# Movies You Were Freaked Out By/Are Too Scared To Watch **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 31, 2005, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-were-freaked-out-by-are-too-scared-to-watch/315011 "2005-07-31T14:28:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2005, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-were-freaked-out-by-are-too-scared-to-watch/315011/21 "2005-08-01T09:24:57Z")
**The Wizard of Oz** And, no, not the flying Monkeys. I was freaked away from watching the movie before that. It was thee Munchkins. Not because they were small, but because I got this really weird vibe that told me they were **Eeeeeeevil**. ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2005, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-were-freaked-out-by-are-too-scared-to-watch/315011/22 "2005-08-01T09:53:43Z")
**Jaws**. Spoiled seaswimming for over a decade for me. Jaws is the movie that made me realize that watching horrormovies just isn’t worth it for me. I’ll second **The Ring**. I thought I’d be okay watching it, because the little girls ghost would be rescued, therapeutically set straight, and then all would be hugs and puppies. No such luck. I breezed through **Clockwork Orange** , though. ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2005, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-were-freaked-out-by-are-too-scared-to-watch/315011/23 "2005-08-01T09:59:54Z")
> [@Rufus Xavier](#): > > There is one movie I never finished, though. > > **Eraserhead** Snap! I don’t remember if I did make it to the end but it definitely stirred up things in my head that I’d rather have left alone. Conventional horror films simply bore me. Another film I do _not_ want to see again. **Jacob’s Ladder** I can’t even remember exactly what it was I found so disturbing, but I don’t want to go there again. ---
**Author:** ![dare\_devil007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@dare\_devil007](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dare_devil007)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2005, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-were-freaked-out-by-are-too-scared-to-watch/315011/24 "2005-08-02T00:39:23Z")
Another vote for **The Ring**. I watched it at a slumber party. None of my girl friends could sleep that night. I watched it again with my brother and he didn’t object when I asked him to sleep in my room after we watched it. :Shudders: ---
**Author:** ![Baggins111](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9fc29f/32.png) [@Baggins111](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baggins111)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2005, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-were-freaked-out-by-are-too-scared-to-watch/315011/25 "2005-08-02T02:02:36Z")
**Blair Witch** is a good one to watch the night before you go backpacking. Especially if someone in your group has never been backpacking before. But the one that freaked me out was **Alive.** Yeah, the one about the Uraguayan rugby team stranded after a plane crash in the Andes. The going down / crash scenes were something. I had a flight about a week after I watched it, I almost peed my pants every time the plane shook from turbulance. ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2005, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-were-freaked-out-by-are-too-scared-to-watch/315011/26 "2005-08-02T02:40:39Z")
I literally laughed my way through the Ring. Hated every minute of it. I enjoyed the Blair Witch. I was so drunk during House of 1000 Corpses that I couldn’t uncross my eyes. I saw Saving Private Ryan once and I will never watch it again. I have a really hard time watching the first 20 minutes and last 20 minutes. I also had a hard time with The Passion. One of the hardest things I’ve ever watched, though, was [Night and Fog](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/night_and_fog/about.php), or Nacht und Nebel. Documentary about the Holocaust. God, that was a chilling thirty minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2005, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-were-freaked-out-by-are-too-scared-to-watch/315011/27 "2005-08-10T08:57:47Z")
I thought **House of 1000 Corpses** was pretty much by the numbers. Didn’t faze me. There are two films I’ve never been able to watch, though. My mom recorded both of them off cable while I was away at college. The first was **Native Son** ; I’d read the book for English my senior year in HS. Got about five minutes into it and thought, “It was rough enough reading about this; I don’t have the stamina to watch it in live action.” The other is [Me and Him](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0093240/). She knew I liked Griffin Dunne, and she knew I like stuff that’s “offbeat”. However, I literally could not bring myself to touch the cassette. As Edward Eager said (if he was the originator of the phrase), “Some depths are better left unplumbed.” ---
**Author:** ![Wakinyan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wakinyan/32/352_2.png) [@Wakinyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wakinyan)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2005, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-were-freaked-out-by-are-too-scared-to-watch/315011/28 "2005-08-10T11:07:39Z")
> [@delphica](#): > > No kidding, _Blair Witch_ freaked me out… I will never understand how “The Blair Witch Project” could scare anybody; I can’t remember ever being so bored while watching a movie; the only thing which kept me at it was the hope that someone would kill the morons, and so, I was very disappointed. Just adding this, because the Blair Witch hype really puzzles me. Anyhow, the one which scared me the most when I first saw it probably was **The Shining**. ---
**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2005, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-were-freaked-out-by-are-too-scared-to-watch/315011/29 "2005-08-10T12:43:02Z")
_The Accused_, _Fatal Attraction_, and _Schindler’s List_. I’ve seen each one once, and that’s enough, thank you. Subject matter is sometimes enough to scare me. Even if I’ve seen a movie a dozen times, I still run out of the room during the scary moments and won’t return until well after it’s over. For example: The suffocation-by-grain scene in _Witness_ Robert Shaw being devoured in _Jaws]/i] the actual sinking of “Titanic”_ most of _The Poseidon Adventure_ (I blame that on my tender age at the time, though) Yeah, I’m a scaredy-cat…[font color=pink]_blush_[/font] ---
