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OMG!  That is without doubt The Shining.  I watched it at noon with the curtains open with my boyfriend at the time and I still had nightmares about those twin girls.  *shudder*

I don’t like scary movies, especially those gory, bloody ones.

For me, it would be the 1976 version of “The Omen”.

I loved THE HAUNTING too, Liz!  But alas, I saw it AFTER the new version and after reading the book, so I don’t think it had the same impact on me.  I wish I could have seen it first!

I just blogged below you on one of my favorites which I know you love too

I’m clearly a fraidy cat because I cannot watch scary movies.  I got nightmares from a commercial for the X Files once.  However, I have to say that I have such a curiosity about the movie version of the The Haunting.  I’ve read the book many times, I believe the full title is The Haunting of Hill House, and it is really creepy - everything Shirley Jackson has written is, but this book, wow.  Absolutely eerie.  Maybe one year I’ll work up the courage to watch the movie.

But, I’m not betting the farm on it

Oooh --- “The Shining” gets my vote too!  Watched this whenI was 10 and was always scared of long hallways too. Scary!!!!

And speaking of Shirley Jackson, one of my favorite books of all time is WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE.  I just never saw the twist at the end coming.

I am a weenie at scary stuff..but,

“The Exorcist” still freaks me out..I really get scared at that one.

I thought the movie, “The Blair Witch Project” was interesting, scared me, and surprised me with what was not shown. Not being a big camping fan to begin with, this movie put the cap on it for me.

I liked “The Shining” movie, but I really liked the book better..(same with The Dead Zone..book) A bit off topic, but I thought that period of S. King’s writing was brillant..

Did anyone else have to read “The Lottery” in school? That freaked me out then and now!

I’d have to say “Secret Window”, which is not really “horror” but personally I find movies that could be true to be the most disturbing!  “The Grudge” and “The Ring” bothered me too.  They weren’t GORY but just disturbing! Personally....I’m not a scary movie fan and even commercials for upcoming movies freak me out and I change the channel!  I’m a big ‘ol chicken!

Minya, the book, too, has the absolute best opening I’ve ever read in a book: “Nothing can continue to exist sanely in conditions of absolute reality. Even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, had stood alone for many years and might stand for many more. Within, walls continued upright, brick met smartly with brick, mortar with mortar. And whatever walked there, walked alone.”

Okay, now I’m scared to leave my office…

Ms. Mary, we read the lottery in school. Also very scary and creepy and atmospheric. She’s an amazing writer.

Ms. Mary, “The Lottery” was one of my favorite short stories that we had to read in school.  It stuck with me for a long time and still gives me the shivers when I think about it.

I am a horror fanatic-movies(classics especially: Dracula, Frankenstein & his Bride, The Mummy, The Wolfman, The Invisible Man, and of course today’s movies).  I have raised all my godsons, nieces and nephews to love, enjoy and never fear the genre. It is wonderful to share with them my love of Halloween.

The one movie that I saw once and have never seen again is The Exorcist.  I saw it at 16 and have never forgotten it.  Whenever it is on TV, I just avoid the channel it is on. At best, today, I’m a laxed Catholic but that movie still affects me with it’s satanic context.

Funny you should bring up The Haunting.  I watched the orginal version Saturday.  AMC and TMC were playing all the older horror movies during the day while playing the newer stuff at night.  I’ve always loved the old black and white horror movies.  Even the ones with Abbott and Costello.  I can remember staying up late on weekend nights to watch The Mummy with Boris Karloff, Dracula, etc.  They used to scar me silly. 

The one movie that scared me the worst as a teenager was Alien.  I had to sleep with a light on for at least a week after watching that thing come out of that guy’s chest.  I avoid the Freddie and Jason type horror movies. Just too much gore for my taste.  I don’t mind reading it in books, but don’t care for watching it.

ALL scary movies scare me to no end.  They stay with me for say a week after I watch them.  My husband loves them.  Thankfully, he goes to watch them on my bunco night with the girls so I don’t have to go with him.

In my childhood Children of the Corn scared me the worst.  It is especially scary when one lives in a corn-farming community.  In my adulthood the Exorcist haunted me for days.

