Good Old-Fashioned Nightmare Fuel

[sarahvait]

I think one of the few things in a movie that has ever scared me enough to give me nightmares was actually a fish... I can't remember what it was called but it was a 3D imax movie I watched when I was a little kid, and one of the fish they showed had a mouth that opened into this enormous gaping maw of hooked teeth that gave me nightmares.

Finding Nemo?

As for me, this [http://s121.photobucket.com/albums/o208/True_RPJesus/?action=view¤t=_________________.jpg] (the fact that I later saw it on uncyclopedia, and didn't realize that it was an animated version at first certainly didn't help).

I know that pic! That's from a book complilation of scary stories I had as a kid. There were all sort of creepy pics like that. I had three of those books.

I was more scared by the audio tape version of one of the books. The stories had this scary music accompanying them, and the narrator would get really into reading and do these horrible voices. Kid's stuff indeed.

 

[sarahvait]

28 weeks later, i was up for 2 straight days almost convinced they were creeping in my house.. and i almost convinced myself i was a zombie in my door way, i actually yelled "AHHHH!!!" in a high pitched scream, and i thought i was a bunch of zombies outside my window...creeepppyyy

Really? I LOVED THAT FILM! its one of my all to favorite movies.. EVER. I have watched it like 20 odd times. I mean.. they fly a helicopter into a bunch of infected

Any way. My list.
Clowns: Those things are absolutely petrifying. Seriously some of the scariest stuff ever. I think my fear of them came from watching I.T. When i was like 10, and never finishing it. I re-watched it a few years later and when it was reviled at the end that its just some sort of spider thing, i was a bit like *meh* But still.. clowns.. *Shudder*
Children: Seriously, little kids are some of the most terrifying things ever. The Ring (Not 2 though, that was just a wank) Omen, The shining. Oh, and F.E.A.R
F.E.A.R. You know what, it can get its own section. The only game I lost sleep over. Admittedly i did play it in my room, in the dark, only at night time, with headphones on so no noises from the outside world could un-immerse me.

Yep, the clowns thing was the same for me, though I really like IT now. Though I would also add the movie Killer Clowns from Outer Space to that list. They'd trap people in giant balloons where they'd suffocate, or in acidic cotton candy, and they'd get these sharp, long straws and suck out the people's insides when they had dissolved enough.

The kids in Fatal Frame freak me out. Especially in the first game.

 

[sarahvait]

I think one of the few things in a movie that has ever scared me enough to give me nightmares was actually a fish... I can't remember what it was called but it was a 3D imax movie I watched when I was a little kid, and one of the fish they showed had a mouth that opened into this enormous gaping maw of hooked teeth that gave me nightmares.

Finding Nemo?

As for me, this [http://s121.photobucket.com/albums/o208/True_RPJesus/?action=view¤t=_________________.jpg] (the fact that I later saw it on uncyclopedia, and didn't realize that it was an animated version at first certainly didn't help).

I know that pic! That's from a book complilation of scary stories I had as a kid. There were all sort of creepy pics like that. I had three of those books.

I was more scared by the audio tape version of one of the books. The stories had this scary music accompanying them, and the narrator would get really into reading and do these horrible voices. Kid's stuff indeed.

I found the audio from the story that scared me the most. Man, this is still creeps me out so bad. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BtDUy5M-Uc

But I just like creepy stuff. It's fun to get into.

 

[Auron555]

For me, the 'beating within an inch on one's life' always disturbed me the most. The pure relentlessness of it, with no remorse... I got scared.

 

[Jharry5]

I rarely ever get nightmares, however there have been 4 occasions where a certain thing has fueled my fear, in order of damage made: (I apologize to the mods and encourage others not to post lists of their own. I just couldn't find a better format.)

NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET. Ah, yes. The old classic horror movie. I saw this and it made me afraid of the dark, afraid of watching television, afraid of sleeping. In short, it made me sleepless for several months and had lasting affects afterward.

This was something that caused me many a sleepless night.

