anyone else tramitized by movies seen at a young age?!

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i saw the exorsist at 6 and ah half, but after the whole C.M. thing nothing ever TRULY scared me again.

yes, yes you were.

I had MAJOR issues when I was a child. I was young at the time and couldn't sleep so I went downstairs where my brother was watching one of the old Dr Who episodes. Man, I have no idea why, but Dr Who was fighting off a strange small green alien with a shiny silver garden trowel. It sounds so weird to say it now, I don't know why, but I was SO afraid of that green alien thing. I think it made a weird sound which I particularly disliked. Anyway, I didn't sleep well for YEARS. I actually went and slept in my parents room when I couldn't sleep on my own, which was basically all the time from then on. I would only sleep with the door open, and I would be absolutely transfixed on watching the hallway, where the stairs are, so that I could see if the alien was approaching. I could not turn my back, I could not relax. The light would be on, and I would fall asleep with my eyes open. Absolutely terrible.

I had the same problem with another image of a monster I saw a few years later, something about a blood-sucking creature from out of space which would leave the blood-drained animal where it was killed, with two marks in the neck where the teeth had gone in.

The main problem was that ANY sound I heard (and I heard EVERYTHING) I would recognise as being the sound of the monster creeping up on me. So if the stairs made a slight sound (just through normal change in temperature and whatever) I would get real anxious and just listen even more carefully. Vicious cycle ... I had forgotten all about this actually...

How did it stop? -- weird actually -- I started to listen to talk radio at night (I mean, I would be awake anyway), and gradually I became desensitized I guess.

The other random breakthrough was when one night a big storm happened, thunder and lightning all over the place, and I happened to be listening to some band (something akin to Linkin' Park or System Of A Down) at the same time, and actually I was really glad to be alive and to see such a wonderful thing, and it went with the music and just made me really... confident and just like 'huh yeah monsters f*** you!' kinda thing. Odd, but there ya go.

These days I actually quite like being frightened by a scary movie.. so... random...

This does not apply to me.

Tim

well, glad you got over it. wish i could. Tim:why not?are you fearless, or dont you watch tv/movies?

My sister and I went to a Saturday matinee together while visiting with our grandmother. I was 4 or 5 at the time. We saw a double feature, "Frankenstein" and "X The Unknown". I could not sleep without the light on for weeks, and I always checked under the bed at night. I never really enjoyed scary movies at all after that.

Your post reminded me of how I used to freak out over some of the creatures like that on Ultraman (lol).

I guess I saw the stupid comedic like responses by Wonka, and disregarded everything. Then again, I don't know when I first saw that movie. I can see how you could think the kids were going to die, and be scared.

I guess, if nothing else, this site might lead us to try to understand others interpretations, problems, and ways of thinking.

Steve

I remember seeing a part of Highlander when I was younger, where Connor Macleod decapitates an enemy in the car park. It kinda freaked me out, but I remember my brother was really scared of the plant in the Little Shop of Horrors.

Maybe a quick mention for Cannibal Holocaust would be relevant here too, but I only saw that when I was about 14 or 15 or so. It's not really horrifying, just disgusting. It was the mondo footage that got to me, not the animal cruelty. The soundtrack (particularly 'Crucified Woman', if anyone's heard that one) was very effective. Every time I hear it I feel queasy.

Yeah, The Wizard of Oz.

Ever since I saw it tornadoes have been a life long obsession a deep fear of mine. They taunt me in my dreams every second night.

I don't get scared easily as when I was younger. The Ring was cool, I really enjoyed it, and halloween was just cheesy. Nothing that I lose sleep over.

Mars Attacks...

I was affraid that the evil martians would come in to my room as I slept and vaporize me :'(

Scary movies don't bother me at all now, but once when I was seven, I was watching this episode of "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" (it used to air on Nickelodeon), and this skeleton hiding under this kid's bed grabbed his ankle and dragged him under. I knew it obviously wasn't real, but I jumped into bed pretty much every night until I was thirteen. I hate having an over-active imagination...

i saw that one!! ! i thought it was pretty funny...

Yeah, I only saw it once. But I do seem to remember the skeleton guy wearing a big, red jewel ring. Am I remembering that correctly? You know, it's weird that this is the only TV show to ever scare me... Oh well.

I was traumatized by Looney Toon cartoons. I had nightmares as a little kid of Elmer Fud or the whizzing Tasmanian Devil chasing me up the stairs to get me. That was when television was first introdced to our house back in the 1950's and I thought that the inside of the TV set was full little spookey cartoon monsters that come out in the dark to terrify me. Cowboys and Indians were also just as terrifying and any moment I expected our house to be encircled by Indians who were going "woo! woo! woo! woo! woo! " as they were slapping their hands over their mouths and they shooting arrows at the house just as they did "inside" the TV set to the cowboys.

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