Another, very vaguely remembered, Sesame Street one. Cookie Monster is lying in bed singing a song about how he wishes the moon was a cookie. Then, while CM in bed is still in the frame, we see another CM outside the window reach up and eat the moon.
Not sure why, but this freaked the hell out of me as a kid.
Yep, that’d be the one. I remember going back and forth from the living room to the kitchen, wanting to see how it ended but afraid to watch…
The one I am thinking of is not really scary as much as it just seemed to stick with me for a long time.
I am a little fuzzy on the details but I think it was a Tales from the Crypt where there is this backroom sort of gambling going on and these scummy guys are betting on whether this guy can get his Zippo™ lighter to light ten times in a row. If he doesn’t the other guy gets to chop off one of his fingers.
At the suspensful tenth strike the guys buddy/brother/father comes crashing through the door waving his bloody fingerless hand to warn him and the wind from outside blows out the flame. The axe comes down…fade to black.
It has since become a compulsion for me to light my Zippo™ ten times after I refill the fluid and if it doesn’t light my fingers start to twitch.
It was an Alfred Hitchcock episode, Deep Fried, based, belive it or not, on a Roald Dahl short story.
Subscribing to the thread so I can check out some of the youtube links at home.
I don’t think that was from Tales from the Crypt, but that was a great episode of whatever show that was. I’ve watched it several times!
Really? Cool!
Ignorance faught.
The Roald Dahl story ends differently, though, as I recall.
It ends with the gambling guy’s wife coming in to stop him. No one loses a finger, but I think they notice that the gambling guy has some fingers missing. Still creepy.
Also, it had the Daleks, who for me were actually beaten to the punch as scariest beasties by the Cybermen.
That reminds me of the movie “Cat’s Eye” written by Stephen King - one of the shorts was about a company called Quitters, Inc that guaranteed to help you stop smoking. The way they enforced it was by slicing off the pinkie of your wife (or husband) if you relapsed.
Roseanne
I have to second (or is it third or forth) the various listings of evil, talking dolls. The Twilight Zone with the doll that couldn’t be throw away still creeps me out to this day, thanks for bringing it up. I can still remember the look on the man’s when that thing, with its tinny little voice, turned up after he had pitched it.
So the Trilogy of Terror voodoo doll and the Night Gallery doll, and a host of other evil doll shows, have only added fuel to my already doll-fearing mind.
Could there have been two versions of this? Because the way I remember the AHP ends
The way the story does, with the guy’s wife coming he saying he does not even own the car. After the girl unties the guys hand, he goes to light his cirgarette and…the lighter doesn’t work!
I remember that episode vividly as well - I think it was voted one of the best back when it was rerun on Nick at Nite.
I remember telling a friend all about that episode. We then went to see “Four Rooms,” by Tarantino, where the characters then have a long discussion about that same episode…
I remember it the same way as Skare Brae. It had Steve McQueen as the guy with the lighter, and Peter Lorre as the guy who proposed the bet. The part that freaked me out was
Peter Lorre was hovering over his hand with the knife, ready to instantly cut off McQueen’s finger if the lighter failed
Also at the end
it’s Lorre’s wife who comes in and breaks it up, saying she owns the car now, and she’s the one missing a few fingers
Perhaps you missed this:
I am impressed to find that the one episode of just about anything that truly deeply scared the hell out of me as a child is shared by a bunch of others. In fact, after reading the first two posts to this thread I had already looked up and found that episode to share with you guys myself. The girl and the monster were a little scary, but the thing that really terrified me was a visual right at the end. It is the very beginning of the fourth part. I wasn’t going to spoil it, but the quality of the video makes is almost invisible.
Just after the girl dies we see the professor talking on the phone. In the background, out of focus, we see the creature slowing walking down the stairs towards him… step by step, with him unawares. You can only make it out in the youtube clip, or at least I could only make it out, when I was specifically looking for it though. That was done well, and the crappy monster puppet doesn’t detract from that one visual at least.
That Tom-Savini-directed episode starred Fritz Weaver as the professor. One thing you may not recall (based on your post) is that
[spoiler] The albino monkey-thing-closet-monster then touches Fritz, who stoops and picks it up and nuzzles it. It’s his pet, and he loves it, even if it kills weekend guests.
That’s the Twilight Zone-like twist. [/spoiler]
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I remember one scene where
you think the monster is sneaking up to kill him, grabs his shoulder, and he turns quickly and says something sweet like “Ouch! Don’t hurt Daddy!” and the monster smiles at him.
:eek:
ETA- or, what CalMeacham just said!
There you go. This sounds right.
I knew my memory was fuzzy, but I wasn’t even close. Still cool/creepy though.
Yup, that is just how I remembered it. The twist was nice, but it was the scene immediately prior to it that scared the bejesus out of me.
You know, it was the 80’s remake that I watched. Still a good story.