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Title: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: mr. henry on June 26, 2002, 10:28:50 PM
i still remember being little and scared by...ok, i can admit it now...THE BRADY BUNCH...

it was the episode where the boys or girls(?) were trying to scare each other for the attic (or upstairs?) room...

i remember a chest being opened up and a ghost made out of plastic being lifted out with the sound recording (the boys or girls(?) used a tape recorder...viewers found this out later) saying "it's so hot..very hot..." ...or something like that. i don't know why this scared me...especially since 8 yrs. later i was watching everything and anything.

i also loved going to see ET, but what i was in my room that night, i got a little scared that i'd find a creature milling about.

-mr. henry


Title: For me it was...
Post by: Foywonder on June 26, 2002, 10:51:00 PM
THE CHILDREN - A school bus passes through a toxic cloud and transforms the children in to zombie-like killers with black fingernails that can make people spontaneously combust just by gripping them.

I remember seeing this movie on the USA Network as a kid and it scared the hell out of me. Saw it again in my late teens and while it still at least has some creepiness to it, I found it mostly laughable and couldn't believe this movie gave me nightmares.


Title: Re: For me it was...
Post by: Mofo Rising on June 27, 2002, 12:20:10 AM
CHILDREN OF THE CORN was the first horror movie I remember seeing.  It scared me.  Also, when all the townspeople died from the poisoned coffee, my not-so-smart mind conjectured it must have been because the coffee was "much too hot".

The aliens from Sesame St. also scared the crap out of me for some reason.

There was also some revenge movie in the eighties that featureda guy selling somebody powdered battery acid as cocaine.  The next scene showed the guy with white froth oozing from every orifice in his head.  Scared me silly for years.


Title: Re: For me it was...
Post by: Dr. Freex on June 27, 2002, 12:28:23 AM
THE WIZARD OF OZ.  Those damned apple trees!

ATTACK OF THE GIANT LEECHES really traumatized me.

TEENAGERS FROM OUTER SPACE.  The skeleton ray really fightened me.

More as they occur.


Title: Re: For me it was...
Post by: Law Dog on June 27, 2002, 12:39:04 AM
Incredible Melting Man. Didn't actually have to see it as a child of about 10, but the comercials were scaring the hell out of me. Funny, now it's one of my favorite bad movies.

"I'M DR. TED NELSON!"


Title: Re: For me it was...
Post by: mr. henry on June 27, 2002, 12:52:45 AM
hahahaha...hey mofo...do you mean those two aliens from sesame street...

...

...the..yepyepyepeypeyp...yupeupeupupeyupeyupe...yepyepypeype....

...those guys WERE scarey...

they should have a movie...!!!!!

-mr. henry


Title: Re: For me it was...
Post by: J.R. on June 27, 2002, 03:43:52 AM
The beginning of ET, where he's is being chased scared me a bit.

The tale end of Big Trouble In Little China, where Kurt Russell drives off in his big rig and a creature pops out for a cheap jump scare sent me about three feet in the air.

Close Encounters Of The Third Kind. The scene where the aliens are trying to take the kid, and end up coming through the air duct. Whenever I was in a house with central air I got freaked.


Title: Re: For me it was...
Post by: Neville on June 27, 2002, 04:55:14 AM
For me it was Alien. I had heard it was really, really scary, so trying to watch the first minutes when I was 10 or less made me almost catatonic, even when nothing at all was going on. I have always been more afraid of things beyond my comprehension than anything else. I remember being very scared of taxes when I was very little. Not that I knew  what taxes were, but I saw my father cursing and getting really freaked when he had to pay them.


Title: Re: For me it was...
Post by: Cullen on June 27, 2002, 05:12:06 AM
Small list -

*  The end of "The Fog" - I will never forget it.

*  The (near) end of an adaptation of Robert Block's "Catnip" on the short lived series "The Dark Room" - Every now and then, when I look under a bed, I'll think of it and, as silly as it sounds, grow a little nervous.  (Hunt down the story - you'll be glad you did.)

*  Episode 2 of the "Doctor Who" story "Revenge of the Cybermen" - The first time I'd seen "Doctor Who".  Didn't make it past the first few minutes; I was that scared.

Hey, I was a kid, remember...

*  "The "Twilight Zone" episode "The Living Doll" - Talking Tina STILL scares me.

Those are the ones that jump out in my mind.


Title: Re: For me it was...
Post by: TammyL on June 27, 2002, 06:40:53 AM
I remember watching Poltergeist for the first time and seeing where they play the song when the tv goes off the air- America - i think and then the tv goes fuzzy. When the thing comes out of the tv after the first storm and eventually takes Carol Ann back the way he came. Whenever I turned to a station that was fuzzy I would just starting screaming and believe it or not I even would push it into a closet in a hotel room and block the door. My mom would say it was only a movie and it wasn't real then I found out watching late night tv one time that they actually would play that song to end a station and it would go fuzzy. After that she would say when yougrow up you will think different about it. However I still get the eebie jeebies when I come across a station that goes fuzzy.


Title: Re: For me it was...
Post by: jmc on June 27, 2002, 09:10:52 AM
Never saw it, but the ads for DEVIL DOG: THE HOUND OF HELL scared me when it was on the CBS Late Movie.


Title: Re: For me it was...
Post by: Brian Ringler on June 27, 2002, 09:46:33 AM
When I was little I would always be frightened by section of unsolved mysteries about the unexplained with all the ghosts and stuff like that.


Title: Re: For me it was...
Post by: Brian Ringler on June 27, 2002, 09:46:33 AM
When I was little I would always be frightened by section of unsolved mysteries about the unexplained with all the ghosts and stuff like that.


Title: Re: For me it was...
Post by: Jay O'Connor on June 27, 2002, 09:51:01 AM
"The Car" I saw when I was very little and for years afterwards I was afraid to be out in open fields at night for fear that this demon car would come and run me over


Title: Re: For me it was...
Post by: Will on June 27, 2002, 10:02:10 AM
When I was a kid The Incredible Hulk TV show scared me when Banner would change.

I also remember a movie called Happy Hell Night.  Not Hell Night with Linda Blair, this one's different.  I can't find it anywhere, but I remember the killer (one of those lunatic-escaped-from-an-asylum-and-it's-Halloween movies) was a little bald guy with black, black eyes.  SCARY.  Don't know if it still is, though.  Like I said, can't find it. Anyone know it?


Title: The cocaine ooze...
Post by: Nathan on June 27, 2002, 10:37:26 AM
...was used in Wired to Kill (1986).  It may also have been in some other movies; see if the screencap jogs your memory:
http://www.coldfusionvideo.com/w/wiredtokill.html


Nathan


Title: Re: For me it was...
Post by: Nathan on June 27, 2002, 10:39:53 AM
There was an animated Raggedy Ann and Andy TV-movie (stop laughing, dammit!) with a psycho camel that kept seeing a phantom caravan of ghostly camels all calling him home -- always with weird Eastern music playing under those scenes.  Freaked me out for months on end.

Nathan


Title: Re: For me it was..........
Post by: Flangepart on June 27, 2002, 10:50:52 AM
The Blob. I went to the old Southern theater with some neghibor kids, and about the time it finished eating the doc, i walked out, and waited till both movies were over to get my ride home. Sheesh! You coulden't shoot it, and it CRAWLED UNDER THE DOOR to get to you! It diden't just kill you, it DISSOLVED you! Some how, that gave me the heebee jeebees like nothin. Now, of course, i make booger jokes, but way back then!...........


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: Brock on June 27, 2002, 11:42:48 AM
To this day, I stiall haven't been able to watch Creepshow.  I remember seeing parts of it off and on on the local FOX station as a kid, and it all scared the crap out of me.  Specifically, the animted creep coming to the kids window, and the part in the mold guy story where the doctor says he'll have to take his arm off.  I've heard it's actually really funny, but I just can't make myself watch it.


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: Gerry on June 27, 2002, 11:51:39 AM
The monsters and the witch on H.R. Puff-n-Stuff scared the crap out of me.  I'd scream everytime my brothers and sisters tried to watch it.  For those of you too young to remember it was an early-mid 70s children's show.

The melting faces at the end of RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK really got to me too.


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: Pete B6K on June 27, 2002, 01:32:35 PM
I've always found Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory srangely disturbing. Can't remember exactly why, I havent seen it for a while, but I still avoid it when its on TV. Gene Wilder's Willy Wonka is definitely kind of evil and sinister.


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: TammyL on June 27, 2002, 01:54:10 PM
I would admit the OOMPA LOOMPAS were a bit scary. The pictures in the boat ride down the Choca River were a bit too much. Needless to say blueberry flavored bubblegum or any flavor for that matter never went into my mouth for quite sometime. Did not want to know what watermelon did to you.


