The trippy "Invaders from Mars" (1953) was probably the first film that traumatized me as a child, having seen it on some afternoon creature feature long after its initial release. Directed by the brilliant production designer William Cameron Menzies it presents a haunting vision of an alien takeover from a child's point of view. Spielberg was supposedly heavily influenced by it and it shows in his work. Later on I was blown away by "The Haunting" (1963), which seemed like the most chilling ghost story ever when I viewed it at age 12 or so. Thanks for your list. I appreciate them all.
The Birds is one of the simplest movies I've seen, but it remains for me one of the most frightening movies of all time. The last ten minutes alone make me want to run for cover.
My wife and I saw The Birds in the theatre when it came out. We were 19. As we walked out, we looked around to check for birds. The scariest movie I have ever seen. The Day the Earth Stood Still is the best SF film ever made.
I’m REALLY late to this party, but I’ll throw in what scared me most as a kid. It was a late 50s low budget film called My World Dies Screaming. In today’s internet world (I’m old enough to remember a world without the internet!) this film seems to be remembered almost exclusively for a subliminal image gimmick it used to enhance the scares. Watching it on TV as a little kid I knew nothing about subliminal images and just focused on the plot - which I found truly haunting. A woman repeatedly dreams of a house where something occurred at the top of a staircase, something that was so horrible her mind has blocked it out. Turns out the house of her nightmare is real, and her new husband brings her there to confront her fears. Two things made this unnerve me. It is not a fantasy film with a monster as the scare, it is a psychological film with a completely rational premise. And, when I was very young (like 6), shortly before I saw this old movie on TV for the first time, a murder occurred in our little town that was very much like the tragedy in this film. Yikes! I have been uncomfortable on staircases ever since….
Thanks to your recommendation I finally watched “The Day The Earth Stood Still”. All of this time I thought it would be similar to “War of the Worlds” yet it was the complete opposite. I really enjoyed all of the interactions between characters especially those with Klaatu, the philosophical thoughts posed, and finally the music whenever Gort was unleashed.
Very cool! I'm 40 now, and the scariest movie I've ever seen is still Jan Svankmajer's 'Alice' (1988), which I probably saw not too long after it came out 🙃
The Birds was my first horror film, i think i was 5 or 6! I still get goose pumps when that bird hits the door at the teacher's house!! Great memories!!
You had an amazing childhood! I wonder if you would have appreciated old films as much if your parents and older sibs hadn't watched so many of them! I laughed at so much of what you said! You are such fun!
Aw, how sweet. To be fair, those were mostly great movies. And you did recover, as your love of monster movies proves. As a kid, one of the compensations for a rainy weekend day was the Creature Double Feature on the local UHF stations. If I couldn't be outside playing, it was the next best thing. And being the youngest of 3 boys, being scared wasn't really an option unless I wanted to be teased mercilessly. But I always found them fun.
I have had major anxiety issues as a kid so whenever I wake up in the middle of the night, it takes over and I fear that something is always trying to kill me. I would hide under my blanket and try to fall asleep. I use to sleep in the very back room with my brothers but once that panic sets in after waking up with everything pitch black, I hide under my blanket and inch my way through the hallway until I reached the living room. It would probably take me 20-30 mins to make it. I got on the couch where my parents slept and go to sleep lol. I fear that Bigfoot, a witch, penny wise, grim reaper, and possibly chucky would attack me at some point. I have a ton more stories like this but this would be 100 paragraphs long. :P
Definitely can relate to the Birds movie. First Hitchcock was Psycho, and I loved it so much as a kid I wanted to watch more. Mom showed me The Birds. I ended up being very afraid of birds until my wife got a parakeet when I was 31 and I got to spend time with him.
These are some awesome movies, The Invasion of the Body Snatchers is highly enjoyable and very modern and intelligent movie. Creature from the Black Lagoon is one of my favorites I even bought it in 3D to enjoy it in its original form. Now the movies that scared me as a kid was #1 The Howling, my Dad took me to see it at the theatre when I was 8 years old. #2 Poltergeist saw that in theatres a year later and couldn't sleep alone for a week. #3 The Exorsist the last movie that scared me as an adult (sadly I watched it again a few years ago and it no longer has the power to induce fear, so I will probably never be scared by a movie for the rest of my life.)
I emailed Ben Chapman in 2002 about taking part in a 20 questions game by telephone for our yearly Halloween party. Assured him he would be well compensated ;) Such a nice man - he was not able to as he would be attending a sci-fi convention that week. (duh of course!) But he was so nice to send along a couple of autographed pictures and other goodies. He played the creature "on land" and Ricou Browning did the water scenes. From what I understand he led a wonderful life and was enjoying his time in Hawaii. I'll treasure those signed photos forever.
My late great mother… virulently anti censorship and with an overestimated opinion regarding my maturity allowed me to watch the movie adaptation of Gunter Grass’ THE TIN DRUM at the tender age of 14. The eel scene hit me like a hammer to the head. I’m 57 and don’t think I’ve been the same since, lol. Having said this… my mother was Uber cool in her very unique way and I wouldn’t have exchanged her for the world. The Tin Drum might have been a questionable decision but she also introduced me to Dostoyevsky so… hm? Now that I think about it, Fyodor also affected my mind in questionable ways, too! (Keep making your consistently wonderful content!)
Invaders from Mars was extremely scary for me. The descent of the spaceship. The kid no one would believe. People turning into soulless replicas after being sucked into the ground. Walking home and expecting your be sucked under the sidewalk. Nightmare.
