Well I'm not sleeping tonight, thanks.
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hahahSilver_Shade said:
thanks for the advice, I think i'll take it. I couldn't handle any of that right now, too many windows and nighttimeness around.
Especially Marble Hornets stuff, didn't hardly sleep at all after that...and had to get up for a 9 o'clock class....horrible mistake.
Not a one. I slept just fine after watching Aliens for the first time at age 10, as well as Hellraiser, Leprechaun, and a bunch of other random horror movies (not in one night, mind you; over a year or so).
The closest thing I've ever had to a nightmare was when I was sleep deprived and thought I was late for work, when work didn't start for another 4 hours. Sadly, this happened a lot when I pulled close-open shifts (finish at 2 AM, go back to work at 10 AM that day).
The closest thing I've ever had to a nightmare was when I was sleep deprived and thought I was late for work, when work didn't start for another 4 hours. Sadly, this happened a lot when I pulled close-open shifts (finish at 2 AM, go back to work at 10 AM that day).
I'm the biggest wuss ever, so my friends have gone to great lengths to keep me away from Marble Hornets. It sounds hella creepy though.Artreynne said:
The year was 2003 and I was a young naive boy of about thirteen years of age. I was a happy idealistic child who loved watching movies and thought that the world was a happy place where no harm could ever befall me.
I was a foolish, foolish little boy.
For one fateful day I was left alone while my parents went to a party, they seemed to think I was old enough to take care of the house myself. I decided to go and watch a movie that was playing on TV, I decided to watch 'Pet Sematary' because up until now my only experiance with horror movies were slasher/monster movies where you just got startled a little so I figured Pet Sematary would be the same thing.
I watched it all the way through, the opening with the ghostly singing of children around gravestones, the dying Victor Pascow with his brains leaking from his skull and his return as a ghost, a demonic evil cat, a skeletal victim of spinal menegitis howling at the screen, a little boy being run over by a huge fucking truck, a zombie teenager with a hideous laugh, the return of the zombified little boy, the death of two people in hideous ways and finally the zombie wife coming home to murder her husband.
When my parents came home they found me huddled up in the bathroom as it was the only room in the house that locked from the inside and I had every light on and I was refusing, refusing to go to sleep. For after I saw that movie I was still left alone in a huge, empty house that was dark and made creaking noises for two whole hours.
I am no longer the happy young thing I used to be, something had changed in that little boy and he would never, ever think that all movies are happy and fun and as the years went on his fear turned to bitterness which turned to misanthropy which turned to violence. He came to resent the human species for allowing such a movie to terrify him so very much and so as his resentment grew he began to identify with a fictional alien race more and began to follow his agenda.
And thus... Vrex360 the destroyer of humans was born.
I was a foolish, foolish little boy.
For one fateful day I was left alone while my parents went to a party, they seemed to think I was old enough to take care of the house myself. I decided to go and watch a movie that was playing on TV, I decided to watch 'Pet Sematary' because up until now my only experiance with horror movies were slasher/monster movies where you just got startled a little so I figured Pet Sematary would be the same thing.
I watched it all the way through, the opening with the ghostly singing of children around gravestones, the dying Victor Pascow with his brains leaking from his skull and his return as a ghost, a demonic evil cat, a skeletal victim of spinal menegitis howling at the screen, a little boy being run over by a huge fucking truck, a zombie teenager with a hideous laugh, the return of the zombified little boy, the death of two people in hideous ways and finally the zombie wife coming home to murder her husband.
When my parents came home they found me huddled up in the bathroom as it was the only room in the house that locked from the inside and I had every light on and I was refusing, refusing to go to sleep. For after I saw that movie I was still left alone in a huge, empty house that was dark and made creaking noises for two whole hours.
I am no longer the happy young thing I used to be, something had changed in that little boy and he would never, ever think that all movies are happy and fun and as the years went on his fear turned to bitterness which turned to misanthropy which turned to violence. He came to resent the human species for allowing such a movie to terrify him so very much and so as his resentment grew he began to identify with a fictional alien race more and began to follow his agenda.
