[Lillyvon]

Originally Posted by STFU_Donny

Ok, this still creeps me out

Me too - and even scarier she is still alive and doing well:

[mellissa]

Originally Posted by Popsicle Pete

Okay, you want something embarrassing? Here you go.

Garfield's Halloween Adventure. Scared the bejeezus out of me when I was four or five-ish. I was also scared by the Garfield episode where his TV comes alive.

Garfield's Halloween Adventure was terrifying to me as well. Especially the scene where Garfield and Odie are hiding from the ghost pirates.

[crumbsroom]

Originally Posted by King Elessar 8

There was some 50's film (the name of which I can never remember) with flying brains that strangled people. I saw a couple of seconds of that and I ran out of the room screaming. It scared me as a kid too.

Fiend Without a Face?

[The Mighty Dingus]

A local channel in St. Louis (where I grew up) would occassionally show uncut movies (accidentally, I assume) late at night. I saw this movie, Equinox, one night and it absolutely scarred me. I came across a videocassette of it years later and it's pretty laughable. Turns out it was an early cinematic endeavor by Dennis Murren (I think) with lots of charmingly clumsy stop motion.

[Monster of the Week]

Originally Posted by gilaskan

"Hey Spielberg, let's combine poop, progeria, and a chimpanzee into a single being with a telescoping neck and an voice that sounds like bag-pipes. Children everywhere will love him!"

Terrified ME as a child, personally.

I first watched ET when I was 4, which was a huge mistake. I'm still scared of the f**ker.

[Vivid]

Originally Posted by Dead and Messed Up

You know, I'm noticing that a lot of people here are listing terrifying things that terrified them as a child.

I look at most of these images now and don't say, "What were we thinking." I say, "Of course we were scared."

Yeah a lot of this stuff would be genuinely terrifying for a child.

I saw Rock N Rule when I was 6. Mok kinda scared me. That's all I got. Although I was watching horror movies at that age.

[crumbsroom]

The Twilight Zone movie has been mentioned a couple of times already and still no one has mentioned the "Do you wanna see something really scary" bit with Dan Aykroyd and Albert Brooks. Go figure, those two guys being involved in a scene I thought was one of the most upsetting things I'd ever seen up until that point.

[Lillyvon]

Originally Posted by crumbsroom

The Twilight Zone movie has been mentioned a couple of times already and still no one has mentioned the "Do you wanna see something really scary" bit with Dan Aykroyd and Albert Brooks. Go figure, those two guys being involved in a scene I thought was one of the most upsetting things I'd ever seen up until that point.

[STFU_Donny]

Originally Posted by Lillyvon

Me too - and even scarier she is still alive and doing well:

Actually, Zelda was played by a guy, Andrew hubatsek because they couldn't find a girl skinny enough for the roll

[Uncle Luke]

Originally Posted by Hipster Thor

I feel like I'm the only person who has read The Never-Ending Story, not just saw the movie adaptation. The movie only covers the first third of the book, and quite poorly at that. The whole book is an astounding literary marvel of creativity that has a lot of things to say about egoism, relation of imagination with reality, depression, and corruption. Gmork is actually very important in the book.

Obviously you're lying about this: if you truly "read" The Never Ending Story.....you'd still be reading it today. Psh.

[Uncle Luke]

I still say Pet Cemetary is one of the scariest movies I've ever seen, and Zelda always freaked me out terribly.

You ever see this video, there's a real life "Zelda" out there. (Warning: This is incredibly creepy/disturbing) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISBeBuVKXL0

Try not to tap out before the last minute, because that's the craziest part.

[Lillyvon]

Originally Posted by STFU_Donny

Actually, Zelda was played by a guy, Andrew hubatsek because they couldn't find a girl skinny enough for the roll

I did not know that! I would think they could find hundreds of women too thin to play that - but eh. Thanks for the info x

[King Elessar 8]

Originally Posted by Uncle Luke

Obviously you're lying about this: if you truly "read" The Never Ending Story.....you'd still be reading it today. Psh.

How do you know he isn't?

[King Elessar 8]

Originally Posted by crumbsroom

Fiend Without a Face?

Thats it. Ugg.