First of all, I'm an expert on this. There are monsters under my bed, and they have been there all my life. And no one seems to be doing anything about it. RE The Birds ... The beaks of those birds, poking through the door was too much for me. The ultimate fright experience comes 2/3rds of the way through "Mr. Sardonicus" and the last several minutes of "Wait Until Dark". Keep the lights down low for both. On that 2nd one, I can still hear the audience screaming, while I waited in line with dad outside the theater. The frail and vulnerable Audrey Hepburn was terrific in that one. - Klaatu barada nikto
Return to Oz, Large Marge from Pee Wee's Big Adventure, & the Jabberwock from Alice Through the Looking Glass (1985 TV Movie) all traumatized me as a child. And by 'as a child,' I mean forever.
omg the flowers on the wall turning into birds yikes! im scared of dolls clowns puppets all due to scary 80's movies- i bet u would like "dollz" '87 killer clowns from outter space had me afraid of the bathroom black and white dracula freaked me out freddy kruegar too love your channel hey thnx for all the content:)
Thanks to your reviews, I actually watched BBC's old scary movies the other day and this month so far...I actually saw most of the Hitchcock's Rear Window :) 2:00 audio went out there
The first two movies we ever rented on Video were 'Beastmaster' and 'An American Werewolf in London'. I don't think I'd ever seen a horror movie before that point (I was about 7 or 8). I demanded to be able to watch both (the horror was supposed to be for my older brother and sister). Needless to say Werewolf scarred me for life... The 70's 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' really creeped me out... _"Don't go to sleep!"_ I saw 'Creature' on a double-bill at the theatre in 3-D about 30 years ago. Thought it was great!
Three movies in this list are the only movies to actually scare me as a kid. The Birds The Creature from the Black Lagoon Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The first two because,as a kid, I could buy into those things happening. I was always able to realize that vampires, werewolves,etc were just fiction,but Birds and Creature were a very real possibility to me then. Body Snatchers just plain creeped me out. Lol
Wow. Quite a few similarities. I'm the youngest in my family and I was a "Surprise!". My brother and two sisters one year apart... five years later... surprise! I never thought about it before but I think you're right. My family was dialed in to more mature entertainment and I just had to roll with it. It's one of those funny family stories that when they were watching a scary movie I would go into the kitchen and start reading canned food labels out loud so I couldn't hear it as well as see it. Creature From The Black Lagoon was a biggie. I remember it's claws cutting into someone. But the television show that really made a mark was the Outer Limits. One episode had alien invaders coming to earth that were ants... but they had human like faces!!! That was a good scarring! I got over all of it though and I like to think it builds character.
Your parents sound like they are tons of fun! The Birds still gets me, even though I know that scene with the man's eyes are pecked out is coming it still gets me. Yuck! Horrible!
What more is there to say about Gort? Seriously Klatu Barada Nicto. Morgan Britany told a story about makeing the Birds./ She told Alfred she was worried the bird in the next scene would her her, and he responded "Thats o.k. my dear. It's your final scene in the moive."
You have a wild imagination for sure! ( well, I confess that I also think about The Birds when I see flocks of them gathering in the electric cables, like as if waiting to attack people).You are right about that parasite in The Tingler, it seemed real. It really seemed to grab people.Scary enough. The Mummy(Universal cicle) supersedes the Gillman in terms of scariness, at least for me. Pennywise never scared you?
One of my nieces also was in a crib until she was four years old. She asked me to tell her father (my oldest brother) to get her a bed like her older sister, so I told my mother who told my brother to buy my niece a bed. I enjoyed your reviews---I've seen all the movies except THE TINGLER. THE BIRDS is my second favorite Hitchcock movie (behind NORTH BY NORTHWEST). I'm irritated the bluray version doesn't have a commentary by Rod Taylor or Tippi Hedren. THE BIRDS Trivia---The movie is based on the Daphne du Maurier short story---du Maurier was married to British Lt. Gen. Frederick Browning, who originated the famous line "A bridge too far" during Operation Market Garden, the Allied invasion of Holland in World War II and led to the title for the book/movie A BRIDGE TOO FAR with Dirk Bogarde as Browning. Also, THE BIRDS has an ALIEN connection---the man who rented the boat to Tippi Hedren is Doodles Weaver---Sigourney Weaver's uncle. Rod Taylor's little sister was played by Veronica Cartwright, who played Lambert in ALIEN. Also, the little brunette girl saved from the bird attack by Tippi Hedren is actress Morgan Brittany. THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL Trivia---Harry Lauter played the Army officer who greeted Michael Rennie as he emerged from the flying saucer that landed in Washington, DC. Lauter also played the technician killed by flying saucers who attacked Washington, DC in Ray Harryhausen's EARTH VS. THE FLYING SAUCERS. THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON Trivia---Perry Lopez played one of the natives killed by the Creature in the movie's beginning----Lopez played an Enterprise crewman in the STAR TREK episode "Shore Leave", but he is most famous for playing Jack Nicholson's ex-LAPD partner, Lt. Escobar, in CHINATOWN. Also, the Creature was designed by makeup artist Milicent Patrick, but her boss, Bud Westmore, took credit and had her fired by Universal Pictures so he could continue to take the credit. Patrick also designed the alien in IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE and the Metaluna Mutant in THIS ISLAND EARTH. INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS Trivia---Jean Willes played Kevin McCarthy's nurse, and she played the beautiful bus passenger in my favorite THE TWILIGHT ZONE episode "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?"
When I was 6 I saw "Voodoo Woman" on TV and it scared me so much I was afraid to go outside in broad daylight. For years, any movie set in the jungle scared me because it would remind me of Voodoo woman. The atmosphere of utter isolation with no place to hide for the beleaguered heroine, what with being at the mercy of her deranged husband and his hostile natives unsettled me. The ending where the voodoo woman comes back up from the pit disturbed me; I'd never seen a monster movie where the monster was still alive at the end and I imagined her running around in the woods around my house. Her design was particularly creepy for the '50s, too. Imagine my surprise when, decades later, I read about how they came up with it.