And thus... Vrex360 the destroyer of humans was born.
Right, I have always been dimly interested in this Doctor Who show, but I confess that I had only a very vague notion what it was about. But after reading this post, I was curious to see these "weeping angels", and now that I've seen a scene from the episode in Youtube, I'll have to start paying more attention to this show. So I guess I have you to thank for presenting me to a new drug. And I hadn't even finished the first season of Fringe yet...soilent said:
OT: It didn't exactly keep me awake at night, but the original Blair Witch Project got me in a special way. I remember how my heart was racing when I came out of the theater, and I remember we went to a bar afterwards. This bar had a makeshift stage that stood in the way of the restroom, so you had to get out, go around a poorly lit corner and inside again to reach the john. I went there, but just to the side of the door to go back in the bar there was a guy who couldn't wait in line and was taking a leak right there, on the wall. Seeing that guy standing there with his back turned to me, facing the wall, in the moonlight, made me jump significantly higher than I suspected I was capable... Anyone who has watched the Blair Witch Project must uderstand why it upset me so much.
And just to add insult to injury, after I went home and got into bed, my alarm clock went off at about four A.M. by itself, which made me break my previous high-jumping record.
No offense to the people who were freaked out by that, but if the trailer made me chuckle, I can only imagine the belly laughs that movie would elicit.Dr. Awesome Face said:
That being said, "The Men Behind the Sun" was terrifying. Even though the effects are a little dated, the fact that it's basically depicting what Japanese scientists did to Chinese prisoners during WW II makes it all the more horrifying.
"Yeah, the only cheaper thing I can think of is low humidity!" Oh, rifftrax, I love you. Seriously though, that movie scared you? Well, to be fair, the old lady was kinda creepy.Ensiferum said:
I had sleepless nights as a child from Stephen King's IT, and a continuing irrational fear of clowns. Though it is one of my favorite scary movies now (technically a miniseries, but whatever).
Not a movie/show.
But: They Hunger (Mod for Half Life 1)
Awesoem mod, loved it to pieces, but sadly since i played it from start to finish...I've NEVER been able to sleep without the TV/Light on >.< No idea why, it wasn't partiucarly scary. But it had that effect none the less.
But: They Hunger (Mod for Half Life 1)
Awesoem mod, loved it to pieces, but sadly since i played it from start to finish...I've NEVER been able to sleep without the TV/Light on >.< No idea why, it wasn't partiucarly scary. But it had that effect none the less.
Signs also freaked me out - the same 'walking past the camera' thing....*shudders*
Also the film Creep. I am a person that would get on the last london tube home. Not anymore thanks to that film...ergh.
And (dont laugh now) The Dark Crystal. Those landstriders still give me nightmares to this day. I hate anything with long, skeletal like limbs. and they are just wrong!
Also the film Creep. I am a person that would get on the last london tube home. Not anymore thanks to that film...ergh.
And (dont laugh now) The Dark Crystal. Those landstriders still give me nightmares to this day. I hate anything with long, skeletal like limbs. and they are just wrong!
Can always watch 20th Century Boys trilogy if you haven't yet, its very well designed to force you to watch in one sitting, with every movie finishing on a legendary cliffhanger.
As for a movie you can't ever get asleep watching, there is only Battle Royale!
As for a movie you can't ever get asleep watching, there is only Battle Royale!
The "Nightmare on Elm Street" concept is not conducive to sleeping when you're a kid with an over-active imagination.
I'm the youngest on both sides of my family. At Christmas, when I was 8, my teenage cousins decided to throw Freddy Krueger on. I didn't stick around for much, but I was terrified of going to sleep and checked under the bed religiously for months after that.
I'm the youngest on both sides of my family. At Christmas, when I was 8, my teenage cousins decided to throw Freddy Krueger on. I didn't stick around for much, but I was terrified of going to sleep and checked under the bed religiously for months after that.
