I feel the EXACT same way!
OK so I’m read this thread thinking all of the movies people are mentioning that I’ve seen too have all freaked me out.
Mr Biscuithead loves horror movies and loves to make me watch them - he’s of same breed many of you seem to be - how much can I take. He also laughed through the Ring while I was terrified.
So I reply that the Se7en is a movie I wish I had never seen. And suddenly I realize I’m sweating and getting anxious just reading this thread. Ahhhh - what are you people doing to me!!!
I am a wussy girl - I admit. Adieu.
Or an overhead fluorescent light buzzing and flickering. :::shudder::: Fun fact, though: that wasn’t even planned. It was a practical, and the crew was going to fix it, but Lynch said, “No…that’s perfect.”
Same here. My father took me and my brother when I was about 8. Then a few weeks later it was The Crawling Hand. My father delighted in scaring the crap out of me when I went to bed.
Horror, gore. None of that bothers me. I’ll walk ten miles to see a decently made shocker.
But I’ll never watch the beginning of The Dirty Dozen again. The scene with the very young and very frightened GI being led to the gallows gave me nightmares. Well acted and coldly horrifying.
Here’s an oddity. The first twenty minutes of *Saving Private Ryan * were overwhelming, horrible; I saw it alone in a theater and cried in pity and horror as I watched. But I didn’t find them frightening in the sense of “I wouldn’t be able to do that in their shoes” sense. The scene that totally unmanned me (a strange phrase for a woman) in terms of “I don’t think I could do that” was later, when the small squad was walking peacefully across a beautiful sunlit field. Now, granted, I had *just * been through Normandy, while they had had several days to recover, but I don’t think I could have so exposed myself. I would have gone around the field or crept across on my belly. That scene frightened me in a way that the opening scene didn’t.
But then, something may be a little wrong with me. I saw (and loved) The Road to Perdition, an extremely violent movie. But the blood, the death, the injury - none of it bothered me on a visceral level. The only scene that had me cringing was a scene where Tom Hanks tries to teach his twelve year old son to drive in a standard transmission car. Every time the gears ground, I was almost under my seat.
I’d forgotten that one! For me, even seeing a scene of (I’m guessing Douglas Fir) bows being tossed by the wind will bring it back. Damn, he was good!
But the TV Show Twin Peaks had some of the scariest atmospherics (and a few terrifying scenes) I’ve ever seen. To this day, almost 15 years later, the sound of an owl hooting or the sight of a hanging traffic light swinging in the breeze can creep me out. It’s almost the only video footage I’ve ever had nightmares about - Laura’s mother’s vision of BOB coming toward her relentlessly, striding over the furniture as if it weren’t there.
There was almost no gore, and nothing that couldn’t be shown on television. Although I haven’t cared for most of Lynch’s work, that series showed me just how brilliantly evocative a director could be, simply by the use of music, camera angles (the recurring shot of the ceiling fan at the landing at the top of the stairs in the Palmer house), and so on.
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Oy! I totally agree with you. That was SO many years ago and still, I freak out at night sometimes when alone in the house anticipating that face appearing in my ground level windows. ACK!
Like many of you, I have seen A Clockwork Orange but will never watch it again - the same can be said for Miike’s Audition. Was compelled to know why people were so terrified by it and once I knew…that was enough!
Friar Ted…
It was one of the “Mondo” movies like I said. There were 3 or 4 of them with “Cane” being the first of the genre. It was probably, Mando Bolardo, however, I have not reviewed these films again in the last 30 yrs. All of them were alittle Bizarre.
Is that the same one that was MSTed in their Season One?
Where it shows cats eating the hand?
When I was little, Jaws bothered me a great deal. We lived in Long Island and it just all looked a little too real for me. Didn’t want to go to the beach for quite some time.
Another one that got me as a kid was “The Legend of Boggy Creek”. I was freaked out about bigfoot for a long time after that.
I have to make mention of Blair Witch as well. A friend let me borrow his cabin in the mountains for a weekend and it was one of a few DVD’s I brought with me. I was in a mood for a little fright and thought it wouldn’t bother me at all. I turned off all the lights and lit a candle and curled up on the sofa. Behind the sofa was a big picture window looking out towards the back of the cabin, which was basically all forest.
I did ok for a little while but about halfway through, I started losing it. I was hearing sounds and seeing shadows and that was it. The lights came on and stayed on. I don’t think I turned them off for the rest of the night. 
I have no trouble with many movies that are scary or freaky like a A Clockwork Orange or Alien. And while I have no desire to see Se7en again, I could deal with it.
However, I can not watch the dentist scene in Marathon Man . And I found Performance so disturbing, I walked almost out of the theatre. Only time that happened to me. I seem to have repressed the exact reason (I saw this twenty years ago), but I still remember the feeling.
That should be:
I almost walked out of the theatre. :o
Sleep deprivation is not good …
I forgot, there was one that I never learned the name of. It was about this pair of gloves that were haunted or something, and there was a scene where the guy turns around…and the glove are halfway down the stairs. Then he turns around again, and it seems they’ve fallen all the way to the bottom. Suddenly
THEY’RE AT HIS THROAT!
Freaked me out for a while.
I’ve always wanted to watch Se7en. Now, I’m not so sure.
I also watched this Korean horror movie called Phone. And the main character found the body of this young girl’s ghost who was haunting her in the wall of the house she was living in. I was afraid of walls after that.
I’m right there with you both!
I already know I won’t be able to watch any of the various 9/11 movies that are in the works right now. Yeah, it’s been four years, but nope, too soon for me.
FWIW, I and six of my friends (we chose the number on purpose) found Se7ven appallingly booooring. We fell asleep halfway through, and didn’t find it frightening at all.
The best thing about Frailty is that the ending is a happy one but it is treated as if it is horrible and ominous. Which I have no clue if it is intentional or I’m just crazy for seeing it as a happy ending.
For me Blair Witch gave me willies the night I saw it. I own it but I haven’t watched it since.
When I was a kid I happened to walk in on a scene in the original Dawn of the Dead… the part in the project at the begining where the zombie bites a huge chunk out of a woman’s shoulder… actually made me afraid of the dark until I was about 12. Today it is one of my favorite movies but I still cannot watch that part.
Ringu didn’t do anything for until at the very end with Ghosty-ghost pants comes out of the TV long after you thought she was “at peace”… Gave me goose bumps.
Years ago, I watched Silence of the Lambs for the first time with my girlfriend at a house in the middle of nowhere in the country late at night (where we were on holiday) and I absolutely shat myself. This is probably the last movie that really scared me and I don’t get spooked that much by movies. I guess it helped that we were miles from the next house and we watched it in the dark.
I tried to watch Naked Lunch again on cable the other night and didn’t get very far before I had to turn off because of all the creepy giant bugs. I can’t believe I sat through this one in its entirety at the cinema.