<p>The Evil Dead 2 has a hilarious scene with a severed hand chasing the lead character around a cabin. </p>
<p>Scary scene from Chucky, when the mother turns over the doll and finds out the batteries had never been put in :(.</p>
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<p>Same here. That episode scared me half to death. It was years before I could gather the courage to open a shade or curtain and look out of a window at night for fear I’d see a face up against the glass like in that airplane.</p>
<p>“Invasion of the Body Snatchers” scared me too.</p>
<p>Is the movie where people get dragged underground called CHUD (Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers, for those of you who couldn’t figure that out!)</p>
<p>Helen Krump, Andy’s girlfriend on The Andy Griffith Show, was Steve McQueen’s girlfriend in The Blob.</p>
<p>The Sleestaks on Land of the Lost. Seriously, I could not watch that show. My younger sister loved it, but when the creepy sleestak music started, I always left the room.</p>
<p>ET. I still won’t watch that movie!</p>
<p>OMG–Someone mentioned The Virgin Spring. I have PTSD!
Please don’t ever see this movie. It has a horrifying rape scene and other shocking violence.
I was already married and had 3 kids when I saw it. (H couldn’t get near me for weeks after that.) Truly disturbing.</p>
<p>Any show/movie with evil morticians. There was even an episode of NCIS about 6 yrs ago where an evil mortician had Dr. Mallard on the embalming table, about to be bled to death to avenge something or other, that I can’t watch, even at my very “mature” age!!</p>
<p>The evil witch Maleficent in Disney’s Sleeping Beauty. With the horns. It was the first movie I ever saw in a movie theater; it came out in 1959 so I was 4 years old. Terrifying. I had the Little Golden Book, and couldn’t even look at her picture; my mother had to get rid of it.</p>
<p>The same way that I was so traumatized by reading the book Dracula when I was 9 that I made her throw it out. After first tearing up the cover, with a vivid drawing on it (it was a paperback), so he couldn’t come out of it and attack me at night. I was frightened of vampires for a long time after that. I still remember the scene in the book where Renfield sees the Count crawling down the outside wall of the castle at night, like a lizard, to go feed on the children of the village.</p>
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<p>Yes! I remember it vividly. One of those cheesy 1950’s monster movies they used to show on TV all the time in the early '60’s, and, like many of them, it scared the daylights out of me. I seem to recall that after the crabs killed someone, they started talking with that person’s voice. Creepy.</p>
<p>Definitely not a cheesy movie, but I found “Forbidden Planet” very frightening. Especially the end, [Spoiler alert!], when the protagonists (I’m pretty sure Leslie Nielson was the male lead) are being attacked by Walter Pidgeon’s id, which is what the invisible monster turns out to be.</p>
<p>The Gate.</p>
<p><em>shivers</em></p>
<p>As young marrieds, H and I rented the movie Children of the Corn. We could not get through it, and we were freaked out even though intellectually we knew it was just a movie that we could pull out of the VCR at any time…</p>
<p>The only movie that ever really frightened me as an adult was “The Ring” starring Naomi Watts.</p>
<p>Try living next to corn fields after watching Children of the Corn.</p>
<p>Scariest music: Tubular Bells (Exorcist) and the shark coming to bite your legs off music in Jaws.</p>
<p>On election day last Tuesday, I had to work next to someone that had Tubular Bells for their ringtone!</p>
<p>Interesting–no one else but me has mentioned the Superman with the scary mole people I referenced in the first post, but when I told my H about this thread, he immediately said “that Superman with the scary mole people!” We were fated to be together. :)</p>
<p>Also, apparently I am the only person in the history of the world to be more scared by the hourglass than anything else in Wizard of Oz. yes, i am weird.</p>
<p>The beginning of Lion King scared my son to death. The good parent that i am, I told him to hang on as it will get better…then they killed the dad lion. Oh my.</p>
<p>Daughter reports “The Ring” scared her too.</p>
<p>For whatever reason I could not sit through the remake of “The Exorcist” .</p>
<p>Both my kids refuse to watch E.T.</p>
<p>My nephew was around 7 when the movie E.T. came out. His parents bought him an E.T. type xmas with all the toys, bedding, lunchbox etc. The poor kid was shell shocked by that creepy little alien on all his stuff. He really was unnerved.</p>
<p>I never got why Dorothy didn’t turn the hour glass back over. Seemed obvious to me as a kid that that would save her.</p>
<p>I have always liked scary movies and books, probably because my older sister was terrified of them, and it was a way to provoke her. Saw Hush Hush when we were 11 and 13, with the parents. She threw up she was so scared and sat on the sidewalk outside the theatre through most of the movie, and slept with our parents for a week. </p>
<p>The TZ girl through the wall did scare me, and I insisted my bed be moved away from the wall for a month or so.</p>
<p>The original The Haunting is still an all-time favorite. The scene with the walls breathing is classic.</p>
<p>The only movie that really haunted me as a child (causing nightmares into adulthood) was The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T, based on a Dr. Seuss story! Those hats with the fingers still give me chills. I was probably 4 or 5 when I saw it.</p>
<p>The movie I saw as an adult that still creeps me out is Susperia. There’s a scene with razor wire that is the worst I’ve ever seen.</p>
<p>Another vote for Wizard of Oz. Scared to death of the witch. Hid behind the ottoman.</p>
<p>AND… the Abominable Snowman in Rudolph the Red Nosed Raindeer. Hid for this one, too.</p>
<p>Also, I had a record that played “Peter Pan” and I jumped up on the furniture whenever the tick-tocking sound came, meaning that the crocodile was coming. I was sure the crocodile was going to bite me (from under the sofa? who knows? I was 3!).</p>
<p>In 8th grade, sat in the 2nd row of a long dark theater to see Jaws. Covered my eyes for most of it but had nightmares for days. The nightmares weren’t that a shark was going to get me - they were nightmares that I was back in the theater watching the movie!</p>
<p>Lafalum,
Maybe that’s where I got my fears of alligators under my bed. I used to make sure I didn’t hang my legs or arms off the bed for fear the alligators would come and bite them off. We had relatives in Florida, so who knows, maybe my older sisters put that fear in me when we were visiting. But maybe the crocodiles in Peter Pan contributed.</p>
<p>Okay, I know this will date me and I haven’t read the whole thread but has anyone mentioned the original War of The Worlds"? Cuz that one made my hair stand on end when I was a kid. Those insectoid aliens did me in with their probing cyclops eyes.</p>