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Post by mandy77x on Jan 29, 2010 8:30:41 GMT -5
At last nights meeting we got on a topic of fears created from movies, specifically "Poltergeist"... some were afraid of clowns after that, dolls, etc.. I personally never realized it, but I can't/won't swim in a pool alone or when it's dark.. (the scene where she falls in the hole for the pool & skeletons come out).. What fears of yours were/could have been started by a movie you saw when you were younger?
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Post by spriskeptic on Jan 29, 2010 8:39:40 GMT -5
Poltergeist also started my "fear" of dolls. It was the same scene, where the boy was pulled under the bed by the clown doll.
Interestingly, I am not afraid of clowns and not afraid of looking under the bed... hmm.
By the way has anyone seen the new USPS flat rate box commercial with the oddly reminiscent clown doll?
Tom.
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Post by spriskeptic on Jan 29, 2010 8:43:08 GMT -5
ooh, one more thing... The swimming thing that you mentioned. I know one of you will remember which movie it was... A girl was swimming alone in a pool in a mansion. She was underwater, and when she tried to come up for air the top of the water was solid!!! Um she drowned. I can't remember the movie.
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Post by Michelle on Jan 29, 2010 14:22:21 GMT -5
I haven't seen that commerical. I'll have to look for it. I don't have fears from movies because I never watch scary movies. lol I tried watching Pet Cemetary once and didn't get through it. I do have fears of spiders and snakes, but that isn't from watching a movie.
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Post by Michelle on Jan 29, 2010 15:29:36 GMT -5
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Post by gsharpangel on Jan 31, 2010 19:11:24 GMT -5
I guess my fear in a movie would have to be that woman in The Grudge. When she is coming down that staircase all deformed. It really creeped me out. Also the shower when the hand comes out of her head. I also don't like Halloween's Michael Myers, even if I go to Halloween party and someone is dressed as him. Oh, and any movie with creepy little kids gives me goosebumps some ex: The Shining, Children of the Corn etc.
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Post by spriskeptic on Feb 1, 2010 13:22:36 GMT -5
Children in Horror movies are definitely creepy.
Especially haunting laughter.
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Post by Mark A on Feb 3, 2010 9:00:32 GMT -5
When I was a child, the whole getting pulled under the bed thing was terrifying to me. Obviously, POLTERGEIST only reinforced my worst fears that it could actually happen. I firmly believe that the incredible success of Stephen King as an American horror writer is the fact that his works are usually set in the most mundane and average of settings: a mall, a suburban tract house development. They're terrifying because WE live there, we can totally identify with the victimized families, much more so than if they lived in some huge Gothic mansion.
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Post by Michelle on Feb 3, 2010 14:00:53 GMT -5
Very good point Mark. This is why I can't watch Stephen King or any scary movies.
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Post by spriskeptic on Feb 3, 2010 15:03:12 GMT -5
Did anyone figure out this movie? I can't remember and it's killing me (figuatively, of course).
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Post by Michelle on Feb 5, 2010 12:47:35 GMT -5
Nope, I don't know what movie that would be.
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Post by Dawn on Feb 10, 2010 10:53:03 GMT -5
Need a little more info on that movie. Craig has almost every horror movie but from your discription it could be any number of movies we saw.
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Post by Robin on Feb 11, 2010 9:03:34 GMT -5
Tom I remember that movie or at least a scene just like it....I believe it was This house Posessed.
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