I’m a complete weenie when it comes to scary movies.  I can still freak out over a Dracula movie I saw years ago (I don’t even know which one; Chris Sarandan was Dracula).  Fortunately, my husband doesn’t like them either, so we don’t ever go see them.  “Young Frankenstein” is about as close to horror as we get.  And I don’t even want to think about slash ‘em up flicks.  I don’t like body counts in my entertainment!

Three cheers for Elsie for mentioning the Universal Horror Classics! To me, as a male fan, Bela Lugosi’s DRACULA was what gave me (at 12!) a taste for gothic romance. But for pure horror, don’t miss ISLAND OF LOST SOULS, with Charles Laughton as a truly creepy scientist committing ghastly experiments on a tropical island.

From the Sixties, I loved MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH, a low-budget movie of the Edgar Allen Poe story. Vincent Price was very dark (and sexy!) as Prince Prospero, the jaded, cynical nobleman with the most tempting pleasure palace imaginable. And Jane Asher was incredibly brave, innocent (and still sexy!) as the courageous peasant girl Francesca, who resists temptation and refuses to surrender her soul—or anything else—to the dark prince. Again, I think the power and allure of this kind of movie is definitely what led me to reading romance. (And by the way, Jane Asher was the real life girl friend of Beatle Paul McCartney at the time this film was made!)

Did anyone else see the romantic themes hidden deep in classic horror?

I don’t watch a lot of scary movies...I don’t care for them, because they sit with me too long.  But the last scary movie that truly freaked me out was: The Sixth Sense.  We saw it as a midnight showing, and when it let out at 2 am, I kept looking around to see if a) I could see dead people; and b) I might be dead...because hey, after that movie, you just never know if you’re dead and simply don’t realize it.

NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE! I mistakenly put in the original blog that Xtina was giving away ARCs of her February book. In fact, it’s her DECEMBER book, THE PRINCE KIDNAPS A BRIDE for which she is giving away two ARCs.

My bad. Please address all angry e-mail to
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Hey, I SAID it was for tricks, didn’t I? So I tricked you. Good on me.

Larry, I loved all those spooky Vincent Price movies from the 60s. Oh, and “Sixth Sense,” Ms. Hellion. I was practically crawling into my husband’s lap while we watched that one.

I love to watch horror movies--in fact spent all weekend watching Monsterfest on AMC, but I have to agree that the original version of The Haunting is one of my favorites because of the atmosphere and suspense as I kept waiting to see the ghosts.

Another favorite isn’t really a horror movie, but it’s still plumb chuck full of suspense--Wait Until Dark with Audrey Hepburn.  What could be scarier than being completely blind and being terrorized?  Audrey was so convincing in that roll.

Oh Chele, I loved those Abbott & Costello “horror” movies!  They were just so much fun

My vote for all time scariest movie is What Ever Happen to Baby Jane.  I watched it when I was very little.  The scariest part is when she cooks the rat or the bird...I can’t quite remember.  It was a long time ago and I was watching it through my fingers.

No scary movies for me, I even have trouble with the heavy suspence ones too. I remember being young and seeing a Disney movie with the Banshee in it. :Shudder: That Banshee and i still have night time visit but at least now most of the time i don’t wake up in a cold sweat. Ugh! 

I’m a horror movie junkie, so I’ve seen most, and most don’t scare me. I will say that Blair Witch creeped me out, but also, there’s a very small, not-well known movie called The HauntED (not Haunting) that came out about 10 years or so ago starring Aiden Quinn and Kate Beckinsale that chilled me to the bone. Nothing gory at all. Just, well, hauntings. But it was a beautifully made movie with no jump out and scare you stuff to mess up the great ooooooo and ahhhhh chilling ghost revelations.

Oh! And another oldie but goodie is the Barbara Hershey classic, The Entity. That movie was horrifying to me on many levels!

