Characters/things that scared you on TV/movies when you were young

[Chuck D]

I was way to young to handle 'gremlins' when i first saw it. between that and the thought of evil muppets popping up trying to eat my feet while i was in bed, don't remember how that came about.

 

[kered]

As a kid, the Dark Shadows series had me scared to death, but I was riveted. It was like watching a car wreck, you knew something bad was coming but you were compelled to see it.

Anything with Vincent Price, Boris Karloff, or the guy who played in horror flicks that was "Kung fu's" real life father (his name completely escapes me right now)!

As a kid, I absolutely thought Mr Jing-a-ling was the creepiest character in human form. I flipped out during Christmastime when my mom took us to see him. I know......such a wimp!

His name was John Carradine.

And this is for you , kis.

 

[kis123]

His name was John Carradine.

And this is for you , kis.

Thanks babe.....I knew someone would come to my rescue!

Vincent Price; horror and suspense just isn't the same without him IMO!

 

[subZer0]

It would have to be:

Predator, (I had a penknife and thought Predator would kill me as that was a weapon);

The green glowy stuff (that didn't like light and when it killed people it would wrap them up in what looked like a spider's web) from an x-files episode;

And the monsters from that Carry On film which I can't bloody remember

 

[tickles]

For me...The Exorcist permanently damaged me...I was 12 years old when I saw it in theatres...OMG!...I was so traumatized I slept for months with the lights on. As an adult I can still freak myself out thinking about that face and voice....and some of the scary scenes from that movie....

OK...time to turn on the lights


group hug please.

 

[kered]

I thought the Exorcist was more fun than scary. The subliminal shots were a good kind of thrill but almost cheesey. Still, a good fun movie for having the lights out.

 

[paracarl44]

Alfred Hitchcock Movies.

I remember my heart skipping a beat when a guy looked into a freezer and an ax came down on his neck. I don't remember the movie title but it starred Joan Crawford as a Convicted Ax Murderer.😱

 

[isabeau]

I remember my heart skipping a beat when a guy looked into a freezer and an ax came down on his neck. I don't remember the movie title but it starred Joan Crawford as a Convicted Ax Murderer.😱

the movie was "The Straitjacket" but it wasn't directed by Alfred Hitchcock...Joan played a woman released from a mental institution for a double murder is being driven insane by her grown up daughter who blamed and hated her mother for those accusations..i can't remember if Joan actually had been the killer those many years before or not..

 

[lespieds]

That fucking clown off Poltergeist when it changed to evil.
I was maybe like 8 years old. Nothing else in that movie really bothered me but that thing.

Not a well known movie but on "Dreamscape" there was a scene where a bunch of bloody kids jumped out of a closet at this guy. The president was having nightmares of WW3. The stupid snakeman off that movie didn't bother me.

There are probably a few movies with that title, but the one I am thinking of had some snakeman, and people in the hospital being treated for their nightmares. At some point in the movie the main characters get into each others dreams without being hooked to the machines.
yeah it is this movie, on amazon -
http://www.amazon.com/Dreamscape-De...2-6731153?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1191979153&sr=8-1

 

[SlaverTickler]

Movies and TV

That Clow from Poltergise (sp)
and the NEAR/FAR guy scared the shit out of me when I was about 6. He goes WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY a way from the TV and yells "FAR!", and then everything is quite for a minuet and then he pops up screaming

"NEAR!!!"​

with his big foam rubber nose in the screen. I tell ya that ca turn a kid off educational TV for ever.

 

[locker669]

The Gremlin story from The Twilight Zone Movie. Watching it now makes me laugh but when I was a kid it scared me.

The Exorcist (sp?) scares me to this day. I can't even watch the TV version.

 

[cloudgazer2k]

That Clow from Poltergise (sp)
and the NEAR/FAR guy scared the shit out of me when I was about 6. He goes WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY a way from the TV and yells "FAR!", and then everything is quite for a minuet and then he pops up screaming

"NEAR!!!"​

with his big foam rubber nose in the screen. I tell ya that ca turn a kid off educational TV for ever.

you mean Grover? that kid was teh bombz!

i remember watching Night of the Creeps when i was a kid. after that movie, i left slugs and snails well enough alone.

 

[The Last Laugh]

Ridley Scott's masterpiece "Alien", which I saw on TV when I was 10. I loved it (and still do), but that sure was a long, terrifying night I spent wide awake in bed.

 

[Mistress Aura]

Oooh, my father was addicted to all the creepy shows-- Twilight Zone, One Step Beyond, Night Gallery, The Outer Limits... He didn't possess a great deal of forethought about having a 3-year-old around when they were on, either...I was a "Daddy's Girl" and can remember forcing myself to tough it out just so I could be with him while he watched them, but I also remember having little juvenile panic attacks just hearing the opening themes and/or voices to the shows. I remember the episode of TZ, "To Serve Man", gave me nightmares well into my teens--and there was another one, either OSB or OL, something about an elevator that had some picture on the wall. Every so often, this semi-formless entity would appear in the frame and start running, along with this creepy music.

OMG, and there were dolls with real teeth... *shudder*

But to this day, nothing terrifies me more than anything regarding alien abductions by those little grey guys. You couldn't pay me enough money to sit through "Fire In The Sky". I stupidly read "Communion" by Whitley Strieber when I was 25 and literally slept with the light on for an entire year. Just cannot handle the idea of lying in bed, wide awake, being unable to move or speak--and seeing one of those things bend around the corner to look at you and then rush at the bed...AHH! Even pictures of their faces give me the heebie-jeebies!

