That one thing that freaks you out for no reason

[WonkyWarmaiden]

So the other day I was watching a video and out of nowhere they flashed that image of the face from The Exorcist, the one that shows up for barely a second a few times throughout the movie. Here's the thing, I've never even seen the movie but whenever that face pops up in something my mind just nopes the fuck out and I have to close my eyes or scroll away from the image like a crazy person. And I know it's just somebody in makeup but I still have this weird reaction to it.

So has anyone else experienced this sort of thing? An irrational fear towards a part from a movie, television show, book, whatever? Something so small that it shouldn't freak you out as much as it does?

 

[Fractral]

In The Empire Strikes Back, that one scene where Han gets put in carbonite and then you see him frozen has always freaked me out. I love the film, but I have to look away at that point.

The whole of Spirited Away creeps me out (or at least it did my 8 year old self, and I'm too chicken to go back and watch it again) but the scene where the main characters parents turn into pigs sent me running. I kicked up such a fuss about it that my parents threw away the DVD. It's a shame, 'cause I adore Ghibli films.

And as a more recent thing, I tried watching some anime called 'Knights of Sidonia' because the premise sounded interesting, and for the most part it was (Like Gundam Battlestar Galactica with teenagers). Only, there's a point in one of the early episodes where one of the pilots is eaten by one of the tentacle aliens, and then the alien takes on the dead pilot's face, and at that point I hit alt-F4 and stopped watching. It was creepy as fuck, and not a little sickening.

 

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

Basically any romance scene. They just make me cringe with how terrible they are. No matter the movie, no matter the actors/actress doing whatever, I can't stand it. To me, it is never ever believable and always sounds like a date-desperate 14 year old wrote it. And as someone who wrote horrifically bad fanfics when I was 14, I can look at any romance scene and go "Yeah, that sounds like something I would have written as a Sophomore."

 

[Zhukov]

Deep water.

If I can't see the bottom than I don't really want anything to do with it.

It's totally irrational of course. I suppress it when going for a swim, but there's always this niggling feeling that there could be anything down there.

As for stuff in movies, etc... well, I remember child me getting freaked the fuck out by one scene in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. It was the bit where the villain gets run over by a steam roller, then his flattened body gets up and starts walking around.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

Squid and octopuses are horrific. Everything about them- Their fleshiness, the oversized eyes, the tentacles (and suckers. No animal needs eight appendages either), the beaks, the intelligence... They're aliens I tell you, fucking aliens.

I know plenty of people find them a bit weird, but they freak me out especially so. As you can imagine, the scene in Prometheus where Shaw gives birth to a fucking squid-alien was pretty traumatic. I threw up in the back of my mouth, it wasn't pleasant.

 

[Poetic Nova]

I can't watch Total Recall (the one with Scharzenegger, not the half assed reboot) because I can't stand the scenes with those bulgy eyes.

 

[FalloutJack]

I don't get freaked out by something for NO reason. That would make it a phobia. I have a fairly-understandable fear of giant squids. The reasoning behind it is that while I exist largely on land, the situation by which I ever see one of these things in person means that I am probably fucked. They are predators and very fast in their natural habitat, and then there are those eyes. Big as beachballs, unblinking, and uncomprehending. It's a dangerous animal. That's a GOOD reason to be afraid.

 

[Prime_Hunter_H01]

Porcelain Dolls, no wonder they are the go to cursed toy and common in horror movies.

There is EVIL in those dead eyes.

Spoiler: Warning: Evil inside

 

[Frezzato]

The Snuggles Bear freaks me out. For GOOD reason.

Spoiler: It sings a song while you sleep

...while it's snaking its way through your heating/ventilation at night.

 

[lacktheknack]

That scene in "Fellowship of the Ring" where Bilbo wants to hold the ring one last time.

I fell off my chair the first time it happened, still can't bring myself to watch it again.

 

[Reyold]

House centipedes freak me out, even though I've read they're fairly harmless and actually eat quite a few pests. I think it has something to do with the sheer amount of legs they have and how freakin' fast they are.