G’Morning Everyone

This may seem strange but I have not found a movie that has scared me yet. I love scary movie’s I can watch them all year around.  Now There has been some good movies mentioned that I have not seen so I will look into them and see if they can scare me

Elizabeth, that’s ok you did said for tricks so no problem. I will let you pass
Great giveaways though any one will do for me

Have A Wonderful & Safe Happy Halloween Everyone.

Trick-Or-Treat
Smell my feet, Give me something good to eat. If you don’t I don’t care I’ll just pull down your underwear

Hugssss
Linda.H.

I hate, loathe and despise scary/horror movies.  I always get nightmares from them.  The only scary movies I’ve seen in my entire 49 years on this planet are:

Frankenstein - my brothers loved this movie and made me watch it with them.  I think I was 7 or 8.  I would creep into bed with my Mom because I was so scared.  She used to tease me and ask if I was watching “my boyfriend” again.  Then she’d cuddle me and I’d fall asleep.

The Bird with the Crystal Plumage - My first bend to peer pressure.  All the kids on the block went.  I was 13 and thought I was all that because I was finally a teenager.  I remember the movie had lots of knives and stabbings.  I slept with a nightlight on for weeks.

Silence of the Lambs (kind of) - In my mid-30’s, you’d think I would have outgrown peer pressure by then.  But my husband and I were spending the night at my boss’ vacation house in NC.  My boss, grown-up child that he was, knew I hated scary movie but still insisted we watch that movie.  Was I an adult that had free will and walked out of the room?  Nooooooo.  I watched that damn, horrible movie from a little hole in a cashmere throw the whole time.  My boss, his wife and my husband got the biggest kick out of it and teased me mercilessly for ages.

Did I mention that I hate, loathe and despise scare/horror movies??????

I LOVE scarey movies, but I HATE blood and guts.  The gorey stuff makes me sick.  I just bought “Rosemary’s Baby” from the bargain bin at Wal-Mart a couple of days ago.  I have seen parts of it but never the whole thing.  I am gonna watch it tonight after I get the kiddies into bed.  Something about that concept creeps me out.  I can’t wait!

I am such a fraidy-cat.  I do NOT like horror or scarey movies of any kind.  However, I can watch all of those ghost shows about ghosts on tv and I’m just fine. 

For me, the scariest movie was the original ‘Halloween’.  I watched it at my in-laws house in Cave City, KY.  Now, I don’t know if the rest of you are aware, but John Carpenter the director of the movie, lived in Bowling Green, KY.  When writing this movie, he used local towns.  So while watching this movie in Cave City, KY I knew that Smiths Grove and the other names of the cities in the movie were within a 25 mile radius of where I was watching that movie.  Talk about being scared out of your wits!!  THEN...when we went to bed that night, my EX went right to sleep and he was breathing heavily, just like in the movie!!  I didn’t sleep a wink that night and haven’t watched a scary movie since!! 

--dorothy-scaredy cat extraordinaire.

Add me to the “don’t like scary movies” club.  I don’t like them and don’t watch them.  I did make the mistake of watching “Silence of the Lambs” on TV once - silly me, I didn’t realize it was going to be so scary.  Even watching it on TV in the middle of the day freaked me out.

Aliens with Sigourney Weaver scared the bejebers out of me.  Of course I went to a midnight showing of this flick with my boyfriend, now husband.  It was a great reason to cling.  I love it now but that movie kept me up a few nights. 

Of course one of the scariest images of all time are those flying monkeys from the Wizard of Oz.  Maybe it is the young age we usually see that movie for the first time, but those monkeys still give me the creeps.  I have a sign in my office that says “Don’t make me get the flying monkeys” Everyone who sees it laughs, but they know exactly what it means.  I can almost see their brains flashing back to the first time they saw those monkeys.

NcNan’s right, “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane” is a good one. So is “The Bad Seed”—it has a creepy, “perfect” little girl, a spooky-yet-normal atmosphere, and a Great ending. Love it!

I like creepy suspense/thrillers, but I agree with the many who have said that gore squicks them out. My friends keep telling me to watch “Saw” and its sequels b/c it’s “psychological” more than gory.  Um, have they SEEN the trailers? “Saw” is a bloodbath!

