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Great thread to read through. I can’t seem to remember what kinds of things used to scare me in movies. I was a very disturbed child, heh, but I did watch lots of horror on my own, independently, since age 13 or some such, so I guess I got accustomed to it. I do know at some point I used to find Phantom of the Opera, the Joel Schumacher version, terrifying (it was to do with the Phantom’s face but mainly the cymbal-playing monkey). I have no idea why.
I’ve already mentioned the acid burns scene in Dante’s Peak. Don’t know if I’d call it me being scared, strictly speaking, but it was seared in my mind for a while and I found it incredibly disturbing.
I do remember watching a Poirot episode, I think (oddly enough, this is the one ‘movie question’ I’ve never answered — it may have been something else, but I seem so sure it was a Poirot episode), as a kid, about a woman who played bridge and realised she had a cognitive impairment, something like Alzheimer’s, when Poirot (or in the very least a detective) was questioning her about the score from last night’s game, who won, etc. She realised she couldn’t remember and it really scared her, which in turn scared me.
Years after that I first watched Lynch’s Inland Empire which I now know by heart and adore, and the scene where Nikki forgets she’s filming a scene and confuses the scene with reality scared the shit out of me, so I think something to do with cognitive impairments, getting cognitively confused definitely messes with my head for some reason. Ditto another Inland Empire scene where the neighbour played by Grace Zabriskie says, ‘If it was tomorrow, you would be sitting over there.’
That one still gives me the chills on occasion. Again, something to do with being confused/cognitive impairment.
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