Like you I have not seen the original Omen and will not be seeing the new version. I am so not a scary "anything" lover. I had a girlfriend growing up that her mother was in to all those scary films and loved watching The Twilight Zone. One night they asked me to stay up and watch the show with them...yeah, big mistake! The show scared me to death that my mom had to come pick me up. She was none to thrilled to be picking me up but I wasn't staying in that house a moment longer after watching a doll come to life and trip the dad down the stairs killing him. Who comes up with these things? I've had a fear of dolls coming to life ever since!

Speaking of dolls... I know it's not supposed to be a "scary" movie, but The Dollmaker gave me nightmares for years. It was the scene where the little girl is playing on the train tracks and the train comes along and hacks her legs off while the mom is trapped on the other side of the fence, watching. Ye Gods and Little Fishes. Nightmares. For. Years.

It wasn't a movie, but a book. When I was in junior high I read 'The Amityville Horror'. And of course at the time, it was advertised as a true story. I was scared to death for weeks! If I woke up in the middle of the night, I'd be afraid to roll over and look at the bedroom door because I just knew something creepy from the book would be standing there watching me. LOL!

I actually did like the original 'Omen' though. I think somewhere along the way I even saw a part 2.

I loved the original Omen. I'm kind of mad they remade it because Gregory Peck and Lee Remick were so amazing in it. They did a great job of showing their conflict between loving their child because that's what parents do and beginning to understand that their child was pure evil with nothing inside to really love. That conflict is what made the movie for me.

My first scary movie was The Birds. I still keep my eyes on crows -- just in case!

Love the Omen. Watched the entire trilogy in one night with my roommates. We for some insane reason loved to scare the heck out of ourselves. Actually, we ended up laughing at most of it which helps some with the not being able to sleep afterwards.

Two movies that did affect me strongly in the nightmare-arena (surprisingly): Signs and a Brit horror film (fairly recent) called The Descent. With Signs, I think it was just the fact that the aliens came to earth to harvest people that freaked me out. Shyamalan does great suspense, though, I have to admit. The Descent I actually saw on my flight to the UK. It's about a group of girls who go speluncking in West Virginia or somewhere and get trapped inside with this weird race of what used to be humans who kill and eat them (sometimes not in that order). I, being a sadist, watched the whole thing and the guy sitting next to me kept laughing at me because I would keep jumping in my seat at all the scary parts. I'm nuts, I know.

As for Deliverance, never seen it and never will. I have a permanent ban on movies with graphic scenes like that in it. Although I was ignorant enough to watch Bastard Out of Carolina and Pulp Fiction, but never again. I will never watch The Accused either. My one exception is Shawshank Redemption which is one of my favorite movies. That one gets by because that stuff is talked about but never actually shown. I can watch people get the tar beaten out of them and mutiliated five ways to Sunday, but I cannot stomach that other stuff.

I got so scared watching the original Halloween movie that I actually ripped the sleeve off my date's shirt.

After seeing the first Friday the 13th movie, I had trouble going to the bathroom by myself because I was afraid that Jason would pop out of the toilet tank and kill me.

I read The Exorcist when I was in junior high and was convinced that I was possessed. It turned out that I had just never noticed that our house shook a little bit after the trains on the nearby tracks went through at night.

I don't do scary anymore either.

Eileen

For me it was the movie Stand by Stephen King.

That happens to be a perfectly accurate summary of the movie! I still stand by my assessment.

And I still don't understand how bumping The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and High Noon off the Netflix queue to make room for Colin Farrell's The New World makes any sense at all.

Well, I admit, THE NEW WORLD was a miss.

George,

You cannot have both The Treasure of Sierra Madre AND High Noon on the Netflix queue at the same time. That's a violation of the unspoken Marital Movie Rental Act. But rest assured, Whitney would not be allowed to have The New World and Troy on the list at the same time either.

Eileen

When I was about 10, I saw a horror movie called "Humongous". It was about this guy that had some weird mutation that made him really big, and he was stuck on this island in the middle of a lake or something. This group of teens (geez, teens are so dumb in horror flicks!) goes out to the island and is killed off one by one. I still remember this movie, and how terrified I was.
I loved the original Omen book and movie.
Also enjoyed original Halloween and H2O (Halloween, 20 years later).
Christina - Shawshank is one of my faves!
I've never seen Deliverance. Honestly, after the description, I don't think I want to see it.