Oh, and a recommendation for those who really don’t like horror movies: Rent an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000. It takes cheesy old sci-fi/horror movies and has these characters “watch” the movie (you can see their silhouettes at the bottom of the screen) and they make up new dialogue for the movie, make snarky comments, etc. It’s very funny! Or, you could rent “Plan 9 from Outer Space”—generally believed to be the worst movie ever made. I think it was supposed to be horror (?) or maybe sci-fi (?)—but it’s SOOO awful that it’s really comedy.

Evenstar: Was the movie you saw “Darby O’Gill and the Little People”? It has a young Sean Connery in it, and a very frightening banshee. Might be the one!

Now for a question: Has anybody ever seen a movie with—I think—Rex Harrison and Doris Day playing a married couple? In the movie, the wife keeps getting threatening phone calls, but nobody else hears the calls and they think she’s just making it up or going crazy. Ring any bells? I remember seeing part of it when I was little, and I’d really like to see it.

Thanks!

One of the scary movies I remember the most as a child was about this woman who had been buried alive and this old woman kept hearing her under the ground but couldn’t get anybody to believe she wasn’t crazy.  It might have been a TV movie.  Does anybody remember the title?

I do remember sleeping in my parents’ bed that night.

Wirdald:  I think that you are looking for “Midnight Lace.”

“The Ring” really scared me.  It took me such a lond time to get over that movie.  And I had a tv in my bedroom so that didn’t help.

Oh Wirdald, the Rex Harrison/Doris Day movie was MIDNIGHT LACE!  I adore both of them and remember that movie very well.  I’m obviously going to have to go on a shopping spree now at deepdiscountdvd.com!

"My friends keep telling me to watch “Saw” and its sequels b/c it’s “psychological” more than gory.  Um, have they SEEN the trailers? “Saw” is a bloodbath!”

Saw III *is* a bloodbath (still good, however).  But I and II, not so much.  Or maybe I’m just desensitized.  And they *are* psychological… trailers will always focus on the gore to appeal to the horror fans.  I just know that ever since the first Saw, every Halloween I’m like a little kid at Christmas waiting to see the next one!

OK, now that I’ve had about six people I can trust tell me it’s a psychological thriller, I guess I’ll be renting “Saw” this week.

That’s a good point re: the trailers. The “Saw” people probably believed it would be a surer bet to market the movie as simply a gore-fest. Gore is easy to show or imply. Psychological scares? Not so easy to convey in a 30-second trailer.

I LOVED Darby O’gill and the Little People!  It gave me nightmares for months, though, as a child.  I rediscovered it with my roommates in college; the banshee was no longer scary, but then that’s not exactly why we watched it!  It’s a hokey movie but worth watching for any die hard Sean Connery fan.

It was children of the corn, can’t watch it to this day and the miniseries of stephen king’s IT, that clown still scares me

I do not like horror movies or scary movies at all. Being freaked out doesn’t entertain me. It just, well, freaks me out.

I’ve seen some, though, in order to come to that conclusion. There are moments of The Shining that scare me, though the book was worse.

There was a movie I saw once as a kid with this little metal ball that flew around and went for the eyes when it attacked people. It had rotating blades. It was terrible. I will never, ever watch anything like Saw.

And of course Children of the Corn. I lived a long while in Lancaster County, PA. Lots of cornfields. *shudder*

When I was 12 we had to watch a horror movie at school. Normally the movie was PG 18 but the movie was forbidden. It was really horrible. A teacher made us watch the movie because he was a substitute teacher and didn’t want to teach us.

I like Vampire movies like Bram Stoker’s Dracula & Interview with a Vampire

Dorothy, I had a good friend in Bowling Green when “Halloween” came out, and she said it was SO scary, because she knew where the streets they referred to were and everything.

Oh, DAMN, Avery. You had to bring up those flying monkeys. Now Terri’s not going to sleep a wink.

Wirdald, I LOVED “Midnight Lace”! And I love Mystery Science Theater 3000, too. It reminds me of a show we used to watch when we lived in South Jersey called “Mad Movies,” where they took old films, cut them down to a half-hour, and replaced all the dialogue with hysterical stuff. My husband and I still quote from that show.

