It’s not always the horror movies that scare us. Sometimes it’s a romantic one or a classic family flick, no seriously! Here are some of the movies that scared the dads of our Life of Dad Facebook community.
Posted by Life of Dad on Monday, October 9, 2017
Taryn Romero: It wasn’t a movie for me. It was the TV show “Unsolved Mysteries.” Just hearing Robert Stack’s voice was enough to terrify me.
Kenneth Papis: JAWS!!!! Growing up in south Florida was tough after that movie. I couldn’t or I should say wouldn’t get in the ocean after that, hell I had problems going in the pool at the house.
Daniel Ligocki: Twilight Zone the Movie when John Lithgow was on the airplane with the demon on the wing. When he opened the window and it’s face was there I freaked!
Nicholas Vardy: Nightmare on elm street, when he attacked the girl in the tub, I started having showers instead of baths for a while after that.
J-k Gonzales: Child’s Play. I never saw the movie until just recently and I had a hard time. When I was a kid just the cover and trailer were enough to scar and scare me. To this day I have nightmares.
Grant Nevin: I dunno why or who let me watch Night of the Living Dead with the rest of the family on home video when I was about 5yrs old …had nightmares until I was 11 or 12!!
Jon Pierre Gaymon: Ghost (1990), yes I’m talking about the movie with Demi Moore, Patrick Swayze, and Whoopi Goldberg. Let me explain. I was a probably like 4-5 years old when I really remembered this movie, and their was only one scene that really stuck out to me. It was the scene when Willie Lopez was killed and Shadowy creatures come to drag Willie to hell. First time I really feared a shadow at night.
Trav Torgersen: I can’t remember the name but it was about a guy dressed as a jester killing people inside and old asylum or something. Watched it thru my blanket during nap and still remember it.
Rusty Clark: Trilogy of Terror, specifically the story about the African doll that came alive if the chain around its body was removed.
Michael Trout: Close Encounters of the Third Kind. When the aliens were at the little kids house and all the toys start going off and appliances started going crazy and the red lights and steam coming up from the vents. That was scary as hell to watch as a kid!
Chris Vanderstock: The Dark Crystal. So many creepy puppets, weird story, lighting, you name it – even thinking about it makes me shiver.
Brad Scruggs: War of the Worlds (1953). I saw it around the mid 80s when I was about 5 or 6. I was terrified of dark rooms for years afterwards.
Joe Ross: I saw The Sixth Sense in the theaters and I was 7 or 8 and I remember not even being able to open my eyes anytime they showed a dead person.
Rob Lloyd: The Fly (the original) think I was 6 or 7 at the time, scared the crap out of me, but since then, I can watch any horror and it doesn’t bother me, kind of spoilt it for me.
Chris DjGoody Goodin: Adventures of Raggedy Ann and Andy ALSO brave toaster 95% of both movies are fine until the candy monster and A/C scenes… they still give me nightmares
Chris Chappell: Not so much the movie, but one of the characters in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang — the freaky looking child catcher! What was that all about!!!
What’s the scariest movie you’ve ever seen?
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