Timmy84 said:

smoothcriminal12 said:

I ain't never seen a scary movie before.

I used to love to watch horror films at 3 in the morning on Cinemax or Showtime.

I couldn't do it. I'd shit my pants scared.

smoothcriminal12 said:

Timmy84 said:

I used to love to watch horror films at 3 in the morning on Cinemax or Showtime.

I couldn't do it. I'd shit my pants scared.

I guess I'm immune to watching scary shit. Oddly enough none of the films I watched never let me to have nightmares of being in one of those scenarios in the films. Plus some of the characters (like Chucky, Freddy, etc.) were funny as fuck at times.

Timmy84 said:

smoothcriminal12 said:

I couldn't do it. I'd shit my pants scared.

I guess I'm immune to watching scary shit. Oddly enough none of the films I watched never let me to have nightmares of being in one of those scenarios in the films. Plus some of the characters (like Chucky, Freddy, etc.) were funny as fuck at times.

See that's not me. I still think there are people looking through my bedroom window.

Timmy84 said:

smoothcriminal12 said:

I couldn't do it. I'd shit my pants scared.

I guess I'm immune to watching scary shit. Oddly enough none of the films I watched never let me to have nightmares of being in one of those scenarios in the films. Plus some of the characters (like Chucky, Freddy, etc.) were funny as fuck at times.

Only two films which could be considered horror have given me nightmares: Jaws and TCM. Jaws for obvious reasons and TCM is creepy as fuck but is still one of my favorite movies. Your right about the comedy, even TCM had comedy

smoothcriminal12 said:

Timmy84 said:

I guess I'm immune to watching scary shit. Oddly enough none of the films I watched never let me to have nightmares of being in one of those scenarios in the films. Plus some of the characters (like Chucky, Freddy, etc.) were funny as fuck at times.

See that's not me. I still think there are people looking through my bedroom window.

I was one of those kids who didn't put faith in the "monsters in my room" theory.

aardvark15 said:

Timmy84 said:

I guess I'm immune to watching scary shit. Oddly enough none of the films I watched never let me to have nightmares of being in one of those scenarios in the films. Plus some of the characters (like Chucky, Freddy, etc.) were funny as fuck at times.

Only two films which could be considered horror have given me nightmares: Jaws and TCM. Jaws for obvious reasons and TCM is creepy as fuck but is still one of my favorite movies. Your right about the comedy, even TCM had comedy

With me, Jaws was more common sense, like if you knew there was a deadly shark, why even attempt to have a beach party there?

Timmy84 said:

smoothcriminal12 said:

See that's not me. I still think there are people looking through my bedroom window.

I was one of those kids who didn't put faith in the "monsters in my room" theory.

Some of us never gave it up.

smoothcriminal12 said:

Timmy84 said:

I was one of those kids who didn't put faith in the "monsters in my room" theory.

Some of us never gave it up.

smoothcriminal12 said:

Timmy84 said:

I was one of those kids who didn't put faith in the "monsters in my room" theory.

Some of us never gave it up.

My dad told me when I was little Santa's elves were outside my window every night. I was terrfied of that thought and wasn't until I learned Santa wasn't real that I stopped being scared about that I started doing something else by my window around that time too

aardvark15 said:

smoothcriminal12 said:

Some of us never gave it up.

My dad told me when I was little Santa's elves were outside my window every night. I was terrfied of that thought and wasn't until I learned Santa wasn't real that I stopped being scared about that I started doing something else by my window around that time too

Do I wanna know?

aardvark15 said:

smoothcriminal12 said:

Some of us never gave it up.

My dad told me when I was little Santa's elves were outside my window every night. I was terrfied of that thought and wasn't until I learned Santa wasn't real that I stopped being scared about that I started doing something else by my window around that time too

Oh Lord...

Continue on...

purplethunder3121 said:

Continue on...

purplethunder3121 said:

Continue on...

I remember when this movie came out in 1973.I was a little kid,so I wasn't allowed to see it This wasn't the type of film that you take the kids to go see.But when I finally saw it years later,I was still terrified by it.

sextonseven said:

Great movie. Anyone that doesn't think it's scary is desensitized by modern horror films. No one I know thought it wasn't scary when it was released in the 70s.

^^

I find it blasphemous if one doesn't find The Exorcist scary!