Only one person blogged about the movie that can still scare me into sleeping with a blanket over my head and that’s Stephen King’s It. I first saw this movie when I was about 6 years old and I’ve been scared of clowns ever since. I read the book when I was about 13 and for some reason it just couldn’t scare me like the movie did. I think it has something to do with those teeth!

OMG!  I NEVER liked clowns...even before I caught a glimpse of the clown in “IT”.  That clown just sealed the deal for me!  I was in my teens (trying to be brave in front of my friends) when I saw it and that clown freaked me out for weeks.  My best friend would terrorize me in class with pictures of clowns she would leave on my desk!  Needless to say..how EMBARASSING since the hottest guy in school sat next to me in my World Lit class....

Oh, and another of my all-time favorites is POLTERGEIST!  It’s that wonderful contrast between the family (especially JoBeth Williams as the mom we’d all love to have) and the horror.  I still adore it!

Ladytink_534, “It” was the first horror movie I can really remember watching, too. I think the trauma made me block most of my memories of it, but I do remember one of the most horrifying (to me) scenes was when the photo album started seeping blood. It disturbed me so much. I mean, that was his Brother who had died! That’s like destroying even the memories of his brother!

One thing that still freaks me out is the dream scene from “Fiddler on the Roof.” I haven’t watched that movie in years because that part scared me so much as a kid. This old woman rises from her grave and starts shrieking and singing—I think. Like I said, it’s been years, and it probably wouldn’t frighten me so much now ... but then again…

Elizabeth--I went to college in Bowling Green, but when I saw ‘Halloween’ I had already graduated when the movie came out.  Still, it scared the living daylights out of me.  I never was fond of scary movies to begin with and that just sent me over the edge! 

Generally, I hate scary movies. However, my favorite movie when I was about 4 was an 80s “horror” film called Critters. Does anyone remember it? I would run around asking to watch “Critters Cripes,” from what they called the creatures in the movie (which I just found out from the internet was actually krites. Who knew?). It must not have been that scary, huh?

As I’ve gotten older, I’ve studiously avoided almost all scary movies. I just hate to be scared, and since I get startled very easily, I find them all scary. My mom is still terrified of the Exorcist, so I have especially avoided that one. The scary movie that I have seen that freaked me out the most was probably Poltergeist, which my brother the horror aficiando tells me is not that scary. I had to sleep with my closet door completely closed for YEARS because I was so freaked about the girl getting sucked into her closet in the movie. And when the kid gets attacked by the clown after he looks under the bed - ack! Even knowing it’s coming, I would jump and shriek. I have chills now.

We have discovered a new phobia..Clowns! I hate them too!  What shall we call it? Greasepaintphobia?
I personally think it’s a cheap shot when kids-stuff, toys etc..are horrified..there was a show called “Night Stalker” with Gavin McCloud, that TV show freaked me too!

I don’t watch alot of scary movies but I do remember the first time I saw The Shining.  My friend was spending the night and we watched it on HBO in the wee hours of the morning.  The creepiest thing for me was that the scary room that no one wanted to go into was room 237.  The street address of the house we were watching the movie at was, you guessed it, 237.  I don’t think we got much sleep that night.

Billie, Wait Unti Dark is one of the scariest movies I ever saw too. I saw it in 1967, and I have never watched it since; yet I still remember the experience vividly.

Two others that I saw only once many years ago (the same year, I think) that gave me nightmares for ages--Village of the Damned and Psycho.

Teresa, I’m betting you like the Marxx Brothers and W. C. Fields movies too.  Mae West was my hero.

King’s It never scared me.  I was rather disappointed in the movie.  Though I’ve always thought clowns were creepy even before watching. 

For everyone who’s afraid of the horror stuff - even the old cheesy ones - how about a romantic ghost story?  The Ghost and Mrs. Muir - one of my all time favorite movies.

Oh and I forgot....the movie that creeped my out the most - Arachanphobia.  I’m scared @%&!less of spiders.

