Thread: What movie(s) Frightened You the Most?

2003.

We had a mad weekend, as we always did back then, out clubbing and afterparties full of booze and ecstasy Friday and Saturday night. E's were cheaper than pints back then.

Skip to Sunday lunch time and we're coming down like a bitch. Lloyd calls me and says let's get a few beers in to take the edge off it, so we head down to the beach and have some beers and play some pool. It's not really working, we're frazzled. We are both doing our apprenticeships at the same company at the time and we decide to stop drinking, Monday morning is going to be shite as it is.

But what to do? Lloyd's starting to feel really rough and doesn't want to go home and face his parents just yet.

I suggest a movie.

So we walk around to the cinema and Lloyd starts having a moment. I call that a panic attack personally but he says he'll be fine. I go in and buy the tickets then come out and get him.

Half way thorough the Trailers:

Lloyd: What movie are we here for?
Me: Gothika
L: what's it about?
Me: Fuck knows but it has Halle Berry in it.

The fear was real.

Jacob's Ladder.

It was the spinney head demons popping up out in broad daylight that freaked me out. A very underrated movie, with an underrated lead actor, Tim Robbins. The plotline was quite obviously lifted for a later hit movie with bigger stars, and quite a few other movies intentionally or not follow the same storyline.

test screenings indicated that the initial version of the film was overwhelming for the audience. In response, about 20 minutes of disturbing scenes, mostly from the last third of the film, were removed from the final cut.

A good copy of the movie will have the deleted scenes, or they're also on YT.