Then I went through a freaked-out-by-aliens phase and watching the show "Sightings" with my parents on Friday or Saturday night would definitely render me a bit gun shy about going to sleep (I've never seen "Fire in the Sky" or "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and I don't plan to thank you very much!) I don't remember any movies that caused me to lose sleep until (unexpectedly) 2002 when Heather and I saw "Signs" in the theater.
I was two or maybe even younger and I remember the loud screeching sound of the compactor going and the truck's engine, as well as seeing the red lights at the front of the truck that gave it a monstrous resemblance.)Īnyway, after "Troll" it was the movie "Leprechaun" (which, I suppose, is still in the ballpark in terms of creepiness). (The first recurring nightmare came courtesy of the 8 p.m. Cut me some slack-I was two or three years old and for someone of that age, THIS was pretty terrifying: I don't remember if you see the Troll's eyes, hear it grunting, or actually see the thing but whatever it was it traumatized me. All I remember is a part of the film where a child's striped ball goes bouncing through an open door down a set of stairs into the basement. The second recurring nightmare I had in my life when I was little was because of the movie "Troll" or, specifically, one scene from the movie.
Don't get me wrong-I've had sleeping issues because of movies I've seen but not because of a movie I simply read about. I couldn't fall asleep last night and it was because of a movie I've never even seen I can count the number of times that's happened to me on one finger.