Scenes that scared the crap out of you as a kid.
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Same here -- except I never actually saw the film until a couple years ago. Yet it frightened me as a kid in the 1970s, because I bought the Fotonovel of the film, which included big blowups of "the scream", especially the one at the end, and it freaked me out because my imagination took over!
I also was really scared when I first saw the ending of the original Carrie, because it was so unexpected. I still jump whenever one of those "sudden event" moments occur. Most recently, it happened when I was watching The Fourth Event and a character suddenly sat up and screamed.
The first scene that really scared me and gave me nightmares, though -- and you'll laugh -- was from Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein of all things. Lou is by himself in a wax museum and Dracula and the Monster break out of some wooden boxes and corner Lou. It's all done for humor -- as I understand now -- but back when I was 5, this gave me nightmares for a good 3 years afterwards. Now, of course, I think Frankenstein rocks!
Alex
As a kid, the scene in TOS where the planet eater was going to swallow the starship really got me.
Other than that, the show Night Gallery had MANY moments that creeped me out.
As an adult, the Alien movie really made me jump - and at that time I was watching a lot of horror movies. But this was scarier!
Other than that, the show Night Gallery had MANY moments that creeped me out.
As an adult, the Alien movie really made me jump - and at that time I was watching a lot of horror movies. But this was scarier!
Jaws - the head rolling out from under the ship. One of the only two movies I ever screamed in!
Oh yeah! That one really got to me, too. My heart was pounding all the way out to the parking lot . . . .
More recently, THE DESCENT was the scariest movie I've seen in ages.
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and in the movie Swarm, with the killer bees, when some parents was attacked the bees at a picnic. They were running, panicking, while getting stung.
Scared the mess outta me! I don't like most insects and will run away quite quickly.
Made me jump a mile outta my skin. Even got my Dad to jump.
Also scared the mess outta me!
Besides those, the entire concept of the original "The Blob" scared me--which delighted my siblings. Here I am, 8yo, and they don't realize that it's a gelatinous thing that is outright absorbing people. Horrifying!
And...don't laugh. The Brady Bunch episode when the kids are trying to scare...someone, but it's Alice that gets scared. My siblings went for years in a scary, dry whisper, "Lllleeeetttt me ouuuttt. I neeeddd aiiiir."
Between that and them jumping out at me every time I came through a doorway, I got very good at swinging my fist immediately upon entering a room.
The transporter accident in Star Trek: The Motion Picture, which was horrifc, I thought, the way they were writhing about and the horrible warbling scream the woman lets out. "What we got back didn't live long...fortunately" - that conjured up images that could never have been matched on screen.
Oh yeah, Mr Barlow from Salem's Lot, the scene in the jail when he suddenly steps right into a close-up - practically had to scrape me off the ceiling after that, I just completely lost it (I was a kid at the time, I hasten to add).
Didn't see The Thing 'til I was 16, but it still felt as if I was too young! The husky scene was bad, but the one where the bald guy with the ginger beard being slowly assimilated by the tentacles wrapped around him, and then we see the copy with the still forming hands kneeling in the snow, letting out that terrible alien gargle, was creepy as well.
Oh yeah, Mr Barlow from Salem's Lot, the scene in the jail when he suddenly steps right into a close-up - practically had to scrape me off the ceiling after that, I just completely lost it (I was a kid at the time, I hasten to add).
Didn't see The Thing 'til I was 16, but it still felt as if I was too young! The husky scene was bad, but the one where the bald guy with the ginger beard being slowly assimilated by the tentacles wrapped around him, and then we see the copy with the still forming hands kneeling in the snow, letting out that terrible alien gargle, was creepy as well.
For me, it has to be the face peeling from "Poltergeist"; terrified me when I saw it.
Murphy being murder/slaughtered in Robocop. Also the shot to the nuts.
Yeah, that scared the shit out of me too.
That and the scene of the boy at the window asking to be let in. Makes my skin crawl just thinking about it.
I gotta add "Alien".
The scene were Tom Skerritt is looking for it in those tight tubed corriors & Veronica Cartwright is screaming that it's right behind him.
Eek!!
Definitely this.
And this. Nightmares upon nightmares.
When I was really little, say 5 or so, I accidentally watched a few scenes from Them!. The one that scared me the most was when they find the body of the old man in the local store.
Another nightmare inducing movie from my childhood was Disney's The Black Hole. Especially when we discover what has really happened to the original crew. *shivers*
This!
I was generally pretty afraid of scary movies and I didn't even watch Alien or Aliens until I was in my late teens. The Khan worm was about the scariest thing I can remember seeing.
Oddly I had been playing Aliens on the Commodore 64 for years before I finally saw the movie. "That was based on a movie?"
I'd watch with a pillow, so I could hide my eyes if Quentin came onscreen. Barnabas didn't scare me, but that werewolf... <shudder>I was just thinking that I used to hide behind a chair and peek around it when Barnabus Collins was onscreen.Well this is dating myself, but I used to run home in 3rd and 4th grade to watch Dark Shadows and then be so scared I'd turn the channel...
I still don't enjoy watching that scene, and I'm 49 years old!
I had been told to expect that scene - but the one that got to me was when the chief was chumming the water and suddenly the shark is THERE...eek!
Oooh, good one. That reminds me, two from TNG:
1. Home Soil: When those little organisms took over the drilling laser and blasted the poor extra to hell... repeatedly!... and all we could hear was his screams of pain while our heroes were so close, separated only by a door.
2. In Theory: When areas of the ship start phasing, the crew decides to investigate. A yellow shirt turns the corner, we hear a quick but painful cry, and when our heroes rush to her, she's embedded halfway into the floor! What a way to go.
I think in both cases, the screaming just cemented those scenes in my little kiddie brain.
On the toilet basin-tank in my home growing up there was this little owl plant-pot. Spooked the hell out of me because -somehow- it reminded me of the flying monkies in Wizard of Oz. It actualy stalled my potty-training because I was afraid to use the bathroom with it there "watching" me. I'd even turn it around so it was "facing" away from me when I'd go.
Yeah. I have no recollection of seeing it as a child (though I must have done), but when watching it for the first time in many years when I bought the DVD 1-6 boxset last year, it really shocked me. The ear bugs in Khan don't get to me at all, but I'd struggle to watch the transporter accident again now. There's just something really visceral about it. And yet the film's a U.
That reminds me of a similar scene in The Philadelphia Experiment from the 80's. Although that time we see it happen to *several* people at the same time! One guy's embedded all the way up to his FACE.
My wife and I were just talking about the giant scorpions in the original Clash of the Titans. They freaked me out as a kid, and nostalgia aside, I think they're scarier in the original than in the remake.
The ones in the original were roughly the size of a car, while the new ones are closer in size to a bus. I think the smaller ones are scarier because it's a comprehensible size. We've all seen large animals like elephants, so there's a psychological connection. The stingers were at about chest level and the size of a knife.
But the remake's scorpions are so big, they might as well be Godzilla. The stingers don't stab, they're big enough to pound someone flat. On paper, that sounds scarier, but to see it, it feels more passive.
The ones in the original were roughly the size of a car, while the new ones are closer in size to a bus. I think the smaller ones are scarier because it's a comprehensible size. We've all seen large animals like elephants, so there's a psychological connection. The stingers were at about chest level and the size of a knife.
But the remake's scorpions are so big, they might as well be Godzilla. The stingers don't stab, they're big enough to pound someone flat. On paper, that sounds scarier, but to see it, it feels more passive.