I'm scared!

[andrewducker]

Ed's watching "The Watcher in the Woods" behind me, a film which scared me as a kid, and stayed with me for quite some time.  I'm typing away and trying to pretend it's not on.

He just asked me what films had scared me the most.  I said Paperhouse and Candyman, two films I've just noticed have the same director.

After seeing Candyman I had real problems being in the dark alone for months, and I couldn't stare into a mirror for about 3 years.

But then again, I read It! (excellent review here) about 16 years ago and I _still_ wont walk over manhole covers in the dark...

Comments

[themongkey.livejournal.com]

Candyass, Candyass, Candyass, Candyass, Candyass ;o)

[rainstorm.livejournal.com]

Paperhouse FREAKED ME OUT. It really did. Guy and Jane laughed at me lots because I was so fucking freaked out by it.

You know what really scared me when I was little? Death from Terry Gilliam's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (okay, something will be spelt wrong there, I apologise). We have a stone shed/bothy/thingy with dark dark cobwebby windows, and I found it hard to walk past it for years because I imagined Death to be staring out at me. *shiver* :)

[andrewducker]

Actually, I think you spelt all of that right.

And I know _exactly_ what you mean.

The bit where her 'dad' suddenly sits up?

[armoire-man.livejournal.com]

All horror movies used to scare the crap out of me. The remake of "The Invasion of the Body Snatchers" was my turning point - my college roommates all laughed at me 'cause I was so freaked out by it, and I was determined to become jaded and blase just like them. So I did! I am so cool!

After hanging out with the blase horror fan crowd for twenty years, I had to re-learn fear-empathy all over again 'cause my daughter, fearless up to this point, is now terrified of vampires. She refuses to go into any room of the house, night or day, unless all the lights are on.

And so it goes, down through the generations.

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

Watcher in the Woods and Candyman are indeed scary. I'm still afraid of mirrors in dark rooms. But then, I was -before- Candyman, that just didn't help...

I love Paperhouse.. I think it's creepy and insidious and -great-, but not -terrifying-. All three of these films would appear in a top twenty of my favourite films, were I to make one.

I didn't find "It" that scary the first time I read it. Some of it is creepy, but some of it just doesn't poke the right buttons for me to be reeeeally scared.