Also, any doll, but that's perhaps more of a phobia than nightmare fuel...

 

[wedrinkritalin]

The Ring, looking back it sucks, back then it didn't, it scared me

 

[Bored Tomatoe]

Clowns and puppets.

 

[blackcherry]

Everytime I'm foolish enough to watch an X files episode that isn't about that main plot (so it usually has some monster of the week) in the dark on my own I get scared to go to sleep.

The alien episodes themselves when they show the bright lights and the more is less idea of just a wierd shadow slowly approaching is the ultimate nightmare fuel.

I have no idea why I had this dream, but after the first time I saw Alien I kept having dreams of Ian Holm saying, "Perfect. Organism." in the same way as the movie. That was more weird than scary.

The Takashi Miike film Audition (Odishon) is about as warped and terrifying as they come. I'm a hardened horror veteran and still thought that it was really disturbing.

Oh, thats just a terrifying film. That and the omen scared the hell out of me the first time I saw them.

 

[Bourne Endeavor]

Good old TV Tropes, how I love thee.

Anyway, probably the Grudge. I watched it in theatre so I guess I was worse off than most people, but I became nocturnophobic, bedsheetsphobic and showerphobic for 2 months after I watched it.

Btw, I need to watch Higurashi, that anime looks awesome.

I watched about half of the Grudge when my mom happened to find it on as she was flicking channels. Frankly I was unimpressived, I expected every little thing to happen long before it did; hell the scene where the bloody cropse is slowly walking had me sigh thinking "and the idiot is going to approach it just watch instead of you know, avoid the walking dead thing." Of course... he does.

Neon Genesis Evangelion's bigger mind screw moments for me, but the biggest nightmare fuel I've ever seen...

Google "amigara faults". It's a short manga that I looked up because I'm an idiot and it scarred me to the point that... I mean... If the Doctor showed up on my doorstep with the TARDIS and offered me the chance to change a single thing about my life, I'd go back and stop myself from reading that. I'm better now (I read the manga about a year ago) but for a good... five months? Yeah, I had to sleep with the lights on and I kept my closet door shut because I kept expecting to see... well, anyone who's read it will know.

I still have nightmares...

What. The. Hell? That comic is... strange, granted a skipped reading it and went for the pictures. Honestly mate, I expected much worse.

I never have nightmares of things one would see in horror films; probably because I never bother with them. The characters irritate me immensely, furthermore with how my mind works if I am bored I anazyle everything to death - something by which I can do without actually attempting in seconds - which ruins the fear factor and I usually find myself cheering for the most brutal death possible on the idiot people.

Couple that with a severely accurate and creative imagination and it makes for poor entertainment. I can as of this moment create a life like image of a zombie based on a single image. My imagination goes to the extent it will appear life like and has even slowly walked toward me. Certainly not a talent was thrilled to have growing up, although I am completely desensitized in every degree possible. Sometimes I let my mind wonder just for amusement; creepy little bastard it is.

Suffix to say, I prefer not to provide images to make it worse.

 

[sirdapfrey]

That other movie about the reaper guy that kills people who have numbers above their heads.

I believe it's called "The Frighteners" starring Michael J. Fox.

 

[AntiAntagonist]

Spiral (horror manga) - If you're in that town you're already screwed.
The Blob - Just how do you defend against it?!
Ghostbusters (don't remember which episode) - Some members of the team got swallowed by a giant goldfish.

My actual nightmares are hardly ever about things like this though.

 

[ThaBenMan]

I don't think I'll ever get a good night's sleep again until I find out what Fallout 3's Centaurs are, at least. Seriously, wtf are they?

Come on now, he just wants to give you a kiss...

They're just random mutant monsters that come out when different animals (and humans, I would think - they have faces, after all) are chucked together into a vat of FEV (Forced Evolutionary Virus), the stuff that makes Super Mutants.

EDIT: Crap, I didn't see that I had been beaten to it. Sorry.

