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MadameMarque -> RE: which movies scared you? (10/24/2008 5:08:38 AM)
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My parents were wise about not exposing the sensibilities of young children to horror movies. So perhaps this is why I never had a traumatic experience over them; I was already a bit more developed, psychologically, by the time I watched some.
However, there is still plenty to find disturbing and grotesque. And I do agree with you, those flying monkeys are very disturbing. Somehow, I wasn't actually scared by the Wizard of Oz, I just found it very grotesque, in general. Not nearly as horrifying as, say, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, which I caught on television when I was in about first grade. It was not some poor guy's horrible birth defects, but to discover that people actually act that way, - this was disturbing material.
They are the horrors that smack of real life that give me nightmares. Mommie Dearest gave me nightmares, actually.
A movie about a young woman going insane, which moves in and out of her point of view, I watched Roman Polanski's Repulsion, late at night at a rather difficult point in my life, and maybe that is why I was so susceptible to it. Not "scared," but again, deeply disturbing. For a very long time, I couldn't hear flies buzzing without the realm of that movie flushing to mind.
There is a scene in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (anybody else see that? Anybody?), in which the main character, freaked out already, rushes home in the middle of the day, up to her nice sunny bedroom, and suddenly a man appears in her room. That moment makes my heart clench, as if I'd discovered someone suddenly like that, myself.
"Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?"
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