There are two movies that I remember being terribly frightened of when I saw as a kid. One was a movie that I recall being named Trilogy of Terror starring Karen Black. As the name implies, there were three movies but the only one I remember was the one about a troll doll from Africa.
Then there was a movie I saw on TV called, I think, The Others. About a family that moved into a house were demon-type thingies lived in the crawl space.
And also-- The Sycophated Clock used to scare the beejezus outta me. It was the theme to the Late Late Late Movie or some such. Whenever that song came on, I was instantly alert for monsters.
I remember the syncopated clock too - we must be of an age. The one movie that scared the crap out of me when I was a kid was Invaders From Mars. Thanks to some older kids who were visiting, this is the first scary movie I ever saw. I had nightmares for weeks. They made a remake of it with Karen Black in 1983.
Strangely, one of the things that seriously creeped me out as a kid was was Fiver in Watership Down… “There’s a dog… loose… in the wood… There’s a dog… loose… in the wood…”
It’s like you are in my head. Those are the exact two that scarred me for life when I was a kid.
I can’t remember the stories from the first two parts of the Trilogy of Terror, but I remember them as being more creepy than outright scary. Did they ever make up for that in the third part. I am still vaguely creeped out by dolls (ANY dolls) to this day.
Remember these? Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell and The Devil’s Rain ? I loved both of those but they scared the crap out of my best friend (who, oddly enough, didn’t even bat an eye at Trilogy of Terror of Dont’ Be Afraid of the Dark).
Oh man, that movie creeped me out in a huge way. Still remember it vividly, that little African doll chasing her around the house. One of the top 5 scary memories for me.
Here’s another: The opening montage of Marcus Welby, M.D. Some shots of ambulances adn such in this creepy negative color scheme with a “weeee- wuhhh, weee-wuhhh,” scary music. But oddly, it wasn’t a scary show.
Potato bugs creeped out the preadolescent kaylasdad99.
Still do, if you want to get all factual and everything, but I hardly ever encounter them these days.
Anyway, the game Cooties, where you build a giant bug, creeped me out as a kid, because the bug in question so resembled a potato bug. Except for being HUGE!!!
This doesn’t have to be just about movies and TV, does it?
That little african doll scared the crap out of me as a kid. I remember one shot in particular of the doll rising up out of the bathtub where Karen Black had just tried to drown it before running down the hall.
I was scared half to death by the Sesame Street skit where Bert and Ernie are in a pyramid, and an Ernie-Pharaoh statue comes to life and pokes Ernie repeatedly, while Bert refuses to believe him. Sure, eventually the statue sings the rubber ducky song and dances with Ernie, but I was terrified of all the inanimate people-ish things in my room for weeks. I was so sure they were just waiting for the right moment to wake up and poke me. Mom had to take all my dolls and teddy bears and lock them in her closet.
ET creeped me out in a big way. That scene at the beginning where Elliot is in the backyard, and it’s all foggy and you hear the scrabbly noises? Am I the only one who thought ET himself looked disgusting and that any child would run away horrified, not befriend the beastly little thing? His heart glowed and they way his neck stretched out was creepy too.
Or later when ET is all white and gross and laying by the river. Seriously, they thought this was a good movie for little kids? To this day I have a phobia and shudder about anything ET related. Once as a gag gift I got a little ET figurine (the giver didn’t know my phobia - my friends all had a good laugh when they saw what I got though) and my husband likes to torment me by hiding it in places where I will discover it unexpectedly.
The Wizard Of Oz was shown every year on TV, and for the first few years, there was a scene or two where I had to leave the room. The monkeys tore the Scarecrow apart, and the WWOW threatened to set him on fire. :eek: :eek:
My class in elementary school went on a field trip to the city power plant. We were led into a big room where steam-driven generators were roaring and humming louder than anything I had ever heard. That was overwhelming. Then I looked down, and I realized we were walking on a steel grate, twenty feet above another set of yowling generators. At that age, that was the most scared I had ever been. Yike!
I was afraid of that stupid fetus they show in the opening credits of Twilight Zone, that one against the Earth backdrop.
And I was afraid of that stupid cat clock whose eyes ticked opposite to his tail. velma I agree, ET was creepy. I wasn’t scared of him, quite, but I thought it was disgusting when he was sick. Eew. I still do.
that Twilight Zone episode about the dollbaby that wouldn’t die
this movie about a woman who turned into a killer bee and killed people
oh, and
Godzilla, although he looks pretty corny to me today, used to scare the living shit out of me as a kid. That roar sound he made still is at the top of my “sounds I never want to hear in real life” list. He showed up many times in my nightmares growing up.
oh, and
our basement. Man, if I was down there and somebody turned on the faucet to the bathtub upstairs, the squeal that came down through the pipes made me think that place was demonic. I don’t think I ever felt truly comfortable being down there, and I even had a bedroom down there for a while. Turning off the lights was always, always a bit unnerving.
Bitches, I’ve got you all beat. I was afraid of my grandmother’s lampshade (yes, lampshade) which had minutemen all over it. I must have had a nightmare about it because every time we went to her house, which was weekly, I would cower at my mother’s feet in sheer terror. I couldn’t look at it or be anywhere near it. I think I was about 3 years old.
That and the lines “Have you checked the children” and “The call is coming from inside the house”. I saw that movie when I was 9 and I couldn’t get to sleep that night. I kept expecting someone to come out of my closet.
Thistles. I just knew they’d uproot themselves and chase me. Iowa has some huge thistles, and these were as tall as me. Shudder.
Invaders from Mars scared me too. My parents were drinkers, and drunk people aren’t the same as when they’re sober. So see the movie and then watch your parents’ behavior change? Scary.