Movies That Were Probably Made By a Spasm of Six Year-Olds on Acid: The Top 75 Action Films Poll Results Thread

uncle lancifer of kindertrauma and i spent our childhood and young adulthood watching the scariest things we could find.

The biohazard suits and contamination chambers and all those big plastic tunnels everywhere in ET were v scary to me, I remember that much

ya that was so freaky

V-The Series scared the pants off me
That creepyass preacher in Poltergeist II definitely gave me nightmares

that fucking clown doll in poltergeist gah

Man, I love kindertrauma! One of like four horror sites in my RSS feed.

he does a great job with it! i'm very proud of him.

12 yo me was super pissed when I was barred entry to the evil dead... "no one under 17 will be admitted to this film"

V-The Series scared the pants off me

I remember my friend's older brother watching this and seeing them swallow whole mice and realizing very quickly that it was not the show for me.

can't believe a) how scary i thought this scene in V was as a kid and b) then how badly i PMSL at it 20 years on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VObQfWMgmIM

PeeMySeLf?

aye! well almost..

I remember being mad at my mom for not letting me watch The Excorcist with my friends at age 7 or 8. In retrospect, I think I should probably thank her.

x-post I AM SO NOT WATCHING THAT. I don't care how funny you say it is now.

What was the episode of Nightmare on Elm Street, ENBB? I seem to remember that show being quite violent and gory but ridiculous.
The only episode I remember was about a "fat, ugly" girl who got plastic surgery-shown graphically but stupidly-and I think later she ate some children she was babysitting or something?

In the V series, the most vivid thing I remember that scared me shitless was a little girl who gets a rash on her arm, and she starts scratching it and it gets all huge and pulsating and gross and one night she runs away into a cave and somehow ends up in this giant slime-cocoon thing and metamorphoses. and she emerges as a fully grown 20-something woman.

which might sound awesome to dudes but me as a 10 year old watching, it terrified me. I don't think I scratched a mosquito bite on my person for the next 5 years.

oh and the rat scene cracks me up now. but it was super scary at the time, for sure

The ghost librarian made me jump, but I wasn't scared. There's a long build up to it, and it's a sudden shock, but there's nothing else in Ghostbusters that's purposely designed to make you crap yourself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3ns6H5dHrU

I just read every episode of Freddie's Nightmares and I don't think it was one of those. What the hell was it then?! Oh this is bad. I'm not going to be able to until I figure out what it was.

As I remember it it was about two rival members of a HS Girls' Track team. I think they were running an event and once pushed the other off a cliff. The dead one then came back to haunt the live one and ended up killing her using the pointy person part of one of her trophies. I just remember it being really really bloody.

The story I've always heard, once from Dante himself, was that the original Columbus Gremlins script was totally vicious and violent, even more than the finished version, and that the studio had him tone things down. But Spielberg personally lobbied on behalf of Dante to have some of the more grisly bits reinstated! Between Poltergeist and Gremlins, Spielberg sure got away with some nasty stuff by proxy.

I read a comic book adaptation of Gremlins before seeing the movie and it's one of the more terrifying things I've ever read; the tone is completely different and there is nothing madcap or whimsical about any of the Gremlins at all. My big memory is the tonal difference of the scene where they mess with the stair-climber and launch the old woman out of her house between the two. In the comic book, it is legit terrifying whereas in the movie it plays out like slapstick farce.

xxp That bit's hilarious!

x-post to Dasher. btw your children eating babysitter ep seems to have been called "Missing Persons" A college student (Eva LaRue) with past weight problems goes back to her childhood house to babysit two children who love junk food.

I would pay $$$ for this Gremlins comic.

I read a comic book adaptation of Gremlins before seeing the movie and it's one of the more terrifying things I've ever read; the tone is completely different and there is nothing madcap or whimsical about any of the Gremlins at all. My big memory is the tonal difference of the scene where they mess with the stair-climber and launch the old woman out of her house between the two. In the comic book, it is legit terrifying whereas in the movie it plays out like slapstick farce.

― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Thursday, February 16, 2012 3:16 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I did this in the reverse order, but the comics still came across as dark and not cute or funny.

DJP, Did we see Gremlins together? I remember seeing this in the H theatre because bats occasionally flew in front of the projector.