Maybe the crib felt like a shark cage? The one film I recall giving me nightmares as a kid was around 3 or 4 years old after seeing The Incredible Shrinking Man. That fight with the spider lived with me long after.
What a great video! You seem very energetic here. So this list I have seen all except The Tingler! Vincent Price is awesome. The Birds...well, It's okay. I was never big on it but I need to actually watch it again. It's been years. The Day The Earth Stould Still! A classic. Although maybe I am missing something but doesn't seem kinda hypocritical that Klaatu would threaten Earth by destroying the human race...because humans won't stop destroying each other...like, huh?😂 It does have one of my favorite classic scores with the use of the Theremin. I own this on DVD Invasion of The Body Snatchers! Another one I own. I love Kevin McCarthy "They're already! You're next! You're next!"😂 Creature Of The Black Lagoon. What can I say? I love my universal monsters so of course I own this one too! Btw - I am the youngest too. :) I use to have an oldest sibling, my brother but he passed away in 2014. My sister was the middle child and now she is my oldest sibling. Then me.
I love all those movies but yes The Birds was the first scary movie for me also. I was probably 8 or so and saw it on tv cause that's all we had in the 60's. It really scared me cause we would have birds on the telephone line outside. I was the baby in our family also.
My parents didn’t really bother growing me up on kids films. Granted I still watched Disney and Dreamworks movies, most of the films I watched were 80s films that my parents loved. Because of this I never really was bothered by gore and violence. I always had a love of scary/spooky things, so I got really into horror early. I watched the saw movies when I was about 7-8, and I wasn’t scared of them. The only films that had a negative impact on me was any sad film because those turned me into an emotional wreck. Like when Yoda dies in Return Of The Jedi, I still cry every time I watch him fade away.
I've seen them all. In fact I saw a reissue of "The Creature From the Black Lagoon" in a theater in 1978 in 3D. "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" had a good remake in the late 70s. Any self-respecting Star Trek fan should see it. If you can handle roaches than you should see "Creepshow" (1982). All of the stories were by Stephen King, who starred in one of them. It was made by the production company behind the syndicated TV series "Tales from the Darkside."
Allow me add the 1959 Hammer Studio's "The Mummy". When you hit the title character with revolver shots and then a double shot gun blast and then spear him well that is pretty rough and tumble!
My little brother always wanted me to hang out in the bathroom while he had to take a shower after we watched Black Sabbath with Karloff. He was afraid the floating dead lady was going to get him. My dad took my brother and me to see Count Yorga, Vampire and it scared us so bad that my mom was mad at my dad. My mom wouldn’t let my dad take us to see The Abominable Dr Phibes which came out shortly thereafter.
Ah, most excellent! I have my own parallel experiences...and we cross over big time re: Le Creature! ---I first saw it in a movie theater having just turned 6 on its original release---Movie theaters are kinda big dark spooky places to a kid. No hiding or anything. PLUS I saw it in its original 3-D (polarized, not red-green) version. Bigger than life (or is it...Death?!) on the silver screen. Then you go home to your own room (which didn't even have a night light)---pitch black. And then...fun ensues! Er, or maybe not. Why a monster is suddenly under the bed at times like this is one of the universe's mysteries. But they're there! Thanks for this, Very entertaining. Shows how impressionable we are as children, so ready to see all kinds of things in our imaginations that adulthood makes just a tad harder to see (which explains, maybe, the appeal of movies at their foundation!).
Was way too young to see the beginning of "Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte" -- could not go on after the graphic hand and head decapitation murder scene. Also "Tarantula" and any other giant spider movie and the frightening caterpillar-type monster from The Creature That Challenged the World.
Btw, I first saw THE BIRDS in a televised version in/around 1957. I'm trying to track it down. May've been on something like Playhouse 90, or Studio One. A lot of the bird attacks were done with sound effects alone (and some film) since it was broadcast either live or on tape, not film. In fact, in that way it more closely resembled the original DuMarier short story, which the Hitchcock film "opened up" greatly. It was pretty frightening---to me as a kid---in that the adults were almost completely helpless while trying to protect their kids, as well as each other. The ending was particularly bleak. One other thought, if I haven't already mentioned it: there is an EXCELLENT audio version of her story available on YT, narrated by one Edward French (an Emmy award winning make-up artist with a terrific speaking voice). I highly recommend a listen to anyone interested in Hitchcock's film who might like to go back to the original story source. It's definitely worth it!)
There was a movie on our independent channel eleven in Tucson called, I think, "The Mushroom People." A Japanese flick. I shiver 'till this day. Peace on earth.
Silhouette monsters are most definitely real. As a kid there were two intersecting cracks on my bedroom mirror which almost perfectly matched the design of the ones they used for the Hitchcock profile on his tv series.
I'm going to use that chandelier in my book how the brain can make you see it as something it isn't an inner projection of fear. First horror I seen was creepshow when I was three and Carrie at 5, parents loved horror and I had to watch what they liked
People a lot older than you were scared of "The Birds". Gort is intimidating. Yes, for children of a certain age they are scary. I never got to see "The Creature" in 3D.
I have a fond and unique movie experience with "Creature From The Black Lagoon". I had watched it multiple times on TV, but one summer around 20 years ago my city scheduled outdoor screening of 1950s science fiction films. The films were projected on a large screen at the back of a stage (for outdoor plays and concerts). This location was adjacent to a lake! During the Creature film I could hear the lake water gently lapping against the concrete shore barrier throughout. Talk about juicing the atmosphere of the film!!! 😱 I scrolled through your review list and I would like to recommend two old movies that should surprise you. I grew up very sensitive and squeamish so I avoid gory and violent horror movies. Too high a level of empathy, I guess. But I am a sucker for good psychological horror. The type of film that makes you question if the events are in the minds of characters who are too sensitive to the current environment. If you decide to test your scare factor, now that you are older, without subjecting yourself to blood and jump scenes by obvious threats I highly recommend "Night Of The Demon" (1957) directed by Jacques Tourneur and "The Haunting" (1963) directed by Robert Wise.
