The movie that still gives me chills to this day is Burnt Offerings, and it TERRIFIED me when I first watched it on TV when I was probably 10.

Most of it didn't scare me at all, except for a couple of scenes with a character just called The Chauffeur. After 35 years, I can still hear the sound of his car driving up to the house, with his ghostly grin behind the wheel...

I've read it's a pretty terrible movie, but the cast is amazing -- Burgess Meredith! Karen Black! Oliver Reed! BETTE DAVIS! I bought it when it came out on DVD, but it's still in the shrink wrap...

I can tell you this thread is mighty scary, when someone saw Poltergeist in the first grade, and I saw that movie when it came out and I was...a lot older than first grade.

Anyway, this is embarrassing, but it was The Wizard of Oz. The tornado was strike 1, as I lived in a state with a lot of them. Strike 2: The flying monkey guards. Strike 3: Dorothy throwing water on the witch and she melted. It was a hella long time after that before I'd take any more than a cursory bath.

I understand the movie is a "classic", but it even creeps me out today.

Not a movie, but I remember sitting next to my dad on the couch watching Twilight Zone pulling the bankie over my eyes when it got too scary for me...and I was 3!:shocking:

i was 5...
 

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and Hitchcock rawked me world...

when I was 4 my mom told me I was a huge fan of Godzilla movies , I still watch them to this day

but the the scariest movie that I had nite mares over was Friday the 13th , cuz we used to go camping a lot , but as I gotton over my fear for some odd reason , I still wanna go camping lol'

First off, I love me some Godzilla. I especially love the very first one, full of wonderful allegory and symbolism.

As for the first scary movie I saw...that was "Alien" which is a favorite movie of my older brother. He let me watch it with him...and I spent the night in his bed. I was so frightened...

Dracula..I was 3

Nightmare on Elm Street. I don't remember how old I was exactly... but very young. Maybe six or seven? My older brother was supposed to babysit me and he watched it with some friends. Didn't care that his little sister was watching it, too. Scared the crap out of me!

The birds was the first...my Mom liked that sort of thing.

The Birds .... I was preschool age, Mom took me to the movie theater. I was in my 40's before I would get near a bird.

And a Twilight Zone episode about a robot toy, my cousin got a whipping for scaring me with his robot toy. I watched it from under my grandmother as she sat on a kitchen chair.

Not sure which came first. :confused:

The religion I grew up in did not allow us to go to movie theaters. In the 7th grade I snuck out with 2 friends to see my very first movie in a theater on the big screen. It was JAWS, lol.

I think the first scary movie I remember seeing is "The Birds", but the first one I saw at the movie theatre was, "Night of the Living Dead" with my four brothers, then we came home and camped out in the backyard...well that was the plan anyway. We were all too scared to sleep outside after watching the movie. lol

P.S. I was 10 at the time.

I don't know if Porky's counts :|

We were at the drive ins...and my parents thought I was asleep...trying to explain that movie to my friends was...interesting... :blink:

if it doesn't count....

I'm pretty sure it was the original Friday the 13th movie...which my dad let me watch the week before I went away to camp for the first time.... I did NOT go in the water....thanks dad...

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dis was da 2nd scariest...

I was five when I saw Creature from the Black Lagoon. I had nightmares until I saw it again Freshman year of college. Boy I felt silly!

My cousins tied me down and forced me to watch psycho. I wouldnt take a shower alone for years. I think I was 6 or 7.

Dressed to Kill. Angie Dickenson. Scary shit.