Scenes that scared the crap out of you as a kid.

[Gojira]

Do you mean 'Five Million Years To Earth' aka Quatermass And The Pit?

Yeah that's it!

It has been a while since I watched that one.

Almost impossible to find that one on DVD. I saw it as a kid in the theater and it scared me too.

Another movie that really scared me as a kid was in the late 80s with the movie "The War of the Gargantuas" when the green Gargantua comes out of the ocean and attacks the airport and eats the woman and spits her dress out.

 

[Silvercrest]

As a kid I was freaked out by skulls and skeletons, so of course I wound up seeing all these scenes where they were featured. Unearthed remains. Medical display skeletons. Even X-rays. I remember it seemed like every time I watched Space: 1999 in the 1970s, someone was getting incinerated or evaporated (or X-rayed) with only their skeleton showing. That show haunted me for years. And then there was that movie "The Skull" with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, that Channel 11 in Tacoma always showed on Saturday afternoons.

I think my biggest scare was Hexxus in Ferngully. I just recently watched the movie again after several years and damn if that thing creeped me out still!

I just watched Ferngully again last week. Yeah, Hexxus is pretty spooky. But I was an adult when the movie came out, so he didn't have the chance to REALLY creep me out.

And the Balok puppet that showed up in the end credits of TOS. Had to change the channel before they showed that.

Yeah, Balok during the end credits spooked me as a kid.

Anyone know where this is from?

"Greetings, Earthling. I am the Bishop of Battle, master of all I survey. I have 13 progressively harder levels. Try me if you dare."

Nightmares, I think. I only saw a fragment of the movie, but I remember the name.

 

[Rek]

When I was really little, this scared me:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hZrQQ7i_lY

LOL

 

[Obiwanshinobi]

The Xenomorphs from Aliens in general scared the shit outta me when I was a weeee little lad. Others include Pennywise from Stephen King's It. The old man Kane from Poltergeist II & III, actually at the time the tequila worm scene was pretty scary. And Scanners.

 

[Joy]

Darby O'Gill and the Little People, a live-action Disney movie starring Sean Connery. I saw it back in the 60s when I was maybe 6 or 7. The banshee gave me nightmares for a few years.

Oh, how could I have forgotten that one! That's a movie I also just recently watched again after several years. This time, though, it didn't phase me like it did when I was kid.

 

[Myko]

The end of Who Framed Roger Rabbit? when Doom turns into a toon scared the crap out of me.. Always was scared of steamrollers since then, and those eyes... Those eyes...

I had to stop watching "The Devil in the Dark" and rewatch it on tape the day after, in sunlight!

The ear scene in Wrath of Khan.

The exploding head at the end of "Conspiracy" was pretty bad too.

 

[Cyke101]

I hated, HATED the scene in Superman 3 where the bad guy's secretary gets turned into a robot. That scene gave me nightmares for years. I still shudder thinking about it. In fact, I just shuddered right now typing that.

I rewatched that scene not too long ago and it STILL gives me the creeps.

What else...

-The oil slick from Creepshow 2. Not much in the original or the sequel scared me, but the oil slick definitely did.

-From an old 80s show called Monsters, the monster itself is pretty cheesy but the scene itself still terrifies me:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0DLtEfSsZY

(on a side note, even as a kid, I always hated hated hated scenes where really pretty people were killed simply for wanting/having/just had sex. This applies to the oil slick, too!)

-The opening scene in Cliffhanger STILL terrifies me. And I've climbed mountains since the film! The actress is just really good (Stallone, not so much). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKqlwKfH8R4

-Popeye vs. the Octopus in the Robin Williams film

 

[Pauln6]

The screaming in the seventies version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers - still grosses me out today. The Thing - I think I have a general aversion to people you know turning out to be evil. The closing scene of Angel Heart sent a shiver down my spine. The Tom Baker story Robots of Death absolutely terrified me as well - must have been the silver jump suits.

 

[Cyke101]

I never watched the Thing as a kid, or else I'd definitely put it down in this thread. Rather, I watched it as an adult and it scares the crap out of me. There's no way in hell that my kid-self would have been able to handle it!