Thanks for sharing that awesome memory! That's the coolest thing, an outdoor Creature screening with the sound of water in the background! Perfect. I've seen The Haunting. Very creepy indeed. That "whose hand was I holding?" scene is chilling.
@@Weiselberry It was that Creature experience that made me wish someone with money tried out a lakeside theater with seats surrounded by water on three sides. Sort of a combination of the Las Vegas Bellagio water spouts and the Sea World amphitheatre. There are sooo many water themed movies that could be utilized for an immersive experience. Imagine watching "The African Queen" starring Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn while on a platform on the water. Something like the Las Vegas hotel Bellagio water spouts (on a smaller scale) where misting and jet nozzles were timed to coincide with onscreen water action. Sort of a Universal Studios Florida "Jaws" ride experience (where the shark pops up next to your boat in a couple of spots during the ride), but on a smaller scale. A mashup of the gimmicky William Castle 1950s / 1960s films with the atmospheric creepiness of not really showing you what is under the water like Robert Wise's style for "The Haunting". So many films to choose from where you could reposition the water spouts to match the onscreen action. Even a war movie like "Tora! Tora! Tora!" could have positioned air jets under the water to mimic the machinegun splashes during Kamikaze attacks of the film!
You should definitely watch Creature from the Black Lagoon and Revenge of the Creature in 3D using a VR headset. Just get the Blu-ray version (which has a 3D version), a PlayStation 4 (if you can't afford a PlayStation 4 Pro or PlayStation 5) and a PlayStation VR headset. We would love to see your reaction to watching Creature from the Black Lagoon in 3D and in VR. Have you already seen them in 3D?
What..you're scared of the gillman!?..that ol' puddly puss..lol..Me and my cousins would laugh at him as kids..we grew up loving the universal monsters..They were toy icons as kids in the early 60s.
I was very skeptical even as a child, I believe more in demons and spiritual things now than as a child hahaha but basically it was difficult for a movie to scare me, but there was some that did kind of disturb me, an example was The Exorcist, I was probably 10 or 12 when I watched that, but it was not the demonic stuff that scared me, but one scene when the girl Reagan goes to have a test and they pierce her neck and let her bleed because they needed her to bleed so that they would put oxygen and be able to take a good X-ray of her brain, so yeah, real medical stuff, that was what really scared me. There was a scene also in The Blair Witch 2 they introduce a hose in a man's nose in a psychiatric hospital, I saw that scene as a kid and it was disturbing too. One scene that scared me also to the point it made me not want to see the movie was in Face Off that Nicolas Cage character woke up with his face removed, I don't even know if the film has shown it or not, but the idea of seeing a man without a face scared me and it made me turn off the TV, I never watched that movie, but I've seen so many worse stuff nowdays that it would be easy for me to watch Face Off now probably, but that was the time a film even made me turn off the TV, I never lost sleep because of films though.
that anime ova from 1990 called kazuo umezu really freeked me out as a kid. so much that i still cannot watch that movie today without getting my heart beat high. and that's what was a little too much for me at the time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . also you look like female version of @penguinz0 in this video
Good thing your older sibs didn't tell you about the Toilet Monster. If you go to the bathroom a night when everyone is sleeping, if your not in bed by the time the flush is finished. The Toilet Monster gets you. Lets see the Creature imitation.
my mom and I just rewatched the Birds and it was the first time I'd seen it since 9th grade and I realized this time that it wasn't only scary but also a pretty bad film.
You're the second person in a week that I've heard say it was a bad movie! Maybe I never see anything to be critical of because I always watch it through thick nostalgic lenses. It's one of my mom's favorites, so everybody at home saw it, and saw it *a lot*. Whenever I get to it for my Hitchcock review series, I'll have to try and view it with as little bias as possible. I feel challenged. :)
+Jerome Weiselberry oh and I definitely mean no offense, a bunch of Hitchcock fans also really love Vertigo and Psycho and I know that my taste is that love his less thriller, more suspense type films, the tamer ones I'd say. also apologies for all the notifications I'm sure you're getting about my comments, I just discovered your channel and we have so many of the same interests I had to comment on all the videos lol.
Don't worry, I'm not offended! It's interesting to hear which ones people prefer. Hitchcock made so many different movies that there seems to be something for everybody. When compared with his 30s/40s movies, The Birds is certainly very different.
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The trippy "Invaders from Mars" (1953) was probably the first film that traumatized me as a child, having seen it on some afternoon creature feature long after its initial release. Directed by the brilliant production designer William Cameron Menzies it presents a haunting vision of an alien takeover from a child's point of view. Spielberg was supposedly heavily influenced by it and it shows in his work. Later on I was blown away by "The Haunting" (1963), which seemed like the most chilling ghost story ever when I viewed it at age 12 or so. Thanks for your list. I appreciate them all.
What scared me the most as a kid was the blob. Keep your feet on the couch because it might be under there
The Birds is one of the simplest movies I've seen, but it remains for me one of the most frightening movies of all time. The last ten minutes alone make me want to run for cover.
My wife and I saw The Birds in the theatre when it came out. We were 19. As we walked out, we looked around to check for birds. The scariest movie I have ever seen. The Day the Earth Stood Still is the best SF film ever made.
