i posted this thread a year ago and it was a lot of fun (it also broke 100 replies). i meant to condense the replies down and post that. unfortunately my computer crashed and i lost the info. not only that, there are tons of new people on the board and it will be fun to see their replies.
like last time, i'll start off with the fact that when i was little i was scared by the Brady Bunch episode where the boys are trying to scare the girls out of using the attic. a trunk opened and a goofy ghost rose out of it. a tape recorder played something along the lines of "it's hot. it's so hot." i don't know whey that scared me but it did.
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my sister got so scared at disney's Fox and the Hound that she literally threw her drink into the air. luckily it landed in the aisle. it was the part where one of the characters surprises another one hiding in a hollow log.
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When I was a kid, would you believe an Irwin Allen monster scared the crap out of me?
It was the episode of Lost in Space with the Golden Man. Simple plot - an ugly froglike alien and a smarmy golden-skinned alien bring their war to the planet. Gold guy charms Dr. Smith into handing over all of the weapons (as if he needed them), then turns into a hideous red alien with a distorted face, and reveals his eeeeevil plans. The moral: don't judge a book by its cover.
I covered my eyes when this alien came on. I had trouble getting to sleep that night because I couldn't get that face off my mind. Scared the living snot out of me.
I saw the episode again, a few years ago, and wondered how a guy in a crappy papier mache head scared me at all. I've seen Mardi Gras masks scarier than this thing.
When I was a kid, I used to watch the SOUPY SALES SHOW on television.
Soupy had a pet dog, which was really a guy in a fluffy suit. I think that all they ever showed were his arms or something . . . never the whole body. Anyway, every time the "dog" came on, I would get really terrified.
And the damn show was a COMEDY!
What the hell is wrong with me????
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The Night Stalker....he looked like my uncle.
A comercial for Indianapolis Public Water Systems. The commercial was basically a picture of a guys head that turned very slowly to the song "Aquarius" from HAIR. Just very freaky.
OH, I forgot the worst one when i was little.
the local PBS station had a show sorta like mr. rogers. only it was a woman who read stories and stuff. anyway, once per episode she'd leave her house and the camera would linger on the empty room. then, slowly, someone in a pink bunny costume would enter and go through her things. then it would leave. the woman would look around and ask the viewers "was someone here?" damn that creeped me out.
There was also an anti-drug abuse public service announcement that they used to show on television when I was around 7 or 8 years old. It showed a hippie with a syringe shooting heroin into his arm. The announcer made a short speech about how a drug habit can grow until it is out of control. During the speech, the hippie's syringe kept getting bigger and bigger (through time-lapse photography). At the end, the syringe was about the same size as the hippie. The hippie would then fall on the floor as if he were dead. That used to really scare me when I was a kid.
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I was scared by Stephen King's It at 8 years old, something so scary about a child eating clown who can come out of showers or drains. Worse of all, your parents dont believe he exists (they never do!!!!)
I also was very scared by Pee Wee Herman as a child. Talking chairs and he himself was a scary guy with his pale ghost like face.
I also got scared of the classic Twilight Zone Episode "terror at 20,000 feet," where Shatner sees that gremlin on the wing and when he looks up, there it is pressed against the window. Now it looks like a guy in an oversized parka. Geez it scared me.
Last thing, was my grandma's house, it was a big dark, old person's Victorian style hose with awful furnioture. I dont know, but my mom would always forget something downstairs at night and send me down the creaking stairs in the pitch black darkness. Geez.
That androgenous puppet on Mr. Rogers always gave me the willies
Sorry I don't know how to place an image in here - but i think it was prince tuesday? I never watched the show but whenever i happened to flip by and that puppet was on....
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...i think it might have been Madam Friday...that puppet made me uneasy too...the ruddy cheeks...the long nose...(shudder)...
Movies don't scare me. Television scares me even less, but, there have been times I have been scared.
"Robin Hood" w/ Richard Greene.
The episode in which they were supposedly in a haunted castle, and there was a scene of a man supposedly beheaded by a executioner in a black hood. I still remember that one, after all these years.
"Shirley Temple Theater"
The "Rapunzel" episode. Where the husband goes into the witch's garden, next door, because his pregnant wife has a craving for rapunzel. I think it was just the expectation that something would happen, that scared me so bad.
And a bit later.
"Star Trek"
My first episode. The one with the salt monster that sucked all the salt out of the human body. That episode scared me so bad, it put me off of "Star Trek" for years.
"The Twilight Zone"
My second episode. The one where the three-armed Martian meets the three-eyed Venusian in the roadside diner. There again, that episode scared me so bad, it put me off of "The Twilight Zone" for years.
>>...i think it might have been Madam Friday...that puppet made me uneasy too...the ruddy cheeks...the long nose...(shudder)...<<
Maybe...I didn't watch the show enough to know but if it was supposed to be a male you wouldn't know by the demeanor and voice and if it was to be a woman..well the short hair and sheer ugliness..lol Overall creepy factor: 9.8
The kind of nightmare i would fully expect to see standing on top of me when I pulled back the monster-proof covers
Then again the idea of puppets always gave me the creeps. To this day I have a disturbing distaste for commercials that portray any inanimate object as alive (including that ones that show talking sandwhiches and burgers) egads!
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For me it was Wizzo the Wizard on Bozo's Circus. The way he acted always freaked me out. Now that the show is gone I feel silly about it.
The Dark Crystle - Dam those are some scary muppets.
I remember when I was very young in the 70's watching the old Star Trek episodes.
I remember that the volume was always turned up and in the intro of Star Trek when the Enterprise whooshed by it would always startle me!
Keep in mind that as a kid I always sat about 6 inches from the screen.
