What was the first scary movie you saw? How old were you?
 

About 6. I remember like it was yesterday. "The Crawling Hand" The hand of a dead astronaut returns from the grave to strangle people. After I saw that movie, I must of checked under my bed for at least a month lol.

The War of The Worlds. I was probably about 6 or 7. It didn't scare me at all. But I read Hansel and Gretal and I was terrified for years. It wasn't the witch that did it, it was the cavalier way the parents decided to get rid of their kids. Tricking them into going for a walk in the woods and leaving them there pretty much freaked me out. I regarded my mother and father with suspicion ever after.

The Exorcist. I think I was about 7 or 8. It didn't bother me too much, but I remember my friend I was watching it with got really freaked out and her parents got mad at us for having it on.

I was just about to say this! It was my first one too. My little sister watched it with me and I used to tell her it was in her closet. :o

I dint the name of it at all but it was about GAINT spider. I'm sure it's why I can't stand spiders now. I think I was 4-5. We still lived in Fla and hadn't move to Alaska yet. Every now and again it's a random not real sure y

Amityville Horror....I was almost 4. My mom was watching it...I had woke up and went into the living room to ask my mom if she would go down the hallway to turn on the bathroom light for me cause I was scared of the dark....before she went to turn the light on...I had already seen enough to scar me for life.

LOL!

QUOTE=Teddybear;856682]I dint the name of it at all but it was about GAINT spider. I'm sure it's why I can't stand spiders now. I think I was 4-5. We still lived in Fla and hadn't move to Alaska yet. Every now and again it's a random not real sure y[/QUOTE]

LOL! I bet she could'nt sleep in her bedroom for a month.

I don't remember the first one I saw, but I for sure remember being quite young and watching the Exorcist. My (ex-Catholic) mother had to give my sister and I crosses to wear to bed that night (true story).

I used to creep up past my bed time and peek over the stairs to watch Tales From The Darkside . There was one episode about a woman who turned who turned into a giant spider and ate her victim. I kept having bad dreams about the show, but that didn't stop me . I still was still sneaking around to watch the show regardless of my nightmares.

I'm thinking I was about 5yso,it was a movie about dinosarus,the movie house was huge as it had an orcastra(sp) pit,stage plus three balconiees of seats to watch the shows.I remember it being dark,loud with sounds of the dinos,screaming of the actors.I remember hideing behibd the seat and looking over the edge of the seat.I have had a fasionation with dinos every sence,I really dig the old rubber suited Godzilla movies,cheesie as all get out bit love them anyway.T think the name was "land of the Dinosarus" .

Eye for an eye. I was 6 years old and it made me have nightmares of Keifer Sutherland for YEARS.

Probably around 5 years old I watched Chitty Chitty Bang Bang on TV while my brothers were off being born or something.
That child-catcher guy with his nose and his net and that wagon?
My blood still runs cold and I'm feeling fear NOW even thinking of that character.
Who's the sicko who'd put that character in a children's movie???
FFS!!

I would guess, that there were two shows I could easily name. But one was called Day of the Triffids, the film was made in 1962, but I watched it in '66, the year my grandfather died. In fact, that's HOW I watched it, all the adults were putting up the food neighbors had sent and all of that sort of horseshit, and I was watching television and it came on. The premise is that everyone on earth goes blind, and these plant things that look like thorny shrubs, came from a meteor or something and kill people. Noises like the ice cream man truck would draw their attention and they could get in houses and everywhere. I remember thinking about all the shrubs in my life, like behind the house, along the side of the house, boxing in one of my neighbors yards, the shrubs I passed on the way to church, and how ALL of these could be dangerous killers. I don't know if my parents realized I had watched that show, but having reseen it a few years ago now, I realize my little brain wasn't understanding the ending or really a lot about the movie, just the scarey ideals of it. That show would haunt me for years, especially when we delivered papers early in the morning in the wealthier neighborhoods LINED with tall boxy (and often thorny) shrubs.

That book was creepy as shit too!!!

Argh! Did you have to remind me of that movie! Terrifying to little me!
*unsubscribing from this thread!!!!*

First scary movie was Poltergeist. I was in first grade.

I don't watch many scary movies now. Haven't even seen famous scary films like the one where the little girl is possessed (name escapes me at the moment) or the Nightmare on Elm Street series. I don't mind suspense fims (Argo had my stomach in knots!), but I really don't like being terrified or grossed out.

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...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081505/


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.