I’m REALLY late to this party, but I’ll throw in what scared me most as a kid. It was a late 50s low budget film called My World Dies Screaming. In today’s internet world (I’m old enough to remember a world without the internet!) this film seems to be remembered almost exclusively for a subliminal image gimmick it used to enhance the scares. Watching it on TV as a little kid I knew nothing about subliminal images and just focused on the plot - which I found truly haunting. A woman repeatedly dreams of a house where something occurred at the top of a staircase, something that was so horrible her mind has blocked it out. Turns out the house of her nightmare is real, and her new husband brings her there to confront her fears. Two things made this unnerve me. It is not a fantasy film with a monster as the scare, it is a psychological film with a completely rational premise. And, when I was very young (like 6), shortly before I saw this old movie on TV for the first time, a murder occurred in our little town that was very much like the tragedy in this film. Yikes! I have been uncomfortable on staircases ever since….
1978 Invasion Of The Body Snatchers is my favorite version, but much respect for you reviewing the older classics. Your reviews are fun and fair.
Thanks! I do try to make my reviews informative, entertaining, and fair. :)
Thanks to your recommendation I finally watched “The Day The Earth Stood Still”. All of this time I thought it would be similar to “War of the Worlds” yet it was the complete opposite. I really enjoyed all of the interactions between characters especially those with Klaatu, the philosophical thoughts posed, and finally the music whenever Gort was unleashed.
I'm so glad you liked it! :)
Very cool! I'm 40 now, and the scariest movie I've ever seen is still Jan Svankmajer's 'Alice' (1988), which I probably saw not too long after it came out 🙃
The Birds was my first horror film, i think i was 5 or 6! I still get goose pumps when that bird hits the door at the teacher's house!! Great memories!!
You had an amazing childhood! I wonder if you would have appreciated old films as much if your parents and older sibs hadn't watched so many of them! I laughed at so much of what you said! You are such fun!
I've wondered that too. :)
Aw, how sweet. To be fair, those were mostly great movies. And you did recover, as your love of monster movies proves.
As a kid, one of the compensations for a rainy weekend day was the Creature Double Feature on the local UHF stations. If I couldn't be outside playing, it was the next best thing. And being the youngest of 3 boys, being scared wasn't really an option unless I wanted to be teased mercilessly. But I always found them fun.
As a fellow youngest child, I relate to this so much.
I have had major anxiety issues as a kid so whenever I wake up in the middle of the night, it takes over and I fear that something is always trying to kill me. I would hide under my blanket and try to fall asleep. I use to sleep in the very back room with my brothers but once that panic sets in after waking up with everything pitch black, I hide under my blanket and inch my way through the hallway until I reached the living room. It would probably take me 20-30 mins to make it. I got on the couch where my parents slept and go to sleep lol. I fear that Bigfoot, a witch, penny wise, grim reaper, and possibly chucky would attack me at some point. I have a ton more stories like this but this would be 100 paragraphs long. :P
I liked your story
Definitely can relate to the Birds movie. First Hitchcock was Psycho, and I loved it so much as a kid I wanted to watch more. Mom showed me The Birds. I ended up being very afraid of birds until my wife got a parakeet when I was 31 and I got to spend time with him.
These are some awesome movies, The Invasion of the Body Snatchers is highly enjoyable and very modern and intelligent movie. Creature from the Black Lagoon is one of my favorites I even bought it in 3D to enjoy it in its original form.
Now the movies that scared me as a kid was #1 The Howling, my Dad took me to see it at the theatre when I was 8 years old.
#2 Poltergeist saw that in theatres a year later and couldn't sleep alone for a week.
#3 The Exorsist the last movie that scared me as an adult (sadly I watched it again a few years ago and it no longer has the power to induce fear, so I will probably never be scared by a movie for the rest of my life.)
I emailed Ben Chapman in 2002 about taking part in a 20 questions game by telephone for our yearly Halloween party. Assured him he would be well compensated ;) Such a nice man - he was not able to as he would be attending a sci-fi convention that week. (duh of course!) But he was so nice to send along a couple of autographed pictures and other goodies. He played the creature "on land" and Ricou Browning did the water scenes. From what I understand he led a wonderful life and was enjoying his time in Hawaii. I'll treasure those signed photos forever.
Love your reviews, you deserve many more views.
Oh, thank you! That's very kind. :)
Ghostbusters. Age 8, the Library jump scare and the clawed arms bursting out of the armchair to grab hold of Sigourney Weaver.
I know just how you feel. As a child I was spooked by A Christmas Carol, and as an adult by the movie version of The Piano Lesson by August Wilson.
My late great mother… virulently anti censorship and with an overestimated opinion regarding my maturity allowed me to watch the movie adaptation of Gunter Grass’ THE TIN DRUM at the tender age of 14. The eel scene hit me like a hammer to the head. I’m 57 and don’t think I’ve been the same since, lol. Having said this… my mother was Uber cool in her very unique way and I wouldn’t have exchanged her for the world. The Tin Drum might have been a questionable decision but she also introduced me to Dostoyevsky so… hm? Now that I think about it, Fyodor also affected my mind in questionable ways, too! (Keep making your consistently wonderful content!)
Invaders from Mars was extremely scary for me. The descent of the spaceship. The kid no one would believe. People turning into soulless replicas after being sucked into the ground. Walking home and expecting your be sucked under the sidewalk. Nightmare.
I'm sure it would have made my list if I'd seen it when I was younger!
