The most terrifying non-horror movies
dobby wrote: GlenAble: Facing the same day over and over again, for hundreds of years. Even suicide doesn't provide an escape. At some point it hits you that you may be trapped in Hell for an...
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Christopher Waldrop wrote: In Carlo Collodi’s original, the island was called, innocuously, Land of Toys. Disney renamed it Pleasure Island. WTF, Disney?! In my copy of Pinocchio, handed down from my...
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Old wrote: I think that movie is supposed to be an allegory of Buddhist reincarnation. Murry's character is trapped in the cycle of death and rebirth until he "gets it right". ...so I got that goin'...
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Joe Bloggs wrote: Interesting read about that on Wikipedia. Seems Cockaigne was a fairly well-used fictional land. Read full topic
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manybellsdown wrote: My daughter, for some reason, found the 1974 version of Murder on the Orient Express to be the scariest thing she'd ever seen. And she'd already seen far scarier movies by the...
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c wrote: I recall as a kid being scared s#!tless by a quasi-"In Search Of"-style Bigfoot documentary that was big in the 70's, I have tried to find it but the ones I generally come across are a lot...
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oldtaku wrote: Any of those movies about horrible little kids at camp where the running gag is the incompetent dads (trapped in a nightmare home life) taking damage to the balls. Read full topic
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Boundegar wrote: When I was about ten, 2001 scared the water out of me. Read full topic
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Mindy Clegg wrote: Large Marge!!!!????!!!!!????? Read full topic
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Karl Schulte wrote: Boundegar: When I was about ten, 2001 scared the water out of me. As much as it pains me to connect the two, The Black Hole is an odd mix of cheesy family entertainment and some...
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Smash Martian wrote: I can't recall any really scary films from being a kid, but I got a touch desensitized to a lot of movies after growing up with the high-octane-nightmare-fuel of Public...
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Andrew Robinson wrote: SmashMartian: the high-octane-nightmare-fuel of Public Information Films The UK also had a series of films about old abandoned fridges with locks that gave me the screaming...
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Smash Martian wrote: aeon: old abandoned fridges with locks shuddersYeah. That was some seriously chilling stuff. Between PIFs, the ever-present threat of global nuclear war and creepy peados on...
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Andrew Robinson wrote: SmashMartian: Between PIFs, the ever-present threat of global nuclear war and creepy peados on prime-time telly... There was also the Fatal Floor one: ".. and you might as well...
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manybellsdown wrote: That one didn't precisely scare me (although the scene of HAL being shut down made me uncomfortable and sad), but it did leave me with the certainty that any movie spacewalk would...
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Smash Martian wrote: aeon: So @SmashMartian, did you also ever abandon class for the toilets in anticipation of imminent nuclear annihilation Can't say as I did. I did abandon school as often as I...
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Christopher Waldrop wrote: I know it varies depending on the child and the age, but for me Maximillian taking out Anthony Perkins went well beyond "rather scary". And this was before I knew Perkins as...
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chgoliz wrote: There is a millisecond moment in O Lucky Man! that has haunted me ever since I saw it as a young adult: when he pulls back the sheet and sees what the experimentation is that he's just...
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gilbert wham wrote: I remember a health & safety film we were shown in Chemistry class (on 16mm film. Yes, FILM, you little shits!) that starred Bernard Bresslaw of Carry On fame doing foolish...
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gilbert wham wrote: And the deadpan doctor with his smoothie in Britannia Hospital. Read full topic
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