The movies that make-up this list are great, but what really struck me was the spot-on description regarding the intimacy of watching a movie alone, late at night. Watching a horror movie with a crowd can be glorious, but it allows for a pressure valve -- the nervous laughter that provides some relief. You aren't afforded that mercy in the late night, home alone viewing experience. There's no one to share it in that moment, so it stays with you.
@lovecraft7676
2 жыл бұрын
Couldn’t agree more. Watching some of these alone for the first time as a little guy was always a gut check and I would frequently turn them off and run for cover.
@FCSchaefer
2 жыл бұрын
I actually saw a lot of those movies in the theater back in the '80s, the best experience had to be Poltergeist, the scene where the guy rips his face down to the bone is the best. And Ghost Story might be my favorite horror novel of all time, even better than Stephen King.
@geekinwithJamesHancock
2 жыл бұрын
I've never heard a bad word uttered about the novel 'Ghost Story'. As soon as I finish 'The Exorcist' I'm diving in.
@VividAMVs
2 жыл бұрын
Love those videos. Mine was "Fire in the sky" 's inside the spaceship parts and the moment in signs when you see the alien in the news hiding behind a tree.
@geekinwithJamesHancock
2 жыл бұрын
Fire in the Sky really ends with a bang. That whole sequence is phenomenal but what always gets me is when they throw they glop into his mouth. Makes me gag.
@74gould
2 жыл бұрын
Oh man, I’d forgotten about Ghost Story! That one messed me up as a kid too. :) I need to revisit it.
@geekinwithJamesHancock
2 жыл бұрын
Alice Krige is such a goddess. Well worth revisiting just for her performance.
@nickimontie
2 жыл бұрын
The Exorcist scares me as an adult, but the one that scared me most as a kid was Phantasm. It haunted my nightmares for years.
@geekinwithJamesHancock
2 жыл бұрын
Massive fan of Phantasm but didn't catch it until I was much older so I had a very different experience.
@EthanS1481
2 жыл бұрын
My first was Cronenberg’s The Fly in ‘89 when I was 9yo - alone, after school. That movie haunted me for years. Soon after was The Exorcist which haunted me for decades…
@geekinwithJamesHancock
2 жыл бұрын
Cronenberg's remake of The Fly is a strong contender for the best remake ever made. I'm obsessed.
@dnice4145
2 жыл бұрын
Great list man. I remember watching evil dead 1 & 2 as a kid at my cousins and being so scared out of mind that I forgot about the film as soon as it was over. It was like a built in defense mechanism as a result of my brain being only able to take so much. Lol. From time to time I have to remind myself that a movie where a little girl gets trapped inside a TV was a real thing.
@geekinwithJamesHancock
2 жыл бұрын
I was so obsessed with Evil Dead 1 & 2 as a teen that my friends and I formed the Dead by Dawn society. That said, the first time I saw Evil Dead I couldn't believe how intense the experience was. Fan for life.
@Father_Daniel
2 жыл бұрын
Great list James! I was born in the 80s and started watching horror movies at a very young age also. I saw Pet Sematary when I was about nine or 10 and I couldn't sleep for days because of her sister Zelda!! The other movie that really got me was The Exorcist. I watched it home alone with one friend when I was in 6th grade and needless to say every light in the house end up getting turned on until my parents got home LOL
@geekinwithJamesHancock
2 жыл бұрын
Zelda is so damn freaky she can get under anyone's skin at any age. Big fan of the book as well. That last quarter or so might be the darkest material King has ever written.
@GunsAndGrenache
2 жыл бұрын
For the Exorcist, I was thinking of a different hospital scene: Father Karras' mom: "Dimmy, why you do this to me?" + the nightmare of her going into the subway.
@geekinwithJamesHancock
2 жыл бұрын
lol, for years I would make my little brother howl with laughter imitating that scene.
@GunsAndGrenache
2 жыл бұрын
@@geekinwithJamesHancock haha I can imagine :)
@sawakenbake
2 жыл бұрын
I’m just a few years younger than you, but man you hit the nose on the head. Being way younger than you should be, watching these on HBO/Cinemax/whatever late at night. It really is different when you’re a kid, and fear is real, before we got jaded.
