K.D. Lightner
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I can't say that any movie gave me nightmares, i.e., I dreamed about it. But, some movies kept me awake at night, with the covers over my head.
When I was a kid, I was not scared when I saw King Kong -- instead, I identified with the giant gorilla and cried when he fell off the Empire State Building. In Snow White, which I saw when I was 7 or so, I clapped and cheered when the evil witch fell off a cliff.
However, when I was 12, I saw House of Wax -- there's a scene where they leave you, the audience, all alone in a morgue and a dead body under a sheet suddenly sits up. It turns out to be Vincent Price who sneaks into the morgue to steal a body, but, boy, I saw that film with a bunch of teenage girls, and the screams that eminated from the theatre. I slept with a cover over my head for a few weeks after that.
Psycho unnerved me, too -- especially that scene in the basement towards the end. When Vera Miles turned that rocking chair around, I went ... well, psycho.
Nothing much has bothered me as an adult; I laughed through The Exorcist, was mad at the end of Night of the Living Dead, and was bummed when they blew the shark up in Jaws, at which time a friend who had taken me to see it because the movie had scared her witless, turned to me and said, "Karol, have you ever considered that there's something terribly wrong with you?"
Like John, I do have Godzilla dreams -- he stomps through the city, I try to get in a position to get a good look at him, he never hurts me, and I do not consider those dreams nightmares. I have also have had King Kong dreams, same scenario. A therapist friend of mine called them "lost power" dreams.
I haven't had the dreams in recent years, must have had something to do with my work life.
karol
When I was a kid, I was not scared when I saw King Kong -- instead, I identified with the giant gorilla and cried when he fell off the Empire State Building. In Snow White, which I saw when I was 7 or so, I clapped and cheered when the evil witch fell off a cliff.
However, when I was 12, I saw House of Wax -- there's a scene where they leave you, the audience, all alone in a morgue and a dead body under a sheet suddenly sits up. It turns out to be Vincent Price who sneaks into the morgue to steal a body, but, boy, I saw that film with a bunch of teenage girls, and the screams that eminated from the theatre. I slept with a cover over my head for a few weeks after that.
Psycho unnerved me, too -- especially that scene in the basement towards the end. When Vera Miles turned that rocking chair around, I went ... well, psycho.
Nothing much has bothered me as an adult; I laughed through The Exorcist, was mad at the end of Night of the Living Dead, and was bummed when they blew the shark up in Jaws, at which time a friend who had taken me to see it because the movie had scared her witless, turned to me and said, "Karol, have you ever considered that there's something terribly wrong with you?"
Like John, I do have Godzilla dreams -- he stomps through the city, I try to get in a position to get a good look at him, he never hurts me, and I do not consider those dreams nightmares. I have also have had King Kong dreams, same scenario. A therapist friend of mine called them "lost power" dreams.
I haven't had the dreams in recent years, must have had something to do with my work life.
karol
