I'm sure it has everything to do with being 8 years old, but no other horror film played havoc with my imagination like this one.
Scarred me for life.
I think it's a point of right age, right time, right movie.
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It's up there for me but my # one trauma movie is 'Trilogy of Terror'. The scene where the hideous little tribal doll came to life and chased Karen Black around her apartment with a steak knife. I had nightmares for weeks when I was a kid.
shareI agree, definitely memorable. Groundbreaking "segment" that was years ahead of Chucky!
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Ideali, i can understand your reaction. Not only seeing it as an adult, but maybe seeing it years after it was originaly released. I just watched it again a few months ago, after not seing it in twenty five years, and it didn't hold as well as "dark" did. I was surprised how unscary it was. But boy was it memorible when it came out!
But horror is like most art, subject to individual interpretation. For me, i thought the Nightmare on Elm St films were a joke. Dumb, poorly acted, and not scary at all. Same goes for the Japanese inspired films The Ring, etc--NOT scary.To each his own i guess.
This movie is one of those that you can't be afraid of unless you see it as an impressionable child. Pretty sick that my Dad let me watch it, but man at the time I loved and was freaked out by it. oh and like many others here I too was 8 years old... hmm...
shareThis is my number 2 trauma....and DBAOTD was in my top ten.
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I'm seeing it now for the first time at the age of 35. I'm sorry to say that this isn't going to be a trauma movie for me. It is going to be an eye candy movie for me, that's for sure. :)
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Ellery Queen(Jim Hutton) = HOT & SEXY!
"Haaah?" *puts his hand on his head*
Yes Mrs Queen, I doubt you will be traumatised by this movie. Funny, for years, I've only known Jim from this movie, then was pleased to see he had his own series. Very cool his son went on to be an academy award winning actor.
shareThe movie was well done. If I had seen it at a young age, I would have been traumatized by it for life. I did love the eye candy, especially the brief open shirt moment. :) Personally, I think that the movie would have been scarier if we didn't get to see those creatures. Sometimes the most horrific scenes are the ones where we don't see the culprits.
Actually, even at my age, I found the ending to be unusually sad and horrific. I would have thought that, at the end, the handsome husband would have rescued her. This didn't happen, and the ending was so sudden that I think it will stick with me for a long time. The director was probably working with the "less is more" approach with the ending.
By the way, Jim Hutton was in some great movies in the sixties - "Who's Minding the Mint", "Walk Don't Run", "Looking for Love", and "The Honeymoon Machine".
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Ellery Queen(Jim Hutton) = HOT & SEXY!
"Haaah?" *puts his hand on his head*
By the way, Jim Hutton was in some great movies in the sixties - "Who's Minding the Mint", "Walk Don't Run", "Looking for Love", and "The Honeymoon Machine".
"Yeah, for years i never realised he was famous. I only knew him from this movie, which i saw at 8 yrs old, and yes, i was veeeeery traumatised :)"
Yup, I can see how this movie would scare little kids. I remember seeing "Old Yeller" when I was about eight, and that movie made me cry. Now I'm avoiding "The Green Berets" because the ending to that movie will probably make me cry. (I heard that Jim Hutton's character faces a terrible death. There is a pic of him dying on the home page for that movie.)
By the way, I heard that Jim's career took a nosedive in the late 60s and early 70s. Maybe that's why you hadn't heard of him. The older crowd would have remembered him from movies like "Where the Boys Are". Someone who was eight in 1973 probably wouldn't know those movies, unless they were replayed constantly on TV (which I doubt).
"I have "Who's Minding The Mint" on my Netflix Qiue. Gonna check that one out soon. Not for the eye candy of Mr Hutton, that's your dept. I'll stick with Dorothy Provine ;)"
That is one funny, funny movie. :) Dorothy Provine was a fine looking lady, but she didn't get very funny lines here. The men all did, but she was stuck with the "conscience and morals" types of lines only. What for? Of course what they were doing was wrong, and there is no way that they would have gotten away with what they did (or tried to do). Oh well....
Another very funny movie is the forties movie "Mr. Blandings Builds his Dream House", starring Cary Grant and Myrna Loy. I can't decide which is funnier - Mr. Blandings or Who's Minding the Mint.
One great romantic movie is the sixties movie "Bachelor in Paradise". Very sweet and romantic. Jim Hutton has a small part in this one.
Well, enjoy! :) As for "Don't be Afraid of the Dark", I will recommend it to a couple of friends who like 70s horror movies.
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Ellery Queen(Jim Hutton) = HOT & SEXY!
"Haaah?" *puts his hand on his head*
It's so crazy to come here and see that I'm not the only one! I was looking up the remake a few minutes ago and saw it was a remake. When I clicked on the remake I said to my girlfriend "ohh my gosh this is the movie that scared the crap out of me as a kid and scarred me for life!" and then I came to these boards and see that it's happened to a bunch of people!
My story is the same as yours. I was 8 years old and this movie just happened to be on tv while I was waiting for my family to get ready to go sledding. I didn't watch all of it but I saw enough! I vivdly remember a scene where one of the demons was peaking out from a vent or something. I was completely terrified forever after that!
Like someone else said, I don't exactly know what I was afraid of but boy it would keep me up at night sometimes. I'd like to watch it now, maybe it would be therapeutic!
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My mom told me when she was a little girl, there were two movies that scared her and my aunts....Trilogy of Terror and Don't Be Afraid of the Dark. I was lucky enough to see it for the first time in early '08 on joox.net. Very tame by today's standards, but still worthwhile. There's also the fact it was a made for TV movie. I have seen both aforementioned movies, but there's another made for TV movie from the 70s i'd like to see....The Longest Night. Here's my question to those who are old enough to remember those days: Where there a lot of horror themed TV movies in the 60s-80s? If so, can anybody recommend any?
shareThere were plenty of Horror themed TV "serials" in the 60's like Twilight Zone, One Step Beyond, Dark Shadows, etc. But the TV "movie" of the week was more a product of the 70's, and more specifically ABC's "Movie of the week". There was a lot of em. There are the two you mentioned, which probably are 1 and 2 in terms of impact. I don't think you'll find them "scary" but there other great ones from the 70's like:
Bad Ronald
Crowhaven Farm
Dark Night of The Scarecrow
Stephen Kings Salem's Lot
Kolchak:The Night Stalker
The Dark Secret of Harvest Home
The House That Would Not Die
KILLDOZER!! (it stupid but i loved this one!!!)
There's plenty more but these are the ones off the top of my head.
Curious, How old were you when you watched those two movies?
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My #1 trauma was the trailer for Magic with that creepy dummy.
But this film is definitely in my top 5 scariest of all time as a child.
I didn't get to see this as a kid. I only watched it for the first time last year so I wasn't traumatized. When I was a kid, I loved horror movies like A Nightmare on Elm Street (all of them except number 5), Creepshow, and the classic Universal Monster movies. But I was terrified of the Friday the 13th series, Night of the Living Dead (particularly the garden trowel scene), and A Nightmare on Elm Street 5 because of Greta's death scene. So I don't know if I would've been terrified of this film or not because I loved some horror movies but was afraid of others.
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