Any Horror Movies Given You Nightmares?

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Horror movies almost never give me nightmares. Most have no obvious effect on me at all. Two horror films that did give me nightmares are "The Amityville Horror" and "What Lies Beneath". Neither are particularly good movies but boathouses and lakes at night creep me out.
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  • Profile picture of the author barbling
    I refuse to watch horror movies, they just do not flap my earlobes.

    However, I adore comedies and adventures.

    And Discovery Channel.

    But horror movies...I've never seen the lure at all. Call me jaded....
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  • Profile picture of the author Jun Balona
    Horror movies doesn't give me nightmares.

    Actual videos of gruesome stuff does.
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  • Profile picture of the author hardraysnight
    sound of music

    or is that just a dirty habit?

    camelot gave me knightmares
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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    Okay - this is super strange.

    I have a friend on facebook who does a LOT of traveling to areas I've been to.

    I had a few dreams about this one location. They were night dreams so I was in this boat in the dark and could see huge fish boiling up in the water around me. Don't know what scared me about this dream, but I always remembered it. I had the dream two or three times.

    The other day I went to facebook and right there is a picture of that exact place. It must have been someplace near a highway or something - maybe in a park? Don't remember where it was, but I do remember exactly the way it looked. Not sure how odd a coincidence this picture is - but it's got me spooked enough to have a few more dreams about it.
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    • Profile picture of the author Sunfyre7896
      Originally Posted by HeySal View Post

      Okay - this is super strange.

      I have a friend on facebook who does a LOT of traveling to areas I've been to.

      I had a few dreams about this one location. They were night dreams so I was in this boat in the dark and could see huge fish boiling up in the water around me. Don't know what scared me about this dream, but I always remembered it. I had the dream two or three times.

      The other day I went to facebook and right there is a picture of that exact place. It must have been someplace near a highway or something - maybe in a park? Don't remember where it was, but I do remember exactly the way it looked. Not sure how odd a coincidence this picture is - but it's got me spooked enough to have a few more dreams about it.
      Well you did say that he does travelling to places you've actually been to so it's probably the fact that your mind processed the sight of it, but you don't consciously remember it; but you've actually been there before. Kind of like remembering seeing some store in a shopping strip but not remembering where it was because you noticed it but didn't consciously take the time to commit it to memory.

      Then when you saw it in the pic, you remembered the dream which matched what was already in your subconscious. My guess anyway.

      As to horror movies, I've never had nightmares but one scene that spooked me for some reason was in The Grudge where the woman comes down out of the closet making that horrible sound.
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      • Profile picture of the author Anthoni
        House on Haunted Hill (the scene where his legs get crushed) but I was a kid at the time and it freaked me out. Kept watching my wardrobe thinking it was going to fall on my legs LOL.

        Now I just watch Comedies and Sci-Fi stuff.
        Love Carry On Films, old Morcambe and Wise sketches and movies etc.
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        • Profile picture of the author Aussie_Al
          I find Zombie movies relaxing....

          Last movie to real scare me was Aliens (the 2nd one) when it first came out that has to be close to 30 years ago now
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  • Seeing as it's Halloween - and this post is about Horror Movies...

    I want to pitch one of the most seemingly overlooked (until he got famous making Hobbit movies) Peter Jackson movies, and one of the greatest horror comedies of all time -

    DEAD ALIVE
    A young man's mother is bitten by a Sumatran rat-monkey. She gets sick and dies, at which time she comes back to life, killing and eating dogs, nurses, friends, and neighbors.

    Director: Peter Jackson

    Dead Alive Trailer - IMDb

    You need to have a very warped sense of humor, but this movie is Hilarious...
    if you have never seen it - DO!
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  • Profile picture of the author Patrician
    I have a habit of sleeping with the TV on - well actually I can't go to sleep unless I am watching TV. What happens with scary movies is they get mixed up in my dreams - so I will have nightmares that just have some part of the movie in them as their basis.

    Probably the most real nightmare I ever had was David Lynch's 'Twin Peaks, Fire Walk With Me' - about a lot of pervs in the woods in Washington state and one (somebody's father) killing young girls including his daughter.

