I was maybe eleven years old when I saw Dan Akroyd and Albert Brooks discussing things that were Really Scary on cable, and the moment that followed was haunting enough to stick with me for years. As a fan of scary movies (even ones that get dismissed as cheap jump-scares, like ‘Paranormal Activity’), that brief moment of terror was exhilarating. (It wasn’t The Twilight Zone, really, but it was exhilarating.) In the years since, I’ve found a few film and book experiences that replicate that sudden jolt, including, strangely, an episode of Family Guy where Brian has a harrowing mushroom-induced hallucination, leading us to today’s bone-chilling query…
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) reminds Faithful Spoilerites that claiming never to be scared by anything ever is no fun at all (and also clearly a lie), asking: What’s the last pop culture experience you classified as Something Really Scary?
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Idiocracy. I’m 100% serious, the movie terrified me because it seemed like a very possible future considering how many people act like that now.
Any episode of Criminal Minds usually freaks me out, but there was one in the 4th Season about Romani families and how they kept their bloodlines going that stil chills me to this day.
Does documentary about climate change count?