Scariest movie ever!

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The Lost Continent
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063240/

For some reason I saw this flick when I was very young in the movie theater, I was probably about 10 give or take a year or two at the time, I believe it was around Christmas time because the movie theater at the mall showed free movies to occupy the kids while mommy and daddy shopped for presents. It was probably the most terrifying experience of my young life, what were they thinking showing this movie to children, was I the only one who was terrified of this really stupid film? I think that my young aspie brain could not distinguish between fantasy and reality, so while intellectually I knew that this was just a movie, my brain reacted as though it were actually happening, when it got to the part with the sea weed attacking the captain I literally ran out of the theater and did not return, it was far too intense for me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKAxRxW3l9U

I was actually able to dredge up this film by goggling the scene where the captain was attacked by the seaweed, but I distinctly remember over reacted to everything in like manner, amusement park rides, terrifying, hot air balloons, terrifying, as a matter of fact I even have pictures.

So thats me on the far left around 7 years of age (check out the lady on the bike ) with said hot air balloon, up in the air behind us.
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In the next picture there I am, hands on my cheeks, absolutely freaking out thinking something horrible was going to happen to the intrepid balloonists. Note that my mom and brothers are, shall we say, less than impressed by the spectacle of lighter than air flight.

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So does anyone else have specific memories of sensory processing issues such as this, have some of your sensory processing issues subsided with age and experience, in some areas I am very much in control and am no longer overwhelmed but I still have my moments.

I remember being very young watching scary movies with my mom and being fine, but being terrified beyond belief and Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Horton Hears a Who. And had an intense, deathly fear of mousetraps.

Yes! Here are some examples I can think of that used to set me off

Looks of terror/unhappiness on peoples faces I remember in primary school watching a comedy film with my classmates. Some guy was being wrapped up with toilet paper or something like that, and he had a exaggerated look of dismay on his face. Everyone else in the class was screaming with laughter, but I could only concentrate on how unhappy the guys face looked, and was very disturbed by the situation,

Odd dream-like atmospheres Especially ones with strange lighting. Like the matrix because its all a bit green. It doesnt bother me so much anymore, but I remember being taken to a batman film when I was young and I was utterly horrified by it. Not because of anything specific that happened, but because of the overall "dark" atmosphere.

Things that happen too suddenly Even in very tame films that aren't scary in any way at all. I was watching a murder mystery thing with my Mum when I was about 16 or so. It was very very tame, the kind of thing aimed at middle aged people to watch on a Sunday afternoon. Anyway, in the middle of it the music suddenly goes TING without any warning and you suddenly see this old lady standing there holding up a knife. Not the most scary thing in a world lol. But it shot my nerves to shreds and I refused to watch it any more. My Mum was just like what on Earth is wrong with you? She was completely baffled by my by behaviour.

Sadism Like in the Mummy where the guy gets buried in a sarcophogus and the bugs eat him alive. Again, my 13 year old classmates just found it a bit gross, but i couldn't handle it at all.

Please don't tell me you think it's another ''Aspie thing'' to be afraid of something in a movie as a child that wouldn't scare somebody as an older child or adult.

Every NT child I ever knew was scared of something in a film, and me and my cousins all laugh at the things we used to be scared of as children. One of my cousins was scared of something on Sooty and Sweep, what she laughs about now. My brother used to be scared of Wobble the clown on Playdays when he was 5, and used to switch the TV off if the clown appeared (which usually it didn't), and Playdays is meant to be a programme for babies and small children. I used to be scared of Home Alone when the burglar's head got burnt during the traps near the end of the film.

I liked horror movies as a kid, and actually got really interested in them for awhile. Didn't care for them as I got older cause I would notice all the less than realistic special FX and it would take me out of the experience and just make the movie seem cheap.

Men in rabbit suits (when I was 4 or so). Screw that noise. Rabbits shouldn't be that big, but there's a giant pink one before me? Again, screw that. That ain't fiction though. I've hated rabbits to this day.

O, and sand. Who knows where it'll lead to? It'll eat you! That's where.

OP, why was that woman with the bike dressed like that? Was that the style at the time? Just underpants?

As for scary movies, I was exposed to scary movies a lot because of my older sister who watched a lot of scary movies. So I got kind of immune to them.

Regarding the question in the poll, my mother and grandmother loved to take people to Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farrell's_ ... am_Parlour) for birthdays because they'd make a big deal about it. That is, they'd run a siren, make a lot of other noise, and bring something special out to whoever was having a birthday. They apparently found my reactions to this sensory nightmare amusing and my mother still doesn't seem to understand or take it seriously when I say that it was cruel to put me through that. To her, it was all just a big joke.

I was afraid of 1) cameras and eberrything having to do with photography, 2) wolves at the zoo, iGrandmother told me that they would come to get me if I didn't go to sleep, including climbing over the fence into the yard, which means that the cages at the zoo are no protection from climbing wolves, 3) people who worked at a local garbage pump, because they wore uniforms that terrified me.

My mother told me that when I was 4 years old we went to see "Snow White" in the movie theater and I was stiff from fear over my whole body.
I did not know that it was not real.
It always happened with movies, also on TV, and I refused watching TV from early age on.
Not only if there was something scary, but I had (and still have with movies) problems processing what is happening and do not "get" many subtilities or connections and due to face-blindness I do not recognize charaters back, so it bores me very quickly.
Especially "romantic" movies = boring!
Have no concept of "romance".
It is easier watching documentaries and more interesting.

I can't remember any specific fears while watching movies.

But do remember believing the injuries and deaths shown on TV and the movies were real. I knew they were actors, but I believed for a long time that the injuries were real, and that the actor realy did die in the movie. For a good movie, I thought, what a commitment he had, but the movie told a good story, his death was worthy. I was very sad for actors who died in dumb movies, I thought what a sad loss, after all that, it was just a stupid movie and these good actors died for no good reason.

I was probably early teens when I noticed the same actor dieing multiple times in several different movies. This caused some confusion for a while until I figured it out.

I went flying out of the theatre when Jerry Lewis started convulsing while turning into The Nutty Professor. I was 3 years old at the time. Since then, I could never stand to see skinny, nerdy guys in trouble. I just had to reach out and protect them somehow.

Since then, I can honestly say there's only been two films that truly made me jump - The Fog and 100 Feet.

The only few things i remember, was from watching 2 movies as a kid, one was Terminator quite afraid for a while that anyone could be such a robot and would come for you. after all they can just like rip your heart of your chest.

Then there was this Movie called "IT" with this spooky clown, that could come out from anywhere where water could come out, like out of your water tap.

I still dont like Clowns to this day, something of about them, painting their face and hiding behind it. Dont like it.