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I won't be seeing The Fourth Kind. Alien stuff like that still gives me nightmares. I think it is from watching it when I was young or maybe actually being abducted...who knows.
What freaked you out as a kid?
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I won't be seeing The Fourth Kind. Alien stuff like that still gives me nightmares. I think it is from watching it when I was young or maybe actually being abducted...who knows.
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I recall seeing parts of Heavy Metal on tv as a kid and being creeped out, those WW2 bomber zombies! That's why cartoons should only be made for kids! 
Maybe Raiders of the Lost Ark, nazis melting. I was like 6 or so...now it's just funny to watch.
Maybe Raiders of the Lost Ark, nazis melting. I was like 6 or so...now it's just funny to watch.
E. effing T.
(although later I did grow to really love the character).
That, and Chernabog from the original Fantasia.
(although later I did grow to really love the character).
That, and Chernabog from the original Fantasia.
The horror movie "Magic," starring Anthony Hopkins was about a ventriloquist who I guess gets possessed by his dummy. Or something, I could never bring myself to see it BECAUSE THE ADS ON TV FREAKED ME OUT.
It was a close up of the dummy, and this sing-songy nursery rhyme voice over. I can't even make myself look it up on YT for a link. It's stressing me out right now, just thinking about it.
On Sesame Street. When I was about three, there was a bit about all the wonderful things a hand can do. It was a white hand, with a black sleeve, so it looked disembodied. My mom had sat me down in front of the TV so she could deal with the washing machine, which had just overflowed all over the kitchen floor. I was not to go in the kitchen for any reason. Well. The hand "can be happy" - and it showed the palm with fingers outstretched, like a waving motion - or "scary!!" Okay, the fingers curl in and it moves forward sharply. I'm up and out the door in a flash, right into the kitchen, where I sail off my feet and hit my head on the wet floor. I don't know even today if I cried harder because I was hurt, or because I was scared out of my mind.
It was a close up of the dummy, and this sing-songy nursery rhyme voice over. I can't even make myself look it up on YT for a link. It's stressing me out right now, just thinking about it.
On Sesame Street. When I was about three, there was a bit about all the wonderful things a hand can do. It was a white hand, with a black sleeve, so it looked disembodied. My mom had sat me down in front of the TV so she could deal with the washing machine, which had just overflowed all over the kitchen floor. I was not to go in the kitchen for any reason. Well. The hand "can be happy" - and it showed the palm with fingers outstretched, like a waving motion - or "scary!!" Okay, the fingers curl in and it moves forward sharply. I'm up and out the door in a flash, right into the kitchen, where I sail off my feet and hit my head on the wet floor. I don't know even today if I cried harder because I was hurt, or because I was scared out of my mind.
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So that's the name of that movie! I remember watching it with my sister on a Saturday afternoon when we were kids. Freaked us both out!!
Night Gallery was good at causing nightmares, wasn't it?
A few years ago I caught a rerun of "Gargoyles" on television and remembered how much it had scared me as a kid. At least this time I made it all the way to the end, which was pretty lame.
The scene in the movie "Burnt Offerings" where Oliver Reed is killed. His face smashes into the windshield of the car his son is in.
Two things:
The Yip Yip Aliens from Sesame Street:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtFEdhggOw0
And Mr. Yuk:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLsONa3gKIQ&feature=related
Both of those things had me running into the bathroom to hide...still freak me out watching them on YouTube today too...
The Yip Yip Aliens from Sesame Street:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtFEdhggOw0
And Mr. Yuk:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLsONa3gKIQ&feature=related
Both of those things had me running into the bathroom to hide...still freak me out watching them on YouTube today too...
I have a few that I'm surprised haven't been mentioned yet.
Poltergeist was the absolute worst movie to show to an 8 year old. Yeah, let's show a guy ripping off all the skin on his face. Also, let's suggest the clown doll you have in your room might come alive at night and try to kill you. No wonder they came up with the PG-13 rating not long after this movie.
The Day After. Especially the part when the nukes hit, and we see a bride and groom on their wedding day getting hit by the blast. Because when you're a kid, there's nothing like believing that you could be vaporized without any warning.
Also, there's a scene in Omen II where a guy is in an elevator that starts dropping, and he keeps punching all the buttons and it keeps dropping and dropping. I couldn't ride elevators for years after seeing that. I'm still kind of uneasy about them even to this day.
Poltergeist was the absolute worst movie to show to an 8 year old. Yeah, let's show a guy ripping off all the skin on his face. Also, let's suggest the clown doll you have in your room might come alive at night and try to kill you. No wonder they came up with the PG-13 rating not long after this movie.
The Day After. Especially the part when the nukes hit, and we see a bride and groom on their wedding day getting hit by the blast. Because when you're a kid, there's nothing like believing that you could be vaporized without any warning.