[The DP from 20000 Fathoms]

Originally Posted by crumbsroom

The Twilight Zone movie has been mentioned a couple of times already and still no one has mentioned the "Do you wanna see something really scary" bit with Dan Aykroyd and Albert Brooks. Go figure, those two guys being involved in a scene I thought was one of the most upsetting things I'd ever seen up until that point.

The redesign on the gremlin was absolutely terrifying. That segment was a complete pants-shitter for me. Holy god.

[Harakiri]

[Harakiri]

Originally Posted by STFU_Donny

Zelda from pet cemetery destroyed my childhood

Yeah, that too.

[Impavido]

The scene in Ghosbusters when Slimer comes barreling down the hall at Bill Murray scared me ****less when I was 7.

[Dread]

There was some film (maybe a short?) that I picked up from the library as a kid that involved a zombie/vampire turkey. I think it was a comedy.

It scared me to tears.

[uniform]

Originally Posted by TeamCanada

I think the idea that A & B list actors would be involved in such a thing f'd with me. To this day I'm not sure why they did this lol.

Romero? King? Warner Bros.? Creepshow's ****ing awesome.

[Rumpled 4 Skin]

Originally Posted by Harakiri

Is this from The Exorcist.. cause i've seen the film at least twice and still haven't seen him above?

[wil-san]

Originally Posted by Rumpled 4 Skin

Is this from The Exorcist.. cause i've seen the film at least twice and still haven't seen him above?

No, The Exorcist didn't have any ghost-faced monsters that I can recall.

[Skinless]

[Skinless]

Originally Posted by Rumpled 4 Skin

Is this from The Exorcist.. cause i've seen the film at least twice and still haven't seen him above?

Yes - it flashes in quickly a couple times.

[audierules]

this really freaked me out.

[Rumpled 4 Skin]

Originally Posted by Skinless

Yes - it flashes in quickly a couple times.

I must have been making a cup of tea

[crumbsroom]

Originally Posted by Rumpled 4 Skin

I must have been making a cup of tea

It comes in during the scene where Demi is dreaming of his mother, running towards her on the street. If I'm not mistaken it comes in at the moment she starts descending the subway steps.

The image also ends up being used later on, being superimposed over the face of Regan during the Exorcism.

[uniform]

Originally Posted by Skinless

Yes - it flashes in quickly a couple times.

Yep. It's been a while, but I believe the first is when Regan's mom is in the kitchen, where it flashes over the pantry or fridge..something like that. The second is during the exorcism, where I believe it appears over Regan's face. I found them to be the scariest moments of the film. They use those flash techniques in Exorcist III, and again, those are the moments that haunt me from that film.

Edit: I believe the above is also correct. It does flash during that dream sequence. So it is shown at least three times.

[crumbsroom]

Originally Posted by uniform

Yep. It's been a while, but I believe the first is when Regan's mom is in the kitchen, where it flashes over the pantry or fridge..something like that. The second is during the exorcism, where I believe it appears over Regan's face. I found them to be the scariest moments of the film. They use those flash techniques in Exorcist III, and again, those are the moments that haunt me from that film.

Edit: I believe the above is also correct. It does flash during that dream sequence. So it is shown at least three times.

This was added for the extended directors cut. It won't appear like this in the original though.

If anyone needs anymore Exorcist questions tended to, I'm here all night folks.

[uniform]

I only had one, and I posted it after reading an interesting blog.

[Spoilers]

One thing I don’t quite understand is following Merrin’s death, when Karras returns to Regan’s room, the demon seems almost giddy. Is the demon pleased with knowing this result would upset Karras, or was it just trying to fool Karras into thinking this was the outcome the demon wanted/made happen?

His reply

uniform, thanks for your comment. Actually, the demon did not want Merrin to die (this is from the novel) – when Merrin accidentally dies of a heart attack, the demon is furious, yelling at the corpse, “You would have lost”, i.e., he should have lived to see Regan die of being possessed. Instead, Merrin, from the demon’s viewpoint dies too early, before the demon can humiliate him by killing Regan in front of Merrin’s eyes. Therefore, I think the giddy laughter in the film is just to infuriate Karras. In the novel, there is no giddy laughter, but rather one final obscene remark directed to Merrin’s corpse, which infuriates Karras and propels him to attack the demon.