Tales from the Crypt, anyone? Nearly all of them gave me the heebie-jeebies…the man who cuts off his son’s feet…the conjoined twin brothers…the practical joke where one guy pretends to autopsy his brother…the model who kills another model to win her place as number one…
Wouldn’t he have died of thirst first?
Sorry.
Wouldn’t he have DIED OF THIRST first?
Years ago, I saw a children’s show on public television. The host was giving safety tips - one of them was to look both ways before crossing the street. The tips were illustrated with cartoons - simple line drawings with stick figures.
The first drawing showed a young boy striding across the street, oblivious to traffic. The next drawing showed him lying down in the street with crosses (plus signs) instead of eyes. I ran crying from the room, and kept having nightmares for many nights about people I knew who had crosses instead of eyes.
Of course, I was four years old at the time, but when I later remembered this from my past, I realized how the most innocuous things can frighten a small child.
YES!!
(leaps away from keyboard)
It’s not from my childhood, but The Cat With Hands freaks. me. the. hell. out.
Hey, can someone spoil those Hitchcock stories for me – Unlocked Window and the Woodbines one? I can’t find anything about them on the Internets.
“An Unlocked Window” and “Where the Woodbine Twineth” were on The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.
Jesus Christ!!!
Aaaaaaand I’m never sleeping again.
Thank you!! I LOVE spooky organ music!
(Hijack) Best organ music I ever heard was in Switzerland, in a cathedral built on a site where Charlemagne had a vision. Old stone, smelt like old stone, and many, many crypts on site. The organist came to practice, and the music reverberated on the stone. Spooky, magical, and totally wonderful.
this is great! Thank you for posting this link. I just sent it to my cat fanatic friends…how many of them will sleep happily with their kitties tonight? Heh, heh, heh.
Ahhh the Eygpt skit from Sesame Street. I used to love that.
I have to second the Tales From the Darkside closet one.
But here’s three of my own personal ones.
First, not a TV show, but the music video to Herbie Hancock’s Rockit used to scare the wits out of me. Picture this: A four or five year old seeing things like that going on in a house. All these scary looking figures and machines all operating like that. My mom used to have MTV on all the time (this was back in the day when they actually played music) and when that video came on I’d run into the other room.
Second, the show Unsolved Mysteries used to put terror into me. I became convinced that all of those uncatched killers were in my neighborhood. And the episodes about hauntings? Forget about it. I wouldn’t sleep for a week.
And to throw a movie in…The Shining’s room 217’s bathtub scene. I feared going into the bathroom for years after seeing that. I was always afraid there’d be this old woman in the tub and she’d be laughing like a maniac.
Dark Night of the Scarecrow has been mentioned on here before…
All right, I ain’t clicking on it, but is it the one where
the little scary monster with the gnarly claws is actually his malformed daughter? And it ends up tackling the girl and dragging her into the closet?
'cause I can go the rest of my life without seeing that again… and “just the juicy parts” are on a Fangoria Magazine series episode profiling Tom Savini…
The ghost episodes always got to me. Years back (when it was in first run), I watched one of them and then placed an order for some takeout chinese food. The total was $6.66! I didn’t ask for my change…
Thanks. The movie never scared me, but I loved the organ music.
Oh, I hate when it licks its human hands.
Holy Crap! I just stopped in to say that! Also, “Devil Dog: Hound of Hell.” Remember the scene where the dog was making that guy reach into the spinning blade of the lawnmower?
All this and no freakin’ Daleks from Dr. Who? Jesus Christ, I was scared shitless of those talking garbage cans as a 5 year old.
“Exterminate, exterminate…” in that metallic voice of doom…
Ooh, I absolutely LOVE the Twilight Zone.
“My name is Talky Tina, and I don’t think I like you.”
Yeah, I know. But knowing how they do stuff on TV doesn’t always make it less scary, right? The whole statue comes to life thing is just CREEPY.