read it when I was about 13 and was afraid to go down in the basement for years. I saw the movie years later and it didn’t seem that scary.</p>
<p>When I was in college, I saw Picnic at Hanging Rock (based on a novel about some schoolgirls and their teacher who disappeared near their boarding school in Australia in 1900–the novel and the movie give the impression that this is a true story/unsolved mystery, but it is completely fictional.) It really gave me the creeps. I saw it again 25+ years later and I wondered why it bothered me so much. The soundtrack really added to the creepiness, I think.</p>
<p>Remember this one? Movie quote: “We’ve traced the call. It’s coming from inside the house.” (When a Stranger Calls–1979) I was in high school and used to babysit a lot.
I never saw this movie, but I remember other students talking about it, and even THAT scared me.</p>
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Mapesy:
Yes - a hand was chopped off with a certain amount of gore that wasn’t so common back then. Add in the excellent production quality and excellent performance by Bette Davis and others and it only enhanced the ‘scare factor’ - plus, I was only 10 or 11 when I saw it.</p>
<p>You may be remembering the correct one. </p>
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Haha - funny.</p>
<p>dmd77, White Squall bothered me for months. That was a horrible scene and I think it was based on a true story which, of course, made it worse.</p>
<p>Wow–after reading just dmd’s description, there is no way I’m seeing that movie! <shudder!></shudder!></p>
<p>Flying Monkeys in Wizard of Oz, hands down. I can still picture the desk in the basement where I hid at age 4.</p>
<p>This will surely date me…Summers when I was growing up, kids used to escape our steamy
apartments by spending all day in “air cooled” movie theaters. Our mothers would send us off with sandwiches, fruit, etc. and we would sit through whatever the double feature playing was, twice. No one kicked us out, there were matronly ushers who manged to keep all us kids under control. Our local cinema was in the what is now the trendy East Village of Manhattan. In the late 50’s, the neighborhood started becoming arty, bohemian and such. Unfortunately for the local kids, the cinema started running an Ingmar Bergman festival during the summer in reaction to this new influx. To this day, I can’t watch Bergman movies. None of us kids had any idea what the movies were about, we probably couldn’t even read the subtitles. The images though, were terrifying. I still remember some of The Virgin Spring.</p>
<p>Sounds like there is a big draw for chopped off moving hands in TV and movies! Yuk! Of course the hand in the box in The Addams Family wasn’t scary…</p>
<p>Yes, “When a Stranger Calls” was very scary. I had just started a new job, and we had a girls’ night out and went to dinner and to see this movie. Later there was a sequel, where the babysitter has grown up and has kids of her own. She gets the “Why haven’t you checked the children?” call when the children are home with the babysitter. Yikes.</p>
<p>My husband says “The Naked Forest” is one that really scared him as a young kid. Something about killer ants (not giant ones) moving across Africa. He had to crawl in bed with his older sister he was so scared.</p>
<p>I agree with #10 post by SAX.
I too was scared of the Twilight Zone episode of the monster on the airplane wing. I hid my face through most of it.
Funny to see it years later, it was so fake looking. It’s humorous to think how scared I was as a young girl. Also interesting to see who played the star character, William Shatner and how young he was at the time.</p>
<p>The original “When A Stranger Calls” was so scary because it felt like it could really happen – unlike the flying monkeys. I saw it at the theater with my boyfriend and cousins and a huge crowd. Remember the scene where she gets into the car in the garage, and we know he’s in there because the previously locked car was now unlocked?
After the movie, we walked to our car, and my boyfriend unlocked the car when I wasn’t looking. So, then when I turned around he pulled on the handle and gasped. I SCREAMED! My cousins all came running from across the parking lot to see what had happened. Of course, my bf was laughing his head off. Grrrrrrr.</p>
<p>fishymom, Imitation of Life is one of my all-time favorite movies. That damn Sarah Jane, breaking her mama’s heart like that!!!</p>
<p>Cheap psychoanalyzing here–I think that the reason that many people get scared, especially as kids but also some of us when older, even when the effects are fake looking, is that our imaginations run overtime, and we can imagine what it would be like, if the scary situation was real. Doesn’t matter if the Blob looks real or not, if we can imagine the terror/horror of being absorbed by it.</p>
<p>Oh that reminds me–Fantastic Voyage-the movie about the people going microscopic inside a person’s body to operate from inside–when the bad guy gets eaten up by the white blood cell-ewwwww.</p>
<p>Ditto to The Birds and Wizard of Oz (the scary neighbor, the shriveling shoes, the witch, AND the flying monkeys!).</p>
<p>There was an episode of Outer Limits that freaked me out when I was a kid - a pilot and his wife find themselves trapped 10 seconds ahead of their time. Meanwhile they see that a huge truck is about to hit their little girl who is on a bike. But their time only catches up a second for every half hour and so it’s like watching it all happen in slow motion. They have to figure a way to get her out of the way when nothing they do seems to influence physical objects in the real world.</p>
<p>I remember being half scared/half intrigued by the monster on the wing episode of the twilight zone. Never realized it was William Shatner in that episode! Gonna look for it on the web!</p>
<p>found it
its called “nightmare at 20000 feet”</p>