Also, there's a scene in Omen II where a guy is in an elevator that starts dropping, and he keeps punching all the buttons and it keeps dropping and dropping. I couldn't ride elevators for years after seeing that. I'm still kind of uneasy about them even to this day.
Me too but I actually ran into my parent's room screaming "what's wrong with her, is she ok?". Not sure if they were freaked as much as I was when I realized my mistake several years later...What freaked me out as a kid???? Noises coming from my parents bedroom late one night. I was freaked thinking my mom was sick.
Im even more freaked out now remembering it with a whole new meaning.
Weird things used to freak me out when I was a kid (3-4-5 years old). Some things made sense. I had nightmares for years over the Frankenstein Monster after seeing Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein on TV one Saturday morning (yeah, the least scary of all the horror films).
But the things that freaked me out the most were commercials.
First, there was one featuring "The Scorcher". In Saskatchewan during the early 70s they had a mascot for their anti-forest fire campaign (I guess they couldn't afford Smokey's fee) and it was this grinning, blood-red devil who would appear on TV speaking this godawful electronic-modulated voice. "I am the Scorcher. I burn your forests down." I was known to run screaming from the room when it came on the TV.
Smokey the Bear wasn't an angel either. This commercial scared the hell out of me back in the early 70s and it still is very disturbing today:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXcrbpMNvTs
(I wasn't alone as there's actually a second version of this that's been reedited to be slightly less scary).
And then there was the TV trailer for It's Alive which looks funny today but scared the crap out of a 4-year-old:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8xe8p6zECQ
I had nightmares about that one - in which, of course, the carriage kept rotating and some monster came shooting out of it towards me.
As I got older things like Scorchers and Joanna Cassidy taking her face off in a PSA didn't bug me. I tended to be more freaked out by the Emergency Broadcast System tests. I'm of the generation which was conditioned to expect the missiles coming over the horizon when this thing sounded for real, so you'll forgive me for getting pissed off the one time a TV station in Spokane activated it because 9-1-1 service had been distrupted, or recently when the Canadian version was activated for an Amber alert.
Alex
But the things that freaked me out the most were commercials.
First, there was one featuring "The Scorcher". In Saskatchewan during the early 70s they had a mascot for their anti-forest fire campaign (I guess they couldn't afford Smokey's fee) and it was this grinning, blood-red devil who would appear on TV speaking this godawful electronic-modulated voice. "I am the Scorcher. I burn your forests down." I was known to run screaming from the room when it came on the TV.
Smokey the Bear wasn't an angel either. This commercial scared the hell out of me back in the early 70s and it still is very disturbing today:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXcrbpMNvTs
(I wasn't alone as there's actually a second version of this that's been reedited to be slightly less scary).
And then there was the TV trailer for It's Alive which looks funny today but scared the crap out of a 4-year-old:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8xe8p6zECQ
I had nightmares about that one - in which, of course, the carriage kept rotating and some monster came shooting out of it towards me.
As I got older things like Scorchers and Joanna Cassidy taking her face off in a PSA didn't bug me. I tended to be more freaked out by the Emergency Broadcast System tests. I'm of the generation which was conditioned to expect the missiles coming over the horizon when this thing sounded for real, so you'll forgive me for getting pissed off the one time a TV station in Spokane activated it because 9-1-1 service had been distrupted, or recently when the Canadian version was activated for an Amber alert.
Alex
For some reason... the number 32 used to creep me out when I was little 
. I guess the number looked rather aggressive to me or something...
. I guess the number looked rather aggressive to me or something...
The character of January Q. Irontail (voiced by the one and only Vincent Price) from the 1971 Easter television special "Here Comes Peter Cottontail" freaked me out, total heebee-geebees. Needless to say, I never bought a copy of that special for my own kids.
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Whoa Nellie
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I had a nightmare about the Michelin Man once when I was real young (as opposed to fake young). Why? No idea. Maybe I was TIRED, and some random thoughts TREADED into my STEEL BELTED brain...okay, that last one didn't work...
I remember that Gargoyles movie, too.
Yeah, UFO stuff was creepy. There was this one kid-aimed book about them that showed a saucer above some paved road (white dash lines) and a saucer above it. I just assumed that lonely roads in the woods at night were places where aliens appear and abduct people.
The idea of a real haunted house creeps me out. One time my family was looking at a house and I got my dad to ask the seller if it was haunted. I must've been about, oh, 18 or 19.
I remember that Gargoyles movie, too.
Yeah, UFO stuff was creepy. There was this one kid-aimed book about them that showed a saucer above some paved road (white dash lines) and a saucer above it. I just assumed that lonely roads in the woods at night were places where aliens appear and abduct people.
The idea of a real haunted house creeps me out. One time my family was looking at a house and I got my dad to ask the seller if it was haunted. I must've been about, oh, 18 or 19.
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