You know the intro....."Starring William Shatner" WHOOSH! (goes the Enterprise)
"Starring Leonard Nimoy" WHOOSH !!!!!!
For some reason the WHOOSH of the Enterprise coming at me scared the hell out of me!
It doesn't anymore Thank God!
haha!
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I remember a scary movie that scared the heck out of me. I asked readers about it once before but no one could help. It was back in the 60's. It was about these creatures that flew around. They looked like feather-covered lamp shades and they would go down over a persons head and when they came back up the persons eyeballs would be entirely white. They sounded like sirens. My mom said that after that Id run inside screaming my head off when sirens went off. I would love to discover if this was a movie or what. Thanks.
I probably posted these last time;
Lost in Space - The episode with lots of fog, Dr. Smith trying to contact his dead relative and an invisible creature making disembodied footprints.
Twilight Zone - Terror at 20,000 Feet, when Shatner sees the gremlin with its face pressed against the window. For a long time I was afraid to look out the window at night.
Some bigfoot movie - A guy goes into the bathroom, sits of the toilet and a big, hairy arm comes in the open window next to him and starts feeling around.
johnl, i remember the bigfoot one from last time...bigfoot attacking a guy on a toilet, who could forget that one.
another one i remember someone posting last time were those two pink and blue "yep yep yep yep aha aha aha" muppets from Seseme Street.
Night of the Living Dead scared the Beejesus out of me when i was about 5 or 6 years old ( the origional George Romero 1968 ) I remember running around and screaming like a wild animal when the little girl started hacking her mother in the face down in the basement. Also, The Mummy with Boris Karloff simply horrified me as a child ( the scene near the beginning when the hand reaches for a scroll or something)
But now I adore these and other movies very much. They bring me joy and pleasure beyond words ( of course a little "smoke" helps with the joy and pleasure).
I salute thee, B movies, for ye give me strength and hope!!!!!!!
Prophecy (John Frankenheimer, mutant bear) scared the hell out of me when I was young.
Also, the Doctor Who episode Face of Evil where they force the doctor to stand over the pit of poisonous trilobites left a lasting and disturbing impression on my mind. If I recall my memories and not what the scene actually looks like now, it's still kinda creepy for some reason.
Brother R
The two Doctor Who stories that scared me as a kid were the one with the Zygons (bulging, veiny and octopus-like, with organic-looking technology), and the Brain of Morbius, in which an evil time lord's brain is placed in a Frankenstein monster made of various alien parts. Both are now among my favourite episodes. I now find them a lot of fun for the same reasons they scared me before. The monsters are completely over the top, with that unique Dr. Who cheesiness.
Believe it or not, as a kid, I would have problems going to sleep at night because of the original Carnosaur. (I didn't see the seques till recently). That movie scared the s**t out of me, but now I watch it all the time. The scene where the gaien got ripped from the bulldozer got me. Carnosaur is one of my fav b movies now.
I was also afraid from Killer Clowns From Outer Space. But a lot of people say they were afraid of that movie when they were young. And to think the main guy went to appear in Raptor. Man! I love that film!
And then there are the Jason ad Freddy films. But everyone is afraid of those when they are young, well some atleast. There are some that are afraid even now. As for me, I can't wait for Freddy vs. Jason.
There was a Popeye cartoon with marching cavemen (they looked like hairy ostriches with clubs) - I could hear them marching up the stairs outside my room at night - I would hold my breath, but I knew they would hear my heart beating, it was so loud!
Man, I would sweat...terrified. Thought I would die of fright. Beats me as to why.
Wow, looks like the PBS network was responsible for scaring a lot of us as kids. There used to be a segment on "Sesame Street" way back in the early seventies that would show an EXTREME close-up of the skin of a tomatoe (all "sweaty" and everything) and then a human hand (you could see every single pore) to the accompaniment of some weird synthesizer music. The visuals and the freaky music terrified me at age three. Also, the classic "Star Trek" episode "The Lights of Zetar" freaked me out the first time I saw it as a kid-the scene where the dying woman is trying to speak and her speech is all slowed and distorted; then she turns a few different colors and kicks. Brrrrrrr.......
And hey, Mr. Henry-that PBS show you mentioned-was it called "Hodge Podge Lodge?"
darkautumn wrote:
> And hey, Mr. Henry-that PBS show you mentioned-was it
> called "Hodge Podge Lodge?"
i don't think so. i don't remember anything "lodge"-like about the woman's house. this was on pbs in south dakota but i'm not sure if it was produced locally or not. i did look up Hodge Podge Lodge on jumptheshark and nothing there sparked any memories. however, if the show had a pink bunny that entered an empty house, then that most likely is it. the bunny is about all i remember though...also, this would have been around '75 to '77 or so...
Ok, when I was young (like 8), I recall channel surfing. I ran across some horrible looking robot with antlers and it scared the bejesus out of me. In my later years I found out it was one of the robots from Mystery Science Theater 2000. It took TONS of convincing to even get me to watch that show in my teens, becuz I remember being so freaked out by that deer robot evil bastard. Then after I watched the show, I wondered why I was so scared of that stupid thing that cracks wisecracks. But alas, I still do not own any MST movies and have only watched a couple.
The irony of all this is, in the same time period I watched Poltergeist, Friday the 13th, etc and was not scared at all, in fact I jolly well laughed at them.
Boy I was a demented child,
Deena
Lady Elaine Fairchild was the name of that creepy doll from Mr. Rogers.
Wizard of Oz, when Dorthy is looking her Annte Anne in the Crystal Ball and The Wicked Witch appears in the crystal ball with her witches kackle. I would see it every years and would know when the scene was coming and I would hide beside the TV and maybe peek to catch a glimpse.
The movie CARRIE when the hand would come out of the grave at the end.
Those were the Goons. From where we got the the word goon.