I mean after I saw “Friday the 13th” back when it came out I was probably around 12 I guess. Whenever I was in the woods I would start getting an uneasy feeling even downright scared sometime and hurry back to people or civilization. On Friday the 13th I slept with my shotgun by my side for a a couple of years just in case that crazy woman tried to kill me. And I always looked under my bed. (I don’t do this anymore though)
Then after “Texas Chainsaw Massacre”, I would not eat meat from small town bbq places for a while or even stop at deserted looking gas stations.
Also, now matter what house I am in I always look behind the shower curtain in the bathroom - STILL! I don’t know what the point of this is. Because if someone has a knife or an axe and are in the tub, I am history anyway but I just don’t want someone to kill me while I am sitting on the pot.(I would hate to be found that way )
Also if I am going to my car late at night through a vacant parking lot, I always hurry to get in and get it started before someone can kill me. I also ALWAYS LOOK IN THE BACK SEAT before I get in.
Anyway those are a few of the instances where horror movies have messed up or at least lessened the quality of life for me.
Do ya’ll do any of the same things I do? And what other weird things do you do or get scared of because of some stupid horror movie?
I’m a huge horror movie fan, but I know that in real life there are no vampires or zombies, and I can tell the difference between fantasy and reality, so, no, horror movies have not ruined my enjoyment of life.
Well, I know myself just a little toooo well to allow myself to watch horror movies. All it really takes for me to get all juiced up and freaked out is a really good suspense or fantasy movie with creepy characters.
I think my active imagination got its start when I began reading mythology, “true” ghost stories, and etc from the public library when I was 9 or 10. I was a fiend for Greek mythology and all its weird beasts and that led (somehow!) to vampire stories and etc.
I understand what you are saying about fantasy and reality but slasher stuff could and has happened.
So what I am asking is in situations where you been alone in the dark somewhere and start having uncomfortable or frightening thoughts. See what I am saying?
Thank goodness I’m not alone. I always have to check out the back seat before I get in. But lately, I’ve been wondering … what if those 5 seconds or so when I’m checking the back seat gives the psycho enough time to sneak up on me? It’s a tough call.
Also, if the phone rings and I answer and no one is there, I have to check (at least mentally) to make sure all the doors are locked.
That night, after I went to bed, I realized the AC was on too low, so I got up to adjust it.
My thermostat happens to be near the foot of the stairs to my upstairs bedroom. As soon as I saw those stairs, I had the worst feeling I would see a possessed person “spider walk” down them at me.
I couldn’t bring myself to turn off the hall light before I went to bed, because I would have had to walk in darkness back to my bedroom.
The Exorcist is the only movie that does stuff like this to me…
Ever since I saw Roman Polanski’s REPULSION, the sight of slinky curvaceous blonde Catherine Deneuve-lookalikes in filmy negligees sends me running screaming from the room.
I know that after watching The Shining that I’ll never accept a job taking care of a summer resort built on an ancient Indian burial ground during the winter months.
I saw the original of The Haunting* when I was about 12. I started sleeping with a pillow over my head. I got used to it (it’s warmer, darker, and quieter in addition to being “safer”) and continued. I only broke the habit last year. Thirty some years of terminal bed head.
The summer ‘Jaws’ was released, I was on a YMCA swim team that practiced at an out-door, public swimming pool. We were doing zig-zags across the diving pit on day. We had all seen the movie and were chattering about between laps. The next zig-zag accross the pool, some one yelled “Shark!” (You knew this was coming, right?)
The pool cleared so fast, some people had to have walked on water!!
And I thought our coach was going to die laughing at us!!!
After I saw Seven, I had nightmares for months about my kids being hurt or killed. It hasn’t really affected the way I act, but it certainly affected the way I felt. It surprised me that a movie could have that effect on me. Nevertheless, I refuse to watch that movie ever again after waking up all those mornings sick to my stomach.
I’m off ketchup ever since I saw Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. Imagine the unbearable pain and agony whenever I attempt to eat french fries! :eek: I cannot bring myself to add a dollop of mayonnaise as some freaks/weirdos do. I have tried mustard, but it’s just not the same. And onion rings? With what condiment should I spice them? Oh, the humanity!
I’m a wussy and would normally never go see a scary movie, but for some reason I went to see The Sixth Sense. Alone. Big mistake. I’ve always been a little scared about the monster under the bed, and so when the little girl grabbed the main character from under the bed, I freaked out. For weeks afterwards I could not convince myself to get out of bed in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom for anything other than an potential bed-wetting emergency. It’s wearing off now, but still creepy.
I know what you mean. The Exorcist never freaks me out during the day but at night…just lying there in bed, or being near stairs- well…you’d have to be made of glass not to be a little freaked…
The Shining never freaked me out that much though…
The shower scene thing i can sort of relate to…but really I don’t think i’m the type of person to be killed in the shower…
When i was younger, the movie/book the Witches scared the hell out of me…not just a little but a lot. still does…i’d go into more details, but I really don’t like thinking about it. Scared me even more than the Exorcist…(maybe since i saw that first?)
The book the Stepford Wives had such a freaky effect on me…but in a good way. I almost couldn’t put the light off when I finished reading it.
Well, you’re referring to REAL horror flicks, huh?? Nah, we don’t watch those, I’ve gotten my youngest son, [16] hooked on the oldies but goldies. We just watched ‘The Invisible Man’ with Claude Rains, it was terrific. So, as for ‘me and my house’ * horror * flicks brought me and my son closer together!
I’ve been watching the AMC Horror Marathon with my kids for the past couple of days. Tonight they had the Hammer version of THE MUMMY (1959). My four-year-old son covered his eyes during most of the Christopher-Lee-squeezing-the-life-out-of-people scenes, during which I would shout “I just LOVE mummy movies!” at the top of my lungs.
My ten-year-old daughter kept asking where the tanna leaves were, so I know I’ve raised HER right.
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