William Marshall as "Blacula" scared me as a little kid too. I couldn't look at him for a long time after that movie.

smoothcriminal12 said:

aardvark15 said:

My dad told me when I was little Santa's elves were outside my window every night. I was terrfied of that thought and wasn't until I learned Santa wasn't real that I stopped being scared about that I started doing something else by my window around that time too

Do I wanna know?

Depends

This movie gave me nightmares when I saw it on TV as a little kid:

Can't see the picture again What movie?

aardvark15 said:

Can't see the picture again What movie?

It's a Roger Corman flick from the sixties called The Pit and the Pendulum, based on the story from Edgar Allen Poe.

My son, on the other hand, was terrified by Poltergeist when he was a little kid, which surprised me...

If you where brought up a catholic like me you would find it scary I also saw it when I was 7 not a good Idea.

purplethunder3121 said:

aardvark15 said:

Can't see the picture again What movie?

It's a Roger Corman flick from the sixties called The Pit and the Pendulum, based on the story from Edgar Allen Poe.

I really don't see how that's scary but okay

aardvark15 said:

purplethunder3121 said:

It's a Roger Corman flick from the sixties called The Pit and the Pendulum, based on the story from Edgar Allen Poe.

I really don't see how that's scary but okay

I think I was seven or eight years old and sick with the flu. Seems pretty cheesy now--but I love Vincent Price.

purplethunder3121 said:

aardvark15 said:

I really don't see how that's scary but okay

I think I was seven or eight years old and sick with the flu. Seems pretty cheesy now--but I love Vincent Price.

*Does evil Thriller laugh*

Vincent is the MAN!

Dren5 said:

ufoclub said:

You found Alice Sweet Alice to be scarier than the Exorcist? That's hilarious to me. Alice Sweet Alice is so cheeseball to me, like a Dario Argento movie... very silly to me and my friends.

It think it boils down to what you think about during a movie. Details in The Exorcist like the demon feeding into the guilt of him putting his mother into an old age home, or echoing the words of a homeless person she could not have seen him near are masterful and scary, But if you don't think about the implications of that stuff and relate it to real life, you won't be scared. The Exorcist is paced like a very serious drama, and it's sound design is ingenious. But if you don't get into those kind of things, it won't work as movie for you.

It was also a best selling novel before the movie was released.

"Alice Sweet Alice"? Hell yes, I found it disturbing as fuck...

I didn't grow up Catholic, so all the heavy Catholicism in the beginning of it...kinda brought this heaviness and this darkness to it, I remember finding the ceremonies kinda creepy...and then the scene where the sister is actually killed and set on fire IN the church...

Alice's fascination with roaches and how she kept some as 'pets'...

The creepy gigantic neighbor lurking around all the time... who tries to make a pass at Alice, the underaged girl...

The scene with the aunt getting the shit stabbed out of her outta nowhere and her eerie blood-curdling screams and watching her bleed out all over the pavement and then seeing her deathly-white face in the hospital...

The daughter getting a polygraph test and then the guy saying later that she liked him touching her chest...

Plus in general, the entire tone of the film, it's something about the way it was shot that just makes the whole thing feel really ominous and plodding and heavy...and the fact that, for most of the movie, another child (I was a kid when I first saw it) was the primary suspect in a murder and an attempted murder...

That whole movie just freaks me the fuck out. I watched it in the last few years and still didn't feel 'right' during. It doesn't beat you over the head with 'scariness', it's just a lot of little subtle things that are just are really really unsettling after awhile in totality.

That movie is way more sinister and disturbing than some fake demon-vomit and some director ordering a kid to simulate jamming a crucifix inside herself, will ever be to me.

I just rewatched Alice Sweet Alice the other night after reading these posts. I kind of forgot about it...but I DID remember being scared when I saw it on late night TV back in the day (it had to have been early 80s when I saw it). The mask...and that whole part in the beginning with Brooke Sheilds getting murdered in the church and getting set on fire definitely left an impression. I couldn't really remember much after that.

However, this movie did not age well and is nowhere near in the same league as The Exorcist. It's really more of a gross out thriller than a horror movie imo. Best I can say is the little girl who played Alice was great, but everything else screamed B movie to me. Regardless if The Exorcist is really "scary" it IS a very well made movie, with excellent acting and directing.