 

[exodus]

I never watched the Thing as a kid, or else I'd definitely put it down in this thread. Rather, I watched it as an adult and it scares the crap out of me. There's no way in hell that my kid-self would have been able to handle it!

Me too.

I waited until I was 38 to watch John Carpenter's "The Thing" I was so scared by the trailers. I swear, if any of my friends found that out, I'd never hear the end of it.

 

[The Laughing Vulcan]

Oh I'll tell ya what scared me...

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Also extremely scary--
original Planet of the Apes.
You hear that clarion horn and the scream. All the humans dead stop...
scared shitless. Then they start running like hell.
OMG, what could be so terrifying to them??
OMG it's gorillas!! On horses!! With rifles!!! And they are hunting humans!!!

Yeah, that scared me no end. That's what scared the crap out of me as a kid, thinking I was gonna be hunted like that, dragged away in a net by gorillas. Gorillas with rifles. Oh how I loved it so!!!

For me it was Beneath The Planet of the Apes, with that undergound 'human' community that would rip their faces off and worship a nuke, and then at the end when Taylor pushes the button.

Sleepless nights after that one.

 

[1001001]

I never watched the Thing as a kid, or else I'd definitely put it down in this thread. Rather, I watched it as an adult and it scares the crap out of me. There's no way in hell that my kid-self would have been able to handle it!

Me too.

I waited until I was 38 to watch John Carpenter's "The Thing" I was so scared by the trailers. I swear, if any of my friends found that out, I'd never hear the end of it.

The Thing was the first movie to come to mind when I saw this thread (I was probably 12 or 13 when it came out).

When the dog's face peels back?

Still gives me the heebie jeebies to this day.

When I was younger, I don't remember much scaring me on TV or in movies. I suppose the Flying Monkeys made an impact...

 

[Obiwanshinobi]

Tales from the Darkside movie where Rae Dawn Chong and her kid turn into Gargoyles, the shows' intro title sequence used to scare me too, that theme song was creepy

 

[exodus]

Tales from the Darkside movie where Rae Dawn Chong and her kid turn into Gargoyles, the shows' intro title sequence used to scare me too, that theme song was creepy

"You promised not to tell!!!"

 

[Klaus]

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...

 

[Dr. Chandra]

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 was just thinking that I used to hide behind a chair and peek around it when Barnabus Collins was onscreen.

 

[Silent_Bob]

Ghostbusters freaked me out, but it wasnt the ghost librarian that did it unlike most people. I was able to handle the various spooky going on right up until the montage of ghosts escaping the containment unit- specifically the ghost Taxi driver. Freaked me out completely, for years i had to fast forward through that sequence.

Another scare came from a film that i cannot recall the name of. It was an old black and white scifi film, in which martians crash landed in a swamp behind a house. They then proceed to kidnap people and drill holes into the back of their skulls and implant controlling devices and only a young boy is aware of the martian takeover. Scared the crap out of me, i refused to go to sleep without a pillow covering my neck for weeks.

And for my own slightly embarrassing tale, i have to admit ever since seeing the seventh Doctor take on the Kandy man i have never been able to look at Bertie Bassett the same way again.

 

[Greg Cox]

Another scare came from a film that i cannot recall the name of. It was an old black and white scifi film, in which martians crash landed in a swamp behind a house. They then proceed to kidnap people and drill holes into the back of their skulls and implant controlling devices and only a young boy is aware of the martian takeover. Scared the crap out of me, i refused to go to sleep without a pillow covering my neck for weeks.

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I believe that's the original version of INVADERS FROM MARS.

 

[Bones2]

The raptors in the kitchen in Jurassic Park.

 

[Roshi]

I remember seeing Jaws in the theater as a kid, and I was so scared, I actually pulled my feet off the floor. The scene where the dead body pops out of the sunken boat scared the crap outta me.

+1.

It's not the dead body per se that's scare the shit outta me ( ) but the fact that Hooper dives at night. I know the sharks is nowhere to be seen but that scene always scares me.