Horror Aficionados discussion

Is there any movies so scary you can't finish? For me there has only ever been one like that and that is "The Ring" and probably The Grudge as well though I have never tried that one. I don't know what it is it's just too much for me. So what movie scares you the most?

Child's Play. I always watch the beginning. The minute Chuckie gets murderous, I find something else to do and then watch the last couple of minutes. That movie is part of the reason I have a strong aversion to dolls.

Shari-amor wrote: "Child's Play. I always watch the beginning. The minute Chuckie gets murderous, I find something else to do and then watch the last couple of minutes. That movie is part of the reason I have a stron..."

What age were you the first time you saw the movie? I find when I had watched stuff when I was younger and was scared of it it made it worse watching it now. Only in the last few years have I been able to watch the Halloween episode of The Simpsons with Bart's evil twin cause it scared the hell out of me as a kid.

A l'interieur, just couldn't help but leave the room.

Kirstie wrote: "What age were you the first time you saw the movie? I find when I had watched stuff when I was younger and was scared of it it made it worse watching it now. Only in the last few years have I been able to watch the Halloween episode of The Simpsons with Bart's evil twin cause it scared the hell out of me as a kid.
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I was like 6 or 7 when I first seen it. It didn't help that I was living with my grandma and slept in a room with porcelain dolls and masks on shelves lined around the room. I'm very much creeped out by any movies with dolls in them now. I can get through those ok though but I still can't sit through Child's's Play. And it's only the first one. I have no trouble with the other Chuckie movies.

And I can see how you wouldn't want to see The Grudge. It does have a similar creepy feel to The Ring. I do think the Ring was creepier though

I think The Grudge scared the crap out of me, but the American version. The Japanese one was way too confusing and not clearly conveyed. The Spanish film REC is also a hell of a film and far better than the American version (Quarantine).

Cannibal holocaust...disturbing

Shari-amor wrote: "Child's Play. I always watch the beginning. The minute Chuckie gets murderous, I find something else to do and then watch the last couple of minutes. That movie is part of the reason I have a stron..."

I understand you completely! I have also an aversion to any kind of dolls. It was hard to get to watch Child's Play. Finally I was able to watch it when I was 17 years old, during the morning and with a person next to me.
And that's why I don't recommend you to watch the movie Dead Silence. It's about murderers ventricles dolls. Sooo scary.
I can't see all the scenes of The Ring, neither. I always change the channel in the most terrifying scenes.

I couldn't finish watching "Jesus, The Total Douchebag". Independent horror film with absolutely NO redeeming qualities. I quit at the 45 minute mark. Just awful.

@Pauline. Too late. lol
I've seen that a couple of times and have had to sleep with lights on afterwards.

The only time I've been tempted to not finish a movie is when it's so bad it's not even funny, it's just bad.

Shari-amor wrote: "@Pauline. Too late. lol
I've seen that a couple of times and have had to sleep with lights on afterwards."

I had to sleep like that too after watching it ... or I think I didn't sleep that day lol
The dolls are really terrifying! I couldn't even have Barbies when I was a child because I fear them, how embarrassing.

I understand your pain and embarassment. I tore barbies apart and used their heads as weapons. Do you know they look like giant spiders in the dark!? I discovered that when my sister, who just so happens to be scared of spiders, screamed bloody murder. ^_^

An American Haunting was so boring, so painfully amateurish that I started reading during the movie, so I'm not really sure what happened or how it ended. There were a lot of scenes of a guy in a sheet walking around a thoroughly non-threatening mid-century ranch house in the valley. Also, a lot of typing. The camera would focus on the keyboard for like 5 minutes at a time while we watched the main character type......then, after 5 boring minutes, we actually got to see what he was typing. Bad editing, bad writing, the worst art direction ever......take my advice, if you watch this move, make sure you have a good book close by!

I have not turned off a movie I found to be scary. I do turn off movies that are terrible or boring/hard to get through.

I couldn't finish watching Pet Sematary. The movie itself wasn't particularly scary, imo, but the idea behind it was so disturbing to me. I turned it off right after the part where the little boy came back.

