Summer camp this week is going to be extra scary.
We're keeping all the details as a surprise (or so goes the "official story") but just look at this FLYER PEOPLE.
JUST LOOK AT IT.
Now obviously you want to go.
I mean, it is so much fun every week and stuff, right?
Right
We have a pair of tickets to give away and to win them leave a comment about which movie, in your humble opinion, gave you nightmares you will never forget.
GOOOOOOOOOOOO.
(we'll let the winner know by lunchtime tomorrow)
Previously in Misc/Awesome:
- 4/19: HAPPY National High Five Day!
- 4/17: Hangin' Tough with The D.C. Rollergirls
- 2/24: BYT Archives: Geek It Out
- 12/28: Terrible Boyfriend/ Girlfriend Generator.
- 12/1: The John Waters Advent Calendar-it starts today
- 11/28: It Chooses You: All I Want for Christmas is Everything from Miranda July's Pop-Up Shop
- 11/3: Things I'd Move to Minnesota For
- 9/6: PHOTOS: Maloof $$ Money Cup
- 9/2: PHOTOS: Chantilly Model Train Show
- 9/1: Libby's List: 5 Things I Want Right Now...
God loves a cheerful giver.
the first 'nightmare on elm street' hands down. fuck freddy.
IT - that damn clown Pennywise! UGHHHH!
My parents, who apparently had it out for me, let me watch Stephen King's It when I was in 3rd grade. I am still terrified of clowns (and Tim Curry) to this very day.
i have to mention my 2nd - sorry. the ring. that bitch crawling out of the tv. fuck her, too.
i'm scared to admit it, but Gremlins was pretty scary at the time.
House of a Thousand Corpses freaked me out beyond belief. i was afraid of touching the dvd in the player after watching it.
This flyer rules. Is this Erik's handiwork?
Aliens, Dante's Peak, Touching the Void, Jacob's Ladder, May, Marathon Man
http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/movies/another-movie-guy-thisll-give-you-nightmares/
quarantine. scared the living JESUS CHRIST out of me.
Not a movie, but the intro to 'Are you afraid of the dark" shared the shit out of me for years.
poltergeist. oh carol anne - the horrors.
Laura,
Quarantine is based a Spanish movie, [REC], which released on DVD this week. It's on my queue, and it's supposedly much more terrifying than the American movie it inspired. You should check it out!
@Jesse - yes, another amazing Summer Camp flyer from Erik
not a movie, but tv series. Twin Peaks.
Back when you had to rent a VHS player (true) because no one owned them except Richie Rich, we'd walk to the video rental place on a Friday and rent a VCR and some movies - usually something funny and something scary.
I still remember renting the very first Friday the 13th and watching it at my best friend's house with his brother and my brother, and having to walk home after, at midnight, through 1 acre of woods, without flashlights. I think I was 12 or 13 so I'd be running through the woods with a baseball bat or a .22 rifle or a shotgun yelling like crazy with my younger brother following me.
Then the next weekend they'd come to our house and it would repeat in reverse.
High School Musical III
The Ring. Scariest ever. Close second: The Changeling (not the Angelina Jolie movie, the horror movie from the 80's). I didn't think Rec was scary at all.
I made the mistake of watching the Ring alone when all my roommates were gone for the weekend...at the end of the movie I just sat on the couch stunned, terrified of the TV because of the scene where the creepy lady comes out of the TV.
awesome flyer.
kindergarten cop (child abduction) and unsolved mysteries (narrator's voice!)
the japanese movie Reincarnation from 2005 has all of the elements needed to inflict lifelong trauma and nightmares.
scary hotel- check
scary murder- check
scary psychopath- check
scary asian ghosts- check
scary asian child ghosts- check
scary doll that comes alive, talks, then stabs a guy- check
The absence of an Arrested Development movie is currently giving me nightmares.
Fire in the Sky. The alien abduction scene: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIBf-nVMfbg
E.T. actually scared the crap out of me too- He was a gross lookin alien that I would never even consider touching with a 10ft pole, let alone be friends with..
