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Yeah, I think 'The Birds' is creepy - it scared me as a child when Tippi goes up into that attic room - I was terrified LOL.

The cartoon that scared me the most Craig was the 'Lord of the Rings' cartoon movie - I dont know if you remember it or have seen it, but my uncle made me watch it and I was terrified of the Ringwaiths LOL.

Steven, I also remember being terrified seeing "The Birds!" LOL! My dad LOVED horror movies. When we lived in Atlanta (1973) there was a local station which showed horror movies all night long. It was called "Friday Night Frights." We'd put blankets and pillows down on the floor and get down there with Dad and watch the scary movies. I probably made it till about 9:00 before falling asleep, but I bet he watched them all.

Anyway, there was a very old movie, and I don't know the name. (Steven, if you get this one, then you DO KNOW EVERY HORROR MOVIE EVER MADE!) Anyway, there were these creatures--I think they were supposed to be aliens, but I'm not sure. They had needles that came out of their fingertips, and it would show a closeup of the fingers with some kind of clear fluid dripping off those needles! They would kill people by sticking them with the needles. When I think of being scared by a movie, that's the one that always comes to mind. I think that maybe it was because I was so afraid of needles, being a sickly child.

Also, there was one that I think was called "The Giant Spider." It lived in a cave, and...well...it was about a giant spider! It was super old, too. These movies must've been made in the 50s.

"The Birds" scared me but the movie that terrified me was "The Omen." I watched it through my fingers and could not sleep for weeks after.

Amityville for some reason scared me as a child. Now i�m ok with it.

The first really scary movie I ever watched was "The Exorcist". When I was growing up I was also one that wasn't allowed to watch horror, so I think I was about 15 or 16 when that came out.

One that came out when I was little older though was "Poltergeist" and I think I slept with one open for a week after. When the clown grabbed the kid! Wow!

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I must just be a weirdo LOL. I watched lots of scary movies as a kid, but don't remember being scared by them.

Of course I wasn't allowed to see the Exorcist - so I never saw that until I was an adult. And it CREEPED me out!

Some of the horror movies I saw as a pre-teen and teen I just thought were stupid - you know those B movies where everyone freaks out and eats their skin or whatever :::sigh::: DUMB!!

Loved Alfred Hitchcock and Vincent Price.

Oh!!! The original movie, was it "A Haunting," scared the [censored] out of me as a kid!!

It was remade in the 90s with Catherine Zita Jones and Liam Nieson... Not quite as scary

Omen and Amityville Horror both terrified me.

The Omen didn't scare me too much. Amityville was scary, though I read the book when I was like 11 years old {my Grandma was reading it and I snuck it away LOL}, so I was pretty prepared when I finally saw the movie.

As a kid, I think there were books that messed with my head more than any movie.

I remember when I was 12 I read just part of a book my aunt was reading. It was just sitting on the coffee table, and I picked it up - flipped to the WORST part in the whole book. It was "Suffer the Children" by John Saul. That was one freaky book!

The Thing scared me - it was the first movie I saw in the theater and I swear I didn't get over it till in my mid twenties. Every night after seeing it I imagined it in my bedroom. Yikes.

Ah...

That reminds me... the movie The Hand. That scared me LOL!! I kept thinking that a strange hand was going to crawl out of the dark and get me.

I watched it later as an adult - OMG - how lame! I'm like - it's a hand - throw it out the window LOL!