re: Movies That Truly Scared You

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Exorcist is the one but the original Friday the 13th is second in my book. Besides Jason coming out of the water at the end, the scene when the cat came through the open window moved me out of my seat.

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Yeah, the original Friday the 13th had a few moments that made me jump. I also watched it a little later in life, I had pretty much seen all the Friday the 13th's up until Jason Goes to Hell(1993) except that one, then I caught the original for the 1st time one night not long after that. More than anything I was afraid of Betsy Palmer that played Pamela Voorhees. She was incredibly fricking creepy, and I knew this bitch that worked in our local movie theater that looked just like her...she was equally creepy.

The Freddy and Jason movies never really scared me, I always just saw them as cartoonish characters and I actually thought Freddy was hilarious. The first Freddy Movie that kind of got to me was "New Nightmare", the one that was about the actual characters of the movie, playing themselves IRL and being haunted IRL by Freddy(holy shite this is confusing to try and explain), but that one touched on a fear of mine. That, and then Jason's Mom was the scariest part of the Friday the 13th movies.


Oh and Pet Sematary got me too. That was another one of the few that fricked with me as a 12 year old and again later in my 20's. There are a few scenes in that one I can't shake, like the scenes with Rachels anorexic sister, when they were kids. I always jump when I see that shite.