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: John Morgan on June 27, 2002, 02:09:17 PM
I never watched that many horror flicks as a kid because they would scare me.  Now I look at them and laugh.  Freddie, Jason, Jaws, even Hellraiser, These were supposed to "Scare me?"  

I'm alway pointing out the flaws:

"Too much blood"
"Spooky Music = your gona die"
"Sex = your gona die"
"Door + running + panic = Your gona die big time."
"That looks fake" (Shark in Jaws especially)
"Bad special effects: I can make that look better with a wad of tin foil and a flash light" (Lightening in Hellraiser)
"DON'T JUST STAND THERE SCREAMING, RUN!"
"What would Ash do here?"


Title: Re: The cocaine ooze...
Post by: Mofo Rising on June 27, 2002, 03:10:12 PM
Yup, WIRED TO KILL was the cocaine movie.  Reading your review makes me realize I remember nothing about the movie except the cocaine ooze and the bike seat.

I also remember another movie that scared the dickens out of me.  SWAMP THING.  In the beginning Alex Holland is coated with bright yellow goo and pushed into the swamp, where he turns into the Swamp Thing.  For some reason, my young brain made the connection between the goo and apple juice.  I wouldn't drink the stuff for years.

And those Sesame St. aliens.  It was probably their "yupyupyupyup" and the fact they crept into familiar places when nobody was around.


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: raj on June 27, 2002, 04:16:11 PM
Kolchak the Nightstalker always scared me.  It was on again  a couple of years ago, forget what station (USA? SCIFI?) and, wow, I was scared of that?!

Bring back Kolchak!


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: J.R. on June 27, 2002, 05:57:47 PM
When I was little Freddy Kruegger was THE scary image. My brother used to hold me down with a pillow over my face saying, "I'm Freddy now!", and I believed him. One time I went into a video store with my mom and there was a cardboard stand-up of Freddy, positioned in a way so that he seemed to be coming around the aisle for me. I screamed so horrifically my mom had to drag me out. TRUE STORY: A kidthat lived next door used to terrify me with a Freddy mask. In 1996 he was convicted of murder. Spooky. Of course, I've now seen every Elm Street movie and own part 1 on DVD, so it's subsided.


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: J.R. on June 27, 2002, 05:59:10 PM
Oh, and the Maytag repairman. That's right. Similar incident as with the Freddy stand-up, i was in a Maytag dealership and there he was, staring over the counter, searching my soul.


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: Andrew on June 27, 2002, 06:57:56 PM
"The Blob" (1958).  Just read my review and it explains it all.

To this day, I still think that "Jaws" is a good horror movie.  Once I was out swimming, fairly far from shore (probably 400m), and suddenly "Jaws" came to mind.  I started heading in and a large fin broke the water RIGHT NEXT TO ME.  To say I had a serious moment of fright would be an understatement.  It was a dolphin, probably just wondering what in the heck I was doing so far out.  It stayed along with me for a little while, then headed back out.

Andrew


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: mogwai on June 27, 2002, 08:14:55 PM
salem's lot, the reason? you've probably already guessed it. no? i can't, couldn't be bothered, really. but there's a lot of better examples here.


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: Newt on June 27, 2002, 11:47:34 PM
Oh my.   Am I really that much older than most of you?  

THEM did it for me.   I must have been five or so.   Left a lasting impression.
The Wizard of Oz:  those flying monkeys and the witch-on-the-roof scene.
Bela Lugosi as Dracula.   I slept with the covers tight around my neck for twenty years.   (Do not laugh!)

I still find Willy Wonka disturbing - even though I saw it as an adult.


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: BlackAngel on June 28, 2002, 02:26:50 PM
The thing that was more disturbing that terrifying was the scene in the docks in the movie Downtown.  Anthony Edwards is getting strangled while driving a car erradiclly.  A little man on top of the care was doing the strangling. When Edwards stopped the car, the little man went flying into  those big would shredders and...well y'know the rest.

The movie Child's Play caught me a lot when I was younger.  And I think it was playing the same time that toy "My Buddy" was in the stores.  Coincidence?  I think not.

And now, the one thing that scare the s**t outta me when i was kid wasn't in a movie, wasn't a cartoon or tv show.  It was (drum roll please) a game show. Not so much a game show, but a game in the show.  The show is the Price is Right.  The game is The Moutain Climber.  When contestants tried to guess an item, and make a wrong answer (price guessed: $70, acuall price: $50 )  the climber climbes the difference.  And when he's near the top, say 5 paces, and the idiot would say $20 on a $10 item, the climber would fall off and I used to hug my moms up tight every time that happen.


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: sm on June 28, 2002, 04:32:49 PM
Very few films scared me as a kid, I was the obnoxious friend who tormented my friends who were "afraid of the dark", and loved watching horror movies. Hmm, so I have to think back earlier to maybe years 5-7.

"Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger", the movie itself didn't scare me, just that weird damn minion thing that rowed that old lady around.

After seeing "Jaws" i also was afraid to use the bathroom, I had an irrational fear that jaws would appear in the toilet.

Oompa Loompas gave me the creeps as did the scene with the Pink elephants in "Dumbo". They didn't scare me so much as give me the feeling the world was a very dark and disturbed place.

Also there was a movie with Giant Tarantulas. Years and a series of spider movies later I developed a phobia which wasn't helped by the fact I moved to Arizona and lived with them in and outside the house on a daily basis.


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: mr. henry on June 28, 2002, 11:00:47 PM
just remembered another one...similar to Mofo Rising's comment about the yupyupyup aliens on sesame street...

there was a locally produced (i think) pbs show for kids...one of those where the host talked at the audience, read books, etc...anyway, every episode the host(-ess)  would leave and there would just be a shot of the empty set for a while. then this big rabbit would come in and silently poke around the place and look at the camera every so often. then the rabbit would leave and the host would come back...sometimes finding things had moved. i hated and feared the rabbit.

this and the sesame st. aliens appearing when everyone else leaves is a pretty creepy concept for kids i think...

ALSO like a lot of people THE EXORCIST---because didn't we all think we'd become possessed watching that movie?  That movie was a dividing line in grade school...who had seen it...who hadn't...and who lied and said that they had seen it.

-mr. henry


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: sm on June 29, 2002, 12:33:11 AM
Comments about a rabbit on a children's show makes me remember the late 70's. There was "The Bozo Show" - i'm not really sure if it was a local thing i watched or if it was nationwide..but that particular guy who played the clown freaked me out. He'd drag these pitiful looking kids from sitting on the floor to try and toss stuff in cups to win prizes like bikes. Usually the kids didn't win and he gleefully and evilly would chant "Oh so SORRY Billy, you didn't make it!" then he'd shove the crying kid aside and let him know the cheap consolation prize he won. Fear Bozo!


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: Akira Tubo on June 29, 2002, 10:35:28 PM
Gremlins.

It was cute and funny, then all of a sudden Gizmo gets water on him, grows these horrible boils, and more Gizmos grow from them.  From there on in, it only got more terrifying.

The Gremlins attacked the kitchen, the school, the theater, and the toy store, for crying out loud!  Those were all of my favorite places.

As if that weren't enough, Billy's dad had to warn the audience that there might be Gremlins IN YOUR HOUSE!  UNDER THE BED!  IN THE CLOSET!

I mean, ye gads!  I had nightmares about Gremlins biting me for months and Dad had to check the house at night for a year.


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: Mofo Rising on June 29, 2002, 10:41:42 PM
In response to Akira Tubo's post:

You know, your reaction is a textbook example of why GREMLINS was one of the main instigators of the PG-13 rating.


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: mr. henry on June 29, 2002, 11:38:50 PM
regarding SM's comment about BOZO...the original BOZO show came from WGN in Chicago...they might have experimented with franchising it at some point...

it was so hard to get tickets that some parents signed up when wive's became pregnant...somehow we got tickets when i was 12 and my mom made me go with her and my younger sister...didn't have to sit on the floor though...there were bleachers!...maybe in the early days they roughed it.

i feared being picked for the Grand!...Prize!...Game! for fear someone would see me on tv.

don't fear bozo...he was alright. fear that other chicago clown...john gacey.

-mr henry


Title: Gremlins
Post by: Cullen on June 30, 2002, 01:44:22 AM
"Gremlins" was the first movie my brother and I saw by ourselves.  I've got fond memories of that film, but for some reason can't sit through it now that I'm older.


Title: Re: Gremlins
Post by: jmc on June 30, 2002, 10:00:44 AM
WGN was carried on cable systems nationwide...I remember watching the Grand Prize Game when I was a kid.  It worked on a kid's greed, because the harder the throws got, the better the prizes.  And there was always some "lucky" winner at home who would get whatever prize the kid playing the game won.   That must have been nerve-wracking.