@geekinwithJamesHancock
2 жыл бұрын
Once in a blue moon a new horror movie will put the zap on my but it is very very rare. I cherish that era where friggin' episodes of Scooby Doo could scare me.
@gidgitvonlarue9972
2 жыл бұрын
I grew up on horror films too - once the 'bug' hit - yep had to watch every horror film we could rent from our local video store! Have loved them ever since.
@subversivelysurreal3645
2 жыл бұрын
if i were a parent, idk if it’s still around, ‘green slime’, but it would be fun to show kids ‘The Blob’ film inside a movie theatre, a flick it down on the kids. then, after the film, you just let it go click, click, click, but leave them in the dark, with the doors locked…ten might be a little bit too old. gotta leave a memory, cup o ptsd, anyone?
@geekinwithJamesHancock
2 жыл бұрын
You are speaking my language. I love it.
@subversivelysurreal3645
2 жыл бұрын
@@geekinwithJamesHancock i was just telling my friend that i can be kinda myself with you, whereas on twitter they might call me demented! 🤣
@oxhine
2 жыл бұрын
Solid list, James! I grew up on these movies and saw most of them on VHS like you. Although "The Raft" segment of "Creepshow 2" still roosts in my head today, "The Crate" segment from the first "Creepshow" that had Hal Holbrook feeding Adrienne Barbeau to the unseen beast upset me so much I had to flee the room and yank open a window to gulp in fresh air! It was like I was having a panic attack! It doesn't bother me anymore and I've seen more terrifying movies since but something about that story triggered me. I think frightening, dark imagery and content is good for children. It sticks with us and helps us to cope with the real horrors life serves up. I never saw or even heard of "The Pit" and "Ghost Story". I must track them down! Where did you meet Naughton? At a horror convention?
@snixelpig
2 жыл бұрын
I saw A Clock Work Orange when I was 8 . I'd seen some Horror by then, but at that age it really messed with me ,my brain wrestled with the themes from that much more than any Horror I'd seen up until that point, and quite a while after. Very nice list of horror moment's!
@geekinwithJamesHancock
2 жыл бұрын
I didn't discover A Clockwork Orange until I was 17 but it totally floored me. Watched it pretty much every night that summer, bought the soundtrack, and was well on my way to becoming a Kubrick fanatic.
@batgurrl
2 жыл бұрын
Excellent list James -Well Done👏Being a boomer, as a little kid I wasn’t even watching any TV at night. I saw all of these as an adult or maybe a teen and don’t spook easily but I agree about your number 1. I could understand how those things you mentioned could freak you the fuck out. I was an older teen for Salem’s lot and it was the first and only time a movie/TV show gave me a bad dream. The Thing is a masterpiece of effects, tone, score, acting and atmosphere. The sense of paranoia was PERFECT for the plot. 😱👌
@geekinwithJamesHancock
2 жыл бұрын
Apparently Salem's Lot still packs a punch. My older brother just showed it to his 5 year old son who ended waking up crying later that night.
@batgurrl
2 жыл бұрын
@@geekinwithJamesHancock that’s a fun fact - proves how powerful it was.Carrie, which I actually saw in a movie theater didn’t give me any nightmares, but I did scream at the end when Sue took the flowers to her grave, but then of course I smiled at the very end☮️🎃🤣
@jriggan
2 жыл бұрын
The Raft is the single most freak out inducing movie I have Ever seen. I’m also 45. Saw it at the same age, I’d guess. I don’t know if they still have swimming hole rafts out in those rural ponds, but they sure as hell did when I was young… Now there’s brain eating amoebas, so maybe it was the only creep show scare that’s for real 😳
@geekinwithJamesHancock
2 жыл бұрын
lol, I've been to a few lakes with swimming hole rafts and I'm always very wary to the present day. Always stand on the boards, never the cracks.
