Whoa, are you me? I used to get really freaked out by this skit and run out of the room until it was over. My family still teases me about it.
The Banshee in Darby O’Gill and the Little People scared the bejeezus out of me. Especially when Darby opens the cottage door and she swoops right up to him. (shudder)
Holy shit I forgot about that until you reminded me. Yeah, that creeped me out, too.
And the stupid scene in Pinocchio, when he…falls over the cliff? Gets eaten by a whale? Something to do with water, I can’t remember.
Clowns - all of them.
Especially the one from the Little House on the Prairie rape scene. Nuff Said.
Now that I think about it, that weird villain from Time Bandits with the crazy head gear freaked me out too.
Me too…gave me nightmares! Now it seems so cheesy that it’s almost laughable.
Holy crap but Trilogy of Terror scared me silly. The Zuni Fetish Doll kept me on the edge of embarrasing and public urination, but the scene at the end where she calls her mother and tells her to come over after all, then starts poking the chef’s knife into the linoleum just sent me over the edge.
Another of the Trilogy had to do with a woman who had been unattractive in school killing those who had given her crap. This wasn’t scary to me, but inspirational.
Something else that creeped me out to no end was a movie called Willard. Odd plot about a guy who said in his will that he wanted his body displayed in his home, then the corpse started killing people. Honestly, I don’t remember that much about it because I’ve still not seen it to this day. Went to the drive-in as a wee lad, and it was playing first in the lineup, and I made myself take a nap while it was on.
Someone was raped on Little House? :eek:
The movies that leaped instantly to mind: the original House of Wax and Dark Night of the Scarecrow. In House of Wax, the scariest part to me was where the girl was beating on Vincent Price’s chest and his wax face started breaking away, revealing his burned flesh.
Dark Night of the Scarecrow had lots of scary parts…I’m going to say the worst was where the guy was buried alive by the wheat in the silo.
Wow, I came in here to mention that very one. The scene where it is chasing him along the road scared me to death as a kid. Brrr… :eek:
I don’t know if this was a Twilight Zone or not, but there was an old B&W movie about a hand in a box that once released, strangled people.
Almost all of the Wizard of Oz scared me-and my kids can’t even watch in on DVD.
I was frightened of the gap between my bedroom door and the wall, as well as the space underneath my bed for years.
And once my oldest sister and I figured out that a stranger could gain access to our house and move around in such a way as to escape detection (it was a large house)…I was never comfortable in it, alone at night.
I still don’t like scarey things. I will not go see a horror movie or a haunted house.
One more: The Devil and Daniel Mouse. I’m disappointed that I couldn’t find a picture of the Devil. He scared the cheezly old shit out of me when I saw this on TV as a kid. His face morphed around as he spoke in a phantasmagorical seventies kind of way. I got it from the library again as an adult…and I’ll be darned if it didn’t scare me all over again! It made my kids laugh.
Partly opened dresser drawers at bed time. I saw a scene in horror movie when I was very small (yeah older siblings were supposed to be “babysitting”)- I think it was an old “Night of the living dead” in which someone opened a drawer and there was a body in it. I was really young and only vaguely remember it-
To this day I can’t go to sleep if the dresser drawer is not closed all the way.
Oh yeah- worms.
Velma! Me too! Terrified of E.T. - I had nightmares for weeks. Especially the hazmat scene, where the whole house is surrounded and everyone’s in plastic and it’s all scary? Terrible. Parents, don’t let your little ones see this movie. Really.
I wasn’t scared by ET, but I did not find him (her?) attractive in the least. I couldn’t figure out why the boy didn’t run away and get a parent. Also, my RL initials since marriage have been ET and I am sick of the damned phone home joke, kay?
My son was afraid of escalators for a bit (preschool age).
I can relate. I posted this some time ago in a similar thread, but the opening scenes of My Three Sons used to seriously scare the stuffing out of me. Something about the melancholy music combined with a picture that drew itself and those headless bodies with moving hands just totally freaked me out and I still get a slight case of the willies when I see it!
But, as you said, it wasn’t a scary show at all, and I remember enjoying it once it got past the beginning!
Yes, a girl Albert fell in love with was raped by the town blacksmith, who wore a clown’s mask. Naturally, being Little House, when she got pregnant as a result of the rape her father blamed her.
The Wizard of Oz, when the witch’s feet curled up underneath the house. :eek:
That stupid monkey toy with the nasty grin. You wound it up and it would bang cymbals together. Stephen King wrote a short story about that same monkey toy. I think it gave quite a few people nightmares.
The UK government has never held back in trying to scare the shite out of kids with public information films.
This one came out when I was five. It’s calledLonely Water and it left scars. (doesn’t play as a pop-up, needs downloading). Oh, and it has Donald Pleasance doing the voice of the Grim Reaper, horror fans.
Another one I remember, that doesn’t appear to be on the National Archives site linked above, is a short film that was shown to kids who lived in the countryside. Highlights included a kid getting mushed under a tractor’s wheels, another kid drowning in a slurry pit, and a little girl dying in screaming agony after mistaking paraquat for coca-cola. I didn’t leave the house for years after that.
Anyway, there are all sorts of goodies on the National Archives site. Anyone with a fondness for Eighties Acid House will certainly find the source of many of the samples.“Charlie says always tell your mummy when you go out…”.
Yes! That and the tornado scene itself. That seemed very realistically done for how long ago the movie was made. And I grew up in the tornado-riddled midwest, so we were down in our basement at least once every summer.
I also saw Looking For Mr. Goodbar at way too young an age. The stabbing (?) scene freaked me out for a lo-o-ong time.
And Carrie. That movie freaked me out, too.