I would pay $$$ for this Gremlins comic.

it might have been this: http://www.mycomicshop.com/search?mingr=0&TID=22153255

DJP, Did we see Gremlins together?

lol of course we did, come on now

was it this fella?

http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/6/64422/1921084-gremlins_large.jpg

i had the tie-in adaptation/novelisation thing but i so missed reading this as a kid.

thanks, ENBB!
The bloodiness does sound like Freddy's Nightmares...my knowledge of horror anthology shows of the time is not good so if it's not that I am not sure what else it could have been. I don't think Tales from the Darkside or Monsters (which I am not sure were even on at the same time) were that bloody? And it wasn't Friday the 13th the series, was it?
I am sure there were some other similar shows on at the time but I don't remember what they were...

a couple of my treasured childhood belongings

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/ALIEN_GN.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKSv85mJEmY

holy shit that's huge

xpost to DJP > I just wanted to make sure. I'm starting to misremember in my old age. Oh shit! We saw Robocop together in that theatre. jjjusten too. Robocop & Gremlins, man. GOD BLESS YOU DECREPIT BAT INFESTED THEATRE GOOD TIMES RIP

I also owned one of these

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/kenner_alien_viewer.jpg

I just looked up Friday the 13th series and that doesn't seem to be it. I was sure it was the NoES series. This is going to bother me so much. ARGH!! :/

x-post OK that's awesome.

Wait - speaking of - will Alien place? Surely that's more horror than action but the way some of this poll has gone so far idk!

I remember being in a toystore in '79 and happening on a rack of discounted alien merchandise. obv nobody wanted to buy R-rated sci-fi horror movie toys for their kids, so they were all 70% off or w/e, and I made my mom buy me everything I could carry. wonder how much all that stuff would be worth today.

wasn't Aliens nominated but not Alien?

ENBB - Tales From the Crypt maybe...?

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also owned this and this

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/alien_puzzle_egg.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/alien_collection3.jpg

god bless the sacked toy executive who thought all this was a good idea

I don't think it was TFtC but you can bet I'm gonna read through all the episodes now.

last one for the day, 11-24 tomorrow

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/predator.png

#25

PREDATOR

John McTiernan
1987
United States
(361 points, 15 votes)

despite his many detractors, one of my fave Ahnuld acting bits is the horrified look of desparation after he falls into the lake and drags himself thru the mud. There's an excellent shot of him from behind when he realizes something has fallen into the lake behind him.

― kingfish

Predator. I mean, it's not an emotional blockbuster or anything, but it's a beautifully edited, beautifully conceived action movie.

― amateurist

Predator vs. Predator 2

"kids like space stuff right?"

the alien 12" toy scared the shit out of me as a kid but it did make a worthy adversary to ROM and the Shogun Warriors.
(xposts)

http://i.imgur.com/v3moW.gif

Re: Friday the 13th, The Series, for whatever reason, I realized I could watch that even though I couldn't watch slasher flicks and there were some FUCKED UP episodes of that.

There was one in particular where this angry nerdy girl got ahold of a cursed compact that would make dudes fall in love with her if she flashed them with it, only she would eventually have to kill them. She killed one of the dudes by taking his head by the ears and forcing it down on a circular saw. I still can't believe the editing involved that made it okay to show even on late night non-cable television.

http://i51.tinypic.com/34zlmkg.jpg

Was awesome and like 7 feet tall, btw

I remember at the time wanting to see Predator more than any other movie, ever. I used to watch the trailer over and over again, which I caught when I taped SNL. Then the day comes when my dad is going to take me to Predator ... and it's out of the theaters! So we saw RoboCop instead. Everything worked out in the end.

btw Predator is such an awesome, awesome movie

I still think we need to make Carl Weathers governor of Washington so we can have a trifecta of Predator governors

#75 APOCALYPTO
#74 INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM
#73 GOLDFINGER
#72 VANISHING POINT
#71 DIRTY HARRY
#69 (TIE) THE HURT LOCKER
#69 (TIE) DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE
#67 (TIE) CON AIR
#67 (TIE) BRANDED TO KILL
#66 ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13
#65 SIN CITY
#64 INFERNAL AFFAIRS
#62 (TIE) DEMOLITION MAN
#62 (TIE) TAKEN
#61 MAD MAX
#60 JAWS
#59 THE FUGITIVE
#58 CASINO ROYALE
#57 COLLATERAL
#56 THE INCREDIBLES
#55 ENTER THE DRAGON
#53 (TIE) MIAMI VICE
#53 (TIE) KUNG FU HUSTLE
#52 GET CARTER
#51 AKIRA
#50 LA FEMME NIKITA
#49 DISTRICT 9
#48 TOTAL RECALL
#47 THE WILD BUNCH
#46 THE GREAT ESCAPE
#45 COMMANDO
#44 THE KILLER
#43 THE FIFTH ELEMENT
#42 SPEED
#41 BULLITT
#40 YOJIMBO
#39 LE SAMOURAI
#38 DAWN OF THE DEAD
#37 TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A.
#36 THE MATRIX
#35 INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE
#34 CRANK
#33 THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
#32 THE BOURNE IDENTITY
#31 THE WARRIORS
#30 THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
#29 THE BOURNE SUPREMACY
#28 ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST
#27 BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA
#26 THE DARK KNIGHT
#25 PREDATOR