# What movies have given you nightmares? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 14, 2002, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-given-you-nightmares/113998 "2002-06-14T07:17:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Semp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Semp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Semp)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-given-you-nightmares/113998/61 "2002-06-18T00:02:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sam Hell \* > **Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure** The trucker lady, when her face changes…gaaa. I screamed and ran. ☹ Ah, Large Marge… I can’t think of how many times I hit slow on the ol’ remote control just to take in the beauty of the claymation… ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-given-you-nightmares/113998/62 "2002-06-18T01:41:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by El Elvis Rojo \* > \*\*I recently watched a Japanes movie (I believe) called **Uzumaki** which just had some pretty fucking creepy images of people mutating that really stuck in my head in that moment right before sleep. \*\* Holy crap, you ain’t kiddin’. We saw it a couple weekends ago as part of the Seattle International Film Festival. After the film, we couldn’t go home right away-- we very much wanted someplace bright, cheery, and full of other people. We found ourselves at Denny’s having a _really_ early breakfast. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Gozu\_Tashoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7993a0/32.png) [@Gozu\_Tashoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu_Tashoya)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-given-you-nightmares/113998/63 "2002-06-18T02:14:01Z")
**Dark Water** , the newest(?) movie from the maker of _The Ring_ wasn’t much better. Not quite as twisted (hah) as Uzumaki, but still quite a good scare. ---
**Author:** ![furr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7ab992/32.png) [@furr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furr)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-given-you-nightmares/113998/64 "2002-06-18T03:36:27Z")
my parents where possibly slack in letting me watch horror movies from a very young age, i remember watching the omen when i was 10 and not really being frightened, so for the most part i have been desensitised to films that are meant to scare. then i watched …‘Seven’ in my early 20’s … it scared the crap out of me, i had nightmares for two weeks straight. ---
**Author:** ![emolson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5fc32e/32.png) [@emolson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emolson)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2002, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-given-you-nightmares/113998/65 "2002-06-20T03:28:17Z")
Towering Inferno - not the fire, the falling ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2002, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-given-you-nightmares/113998/66 "2002-06-20T04:19:26Z")
_Marooned_, which came out when I was about 7 or so. I had bad dreams about falling from great heights into infinite emptiness for a while after that. _shudders_ ---
**Author:** ![MONTY2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/53a042/32.png) [@MONTY2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MONTY2)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2002, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-given-you-nightmares/113998/67 "2002-06-20T14:32:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Miss Mapp \* > \*\*I saw this made-for-TV movie when I was 8: Kim Darby opens a sealed-up chimney in her old family home, and these little gnome-like creatures get out. They terrorize her, and eventually drag her back into the chimney and make her into one of them. It scared the hell out of me, and I must have had at least a dozen nightmares featuring those little gnome guys over the next 10-15 years. > > When I saw this movie again as a grown-up, I realized how cheezy some of the special effects were–paper-cut-out shadows, rubber masks with mouths that didn’t move–and that really helped me get over it. \*\* I thought I was the only person in the world to have seen this movie. I watched it when I was around 7 or 8. My brothers let me watch an all night horror movie marathon with them and they both fell asleep leaving me to watch this movie alone. To this day if I find myself in a dark room I get the feeling one of those little gnome things is scurrying accross floor to get me. Even now, I avoid taking a shower at night, when I do I have to have an alternate source of light such as candles or a flashlight available, just in case the little monsters find a way to cut the power. It’s good to know I’m not the only one who was haunted by that movie. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-given-you-nightmares/113998.md?page=3)