I remember "music of humiliation" being played whenever a kid lost...lots of trombone glissandos, etc.....


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: ErikJ on June 30, 2002, 10:52:33 AM
For me I have to say it was a movie I just watched for the first time., Susperia. Not taking anything away from it but the TV spots used to give me nightmares. Having seen it though I can't believe it scared me like that.

Now about Bozo, it was never Bozo or Cookie that bothered me. It was that freaky wizard that they had on the show. Wizaro I think they called him. He was very very disturbing


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: David Tatlock on June 30, 2002, 07:32:01 PM
I vaguely remember watching some movie called "This House Posessed" when it aired on tv in the early 80s. It involved a "blood coming out of the shower" scene which freaked me out. Although, I may be confusing this with Death Ship, since I saw that around the same time.


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: TammyL on July 01, 2002, 12:49:13 AM
His name was Wizzo. His eyes were a tad bit devestating. Just way too freaky to see him look at the screen.


Title: Re: For me it was...
Post by: Lucidique on July 01, 2002, 04:24:12 PM
I remember that Raggedy Ann & Andy movie!  It was terribly frightening. Also "Rikki, Tikki, Tavi" scared me nearly to death. The shadow of the cobras freaked me out so much that I couldn't talk. I remember my mother thinking I was choking on something because all I could do was wheeze until she realized what I was watching.
I saw it again on Nickelodeon about 5 years ago, and it still bothered me.


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: john on July 01, 2002, 04:34:33 PM
I recall seeing a couple episodes of Bozo many years ago, before we even had cable I think. It was probably on a New York station. Never scared me though.

 What did scare me?

 Horror Express - The fossil corpse with the glowing eyes in the crate really freaked me out and I turned the movie off. I didn't see the whole thing until years later.

 Kolchak creeped me out a little, especially one night when my parents were out and I watched it alone.

 Lost In Space - The episode with an invisible creature wandering around at night leaving 3-toed footprints in the ground and Dr. Smith thinking it wast he ghost of his ancestor.

 Twilight Zone - The episode with William Shatner seeing the gremlin on the wing of the plane. The part that really creeped me out was when he pulled up the shade and it was pressing its face right up against the window. For years I was afraid to look out the window at night.

 Bigfoot recreations - These always gave me nightmares. One in particular showed a guy sitting on the toilet when a big hairy arm came in the half-open window next to him and started reaching around. Another one had a guy hearing noises outside his home and opening the door to find Bigfoot standing there. There was also a cheesy movie called (I think) The Horror of Bigfoot where some college students find a mummy in a cave, bring it back to the farm and it wakes up to be an ugly and very p**sed off Bigfoot like creature that goes on a rampage. It was shot like a high school science film, which helped give the impression that it was real. I think Bigfoot scared me the most because unlike other creatures, many people claim to have actually seen him/it.


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: K-Sonic on July 10, 2002, 09:17:16 PM
Man, I gotta tell you...for me it was "Dracula vs Frankenstein"! When I was a real little guy, WPIX in NY (Channel 11) had Chiller Theatre on Sunday nights.

Now, Chiller had an animated hand (with 6 fingers!) coming out of a hole in the ground with a tree next to it. A very bleak picture, almost like a desert. And while the hand swiped away the word "Chiller", a voice is heard with all this echo and weird sound effects that would surely freak out a little 4-year old.

Top it off with the greatest monsters of all time dueling to the death, literally. All I remember is Dracula ripping off the Monster's arms & head (!) in the woods, then getting hit by sunlight and turning into hay. This was just crazy to see and I was scared alright!

Many,many years later I caught a little bit on tv. It was the scene of the two lovers on the beach talking. I was like, "Is this the same movie from years ago?". And I changed the channel.

Then years after that, I found the movie in a bargain video rack for $10. I read the box. Lon Chaney! Russ Tamblyn! J. Carroll Naish! Angelo Rossito! Directed by Al Adamson! Man, I had to buy it. When I was watching it I couldn't believe that this used to scare me so. I knew I had grown up. HaHa

I like this movie and my friends & I watch it often when we're together. The new DVD is a must if you enjoy it too. Troma.com has it real cheap if you want to get it.


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: mr. henry on July 10, 2002, 09:34:35 PM
hey john...

what was kolchak? you don't mean kojak do you?

as a tyke i watched a bit of a "quincy" episode that freaked me out...something about a buried body...and a storm i think...

bigfoot recreations can be pretty creepy. although picturing a guy on the throne being groped by bigfoot is pretty hilarious. that famous footage where BF turns and looks at the camera is kind of creepy even though it's a proven fake.

to this day anything with the typical grey-alien face creeps me out...the only movies i don't like watching alone are realistic demonic possession flicks and ANYTHING with grey-type aliens. needless to say i can't watch "communion" alone...christopher walken AND grey-aliens...that's too much.

-mr. henry


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: Goon on July 10, 2002, 10:06:15 PM
               Hmmmmmmmm......(cracks knuckles) let me think...   I remember when I was little I could never stand the bit in the Wizard of Oz where the witch melts.  Something about the sounds and the steam.  I also remember watching "It Came from Hollywood" back when I was a reeeeel short guy.  The clip from "The Giant Claw" scared me and stuck with me for a while, back then it didn't look 'ridiculous' so much as hideous.  Also, the clip from "The Creeping Terror" scared me some.  For years I wondered how the carpet thing caught people and when I finaly saw the movie again I thought "Oh.  They climbed in.  That's it?  I was expecting something a bit more..."  Oh well.
-----------------------ooo-'U'-ooo-------Kilroy was here.


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: Steven Millan on July 10, 2002, 11:02:18 PM
                Okay,okay:I thought that "Land Of The Minotaur"(a.k.a.:"The Devil's Men")was hella extremely scary.
                Peter Cushing really looked creepy as hell,and having small kids conducting the sacrifices(to the nude golden Minotaur statue)was a pretty unnerving sight to see on a theater screen.
                 This movie also had Donald Pleasence as the hero,fighting the satanic evil that is all around him,as he did with the "Halloween" films.
                 Word has it that Peter Cushing was originally offered the Doc Loomis role for the first "Halloween",but turned it down. As much as I would have loved to have seen him in that movie(and Part 2),I think that Peter playing the overly-bonkers Loomis in "Halloween 5" would have been too much of a loony sight for my eyes,and everyone elses'.


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: J.R. on July 11, 2002, 03:03:52 AM
Jurassic Park. I was in my teens when it came out, but it got to me. Not in the theater, but later on as I went to sleep. When I was a kid I was absolutely obsessed with dinosaurs. I had entire dino books memorized and a huge assortment of toys. I wouldn't bathe without my favorite aquatic beasts and would argue endlessly with my brother about the pronunciation of dyplodocus. seeing things I had only imagined look so real was unnerving.


Title: Kolchak: the Night Stalker
Post by: Cullen on July 11, 2002, 04:31:57 AM
mr. henry asks:

"what was kolchak? you don't mean kojak do you?"

Kolchak: the Night Stalker is the greatest Horror TV show of all time.  How could you not know about it?

I'm kidding, of course.  

K:tNS was a short lived series that appeared in the seventies.  It was about a Chicago reporter named Carl Kolchak who had a nasty habit of stumbling over supernatural menaces which no one would believe and, in the end, only he could stop.  If that sounds a wee bit like The X-files , it's because K:tNS was the inspiration for The X-files .

The series was itself inspired (and, in one episode, sequels) by a successful TV movie called The Night Stalker which has Carl tangling with the supernatural for the first time in Las Vegas.  Written by Richard Matheson, it is the best vampire movie...at least, the best one made for television.  Well worth your time.

As for the series, well, some episodes were good, most weren't.  Like most series.  It only lasted one season and has it's fans (me being one of them.)

Now, who the hell's Kojack?
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Telly Savalas, who appeared in some popular cop show or another in the seventies, had a very interesting career in bad movies.  Not only did he appear in Mario Bava's Lisa and the Devil , released in the states as House of Exorcism and the Christopher Lee vehicle Horror Express , but also in the Twilight Zone episode, "The Living Doll," which scared me in my more formidable days.

In none of these did he utter the line "Who loves ya, baby?"  But he did have a lollypop in Lisa and the Devil


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: The Honn on July 11, 2002, 06:21:03 AM
I know its not a movie, but it is stupid, I remember an episode of Little House on The Prarie where someone had supposedly cut off his own wife's head and two of the kids saw it. I dont remember much more except a scene when a ghost (a white sheet) rose up in the attic in front of the two kids. That and the big-ass monster in Krull scared the crap out of me as a kid.


