As moviemaking technology gets more and more sophisticated, filmmakers are better able to create works that can scare viewers out of their seats. I provide the following list as a warning to those of you who may have specific fears likely to be triggered by these current blockbusters. I recommend that you find an alternate movie, unless you have Theatrophobia (fear of theaters) to begin with.
- The Departed
- Hoplophobia: Fear of firearms
- Ballistophobia: Fear of bullets
- Murophobia: Fear of rats
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre—The Beginning
- Mechanophobia: Fear of machines (like chainsaws)
- Hemophobia: Fear of blood
- Necrophobia: Fear of death or dead things
- Open Season
- Hylophobia: Fear of forests
- Agrizoophobia: Fear of wild animals
- Arctophobia, Ursaphobia: Fear of bears (Are you listening, Stephen Colbert?)
- Employee of the Month
- Ergophobia: Fear of work
- Odontophobia - Fear of teeth (Jessica Simpson’s)
- The Guardian
- Thalassophobia: Fear of the sea
- Cymophobia: Fear of waves
- Aquaphobia, Hydrophobia: Fear of water
- Floppaphobia: Fear of Waterworld
- Jackass: Number Two
- Dystychiphobia: Fear of accidents
- Traumatophobia: Fear of injury
- School for Scoundrels
- Scolionophobia, Didaskaleinophobia: Fear of school
- Sophophobia: Fear of learning
- Testophobia: Fear of taking tests
- Slingbladaphobia: Fear of Billy Bob Thornton (who has Coulrophobia, the fear of clowns)
- Jet Li’s Fearless
- Nihilophobia: Fear of (absolutely) nothing
- Peladophobia: Fear of bald people
- Sinophobia: Fear of the Chinese, Chinese culture, etc.
- Consecotaleophobia: Fear of chopsticks
- Gridiron Gang
- Ephebiphobia: Fear of teenagers
- Megalophobia: Fear of large objects (like Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson)
- The Illusionist
- Rhabdophobia, Arcanophobia: Fear of magic
- Pogonophobia, Pognophobia: Fear of beards (especially Edward Norton’s goatee)
Update: This post was featured in the October 13, 2006 edition of the Carnival of Cinema.
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