    David Lynch is a master of special effects and the music is always chilling (Angelo Badalamenti).

    There is a scene in the movie that is all in red and spooky violins that go with knives slashing. I fell asleep shortly before this scene and it was exactly at midnight that I woke up in the middle of the red stuff and saw a bat flying around my apartment.

    Problem was it was a real bat that came in through the fireplace right on queue. Yep that is one nightmare I will never forget...

    Holy Bat Cave!

    Spooktacular!
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  • Profile picture of the author sloanjim
    The old zombie movies always gave me dreams for months after.....Evern 28 days later. Very creepy. Grudge, Paranormal Act. 1 as well.
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    • Profile picture of the author Dougn57
      When I was a kid - long time ago, lol - Psycho really freaked me out. I went years never closing my eyes in the shower. I was very young
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  • Profile picture of the author ShopForArticles
    Lol...the SAW series is a pretty terrifying one...
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  • Profile picture of the author Jason Kanigan
    I can remember having a nightmare after watching Aliens for the first time when I was 10 or 11. Killing things coming right out of the walls you just walked past is kind of disturbing. And the original Halloween is still a scary movie for me...at night, in the dark, lights out. Usually watch that every Oct 31. Cue the piano and the pumpkin--

    Movies that have blood & guts for shock value often make me laugh out loud at the attempt. I think 1978's Dawn of the Dead is a great zombie movie for instance, and I've watched it 100s of times; but I don't find it scary. Most so-called horror movies don't work on me...but I do love the genre and the hope that I might actually get a little bit of an illogical emotive or physical reaction keeps me checking out new ones.
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  • Profile picture of the author Fazal Mayar
    when i was a kid maybe scream videos scared me lots but other then that nada
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  • Profile picture of the author thunderbird
    Originally Posted by Ken_Caudill View Post

    There a new TV show called American Horror Story that I find disturbing. The juxtaposition of evil with the mundane is really effective.
    Sounds intriguing. I'll have to check that out.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jonathan 2.0
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    I haven't had nightmares from a movie, however I'm still a bit apprehensive about swimming in the ocean thanks to Jaws.
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  • Profile picture of the author Don Schenk
    OMG, when I was 5 years old my father took me to see a Bob Hope - Bing Crosby move. The title was "On The Road To..... somewhere. I just looked it up on Google, and found it was On The Road To Bali.

    There was an exploding volcano scene at the end of the film - scared the hell out of the little 5 year-old me. I didn't know the ground could explode! I had nighmares about it for a couple years.

    Man! I must have been a sensitive child.

    Also I used to laugh at the old black and white "Mummy" movies, until I was about 9 years old and saw a real mummy in a museum. Once I realized mummies were real, I just knew one was going to jump out from under my bed.

    Okay, maybe I was just a weird child.

    :-Don
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  • Profile picture of the author Kurt
    As a kid, it was Hitchcock's "The Birds". I was afraid to go outside for a month.

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  • Profile picture of the author BloggingPro
    The Ring gave me nightmares as a teenager. Every time the phone rang I was like JESUS! save me!

    Quite juvenile, but I was a kid and I look back on it and laugh.

    Months after watching the first paranormal activity I felt "visited" by something during sleep. After weeks of research I summed it up to sleep paralysis, but it that moment in time was still one of the scariest moments I have ever lived through.

    I'm not here to say that things exist "on the other side," but I can say with much conviction something came to visit me that night and bruised my back in the process. It's something I will never forget.
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  • Profile picture of the author hapibush
    I not like the Horror movie.I like the Action and Comedy movie so much.Horror movie are bad effect on mind and it is harmful for the mentally power.
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    • Profile picture of the author QuickSurf
      Only movie that scared me was Childs Play (Chucky).. when your a kid and have a My Buddy doll that looks just like Chucky, not a good mix lol



      Originally Posted by MoneyMagnetMagnate View Post

      Seeing as it's Halloween - and this post is about Horror Movies...