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: John on July 11, 2002, 08:29:49 AM
>bigfoot recreations can be pretty creepy. although picturing a guy on the throne
>being groped by bigfoot is pretty hilarious

 I suppose, unless you happen to be a little kid and have to take a crap soon after on a toilet right next to a window. :)

>to this day anything with the typical grey-alien face creeps me out

 They're not typical greys, but check out Fire in the Sky with Robert Patrick. Pretty creepy and it's supposedly based on true events.

>The series was itself inspired (and, in one episode, sequels) by a successful TV
>movie called The Night Stalker

 Actually, there were two movies, The Night Stalker and The Night Strangler, the latter being about Jack the RIpper using a liquid extracted from his victims to stay young. They also redid this story in the series, but rather than have you find out who he is and have him explain everything to Carl, thereby making him more human, they kept him mysterious and then killed him off without ever letting the audience get to know him. Also, I believe both movies were made by Dan Curtis, the guy behind Dark Shadows.

 Coincidentally, Kolchak fought several bigfoot type creatures, all of which gave me the willies for some time afterward.

>I know its not a movie, but it is stupid, I remember an episode of Little House on
>The Prarie where someone had supposedly cut off his own wife's head and two
>of the kids saw it. I dont remember much more except a scene when a ghost (a
>white sheet) rose up in the attic in front of the two kids.

 I remember that episode, but I don't remember a scene in an attic, let alone one with a sheet. It was a Halloween episode and the kids are sneaking around the Olsen house when they hear the olsend arguing and then see a shadow on the wall of Mr. Olsen chopping someone's head off. Mrs. Olsen seems to have disappeared and the husband is hiding something in a bag and the kids think that it's her body. Turns out that she was just out of town and he had just gotten mad and hacked the head off a dressmaker's dummy. There is a nice scene near the end though, Laura (Melissa Gilbert) is walking through the woods and encounters the/a headless horseman. Or maybe I'm thinking of Dr. Quinn, I seem to recall they had an almost identical episode.

 The ghost in the attic sounds like a Brady Bunch episode where the kids were trying to scare each other out of the attic and one of them rigged up a ghost made out of plastic and hid it in a trunk.


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: jmc on July 11, 2002, 09:00:09 AM
Previews of movies scared me when I was a kid.  The worst was CARRIE.  My dad took me to see THE SHAGGY D.A. when I was 3, and they showed a preview for CARRIE.  Scared the hell out of me!  

The preview for CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND also scared me as a kid.   I was also scared by previews for THE GATES OF HELL, THE EVIL DEAD, and THE SHINING.

I also used to be scared of the scene in PSYCHO when they show Norman Bates' mother.  

THE EXORCIST still scares me!   I first saw it when I was 15.  My mom found out that I saw it and she got really mad.


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: raj on July 11, 2002, 09:28:46 AM
Previewing Carrie at the Shaggy D.A. movie?  What were they thinking?  Why not preview the Amityville Horror at one of the Herbie the Love Bug movies.  Yikes, what a way to freak out a bunch of young kids.

I was always creeped out by Wizard of Oz as a kid, the flying monkeys & melting the witch scenes did it for me.  Even after I had watched it a couple of times and knew what was coming.

Willy Wonka is disturbing.  "I've got a great idea, I'll create a Darwinian process to find the next owner of my candy company.  You'll either succeed, or die."


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: Batgirl on July 11, 2002, 11:14:19 AM
This is gonna sound stupid, cuz this movie is so  hilarious now, but when I was like 6, I saw Ghostbusters 2 and it scared the crap outta me!  The whole river of slime thing, and the pink blob over the city...I had nightmares for weeks.  Has anybody else had this experience?


Title: Re: Kolchak: the Night Stalker
Post by: mr. henry on July 11, 2002, 04:17:33 PM
i knew you couldn't have been thinking of kojak...that'd be one hell of a typo...

thanks for the night stalker schooling...a handful of twilight zone, some hitchcock theater, tales from the darkside, monsters, and amazing stories is the extent of my tv knowledge. and i'm pretty sketch on all of them.

-mr. h


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: mr. henry on July 11, 2002, 04:24:09 PM
the Honn wrote:

"I know its not a movie, but it is stupid, I remember an episode of Little House on The Prarie where someone had supposedly cut off his own wife's head and two of the kids saw it. I dont remember much more except a scene when a ghost (a white sheet) rose up in the attic in front of the two kids. That and the big-ass monster in Krull scared the crap out of me as a kid."

John wrote:

"I remember that episode, but I don't remember a scene in an attic, let alone one with a sheet. It was a Halloween episode and the kids are sneaking around the Olsen house when they hear the olsend arguing and then see a shadow on the wall of Mr. Olsen chopping someone's head off. Mrs. Olsen seems to have disappeared and the husband is hiding something in a bag and the kids think that it's her body. Turns out that she was just out of town and he had just gotten mad and hacked the head off a dressmaker's dummy. There is a nice scene near the end though, Laura (Melissa Gilbert) is walking through the woods and encounters the/a headless horseman. Or maybe I'm thinking of Dr. Quinn, I seem to recall they had an almost identical episode.

The ghost in the attic sounds like a Brady Bunch episode where the kids were trying to scare each other out of the attic and one of them rigged up a ghost made out of plastic and hid it in a trunk."

I say: the sheet in the attic sounds like the brady bunch to me too. that scared me as well...that's what i was getting off my chest with the first post on this thread. i'm glad i wasn't the only one. i can't figure out why that was scary to me then...and why in the world i can still remember seeing it. must have really made an impression.

-mr. h.


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: Lee on July 11, 2002, 07:56:29 PM
The Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh. Hey I was a kid! The scene that creeped me out was the dream sequence:the one where the Ephalants and Woozels were trying to steal his honey. Very distrubing. Just about as disturbing as the pink elephants in Dumbo!


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: John on July 11, 2002, 09:53:16 PM
>thanks for the night stalker schooling...a handful of twilight zone, some hitchcock
>theater, tales from the darkside, monsters, and amazing stories is the extent of
>my tv knowledge. and i'm pretty sketch on all of them.

 I'm pretty sure you can get episodes of The Night Stalker on video. They also released several 'movies' from the series. These were just two episodes editted together to make it look like he was working on both stories at the same time.

 As for other shows, there was The Dark Room hosted by James Coburn, One Step Beyond where the stories were supposedly based on true events, the old and new Outer Limits, the New Twilight Zone (they're making another one for UPN), Boris Karloff's Thriller, Rod Serling's Night Gallery, Ghost Story/Circle of Fear and others.

>the sheet in the attic sounds like the brady bunch to me too

 I think TV Land has been running The Brady Bunch early in the mornings. You could watch for that episode to see if that's the one you remember.

>i can't figure out why that was scary to me then...and why in the world i can still
>remember seeing it.

 Lots of older stuff is more scary than anything that's done today. Several years ago, a local channel was showing Ghost Story/Circle of Fear latenight on the weekends, and many of those episodes were pretty creepy. Compare the old and new versions of the Haunting sometime, the old one is much creepier.


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: J.R. on July 12, 2002, 01:42:59 AM
Same thing with me and the gray aliens. Even in Fire InThe Sky and Communion, where you could see the wires and they were obviously puppets, their faces are just so freaky. There's something about pale insectoid creatures entering your bedroom and taking you away that's frighteneing. The X-Files episode Jose Chung's From Outer Space was funny, but at the same time terrifying.


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: GeeWhiz on July 12, 2002, 09:34:51 PM
OK, so I'm older than most of you here, but here are three that got to me.

Werewolf (1956)

The Blob (1958)

Tarantula (1955)

 I saw "Werewolf" first run theatrical release with "War of the Worlds".  Also, "The Blob" was seen in the theater.  I saw "Tarantula" later on TV on a midnight movie.  Basically, I saw them all before I was a teenager and they had me hiding behind the seats.  Now they seem awfully silly.


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: Bargle5 on July 13, 2002, 02:15:43 AM
I caught this one recently on TCM. "The Monster That Challenged the World". Giant water caterpillars start killing people around the Salton Sea. Scared me good as a 10 year old. Now it just seems to be an average b-movie.


