Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Quint (A) on September 09, 2005 at 19:04:54

In Reply to: Scariest Movies posted by addict44 on September 9, 2005 at 12:00:42:

My cousin took me to see "The Exorcist" when I was young, and it scared the absolute shit out of me. I still remember all the controversy it generated at the time--and still generates. My parents, who were church-going Catholics, grounded me for a month when they found out I saw it, and my poor cousin was banned from the house for several weeks after that. As for "Alien," I snuck into the theatre with a few friends of mine the day it came out. When the alien came out of John Hurt's chest, you could hear a pin drop. I was absolutely stunned. I had nightmares for months after that. "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark," which was a mid-'70s made-for-TV movie, perhaps creeped me out most of all. We lived in an old, dark restored farmhouse at the time, and I saw the movie one Saturday afternoon. Those little conehead creatures so disturbed me that I looked under my bed and in my closet before going to bed for months afterward. There are plenty of other great candidates, but those are the ones I remember right now.