The Exorcist, the movie i never saw.
my family had a strange fascination with this movie, and alien christian rites in general, my father used to watch tv evangelists like it was stand up comedy. anyway, they saw it before i was born or before i could remember, and felt particularly connected to it since its set in gtown, just across the river. sometime when i was about 5 the exorcist stairs came up and the entire story was discussed including the fact that it was based on a true story of a boy who received an exorcism from possession of the devil himself (itself?). shocked that it was true, i asked my dad if it were really possible to be possessed by the devil and i think with the best intentions, though flawed, he made it a matter of will. his response was, "not if you don't think about it." i spent the next decade not trying to think about it.
yo, i think anybody who had a My Buddy can feel me on this one... Child's Play. I know that flick is campy as hell and the voice-over is comical at best, but living in fear that last years Christmas present was going to come alive, tell you that his name was Chucky, and try to take over your body with some voodoo curse just wasn't right. Man, way to ruin the best thing Santa brought my ass. "Wanna plaaay?" Hell naw, not anymore.
Definitely The Ring.
Hitchcock's "The Birds"
due to some questionable parenting i was allowed to watch scary movies pretty young.
1. at age 8 i watched Childs Play. and slept (no joke) with a filled water gun under my pillow just in case my dolls came alive.....for way to long
2. I watched It when it premiered on network tv. i was like 10 or 11. that movie terrified me so much i wouldn't go near an open drain....so no showers....for a few weeks.
3. I watched children of the corn with my dad when i was like 6......and then had to help bail hay the next day. i cried. alot.
the list is much much longer.
E.T. gave me nightmares.
E.T. ate all my Reese's Pieces. what a jerk
I'm glad Pat O'Brien got fired from E.T.
The Shining. Definitely the Shining. Second to that is "1984".
The Exorcist III -
yea straight to dvd, not that scary...just horrifically bad
MJ - Thriller. Yes, I count this as a movie. I was like 9 yrs old, werewolfs were scary as shit. Nightmares for months.
When I was 9, I couldn't sleep for a week because of JACK NICHOLSON... as the Joker, in Batman. (In later years I would learn that this was not so much because of the character "the Joker" but because Jack Nicholson is just scary).
He also gave me nightmares based from his work in "as good as it gets".
Joy Ride scared me too - b/c that could happen. And when I was little I used to play on the CB radio talking to truckers.. never knew they were so close by!
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors!
Oh my gosh, I was like 8 when I saw this…my dad bribed me w/ twinkies to watch this b/c he wanted to see it!
Man, I will never forget…I slept with my eyes WIDE open and the light on that night. I was terrified. I mean just look at Freddy’s face! How can you NOT be scared as a kiddie after watching some deranged, melted-faced man chase you in the night/day and in even your DREAMS!
That’s gangsta. A serial killer that works OVERTIME. Man…
The entire Freddy Krueger genre was the BEST. I’m still scared of him — even with the makeup OFF, no lie!
when i was a lad, i fancied shakespeare much, often reading many plays and watching recordings in the library of performances by actors like kenneth branagh, pete postlethwaite, and sir alec guiness.
so imagine my delight upon hearing that there would be a feature film based upon the bard's most famous (yet in my opinion not BEST -- you see i was most fond of his histories) work: romeo and juliet. yet, i was most perplexed to find that this particular endeavour was undertaken by a man known as baz luhrmann, an australian? really? i suppose it's close enough to an englishman, if his ancestors were convicts.
i managed to see the film on opening night, i could not wait to finally see shakespeare on the big screen. but... ho, what did i see?! what was this visceral assault to my eyes?! verona beach?! minorities in shakespeare?! the bard's work reduced to a pithy, stylized, music television video?!
i would have abruptly left the theater had the script not been verbatim what was originally written, but i had to watch it with my eyes and ears closed, pretending the mumbles i could make out were english accents and not that crass sound that is an american voice reciting shakespeare.
i still shudder when i think about it.
As weird as it sounds, the cheesy Japanese Gamera movies had me terrified when I was little.
Especially Guiron, which is basically just a monster with a huge butcher knife for a head. I remember being afraid to BREATHE, because if I did, Guiron would hear me and chop me up WITH HIS HEAD while I was sleeping.