Celebrities' Favorite Scary Movies
What Movie Freaked You Out When You Were a Kid?
Scary movies are supposed to terrify you -- but watch one when you're a kid, and you could wind up scarred for life. And it doesn't have to be a horror movie to be scary, either (we're looking at you, flying monkeys in 'Wizard of Oz'). Find out what movies, horror or otherwise, still make these celebrities wake up screaming in the middle of the night.
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Casey Affleck
'The Thing' (1982)
"It's absolutely terrifying; it's a brilliant movie. I've seen it 50,000 times. There're no big special effects, no loud noises, no cats jumping in the frame, it's just a wolf walking down the hallway and it will never leave you. It's the most terrifying moment."
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Cate Blanchett
'Burnt Offerings' (1976)
"I used to watch a lot of horror movies when I was a child. Oliver Reed generally freaked me out, and he was in a film called 'Burnt Offerings,' a horror film. A scene in a swimming pool made it very difficult to get into a swimming pool for a long time."
Adrien Brody
'Jaws' (1975)
"'Jaws' f***ed me up. When my dad took me to see 'Jaws' in the theater, when I was like 4 or something, that messed me up."
Milla Jovovich
'The Shining' (1980)
"'The Shining' would have to take the cake as my favorite sort of scary movie. That's the kind of film that will set you up for the rest of your life. You know fear of hallways, fear of strange little girls ..."
Michael Douglas
'Lust for Life' (1956)
"My father [Kirk Douglas] did a movie called 'Lust for Life,' and he played Vincent Van Gogh, and he cut his ear off in the movie. It wasn't a horror movie, but I remember forgetting that it was my father, and just seeing him cutting his ear off and my brother running out of the theater screaming."
Jason Bateman
'Halloween' (1978)
"'Halloween' got me pretty good ... I don't want to mess with the original. I'm sure the [sequels] are great versions, but the first one did bad things to me."
Ellen Page
'The People Under the Stairs' (1991)
"When I was 5, someone thought it was smart to let me watch this movie. It might not even have been that scary, but I do remember skinned people in cages under the stairs and a man who lived in a wall without a tongue. And that's why I cry after sex."
Jennifer Jason Leigh
'The Sand Pebbles' (1966)
"For me it was a very disturbing movie. I saw it when I was 6 years old. My dad took me to it -- totally inappropriate. It's about, I don't know, someone gets his eye shot out in a war ... That's not a kid movie."
Kristen Stewart
'Castle Freak' (1995)
"The scariest movie I ever saw in my life was 'Castle Freak.' When I was little it petrified me -- I could not be alone in a room. It's about a family who moves into a castle and there is a freak living in a dungeon. They have a blind daughter and he stalks her. He is the nastiest looking thing."
Abbie Cornish
'It' (1990)
"I would have to say 'It' because I saw that film when I was way too young, like 6 years old or something. It was really scary. Crazy killing clowns coming up out of drains and stuff. I'm over [my fear of clowns now]."
Noah Baumbach
'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' (1978)
"The movie that scared me the most when I was a kid was the Philip Kaufman 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers.' Because it was about people not being what you think they are. And that idea scared me to death. I still haven't watched it in its entirety since."
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