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DID THIS MOVIE SCARE YOU AS A KID?


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Sure did.

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nope, I wasn't a kid when it was made.
I was a 24 yr old adult.

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seen it at the drive-in six years old at the time. scared the hell out me. had to sleep with my mom for a week. we always watched creature features type shows and all, but this freaked me out. just found out it was this movie.

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I"m over 40 and it scares the hell out of me now. I couldn't even watch it. I'd probably be scarred for life if I watched the whole thing

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I agree, Ive seen Jaws,The Shining, The Exorcist (my 3 favorite horror films BTW)many, many times, but there's something about the giant rats. I know they are puppets......but the eyes on them have a dead quality to them. They are very real looking , at least to me..........I'm 42 and I am scared to watch it alone.

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Yeah that's the thing, it looked real enough to me also. We all have our phobias, and rats is definitely mine. I got through a couple of scenes and that was it for me!

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I watch it with my hand over my face and the sound muted

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Empire of the Ants was another one. Holy crap those huge insects freaked me out. Watched it again about 15 years ago, but then recently tried to watch it and I couldn't. I don't know why I can't watch something at 42 that I watched when I was in my 20's. lol Kinda weird how that works out.

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I was a teen or young adult, and it scared me. I was afraid if the rats in this movie.

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No - I saw it as a teen only because a group of friends wanted to see it. I thought it was terrible then, and the waste of the few dollars I spent to see it still haunts me to this day - this is the truly horrifying aspect of this movie.

I remember that you could see the edges of several separate films of rats spiced together horizontally on the screen, so that individual rats would disappear, or half-disappear, while in the middle of the screen, as they moved. The movie must have cost about $1.57 to put together.

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Saw it once when I was very young, then tried to watch it recently...just the idea of giant rats creeps me out.

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Yes, it did lol!
I saw it at a drive-in park as a double feature with a giant squid movie, it may have been Tentacles.

Scary stuff when you’re seven😳
Pretty hilarious now.

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