I've never stopped watching a movie because it was scary. (I wish I could find someone so scary that I had to turn it off!) I do stop watching if they suck, though. Last night we stopped watching The Tortured halfway through. After checking Wikipedia to find out how it ended, my husband and I agreed that it would have been a much more tense, watchable movie if, instead of saving the twist for the end, they'd let the viewer in on—or at least let the viewer suspect—the big reveal long before it happened. As it was, it was boring.

I haven't ever been too scared to finish watching a movie, but there are a few I will most likely never watch again, at least not all the way through, because now I know where the horrible parts are.

Se7en, Misery, the Grudge (Japanese version), and that one scene in Poltergeist where the guy rips his face off. There are others but I've blocked them out lol. Once is enough for some things.

I might hide my face, but I've never stopped watching a movie because it was too scary. Well, I almost stopped watching the live action Spawn movie because of that (as I put it) 'horrid little clown'...

but I still finished it. But then again, I watched Alien when I was like 6... so, maybe I'm just a freak.

Given that I read horror, and have even written some pretty graphic stuff, I have a hard time watching horror. So, yes, I have left the room and refused to watch anymore of certain movies that my husband then finishes. Mostly, I've learned what I can't stomach and that is people being graphically tortured by other people. So no Hostel movies, Saw movies, or Texas Chainsaw Massacre movies for me.

Only if its beyond disgusting. And Bad. I think I turned off Bloodsucking Freaks

Nightshift and Hannibal. The beginning of nightshift just creeped me out and I know I watch the series of Hannibal but when I saw Ray Liotta with no brain I was like noooooo thank you!

Justin, swear you just reminded me of my grandma (who is a horror fan). I remember watching Hannibal with her and when it got to that dinner scene, she sort of jumped and started cussing her ass off. She kept turning away from the tv and back again until she finally got up to go to the kitchen. I figured out that she doesn't like the way brains look.

For me to turn it off, is if there's too much gore... you don't need it. I remember when X-Files was on, the Eugene Victor Tooms episode was so scary I watched it while hiding behind my couch.

my husband tried to watch Hannibal the other night and I said no way or I was outta there.

I don't really watch horror movies - while I'm fine reading horror books, I'm not so great seeing them on the TV screen. It's a bit of a shame since some of the synopses I've seen of some of them sound like interesting stories that I'd love to read... but with the movies I do watch I only stop if they're unbearably bad (for me, at least).

Like Z, I also wish I could find something so scary that I couldn't continue to watch it, and I have seen some truly scary movies. However...
The Mist, which I love and thought it had all the scares and follows the novella pretty faithfully has something at the end of it which I cant stand to watch. Luckily, that scene, which is not in the story itself, is at the end of the movie, so I can just stop watching it when the all get inthe car and drive away.
Those of you that have seen the movie know what scene I am talking about. Its not gross, but its such a heart wrenching scene that seeing it once is enough. I will refrain from explaining what it is so anyone that wants to see it will be able to see the whole thing to understand the feeling it gives you.

Justin wrote: "Nightshift and Hannibal. The beginning of nightshift just creeped me out and I know I watch the series of Hannibal but when I saw Ray Liotta with no brain I was like noooooo thank you!"


The movie Hannibal did freak me out when I first saw it due to that scene and the guy in the wheelchair with the pigs. I actually don't think I have ever watched that movie again.

My son was so mad at the end of The Mist. He was probably 15 at the time, and it brought him to his feet, cursing up a storm.

Z. wrote: "My son was so mad at the end of The Mist. He was probably 15 at the time, and it brought him to his feet, cursing up a storm."

Oh yeah, I can sympathize with him for sure.

As for able to finish, I think the only film I've never been able to sit through the whole thing and watch is The Dark Crystal. That movie scares the ever loving poo out of me and by midpoint I always freak out and turn it off. Normally, if I don't like a film I'll watch it just to say that yes, I did see it.

