movies that freak you out

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i definitely know one. saw

the scene with the pig scared the s**t out of me

that clown puppet i also didn't like too much

after i saw it i was freaked out

there were also scenes that just confused me, like how come when dr. gordon cut off his foot, he didn't pass out from shock?

what movies freak you guys out?

The Fly (1986) - When the woman has a dream she is pregnant, and gives birth to a giant maggot.

REC - Spanish horror made with a shaky video camera. The last scene when the two main characters lock themselves in a pitch black room, to escape the zombies, only to find out the original zombie is in that very room...

Dr. Strangelove
The Manchurian Candidate (original 1962)
Brazil
Pan's Labyrinth
OldBoy
Being John Malkovich

all movies I admire

Gummo

Human Centipede- I didn't even watch all of this and it gave me nightmares for a week. It's just... gross.

Mansquito- About a man who turns into a human sized mosquito. Really the freakiest part was when he pierced that one chicks heart and stuff. Eww. Other than that, it wasn't freaky. Just really bad.

Killer Clowns from Outer Space- Need I say anymore?

1408- Only the last few lines though.

Star Wars III: I hate to admit it, but that scene were Anakin is getting cooked alive kinda freaked me out. The third episode is definitely the best of the "first" 3 episodes (and by first I mean Episodes I, II, and III)

In the 1980s Hong Kong action movies were extremely graphic and violent, to reflect a growing gang problem in the wake of the conclusion of the Vietnam war, the morning moans of an awakening dragon (China), as a child in Edmonton, the influx of immergrant refugees particular in North Edmonton in Kirkness for instance... (now the gangs are more organized, and underground instead of being stupid and disorganized).

Hong Kong crime Thrillers, and murder films, that make All these Korean and Japanese Ghost stories now look like a Disney cartoon, were all the rage. And this wasn't the cutsey Kung Fu movies, with Lee or Chan, kicking ass. This was Gore pure Gore. complete with screaming. Since I saw these things in real life. (one of my classmates was savagely beaten to death and laid in his bed), a Native girl was murdered at a park near by the school, and later a Drug Dealing Vietnamese man was shot infront of a 7-11, like a macabe triangle of death....

I was also afraid of many Chinese Zombie movies. (Gerng Shis) (or Stiff dead), were zombies who moved about jumping (as they lacked the mobility to walk, due to Rigor Mortis or Stiff), they would locate the cloest human in proximity and suck on their life force (this is only if the body was tampered with or improperly burried), They were usually rich and wealthy Chinese, who had to relocate away from their home. Sammo Hung started in many comical slapstick "beverly hills ninjaesque" movies where he has to fight these zombies he unwilling aroused. But more scarier ones were freaky. It's said that the crew of these movies were so supstitions they preformed all sorts of good luck appeasment of fooling around with the dead and issues of the dead. In Chinese folk lord, DON'T MESS WITH THE DEAD. Apparently, gangesters would often use these hearsay folk superstitions to scare away the locals from their smuggling. But the Taoist priests who preformed these rituals such as the funeral rites (ie leading the dead dude back to their home of orgin, well according to my Grandpa).

Now I am just afraid of movies that startle or intended to startle.

Misery when Kathy Bates smashes his ankles.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5OlolbLXvw[/youtube]

Hehe one of my fav movies.

E.T.

The night after I saw it for the first time, I had a nightmare that E.T. was chasing me around a seedy motel room with straight razor. I can't watch the movie to this day.

The book was a lot worse (better)

The movie Communion messed me up when I was a kid.
The Blair Witch Project did something to my equilibrium that lasted for weeks.

The movie where people died.

Other then all the scary movies that freaked me out in a "being scared" way, there is the movie Quiet Earth, it was not especially scary, but it had an eerie atmosphere and the end was also unsettling, and I remember feeling weird for a while after watching it. Imdb link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089869/

p.s. the boards for that movie are interesting too, people have different theories to explain what happened.

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I know that one. That's the one with that guy and those people in that place.

Not a lot of movies scare me. In fact, none do. The whole suspension of disbelief is gone. Ones that speak to me on an emotional level makes me want to watch it or save it for another time like the scene in "The Road" where the man is teaching the boy how to shoot himself in the head. I had to shut it off and watch another time.

I try to avoid anything that looks too freaky... what they don't show my mind fills in with sickening clarity and then repeats. I honestly think I'm a bit obsessive-compulsive, that smacks of OCD in some ways. Anyway, I know my weakness and it's nothing I can't live without, but now and then... They sneak up on you.

Such it was in the days when I actually watched Oprah Winfrey. Learned my lesson, I did, but before that happened she showed a clip, partially edited, from the movie An Eye for an Eye with Kiefer Sutherland and Sally Field. It was the sequence when the lady was talking on her cell to her daughter and the daughter answers the door and a guy bursts in and attacks her. Rape is a freaky crime anyway, and even one you can't see (due to the editing for tv, I assume, though I dunno, maybe it was some director's idea to just show the phone) is upsetting, especially since you could hear her screaming as her mom runs from car to car in the traffic jam where she's stuck trying to find someone to call 911 on their phone... and of course, in the movies, the people she runs up to are just so confused by her when really many people, hearing the screams on her phone, more often would call 911 first and question it later... Exaggerated human nature is also freaky. Oh, yeah, I know a lot of people would just put their windows up, but I think the odds are that someone would call. Maybe I'm naive. Anyway...

I burst into tears and had hysterics for quite a while. It just seems like Oprah Winfrey, from what I saw during that ugly phase in my life (watching her show), loves nothing so much as to see women suffer. I don't think she's worked all her issues out. I suppose her magazine is proof of that.

Freaks

(The Todd Browning film.)
Not because of the Circus freaks in the movie, which were the standard side show types. But because of things they could do. There was a 'human torso', a man with no arms or legs. In one scene he was talking to one of the others and proceeded to roll a cigarette by himself, unaided. Watching him do that really freaked me out.

Basic.
Yeah, that John Travolta movie with enough plot points in it to drive a fleet of semis through.
More specifically, the scene where the gay soldier/drug dealer Kendal, played by the very talented Giovani Ribissi, suffers a very gruesome death. He's laying in a hospital bed, mocking Travolta for not being able to solve the movie's convoluted plot, when he suddenly projectile vomits a jet of blood out of his mouth. As the sound fades out with an admittedly powerful scene of Travolta running out into the hallway to scream for the doctors, Ribissi/Kendal dies vomiting blood all over himself.
Vomiting is very disturbing, needless to say. Vomiting blood for me is much worse. I think because of my autism, certain disturbing images like this just stick in my head, after really shocking me when I first saw it in the theater.
And by the way, for those of you who have seen this movie on cable and think, it wasn't that bad, the scene had been censored.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer