Choose your phobia...
This is a list of the 15 most common phobias in the world (source: http://www.symptomfind.com/health/most-common-phobias/), represented by movies that are either specifically about the phobia, includes characters having one, or movies that could potentially trigger a phobia attack from someone suffering from it.
Which of these phobias do you dread the most? If you already have one of these phobias, you decide if you select that one, or you can choose which one you'd most fear getting as well or instead of the one you already have...
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Which of these phobias do you dread the most? If you already have one of these phobias, you decide if you select that one, or you can choose which one you'd most fear getting as well or instead of the one you already have...
You can discuss this list here.
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- DirectorFrank MarshallStarsJeff DanielsJulian SandsJohn GoodmanA new species of South American killer spider hitches a lift to a small California town in a coffin and starts to breed, leaving a trail of deaths that puzzle and terrify the young doctor newly arrived in town with his family.Arachnophobia: fear of spiders, a central theme in this movie.
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsHarrison FordKaren AllenPaul FreemanIn 1936, archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis can obtain its awesome powers.Ophidiophobia: fear of snakes, a phobia Indiana Jones suffers from... "Snakes... Why did it have to be snakes?"
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsJames StewartKim NovakBarbara Bel GeddesA former San Francisco police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with the hauntingly beautiful woman he has been hired to trail, who may be deeply disturbed.Acrophobia: fear of heights, often wrongly called Vertigo. John 'Scottie' Ferguson is forced to retire from the police after contracting this phobia.
- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsMax von SydowGunnar BjörnstrandBengt EkerotA knight returning to Sweden after the Crusades seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague.Necrophobia: fear of death... You'd probably wouldn't want to play chess with Death personified on a beach. Then again, who would?
- DirectorLewis TeagueStarsDee WallaceDaniel Hugh KellyDanny PintauroCujo, a friendly St. Bernard, contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.Cynophobia: fear of dogs... And meeting Cujo could likely give anyone such a fear.
- DirectorRodrigo CortésStarsRyan ReynoldsJosé Luis García-PérezRobert PatersonPaul is a U.S. truck driver working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it's a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap.Claustrophobia: fear of confined spaces... Such as a coffin.
- StarsRichard ThomasTim ReidAnnette O'TooleIn 1960, seven pre-teen outcasts fight an evil demon who poses as a child-killing clown. Thirty years later, they reunite to stop the demon once and for all when it returns to their hometown.Coulrophobia: fear of clowns; Pennywise can certainly help you understand why...
- DirectorTom HollandStarsCatherine HicksChris SarandonAlex VincentA struggling single mother unknowingly gifts her son a doll imbued with a serial killer's consciousness.Pediophobia: fear of dolls... Chucky wonders why?
- DirectorDario ArgentoStarsDavid HemmingsDaria NicolodiGabriele LaviaA jazz pianist and a wisecracking journalist are pulled into a complex web of mystery after the former witnesses the brutal murder of a psychic.Hemophobia: fear of blood - the deepest red?
- DirectorDenzel WashingtonStarsDenzel WashingtonForest WhitakerKimberly EliseA drama based on the true story of Melvin B. Tolson, a professor at Wiley College Texas. In 1935, he inspired students to form the school's first debate team, which went on to challenge Harvard in the national championship.Glossaphobia: fear of public speaking; this is probably not the after-curricular group for you...
- DirectorDavid TwohyStarsRadha MitchellCole HauserVin DieselA transport ship crashes and leaves its crew stranded on a desert planet inhabited by bloodthirsty creatures that come out during an eclipse.Nyctophobia: fear of darkness. I wonder when they start offering eye operations of the type Riddick has undergone in this movie in real life?
- DirectorDarren AronofskyStarsEllen BurstynJared LetoJennifer ConnellyThe drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island people are shattered when their addictions run deep..Trypanophobia: fear of needles, a phobia the characters of this movie would've been better of having...
- DirectorJon AmielStarsSigourney WeaverHolly HunterDermot MulroneyAn agoraphobic psychologist and a female detective must work together to take down a serial killer who copies serial killers from the past.Agoraphobia: fear of situations in which it may be difficult finding help, a phobia Helen Hudson suffers from in this film.
- DirectorPaul GreengrassStarsDavid Alan BascheOlivia ThirlbyLiza Colón-ZayasA real-time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on September 11th, 2001 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.Pteromerhanophobia: fear of flying. The fate of United 93 shows some of the fearful things you could potentially experience in an airplane.
- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsLeonardo DiCaprioCate BlanchettKate BeckinsaleA biopic depicting the early years of legendary director and aviator Howard Hughes' career from the late 1920s to the mid 1940s.Mysophobia: fear of germs, which Howard Hughes shows symptoms of having.