Horrors Of The Past

[jimw1]

Alien, Jaws, Poltergeist' Salems lot....etc etc

of course these and other Films scared you half to death if you were a young Boy Or Girl,

but what about You' which horror Film Scared you when you were a kid........

personally I saw The haunting when I was about 10 years old and had to sleep with the Light on for a long time after....







Mark Kermode's Blog on the subject Is Interesting............











http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/

[jaycad]

I don't remember being scared of any horror film as a kid rather films not classed as a 'horror', 'watership down' scarred me mentally as a kid as did the horses head in the bed scene in 'the godfather'! I've been more frightened by horrors in the last 15 years than at any time and only certain scenes in 'the blair witch project' and 'the sixth sense'-i must be a big brave boy!

[batman]

A few films which creeped me out as a young boy/teenager ....



The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (the murder in the park)

The Scarlet Empress (torture/execution sequence)

The Counterfeit Traitor (impromptu hanging sequence)

The Mummy - Hammer version (Lee emerging from the swamp and the attack in the prison cell)

Halloween

Les Diaboliques



plus



A sword and sandal epic in which a wax model crushed it's victims in a deadly embrace, I can't remember the title though.

[jaycad]

I've remembered one! the 'stick to the path' scene in 'an american werewolf in london'- after that i adhered to the path system in my home town!

[phil]

Vampire Circus used to spook me. I think the worst though, was an episode of Thriller called The Sleepwalker which is'nt even horror!

[Mark O]

Dr Blood's coffin terrified me at about the age of 12 when shown late on TV, the man being bought back to life in the Cornish tin mine, I was too scared to go to bed lol, on a re-release of the original Hills have eyes at a Cinema when I was 18 I recall walking terrified into an unlit car park afterwards behind the Cinema, I'd only recently passed my test and had a tempermental clapped out banger (as you did), thank God it started, I couldn't get out of there quick enough, it was the image of poor Michael Berryman that was playing on my mind.



At the age of 21 I first saw the original Texas chainsaw massacre, having just acquired a rented Video, they were soo expensive to buy early 80's, TCM also played on my mind for weeks but since then nothing has terrified me as such, I find blood, gore, and horror just a bore these days.

[jimw1]

name='Mark O' date='19 June 2010 - 08:54 PM' timestamp='1276977252' post='441862']

I find blood, gore, and horror just a bore these days.

Me too...But then I alwasy did

I think thats why i was so scared as a Kid when I saw The Haunting' theres not much to see... its The unknown and unseen that scared the begeezus out of me.

I thought the Blair Witch Project had the Same Qualities.......(psychological).....

[jaycad]

name='jimw1' date='19 June 2010 - 09:03 PM' timestamp='' post='441869']

Me too...But then I alwasy did

I think thats why i was so scared as a Kid when I saw The Haunting' theres not much to see... its The unknown and unseen that scared the begeezus out of me.

I thought the Blair Witch Project had the Same Qualities.......(psychological).....

the blair witch project is underrated as a milestone in horror!

[jaycad]

name='phil' date='19 June 2010 - 08:41 PM' timestamp='' post='441859']

Vampire Circus used to spook me. I think the worst though, was an episode of Thriller called The Sleepwalker which is'nt even horror!

There's about seven episodes of 'thriller' which are classed as 'horror'-'sleepwalker' being one of them! 'possession' being the best episode!

[GRAEME]

The final images of the devil energy over London in Quatermas and the Pit. And the mob running amok in the streets. "They're killing the animals" "Not only the animals..."



Really gave me the cold dreads when I was 7 or 8.

[jaycad]

name='GRAEME' date='19 June 2010 - 09:25 PM' timestamp='' post='441880']

The final images of the devil energy over London in Quatermas and the Pit. And the mob running amok in the streets. "They're killing the animals" "Not only the animals..."



Really gave me the cold dreads when I was 7 or 8.

'quatermass' is something i've avoided because i'm unsure whether it's 'horror' or 'sci fi' which are both ends of the spectrum of my viewing tastes.

[jimw1]

name='jaycad' date='19 June 2010 - 09:21 PM' timestamp='1276978909' post='441877']

the blair witch project is underrated as a milestone in horror!

Agree jaycad....Quite a Groundbreaking Film

It was great to see a horror film having such success without gore and Blood' A real psychological mind bender' It just kept you wondering what was out there..

