What Movie, Book or Television/Internet Presentation Scared the most Shit out of You?

[hunter]

39. I've said it before here on DU, "The Big Chill."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Chill_%28film%29

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085244/

I'm not kidding.



I was an odd young man when I first saw it, I can't remember if it was before or after the second time I'd been "asked" to take a mental health break from college (the implied threat being permanent expulsion), but I was still sane enough to know that if I ever had to be one of those poor doomed people in that movie, please dear God, let it be the dead guy. Maybe I could have an alien burst out of my chest too.

Fortunately I never became one of those people, and I'm obviously not the dead guy or I wouldn't be posting here unless they've got wifi in the afterlife. I know I'm not in hell because one of the sweetest dogs I've ever met, perhaps sensing my distress, just appeared to comfort me. Or maybe she's just hungry. Either way, doesn't matter. She's still a sweet dog and there's none of them in hell.

I once had a girlfriend who thought Eraserhead would be a great date movie. Better that than "The Big Chill." I later broke up with her by jumping out of her moving car in Berkeley, marking the pavement with skid marks of my tears, skin, and blood, but I still think "The Big Chill" left deeper scars. It must have hit me at a moment I might have become a person like that, not the dead guy. I chose another path, not to be assimilated, yet no Brazil fade to white (still among my favorite movies), or a Blue Velvet mechanical robin either, so maybe it was a good thing and I'm privileged to live in a magical place.