What freaked you out as a kid?

[Starkers]

The original tv mini series of Salem's Lot, specifically the little vampire kid tapping at the window. To this day I don't like sleeping with the curtains open. From the same source the grave digger jumping down to the child's coffin an opening it, he looks up at the sky, looks down and the kid lurches up and gets him!

The man without a face in Sapphire and Steel always scared the crap out of me, and as someone else has mentioned I think the face stealing bit from Charlie X is similarly creepy.

Oh and does anyone else remember the episode of Dramarama featuring the masked wrestler?

 

[Nardpuncher]

I thought about this sort of thing and realized that many of us never told anyone that we were scared of these things when we were young...we'd keep these things to ourselves and some of us have only told others just now.

Then I think about the stuff that may be freaking kids out now.
There are many commercials that use CG to show a guy's eyes pop out of his head to show how crazy he is for some soft drink or something and I'm sure some 4 yearold is going nuts inside!

 

[Zulu Romeo]

There are many commercials that use CG to show a guy's eyes pop out of his head to show how crazy he is for some soft drink or something and I'm sure some 4 yearold is going nuts inside!

I thought Chriostopher Lloyd's character at the end of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" was terrifying. Well, actually he was terrifying, come to think of it...

 

[Nardpuncher]

There are many commercials that use CG to show a guy's eyes pop out of his head to show how crazy he is for some soft drink or something and I'm sure some 4 yearold is going nuts inside!

I thought Chriostopher Lloyd's character at the end of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" was terrifying. Well, actually he was terrifying, come to think of it...

You're right..there are things that are sort of meant to scare you but there any many things (like the understandably eerie PBS logo with the terrible music) that would perhaps baffle an adult as to how the kid reacts inside to it.

I remember an old Sesame Street live-action skit thing where the Rockettes were dancing and counting down as one by one they were pulled off stage by a giant cane. i really didn't like that.

 

[Gojirob]

Try this on : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIP36Rc_CIo

 

[Kirby]

Puppets and clowns freaked me out as a kid, and still kind of do.
Mascots used to freak me out as well, especially the ones at Opryland in Nashville. They were these giant fiddles and other instruments, and they had these handlebar moustaches. My mom has a picture of me running away from one screaming my head off.
I'm ok with mascots now, but clowns and puppets? Forget it, I hate those damn things.

 

[ManOnTheWave]

My imagination.

 

[Theodore Jay Miller]

The superhero cartoon "The Impossibles" had one episode where the bad guy uses this walking tiki idol that can hypnotize people. That concept, not being in control of your own body and mind, freaked me out.

 

[Kestra]

Tremors traumatized my sister and I. We took to jumping from one piece of furniture to another in the house, or screaming if we had to run on the floor quickly. My parents eventually put an end to that.

I also must have seen something about vampires that traumatized me when I was younger, because I absolutely refuse to watch anything even related to vampires now. I mean, I won't even watch Buffy. That's how ridiculously bad it is. I can't figure out where the issue started, though.

 

[Gary Mitchell]

Try this on : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIP36Rc_CIo

I can't believe how lame that was. I'm glad that I was too young to watch it.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Try this on : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIP36Rc_CIo

I can't believe how lame that was. I'm glad that I was too young to watch it.

They used to show the Groovie Goolies a lot back in the early 80s. I remember liking that show.

 

[Cky]

20th Century Fox also freaked me out.

 

[Jefferies]

When I was about 5 I was totally freaked out by the Big Bad Wolf from Disney's The Three Little Pigs. In the cartoon they sing tauntingly: "Who'se afraid of the Big Bad Wolf". WELL I WAS!! Lost a few nights of sleep over that one I can tell you. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VYJy05T70o

When I was about 9 or so my Dad got me to watch Roald Dahl's The Witches. Once those ladies transformed into hags I was traumatised for weeks. I was so afraid I couldn't as much as shut my eyes for days on end. Yikes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FHxu2FCZaE&feature=related (It starts at about 3:30, but to be honest the whole damn movie freaked me out.)

Then when I was 10 I think my brothers and me watched TV one night unallowed, when my parents were out of the house. Must have been some sort of softporn horror movie and it involved some weird scene where a women has sex with some ugly looking alien creature. It made me feel rather weird and confused for a couple of days.

There were loads of other things I found scary during my childhood, generally any movie with monsters or evil people in it. Even verbally told ghost stories would easily get the better of me. My brothers, on the other hand, loved that sort of stuff, even though, they were younger then me. Maybe I'm just faint of heart?

Oh and the Borg were certainly very scary when I first encountered them in 1997, after watching First Contact on VHS at a friend's house (only really watched TOS in those days). My, and I was well into my teens by then... But in my defense I didn't really find them scary because they looked like zombies but because of the concept they represented. I had a few nightmares of being assimilated after that movie!! (which were kind a cool though in retrospect )

 

[Mistral]

I also must have seen something about vampires that traumatized me when I was younger, because I absolutely refuse to watch anything even related to vampires now. I mean, I won't even watch Buffy. That's how ridiculously bad it is. I can't figure out where the issue started, though.

I can relate. When I was 3 my cousins were babysitting me and let me watch Dark Shadows. To this day I avoid horror movies in all way, shapes and forms. I tried to watch What Lies Beneath but spent half the movie with my eyes covered. Stupid, but childhood traumas are the worst-and the hardest to shake.

 

[Jefferies]

I also must have seen something about vampires that traumatized me when I was younger, because I absolutely refuse to watch anything even related to vampires now. I mean, I won't even watch Buffy. That's how ridiculously bad it is. I can't figure out where the issue started, though.

I can relate. When I was 3 my cousins were babysitting me and let me watch Dark Shadows. To this day I avoid horror movies in all way, shapes and forms. I tried to watch What Lies Beneath but spent half the movie with my eyes covered. Stupid, but childhood traumas are the worst-and the hardest to shake.

Same here, I avoid horror movies for similar reasons. Although, I was pressured into watching Alien a few months back and I really enjoyed it.

 

[Islander]

What I remeber freaking me the most about, and I'm not sure I can explain it today, is The Dark Crystal. My father brought me to watch this when I was 8 and I ran out of the theater in the middle of it scared shit. It took me several years before I could finally watch it completely and, I must admit, it's one of my favorite movies of this type now.

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

The puppet people in The Dark Crystal creep me out to this very day.

I watched tons of Disney films as a kid. The only 2 that ever scared me were the evil witch in Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs and all of the hospital/surgery scenes in the Roger Rabbit cartoon "Tummy Trouble."

 

[Vanyel]

I just remembered, after watching the movie, that Fruma Sarah, from Fiddler on the Roof freaked me out. Grandmother Tzeitel was just too cute.

 

[Samurai8472]

Freddy Krueger

The branch at night silhouetted by the window looked like long fingers.

UFO's related news

I remember watching "SIGHTINGS" and was freaked out by the re enactment of the Alien walking into the house.

"Fire in the Sky" UFO movie

 

[Amaris]

Heffalumps and fucking Woozles scared me shitless as a child.
Those blank eyes and that weird music, man that creeps me out now!

J.