BOBBYBOB3 wrote:

RULES- MUST READ
They're pretty simple. Basically, all stuff must be SFW and SFL. (safe for work and safe for life.)
This is for two reasons- so this thread doesn't get banned, and so nobody is scarred for life, but rather gets freaked out for a short time, all in good fun.
Also, nothing gory/violent.
Though these rules may somewhat ruin the point of this thread, I don't want this to get banned, so, basically, nothing above PG-13. (Aka. 12A- for british folks)

Now, first stop, a classic movie.
Poltergeist.
For most of the movie, it feels rather “Ghostbusters-y.” Then, producer Steven Spielberg and director Tobe Hooper (that's his name, right?) decide to have a guy rip his own face off. That doesn't feel like ghostbusters, eh?
Then, it gets worse. After the climax, everything is all dandy, but the family still sleeps in the SAME HOUSE THAT THEY JUST WERE TERRORIZED IN. It turns out that the wimpy PG-rated climax is actually not so PG. Suddenly, a toy clown doesn't think chairs are very comfortable.
HEHEHEHEHEHEHE.
Skip to 1:40, where the toy clown disappears.
Poltergeist is actually a great movie. I watched it for family movie night. It was probably the most fun I've had in years. In all honesty, it felt like a horror comedy.


POLTERGEIST FUN FACT- The movie, at least in america, was given an R rating originally, because PG-13 didn't exist yet. Of course, Steven Spielberg and Tobe thought that was stupid, and, on appeal, got the movie a PG rating.
With no cuts.
The same, R/PG-13 movie got a PG, and terrified children for years to come.

Now, what do you think is scary?

samid11 wrote:

BOBBYBOB3 wrote:

RULES- MUST READ
They're pretty simple. Basically, all stuff must be SFW and SFL. (safe for work and safe for life.)
This is for two reasons- so this thread doesn't get banned, and so nobody is scarred for life, but rather gets freaked out for a short time, all in good fun.
Also, nothing gory/violent.
Though these rules may somewhat ruin the point of this thread, I don't want this to get banned, so, basically, nothing above PG-13. (Aka. 12A- for british folks)

Now, first stop, a classic movie.
Poltergeist.
For most of the movie, it feels rather “Ghostbusters-y.” Then, producer Steven Spielberg and director Tobe Hooper (that's his name, right?) decide to have a guy rip his own face off. That doesn't feel like ghostbusters, eh?
Then, it gets worse. After the climax, everything is all dandy, but the family still sleeps in the SAME HOUSE THAT THEY JUST WERE TERRORIZED IN. It turns out that the wimpy PG-rated climax is actually not so PG. Suddenly, a toy clown doesn't think chairs are very comfortable.
HEHEHEHEHEHEHE.
Skip to 1:40, where the toy clown disappears.
Poltergeist is actually a great movie. I watched it for family movie night. It was probably the most fun I've had in years. In all honesty, it felt like a horror comedy.

POLTERGEIST FUN FACT- The movie, at least in america, was given an R rating originally, because PG-13 didn't exist yet. Of course, Steven Spielberg and Tobe thought that was stupid, and, on appeal, got the movie a PG rating.
With no cuts.
The same, R/PG-13 movie got a PG, and terrified children for years to come.

Now, what do you think is scary?

samid11 wrote:

Oddly enough, you want to know what always scared me?

Small Soldiers.

It wasn't really a kids movie (it wasn't intended to be), but it wound up having a TON of kid-aimed marketing (it was about living toys!) and thus became a “kids” movie.

I guess seeing action figures, sentient ones to be exact, getting cartoonishly injured was scarring at my young age. The worst part, though, has GOT to be the part where these Barbie dolls (who had all been broken and mutated by a kid, if I remember) come to life and go completely whackadoodle. It's an awesome scene, though. My favorite part being when one of them is shown with no head, but rather just eyes, and it lets out a fairly calm question of “Did I over-pluck my eyebrows?”

