# Movies or TV that Terrified you as a kid **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 28, 2015, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-or-tv-that-terrified-you-as-a-kid/735964 "2015-10-28T14:15:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2015, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-or-tv-that-terrified-you-as-a-kid/735964/161 "2015-11-28T00:26:01Z")
^^ BTW, I’m still logy from all the turkey yesterday, but good poster name/subject combo. I hope you and Bruce are very happy. Nap will now continue… zzzzzzzzz ---
**Author:** ![bomberswarm2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c37758/32.png) [@bomberswarm2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bomberswarm2)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2015, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-or-tv-that-terrified-you-as-a-kid/735964/162 "2015-11-28T00:30:35Z")
The Lion and the Bear on Teletubbies ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2015, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-or-tv-that-terrified-you-as-a-kid/735964/163 "2015-11-28T01:02:46Z")
I mentioned this thread yesterday while at dinner with my family. I spoke of an episode of _Johnny Quest_ and before I even mentioned which episode my BIL said “Oh, the light bulb monster! It freaked me out.” It’s really amazing how many people have mentioned that cartoon as having frightened them. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2015, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-or-tv-that-terrified-you-as-a-kid/735964/164 "2015-11-28T01:07:34Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > I mentioned this thread yesterday while at dinner with my family. I spoke of an episode of _Johnny Quest_ and before I even mentioned which episode my BIL said “Oh, the light bulb monster! It freaked me out.” It’s really amazing how many people have mentioned that cartoon as having frightened them. If you’re as goofy as I am, that episode still works; not quite as terrifying as when we were 7YO, but the suspense is still there. (The mummy scared me bad, too.) ---
**Author:** ![norvalnormal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f19dbf/32.png) [@norvalnormal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norvalnormal)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2015, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-or-tv-that-terrified-you-as-a-kid/735964/165 "2015-11-28T01:33:58Z")
I am fascinated by how many of these exact same traumas (the testicle monsters in Rodan, Darby O’Gill, monsters on the original Outer Limits that are now ludicrously un-scary) I had. The already frequently mentioned “Tingler” I saw at a "kiddies’ " matinee. There’s a scene where the deaf woman sees blood pouring from the bathroom sink faucet and filling up the bathtub–and it’s RED–in a black-and-white movie! (Also, LSD featured prominently in the plot, long before the drug became well known to the general American public.) ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2015, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-or-tv-that-terrified-you-as-a-kid/735964/166 "2015-11-28T02:41:03Z")
> [@norvalnormal](#): > > I am fascinated by how many of these exact same traumas (the testicle monsters in Rodan, Darby O’Gill, monsters on the original Outer Limits that are now ludicrously un-scary) I had. > > The already frequently mentioned “Tingler” I saw at a "kiddies’ " matinee. There’s a scene where the deaf woman sees blood pouring from the bathroom sink faucet and filling up the bathtub–and it’s RED–in a black-and-white movie! (Also, LSD featured prominently in the plot, long before the drug became well known to the general American public.) Oh, MAN, I’m glad we had only a black-&-white TV at the time I saw that. RED would have been too much. I’m truly sorry you had to endure that ;). ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2015, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-or-tv-that-terrified-you-as-a-kid/735964/167 "2015-11-28T11:16:11Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > If you’re as goofy as I am, that episode still works; not quite as terrifying as when we were 7YO, but the suspense is still there. “Gosh, Dad! You mean it eats people?!?” “Not ‘eats,’ Jonny. _Consumes_ them. For their _energy_.” :eek: ---
**Author:** ![norvalnormal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f19dbf/32.png) [@norvalnormal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norvalnormal)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2015, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-or-tv-that-terrified-you-as-a-kid/735964/168 "2015-11-28T15:21:28Z")
In my preceding _Tingler_ post, I wrote “deaf woman” when, in fact \, the plot point was she was mute. Carry on … ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2015, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-or-tv-that-terrified-you-as-a-kid/735964/169 "2015-11-28T15:57:02Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > “Gosh, Dad! You mean it eats people?!?” > > “Not ‘eats,’ Jonny. _Consumes_ them. For their _energy_.” :eek: Somehow that was _worse_! You can kinda picture someone being eaten, but _consumed_? Makes me uneasy just thinking about it. ---
**Author:** ![LegendHasit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/legendhasit/32/8246_2.png) [@LegendHasit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LegendHasit)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2015, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-or-tv-that-terrified-you-as-a-kid/735964/170 "2015-11-28T18:05:51Z")
The 1979 TV film Amityville Horror. My family believed in demons being a real thing, so windows slamming down on children’s fingers and blood oozing from the walls amongst all the other creepy-scary in that movie stuck with me for a good long while in my elementary school years. That was the only movie I saw as a child that made me afraid to go into the basement by myself or be alone in my bedroom. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-or-tv-that-terrified-you-as-a-kid/735964.md?page=8)