@thelivingjed9676
2 жыл бұрын
What makes that hospital scene in The Exorcist more unsettling is that one of the extras was a real life serial killer. For me the first horror scene that comes to my mind that f*cked me up is the climax of The Fly (1986). I remember it vividly. It was the last day of school term, I had just come home, and I was watching scenes from Beetlejuice on KZitem when the ending to The Fly appeared on the recommended list (I guess cause Geena Davis was in both movies). I'd seen it on the shelf at my local video store, but I had never seen anything from the film apart from the stills on the back, and for some reason I got the wrong impression that it was like a superhero movie. Anyway, I started watching the clip and yeah, it really grossed me out when Brundlefly vomited on Stathis's hand and foot dissolving them, and I turned it off when it looked like he was going to vomit on his face. After a couple of minutes I started watching it again, and then all of a sudden Geena Davis rips Brundle's jaw off and Brundle's flesh just starts coming off to reveal the Brundlefly creature underneath. The bit where his head splits and his eyes just melt out just f*cked me up. I got through the scene, and for years I had this curiousity for the film even though I never wanted to watch it in full, because it scarred me. I'd watch the scenes like when his ear falls off and he vomits on the donut, and I'd be genuinely disturbed, but then I'd keep coming back to it until I finally saw the whole movie. I've now seen it a number of times now, and it's become my second favourite horror film and favourite horror remake.
@geekinwithJamesHancock
2 жыл бұрын
Very strong contender for the best remake ever made. I'm a colossal fan as well and have been watching it on repeat for decades.
@gidgitvonlarue9972
2 жыл бұрын
You sure we didn't grow up in the same house,James??? Oh The Howling was on cable just the other day - it's been re-mastered and looks like it was filmed last week!!!
@geekinwithJamesHancock
2 жыл бұрын
The world would not have survived the experience if we had grown up side by side.
@Father_Daniel
2 жыл бұрын
I also want a comment that I now have two teenage daughters and I've always said as long as they are comfortable watching it then I'm okay with it. Now they've been watching horror movies for a few years and are totally hooked just like I was🙂
@geekinwithJamesHancock
2 жыл бұрын
Hell yes!
@jeremyadams1521
2 жыл бұрын
Was so happy to hear you mention Ghost Story. An underrated film with a great cast… and yes, the book is amazing
@geekinwithJamesHancock
2 жыл бұрын
My copy of the book has been gathering dust on my shelf for many years. Once I finish The Exorcist, I might have to dive in.
@bobomeara
2 жыл бұрын
Great list James but I think you should reveal the true horror and post that picture of you with your home made Freddie glove and your skater bangs(I don't even know what those are).:) Its so true though the best horror experiences where those sitting at home alone in the dark and popping in a video cassette of the latest recommendation of the guy from the video shop. Those are truly priceless memories.
@geekinwithJamesHancock
2 жыл бұрын
I have that pic in a box here in my apartment but I would take a good couple of hours to find. As far as the skater bangs go, I had my head partially shaved on one side with long bands over the other side. I thought I was super cool.
@bobomeara
2 жыл бұрын
@@geekinwithJamesHancock Ha. Probably better left to the imagination. We can't be held responsible for the haircuts we sported back in the 80s. :)
@musicmann1967
2 жыл бұрын
I saw "The Hand" in a Time Square theater when it was released. Sitting two seats away from me were Brian DePalma and Nancy Allen! The movie was pretty terrible, and Brian and Nancy were laughing and whispering a running commentary to each other. And because they both knew Oliver Stone personally, I think they both were a little extra giddy.
@geekinwithJamesHancock
2 жыл бұрын
Nice! Brian and Nancy were quite the power couple back then. Love what they did together.
@michalmazurewicz7240
2 жыл бұрын
My top 10 would be: Twin Peaks Friday the 13th Amytiville Horror Nightmare on Elm Street Hellraiser Halloween Texas Chainsaw Massacre Dracula Suspiria Jaws
@geekinwithJamesHancock
2 жыл бұрын
Big fan of all of the above but I was much older by the time I saw movies like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Suspiria.
@AndréVilaFranca
2 жыл бұрын
A little kid of culture. xD The film that fucked me up as a kid was Starship Troopers. In retrospective, the concept is really terrifying.
@geekinwithJamesHancock
2 жыл бұрын
lol, I took my little brother and sister to see Starship Troopers in the theater. We were all enthralled.