      I want to pitch one of the most seemingly overlooked (until he got famous making Hobbit movies) Peter Jackson movies, and one of the greatest horror comedies of all time -

      DEAD ALIVE
      A young man's mother is bitten by a Sumatran rat-monkey. She gets sick and dies, at which time she comes back to life, killing and eating dogs, nurses, friends, and neighbors.

      Director: Peter Jackson

      Dead Alive Trailer - IMDb

      You need to have a very warped sense of humor, but this movie is Hilarious...
      if you have never seen it - DO!
      That movie is hilarious, I made my gf watch it awhile back lol.
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  • Profile picture of the author KimW
    One movies still gives me the chills whenever I think about it,and this thread did make me think about it.
    Audition.
    Even the trailer will give you nightmares.

    Edit: I posted something from youtube about it but decided to deleted it. Look it up there,if you dare.
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  • Profile picture of the author roberthearth
    I don't know if the shining is considered horror but that movies always freak me out. And yes I've dreamed about it...
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  • Profile picture of the author dagaul101
    What lies beneath was pretty scary, notable for the change in the role of Harrison Ford
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    • Profile picture of the author moneytm
      i watched The Grudge about a year ago in my Hostel . i watched that movie alone in a completely dark room with lights off because we were having a bet .
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  • Profile picture of the author RavishingRajni
    all horror flicks scare me
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  • Profile picture of the author jamesjack
    Evil Dead was released, critically acclaimed horror writer Stephen King praised the film's sky. He constantly praised and admired Raimi and company efforts. Italian manufacturers soon Raimi's proposal, at the helm the film adaptation of Stephen King's Thinner.
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    • The Movie "Jack and Jill" with Adam Sandler...(playing both roles)

      It scares the hell out of me how it ever made it into a Theater!...
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  • Profile picture of the author GT
    I am not a fan of horror flicks - I prefer comedies, sf and action - but the last movie to borderline on giving me nightmares was "Let's Scare Jessica to Death", originally released back in 1971.

    Watched it in the theater. Didn't really think it bothered me. But for several years afterwards, I did have trouble going to sleep a few nights, thinking about the specter that came out of the lake! It took me quite a few years to get over that image and sleep easier, lol!

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  • Profile picture of the author andy22001122
    I was appalled by an japan when I was young,so I dont like the movies about horror.
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    • Profile picture of the author swizzer2012
      Movies about wolf and anacondas. Scary movie also and the Grudge.
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  • Profile picture of the author C2
    Jaws and The Omen...
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  • Profile picture of the author hardraysnight
    no. but i can remember staying up all night, reading salem's lot..........just in case
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  • Profile picture of the author Musti
    I am never affraid of horror movies.
    But I saw a movie on tv, i dont know why i watched i had school the other day.
    i swear i couldnt sleep the whole night, and the next day too i didnt go to school because of that i could not sleep.

    If you want to watch it, the movies name is; semum
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  • Profile picture of the author crisswhites
    Hostel is very scary movie. There are many scenes in the movie which can make you really scare. So if you have a strong heart so take a risk to watch it.
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  • Profile picture of the author Usmile
    I really get excited every time I watch horror movies especially along with friends, it will be a sort of funny experience when everybody started to scream and cover their eyes. I use to watch movie alone even horror movies.

    The scariest movie I've seen was Shutter.
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  • Profile picture of the author leorocking25
    I don't like to watch horror movie...i like the funny and romantic movie.for this i have no experience of nightmares.
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  • Profile picture of the author Riptor
    Wolf Creek

    and a true story too...
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  • Profile picture of the author Michael Meaney
    There was this one movie I watched a few weeks ago and it terrified me...

    It was about this guy who found this button, and whenever he pressed it money flew into his bank account.. Then he tried to sell the button, but he only gave me 30 mins to decide if I wanted it.

    It scared the crap outta me cause theres people out there who think it's a true story..

    You might have seen it, or one of the remakes?
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  • Profile picture of the author KimW
    I dare you to watch this.
    (It looks like someone has posted the whole movi on youtube now)

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