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Dark Shadows. My mom actually forbade us to watch that one.

Damn, Erin Gray was hot!!

There is a particular episode from the 80s reboot of Alfred Hitchcock Presents - I only saw it once back in the day, so the details are a bit fuzzy - where an inmate convinces a worker from the prison morgue to sneak him out with the dead bodies, bury him, then comeback and dig him up. I seem to remember thinking he was in prison for theft and promised the prison worker a cut of the stolen loot if he helped. I could be making that part up. Will never forget the end. That shit stuck with me!

Another thing that freaked me the fuck out when I was a kid was the episode "The Jar" of Alfred Hitchcock Hour (my mom is a huge Hitchcock fan, so his stuff was on A LOT in our house).

And, speaking of endings, the end scene of "Sleepaway Camp" has stayed with me for DECADES!!!

EmmaMcG said:

E.T. gave me nightmares for years. Everything about him creeps me out. How he talks, how he moves, how he looks like Gail Platt from Coronation Street. *shudder*

jillybean said:

Damn, Erin Gray was hot!!

There is a particular episode from the 80s reboot of Alfred Hitchcock Presents - I only saw it once back in the day, so the details are a bit fuzzy - where an inmate convinces a worker from the prison morgue to sneak him out with the dead bodies, bury him, then comeback and dig him up. I seem to remember thinking he was in prison for theft and promised the prison worker a cut of the stolen loot if he helped. I could be making that part up. Will never forget the end. That shit stuck with me!

Another thing that freaked me the fuck out when I was a kid was the episode "The Jar" of Alfred Hitchcock Hour (my mom is a huge Hitchcock fan, so his stuff was on A LOT in our house).

And, speaking of endings, the end scene of "Sleepaway Camp" has stayed with me for DECADES!!!

You know what that is like the only episode from the 80s reboot of Alfred Hitchcock Presents that I remember and it also freaked me out.

kpowers said:

I loved "Dark Shadows", it didn't really scare me.

The only movie I can remember scaring me is "Jaws". Not so much that the movie itself was scary, but we lived on the water and I waterskied every day. The feeling I got the first time I went into the water after watching "Jaws" was so freaky. I just KNEW a great white shark had swam into Galveston Bay and up Cedar Bayou, just to chomp me in half!

"Halloween" also scared me a lot. I actually screamed at Jamie Lee Curtis to finish Michael off the first time because you just KNEW he wasn't dead. And when he rose up a minute later? Me and every one else in the theater lost it!

Curse of the Werewolf

Dark Shadow

Night of the Living Dead

Night Gallery & Alfred Hitchcock Presents...had moment of scaring me silly.

The original "Halloween". Just on the fact that this lunatic could be out during the daytime was creepy. The way the film was shot was eerie too..It's almost like "Where is he at??"...."The Exorcist" scared the hell out of me too. Saw it on cable one night (when I was a kid) and couldn't sleep for two nights.

"Blacula" was scary too..The late great William Marshall was almost too convincing..For a while, I couldn't look at him in any other role after that.

EmmaMcG said:

E.T. gave me nightmares for years. Everything about him creeps me out. How he talks, how he moves, how he looks like Gail Platt from Coronation Street. *shudder*

Ugh, to this day I hate E.T. . It terrified me as a kid. So did Pinocchio though

our parents wouldn't let us have a TV in the house when we were kids....i used to watch Dark Shadows over at my friend's house. pretty scary stuff for a little kid mostly, i got my hands on a bunch of old pulp fiction and read that, which was scary. dismembered bodies in trunks and serial killers on the loose! good times

I'm dating myself but the movie Straight Jacket, with Joan Crawford kept me awake at night for a week when I was a kid.

That movie and the episode of The Outer Limits that had a monster who resembled asparagus.

To this day I do not watch horror films nor do I eat asparagus.

babynoz said:

I have to go with Halloween, too. But two Vincent Price movies based on Edgar Allen Poe stories scared the bejeebers out of me when I was a little kid. One was The Oblong Box concerning a man who was buried alive (Poe's greatest fear). And the other was The Pit and the Pendulum, in which a demented Vincent Price seals his wife alive in an Iron Maiden (torture device) after she drives him insane.

NinaB said:

babynoz said:

I'm dating myself but the movie Straight Jacket, with Joan Crawford kept me awake at night for a week when I was a kid.

That movie and the episode of The Outer Limits that had a monster who resembled asparagus.

To this day I do not watch horror films nor do I eat asparagus.

Asparagus!

Girl, I swear, to my six year old mind that damned thing looked like asparagus....

purplethunder3121 said:

I have to go with Halloween, too. But two Vincent Price movies based on Edgar Allen Poe stories scared the bejeebers out of me when I was a little kid. One was The Oblong Box concerning a man who was buried alive (Poe's greatest fear). And the other was The Pit and the Pendulum, in which a demented Vincent Price seals his wife alive in an Iron Maiden (torture device) after she drives him insane.

I'm a fan of Poe. I admire his writing style.

Bill Laimbeer was a sleestak.

PliablyPurple said:

Bill Laimbeer was a sleestak.

Wouldn't be my first Bill Laimbeer-induced seizure . Damn Pistons.

thekidsgirl said:

EmmaMcG said:

E.T. gave me nightmares for years. Everything about him creeps me out. How he talks, how he moves, how he looks like Gail Platt from Coronation Street. *shudder*

Ugh, to this day I hate E.T. . It terrified me as a kid. So did Pinocchio though

purplethunder3121 said:

I have to go with Halloween, too. But two Vincent Price movies based on Edgar Allen Poe stories scared the bejeebers out of me when I was a little kid. One was The Oblong Box concerning a man who was buried alive (Poe's greatest fear). And the other was The Pit and the Pendulum, in which a demented Vincent Price seals his wife alive in an Iron Maiden (torture device) after she drives him insane.

Yes I would have to say Halloween also scared me too as a kid. That music is so creepy

kpowers said:

thekidsgirl said:

Ugh, to this day I hate E.T. . It terrified me as a kid. So did Pinocchio though

It's strange the things that scare kids... I rented Poltergeist when my son was young and thought it was a safe movie for him to watch, tamer than other movies he had seen. He was terrified of the the scene where the little girl is sucked into the TV set. I had to turn the movie off and leave the light on that night. You just never know.

babynoz said:

This movie also scared me as a kid

The original Halloween (1978) and A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) were scary when I was a kid, they seem more natural that you felt they were real psycho’s. Also the music in both films added to the creepiness. 4 out of 5 for both classics.

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