The only movie I remember being freaked out by as a kid was The Odessa File...a movie about how an underground version of the SS was still exterminating people in modern day Europe. (My brother was babysitting me and we only had the one television.) I blame it for recurring nightmares about concentration camps that I've had all my life.

The Great Race

I just called my DH to set the tivo (he's home dealing with the bee guy) I love that movie.

And yet, way less freaky than the book

I would have lost it totally.

We watched Chitty Chitty Bang Bang over Christmas because my daughter had to do a paper on it for her study of film class. She kept looking at me and saying "what sort of movie is this???" she did not enjoy it at all. She doesn't like The Wizard of Oz either but she adored Wicked beyond the telling of it.

I remember being really freaked out by Pulse, which was about, basically, evil electricity. There was a scene where a woman was taking a hot shower and the water became scaldingly hot and she couldn't turn it off. That was my Psycho.

The Wicked Witch of the West and the flying monkeys didn't freak me out at all. The stripy feet of the Wicked Witch of the East curling up and vanishing under Dorothy's house? Endless nightmares.

And Poltergeist. I still won't re-watch it.

I know I've told my mom's story here about how, when she was in nursing school, she and some classmates went to a conference in Kalamazoo. They checked into their motel and then decided to go out to eat and see the new Hitchcock film. Yes, it was Psycho. After, my now-aunt flat-out refused to take a shower, and one of the other women had my mom stand guard in front of the bathroom door while she showered, reluctantly.

There was a scene where a woman was taking a hot shower and the water became scaldingly hot and she couldn't turn it off.

Could she not just jump out of the shower?

Probably not, but I don't remember why. Maybe she was just flailing a lot without considering that option.

Don't know...Dark Crystal kind of freaked me out.

For whatever reason, I was able to see ANYTHING as a kid and teen and not get freaked out. I read horror stories by the dozens and it wasn't a prob (although a book called The Elementals by Idunno Who, and Straub's Ghost Story were both memorably scary.)

But now? I am freaked out and scared by nearly everything!! I take holey sweaters to the movies JUST to watch the whole movie through the holes in the sweater. I am a wuss. Hell, I could BARELY watch half of Up.

Heh. We've just had our first instance of "Push the button, Max!"

I had forgotten they had a two-man, pedal powered Zeppelin at the beginning of this movie.

And now I remember why I always thought of this as a Sunday Afternoon Movie. It's almost 3 hours long. That's your Sunday.