**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2005, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-were-freaked-out-by-are-too-scared-to-watch/315011/30 "2005-08-10T12:44:37Z")
ARGH! :smack: I just woke up, so please forgive my typing in my last reply! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![rayh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@rayh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayh)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2005, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-were-freaked-out-by-are-too-scared-to-watch/315011/31 "2005-08-10T12:52:00Z")
_The Sixth Sense_ freaked me out. Everytime I went to the toilet at night I kept expecting ghosts to materialise and I don’t even believe in ghosts. ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2005, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-were-freaked-out-by-are-too-scared-to-watch/315011/32 "2005-08-10T12:56:55Z")
_In the Mouth of Madness_. Yeah, it was a sucky film and I’m a wimp. Sue me. ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2005, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-were-freaked-out-by-are-too-scared-to-watch/315011/33 "2005-08-10T13:58:29Z")
> [@jellyblue](#): > > **Se7en**. > > It haunted me for _years_. I just can’t take psychological sadism. It’s one of my regrets in life that I didn’t walk out early in that movie ::shudder:: **Silence of the Lambs** , however, bothered me not at all. I’ll second that. The only time I watched it was when it first came out on video and I was so freaked out by Sloth that I haven’t watched it since even though I hear it’s a really good movie. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2005, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-were-freaked-out-by-are-too-scared-to-watch/315011/34 "2005-08-10T14:03:22Z")
Only 2: _Alien_, I saw it first without sound at a drive in while my family watched _Heaven Can Wait_. When I saw it later with sound, I found I did not miss a bit of the plot, and it still scares the crap out of me. _The Shining_ still creeps me out, too. That movie is too quiet. I just hated the idiots that went camping in \* The Blair Witch Project\*. Follow the damn creek downstream, it will eventually take you to civilization! I just thought they deserved to die for being stupid in the wilderness, and I’m no outdoorsman. I would have been more satisfied with it if they had starved to death. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2005, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-were-freaked-out-by-are-too-scared-to-watch/315011/35 "2005-08-10T15:40:08Z")
I cannot bring myself to watch _My Life Without Me_ and _Wit_. I know they are very good and poignant stories about people dealing with cancer, and that is exactly why I can’t bring myself to watch them. I just can’t summon the strength to deal with the theme. I sometimes have the same problem with _Six Feet Under_ and the undercurrent of death that runs through the series, but I push forward anyways because the writing and characters compel me. On the other hand schlock horror and everything like that I have no problem with because they are usually so far over the top and divorced from reality. ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2005, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-were-freaked-out-by-are-too-scared-to-watch/315011/36 "2005-08-10T15:46:33Z")
_Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte…_ ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2005, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-were-freaked-out-by-are-too-scared-to-watch/315011/37 "2005-08-10T15:47:22Z")
Funny thing too… I used to watch ER all the time, huge fan. I lost my taste for it because of the subject matter and death themata. It really sucks too, I loved my ER time but now I just feel a deep pit of blackness when I hear the theme song. Haven’t seen a new episode in about 3 years… Death sucks. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Roboto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@Mr.Roboto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Roboto)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2005, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-were-freaked-out-by-are-too-scared-to-watch/315011/38 "2005-08-10T15:47:29Z")
One of the “Mando” movies of the sixties, (Mando Cane…Mando Bolardo) There is a disturbing vignette, whereupon, a Svengali type swami lies a young lady down on a table and hypnotizes her. He then goes to a cabinet and returns with a small pairing knife and then cuts the girls arm just below the elbow. He returns to the cabinet with a larger knife and makes a much larger incision and the victim awakens. He re- hypnotizes her, lies her and her bloody arm backdown on the table top and returns to the cabinet. He retrieves a saw and manually saws the girls arm off. Absolutely Horrible… ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2005, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-were-freaked-out-by-are-too-scared-to-watch/315011/39 "2005-08-10T15:58:56Z")
Yet another vote for The Ring. I literally had to change the channel when she came out of the TV and watch PBS for a few minutes. I was all alone at home. I also think Blair Witch Project was completely stupid and would have killed them myself if I could hve. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Bomzaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@Bomzaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bomzaway)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2005, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-were-freaked-out-by-are-too-scared-to-watch/315011/40 "2005-08-10T21:21:57Z")
I’ll cast another vote for **The Exorcist**. What really bugged me about that film was the dream sequence in which the younger priest saw his mother coming up from the subway, then going back down again, as well as a face that briefly appears in that sequence. The rest of the movie creeps me out as well, but to a lesser degree than those few seconds. For the most part, **Blair Witch** was not all that great, but for some reason the description of the witch given by one of the people they interviewed at the beginning was very creepy for me. She was described as being covered in hair, like a horses hair. I don’t know why that bothered me. Also, the brief shot at the end where the guy is standing in the corner. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-were-freaked-out-by-are-too-scared-to-watch/315011.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-were-freaked-out-by-are-too-scared-to-watch/315011.md?page=3)