For me, it’s Alien. I love this movie, and I have seen it numerous times. When I have nightmares, which isn’t often, they either involve something horrible happening to my kids or me trying to outrun or hide from the alien. As silly as it is, and even though I know that it wouldn’t happen…I can’t shake the heebie-jeebies once the movie starts.
So, I’m curious. Anyone else avoid watching a particular movie (that they love) when alone…in the dark?
Even after all these years, I still get creeped out by Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho. I haven’t tried watching it while I’m alone in the dark, but I don’t think I’d have a very good time if I did.
Poltergeist.
As a kid, I looked like the little girl in it, so my sister would make me sit in front of a fuzzy TV screen and say, “They’re back.”
I get the gibblies just thinking about it.
I love horror movies, but i can never watch them by myself.
Just the plain old Texas Chainsaw Massacre. When I was a kid my friend’s cousins watched it in the other room while me and my friend cowered in the kitchen. Hearing it without seeing it at a tender age was pretty scary. Twice as an adult I have tried to rent and watch it all alone at night and couldn’t do it! Eeeeee, that’s some scary stuff. No way! I eventually watched the whole thing with a boyfriend one evening and it wasn’t too bad. I sure wouldn’t ever watch it all alone at night though.
When the Blair Witch was still in its hype phase and hadn’t been released I remember going completely MENTAL just from the previews on the website. Then I went to the theatre for a matinee as soon as it came out and I still didn’t know it was fake. Well…that was the point at the time. I looked at the goofy website, got very scared, then went to see the movie in a complete state of suspended judgement (I think part of me suspected it was a made-up story but I did not pursue the line of thinking and managed to go in not sure if it was real or what.) That was the scariest thing I’ve ever seen! I ran home to my internet to assure myself it was all made up. But I’ve never watched it since. God, you know people made fun of that movie really bad but it was scary if you saw it right. Really scary!
Only one that comes to mind is The Exorcist. I definately freaked seeing it when I was around 14. I still don’t think I would want to watch it by myself in the dark. As a group it would be fun.
The Mothman Prophecies. Probably because I too live in a small industrial town that seems so ripe to have something wacky like that happen.
Wait Until Dark. I can only watch this movie at noon on a sunny Tuesday surrounded by the cast of Up With People. It’s slightly less scary that way.
Night of the Living Dead still gets me every time. I’ve even watched the remake on a sunny afternoon – with commercials – and it still gave me the creeps. I love horror movies!
I watched it by myself in the dark. It’s a little disappointing actually. Mostly there’s eerie moments, ominous sound, sometimes something jumping at you.
When it came out they had a night about it on the Art Bell show, followed the next night with a full call-in episode on monsters. That was much better IMO. I miss Art.
I still can’t watch The Exorcist by myself in full light, let alone the dark! And I’m not even a believer in demon possession, by any stretch of the imagination.
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Has anyone seen the Director’s Cut, when she crabwalks down the stairs? shudder That gives me the willies!
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Also, Event Horizon scared the bejeezus out of me the first time I saw it (at home, alone, after I pulled night shift). Watching in the daytime? Notsomuch.
Beautiful! I’m wiping away tears of laughter here.
Liberty3701 beat me to Poltergeist. It’s the clown that’s bad for me…very, very bad. shudder
Oh, god, the clown … I always wondered why I had such a fear of clowns, then I saw the movie again…
I watched The Ring well over two months ago, one time, late at night, and I wasn’t even alone.
To this day, I get the willies when I turn off the TV, expecting it to come back on by itself all staticy and a dripping wet dead girl to crawl out and zip across the room at me. The way she moves in that movie, all choppy and quick-like, that kind of movement gets to me in the worst way.
I’m looking forward to getting The Ring 2. I’m such a glutton for punishment.
The Grudge freaked me out. The plot was weak and everything, but the way that girl looks and the sound that comes out of the boy’s mouth…
and the way that chick’s jaw comes off at the bottom of the stairs…
eek
Exorcist. Can’t do that one in the dark no matter how hard I try.
And this is coming from a guy who watched Halloween at 2 a.m. in a wooden shack in a woodland area with no other housing or property for 5 or 6 miles. After the movie finished I actually went out for a stroll.
Japanese or US?
Movies that you can’t watch by yourself…in the dark
There aren’t any. Kind of a shame, really.
I watched the Ring by myself in the dark, at a slumber party. Ok, so I wasn’t really by myself, but everyone else was asleep. It didn’t scare me at all.
On the other hand, in Signs, any scene with the aliens slinking about give me the heebie jeebies.
US I guess. The one with that girl that played in Bridget Jones’ Diary. I think.
Actually, Naomi Watts (King Kong, Mulholland Drive, Children of the Corn IV) was the lead in the American version, not Renee Zellweger. Looks like her though.
By the way, I was freaked out and really enjoyed watching The Ring in theaters. The hype helped. A couple months later some friends and I rented Ringu and I don’t care what anyone says I thought the American version was better. Some of it was already knowing what to expect in the Japanese one, and then comparing those moments with the American (ours were, naturally, more over the top, although I was surprised that was true from the culture that made Battle Royale).
I don’t think I’ll ever watch the American version at home though; never been interested to and I might be bored, unless I watch it in the dark of course…