BOBBYBOB3 wrote:

samid11 wrote:

BOBBYBOB3 wrote:

RULES- MUST READ
They're pretty simple. Basically, all stuff must be SFW and SFL. (safe for work and safe for life.)
This is for two reasons- so this thread doesn't get banned, and so nobody is scarred for life, but rather gets freaked out for a short time, all in good fun.
Also, nothing gory/violent.
Though these rules may somewhat ruin the point of this thread, I don't want this to get banned, so, basically, nothing above PG-13. (Aka. 12A- for british folks)

Now, first stop, a classic movie.
Poltergeist.
For most of the movie, it feels rather “Ghostbusters-y.” Then, producer Steven Spielberg and director Tobe Hooper (that's his name, right?) decide to have a guy rip his own face off. That doesn't feel like ghostbusters, eh?
Then, it gets worse. After the climax, everything is all dandy, but the family still sleeps in the SAME HOUSE THAT THEY JUST WERE TERRORIZED IN. It turns out that the wimpy PG-rated climax is actually not so PG. Suddenly, a toy clown doesn't think chairs are very comfortable.
HEHEHEHEHEHEHE.
Skip to 1:40, where the toy clown disappears.
Poltergeist is actually a great movie. I watched it for family movie night. It was probably the most fun I've had in years. In all honesty, it felt like a horror comedy.


POLTERGEIST FUN FACT- The movie, at least in america, was given an R rating originally, because PG-13 didn't exist yet. Of course, Steven Spielberg and Tobe thought that was stupid, and, on appeal, got the movie a PG rating.
With no cuts.
The same, R/PG-13 movie got a PG, and terrified children for years to come.

Now, what do you think is scary?

Why did you repost something I just typed?

BOBBYBOB3 wrote:

samid11 wrote:

Oddly enough, you want to know what always scared me?

Small Soldiers.

It wasn't really a kids movie (it wasn't intended to be), but it wound up having a TON of kid-aimed marketing (it was about living toys!) and thus became a “kids” movie.

I guess seeing action figures, sentient ones to be exact, getting cartoonishly injured was scarring at my young age. The worst part, though, has GOT to be the part where these Barbie dolls (who had all been broken and mutated by a kid, if I remember) come to life and go completely whackadoodle. It's an awesome scene, though. My favorite part being when one of them is shown with no head, but rather just eyes, and it lets out a fairly calm question of “Did I over-pluck my eyebrows?”

*cue evil laugh*

BOBBYBOB3 wrote:

I'm not a 5-year-old, but I'm overly afraid of the dark. I don't REALLY believe in monsters, but there's something about the ambiguity of the dark that scares me- the thought that something could be there, or might not.
I think that lack of knowledge is terrifying.
This video isn't as much creepy as it is informative, but there is a little bit of nightmare fuel.
Why Are Things Creepy?-Vsauce

samid11 wrote:

BOBBYBOB3 wrote:

samid11 wrote:

Oddly enough, you want to know what always scared me?

Small Soldiers.

It wasn't really a kids movie (it wasn't intended to be), but it wound up having a TON of kid-aimed marketing (it was about living toys!) and thus became a “kids” movie.

I guess seeing action figures, sentient ones to be exact, getting cartoonishly injured was scarring at my young age. The worst part, though, has GOT to be the part where these Barbie dolls (who had all been broken and mutated by a kid, if I remember) come to life and go completely whackadoodle. It's an awesome scene, though. My favorite part being when one of them is shown with no head, but rather just eyes, and it lets out a fairly calm question of “Did I over-pluck my eyebrows?”

*cue evil laugh*

For the record, though, looking back I can appreciate that they evened out the creepiness of the scene with the comedy. Not to mention the hilariously girly voices of the dolls (it may have been Tara Strong, actually!) definitely helps soften the scene a bit. I love my horror with some comedy mixed in. Gotta love when the Barbies tie-down the poor older sister Gulliver's Travels style only to have one of them step up and giggle out “Let's see if her head comes off!” Man, that movie knew exactly what kids do. It was eerily accurate. They captured that weird urge that kids have to destroy toys almost perfectly. I never had that urge, but I have some weird obsession with taking good care of toys.

BOBBYBOB3 wrote:

Has anyone ever been scared by the film “Gremlins?” I haven't, but it made me want to laugh and punch the screen at the same time- so many stupid choices are made! The theme song, however, is creepy.
What just happened?

BOBBYBOB3 wrote:

Anything on google images.
Seriously, you type “worm” in for a science project, and you can find worms crawling out of eyes.

BOBBYBOB3 wrote:

It always freaks me out when I'm listening to an audiobook (I do that to help me get to sleep- I'm not an insomniac, but it helps calm me) and then a scratched disc from the library malfunctions- see, one time it was on a chapter of harry potter and started repeating a syllable of a word and started to sound like the word “DIE. DIE. DIE. DIE. DIE.”
Another just plain weird time was when it started repeatedly saying “He was very brave, wasn't he? He was very brave, wasn't he?”

That is not relaxing.
AT ALL.
AT ALL.