I have a love/hate relationship with scary movies.  IF I’m in the right mood, I will greatly enjoy being scared out of my mind while hiding under a blanket (or another person). It’s kind of like riding a rollercoaster for me. I’m scared witless, maybe cowering, and yet loving it at the same time.

The thing that scared me the worst was actually a book, not a movie. It was ‘The House of Thunder’ by Dean Koontz, which I read while I was in elementary school. I couldn’t decide whether I needed to read faster to just get through it or read slowly so nothing bad would happen out of the blue, so I ended up just clutching the book as hard as I could and going for it. It remained one of my favorite books for a few years, and, strangely enough, one of my favorite elements was the small romance! (I think that shows something about me, that the part which struck me the most about a horror story was the romance, I’m just not sure what. ) Now I’m feeling all nostalgic and want to read it again!

Back to movies, the worst story I have actually happened to two kids I babysat. When this little boy was four and his sister was three, a babysitter (NOT me) showed them a horror movie - “Scream”, I believe. When I babysat the poor kids they were 5 and 6 and the little girl STILL had to sleep with her brother, with the lights on, otherwise she would completely freak out. What kind of person shows a horror movie to 3 and 4 year old kids?!?!?

blueskies said, “I couldn’t decide whether I needed to read faster to just get through it or read slowly so nothing bad would happen out of the blue, so I ended up just clutching the book as hard as I could and going for it.”

Remember on Friends when Joey was reading THE SHINING and when he got too scared, he put the book in the freezer? That scene worked for me so much because in some weird way, it made sense.

I LOVE Halloween, it’s my favorite time of the year, I mean, I do my best to scare my kids all of the time for no reason, but at Halloween, Oh man, do I go overboard.  Luckily both of my boys take after me, I LOVE horror movies, LOVE them!!  Can’t think of any that I wouldn’t watch again...Love the Exorcist, The Entity, The People Under the stairs, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, The Shining...Omen, I could go on....

But there was this one movie, very old I believe, with a lady that was killing people and putting their flesh or something in this ring and somehow using it to stay young...I can’t remember it and I very much want to find it, does anyone else remember this one?  I think there were some amazon river scenes?

HAPPY HALLOWEEN SQUAWKERS!!!  Muahhahhahhahh

I think I was put off scary movies at an early age.  When I was about 5 or 6 my dad was “watching” us one afternoon while watching a very scary zombie movie.  When the movie was over he was bombarded with a chorus of “Dad, zombies aren’t real, right?” What did dear loving dad say?  “Oh yes they are and there’s a cemetery right around the corner.” I was afraid of zombies for years.

For me it HAS to be Exorcist. 

I come from a REALLY strict protestant religion whose pastors were always scaring the wits out of us kids with stories of devil possession, I think as a means of “scaring us straight”. 

Anyway, one night my older sister (who stank as a baby sitter) let me watch it on TV.  My dad came in to us both huddled together on one sofa cushion, a blanket on our noses—at the ready to cover our eyes.  He knew the damage was pretty much done, so he squeezed between us, put a big arm around us both, and sat laughing at all the pea soup vomit flying across the screen. 

That helped, but I still had nightmares. 

In my teens, scary movies were the perfect opportunity to fake fear and squeeze close to whichever boy one happened to be flirting with at the moment.  I don’t remember much about the Freddy movies, but I sure as hell remember Torsten....ahhhh.  He even showed great chivalry by holding my hand underneath a pillow during the really scary parts.  It’s just too bad my hand was sweaty from nervousness.

Does anyone remember the Changeling? THAT was a scary movie! The scene with the drowning and that damned ball bouncing down the stairs....

Wait a minute!!!!

What’s this about Teresa being afraid of flying MONKIES????

Oh geez, I’m too much of a coward—I hate scary movies.  LOL I still ask myself how is it I watched the X-Files ever week. . . LOL During a Halloween party in high school, they showed some Steven King movie and I hid in the kitchen with another friend and the original friend’s parents.  I love the Mummy (Brendan Fraiser version), but I do know when to look away. . . And while I love GB in Phantom, I really hated Dracula 2000. . .