First of all, I'm an expert on this. There are monsters under my bed, and they have been there all my life. And no one seems to be doing anything about it. RE The Birds ... The beaks of those birds, poking through the door was too much for me. The ultimate fright experience comes 2/3rds of the way through "Mr. Sardonicus" and the last several minutes of "Wait Until Dark". Keep the lights down low for both. On that 2nd one, I can still hear the audience screaming, while I waited in line with dad outside the theater. The frail and vulnerable Audrey Hepburn was terrific in that one. - Klaatu barada nikto
Return to Oz, Large Marge from Pee Wee's Big Adventure, & the Jabberwock from Alice Through the Looking Glass (1985 TV Movie) all traumatized me as a child. And by 'as a child,' I mean forever.
omg the flowers on the wall turning into birds yikes! im scared of dolls clowns puppets all due to scary 80's movies- i bet u would like "dollz" '87
killer clowns from outter space had me afraid of the bathroom
black and white dracula freaked me out freddy kruegar too
love your channel hey thnx for all the content:)
Thanks to your reviews, I actually watched BBC's old scary movies the other day and this month so far...I actually saw most of the Hitchcock's Rear Window :) 2:00 audio went out there
The first two movies we ever rented on Video were 'Beastmaster' and 'An American Werewolf in London'. I don't think I'd ever seen a horror movie before that point (I was about 7 or 8). I demanded to be able to watch both (the horror was supposed to be for my older brother and sister). Needless to say Werewolf scarred me for life...
The 70's 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' really creeped me out... _"Don't go to sleep!"_ I saw 'Creature' on a double-bill at the theatre in 3-D about 30 years ago. Thought it was great!
Three movies in this list are the only movies to actually scare me as a kid.
The Birds
The Creature from the Black Lagoon
Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
The first two because,as a kid, I could buy into those things happening. I was always able to realize that vampires, werewolves,etc were just fiction,but Birds and Creature were a very real possibility to me then.
Body Snatchers just plain creeped me out. Lol
did you know "The Tingler" had electrical shocks on various seats in the movie theater, thus when the tingler attack, someone would get a tingle
Yes, and there were people planted in the audience with instructions to scream at key moments. Quite a theater experience, I'm sure. :)
Wow! How cruel, hehehehehe
Wow. Quite a few similarities. I'm the youngest in my family and I was a "Surprise!". My brother and two sisters one year apart... five years later... surprise! I never thought about it before but I think you're right. My family was dialed in to more mature entertainment and I just had to roll with it. It's one of those funny family stories that when they were watching a scary movie I would go into the kitchen and start reading canned food labels out loud so I couldn't hear it as well as see it. Creature From The Black Lagoon was a biggie. I remember it's claws cutting into someone. But the television show that really made a mark was the Outer Limits. One episode had alien invaders coming to earth that were ants... but they had human like faces!!! That was a good scarring! I got over all of it though and I like to think it builds character.
Your parents sound like they are tons of fun! The Birds still gets me, even though I know that scene with the man's eyes are pecked out is coming it still gets me. Yuck! Horrible!
What more is there to say about Gort? Seriously Klatu Barada Nicto.
Morgan Britany told a story about makeing the Birds./ She told Alfred she was worried the bird in the next scene would her her, and he responded "Thats o.k. my dear. It's your final scene in the moive."
You have a wild imagination for sure! ( well, I confess that I also think about The Birds when I see flocks of them gathering in the electric cables, like as if waiting to attack people).You are right about that parasite in The Tingler, it seemed real. It really seemed to grab people.Scary enough. The Mummy(Universal cicle) supersedes the Gillman in terms of scariness, at least for me. Pennywise never scared you?
One of my nieces also was in a crib until she was four years old. She asked me to tell her father (my oldest brother) to get her a bed like her older sister, so I told my mother who told my brother to buy my niece a bed.
I enjoyed your reviews---I've seen all the movies except THE TINGLER.
THE BIRDS is my second favorite Hitchcock movie (behind NORTH BY NORTHWEST). I'm irritated the bluray version doesn't have a commentary by Rod Taylor or Tippi Hedren.
THE BIRDS Trivia---The movie is based on the Daphne du Maurier short story---du Maurier was married to British Lt. Gen. Frederick Browning, who originated the famous line "A bridge too far" during Operation Market Garden, the Allied invasion of Holland in World War II and led to the title for the book/movie A BRIDGE TOO FAR with Dirk Bogarde as Browning.
Also, THE BIRDS has an ALIEN connection---the man who rented the boat to Tippi Hedren is Doodles Weaver---Sigourney Weaver's uncle. Rod Taylor's little sister was played by Veronica Cartwright, who played Lambert in ALIEN. Also, the little brunette girl saved from the bird attack by Tippi Hedren is actress Morgan Brittany.
THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL Trivia---Harry Lauter played the Army officer who greeted Michael Rennie as he emerged from the flying saucer that landed in Washington, DC. Lauter also played the technician killed by flying saucers who attacked Washington, DC in Ray Harryhausen's EARTH VS. THE FLYING SAUCERS.
THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON Trivia---Perry Lopez played one of the natives killed by the Creature in the movie's beginning----Lopez played an Enterprise crewman in the STAR TREK episode "Shore Leave", but he is most famous for playing Jack Nicholson's ex-LAPD partner, Lt. Escobar, in CHINATOWN.
Also, the Creature was designed by makeup artist Milicent Patrick, but her boss, Bud Westmore, took credit and had her fired by Universal Pictures so he could continue to take the credit. Patrick also designed the alien in IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE and the Metaluna Mutant in THIS ISLAND EARTH.
INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS Trivia---Jean Willes played Kevin McCarthy's nurse, and she played the beautiful bus passenger in my favorite THE TWILIGHT ZONE episode "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?"
Ah, that's also one of my favorite Twilight Zone episodes. Thanks for sharing all the fun trivia!
When I was 6 I saw "Voodoo Woman" on TV and it scared me so much I was afraid to go outside in broad daylight. For years, any movie set in the jungle scared me because it would remind me of Voodoo woman. The atmosphere of utter isolation with no place to hide for the beleaguered heroine, what with being at the mercy of her deranged husband and his hostile natives unsettled me. The ending where the voodoo woman comes back up from the pit disturbed me; I'd never seen a monster movie where the monster was still alive at the end and I imagined her running around in the woods around my house. Her design was particularly creepy for the '50s, too. Imagine my surprise when, decades later, I read about how they came up with it.
