What was the first Scary movie you ever saw?

My first one at the theater was "Halloween". I was 14 or 15 and it scared the dooky out of me. After that the only movie to ever really bother me was "The Exorcist." One other I liked, but would make the hair stand up was, "The Changeling" with George C. Scott.

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Originally Posted by wwmjkd

stephen king's 'It.' took me months to brush my teeth again and years to go near a sewer grate.

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Me toooooo. I'm 28 and i still don't get close to sewer grates!

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Originally Posted by MarkS

The earliest I remember seeing was The Haunting (1963 version) on TV when I was about 9 or 10 years old. I couldn't sleep for weeks after that. But the scariest was going to see the Exorcist in the theater with my Dad when I was about 14 or 15.

The movie itself was pretty scarry, but it's what happened to me afterwards that creeped me out for years to come. At that age, I had all kinds of aquariums in my room. It was kind of noisy with the air pumps and bubblers and the heaters would start to glow every now and then and I had a power light that was always on in my stereo and some other lights from other electronics as well.

I crawled into bed that night shortly after coming home from the theater and I was feeling a little scared. Not a lot, but a little. I thought, well I'll just say my prayers and that'll make me feel better. Just as soon as I started to pray, there was a loud snap and a bolt of light shot across my room followed by an acrid burning smell and my room was suddenly plunged into complete darkness and total silence. It absolutely scared the breath out of me, I tried to yell but found I couldn't. I thought the devil was coming to get me right then and there. I was finally able to croak out a quavering Daaaaaaaaddd that got louder and louder as it went. My Dad came into the room and got me calmed down, once he reset the circuit breaker that I had tripped we were able to turn the lights on again and found out what had happened. I had a fish bowl with a betta in it that had a plastic light cover in the shape of a clam shell that fit on top of the bowl . The light had burned out but the switch was still on and the condensation inside the plastic light cover had built up to a point where the socket for the bulb was completely wet and ended up shorting out the outlet. When the outlet shorted out, it shot out an electical arc with the acrid burning smell (the face of the outlet was black with soot) which tripped the circuit breaker causing everything in my room to go completely dark and quiet. It's something that could have happened at any time, but the timing of it freaked me out for years to come. :O:O:O

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Oh my gosh! lol! That would have terrified me too! For a very long time (like, for over a year!) after watching The Exorcism of Emily Rose, I would randomly wake up in the middle of the night, petrified, swearing I smelled smoke only to look over at the clock and it be right around 3 am. I was so scared I'd look over beside my bed and there would be something there. It's funny what your brain can do to you!

Drive-In generation, here! Man, I miss those!! If memory serves it was either The Exorcist or the first Friday The 13th. Such a huge fan of The Exorcist, we took a trip to the house and stairs from the movie in Georgetown, Washington DC! :bow:

I always wanted to go there. It's still a great movie :)

Jaws

I was watching it in the rocking chair with my mom when I was 5 and during the scene where Bruce the shark pops out of the water to try and eat Brody (right before the "You're gonna need a bigger boat" quote), I jumped out of the chair, extremely terrified, and yelled, "Holy poop!" That was the first time I ever swore. I'm still paranoid when I go to the beach. :oops:

Jaws. I know that for sure.

The Hitcher. I never stop for people on the side of the road.

Also, not a scary movie per say, but the movie Labyrinth always kinda weirded me out as a kid. David bowie is creepy

John Carpenter The Thing I saw it in the theatre and it freaked me out for ages.

"Salem's Lot" from back in late the 70's...Stephen King book turned into a mini-series for TV...Scared me silly...