- Plane flies over slumbering Midwich, pilot nods off and plane goes boom!
- Mom with psychic assistance, attempts to scald own hand after accidentally presenting infant with a too hot baby bottle
- A HELLRAISER like Chinese puzzle box reveal the kids communal learning skills
- SANDER's imagining of a brick wall to block off munchkin's Jedi mind tricks.
- Miniature house explodes into flames
Author: unkle lancifer
Kinderguest Peter of HorrorsNotDead.com
Of all horror films, GHOULIES II had the biggest impact on my life. This is not a point of contention, this is literal. The world is round, GHOULIES II scared me shitless. When I was 7 or 8, the babysitter let us watch the schlocky sequel that features a sequence of a man getting his cheeks chomped off by a bald ghoulie hiding in the toilet bowl. Of course, when you're 7 years old, nothing is schlocky.
I was fucking terrified. My cheeks did not touch a toilet bowl for months.
Fact: DEAD MAN WALKING was inspired by my fate every time I made that journey to the bathroom. Every time I entered that porcelain closet of terror I knew, knew with more certainty than any supercomputers can muster, that a hideous, bald child of Lucifer was going to enjoy the flesh of my rump. Not only that, but it turned me off of horror for years. I would not touch the genre. I would not even be on the same floor in a house playing a horror movie. I am now 22 years old and read Fangoria while I take a dump.
Cute how the wheel of Kah turns.
Thanks Peter, I think you just singlehandedly justified the existence of this site with that TRAUMAFESSION! Where else can you read a tale like that folks? Well, for starters you might try HORRORS NOT DEAD The recently engaged (congrats!) Peter's regular stomping ground. If it's a unique take on the genre you're looking for, look no further!
Cellar Dweller
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- Whitney's not-so-great comic book art
- Philip's (future NORBIT director and HEAD OF THE CLASS alum BRIAN ROBBINS) not-so-great abstract art
- Amanda's (MIRANDA WILSON) not-so-great performance art
- Norman's (BEN CASEY star and Noir legend VINCE EDWARDS) not-so-great desire to act out scenes from his forthcoming detective novel by shooting at vases and pointing a gun at a woman's head
- Lisa's pretty great death by banana peel
- Norman's very great decapitation
Ghostwatch
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 INDELIBLE SCENE(S):
- Pipes by the bedroom curtain. (All of pipes' nearly subliminal appearances can be viewed HERE )
- Playing the audio tape of Pipes' voice
- Daughter Suzanne possessed by Pipes
- Reporter SARAH GREENE trapped in the "Glory Hole" while the cats howl and the transmission fails.
- Stalwart host MICHAEL PARKINSON succumbs to Pipes' will
Official Traumatot :: Michael Stephenson
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TRAUMAFESSIONS :: Todd G. on JAWS
The first time I can remember ever being scared was seeing JAWS at a drive-in theater in a packed station-wagon. I remember hiding behind the seat closing my eyes and all us kids screaming whenever the shark jumped out. I remember one part where they're under the water beneath a boat and and all the sudden a dead guy's face appears in a hole. That stayed with me more than the shark, at the time it was really sick! On the ride home we all pretended the station-wagon was a boat and we were being chased by JAWS.
Official Traumatizer :: Louise Fletcher
Ghosthouse
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   INDELIBLE SCENE(S):
- Whenever the ghost girl and her evil clown dolly appear, they are accompanied by what is referred to in the movie as a nursery rhyme like song. In fact, it sounds neither like a song nor a rhyme, and more closely resembles a robotic voiced child in the back of a car asking over and over again, "Are we here? Are we there yet?"
- Someone please explain Pepe the hitchhiker to me.
- Not scared of kids and dolls? The handyman is a maniac who will kill you with a cleaver that is for some reason referred to as an axe
- Not scared of handymen? There's also a ghostly Doberman Pinscher to contend with
- Not scared of dogs? Don't worry an unexplained maggoty-faced grim reaper stops by!
- Head in a washing machine!
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Official Traumatot: Ann Carter
Curse of the Cat People
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- Irena's first ethereal appearance
- The magic tree mailbox is on the fritz!
- Irena's picture burning in the fireplace
- As with all VAL LEWTON's films, the cinematography through out is uniformly exquisite but Amy's flight from imagined danger through a snowstorm is especially breathtaking
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