Scary childhood memories

[JRoss]

Ever scared out of your mind by Trek as a child?

I remember when I was six or seven seeing "Miri" in a rerun and just FREAKING OUT in the first act when that weird man-child assaults them for breaking his tricycle. I was so scared that I turned off the TV and my mom took me to Dairy Queen to calm me down. I know that I must have still been convulsing in the car because I remember the girl at the drive-thru asked if I was okay, and my mom explained it to her. I got a sympathetic smile, but I'm sure now that the girl thought it was funny.

Non-Trek but still sci-fi example. An episode of Lost in Space where Doctor Smith, Will Robinson and the robot find some sort of alien factory that makes lifeforms. Eventually Will Robinson gets on the assembly belt and gets turned into an alien. Stopped watching right then.

It's now 20 years later, and I have yet to watch either of those episodes. I probably never will. Anyone recall what scared them as a kid?

 

[Thlaylie]

The Salt Vampire and the Vena morphing into her normal form!

Lost in Space would be when the Robot got gigantic and they were inside and it started shrinking.

 

[Greg Cox]

Ever
Non-Trek but still sci-fi example. An episode of Lost in Space where Doctor Smith, Will Robinson and the robot find some sort of alien factory that makes lifeforms. Eventually Will Robinson gets on the assembly belt and gets turned into an alien. Stopped watching right then.

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Ohmigod, I barely remember LOST IN SPACE after all these years, but that scene freaked me out as a child.

I was also terrified by the opening credits for THE OUTER LIMITS. "We have take control of your television set."

There was also an ep of OUTER LIMITS about talking rocks that scared me to death . . . .

 

[Galileo7]

original OUTER LIMITS "Zanti Misfits" episode about alien ant creatures with human faces.

 

[JRoss]

Greg Cox, seriously, just scary stuff. For all of you who have not seen that scene, the factory is like a twisted bakery, and the boy is lying on this machinery, getting stamped by different things, becoming less human as he rolls forward. Just terrible.

 

[Greg Cox]

Of course, I used to hide behind the couch whenever the Wicked Witch appeared on THE WIZARD OF OZ . . . .

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

The Space Vampire episode of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.

 

[JRoss]

Never saw that episode, Mr. Laser Beam.

Ooh! The TNG episode Night Terrors! In the sickbay with the dead people.

Oh, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory when Gene Wilder does that creepy speech!

I found the Witch scary, too.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

The first Trek I ever saw was The Doomsday Machine, I was about 5. I was absolutely frozen in fear at the sight of the doomsday machine's maw coming at me!

 

[Paradon]

Trek...scary! Pssss!

When I was a child, I was scared out of my wits watching "Night of the Living Dead", man!

 

[Tiberius]

The Last Starfighter. The scene where Alex's replacement has the freaky melted cheese face used to scare the crap out of me.

And in Neverending story when G'mork jumps out at Atreyu.

 

[Green Shirt]

I thought the Red Hour in Return of the Archons was pretty scary when I was little.

Then again, in a non-Trek show, I told my son the Mask of Vulcan on The Mighty Hercules scared me. He saw it and said "Dad, you were scared by a man with a bucket on his head?"

 

[Mr Silver]

The one that stick out for me is 'Face Of The Enemy'. During the teaser when Troi wakes up and is trying to get the lights to come on and then she approaches the mirror, turns the light on and sees a Romulan staring back. I literally ran out of the TV room screaming as if I had seen a monster!

Whenever Spock smiled that always kinda scared me a bit as a Child, basically something as 'Human' as smiling seen on a Alien. Oh and TSFS, I wouldn't watch that for years, because it scared the absolute shit out of me when David and Saavik opened the Casket. Even though there was nothing inside, it was just the thought of seeing Spock's corpse in there...Scary stuff, along with all the weird ageing and extremist Klingons.

 

[Starbreaker]

Hmmm... I was 12 when I started watching TNG.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

The Last Starfighter. The scene where Alex's replacement has the freaky melted cheese face used to scare the crap out of me.

What scared me about that film - and still does - is the scene where the alien assassin steals the patrolman's face. I wonder, what happened to the poor human cop in the end? Did he just die, or was he left with no face at all?

 

[Crewman47]

A cople of things I can think of just now are the ceti eel scenes in TWOK, (still make me feel uneasy knowing bugs and insects can crawl into your ears), and the first chestbuster scene in Aliens where the alien burst out then female colonists chest. I think I was barely in my teens when I first saw the Aliens scene and from that point on I always thought that when I had a sore stomach there an Alien in there ready to burst out.

 

[Admiral Shran]

TNG: Schisms scared the crap out of me as a kid. Probably because I've always found alien abduction stories scary.

Everything about that episode was designed to pull my triggers - the atmosphere, the way the aliens dressed, the noises they made, everything.

 

[Therin of Andor]

TV presentation of "Forbidden Planet". When Dr Morbius demonstrates the block-out windows: ka-chunk, ka-chunk, ka-chunk, ka-chunk, ka-chunk. This extended to Robby turning up in "The Invisible Boy".

The bandage-unveiling scenes in the old UK TV series of "The Invisible Man".

"Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein" and "Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy" movie double on "Creature Feature".

That one-eyed monster in the cave that seemed to be on every planet the Jupiter II visited in "Lost in Space".

The comatose woman buried live in a coffin, who is so frightened her hair turned white, in "The Spectre of Edgar Allan Poe".

The music played during the scene of the Black Monolith on the moon in "2001".

 

[Colonel Midnight]

I'm not sure of the episode title or what season it was in, but the one in Space: 1999 where there's an alien hidden in this old derelict spaceship or station, with tentacles...

Dang thing would pull lifeforms/people into its "maw" (never seen due to the rating) then spit back out the burnt, crispy carcasses. Oh man, that was some creepy stuff!

Cheers,
-CM-

 

[Galileo7]

I'm not sure of the episode title or what season it was in, but the one in Space: 1999 where there's an alien hidden in this old derelict spaceship or station, with tentacles...

Dang thing would pull lifeforms/people into its "maw" (never seen due to the rating) then spit back out the burnt, crispy carcasses. Oh man, that was some creepy stuff!

Cheers,
-CM-

Yes, "Dragon's Domain".
http://www.space1999.net/catacombs/main/epguide/t23dd.html