Maybe the crib felt like a shark cage? The one film I recall giving me nightmares as a kid was around 3 or 4 years old after seeing The Incredible Shrinking Man. That fight with the spider lived with me long after.
What a great video! You seem very energetic here. So this list I have seen all except The Tingler! Vincent Price is awesome.
The Birds...well, It's okay. I was never big on it but I need to actually watch it again. It's been years.
The Day The Earth Stould Still! A classic. Although maybe I am missing something but doesn't seem kinda hypocritical that Klaatu would threaten Earth by destroying the human race...because humans won't stop destroying each other...like, huh?😂
It does have one of my favorite classic scores with the use of the Theremin. I own this on DVD
Invasion of The Body Snatchers! Another one I own. I love Kevin McCarthy "They're already! You're next! You're next!"😂
Creature Of The Black Lagoon. What can I say? I love my universal monsters so of course I own this one too!
Btw - I am the youngest too. :) I use to have an oldest sibling, my brother but he passed away in 2014. My sister was the middle child and now she is my oldest sibling. Then me.
For years after seeing The Birds as a teenager, I always looked up before putting gas in a car.
Some of my early scary films were Jaws, The Wicker Man, Carrie and The Omen. Also remember seeing Alien and The Thing on video.
I love all those movies but yes The Birds was the first scary movie for me also. I was probably 8 or so and saw it on tv cause that's all we had in the 60's. It really scared me cause we would have birds on the telephone line outside. I was the baby in our family also.
My parents didn’t really bother growing me up on kids films. Granted I still watched Disney and Dreamworks movies, most of the films I watched were 80s films that my parents loved. Because of this I never really was bothered by gore and violence. I always had a love of scary/spooky things, so I got really into horror early. I watched the saw movies when I was about 7-8, and I wasn’t scared of them. The only films that had a negative impact on me was any sad film because those turned me into an emotional wreck. Like when Yoda dies in Return Of The Jedi, I still cry every time I watch him fade away.
I've seen them all. In fact I saw a reissue of "The Creature From the Black Lagoon" in a theater in 1978 in 3D. "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" had a good remake in the late 70s. Any self-respecting Star Trek fan should see it. If you can handle roaches than you should see "Creepshow" (1982). All of the stories were by Stephen King, who starred in one of them. It was made by the production company behind the syndicated TV series "Tales from the Darkside."
Allow me add the 1959 Hammer Studio's "The Mummy". When you hit the title character with revolver shots and then a double shot gun blast and then spear him well that is pretty rough and tumble!
My little brother always wanted me to hang out in the bathroom while he had to take a shower after we watched Black Sabbath with Karloff. He was afraid the floating dead lady was going to get him.
My dad took my brother and me to see Count Yorga, Vampire and it scared us so bad that my mom was mad at my dad.
My mom wouldn’t let my dad take us to see The Abominable Dr Phibes which came out shortly thereafter.
Ah, most excellent! I have my own parallel experiences...and we cross over big time re: Le Creature! ---I first saw it in a movie theater having just turned 6 on its original release---Movie theaters are kinda big dark spooky places to a kid. No hiding or anything. PLUS I saw it in its original 3-D (polarized, not red-green) version. Bigger than life (or is it...Death?!) on the silver screen. Then you go home to your own room (which didn't even have a night light)---pitch black. And then...fun ensues! Er, or maybe not. Why a monster is suddenly under the bed at times like this is one of the universe's mysteries. But they're there!
Thanks for this, Very entertaining. Shows how impressionable we are as children, so ready to see all kinds of things in our imaginations that adulthood makes just a tad harder to see (which explains, maybe, the appeal of movies at their foundation!).
Was way too young to see the beginning of "Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte" -- could not go on after the graphic hand and head decapitation murder scene. Also "Tarantula" and any other giant spider movie and the frightening caterpillar-type monster from The Creature That Challenged the World.
Your childhood bed time terrors sound like a Stephen King novel!!
Oh Jerome, have you reviewed other William Castle films, like "Homicidal" ? I think you would like it....Or "13 Ghosts" ?
Btw, I first saw THE BIRDS in a televised version in/around 1957. I'm trying to track it down. May've been on something like Playhouse 90, or Studio One. A lot of the bird attacks were done with sound effects alone (and some film) since it was broadcast either live or on tape, not film. In fact, in that way it more closely resembled the original DuMarier short story, which the Hitchcock film "opened up" greatly. It was pretty frightening---to me as a kid---in that the adults were almost completely helpless while trying to protect their kids, as well as each other. The ending was particularly bleak. One other thought, if I haven't already mentioned it: there is an EXCELLENT audio version of her story available on YT, narrated by one Edward French (an Emmy award winning make-up artist with a terrific speaking voice). I highly recommend a listen to anyone interested in Hitchcock's film who might like to go back to the original story source. It's definitely worth it!)
There was a movie on our independent channel eleven in Tucson
called, I think, "The Mushroom People."
A Japanese flick.
I shiver 'till this day.
Peace on earth.
Silhouette monsters are most definitely real. As a kid there were two intersecting cracks on my bedroom mirror which almost perfectly matched the design of the ones they used for the Hitchcock profile on his tv series.
I'm going to use that chandelier in my book how the brain can make you see it as something it isn't an inner projection of fear.
First horror I seen was creepshow when I was three and Carrie at 5, parents loved horror and I had to watch what they liked
People a lot older than you were scared of "The Birds". Gort is intimidating. Yes, for children of a certain age they are scary. I never got to see "The Creature" in 3D.
