Were horror flicks scarier for you as a child even though effects are better today?
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers.  What they lacked un effects they had to make up with (gasp!) acting ability and a good script.
563236
well horror movies started just as television discovered sound,back in the day they could do anything to scare the crap out of people,,these days something jumping out behind a closet gives us a little jump but we no its coming,,predictability and the knowledge that we no how fake and computer generated things are takes away all the shock value,,were the messed up MTV generation,nothing scares us.
763537
not long i get freaked outbfrom scary visual effects of michael myers and jason and chukie and the clown IT and aliens and im a teen
61296
JAWS!\n\nI was only 11 when I saw it in the theater.....\n\nIt made such and impact on me that I was afraid of the bath tub for a short time!\n\n:)\nPeace
1171074
Black Christmas.  \n\nIt came out in 1974 when I was 10 years old.  It was the scariest movie then, and I think still the scariest movie ever.  \n\nHere is a link.  Margot Kidder plays a school girl in it.\n\n http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071222/
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There are some great ideas in some movies... Like in the Blair Witch Project: be alone and lost in a lonely and unknow place... have to sleep in that place... start to hear scarry noises in night (like screams) and trying to scape without a light!!! That is really scarry.
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I remember those days and God Bless them. Back then there was no fear of seriel killer or child molester because whether we new it or not the neighborhood watched out for us. When I was a child my parents busted my butt when I did wrong and I am a better person for it. God help this generation where the state and local governments have stepped in a taken the right to discipline away from parents, yet they act baffled when one of those young people do things that those of my generation would have never considered. Life was good back then, I wish we could have those days back.
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It's an adrenaline thing, methinks.  Especially when you find yourself in a creepy situtation, the movie comes to mind, and you start to freak out.  Blair Witch was pretty scary, but what was really scary was when I started thinking about it when I saw an abandoned white house in the middle of no where.\n\nI also think that fear fuels imagination.  Imaginative people seem to like scary movies, and people who like scary movies tend to be imaginitive.  The panicky feeling you get from horror movies makes your mind race.
731433
when I saw it when I was like 8 it was scary now it is lame
1037110
when I was a little girl I seen two  ghost dovermen pitcher dogs it was hella scary they were in my kicthen by the fridgerator
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5.  Wasn't scary.  Good effects of her nightmarish visions.  The only part that really freaked me was her shouting in Aramaic, saying she was Lucifer, etc.  \n\n'72 Exorcist still reigns in this department.
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a nightmare on elm street\ncujo\nfriday the 13th\nhalloween\nthe ring [japanese version]\n\nand the most scariest movie of all time to be created in existance:teletubbies!!!!
991661
No, I wasnt afraid of changing in front of the TV, but photos, pictures and paintings creeped me out!  My sister had a good copy of the Mona Lisa in her room as a child (it had belonged to our grandparents and had hung there since before I can remember), and she was really afraid of changing in front of it, and swore that the eyes followed her everywhere, my parents ended up taking it down cos it freaked us both out.
507937
seriously when i saw nightmare on elm st for the first time, it scared the crap outta me, others are the exorcist, halloween, and the amityville horror (remake)
1113123
That is a great question! Congrats!\nI was raised by a movie junkie so there were tons of things I saw that probably warped me forever! Mostly horror movies...seeing "Burnt Offerings" and "The Omen" as a small child will set the tone for nightmares.
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I'm a gore queen!  I love gory movies (The Saw trilogy and Hostel are by far my favorite movies)  To me, it's hard to get into something if it's obviously fake.  But movies with gore or intense violence help me really get into the movie and you fear the adrenaline or fear of the characters.
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The Exorcist, cause that has really happen!! The scariest scenes are in her bedroom after possesion takes place. It's a scary movie for the 70's.