Lois

I dislike scary movies to the nth degree.  I have visions of things in the house even in the light and I get scared.
One time I watched a terrible movie with my friend and her boyfriend and sat with my eyes closed a lot of the time.  I can’t remember the name but it was where there was a chili cookoff and the winner had made chili from people’s brains(yuck, yuck!!!  Guess what I sometimes think of when I make chili.

My scariest movie I saw growing up was “The Birds”. Alfred Hitchcock at his best. Tippi Hedren was terrific.

Scariest movie out now - Flicka.  It’s terrifying to think of what they’ve done to the book, what happened during the shooting of the film and what horse myths it propagates.

On a more serious note , I don’t watch horror movies.  I can’t even watch Supernatural, and I hide when previews of scary movies are shown, even if they’re supposedly PG13 or for the general audience.

I totally related to Joey because I too thought THE SHINING was the scariest book I ever read and I used to cover it up with something every night before I went to bed.  Sounds like it’s time for a re-read!

Stephen King remains one of my favorite authors and I just picked up his new one--LISEY’S STORY.

Okay, I know its not really that scary but Pet Semetary really creeps me out. That little kid is just...wrong!  “No Fair. No Fair, Daddy” Oh and the cat. *shudders*

I’ll admit I’m a big ole scaredy cat. My older brother took me to see a Friday the 13th, it was in 3-D. When that guy’s eyeball popped out and flew at me I screamed so bad we had to leave the theatre.

I’ll stick to romantic comedies thank you very much!

I love scary Movies, I had too, growing up my mother loved them and every halloween she woukd turn off all the lights and my brother and I would sit on the couch w/her and watch the horror marathons that where usually on that night. Thanksgiving, we were all more excited about the Twilight Zone marathon that used to show all day, then in the great food we where going to eat.

I love all those old horror movies, the first Haloween, The first Friday the 13th, Children of The Corn, The Bad Seed, Rosemary’s Baby!  But the one that scared me the most was The Ring, I went to see that w/my best friend and had to come home to an empty house late at night. I was still trying to get the image of the little girl coming out of the TV, when my phone rings. It was my friend she thought it would be funny to call me and whisper “Seven Days.” I didn’t sleep for the rest of the night!

This will really date me.....I was 7 or 8...I was a “Tarzen” movie....all those large animals coming at me...had wild dreams for several weeks after that.

As a teenager I became a movie projectionist...so since then I don’t become “scared” at movies....more interest in the mechanics of presenting than watching.

Fire in the Sky - it’s based on a TRUE story. Alien abduction and they weren’t nice ones. It’s the only movie that truly scares me.

I’m not sure of the name of the movie, but it had the gal in it from Romeo & Juliet (dark hair and tiny). She lived in a sorority house, and some of her fellow sorority girls were missing, and assumed killed. At the end of the movie she was in the house alone, the cops had caught the killer (they thought), and then the phone rings and it was the bad guy. It shows her answering the phone and then you see him in the attic of the sorority house with the missing girls in plastic.  That is how it ended.  Scared me for months! 

So I no longer watch scary movies because I have trouble getting them out of my mind, and my husband is tired of coming into the bedroom at night and me yelling “who is there”.

The first scary movie I remember was “The Frozen Dead”; I saw it when I was 10. A scientist’s minion kills a young woman in the house and decapitates her so the scientist can use her head for experiments. He mounts it in a glass box, and somehow she can talk… and develops telepathy which she uses to move dismembered arms and legs mounted on a nearby wall. I vividly remember being frozen with terror myself.

When I was eleven my parents made a bedroom for me in our basement. I would sit up late watching scary movies by myself and then have to go sleep in their room. They banished me from their bed only to wake up the next morning to find me asleep on the rug at the end of their bed.

In one movie, an Egyptian woman had lived for centuries by periodically turning into a cat and killing people for their blood. You knew she was coming for someone because they would show the shadow of a cat moving across a wall near the person. The night I watched it, the light from the window (in a window well) over my bed funneled bright moonlight onto a wall across the basement. I lay in bed peering over the covers at the wall, waiting to see a cat shadow. I don’t remember if I made it upstairs that time.

