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Still have nightmares...

posted 14 years ago by EvanOz85
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All my life I have had nightmares involving a burned out haunted house with something really bad lurking inside, but I always wake up before finding out what it is. I have the dream at least once a month and I always wake up very scared. I thought it was just a random reoccurring dream, but tonight I was bored and decided to watch an old movie I barely remembered from my childhood, The Peanut Butter Solution. Right when he entered the house I realized it was the house of my nightmares and that it was because of this movie that I have such horrible dreams. Crazy how scary things from your childhood can have such an effect on you. I don't find the movie scary at all anymore..it was pretty entertaining.

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[–] PePPaRoz 14 years ago

I just watched this movie again today. It never haunted me as a child but back then I thought it was one of the weirdest movies I ever saw. And I did find it scary as a child but it didn't affect me to the point of having nightmares

And yeah I actually didn't mind the movie the second time round. It's funny how the first half is somewhat family friendly and then it turns tables into a weird movie about a guy abducting children and making them work in his factory. I always thought the painting of the haunted house was one of the scariest things - especially how you could just walk into it as well. The movies score also definitely added to the overall eeriness.

But yeah it was nice to see it again. I have been looking for this movie for so many years and didn’t know the name of it.

[–] EvanOz85 14 years ago

It actually didn't even scare me as a child. I grew up watching movies like this one, Neverending Story, and Return to Oz (the latter being my favorite film as a child, and still today) and none of them scared me. Just something about this movie happened to give me reoccurring nightmares.

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[–] Melsamoo 7 years ago

i have always been spooked out by houses under construction because I have never been able to forget the scene when he goes into the house and how spooky it was.. but never able to remember what it had to do with the solution that made his hair grow! what an impression this movie made on me at age 8.. especially to see it growing out of his underwear!

[–] december_roses 12 years ago

Parts freaked me out, but not as much as "The Bride of Boogedy"

There are potholes on the road less traveled....

[–] TheUltimateHippo (2250) 5 years ago

Funny enough the two parts that I thought were the creepiest were the shot of the Art Teacher standing over the kid while he's drugged and asleep and the Celine Dion Soundtrack. But yeah when I was a kid my Mom rented me this from the video store and even back then after it was done I was like "WTF did I just watch?"

I also thought it was kind of interesting that towards the end the kids friend and his sister kind of become the main characters while the kid with the out of control growing hair just kind of disappears from the story.