 

[Sable Gear]

House centipedes freak me out, even though I've read they're fairly harmless and actually eat quite a few pests. I think it has something to do with the sheer amount of legs they have and how freakin' fast they are.

This. I'm fine with most spiders and millipedes, but something about anything with long wispy legs gives me the jibblies; house centipedes, harvestmen/daddy long-legs, crane-flies...can't handle 'em. The weird thing is that all of these critters are essentially harmless. Crane-flies don't even eat, they just really weird me out.

 

[maninahat]

I am weirded out by stuff to do with toes, especially cutting toe nails.

The weirdest one though would be my hatred of seeing babies crying for food, and being excessively dotted upon by their parents as a result.

 

[Scarim Coral]

I had quite a few when I was a kid-

Some reason this dancing girl boss from this side scrolling shooting SNES game sacred the hell out of me. I cry much to my bro dismissed since mum and dad tell him to turn it off.

That leech man from that X-File episode scared me alot too.

Lastly that scene of Moleman going to kiss Selma from the Simspons scared the hell of me too!

 

[SKBPinkie]

Very tight, narrow spaces.

Not exactly claustrophobic; I don't have any issues with elevators or other similarly sized areas, but something that is just narrow enough for your body is a complete no-no for me.

So yeah, watching the Descent wasn't really fun.

 

[BlackJesus]

I kept having this dream about geometric shapes on a featureless gray expanse. They'd move far away from each other, then closer, and then I'd wake up. It just filled me with this sense of dread and panic. I have no idea why.

 

[Quazimofo]

Deep water.

If I can't see the bottom than I don't really want anything to do with it.

With you on that one. I live near the coast and I love to go down to the sea and watch and listen to it, but occasionally my bumhole of a brain says 'What if...?' and my sphincter clenches and my heart flexes. Nuclear crabs, man, nuclear crabs.

I only live near a lake, but I still have this fear. Might have something with the Jaws movies, might have something with videogames. Almost definitely has something to do with the swamp scene in Lord of the Rings. Regardless, screw any body of water with an obscured bottom, even if I can stand on it while being partially above water.

Also, fuck anything that likes to crawl on my skin, and fuck the most recent indiana jones movie for making me afraid of ant swarms.

 

[Lil devils x_v1legacy]

Giant cockroaches ( water bugs). I had never seen one until I was a late teenager and when I saw one, It wasn't just one, it was thousands. I was working at this place where kids hung out on the weekend and we were paid to watch them, after close we went to move the bounce house and thousands of those things wee under there, so when we ,moved it they started flying around and screeching. I ran for my life out of the building in terror and refused to go back in until after they exterminated the place and assured me they were all dead. I am so terrified of them now and friends and family tease me about it leaving rubber bugs around to make me scream and run away. They actually make me nauseated and I might vomit if I am around one.

Still air, calm before a storm or odd sky color. I have survived multiple tornadoes so now when the wind is still I get very afraid since that is what happened right before they hit. The first one I survived threw a barn across from my house through my living room on my birthday, the second one on mothers day went over my house and destroyed my close friend's work and when she came out of the walk in cooler the entire rest of the building was gone and I thought she was dead seeing the destruction, the 3rd one took out the skylights in my penthouse apartment, the fourth one I saw flying cars in the field while driving and it took out a neighborhood and damaged a nearby school... so yea When the wind gets still and the sky is odd colors, I am very afraid, even when it is perfectly safe.

 

[FPLOON]

From an "irrational" standpoint (I guess):Thantophobia
Atychiphobia
Kinemortophobia[footnote]Only in real life... So, yay?[/footnote]

As long as I don't think about it, then they don't bother me at all... *twitch*

Other than that, I do have an irrational fear of misunderstandings, yet it's only for stuff that happens in real life and nothing else...

However, in terms of something more specific, I remember being freaked out by Jack Nicholson in general... (and The Shinning really didn't help me of getting over that...) Other than that, The Mask freaked me out the same way the real killer in Who Framed Rodger Rabbit? did back in the day... (Those fucking eyes...)