40 and Over Club

[Miss Chicken]

Yet another meeting of the Old Farts Club.

Topic for this meeting - things that scared you when you were a child.

I grew up in the 1960s when we had a real fear of nuclear war breaking out. I remember seeing a film as a child about a class of children in America who were being taught what to do the case of a nuclear warning. Later in the film the warning sirens accidentally went off and one child (a girl I think but I am not sure) on her way home thought it was the real thing. She was nowhere near a fallout shelter so she climbed into a fridge lying in a pile of trashand when she lower the fridge door it locked.

I also remember seeing the movie The Abominable Dr. Phibes when I was 13 and I had nightmares about being eaten by rats for a couple of weeks.

Hearing about the Manson Murders also frightened me. I was 11 years old at the time.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

A pinball machine called 'Gorgar.' It had a wicked scary picture of the devil right on the cabinet.

 

[Davros]

I used to be convinced there was a ghost in my parents laundry room that was going to crawl up the laundry shoot to get me.

The Manson Family murder spree freaked me out as a kid as well.

 

[MANT!]

Saw the end of 'Beneath the Planet of the Apes" where everything goes black after the Alpha/Omega bomb goes off..haunted my dreams.. Nuclear War was a huge fear (and both sides came close more than once)..


Got hit by a car at age 4... was afraid to cross the street for some years afterwards...

Oh and girls..in middle school I was afraid of em..scary creatures in every sense..

 

[bbailey861]

I also grew up in the 60s and my big 'fears' were quicksand and punji sticks. Must've been the movies I watched as a kid.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Threads.

need I say more?

 

[T'Bonz]

^
I STILL watch that movie. Best nuke movie ever.

I was afraid of nuclear war. Also the Speck and Manson murders were scary. Mass murders weren't common in the news back then.

 

[Colonel Midnight]

I remember being scared by the 'Mr. Yuck' sticker campaign, where you (or your parents, I suppose) were supposed/recommended to stick these lime-green frowny face stickers on household cleaning supplies, chemicals, etc.

Sounds silly now, but man... those commercials were CREEPY.

Cheers,
-CM-

 

[Kira's Mom]

*sigh* Yes, I belong to this club now.

The Day After scared the shit out of me when I was twelve. The idea of nuclear war in general scared me.

On the silly side, when I was about five, I was convinced that the P head in the PBS ident was going to jump out of the screen and eat me! Come on, tell me you weren't freaked out by the music:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4YL4pmupHE

After the crash of American Airlines Flight 191 I developed a fear of flying.

I was afraid of being abducted and getting my head chopped off after the "Adam" case.

And don't even get me started about Jonestown... My parents never tried to shield me from the bad stuff in the world, and always had the news on. So I saw everything.

 

[auntiehill]

Definitey was afraid of the nuclear holocaust, especially after watching "The Day After." I was also freaked out by the original Dracula movie, which I caught on TV, back when Sunday afternoon meant GREAT classics on TV.

 

[Kira's Mom]

I remember seeing a film as a child about a class of children in America who were being taught what to do the case of a nuclear warning. Later in the film the warning sirens accidentally went off and one child (a girl I think but I am not sure) on her way home thought it was the real thing. She was nowhere near a fallout shelter so she climbed into a fridge lying in a pile of trashand when she lower the fridge door it locked.

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Ladybug, Ladybug! IIRC, it was a boy and girl- the girl refused to let him in her house, and he found the fridge and got in.

 

[Flavius]

When I was six I repeatedly snuck into the living room where my parents were watching Space Patrol Orion. After that I was afraid of the dark for quite a few years.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

There was this one cartoon, I can't remember what it was called, but it was about dentistry and what various disgusting foods could do to your teeth.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I remember seeing a film as a child about a class of children in America who were being taught what to do the case of a nuclear warning. Later in the film the warning sirens accidentally went off and one child (a girl I think but I am not sure) on her way home thought it was the real thing. She was nowhere near a fallout shelter so she climbed into a fridge lying in a pile of trashand when she lower the fridge door it locked.

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Ladybug, Ladybug! IIRC, it was a boy and girl- the girl refused to let him in her house, and he found the fridge and got in.

Thanks for giving details of it to me. I had no idea of the movie's name but now I have found a 10 minute clip from it on YouTube.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXOZzBwXGS0&feature=related[/yt]

 

[RyanKCR]

When I was little, we had a print of this painting and it always freaked me out for some reason.

 

[auntiehill]

For some reason? It's FREAKIN' CREEPY; that's the reason!

 

[Miss Chicken]

Wikipedia has this to say about Ladybug, Ladybug

During the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, teachers at a secluded countryside elementary school are asked to walk their pupils home after a nuclear bomb warning alarm sounds. Unaware that the alarm was tripped by accident, the teacher and children walk through the countryside with a slowly building sense of doom about the upcoming nuclear holocaust. When the children finally gain access to a bomb shelter, they do not allow an unpopular girl to enter, claiming there isn't enough room for one more. The girl frantically searches for shelter, finding an old abandoned refrigerator which she hides inside, only to suffocate to death. After a boy from the shelter fails to find her, we hear a loud whining noise overhead. The boy cowers to the ground in the shadow of bomber planes passing in the sky above. The film abruptly smashes to black with the words "STOP! STOP! STOP!" written on screen. It is left unclear whether or not a bomb is dropped, or if the children are victims of the panic and paranoia caused by the Cold War

 

[RandyS]

That my dad would come home.

Which, of course, he did.

Over and over again.

 

[RyanKCR]

I don't remember when I first saw it but the first time I saw Fantastic Voyage it unsettled me and I had weird dreams that night. I love the movie now.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

The CBS eye.