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: Susan on July 13, 2002, 04:30:31 PM
Something that freaked me out for years was a show I saw, all I remember was there was a very big tarantula in a bedroom of a house or something..I mean it was HUGE. I think it devoured a lady but ever since then I couldn't shake the image of giant spiders in my room when i turned out teh lights. The only thing I really wish I knew was what show it was off of. I used to watch all the old shows like "Twilight Zone" (which i'm sure it wasn't), ALfred HItchcock ), Night Gallery, etc etc. All the old shows (and ones that stirred up in the 80's) tho from memory I feel like this was an older show...not 80's, possibly black and white. Another one I remember was a man who arrived at someones house who disliked him I guess, maybe he was wealthy. In any case he placed some kind of earwig thing in his ear and explained to him in time how it would grow and grow..i guess feeding on his brain. Again, I probably slept with the protective shield of my blanket over me from spiders and my fingers in my ears..lol  Fear the earwig! That one I am sure was color, coulda been Night Gallery. Unsure, never much see some of those programs on anymore


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: Cullen on July 13, 2002, 09:11:32 PM
Susan Says:

"Another one I remember was a man who arrived at someones house who disliked him I guess, maybe he was wealthy. In any case he placed some kind of earwig thing in his ear and explained to him in time how it would grow and grow..i guess feeding on his brain. Again, I probably slept with the protective shield of my blanket over me from spiders and my fingers in my ears..lol Fear the earwig! That one I am sure was color, coulda been Night Gallery."

Not only could it be, it is Night Gallery .  The episode is called, I think, "Boomerrang"


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: Susan on July 13, 2002, 09:24:55 PM
Ah, thanks! Can only remember parts of it now as it's been years. Night Gallery was i guess the dark side of Serling but I enjoyed it. Can't figure out why no channel has picked it up to rerun, none that I have anyhow. I wouldn't mind seeing it. Shows that came around in the 80's never did it for me. I mean there were a couple of the "new twilight zone" episodes I admittedly like. For instance the one where they go back in time (before man) and accidentally kill a single butterfly which inevitably sets off a chain reaction of events so when the guy returns to present day it's completely different. I think hitler must have won the war or something. The other one was where a guy (not sure if his wife was included) wakes up between seconds and finds out that each second is paused and people come out of nowhere and replace everything. Kind of explains why car keys and socks always get lost.


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: Cullen on July 14, 2002, 12:44:22 AM
Night Gallery appears on the Encore Mystery Channel here in the US.  I remember it as being very bad, but I caught a few episodes recently and found it wasn't as terrible as I thought.  Must of caught a couple of bad ones, is all.


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: Mofo Rising on July 14, 2002, 01:29:42 AM
Cullen wrote:
>
> Night Gallery appears on the Encore Mystery Channel
> here in the US.  I remember it as being very bad, but I
> caught a few episodes recently and found it wasn't as
> terrible as I thought.  Must of caught a couple of bad ones,
> is all.

"They're DOGS!!!  AND THEY'RE PLAYING POKER!!!!!!!"


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: Lee on July 14, 2002, 01:49:39 AM
Does anyone else find that song or whatever "The Cat Came Back" disturbing. Really gave me the creeps. Hell, I still feel weird when I think about it!


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: Susan on July 14, 2002, 02:34:31 AM
re: "The cat came bacK'. First guy who took the cat lived, but the second guy who tried to blow it up and I think that p**sed the cat off and he was blown up himself, after that the cat had a grudge. Next poor bastard plummeted to the earth from miles up in the air. After that we have a mass body count with the train accident. Even his own kittens met their demise. Anyone see movie potential here? ;-)


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: John on July 14, 2002, 07:25:11 AM
>In any case he placed some kind of earwig thing in his ear and explained to him
>in time how it would grow and grow..i guess feeding on his brain. Again, I
>probably slept with the protective shield of my blanket over me from spiders and
>my fingers in my ears..lol Fear the earwig! That one I am sure was color, coulda

 Hehe. Funny you should mention this as recently, I've killed several earwigs in the house. Luckily the story about them entering people's ears at night is just a myth. By the way, the Night Gallery episode went like this; The guy paid to have an earwig put in his enemy's ear where it would supposedly burrow through his brain and come out the other side. It gets placed in HIS ear by accident and as it makes its way through his brain, he does a lot of screaming. Finally, it comes out and he's proud that he survived. Then an expert in insects tells him that it was a female and that her egg sack is empty, meaning it laid eggs in his brain. :)

>there were a couple of the "new twilight zone" episodes I admittedly like.

 Me too. First was To See the Invisible Man, where a man is sentenced to be 'invisible' for a year, meaning everyone has to ignore him no matter what. Then there was the one with a weapons expert being thawed out in the future to help destroy a threat from space. Unfortunately, the second one is drastically cut to fit the half hour syndication length. Finally, there was an episode made for syndication called The Cold Equations, based on a short story of the same name. It was about a young girl who stowed away on an emergency medical courier ship only to discover that her extra weight will cause the ship to crash, killing not only her and the pilot, but all the people waiting for the medicine. In the end, the only solution is for her to sacrifice herself. This was also made into a SFC movie that went on way too long and had all sorts of unnecessary subplots.

>Night Gallery appears on the Encore Mystery Channel here in the US.

 Do they air the original hour long episodes, or the butchered half hour ones?


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: Susan on July 14, 2002, 01:18:50 PM
>>Then an expert in insects tells him that it was a female and that her egg sack is empty, meaning it laid eggs in his brain. :)<<


ahhhhhhhhh!

Btw, do earwigs only climb in your ears in the day? They don't call em earwigs for nuthin! Probably the show got to me because when I was 3 I went swimming and got an earwig, screaming pain. No eggs tho.

The New twilight zone never had that "twist", where at the end it often grabbed you..being morbid or eerie..or ironic. It wasn't just that it was in color, it was the new generation of writers that just didn't have it. It spewed out a few good episodes tho. But I can't remember them all. I probably would get them mixed up with shows like "Tales from the darkside" and all that since they all had that same feel and look to them.


Wish I had access to the channel that shows night gallery!
I have to say one thing for the 80's, i was a teen and in love with the weekend lineup. I could sit up and watch twilight zone, night gallery, tales from the darkside, hitchcock..in one sitting and then elvira and the b-movies (can't even find b-movies on tv, I even miss Joe Bobs show that was cancelled recently..sigh) I'm the kid who flipped through the tv guide getting excited over movies like "Alligator" coming on. Now I have 500 channels and none of them shows  b movies! Even teh spanish channel shows recent stuff with adam sandler ;-/


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: John on July 15, 2002, 03:25:21 AM
>Btw, do earwigs only climb in your ears in the day? They don't call em earwigs
>for nuthin! Probably the show got to me because when I was 3 I went swimming
>and got an earwig, screaming pain. No eggs tho.

 As far as I know, they're not supposed to enter ears any more than any other bug. They're mostly interested in plants and are considered a pest. At least that's what all the stuff I read on them says (I was looking for advice on getting rid of them).

>I have to say one thing for the 80's, i was a teen and in love with the weekend
>lineup.

 Me too. In this area one channel out of New York used to have theme weeks each day at like 3 or 4pm. They'd show a week of horror movies, a week of Godzilla movies, a week of SF movies etc. Then there was the CBS latenight movie, which often aired strange old movies like The Manitou, The Spell, The Strange & Deadly Occurance etc.

 Now except for an occasional prime time movie, which is always recent, none of the channels show movies except on the weekends and even then they're mostly recent, sandwiched between the various syndicated shows. Don't get me wrong, I love the idea of first-run syndication, but I wish the channels would show old movies. It's sad that the pay channels are more likely to show old movies than regular stations now. And old series only get shown on specialty channels. :(


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: Susan on July 15, 2002, 11:14:39 AM
>>Now except for an occasional prime time movie, which is always recent, none of the channels show movies except on the weekends and even then they're mostly recent, sandwiched between the various syndicated shows. Don't get me wrong, I love the idea of first-run syndication, but I wish the channels would show old movies. It's sad that the pay channels are more likely to show old movies than regular stations now. And old series only get shown on specialty channels<<

The more channels you get, the less you get to watch. I mean I remember back when I had 7 stations. And it was sheer madness deciding what I wanted to see. "the blob", "twilight Zone", "the blob" or.......ahhhhhh! So you sit there with your hand on the knob (yes kiddies..we had knobs!) flipping back and forth, knowing station signoff was in just a few hours and you'd be left alone...in the dark.

I miss the days of bad movie lineups, lots of shows exploiting horror and the grotesque and bizarre. I miss station signoff and knowing you'd have to be patient. I miss saturday morning cartoons (mainly because you had to wait ALL WEEK to watch cartoons..they weren't on 24 hours a day, so it made you crazy!). I miss days when movies were long and commercials were few. I miss popcorn saturday nights when you always knew there was going to be something good on the tube and you could get your jiffy pop out. Now it's 500 stations of muck, no real good movies - just adam sandler flicks. You can find old movies, just real old ones from the 30's, but you try..just try to find movies from 1955-1983 on any given night! Commercials that are 8 minutes long and every 10 minutes into the movie. Cartoons on 24 hours a day..but ones that nobody cares about! Where's Hercules! Where's the classics. What's really more detrimental for our kids? "Terrorvision" or "The Bachelor"

susan
http://www.geocities.com/smvgrey
(dear god who the hell is making "Men in black" win my poll?)


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: Cullen on July 15, 2002, 03:51:57 PM
Once, in ancient times, when I was visiting my grandmother in Arizona, one of the channels did a marathon of Godzilla and Gamera movies.  24 hours.  I miss that day.
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Back on topic: I was once terrified by Yog: The Space Amoeba.  I was very, very young.


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: John on July 21, 2002, 08:01:18 PM
>I miss the days of bad movie lineups, lots of shows exploiting horror and the
>grotesque and bizarre. I miss station signoff and knowing you'd have to be

 Yup, although I never knew that many of those old movies were missing major portions. For example, a few years ago, I got to see The Creeping Flesh on Cinemax and it had tons of scenes I don't remember seeing on my local channel. I just recall his daughter getting infected, going crazy and being locked up. I don't remember them ever showing the scenes where she tries to seduce everyone in the bar. Also, The Blood on Satan's Claw was missing quite a bit.

>patient. I miss saturday morning cartoons (mainly because you had to wait ALL
>WEEK to watch cartoons..they weren't on 24 hours a day, so it made you crazy!). I

 I miss the various live-action shows they used to have. Land of the Lost (not the crappy remake), Space Academy, Jason of Star Command, Ark II, Skatebirds and even Sigmund and the Sea Monsters.

>I miss days when movies were long and commercials were few. I miss popcorn

 Yup.

>saturday nights when you always knew there was going to be something good
>on the tube and you could get your jiffy pop out. Now it's 500 stations of muck, no

 Never had Jiffy Pop, but I recall watching lots of horror movies that scared the crap out of me. Like one about them finding the armor of some giant spanish warrior and then the giant was supposedly roaming around (I forget if you ever actually see it or not), The Things that Wouldn't Die, where they find a buried, severed head that's still alive and it controls people to dig up his body. Curse of the Faceless Man, about a body that was covered in lava at Pompeii and it comes to life to carry off a woman that reminds him of his dead love etc.

>real good movies - just adam sandler flicks. You can find old movies, just real
 
 Well, I kind of liked Billy Madison. Didn't care for the rest.

>given night! Commercials that are 8 minutes long and every 10 minutes into the

 Tell me about it! I've taped a couple shows on MTV (behind the scenes of movies etc), and I paused it on the commercials only to have the 5 minute pause limit run out!

 There was a local channel that went on the air in the late 80's here and at first they showed almost all older movies and the commercial breaks were like 45-90 seconds. Now they're a UPN affiliate and show the same crap every other channel does.

>movie. Cartoons on 24 hours a day..but ones that nobody cares about! Where's
>Hercules! Where's the classics. What's really more detrimental for our

 Or Flash Gordon, Planet of the Apes, Fantastic Voyage, Star Trek, The Animated Series, The Herculoids, etc (as you can probably tell, my tastes run more toward SF).

 Even when a channel gets something fresh, they take it off right away. For example; when Fox took over the Family channel, they started showing an Australian series called Spellbinder II, Land of the Dragon Lord. It was a kids' show, but I'd seen the first one on Disney and liked it, so I started watching it. I was getting into it, and then they took it off right in the middle. (it was more like a serial than a series really). I sent them e-mail and they assured me that it would be back on the first quarter of 2000 (I think). They *NEVER* put it back on. I can't even trade for copies over the net, because they'd be in PAL and I'd have no way to play them. For a month or so, Fox was playing another Australian show in the afternoons called Round the Twist. Kids' show with a supernaturl element. They played each one once and then took it off. Fox took off Night Visions, a Twilight Zone type show after maybe 8-9 epsiodes. SFC put it on, played 3 episodes and took it off to show repeats of The Dead Zone, their USA show! :(


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: Susan on July 21, 2002, 08:40:11 PM
What a weird weekend. All this talk and I tune in teh sci-fi channel which is showing Return of the living dead 2. Then I actually..for the first time in probably 15 years watched "NIGHT GALLERY"! Oh yeah, I got it on MPLEX, tho i have to check schedule times..the episode had "john boy" from the waltons in it and a whole lot of sissy screaming..very bad..lol

I also had the advantage (or disadvantage?) of growing up overseas for part of my childhood. In the Philippines we  got lots of mainland shows like Buck rogers, love boat, dukes of hazzard, bj and the bear, dallas...even tho we were a half year behind in what was going on. We also got alot of anime..alot..plenty of Godzilla and various other japenese movies along these lines. And a whole lot of really bad..bad movies. Moving back to the states was an adjustment and I quickly got addicted to all that weekend late nite fright fests that you don't see anymore (now you just see random acts of b-movies) Another thing I remember is as a kid I saw alot of old movies and black and white tv. I was a stooge fan, saw all the our gangs and early early cartoons (when it was just music and cartoons rarely talked) so I think I was lucky. You can hardly find really old shows on frequently..particularly on the 'kid stations'.



Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: wuggles451 on July 21, 2002, 09:19:37 PM
when the  x-files aired the episode about the fluke man i was probly 9 i was afraid to sit on the toilet for months i ALWAYS checked before i sat



Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: jmc on July 21, 2002, 09:45:52 PM
AMC plays a lot of the old shows you mention, especially the Our Gang comedies.


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: laitka on July 22, 2002, 03:19:33 AM

Got to put my votes in for two classics: Gremlins and the Wizard of Oz (the flying monkeys and the scary music that came on whenever they came on screen)
When I was really, really little, (about 5) my dad sat down with me to watch my first ever horror movie... Gremlins!  I have to say, for little kids that is so scary.  I was convinced that my teddy bears were going to turn into monsters.  It didn't help that my dad decided that I was too scared to watch the remainder so he turned it off half way through.

The movie that scared me most though was a bit later - don't ask why - the Peanut Butter Solution.  It was about this kid who sees ghosts and gets so scared that his hair falls out then he finds this "solution" that grows his hair back but when it starts growing it doesn't stop and he ends up with this really long hair and then (I lose a bit here because it has been so long since I've seen it) but at some stage he gets abducted by an artist who has all of these missing children working making magical paintbrushes (that coincidentally make magic paintings) with the kid's hair.  Something about it really freaked me out.  My sister and I both had really bad nightmares.


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: John on July 22, 2002, 10:24:02 AM
>Then I actually..for the first time in probably 15 years watched "NIGHT
>GALLERY"! Oh yeah, I got it on MPLEX

 Was it an hour or do they show the chopped up half-hour episodes?

 Night Gallery was originally an hour show with 2 or more stories in each episode, but the studio decided to cut it up for syndication. Some very short stories were dropped because they couldn't fill 30 minutes, while other got padded with unrelated footage. Others were chopped up to make them fit. Also, all the Gary Collins, Sixth Sense episodes weren't originally part of the show.


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: flangepart on July 22, 2002, 10:27:00 AM
78 responses to this post....a new world record?


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: mr. henry on July 22, 2002, 10:34:36 AM
when the thread is DOA i'm going to compile it down into a list and maybe repost that. it's fun to see what scared us as tykes. and STILL does. what wimps we were!
funny how we go from "the brady bunch" to watching movies like "dead alive."

-mr. henry


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: slax on July 22, 2002, 04:30:56 PM
WOW laitka I remember that movie now that you mentioned it!!
only thing I remember is the person putting that stuff on their head though


i'll throw in a couple

IT-almost everyone I know who is the same age or around my age always is quick to agree pennywise scared the crap out of them
"they all float"

I remember almost watching nightmare on elm street 2 and I couldnt even make it past the first dream sequence on the school bus I was so freaked out from the aniticipation they were building


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: trashfanatic on July 23, 2002, 01:44:56 PM
mine's gotta be little shop of horrors, i was about 6 or 7 when i watched it and it scared the crap outta me.


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: Chadzilla on July 23, 2002, 01:49:18 PM
There was this old Popeye cartoon where Pops and Olive Oyl wind up on a haunted ship and a hankerchief floats up behind Olive and see that always gave me the most serious case of the willies.


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: Susan on July 23, 2002, 03:47:52 PM
Back in the caddyshack days when everybody was copying the prank in the movie with the babyruth candybar in the pool. Some were frightened by going into the water because of jaws. Others, were paralyzed with fear when seeing something brown floating in the public pool....

(particularly those who never saw the movie.lol)



Title: GOD DAM FRICKEN E.T!!!
Post by: Hamish on July 24, 2002, 03:56:28 AM
f**king E.T scared the s**t out of me for years.  Freaky little alien with extending neck, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhgh!!!!

keep seeing shadows moving in my room.

i dont know how anyone couuld 'love' a film like that, let alone a bloody alien looking like that


Title: I hear you there...
Post by: Chadzilla on July 24, 2002, 05:12:44 PM
But it was those neon frizzed out troll dolls with the insane grin that scared me s**tless as a wee lad.  How anyone could sleep in a room containing something that looks so freaking crazy is beyond.  I always felt that the were gleefully waiting for the chance to get me alone, then they would come to life and...OH s**t!


