Seriously I was fĂcked for a week becuase of this moive, the hole hoplessness and incasaceabilty just messed with my head, scared the life out of me, anyone else the same?
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I was ten when I first watched this movie with my family in our living room (I'm twenty now). The fact that we kept the lights off during the movie made it worse. I started hiding my face after the first appearance of the tripod (great scene, though), especially during the basement scene. I kept hiding my face until the ending. After that night, I had recurring nightmares about the tripods for a couple of years (the very first one was a silhouette of a tripod walking past my bedroom window). Luckily, it's stopped, as far as I know.
But, yeah, this movie made a mark on me, even though it's not a horror movie (it has some horror elements, but I see it as a sci-fi thriller/suspense film). But, I just watched it with a friend this past weekend after a couple of years since watching it (I watched it again when I was either fourteen or fifteen, and I was reluctant to watch it again because of the fog horn sound, but eventually, I caved in and watched it all the way through without evading the screen) and, even though the movie, overall, is unsettling, I'm not as terrified of it as I was the first time. I am able to notice more flaws about the movie than the last time around, but overall, the movie holds well and is entertaining and frightening at the same time.
I feel you, I have a few songs on my playlist which start with a fog horn and everytime it just gives me the chills a lil, its just unsetlling. The scene in the basement for me wasent so bad, it was the ferrie scene which got me. When the tripod comes out of the water its was pretty terifiying because they where traped, it was pretty hopeless there was one in front and behind and that just got to me bad.
Pointing me out on spelling is just one hell of a poor argument..
Yeah, I remember the ferry scene a ton. Even when watching it again, there are some little things that I never noticed until watching some clips on YouTube (apparently, on the left side of the scene after escaping the waters, there's another lightning storm happening, thus more tripods; I NEVER noticed that until now, it just shows how unstoppable they appear). That scene also terrified me with the thought that Ray's friend and her daughter basically died once separating from the trio.
But, hearing a fog horn in music (even thought it isn't the same as the original), that is terrifying! That reminds me of this red tower that one town near me has, and it resembles a tripod based on the three-legged formation. My family made jokes about it, but that was trigger-worthy for me at the time.
Have to see how my son does with this, he's 9 and we watched it this evening. He was a bit scared at some of the more intense points, but he did enjoy it.
shareYeah, I remember my younger sister, who was about 8 or 9 at the time, wasn't scared by the movie, from what I remembered. She doesn't get scared all that easily like I do, but I think she enjoyed it, as well. I'm glad to hear that your son wasn't terrified by the movie like I was, though! It's definitely something to watch again a couple years from now.
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