OK...no fooling, the first movie to really scare the crud out of me was "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory". I couldn't understand why all these horrible things were happening to those kids. I get it that those kids were rotten and mean, but so were their parents, so how were they to know better? I'm 40 and I STILL hate that movie. Creeps me out.

As for Deliverance/Pulp Fiction I refuse to see either simply because of drop trou scenes. For the record, I refuse to watch *any* kind of rape scene in any film.

Robyn, you are my hero! Everyone laughs at me when I tell then Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory gave me nightmares for weeks. I knew I couldn’t be the only one who was incredibly freaked out by that movie.

I also don't do scary movies, but for some reason I was talked into going to the drivein with some girlfriends when I was 17. Mind you, this was the night AFTER seeing "Alien" which scared the crap out of me to begin with! We watched "Halloween" and "The Hills Have Eyes"--I didn't sleep at all that night! By the time the movies were over there were three of us huddled together in the back seat screaming at all the scary parts! Too funny!

There is only one movie that truly scared me to death, and that was "Phantasm". I was at college, watching it in the lounge, and there is a part where the boys cut off the bad guy's finger in the door and for some reason they take it home with them. They put it in the garbage disposal to grind it up, and it crawls back out. At that point I remember screaming, vaulting over the back of the couch and running up to my room, where I sat gibbering into a pillow on the stairs for 15 minutes... I went back down to finish watching the movie, figuring that anything I could imagine would be worse than what actually happened. I was wrong. At the end, the bad guy comes to the little boy (the only survivor, basically) in the mirror on the back of his bedroom door, says "I've come for you, Boy" in this sepulchre voice, and then REACHES OUT OF THE MIRROR and snatches the kid!! Oh. My. God!! The closet in my suite had a mirror at the back of it--I couldn't go in there for weeks!! My suitemate would look at me strange when I would beg her to get me clothes! So no, I don't do scary movies AT ALL any more. Those were enough to last me a lifetime!

Robyn, Nancy--I think the real scary bit in Willy Wonka is the boat scene. Everything else I was ok with, but that scene scared the ba-jesus out of me. Although I was also disturbed by Wonka's schizo outburst at Charlie at the end of the movie. I know he was just testing Charlie, but it was still a bit freaky.

There was this movie called "Home for the Holidays" that scared the bejesus out of me when I was little. I refused to go into the bathroom alone because I was certain there'd be a dead body in the bathtub.

And I'm sure that if I ever watched the movie Pet Semetery it would scar me for life, because the book scared the hell out of me when I read it in college and I had to sleep with the lights on for a week.

I am NOT a fan of scary movies. Even Scary Movie scares the crap out of me, and it's supposed to be funny!

Give me a chick flick any day!

Oh, and I can't resist ... "You got a pretty mouth." Heh!

Ok, I admit it, the very first movie to scare me was the "Incredible Mr Limpit", you know, the one where Donn Knotts turns into a fish. I was about 3 or 4 and my mom had to carry me out of the theater screaming, "But he doesn't want to be a fish!!" I still get teased by my family for that one. Someone mentioned Halloween, oh my gosh! When I was in Jr. High and talking on the phone for hours to my best friends my brother tricked me into watching Halloween (I think he was trying to get me off of the phone) He told me that it was a comedy, yeah real funny! I was trapped into watching it cause my friend didn't want to hang up, and this was before portable phones. I couldn't sleep for days!

The Serpent and the Rainbow with Bill Pullman was "scary". Jacob's Ladder with Tim Robbins was not only "scary", but disturbing. The one that really messed me up was Phantom of Paradise. It was one of Brian DePalma's first movies, if that tells anyone anything. I was five or six years old when I watched it at the drive-in with the teenage baby-sitter that lived behind us. Until I was twelve or thirteen, I covered my head at night because of this movie.

Adding extra in support of George, The New World with Colin Farrell left something to be desired. Christian Bale, as usual, does some good work, but the overall movie seemed incomplete.