Which ones gave you chills?

[Sebiale]

I know we have the best werewolf movies thread, but I think the criteria I'm looking for is different.

What I want is to know which werewolves, or werewolf movies well and truly scared you? Made you want to huddle up in a corner underneath a blanket and rock back and forth in terror?

The reason I ask is because, sad as this sounds, I've never been well and truly scared by the werewolf movies that I've seen so far. Of course there's always the suspense factor, but nothing has ever made me scared rather than just anxious, or left me jumpy after watching it.
Which i think is sad, since a lot of these movies are in the horror genre. Maybe it's because so many are gore festivals...

[Marcus]

I grew up watching horror, from as early an age as I can remember. When I was young the horrors with monsters and such in them were more "oooo!! look at that monster! I wan't one!". And that's stayed with me as I got older and understood that your supposed to be scared watching horrors. So, I'm afriad I've not found any werewolf films scary. A couple have had scenes in them that made me jump, but that was more from startlement than proper scary, like the scene from AAWIL whe he wakes up in the hospital.

The moor scene in AAWIL is nice and atmospheric, but than that's not the question your asking. hmm, I'm just trying to think of the werewolf films I've seen and if I can logically analyse them to grade them on scaryness . . . which is hard as logic and emotions arn't the same thing.

I'll have to think about this.

[Ian]

"The Box Of Delights" (1984).
Not a film but a childrens T.V. series (originally a book) that features shapeshifting wolves.

I was six or seven years old...very effectively scared me. I think the music played an important role.

[ArcLight]

I grew up with the stuff too, so the idea of being scared (by a werewolf particularly) is pretty foreign to me. They're just too cool to be scared by.

Heck, when I was in high school I had a dream that involved me being in some sort of hospital where a skinned werewolf was coming after me. I was trying to hold the door shut while the werewolf was pounding against it when I woke up. I wasn't scared. I was torqued off that I didn't get to see what happened next....

[Sebiale]

I've also grown up on werewolves, although not as much as I'd like (Gojira got a hold of me first ).
So I also think of werewolves as cool more than scary most of the time. I suppose it's kind of hard to scare people with something that they appreciate :S

[eloojak]

i think i remember box of delights,that was back in the eighties right? but the only werewolf movie that scared me is the one that shall not be named,i was scared stupid as to how bad it was

[Sebiale]

Maybe they should make a movie in which werewolves are the scared part of the equation.
A movie in which what we like replaces humans in most horror movies. That might do the trick.

[Ian]

Sept 3, 2010 20:05:08 GMT -5 @eloojak said:

i think i remember box of delights,that was back in the eighties right?

Yes, with Patrick Troughton as the Punch and Judy man.

[hawkeyepierce]

I've never seen a werewolf film that really scared me, but I must admit that A) its not what I look for in these kind of films and B) as you know Im into the classic horror stuff starring Chaney and Naschy etc. which (although atmospheric) is hardly nerveracking these days

[Moonreaper]

A sad but true fact is horror movies never really did scare me, I envy people who get scared from movies because they get more bang for their buck. As far as creature features go, as strange as it may sound, I always fantasized about meeting the monster and making friends with it as if it killed because everyone was afraid of it.

[hawkeyepierce]

Actually, It has fascinated me for a long time that producers pump millions of dollars into a film hoping people will 'turn away in disgust'. Making something grizzly (and expensive) only to have people not look at it

If Moonreaper isn't scared of horror flicks, he's the one getting more for his money ;D

[Ian]

To everyone, how about when you were children? Films that scared me: Ghostbusters (at age 6), The Box of Delights (6/7), The Company of Wolves (the wedding party transforming into wolves) etc. I saw most of these in a darkened room/at night. It is hard to imagine a child of that age not be frightened. I had a very vivid imagination.

Was there ever a time perhaps below the age of ten that whilst watching a horror film by yourself late at night something frightened you?

As for werewolves, I think only real wolves (Box of Delights & Company of Wolves etc.) scared me. I actually suffered from recurring nightmares of wolves and dogs as a child before I even knew what a werewolf was. Also, on a ferry to France at 12 I had measles and hallucinated werewolves.

[hawkeyepierce]

I remember being upset by some tv announcment about a vampire film that was going to be on that night. There was a shot of a man being choked to death and blood was pouring from his mouth. I'd love to see this film today! I'm pretty sure it's a British flick and for years I thought it was one of the Hammer Dracula's, but it isn't. Any ideas? It was a loooong time ago (I was 3/4 years old) so my memory mind be cheating me.

I also remember there was a scene in an episode of the Zorro show from the 90s that scared me. There was this scene in which the cliche fat Sergeant (who isn't called Garcia in the 90s show I believe) find two dudes in bed who look like either they have some red skin disease or they are zombies or whatever. I turned the tv off so don;t know what happened next. I one more, my memory may be playing tricks on me
I prefer The Disney Zorro show anyway, so there

[Marcus]

I remember a haunted house film called Superstition, where the ghost was the returned soul of a witch which had been killed by drowning in the pond next to the house a hundred or so years ago. She killed people by chopping them in half with windows or driving a circular saw blade through them. But the bit that I remember most is when she was shrouded in fog on the stairs, just standing there.

One cool way of watching a horror film, is outside at night, on a projected screen. A friend I used to know long ago did one with a small group of us in his back garden. Definately made the film more spooky. Though I cannot remember which film it was now - apart it was one of the slasher ones, where most of the action happened outside.

[Marcus]

I remember once, when a friend was round we watched Critters, as the film finished I'd gone out the room and came back in, as I walked past the back of the sofa, which he was sat on, I quietly places an old stuffed toy I had (was a gopher or rodent originally, but was the same colour and size as a critter) on his shoulder. He jumped half way across the room before I took another step