Just really got to me. It was stretching my nerves TIGHT. Couldn’t deal with it

The Ring scared the bejeezus out of me. Slept with a light on for three days after that. I was forty something when I saw it

When a Stranger Calls had me checking behind curtains and in closets for months

I don’t watch scary movies anymore

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson.

It was the first version of the movie. I was OK with it, but right before the ending my date got up and ran out of the theater. I didn't see the ending of that movie until years later. I had to get up and go after her. I wanted to stay and finish the movie, but I decided I would eventually see it again.

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1) The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) directed by Tobe Hooper

2) Midnight showing of the Night of the Living Dead,

3) Dawn of the Dead

4) The Exorcist

as it was filmed in the Pittsburgh area. The Exorcist, I had read previously to seeing the movie. But the movie scared me more than the book

I spent most of it in the theatre lobby, while my friends stayed in the theatre.
I flat out refuse to watch horror movies- I have a vivid enough imagination, I don't need to see it splashed across a screen!

When I was about 5 years old I went with my folks to the Base theater and there was a movie on called "Tarantula". My little self took one look at the giant spider and started screaming. I wouldn't stop screaming. My folks had to snatch me up and get me out of there. I wound up with a bad case of arachnophobia that I have been trying to do something about for years now. I have finally got to the point where I can look at a picture of a spider without freaking out, just get a tad nervous, and am actually getting comfortable with the little jumping spiders - took me over 60 years to reach this point. Talk about a long-lived reaction!

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One of the guys I worked with at the time The Exorcist came and he told me this story. He and his brother were sharing an apartment and they took their 15-year old brother to see the movie at a late showing. After the movie, they called their mother and told her their brother was going to stay at their apartment instead getting home late. While their 15-year old brother was asleep, they crept into the bedroom went on opposite sides of the bed. Then, they picked up the bed and started shaking it violently causing their younger brother to wake up screaming. The guy said it took them awhile to calm their younger brother down but that it was funny.

I didn't walk out of any of these but still scary to me and my girlfriend

I had a date to see it, I had actually seen it the previous week. She made it till the scene where Linda’s head went all the way around. Well, we had to leave then, went back to where my date was staying. She went to turn on the TV and I heard her scream. The TV had come on to an Exorcist ad, the scene where Linda’s head turned all the way round!

Scary, in a way, to me… and deeply appalling. (Shudder…)

Night of the Living Dead. I was pregnant and it just made me sick.

to stop them and finally in the end, they simply shot them? Couldn't they have done that in the first five minutes?

Having been raised semi-Catholic (my mother was agnostic, but my grandmother took me to Mass), that movie scared the bejeezus out of me. That was when it first came out.

I never watched it again but I've often wondered if it would affect me the same way all these years later. Would the special effects be laughable to me now? I don’t think I'll ever know because I'm still reluctant to find out!

It was required for a film class... It was too triggering...

That night, maybe a couple of nights, chairs had to be pushed next to our parents' bed for me to sleep on. Later on, Mother and I had a thing going for the Twilight Zone and I would be on the floor next to her in her chair, pressed together and both of us occasionally screaming and jumping.

The Shining a couple of times, but The Exorcist only in pieces years after it was in theaters, nothing more of that genre that I think of. Heard about Chainsaw Massacre but wouldn't think of seeing that. Oh, Silence of the Lambs once.

The non-violent parts of The Shining and Twilight Zone were chilling - where NICHOLSON as an "author" was typing and typing away at his book, a yard high stack of typed pages, and it's revealed all it all was was "All work and no play..." . And the Zone where a farm type old woman alone on a vast prairie was harassed by tiny astronauts and it's revealed in closeup of the space ship, "United States of America."

Years afterward, when I learned who James WHITMORE and James ARNESS were, I never made the connection they were in Them.

The ant sound!