I've always been able to watch a move to the end no matter how bad it was, scary stuff never made me falter except for the Exorcist which when it came out tot he theaters I had my hands up in front of my face the whole time. I don't usually admit that.
But as I get older I have less and less patience for some of the C-movies out there, and I'm not as willing to leave them playing to the end as I Used to be.

My imagination was much better when I was a kid. Poltergeist, Star Trek: The Wrath of Kahn, and The Boogens (all of which I saw at the theater) scared the crap out of me. (I figured if the creatures in The Boogens could get around in mine shafts, what what keeping them from getting around in sewer pipes? I was constipated for a week.)

Now I'm lucky if a movie makes me clutch the popcorn box a little tighter for a few minutes. (Heck, most of the time I'm lucky if the movie doesn't put me to sleep!)

Z. wrote: "My imagination was much better when I was a kid. Poltergeist, Star Trek: The Wrath of Kahn, and The Boogens (all of which I saw at the theater) scared the crap out of me. (I figured if the creature..."

Z, I have to tell you that The Boogens was one of my fav films from a long time ago. I haven't seen it in years and had but all forgotten about it. Now that you sparked it in my mind, you know what I'll have to do now, right? lol

While its not horror per say, I have a love of monsters movies and one that I recommend whole heartedly because it has the feel of a throw back to an earlier age is the Irish produced film called "Grabbers". It is def one of my fav films to watch at any time. Its not something to clutch the popcorn box completely but a few little jumps in it really make it a great film to have fun with.

Added it to my Netflix list!

Jeff wrote: "Z. wrote: "My imagination was much better when I was a kid. Poltergeist, Star Trek: The Wrath of Kahn, and The Boogens (all of which I saw at the theater) scared the crap out of me. (I figured if t..."

awesome I hope you like it.

Glad I'm not the only one who was freaked out by that scene. I remember looking up at my television screen like "ahh WTF!", I then kept my head down and played with my phone until the scene was over. Oddly enough I had a slightly similar feeling when watching the series and the Pig guy had half is face chewed off but thinking regaulr tv wouldnt show it I kept watching until they showed it.

Those of you who are afraid of dolls, have you seen the trailer for Annabelle yet?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3322940/

I'm not afraid of dolls (in fact, I have a collection of antique and vintage dolls), but that doll is creepy as hell!

I've seen the trailer. I am not afraid of dolls but that is one creepy doll! Looking forward to the movie.

Anyone remember the doll in the old TZ? "My name is Tina and I'm going to kill you!"

Kirsten wrote: "Anyone remember the doll in the old TZ? "My name is Tina and I'm going to kill you!""

Yes! Totally forgot about that one.

I didn't. Scared the crap out of me!

I generally only shut off movies that are too cheesy, but there are a select few I refuse to watch. The Human Centipede series...just nope.

This goes for the FIRST time I watch a movie only:

Can't think of a movie I willing left unfinished. My parents dragged me out of the theater about half way through the movie Battlestar Galactica back in 1978--I finished watching it while in college (after the advent of VHS).

In the theater, I hate getting up to go to the restroom during a movie (as well as replenishing snacks, which is why I haven't gone to the movies with anyone who won't do it for themselves since 1989). But I did get up to relieve myself during The New World in 2005. I was gone for about 3 minutes, but found that the movie didn't advance anywhere during that time. And I was so bored during Underworld: Evolution in 2006 that I left for a trip to the restroom and found that while I missed some story elements, I just didn't care. Even Kate Beckinsale slinking around in a leather jumpsuit had lost it's appeal.

I have to finish movies whether they're scaring me too much or if I just really hate the movie, I still have to watch it until the end and find out what happens. It's a problem, especially when the movie is terrible and I'd rather stop watching it but I can't let myself stop. I don't know if it's my mind thinking 'maybe it'll get better' or 'we've watched it this far may as well watch the rest' but something stops me from turning films off before they've finished, unless I've already seen it before and it's on TV or something.

I've also never walked out of the cinema. If I've paid to go and see a movie, I'm going to watch the whole movie.