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: mr. henry on July 25, 2002, 02:07:26 AM
forgot this one earlier. surprised i forgot it...

THE FOX AND THE HOUND!

not scary? well it was to my little sister. sitting three seats from the aisle.

when the fox and hound are playing around a log and one of them pops down and looks into it upside down, scaring the other one...my sister launched her large cup of soda into the air, and it hit the floor dead center in the aisle.

-mr. henry


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: BlackAngel on July 26, 2002, 02:07:33 PM
I also remember when I was little, I was supposidly (I say that now) afraid of all those slasher movies.  That is until I was around 8 or 9 when I saw my first Friday 13th movie (I think it was 5 or 6.  All know it was around 1983).  The first half of the movie, I was scared, especially when this guy was trapped in a shed or something, after being chased by Jason, and a metal rod was poking inside the shed until jason find his mark.  But the second half, I find myself cheering for Jason, but also the woman trying to kill him.  After that, I still don't watch slasher flicks, all because it's so abominably funny.

And Mr. H is saying his sister was scared of something as harmless as the Fox and the Hound.  My mother will not watch any movie, and I mean NOT WATCH ANY MOVIE that contains otherworldly beings (or any tv show for that matter).  Even when she took me to see Star Trek and Star Wars she couldn't stand the sight of them, even Alien Nation and the Star Trek Series.  I try telling her it's just special effects and masks and make up, but there's just no getting to her.


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: John on July 27, 2002, 02:17:15 AM
>I also remember when I was little, I was supposidly (I say that now) afraid of all
>those slasher movies. That is until I was around 8 or 9 when I saw my first Friday
>13th movie (I think it was 5 or 6. All know it was around 1983). The first half of the

That would be part 5, A New Beginning with Tommy Jarvis in the country halfway house.

>movie, I was scared, especially when this guy was trapped in a shed or
>something, after being chased by Jason, and a metal rod was poking inside the
>shed until jason find his mark.  

 It was an outhouse.


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: Callysto on July 27, 2002, 02:30:32 AM
Now I know that this will sound silly, but I remember being scared of going to stay at a hotel when my mom and dad would go on bowling tournaments during the winter because the smoke coming out of the stack reminded me of Gigglesnort Hotel and the dragon who was always shoveling coal.

Of course even sillier yet is the fact that every time I went to Burger Chef-yes before they became Hardees around here- i was scared my hamburger would turn into a little talking hamburger guy like the one on the show The Magic Door.



Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: John on August 03, 2002, 12:13:50 AM
Ok, I just remembered another movie that gave me nightmares when I was little; The Cat Creature. I don't remember much other than that it had something to do with a mummy. I was always terrified of dead things coming back to live (mummies, zombies, skeletons) and the one glimpse I saw of the mummy was enough to give me nightmares for a week.


Title: Re: For me it was...
Post by: Jim Hepler on August 03, 2002, 12:39:13 AM
The Yip Yips gave me nightmares.   SCARY.


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: Flangepart on August 05, 2002, 10:33:29 AM
"Island of Terror" with Peter Cushing. Diden't get any sleep THAT night!



Title: Re: Island of Terror, spawner of a dozen nightmare
Post by: Chadzilla on August 05, 2002, 04:23:27 PM
Same here Flange, same here.

The H-Man freaked me out too, just something about DISSOLVING and leaving your clothes behind really creeped me out, couldn't finish the dang thing either.

Fiend Without a Face and The First Man Into Space (the one were the dude becomes a crusty vampire) scared me pretty badly too.  And Attack of the Giant Leeches, the slurping sounds, oh GOD!  No wonder I'm terrified of slimey things.

Beware the Blob freaked me out and sent me running from my bedroom.

And some scary advertisements to...

The freaking glaring possessed people in the Beyond the Door ads gave me nightmares, as did the endless turning cradle commercials for It's Alive.  And The Food of the Gods, oh man, that giant rat gnoshing on the dead chick's arm in the tree.  That was so horrifying I flat out refused to see the movie.



Title: Re: SILLY movies Inaders From Mars!
Post by: Bart Algore on August 05, 2002, 08:44:37 PM
Invaders From Mars did! Guy wrote about it at really scary.com

http://www.reallyscary.com/scaryvoices.asp


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: John on August 07, 2002, 04:28:54 PM
Invisible Invaders freaked me out too. Aliens take over the bodies of dead people turning them into zombies, which played right into my fear of dead things.


Title: Polergiest.
Post by: NavySailorX on August 08, 2002, 05:12:38 AM
Poltergiest........... specifically that evil Clown. To this day I hate clowns with a passion.


Title: Re: Polergiest.
Post by: raj on August 08, 2002, 09:41:57 AM
I've gone between disliking and loathing clowns.  Never could stand them, even when I saw Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey circus.  Their make up creeped me out as a kid more than zombie makeup.  What's the deal with all the white-face, it isn't as though they're trying to be non-humans (like zombies, werewolves, etc.)

And while it's not  a silly movie, the ending of Carrie really freaked me out the first time I saw it.  It even unnerved me years later when I saw it on tv, and knew it was coming.


Title: Re: Polergiest.
Post by: Lee on August 08, 2002, 11:08:09 PM
My aunt would agree with that. Clowns freak her out!


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: zh666 on August 09, 2002, 04:57:15 AM
Rawhead Raw

i remember this movie scaring the s**t out of me as a child, then i rented it a few years ago, and it was totally lame
actually the first half wasn't so bad, but the ending was super terrible...


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: Masked_Maverick on February 04, 2007, 07:48:28 PM
Killer Klowns from Outer Space. I loved clowns untill I saw this movie it scared the crap out of me. Little SHop of Horrors loved this movie but that giant freaking plant scared me as did Childs Play. I had a My Little Buddy Doll which I buried in the backyard after seeing this movie.


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: Poogie on February 04, 2007, 07:54:16 PM
Killer Klowns from Outer Space. I loved clowns untill I saw this movie it scared the crap out of me. Little SHop of Horrors loved this movie but that giant freaking plant scared me as did Childs Play. I had a My Little Buddy Doll which I buried in the backyard after seeing this movie.
Have you checked to see if it's still there?    :buggedout:


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: Ometiklan on February 04, 2007, 07:57:01 PM
The Crawling Hand from the mid Sixties..
My Dad played A horrorfying joke on My Brothers and I the night after watching
This flick.


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: Doc Daneeka on February 04, 2007, 08:13:25 PM
The monster from Suburban Warrior (the Hulk Hogan movie), I could never make it past the part where he transformed!


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: Javakoala on February 04, 2007, 11:56:35 PM
My big thing that scared me to distraction as a child wasn't a movie, but one of those late night horror movie shows on our local channel.  The theme music!  Oh my god!!!  Just the first few notes would send me into a screaming fit.  Of course I always wanted to sit up watch the movies with my older brother, so he would have to turn the volume down to keep me from waking up the entire house every Saturday night.  Still makes my bowels shaky.

To hear it, click here:  http://www.tulsatvmemories.com/realaud/sonikful.ram (http://www.tulsatvmemories.com/realaud/sonikful.ram)


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: quabrot on February 05, 2007, 01:55:40 AM
I was terrified of ET for years...


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: Joe the Destroyer on February 05, 2007, 03:11:11 AM
God, the list for me would be immense...

I found Monster actually a tad scary the first time I saw it, mainly because of the scene where the monster chews up the woman on the beach.  I was also terrified of Rawhead Rex and The Being when I was younger.


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: Masked_Maverick on February 05, 2007, 12:53:00 PM
Killer Klowns from Outer Space. I loved clowns untill I saw this movie it scared the crap out of me. Little SHop of Horrors loved this movie but that giant freaking plant scared me as did Childs Play. I had a My Little Buddy Doll which I buried in the backyard after seeing this movie.
Have you checked to see if it's still there?    :buggedout:

I can't I have long since moved soemwhere else besides if I remember correctly my parents found out and made me dig it back up.


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: JaseSF on February 05, 2007, 01:29:05 PM
POLTERGEIST scared the heck out of me. The twisted tree near the window, the clown toy...it was filled with creepiness sure to startle any kid.

SALEM'S LOT (at least I think it was "Salem't Lot") gave me nightmares about vampires and a fear of them for years.

PREDATOR scared me because it was this invisible hunter. Gave me nightmares about being hunted.

Same stuff you perhaps wouldn't expect to terrify:

The door in CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND...when the kid was beginning to open it. That scene freaked me out. Truth is, I still sometimes have nightmares about alien abductions.

The primitive giants in the Star Trek episode "The Galileo Seven".



Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: quabrot on February 05, 2007, 04:05:49 PM
I have never liked it when people called horror movies scary movies.  Poltergeist is one of the rare exceptions, and I will still call it a scary movie, because it is scary.  Even though it holds no surprises for me anymore (I've seeen it plenty of times), it is still eerie enough to pull me in and keep me on the edge of my seat.    The clown, the tree, the spectacular stuff, and then the low key stuff, like the little girl talking to the static on the TV in the dark room... it's all very creepy. 

The hand in the TV still makes me jump. 


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: Trevor on February 06, 2007, 04:00:42 AM
 :buggedout:

I don't know if the following can be classed as "silly", but they sure as heck were scary, to me anyway.

"Baffled" (with Leonard Nimoy)
"Crowhaven Farm" (with Hope Lange)
"Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark"
"Hunter" ("Stop the monkeys!!!!")

As TV miniseries:

"The Omega Factor"
"Hammer House of Horror"
"One Step Beyond"
"Thriller"
The "Quiet As A Nun" episode from "Armchair Thriller".


The memories of these are enough to give me cold chills.




Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: KYGOTC on February 06, 2007, 09:54:46 PM
I wasnt able to sit thru the entire thing of The Blob when i was little.


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: Dennis on February 06, 2007, 11:44:27 PM
Caltiki, The Immortal Monster, gave me nightmares for months, funny thing, it didn't bother me as a movie when I was awake, but the nightmares made me wake up in a sweat. They were of the "OH GEEZ, THIS ISN'T A DREAM!!" variety.
(http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q122/DENNISDURWARDHAMMOND/caltikidvd5.jpg)


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: felgekarp on February 07, 2007, 11:40:10 AM
Not a horror movie but The Elephant Man, I couldn't sleep for weeks after seeing that film.


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: Thorn Is on February 07, 2007, 06:41:46 PM
The Shining - I was six


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: KYGOTC on February 07, 2007, 06:48:12 PM
Large marge from "Pee wee's big adventure"used to freak me out back in the day.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g24/icarus_747/Photo528.jpg)


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: T-Rex Television on February 07, 2007, 07:26:19 PM
E.T.! He still scares me, seriously. God, he's so damn scary. Hmm..when I was younger, I watched The Thing and i guess i got real scared ( i was watching it with my dad, he said i got real scared and was breathing heavy and everything, but i dont remember that). Those are just a couple that stick out right now. I can watch most anything now though, except E.T. stills scares me. and other alien movies, but ESPECIALLY e.t., he's like, gonna kill me in my sleep.


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: Just Plain Horse on February 08, 2007, 01:02:55 PM
Two I can think of: Prophecy and one scene in Superman 3 (the scene where that lady gets pulled into the computer and comes out covered in metal parts). Prophecy gave me nightmares when I was a kid. That scene at the camp ground really stuck with me a long time... I kept having dreams of being chased amongst the trees :P


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: CoreyHeldpen on February 08, 2007, 09:06:57 PM
The Shining - I was six

Can't blame you about that.

E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial- Or as I like to call it, E.T.: The Evil Terror.

Killer Klowns from Outer Space- Honestly, those guys are ----ing creepy.

Predator- Whenever this played on Tv, I would run from the room, assuming my parents didn't change the channel before I figured out what I was watching.

Alien- Just the titular creature's appearance freaked me out. A friend of mine had an Alien action figure, and of course, I was scared of it. This jerk would constantly terrorize me with it! We weren't friends for very long.


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: Fausto on February 09, 2007, 01:25:39 PM
Things that used to terrify me as a kid:

The end of the Michael Jackson Thriller video (the part with the eyes)

Any old cartoons, one in particular would be a betty boop short with ghosts (oddly enough, it was all but the basis for one of my all time favorite movies, forbidden zone)

Child's play, and by extension, any "my buddy" doll

Mothra, who I still sometimes suspect of living in my closet

When I was god knows how old (6 or 7 would be a total guess), my family dragged me to some carnival that had a haunted house ride. I was too young to go on, but I remember a window on the outside. Part of the screen was down, and you could see a silhouette of a nude woman in a shower, with a knife sticking out of her back. When the screen cut off, you could see two foam rubber legs with blood running down them. It was really eerie and morbid. It scared the crap out of me, and for years afterward I refused to take a shower, baths only. Strange thing is, I later became a devoted fan of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, from which the scene was obviously derived. To this day, though, I still refuse to set foot in a haunted house of any kind.



Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: T-Rex Television on February 10, 2007, 01:57:06 AM
Large marge from "Pee wee's big adventure"used to freak me out back in the day.

([url]http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g24/icarus_747/Photo528.jpg[/url])


Yeah, that is scary (especially right this moment, sitting here in the dark alone, silence....creepy..)


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: T-Rex Television on February 10, 2007, 02:25:59 AM
I get scared of going in the water a lot, too. Because lots of times Iwill start thinking of Jaws or a giant squid or something. and the thing is, im not afraid of sharks really, i like them. And i'm scared of like, nessie or dinosaurs in the ocean or some unknown creature will come up from the deep and drag me down or something! eve nin swimming pools, i freak and get scared and get out as fast as i can, cause i look at the little grate on the bottom of the pool, and think octopuses will come out or something! Ive only seen a couple movies realted to that though, but i try to steer clear of those kind of movies, unless i want a real scare! But I shouldnt worry, cause Godzilla will come out of the sea and save me in case of emergency right!?

A friend told me to watch "Eraserhead", and i still have to, maybe with him since im too much of a wimp to watch it alone, and its more fun with someoneelse anyway, but i looked it up on the computer, just to see what it was a about, and i saw a picture of that scary-f*ck alienbaby thing, and i clciked right off the screen, and it scares the daylights out of me! (i am terrified of aliens!!ahh) and i turned the light on, and a couple minutes later i wandered around, and tryed to go into the bathroom (not really for any particular reason, but i decided i would close the door so it wasnt so scary), but i walked in slowly, then suddenly turned around and skidded on the floor almost falling over! that stupid image scared/scares me so much now! and i kept thinking that night, in bed, that it would be right next to me in the bed! especially because i had a big pile of clothes there, so it was like he was sitting right next to me looking at me! jeez, its going to be so scary!


E.T. defintely scares me, sometimes if i watch it,  i cant go into the bathroom for a couple days (cause that scene when he is white and sick and dying, in Elliots bathroom, freaky!)

And also, The Shining. Movies like this usually dont scare me, since msotly supernatural movies scare me like aliens and deformations and whatever, and the shining was pretty realistic. But that lady really got to me. when Jack goes into that roomm (forget the number) and starts kissing the naked lady in the bathroom, and she starts decaying and turns old. when he is backing up in horror, she comes torwards him laughing all scary and reaching for him. ho-ly sh*t,  one time after i watched that, i didnt go in my bathroom for a whole week! (and this was a few months ago too! god)



Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: JaseSF on February 10, 2007, 12:45:07 PM
Quote
a scene in Superman 3 (the scene where that lady gets pulled into the computer and comes out covered in metal parts)

Quote
The end of the Michael Jackson Thriller video (the part with the eyes)

Those two definitely scared me senseless too when I was younger.


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: CoreyHeldpen on February 11, 2007, 08:34:38 PM
Here's another one that I won't be pleased with my self to admit, but I figure I should get if off my chest.
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Scobby Doo on Zombie Island.
Damn shriveled-up moaning green zombies and their damn soul-sucking cat monsters with their damn man-eating alligators.


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: Shuvcat on February 19, 2007, 12:16:35 AM
Count Zappula- a local horror movie host who used to host movies back in the '70s, here in Michigan-- he was actually pretty comical but he dressed up in vampire makeup and used to braodcast from a haunted house, and he scared the s*** out of me. (Of course I was 4 at the time)
Arnold- the shower scene, when the two lovers are crushed to death, and all you see is the shower head being crushed between the walls... yikes.
Night of the Scarecrow- when the guy falls in the thresher. Bleah!!
Bowzer on Sha Na Na was terrifying to me. Partially because of those huge teeth, he looked like some kind of '50's greaser vampire
Alice Cooper on the Muppet Show
the Halloween ep of Punky Brewster where the kids fall into the mine, with the skeletal dog, and the evil monster with the long fingernails. Holy cow, that was scary.
The Bloodhound Gang ep with the cackling, floating ghost in the backyard.

Oddly enough, I wasn't afraid of the Wizard of Oz, or Gremlins at all. I thought those were the coolest ever.


Title: Re: SILLY movies that TERRIFIED us as kids...
Post by: DARKTIGER on February 20, 2007, 12:24:57 PM
The commercial for The Shinning that commercial gave me the creeps everytime it came on. Halloween 3 that movie made me not to put on a mask for a long time about 3 years.