# Movies that you can't watch by yourself...in the dark

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**Created:** [July 29, 2005, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-cant-watch-by-yourself-in-the-dark/314815 "2005-07-29T21:55:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Large\_Marge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/50afbb/32.png) [@Large\_Marge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Large_Marge)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2005, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-cant-watch-by-yourself-in-the-dark/314815/21 "2005-07-31T11:04:01Z")

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**The Exorcist** and **Amityville Horror**.

I can barely watch them during broad daylight with people in the room.

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**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2005, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-cant-watch-by-yourself-in-the-dark/314815/22 "2005-07-31T20:05:03Z")

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> [@Ruckinge](#):
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> 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.
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> 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.

The show with John Keel (whose books, including TMP, I’ve read since the late  
1970s)? I loved that!

Art now does the last two Sundays in the month.

he’s twice the interviewer George Noory is!

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**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2005, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-cant-watch-by-yourself-in-the-dark/314815/23 "2005-07-31T20:13:05Z")

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> [@Mirror Image egamI rorriM](#):
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> 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.
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> On the other hand, in Signs, any scene with the aliens slinking about give me the heebie jeebies.

Ardred and I feel the same way. I can’t watch Signs by myself at all, but I didn’t find the Ring scary in the slightest. Signs gave me nightmares for weeks.

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