[GRAEME]

name='jaycad' date='19 June 2010 - 09:35 PM' timestamp='1276979725' post='441884']

'quatermass' is something i've avoided because i'm unsure whether it's 'horror' or 'sci fi' which are both ends of the spectrum of my viewing tastes.

It's both. But much more SF. In Quatermas it is the ideas that are scary.



Q &the Pit is the closest to out and out horror - because of its "devils" theme - but there is a hard SF rational underpinning it all.

[jaycad]

name='GRAEME' date='19 June 2010 - 09:41 PM' timestamp='' post='441886']

It's both. But much more SF. In Quatermas it is the ideas that are scary.



Q &the Pit is the closest to out and out horror - because of its "devils" theme - but there is a hard SF rational underpinning it all.

cheers!

[smudge]

American Drive-In classic THE NIGHT WALKER is the earliest film I remember which really spooked me and stayed with me for a long while thereafter. In fact, even now I only have to hear a snippet of Vic Mizzy's disctinctive theme to the film and I get a very Proustian tingle...



I recall on the night when I first saw Robert Wise's THE HAUNTING we had an airlock in the water system and suddenly - and for no apparent reason to my young mind - the walls started knocking from within. Beejabers!!!



My first viewing of PSYCHO encouraged me to sleep with the lights on and made the bathroom a very scary place for weeks!



Any Hammer vampire flick also had me creeping cautiously up the stairs after a youthful viewing.



Smudge

[Gerald Lovell]

The Innocents and The Haunting scared the proverbials out of me (and still do to a degree), though I must've seen Dance of the Vampires quite early on, certainly when I was "too young" to have seen it officially, because the scene of the Count looking through the skylight at Sharon Tate, then descending into the room gave me nightmares for years.

[jaycad]

name='Gerald Lovell' date='19 June 2010 - 11:27 PM' timestamp='' post='441922']

The Innocents and The Haunting scared the proverbials out of me (and still do to a degree), though I must've seen Dance of the Vampires quite early on, certainly when I was "too young" to have seen it officially, because the scene of the Count looking through the skylight at Sharon Tate, then descending into the room gave me nightmares for years.

the fact that sharon tate is in it would be enough to scare me! I have a bit of a phobia about watching actors who died before their time which started oddly enough with a cassette tape that i used to listen to as a young child-arthur lowe narrating the 'mr men' stories! Once i found out he was dead that was it!! Ha ha-i am a freak!!

[smudge]

name='Gerald Lovell' date='19 June 2010 - 11:27 PM' timestamp='1276986460' post='441922']

The Innocents and The Haunting scared the proverbials out of me (and still do to a degree), though I must've seen Dance of the Vampires quite early on, certainly when I was "too young" to have seen it officially, because the scene of the Count looking through the skylight at Sharon Tate, then descending into the room gave me nightmares for years.

DANCE OF THE VAMPIRES stuck in my mind 'cos of the balcony chase with Polanski and the Count's son. When he comes in left of frame with those awesome fangs!!! It was ahead of it's time in monster design by many years - I think it took Hollywood until FRIGHT NIGHT to catch up with such an impressive (and bloody scary!) set of choppers!



Oh how I would LOVE to get a print with the PROPER 'Dance of the Vampires' titles on it....



Smudge

[Gerald Lovell]

name='smudge' date='19 June 2010 - 11:47 PM' timestamp='1276987622' post='441927']

DANCE OF THE VAMPIRES stuck in my mind 'cos of the balcony chase with Polanski and the Count's son. When he comes in left of frame with those awesome fangs!!! It was ahead of it's time in monster design by many years - I think it took Hollywood until FRIGHT NIGHT to catch up with such an impressive (and bloody scary!) set of choppers!



Oh how I would LOVE to get a print with the PROPER 'Dance of the Vampires' titles on it....



Smudge

I did have an audio copy of Dance of the Vampires (sic), though no longer it would seem as I can't find it. Apart from some of the credits being different, according to the notes I made at the time, there were quite a few changes, not least of which is Warren Mitchell dubbing all of Jack MacGowran's lines. I think this may have been editing on the part of Martin Ransohoff and MGM.

The Count's son Herbert, BTW, played by Iain Quarrier, seems to have been dubbed in The Fearless . . . version at least, by Vladek Sheybal.

[Rowdon]

I remember I couldn't get to the end of Nightmare(1964) when I saw it (I was about 12, I suppose). It was just too much. And frankly, finding this photo hasn't helped ... I shall have to watch it again one day...