Originally Posted by MissInformation

The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre (released in 1974 I believe) was one of the scariest movies I saw as a child. I saw it at a drive in theater when I was 8 years old and I think I woke up screaming from nightmares for a week straight... my parents were quite clueless about what's appropriate for a young child to see, so many Friday nights in the summers were spent at a Drive-in's dusk to dawn horror shows...

The first Evil Dead also scared me. I was 14 when I saw it while helping a friend babysit. There was one scene in the movie that made us jump back, which we did so hard that we actually tipped the couch over...

Of course, neither of these two movies scare me now...

Heidi