When I was 8, I had to be a part of things when they butchered a hog on our farm. There was nothing I could safely or usefully do to help, so my great uncle told me to hold the hog’s tail while they scraped the hog. It felt like a gristly, hairy finger. My great uncle was a fine storyteller with a gruff voice, and he told me afterward that the pig would haunt me, coming to my window and peering through saying, “You held my tail!” I barely slept for days. I went to see Amityville Horror 8 years later and nearly came out of my skin when the little boy’s secret playmate - the evil pig Jody - peered through his bedroom window with glowing red eyes.

It’s no wonder I grew up to have a definite twist in my brain. Liz, I’ve not seen The Haunting but Jackson’s book is one of the scariest ever, without a drop of gore. Such a contrast to Raising Demons. And I went to WKU, so seeing Halloween years later was a treat. Of sorts.

You would think that the movie, “Amityville Horror” would be scarry.  Not so much for me.  The BOOK scared the *you know what* outta me!

Or maybe it was the fact that I read it while I was alone babysitting in a house by a lake during a thunderstorm.....NAH!

I still get freaky around flies and look around for a priest.

the shining *shudders* i didn’t really know what that movie was about my friends just said it was good and popped it in

never again

also, i never saw the birds but the story was enough to scare me that i refuse to watch it

i actually JUST read the lottery for the first time in my lit class this past summer...that was wierd...i did NOT like it!

ughhh...happily ever afters here, PLEASE!

I just watched SAW III this afternoon with a friend. What a crap film. The gore factor was what grossed me out. But there wasn’t much scare effect. I have to say that the first “Scream” film wigged me out, only because it had great scare tactics. The gore doesn’t bug me, it is the “BOO”!!  Anyway, Saw may be tops at the box office, but it is getting 2 thumbs down from me. Wait until video.

I personally watch a LOT of horror movies--in fact before I discovered romance novels (Teresa’s Breath of Magic got me hooked) I only read horror books.

Anyways, stop-motion camera work in particular really creeps me out, and ergo, the remake of The House on Haunted Hill with the fabulous Geoffrey Rush is one of my favorites.  The way the Dr. in that movie walks is beyond scary.

I’d agree with The Shining as being one of the scariest (all you really need is Jack Nicholson’s demonic eyebrows to scare me), but, for me, The Exorcist is boring.  Plus, I think I laughed when Linda Blair threw up and peed in front of everyone.

I’d also list From Hell, From Dusk till Dawn, The Evil Dead series, and the Scream series as being some of my favorites.

The Witches takes top honors in regard to what petrified me as a child.  I was so afraid that I would turn into a mouse.

theLisa, I’m sure I’d probably agree with you had I actually seen Saw III.  However, I gave up on the franchise after the second one because I find the villian to be such a hypocritical, sanctimonious *insert expletive here*!  I don’t think I’ve ever hated a movie character more.  I’d also say that I generally don’t enjoy “torture” movies though I have no problem with gore.

I’m such a horror wimp.  I steer clear of most scary movies.  I love the old Vincent Price, Bella Lugosi type movies but the ones made from around 1965 on just creep me out.

When I was in high school I went to the drive-in theater to see NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD with my boyfriend.  OMG, that movie just scared me silly.  I had to drive by three cemetaries to get from my house to my boyfriend’s house and I’d shake like crazy every time I drove by them.  It took me years to get over that movie.  Two others that I watched once and will never ever watch again are PSYCHO and THE SHINING.  (shudders)

I am not a horror movie person.  Got talked into going to see The Exorcist when it first came out and the whole bunch of us stayed up all night in one apartment, scared to death.

Love the old Bella Lagosi classics and I love things like The Sixth Sense.  A favorite is Dead Again with Kenneth Brannagh and Emma Thompson.  I believe Robin Williams has a cameo in that one.  I highly recommend it, if you haven’t seen it.

I haven’t watched too many scary movies.  Mostly because they just don’t scare me very much.  A book, however, can really have me turning on all the lights.  I wonder why that is!