Am I the only Buffista that's seen that movie, or just the only one to be scarred by it?

I've held off seeking it out precisely because it disturbed you so. Despite our similar tastes I think your tolerance for freakiness in a movie is higher than mine based on Audition and Oldboy, so I've filed that one away in the Don't Need To Lose That Much Sleep category.

Kids film that freaked me out--those damn flying monkeys in Wizard of Oz.

Oh yeah, those freaked me out too. It's because they can fly, which means YOU CAN'T RUN AWAY FROM THEM!

I first saw that on TV, and was trying to think of freak-outs in a movie theater....

Movie I saw on TV that freaked me out--don't remember the name of it, but I think it was a Mia Farrow film in which she played a blind woman. There was a scene where she was drawing herself a bath and filling up the tub, not knowing there was a dead body in it. Gives me the chills remembering it even now!

See No Evil, I think it was called. Definitely an attempt to duplicate Wait Until Dark.

Also saw a Frankenstein flick which might have been a Hammer film, in which there was lots of ballroom dancing scenes with one of the women wearing a choker that covered up the fact that her neck had been stitched back into place.

I think I saw that one too. Doesn't the monster take her head off at the seam at some point?

I don't remember ever having a freak-out in the movie theater as a kid. My sister had a nightmare after we saw Jaws when I was 9 and she was 11, but I didn't have any problems. Closest I had was probably the insect scene in the second Indiana Jones film. The theater was practically empty when sis and I saw it so we had our legs hooked over the seats in front of us, and after that scene ended, I was practically in that seat in front of me, I had squirmed down so far. I remember sis pulling my sleeve, she got so into Poltergeist.

Witness freaked me right the fuck out, when the guy drowned in the grain. I saw it in the theater, so I guess I was 11, although why parents took me to an R-rated movie at 11 is kind of a mystery to me!

I've read just enough about Old Boy and Audition to know I could never, ever watch them. But as much as I love horror and *scares* I can't do torture, so I won't even watch stuff like Saw or Hostel.

I'm apparently too lazy even for quick edit italics today.

Then there was a guy I read about who dropped acid before seeing Return of the Jedi in the theater (when it first came out).

He was OK until he first saw Jabba the Hutt, which for some reason freaked his shit out. He ended up on the floor screaming.

See No Evil, I think it was called. Definitely an attempt to duplicate Wait Until Dark.

I think that's it! That film had more of the horror factor, whereas Wait Until Dark had that awesome "jump five feet out of my seat" scare, as well as the completely terrific Alan Arkin as Harry Roat, Jr. as one of the best villains in movie history, IMO. My sister made me first watch WUD in the dark basement, so that big scare was made even better.

Doesn't the monster take her head off at the seam at some point?

I think you're right. I only saw it the one time back in junior high some thirty years ago, probably on one of the UHF channels on the weekend.

He was OK until he first saw Jabba the Hutt, which for some reason freaked his shit out. He ended up on the floor screaming.

If Jabba hadn't gotten him, the Ewoks would have.

I think that's it! That film had more of the horror factor, whereas Wait Until Dark had that awesome "jump five feet out of my seat" scare, as well as the completely terrific Alan Arkin as Harry Roat, Jr. as one of the best villains in movie history, IMO.

Agreed on Alan Arkin. He was so loathsome and vile. And, of course, Audrey Hepburn vs. Mia, so that's a win as well.

Harry Roat, Jr.

...from Scarsdale. Always need to remember that bit of it.