^^ 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
The Lion and the Bear on Teletubbies
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.)
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 ;).
“Gosh, Dad! You mean it eats people?!?”
“Not ‘eats,’ Jonny. Consumes them. For their energy.” :eek:
In my preceding Tingler post, I wrote “deaf woman” when, in fact <slaps noggin>, the plot point was she was mute.
Carry on …
Somehow that was worse! You can kinda picture someone being eaten, but consumed? Makes me uneasy just thinking about it.
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.