@arthurcurry2003
2 жыл бұрын
that poster for Nightmare On Elm Street is amazing. I miss those art work posters.
@geekinwithJamesHancock
2 жыл бұрын
truly a lost art form
@Julusnc
2 жыл бұрын
I too was a child of the late 1970's watching laser disks, beta max, and VHS. My parents like yours were all about grades and you can watch anything as long as you keep them up. The Shining scared the duck out of me!
@DaveFineWhine
2 жыл бұрын
I found this video SO entertaining. We're pretty close to the same age, but unlike you, I was very sheltered growing up - so much so, that the first movie that F**ked me up was the face melting scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark! In any case, this was a great list.
@geekinwithJamesHancock
2 жыл бұрын
One of the all time great scenes! I was in awe and was also lucky enough to catch Raiders in the theater as a little guy.
@tom-vj9lz
2 жыл бұрын
man, you've been killing it with the uploads
@geekinwithJamesHancock
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks, Tom! Trying my best to upload more regularly. Luckily there have been a lot of good excuses lately to rant and rave about film & television.
@musicmann1967
2 жыл бұрын
Great choices, and even better stories about the origins of these childhood memories. Very cool stuff.
@geekinwithJamesHancock
2 жыл бұрын
Had a blast dusting off these old experiences from a bygone era.
@killraven8783
2 жыл бұрын
I saw Ghost Story at my local theater and fell in love with Alice Krige, still to this day. I'm also thinking for the same reasons as you Under rated movie, glad to see it on your list. There were some movie icons in that one.
@geekinwithJamesHancock
2 жыл бұрын
It's funny how Ghost Story doesn't seem to have a massive reputation but everyone who has seen it had a very powerful response at that time.
@Rhamsody
2 жыл бұрын
Bruh. GREAT list. I never got to watch horror movies because my parents said they were "demonized". 🙄 So I'm working my way through it now. Will be sure to check out your picks later. 👍🏾👍🏾
@geekinwithJamesHancock
2 жыл бұрын
The irony is that people who are addicted to horror movies tend to be total pussycats as opposed to the devil-worshipping lunatics that people suspect them of being.
@dnice4145
2 жыл бұрын
@@geekinwithJamesHancock hahaha.
@realhousewifeoftransylvania1.0
2 жыл бұрын
It's actually not true that kids will run out of the room. Some will stay and try to prove they're not scared and then can be freaked out by the images later. You have to know your child. Everyone is different.
@lovecraft7676
2 жыл бұрын
We all learned that the hard way when the kid who I left unnamed had a very different experience from the rest of us at the horror movie slumber party I attended.
@amcaesar
2 жыл бұрын
This is comprehensive- but Pizza Hut almost comes across as even scarier.
@geekinwithJamesHancock
2 жыл бұрын
I can still remember every inch of that place, even the intersection in Richmond, Va.
@jimmyolsenblues
2 жыл бұрын
Burnt Offerings on Public TV, scared me for years. Arachnophobia scared me as an adult in college. Bugs 1974 scared me as a 5 year old.
@cb1982
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing some of your childhood with us and a great movie list to boot. I was lucky enough to see The Howling at the drive-in, which was a little awkward watching it with my dad (thinking of the scenes you cited) but it was the second film of the night after Escape from New York so my youthful eyes and mind were expanded and I still recall that experience vividly. For me it was seeing the 1978 version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers at 10 in the theatre by myself. I had a real challenge sleeping that night. Great content!
@geekinwithJamesHancock
2 жыл бұрын
Massive fan of the '78 Body Snatchers. One of the best remakes I've ever seen.
@Wulfgar23111
2 жыл бұрын
I would definitely have some overlap with these. The two that messed me up the most, though, were Stephen King's It and Jaws.
@geekinwithJamesHancock
2 жыл бұрын
I was blown by It at age 14 but by that point I was having a blast with horror. Ended up taping the show and watching it repeatedly. I've always loved Jaws but for some reason I was always more thrilled by the experience rather than petrified.
