What game/book/movie made you sleep with the lights on?

[fatal2704]

For me, it was the ghost story "Oh whistle and ill come to you, my lad" by M.R. James. Look it up. It's incredibly atmospheric, and provides some really creepy descriptions.

 

[twistedmic]

I remember Stephen King's 'The Shining' (book, no movie) giving me nightmares when I read it (at eleven/twelve years old).

 

[Colour Scientist]

World War Z, last year. I slept with the light on for a week at the age of nineteen. I'm so cool.

I can't help it. I can cope with gore, aliens, psycho killers, vampires, monsters, etc... just not zombies. I can't cope with zombies, they scare the bejesus out of me. I couldn't even finish Half Life 2. Yeah, I said it.

 

[Wolfwind]

When I was a kid in grade five or six, I recall reading a series of books called "Scary Stories to tell in the dark". I had a vivid imagination, so some of the stories did stick with me when I was laying in the dark at night waiting to fall asleep. However, it was the art in the book that legitimately made me keep the light on for a few nights before I could fall asleep. They were just etched into my mind for a while.

I dunno how scary people would find them nowadays, but if you type "Scary stories to tell in the dark" into google and go to the images, you get some samples. I could only really describe them as nightmarish.

 

[chaosyoshimage]

Those specials on TV about aliens and the supernatural. I loved that kind of stuff as a kid, but then one of the specials ran a thing on the Christian End Times. That stuff freaked me out and I stopped watching and kind of fell to my fear. So yeah, God was my boogyman...

 

[Mekado]

Stephen King's "It" definitely

 

[BreakfastMan]

None that I have encountered so far, and I love horror a lot. House of Leaves and The Blair Witch Project both came pretty close, but not close enough. I am just really, really hard to scare. Name the scariest horror film you have seen, if I have seen it, I was probably not really scared by it. I don't know why I am so hard to scare, I just am.

 

[Rawne1980]

All the Dark Tower books.

They are not scary I just fell asleep while reading them every night. Couldn't put them down so literally read them till I dropped.

 

[shuur]

Resident evil on ps1,damn good game still

 

[Hoplon]

System Shock 2.

Brown Trouser alert playing that one in the dark.

 

[Broax]

There is a shit load of stuff that made me sleep with the lights on (I guess that kinda makes me a pussy) but from all of it Silent Hill for the original Playstation stands clearly above the rest...

That shit was just *TOO* scary for me...

 

[Saxm13]

The scarecrow episode from Batman The Animated Series.

The Regenerator from Resident Evil 4. My brother made those quiet hissing noises in his sleep. Still scared for life cause of him...

 

[Kenbo Slice]

The Blair Witch Project scared the living shit out of me when I first watched it, I slept with the lights on that night. Shutter (the Thai version) scared the hell out of me too. The Exorcist takes the cake for the scariest movie I have ever seen, I still have difficulties watching it

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

There is exactly one thing, and one thing only, that I've ever seen that prevented me from sleeping that night out of fear. I had to wait until it was light out. What was that thing, you ask?

The Doctor Who episode "Blink". If you have not seen it...for the love of God, listen to the people who say how scary it is, and don't watch it for the first time at 11 PM.

When I was a kid in grade five or six, I recall reading a series of books called "Scary Stories to tell in the dark". I had a vivid imagination, so some of the stories did stick with me when I was laying in the dark at night waiting to fall asleep. However, it was the art in the book that legitimately made me keep the light on for a few nights before I could fall asleep. They were just etched into my mind for a while.

I dunno how scary people would find them nowadays, but if you type "Scary stories to tell in the dark" into google and go to the images, you get some samples. I could only really describe them as nightmarish.

I read those in junior high, and was legitimately terrified. That illustrator apparently wasn't informed who the target audience for the book was.

 

[Stammer]

To this day, the movie "Poltergeist" scares the hell out of me.

I saw it last Hallowe'en and it still got me. I AM TWENTY-TWO YEARS OLD FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!

 

[prince_xedar]

Stephen King's IT (The movie)
I was six
Tim Curry is fucking scary as a clown

 

[Casual Shinji]

The Gmork from The Neverending Story.

I was already pretty scared of werewolves back in my youth, and that thing made me shit my pants something fierce.

Silver Bullet ranks pretty high to.

 

[Gaiseric]

Back when I first saw Event Horizon(6) I had to have the lights on for a bit.

 

[Dalek Caan]

Mel Gibson "Signs" movie. Had to sleep for about a month with the lights on after that. I was 8.