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

Kat · 10-23-2013, 09:28 PM

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...

Gráinne · 10-23-2013, 11:54 PM

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.

KayCee · 10-24-2013, 03:56 AM

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!

puddin' · 10-24-2013, 05:05 AM

and Hitchcock rawked me world...

10-23-2013, 11:54 PM	#2
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10-24-2013, 03:56 AM	#3
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10-23-2013, 09:28 PM	#1
Kat Junior Member How Do You Identify?: I do not, thanks Preferred Pronoun?: She Relationship Status: Taken Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 51 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 229 Thanked 151 Times in 37 Posts Rep Power: 1472368	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...