@norbertocostaful
2 жыл бұрын
when you said "...enjoying horror movies and not getting wrecked by them.." I heard "..erect by them" the first time ! :). Nice video. I remember first time I watched a horror movie when I was about 8, it was a black and white Frankenstein movie on TV (no Idea what it was and it may have been color but we only had a black and white tv at the time), but I couldn't go upstairs in the dark anymore as it always felt like there was something lurking in the dark. I need to dig out some of those movies on your list as they definitely bring back memories, but where are the hammer horror movies on your list? Being from UK they are my go to for old school scares, though dated now.
@geekinwithJamesHancock
2 жыл бұрын
Massive fan of Hammer Horror but I didn't see any of them until I was 20 years old so I've always had a very different relationship with those flicks as a fan. I need to do a Top 10 Hammer Horror Video.
@mary-ellenbucko4322
2 жыл бұрын
Friday The 13th - The Television Series. Watched the Episode ""Better Off Dead" with a few friends. The only episode Aired with a “graphic violence” warning (Original episode, WPIX-TV 1988). The Episode kept us awake for Days.
@geekinwithJamesHancock
2 жыл бұрын
Nice! I'm pretty sure I never saw that episode. Sounds like I need to hunt it down.
@mary-ellenbucko4322
2 жыл бұрын
Oh and by the way... At an Antique Doll Shop in California... I looked up to see the Poltergeist Clown staring down at me...They had purchased the Doll for a Halloween Display... I looked up and there was this horrendous leering entity grinning down at me. I shrieked... then fainted dead away.
@leostarrs-cunningham8576
2 жыл бұрын
One of my best horror filmnexperiences was watching Event Horizon in an almost empty cinema in Montreal. There was maybe 3 other people and we were all sat far appart. All strangers. Might as well have been alone. It was fantastic. The movie thatvscared me as a kid was Dracula with Laurence Oliver as Helsing (I think). That f@cked me up for months. I was 9, lol.
@geekinwithJamesHancock
2 жыл бұрын
I took my little brother and sister to see Event Horizon in the theater and they clung to me like we were all about to be put to death.
@jacobrivera7942
2 жыл бұрын
Great video & love the personal connections.
@Fatrocka64YouTube
10 ай бұрын
despite me being born in 1997 I remember seeing that nanny ghost part in ghostbusters 2 in 2005 and it had freaked me out. however I did not hear about the exorcist until 2006 to 2007
@ramonserna8089
2 жыл бұрын
I used to laugh at any horror movie I saw as a kid.. then I saw Event Horizon. Its a great movie, but whoever recomends this movie without a forewarning is not your friend.
@geekinwithJamesHancock
2 жыл бұрын
lol, I took my little brother and sister to see Event Horizon in the theater and they clung to me like we were going to be killed then and there.
@AGETheGawdYT
Жыл бұрын
Funny enough “Something To Tide You Over” & The Raft fucked me up as an adult 😂😭
@paulthebeardedonedowning6820
2 жыл бұрын
awww man I had similar experiences with horror growing up the local bad kid who I wasn't aloud to play with would always talk about the movies he'd watched while we was in first school and I would always ask my mum if I could watch some horror and she wouldn't have it. then one day I managed to seek a peak at my uncles horror collection which he'd recorded off tv and I started American werewolf he must of missed the very beginning cos it started at the scene when they crossed the moors I watched as far as seeing Jack getting tore up before I shit myself and turned it off scarred for life lol I was 7 I think
@geekinwithJamesHancock
2 жыл бұрын
Beware the Moors! As an American, there are parts of the UK that I will never visit, lol.
@helenogrady4544
2 жыл бұрын
Haha so many memories! NEVER put your arm out a car window! American werewolf in London was my biggest one. Gave me nightmares for ages of my brother turning into a werewolf and killing my whole family. I also did the all nighter horror movie slumber party, I was a bit older at 13 though. We watched a couple of nightmare on elm st movies and psycho.. can't remember what else
@AdrianMendoza23
2 жыл бұрын
Great list.
@geekinwithJamesHancock
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks! Had a blast dusting off all these old memories.
@stevenkaeser8583
2 жыл бұрын
In the 50s Rodan impacted my sleep for years to come.
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