These days, whenever I start teasing my husband about his extreme arachnophobia, he tells me he's going to make Cindy ("Glamorous" here on the forum - she's very tiny, barely 5 foot tall) dress up in an alien costume and sneak into the bedroom one night. I told him they'd have to come after me with nets and an "I-Love-Me" jacket if that actually were to happen... 🙄 LOL

Mistress Aura

 

[Headsnap]

I thought the Exorcist was more fun than scary. The subliminal shots were a good kind of thrill but almost cheesey. Still, a good fun movie for having the lights out.

I hate you, because I scrolled down the thread really fast and that thumbnail of the demon-face flashed past my eyes subliminal-style and had the same effect of making me jump as it did when I saw it in the actual film. You are a very bad man 🙁

On the topic at hand, one for the gamers who remember the original release of the first Resident Evil; the introduction of Hunters OR the introduction of the Cerberus in that long windowed hallway. Classic survival-horror moments right thurr 😀

 

[kered]

I hate you, because I scrolled down the thread really fast and that thumbnail of the demon-face flashed past my eyes subliminal-style and had the same effect of making me jump as it did when I saw it in the actual film. You are a very bad man 🙁

On the topic at hand, one for the gamers who remember the original release of the first Resident Evil; the introduction of Hunters OR the introduction of the Cerberus in that long windowed hallway. Classic survival-horror moments right thurr 😀

Then for God's sake don't click on the thumbnail! You would see it then.....moving........looking at you.......

I have always been a horror movie fan. I've had that .gif for a long time and this was the first time I have gotten to use it. Sorry it startled you as I was hoping to jolt someone else. At least it worked.

 

[cloudgazer2k]

i recently got a copy of Cradle of Fear, a low-budget horror flick made in the UK featuring Cradle of Filth's frontman as a vengeful spirit. some of the scenes in there were pretty creepy and gory, but this one got to me:

a rich man, who had lost both his legs in some untold incident, decided he was tired of being unable to walk without his prosthetics, and went after a former colleague and, after shooting him, removed his legs. later on, he took the legs to a surgeon to have them attached to his body.

anywho, as he and his wife/girlfriend were on a drive, the dude's legs took on a life of their own and began twisting and moving of their own volition. the sickening crunching sounds made me a bit queasy. the legs kept the man from using the brakes and stayed on the accelerator. finally, the car crashed, throwing the woman out of the car through the soft top and leaving her a mangled mess.

when the police arrived to investigate, they found the man, still alive, trying to remove his legs with a knife, screaming "They won't DIIIIEE!"

 

[storyteller]

There are two that come to mind. The first was a Walt Disney movie called Scarecrow staring Patrick McGee. Everytime I saw that mask I damn near cried. ...

Much like bugman, I really liked the Disney Scarecrow shows. The movie that scarred, rather than initially scared me, was the 1943 version of "The Phantom of the Opera" starring Claude Rains. I saw it on the late show when I was about 4 and up with my night-owl Mother. Watched the whole thing and went to bed without a problem. But, lying there before going to sleep I looked toward the closet. The door was open and the bright light from our backyard security lamp post illuminated a white face without visible body inside the closet. I thought it was the Phantom! As a kid's logic goes, I determined I'd put a stop to the "phantom" looking at me, or worse, coming out to get me! How? I jumped out of bed, ran to the closet, and slammed that door shut!

The next morning, I held my breath as my older sister opened the closet door to get out her clothes and shoes for school. When she didn't scream or anything, I looked toward the top shelf and saw our Halloween pirate mask peering down at me. After my sister left our room, I got out of bed, moved our toy chest so that I could stand on top and just reach the top shelf and that mask. It was a bit of a struggle. I don't remember what I did with the mask, but I made sure it wasn't on that shelf with its face and eye holes peering out. I didn't tell my sister or anyone what had happened or that I'd been scared, but I made sure before I went to bed every night afterward that the closet door was shut.

 

[The Sean Man]

"Helter Skelter" scared the crap outta me, cuz there were no monsters or ghosts...just real freakin' psychos

 

[SlaverTickler]

Not Grover!

you mean Grover? that kid was teh bombz!

i remember watching Night of the Creeps when i was a kid. after that movie, i left slugs and snails well enough alone.

No not Grover, Grover could scare flies off a shit. This little bastard was pink with a red/orange beard and a fury green cave man type out fit. He also did the "A-Num-A-Num" song on the Muppet Show.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynjIoymWHvU

and here he is tormenting Zoot...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgfZVNv6w2E

...the little prick!

Oh and that thing Wonder Woman fights in the epasode "Mind Stealers From Space" part 2. It looked like a cross between Darth Vader and a Sasaquatch. Ok that didn't really scare me (but I was pissed when it slapped her), I just wanted a Lynda Carter mention. I hadn't made one in at least a week. 🙂

 

[ticklishasgrl]

I was watching this movie with my parents and brothers and this movie was a true story and happenend in new zealand about girl and her friend planning to kill her mother, the girl keep day dreaming of killing her mum, then one day the girl and her friend are walking with her mother and when the mother is in front of them walking along they hit her with a brick in a stocking, I actually wandered back then why my parents would let us watch something that was AO and abit glory, not exactly a kids movie.


Another movie I was scared of was Jaws, I hate scenes where they make you jump of freight lol and this was one of them.

Movies that have blood or gross scenes or movies that make your heatbeat really fast lol I dont like that much, I am abit of a wimp when it comes to watching scary movies lol.