Bumps in the night and other good stuff

I can remember when I was about 17  give or take a few years, mum and dad and I went on Holidays to Cobar in N.S.W. Australia  to spend Christmas with one of my brothers we were there for about a week or 2  and it was time to go so on our way we stopped in Ashwood Vic Australia to stay with my sister Joan and her family anyway while we were there  her kids and I watched this movie called Texas chainsaw   massacre, well that night I had dreams of the movie and I woke up screaming, I have never watched another Horror movie again. I still shudder every time I think of that movie.

I'll agree, Shaunna.

Rarely does one encounter poorer quality in film making.

Similar experience? "The Wax Museum". Caused me a nose bleed.

Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven....one very good author... Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds............another good one. Mary Shelley's Ghost story which turned out to be Frankenstein. Remember the Amityville Horror? That particular house lives on Long Island in a town by that name. Saw it once. Looked no different than any other. Except it being all boarded up. Grounds looking like who done it and ran. Typical haunted house. Lots of history there too. Anyone else?

oooh yeah  if I ever watch a horror now its during daylight hours lol.

another one I remember is, darn I can't think what it is called, but there is a girl in a rocking chair saying "I am going to get you" something like that anyway , all I remember is a young girl chanting some thing over and over scarey stuff

My parents had to leave before the movie was half over... never let me forget it. Hated Vincent Price for years... lol.

Movie called "The Thing" I was around 7 years old and that was about 15 years ago. Still remember what I went through with that. The first night after watching it I don't think I sleep one minute.

I won't watch the original version of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The remakes are just blatant gore-fests. The original really gives a sense of this family being completely batshit crazy. For me it's a hell of a lot more disturbing than the remakes.

I recently watched a movie called 'Martyrs'. It's a French Movie, so if subtitles aren't your thing, you'd be best off not watching it. Pretty gory, and it has been labeled as 'torture porn', which would put it in the same category as films like 'Hostel'. I personally don't think it is torture porn, mainly because there's a story and a purpose to what is going on. Hostel can't boast the same.

One of my favourite horrors is 'WAZ'. It's actually W,Delta,Z, but the Delta part is a triangle, and hence 'WAZ'. Anyway, it's another one that got placed under the torture porn banner, and it's nothing like, for the same reason that 'Martyrs' isn't. Funny as it may seem, it always makes me cry at the end. It also has Stellan Skarsgård in one of the lead roles, a fine actor from Sweden.

I also like J horror (the J stands for Japan) though they're made by various Asian countries. 'Freezer', 'Audition', 'One Missed Call', 'Shutter' , 'The Eye' 'Dark Water' and the original Ring Trilogy (with 'Ring 0' being my favourite) are all great horrors. Some of them have been given the American remake treatment, and invariably the American versions are absolute gash IMHO. Again, if you're not into subtitles, don't watch them.

If we're talking classics, you've got to include 'An American Werewolf in London'. Even though we have computer graphics these days, I have never seen the transformation from man to Werewolf look as believable as it does in that movie. Small wonder that Rick Baker won an Oscar for Best Makeup because of it. The film has an awesome soundtrack too.

Last but not least, John Carpenter's 'The Thing'. I still find it's not always a good idea for me to watch this movie with the lights off, and it's probably one of Carpenter's finest films.

Damn, you beat me to it, Dave.

Edit: No you didn't. Different version, lol.

The original 'The Thing' with James Arness as the Martian. Never knew it was Marshall Dillon from Gunsmoke that played that role. Also the original Blob. That diner I've seen many times here in Pa. First time I did I expected the big Blob to come pouring out of it. The Body Snatchers was another good one. I'm more into sci-fi than horror. My little and I went to the movies to see the Excorcist when it first came out. I fell asleep during part of the movie and she thought it was hilarious. People were telling her to shut up she was laughing so hard. The Alien with Sigourney Weaver was another scary one, especially seeing the alien for the first time and oh...the chest burster scene. Now that was ugh!

Karen Black....Trilogy of Terror.

....that 'doll' ....;)

Can't say ANYTHING ever beat that one....;)

For me, it was the original Exorcist and Linda Blair turning into something quite hideous... far scarier than Frankenstein, vampires and werewolves.  Even the soundtrack, the way it built to a satanic crescendo and was haunting during the lulls, was enough to make the hairs stand up on the back of my neck.

It was the head twisting that got my sister laughing hysterically.

The movies don't bother me, day or night. I don't watch slasher movies though. Too close to what can happen in real life!

Ghoulies and ghosties and long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night don't bug me either, considering that up until about a year and a half ago I lived in a haunted house.....really.

Lights came on and off, doorbell rang and nobody's there, oven exhaust fan came on and as soon as I went to touch the button to turn it off it did it itself, smells of smoke, wet paint, perfume but all just for a minute or two and then gone. Paper shredder came on by itself, sound of someone hitting the wall behind the TV, sound of the front door closing even though it had been closed all along, sound of a small plastic type ball or lid or something being dropped and bouncing on the tile floor and you could hear the bounces getting closer together and faster as it lost momentum and finally stopped, a shadow that was actually darker than the dark room I was in slowly moving across the top of the wall and there was no light source at all, papers flipping off tables where there was no air movement, large packages of toilet paper that were kept on a shelf in our walk in closet would find their way onto the floor right up against the closet door on the inside and they had been pushed back too far to have fallen off the shelf....I can't remember it all, but the grand finale was when we were getting ready to move and I was at the vanity and I heard a scraping sound and then a bang come from the little toilet area and when I went to see I found the can of air freshener that was on the toilet tank had slid across the tank top and fallen off onto the plunger at the side.....the scraping sound was the can moving across against the textured wall behind the toilet!

And I wasn't the only one who saw and heard things around our house. And one day when we were having a yard sale our neighbor from across the street came over to look and suddenly just said "I think my house is haunted."  We didn't say anything and she never knew what was going on in our house! I think it was a thing like the movie "Poltergeist" and the development was built on a grave yard or something.....

Now that's what I'm talking about. Those kind of experiences. Here's one that was never explained.

It was Christmas Eve and we were sitting down to dinner. We had neighbors over and some friends. Now this neighbor used to play Santa Clause and convincingly so. At around 8pm we heard a noise outside the window and when we turned around St.Nick was staring at us and smiling. Everyone was accounted for and because where we lived it was somewhat isolated we knew no one was around. Myself, my brother and the neighbor all ran outside, too fast to miss anyone yet...........there was no one there. There's no way we could have missed any person as there was no place to hide. Go figure.

Nothing much scarier than a fat guy in a red suit carrying a suspicious looking sack peeking in your window.

unless it's a team of drugged up flying reindeer snorting, prancing and crapping on your rooftop.

All my spooky tales end with me realizing I'm just a silly girl.  Like when I was 14, and me, my sisters and the daughter of my parents' friend wanted to have a seance, but my mom wouldn't let us use candles (because we were silly children), so I got the brilliant idea to use my "Easy Curl" hot curlers for the light source in the dark room.  We were all holding hands, concentrating really hard on the spirit realm, and when I figured we were all properly centered, I softly said, "Spirits...if you can hear us, give us a sign that you are here," and the light in the Easy Curl started blinking off and on right--at--that--moment!!!  And like silly girls will, we all bolted to our feet, screamed and ran out of there downstairs out of breath, to where my parents and their friend were visiting like grownups, and THAT'S when I remembered that the light blinks when the curlers are hot enough to set your hair.