Does this happen to you with scary movies?

[hereyago]

Ok, I am a grown woman. I have seen The Shining, don't even know how many times. But tonight, DD is with her DF and my DM is recovering in a rehab center, so I am all alone. I started watching the movie, I am thinking "why am I watching this"? But now I can't go to sleep because I forgot that it freaks me out.

Funny thing is not long ago I saw on the Travel Channel that Stephen King went to the Stanley Hotel-haunted-years ago then wrote the book of The Shining.

 

[Sosai X]

The only horror movies that truly scare me are Poltergeist 1 and 2 (3 is just too awful to be scary).

 

[hereyago]

Dang-that picture freaked me out of first. That was from the 2nd one wasn't it?

 

[Sosai X]

Dang-that picture freaked me out of first. That was from the 2nd one wasn't it?

Yup, it's the scene where Kane meets Carol Anne on the street. Henry Kane is the Poltergeist, he's the force that stole Carol Anne away in the first film, and followed her and her family in the second. In the first movie, Tangina refers to him as the Beast who deceives Carol Anne into thinking he is just another child.

 

[Sparx]

I love horror movies.

The things that tend to stick with me late at night when I'm trying to fall asleep tend to be the things I read that scared me, instead of tv or movies. The images from a scary book will stick with me much longer than a scary movie.

 

[polkadotsuitcase]

I haven't watched a really scary movie in a long, long time. But when I did -- yes, it freaks me out! My imagination just goes bananas. Same with scary books, actually. I used to put the book in another room when I went to bed! Imagination...it's a blessing and a curse...

 

[Jennasis]

My sister made the mistake of watching The Exorcist alone at night when she was in High School. She was totally freaked out at one part and threw my cat (who was laying on her chest) across the living room and shut the movie off.

I guess the cat was angry about the toss because in retaliation, while my sister was nervously checking all the downstairs rooms for a "monster", the cat went to the stairs leading up to the second floor and just sat there hissing and growling at the top of the stairs.

My sister was SO FREAKED OUT. She started crying, called her boyfriend and went outside and refused to come in until he showed up and checked the house out.

 

[Rora]

I can't watch scary movies alone. Period. Heck, if it weren't for the fact that I shared a bed with DH every night I wouldn't be able to watch scary movies at all! They freak me out too much and I have a very active imagination that doesn't help.

 

[sunnyday123]

I don't watch them anymore, my imagination is just too wild.

One of the last ones I saw was Pet Semetary. I used to be a HUGE Stephen King fantatic ( oddly enough scary books don't bother me!) and figured I read the book, I know what hapens.

Wrong. This sister of the wife totally freaked me out, and the little boy... I swear I slept with the lights on for a year and a half. It truly scared the bejeezus out of me.

 

[MomofKatie]

I actually enjoy a good scary movie like The Others, What Lies Beneath, or The Ring. What I can't handle anymore are the ones like Saw or Hostel that are just torture and gore. Yuck! If I am alone, I do tend to turn on every light and jump every time I hear a noise in the house, though.

 

[AKL_Megs]

I watched Paranormal Activity with my friend recently. It was a gloomy, rainy day, and I had to make the walk back to my house in the dark, misty rain. My husband wasn't home and I thought I would be terrified , but I surprised myself and slept rather peacefully... Even went into the basement to do laundry!

 

[MushyMushy]

I STILL cannot watch Amityville Horror all the way through. Back when it first came out, I was 12, maybe 13 and saw it in the theater with my friends. After seeing it, I wouldn't go upstairs to bed without my parents coming up and that began a lifelong fear of basements for me. What's worse, I was a horror fanatic, but something about that movie just got to me.

Speaking of The Shining, my friends and I were watching it on TV in high school maybe? I don't know when it came out on television. Anyway, my friend's brother and his friends stood outside the window and waited for a really scary spot before banging on the glass and scaring us half to death. Stupid boys!

 

[HonnyDipp]

Paranormal Activity was a movie I laughed all the way through. Those kind of things have no effect on me. I thought the trailer to the sequel was great though. But I'm sure I will still laugh through it. Here it is, see for yourself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRd1Ph8ZF7w

I saw the new Nightmare on Elm Street a few months back, I was bored through the entire thing. Again, I laughed through the whole 90 minutes.

BUT I finally saw Shutter Island the other night, with the lights out. THAT movie freaked me out. The suspense really played with the mind. I LOVED IT!

 

[momof1princess]

the only horror movie that TRULY scared me was the original "house of wax" with vincent price. i watched it when i was about 7 or 8 (i've always LOVED horror films) and from that moment on, i always reached around every corner and turned the lightswitch on before entering a room. my mom used to laugh at me, and say there was nothing there. she changed her mind when i was 12 years old-we woke up one morning and the bread, peanut butter and jelly were all sitting opened on the kitchen counter.

 

[kimblebee]

Growing up, I wasn't allowed to watch scary movies so they freak me out to this day. I don't watch them if I can avoid it but when I am roped into watching one I have to make sure someone stays the night with me.

I was at the movies the other day and saw a preview for Paranormal Activity 2. For it, they showed scenes for the first one. I was shaking and had tears in my eyes. I don't think there is any way in the world I would watch either one of those.

Ok, I'm such a loser for admitting this but there is one part in one of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies that has scarred me for life and most people thing it is funny. The only reason I can think about it now is because it is daytime out and hopefully I will have forgotten about it by the time I go to bed. In one of the movies Freddy is following someone outside in the dark and for some reason his arms grow really long. He is walking behind her and they are kind of flapping around.

I don't know what it is about that scene but it gives me goosebumps even thinking about it. Yes, I have them now. It is so bad that I don't like people walking behind be because I think they might be doing it. I know that is weird but my ex did like to freak me out by doing it every once in a while. Notice I said EX

I am going through a dilemma now because I hate the fact that I am still scared by scary movies and wish I could have watched them to become desensitized but think that it is a bad idea for my ex to show them to our almost 10 year old daughter. Maybe she can tell me all the good ones I'm missing and she can hold my hand and watch them with me

 

[browneyes106]

I'm now ok with watching scary movies if I'm alone at night. There were a few times when I was a teenager that I watched a few scary movies when I was home alone and I got freaked out.

 

[HonnyDipp]

I saw the special edition of The Exorcist a few years ago. There's a scene where the mom is alone in the dark in her kitchen, all you see is her face, then gradually, you see the image of the devil creep in then go out. OMG, that scared the tar out of me! Plus the scene where Linda Blair turns into the spider and starts walking down the stairs, its only for a few seconds, but it was the creepiest thing EVER!

 

[bdoyledimou]

My DD10 LOVES Zombie movies. We spent a weekend watching the entire George Romero Zombie Sage (Night, Dawn, Day, Land, Diary and Survival) then we watched the remakes of Night and Dawn.

She actually wants to make a movie about Zombies, with her as the hero!

No fear in that girl.. (we talk about zombies in a matter of fact, as though they were real manner all the time as well, as she scouts out locations and tries to figure out situations her character can get into, and out of..... some of the looks we get at stores are priceless..

 

[hereyago]

OP here: I stayed up until 5 this morning and finished watching it. Then I dreamed about: UFO's. My DD drew a alien face on a piece of paper-not sure why, but it was on the end table of where I was sitting. I didn't think I gave it too much thought, but apparently I did.

 

[Stitchfans]

When I was younger I enjoyed and watched scary movies,but not any more. The older I get the more my taste in many things changes.