I have a fond and unique movie experience with "Creature From The Black Lagoon". I had watched it multiple times on TV, but one summer around 20 years ago my city scheduled outdoor screening of 1950s science fiction films. The films were projected on a large screen at the back of a stage (for outdoor plays and concerts). This location was adjacent to a lake! During the Creature film I could hear the lake water gently lapping against the concrete shore barrier throughout. Talk about juicing the atmosphere of the film!!! 😱
I scrolled through your review list and I would like to recommend two old movies that should surprise you. I grew up very sensitive and squeamish so I avoid gory and violent horror movies. Too high a level of empathy, I guess. But I am a sucker for good psychological horror. The type of film that makes you question if the events are in the minds of characters who are too sensitive to the current environment.
If you decide to test your scare factor, now that you are older, without subjecting yourself to blood and jump scenes by obvious threats I highly recommend "Night Of The Demon" (1957) directed by Jacques Tourneur and "The Haunting" (1963) directed by Robert Wise.
Thanks for sharing that awesome memory! That's the coolest thing, an outdoor Creature screening with the sound of water in the background! Perfect.
I've seen The Haunting. Very creepy indeed. That "whose hand was I holding?" scene is chilling.
@@Weiselberry It was that Creature experience that made me wish someone with money tried out a lakeside theater with seats surrounded by water on three sides. Sort of a combination of the Las Vegas Bellagio water spouts and the Sea World amphitheatre. There are sooo many water themed movies that could be utilized for an immersive experience. Imagine watching "The African Queen" starring Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn while on a platform on the water. Something like the Las Vegas hotel Bellagio water spouts (on a smaller scale) where misting and jet nozzles were timed to coincide with onscreen water action.
Sort of a Universal Studios Florida "Jaws" ride experience (where the shark pops up next to your boat in a couple of spots during the ride), but on a smaller scale. A mashup of the gimmicky William Castle 1950s / 1960s films with the atmospheric creepiness of not really showing you what is under the water like Robert Wise's style for "The Haunting". So many films to choose from where you could reposition the water spouts to match the onscreen action. Even a war movie like "Tora! Tora! Tora!" could have positioned air jets under the water to mimic the machinegun splashes during Kamikaze attacks of the film!
I watched Rosemary's Baby when I was a kid .. scared the poo out of me!
When it came out they recommended pregnant women not see the movie.
All great movies and yes very scary but”😮, want to see something really scary “, the haunting ,the original version!
You should definitely watch Creature from the Black Lagoon and Revenge of the Creature in 3D using a VR headset.
Just get the Blu-ray version (which has a 3D version), a PlayStation 4 (if you can't afford a PlayStation 4 Pro or PlayStation 5) and a PlayStation VR headset.
We would love to see your reaction to watching Creature from the Black Lagoon in 3D and in VR.
Have you already seen them in 3D?
No, I haven't checked them out in 3D. I'm not really a fan of 3D, and I don't think I'd care to watch anything with a VR headset. Might make me sick.
What..you're scared of the gillman!?..that ol' puddly puss..lol..Me and my cousins would laugh at him as kids..we grew up loving the universal monsters..They were toy icons as kids in the early 60s.
I was born in the late 60's - pretty much normal fare!
I was very skeptical even as a child, I believe more in demons and spiritual things now than as a child hahaha but basically it was difficult for a movie to scare me, but there was some that did kind of disturb me, an example was The Exorcist, I was probably 10 or 12 when I watched that, but it was not the demonic stuff that scared me, but one scene when the girl Reagan goes to have a test and they pierce her neck and let her bleed because they needed her to bleed so that they would put oxygen and be able to take a good X-ray of her brain, so yeah, real medical stuff, that was what really scared me. There was a scene also in The Blair Witch 2 they introduce a hose in a man's nose in a psychiatric hospital, I saw that scene as a kid and it was disturbing too. One scene that scared me also to the point it made me not want to see the movie was in Face Off that Nicolas Cage character woke up with his face removed, I don't even know if the film has shown it or not, but the idea of seeing a man without a face scared me and it made me turn off the TV, I never watched that movie, but I've seen so many worse stuff nowdays that it would be easy for me to watch Face Off now probably, but that was the time a film even made me turn off the TV, I never lost sleep because of films though.
Gort has been known to do that.
For me it was Giant Leeches.
Dear Jerome,comment the movie ''On The Beach'' please.
The spaceship landed in Washington D.C. not central park.
Yeah, I added an annotation to fix that right after I posted this video however many years ago, but I don't think RUclips shows those anymore.
that anime ova from 1990 called kazuo umezu really freeked me out as a kid. so much that i still cannot watch that movie today without getting my heart beat high. and that's what was a little too much for me at the time.
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also you look like female version of @penguinz0 in this video
Good thing your older sibs didn't tell you about the Toilet Monster. If you go to the bathroom a night when everyone is sleeping, if your not in bed by the time the flush is finished. The Toilet Monster gets you. Lets see the Creature imitation.
my mom and I just rewatched the Birds and it was the first time I'd seen it since 9th grade and I realized this time that it wasn't only scary but also a pretty bad film.
You're the second person in a week that I've heard say it was a bad movie! Maybe I never see anything to be critical of because I always watch it through thick nostalgic lenses. It's one of my mom's favorites, so everybody at home saw it, and saw it *a lot*. Whenever I get to it for my Hitchcock review series, I'll have to try and view it with as little bias as possible. I feel challenged. :)
+Jerome Weiselberry oh and I definitely mean no offense, a bunch of Hitchcock fans also really love Vertigo and Psycho and I know that my taste is that love his less thriller, more suspense type films, the tamer ones I'd say. also apologies for all the notifications I'm sure you're getting about my comments, I just discovered your channel and we have so many of the same interests I had to comment on all the videos lol.
+BBCgirl520 is that I love*
Don't worry, I'm not offended! It's interesting to hear which ones people prefer. Hitchcock made so many different movies that there seems to be something for everybody. When compared with his 30s/40s movies, The Birds is certainly very different.
And you can keep the comments coming! :D