OT - SCARY MOVIE POLL!

Per my response to tea lady this brought about a cool subject... What scary movie "traumatized" you as a kid...or just scared you out of your wits? Mine were: NUMBER ONE!!!: Friday the 13th (very first one) where they are in bed and the arrow or whatever comes through the bed and spears the couple (ICK) oh that scared the crap out of me and I was afraid to lay flat in my bed for like 2 years!!! I was very young when I saw that...about 7 years old? Maybe 8 at the most. Amnityville Horror... Yeah that movie really freaked me out when the kid was singing the song and then looked out the window and saw the eyes and started talking to "jodi" I think I shivered at everyhouse that I saw with those amnityville windows!!! I was afraid to look out my windows at night for a long time! Alien (the first one) Didnt really mentally get to me aside from being afraid to walk home at night from my neighbors house! OH! And the BLOB the original movie!! I was soooooooo young when I saw that...probably like 4 years old and I remember watching a good part of it oozing through the drains and shower drains or what have you and my mother told me to let the cat out of the basement and I was PETRIFIED to open the door because I thought the blob was going to ooze out from the crack under the door! too funny! Those are my top movies that scared the crap out of me when I was little... What are yours??

Oh, Elizabeth, I hate scary movies....I was under the seat as a kid...and now shut my eyes...so I try to avoid them. I am glad you knew the scary movie "Darkness Falls" from which I designed my costume called "Matilda Dixon the Evil Tooth Fairy"---most people didn't know it, but it sure made for a great Halloween themed costume. (If anyone wants to see my creation, it is on my website tealady.org). But from past movies, Friday the 13th scared me too and the first Jaws movie and Alien. One scary movie that I enjoyed though was "Silence of the Lambs". Sally

silence of the lambs was a great one! I also really enjoyed signs. That movie had me on the edge of my seat like no other! Im not really big on the scary movies myself. I was a big chicken when I was little but always managed to get suckered into watching them dumb ol' movies I always managed to be around my older cousins! Your costumes are really great by the way!

The scariest movie I think I have seen or think about often was not one when I was a child but as young adult, "Wrong Turn", I think mainly because it could really happen. Have you seen that one? If not do yourself a favor and rent it. It was good but edge of your seat thrills, I am warning you. I remember seeing Carrie and being freaked out by all the blood on Prom night. I use to hate scary movies bu tnow I rather enjoy them, and the excitement. I think I am getting to old to stay awake during a movie so if there isnt some excitement I fall asleep!!! Great thought provoking question. Janelle

The scariest movie I've ever seen was "Don't Be Afraid of The Dark." It was made for tv, I think, in 1973, so I had to have seen it as a rerun but I must have been very young. It featured small creatures with potato shaped heads with big blue veins showing. IMDB has this plot summary: A neurotic housewife named Sally and her business exec husband move into Sally's family house, a spooky two story Victorian mansion. When Sally starts the redecorating along with her pompous decorator she comes across a locked room in the house. After arguing with the handyman who insists she should leave the room locked, she finally gets the key. But once she opens her father's old study and has the bricks from the fireplace removed, strange things begin to happen. Sally begins to see small creatures everywhere, but no one will believe her. Her husband dismisses her as neurotic and her friend thinks Sally may be loosing her mind. But things take a deadly serious turn when the decorator trips at the top of the stairs and falls to his death. Sally sees a rope lying across the place where he tripped, but when she picks it up to take it, a horrifying little creature pulls it from her grasp. Is she crazy? Or has Sally released demons in the house, demons her father summoned?

No scarey movies for me please.

I tend to no****ch them now, but when I was a kid my first scary movie that impacted me was The Birds. Boy oh boy was I afraid of walking down the street after that. I was so afraid the birds were going to get me. I have seen some horror flicks when I was in high school but found them way too disturbing so I qui****ching. I can handle supernatural horror flicks more than blood and gore. IMO there is no need to see flesh and blood portrayed on the screen. Dina