Oh gods yes, that one. I remember some of the freakier pictures in there. They kept me up many a night, those ones. I wonder if I still have it...

Ya the stories are maybe 10 year old level not to bad, But the pictures they would freak out people who are 50, That illustrator wanted to just ruin a kids life I think.

Looking at those books traumatized me as a kid as well. The worst was probably the picture that went with this story called something like "The Wolf Girl" *shudders* Look it up, if you dare...

 

[Madrak the Red]

THe only things that gave me nightmares were the old MIB cartoons, as a kid. Now, I just don't fear anything, really. Once you except the fact that you are, indeed, screwed, no matter waht, then everything seems less scary. Insanity is like a really cosy bed. Once your in, you feel sheilded, and you never want to come out...

Seriously though, I doubt I'm insane. Things do make me jump however. The weeping angels from Doctor Who. They made me jump. As did Jaws. However, I don't get nightmares. I actually look forward to the nuclear apocalypse, to wander around the desolate wasteland, truly free from all the constraints of society would be... magnificent. I relish it. I dream of it occuring so I can go and be free. I actually saw the art, and played the game, and I wanted to be there. To see mankind plunged back into the pure aspects of survivla, to see Darwin, re-envisioned with radiation. It would be pure Nirvana. Magnificence. I want to wander. After all, you can't take the sky from me.

I fear the loss of freedom, but that can be fought. And I really would fight it.

 

[SladeJT]

For a while when I was little, the intro to Nightmare before Christmas. I would hide under the cushions and plead my brother to let me know when the creepy part (read: intro leading to Halloween Town) was over. Naturally, he would tell me so when it was at the peak of creepiness.

More recently, that bird-woman and its head-chick from Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.

 

[RPJesus]

Speaking of zelda, I always used to get freaked out using the iron boots in OOT in particullarly deep areas of water (like the ice place that Jabujabu's lair turns into).

 

[Bourne Endeavor]

I watched about half of the Grudge when my mom happened to find it on as she was flicking channels. Frankly I was unimpressived, I expected every little thing to happen long before it did; hell the scene where the bloody cropse is slowly walking had me sigh thinking "and the idiot is going to approach it just watch instead of you know, avoid the walking dead thing." Of course... he does.

I agree with that, I did expect everything to happen before they did (Was basically going like "NO! Don't go up the stairs you IDIOT!" and I totally facepalmed when the cop, who KNEW the house was haunted, went to investigate some crying and gurgling noises), but I think horror movies are infinitely scarier in theatre than on TV. The scenes still freaked the crap out of me even though I knew they were going to happen.

Although, I have to admit that the Grudge 2 was utterly retarded; me and my friend were sitting there laughing at the whole thing.

That I will concede, a creepy sense on a massive screen just may up the fear factor a tad.

As for the sequel, I heard it was awful by comparison mainly due to a confusing plot and random idiocy. Definitely not on my list of movies to watch, I have qualms enough wasting time on horror flicks that are mildly decent. Regardless my horror mood is set to "Mass Annoyance" after the ridiculous amount of commercials for The Unborn. God I hope everyone in that movie dies.

 

[Scarecrow38]

Horror movies... always. I just cannot stand horror movies with all the gore and suspense, it totally messes me up witout fail.

 

[Kuropan]

thirteen ghosts made me really nervous when I slept

Oh god... i saw this movie right after watching my ex-boyfriend playing The Suffering... i didn't sleep for three days. i'm such a wuss >_<

 

[RPJesus]

Ooh, thought of another Zelda one; The nejirons from Majora's Mask. Since nobody I mention them to knows who the !!!! they are (which kind of adds to the creepiness factor), imagine this: You're making your way through the stone temple and see a goron balled up in a corner. "What's a goron doing here?" you think to yourself. So you walk up to it and OH SWEET JESUS THE FACE [http://zelda.wikia.com/wiki/Nejiron]! And then it explodes. Also, I've recently been reminded that some of them roll at you, which probably contributed to me being terrified of them.