I think this is the 80s remake – which is the one I saw. John Huston played Creepy Gambler Guy.
I know we’ve done this thread before, so I feel like I’m repeating myself…but what the hell: for me, it was the Outer Limits Zanti Misfits episode (big ol’ bugs with humanoid eyes…brrr…ewww). And Darby O’Gill and the Little People (specifically, the banshee) on the so-called “wonderful” world of Disney.
The Day After.
At the height of the Reagan-Redbaiter era, the prospect of nuclear war had haunted me all my life.
This made it all too real.
Is that a whoosh?
I vaguely recall the TV show, but I remember the Roald Dahl story ending …
[spoiler]… with the challenger’s wife coming in and stopping the contest, because the challenger had over the years lost everything he owned to her. The lighter had lighted eight times, but its owner was still relieved not to have to continue. The narrator then noticed that the hands of the challenger’s wife was missing most the fingers.
I thought the TV show ended the same way, except the act of the wife’s entrance actually blew out the lighter, and the challenger swung the chopper down, but deliberately missed the finger maybe realizing it wasn’t fair. Nice there are still some scruples left in dementia![/spoiler]
Man, three pages and not one mention of the original movie “Kolchak: The Night Stalker”? I was twelve when that came on, and the idea that a rational, cynical grown up man believed in vampires had me uneasy. Then when Carl was proved RIGHT–I freaked.
Also, The Omen. I know that’s not television, but I got talked into going to see it, and stayed up all night with my bible in hand, shiver
I remember that scene from Salem’s Lot in particular, because it was while we were watching it that our cat began a new way of asking to be let in. It consisted of jumping up on a small table outside the plate glass window behind our TV viewing sofa, and raking his claws down the glass. He continued that throughout the rest his life, but it never made us jump as much as that first time. Damn cats!
Was that the one in which the man had a weird gremlin like son? That episode was scary as hell. There was also one episode in which a young woman comes to live with an elderly couple. The elderly couple seem very nice and kind and always talk about how she reminds them of their kids. They invite her to use their hot tub / jacuzzi and relax. They then turn up the heat, and when she protests, the old lady start cutting up vegetables in the jacuzzi :eek:
Yes, they ate all their children…
Drat… must read entire thread before replying.
Planet of the Apes - scared the life out of me and gave me nightmares…I can’t say we weren’t warned, Mum and Dad were going out and gave instructions that we weren’t to watch it, but we did.
Yeah, Charlton Heston’s acting is always cringe-inducing.
Jesus people, just watching a few of these is going to give me nightmares.
I…think I’m going to go downstairs and hang out with the SO. No reason. Just…er, because.
In the early 70s heyday of Sesame Street (of all things), there was a time-lapse filler piece of either a flower opening or an octopus doing octopus-y things (forget which), and it was set to Land of Hope and Glory. My sister would run terrified from the room, and be inconsolable for ages afterwards.
Have you watched The Cat With Hands yet? Muahahahaha! 
I came to mention the Cybermen - but from “The Wheel In Space” where the cliffhanger had them marching across empty space towards the Wheel.
That gave me serious willies.
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No votes for Fraggle Rock yet?
::shiver::
When I was about 7, my older cousins were watching an old Star Trek rerun. I only caught the end- where this creature that could look like anyone it wanted was sneaking about, disguised as various crewmembers, and is finally killed and morphs into it’s true form- a hideous, howling, emaciated monster. HOLY TULEEDUH, I was sobbing and screaming with terror! The Trekkies will doubtless know the episode, and that’s fine, but I don’t care. At the time, the notion of being hunted, by something that would suck out not just my blood, but my very juices, and could come to me as anyone, even my Mom, but was actually so UGLY, and me being just this wee boychild…
I’m not scared anymore, but that ruined my whole day back then.
The Di-lects (I don’t know how it’s spelt) for the early Dr. Who scared me. “I am a Di-lect I come to distroy distroy…”
UGH! I had just gotten over being afraid of the dark when I watched this one afternoon over at my Granny’s. Set me back by about two years.
IIRC, Scream Pretty Peggy was another TV-horror movie that gave me the willies. Something about a coffin falling on a girl … I was very young, and the memory gets more blurred every day, but I do still think about it, 32 years later!
I am, the Shadowman, and I will never harm the person, under who’s bed I live
…but I am a Shadowman from under someone elses bed!The Shadow Man is an episode of The New Twilight Zone, from its first revival season in 1985-6. It was written by Rockne S. O’Bannon and directed by Joe Dante.
The Shadow Man P1
The Shadow Man P2
The house I grew up in had a fireplace with an ash door in its floor, a clean-out door hidden in the cellar and forced hot air ducting.
I’m still [del]just a little[/del] scared of basements!
The scariest part for me,they didn’t kill her they made her their leader/mother!!! :eek:
Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark in 8 parts on YouTube
CMC fnord!
The sheets must be under the feet with no part of the sheet hanging over the bed (monsters can crawl right up otherwise), head under the pillow, sheets near the head carefully made into a Monster Snorkel™!
'Course now I sleep with the mattress on the floor and use my CPAP machine 
, so I’m mostly safe!
I couldn’t finish it. 
The kid creeped me out almost as much as the cat. The cat really creeped me out. I didn’t watch more than a minute or so.
I remember a long time ago, I was stuck at my parents’ friend’s house with a rabbit-eared television. The only channel I could get was PBS (which was usually fine with me), but what was on was some theater presentation about a bunch of people stuck in a remote railroad depot. The thing began with one of the characters saying “I’m going to die today” or something. And then at the end of the hour, he gets into a fight with somebody and gets shot. That’s pretty much all I remember. I have a vague idea that it was by a noted playwright.
Anyway, that one made an impression on me. Pretty creepy.