Movies that gave you Nightmares

[Blarg]

Bunch of vampire movies. The House of Dark Shadows, The Return of Count Yorga, Christopher Lee Dracula movies, even that Roman Polanski vampire comedy. Salem's Lot, the old t.v. movie.

Usually it has to be something that creates a paranoid atmosphere where the horror develops gradually and you suddenly realize what horrible deep poop you're in as the horror unfolds close up from ordinary things.

That's why vampires work for me and werewolves don't, at least on my deep subconscious. You can see a werewolf coming a mile a way -- he's a werewolf, after all. And if you have a second floor or a tree to climb up, you're fine. But a vampire could be the guy or girl you're talking to any place, any time, even one of the people you trust most in the world, and as you realize they're a vampire and about to make a snack out of you, it kind of slowly, by at first imperceptible degrees, morphs the whole world into an inescapable horror, because it turns your feelings of trust and safety and simple reality upside down. A straight out regular monster doesn't do that; he doesn't attack your reality from the inside. It's not monsters jumping out at you that's scary to me so much as people turning into monsters before you can realize it or really believe it's happening, right before your eyes. That little frisson of paranoia, and paranoid fears realized, is the best. Vampires all the way.

[THATWACOKID]

Saw.

WACO

[Phoenix1010]

The original Chucky movie, Child's Play. My younger siblings had those My Buddy dolls that looked just like him. Freaky stuff.

More recently, Event Horizon freaked me out with those hell scenes and the chick with no eyes.

[jakethebake]

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even that Roman Polanski vampire comedy.

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"Fearless Vampire Killers" was a great flick but not at all scary.

[ClassicBob]

Ernest Scared Stupid

[Blarg]

Hey, to a little kid, even Yogi Bear or something can probably be scary. Vampires were good enough for me, even in that movie.

It did have one or two of those moments where someone realizes that the person standing right next to them is a vampire. That's what goosed me. The creepy "Oh noes!" transition from fearing a monster is standing right next to you to knowing it's true.

[The Dude]

The last time I was genuinely scared by a movie was when I was 9, The Silence of the Lambs. I had nightmares that night. It's now one of my favorite movies.

[ILL34GL3]

Never had a movie give me nightmares but I once had a nightmare involving the Vlasic Pickle Stork. I've also had nightmares involving huge snakes (one had horns), lions and kittens recently. They don't really make me fearful but it's definitely disturbing.

[Happy Hour]

One of the corniest movies ever:

Kingdom of the Spiders, with William Shatner as veterinarian "Rack" Hanson.

I was about 8 when I saw it, had nightmares for a week.

[Blarg]

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Never had a movie give me nightmares but I once had a nightmare involving the Vlasic Pickle Stork.

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LOL, now THIS I'd pay to see in theaters.