Daleks - they’re the “EX-TER-MIN-ATE!”, trash-bin lookin’ aliens. I wish I would have watched Doctor Who when I was little, I’ll bet it was tremendous fun being scared of them, and creepy voices always scared me as a kid.
All the Tales From the Darkside fans, can you remember an episode that had something to do with a gypsy curse…like, this girl, every time she would fall in love with a guy she’d wake up and he’d be ripped to pieces, and at the end she fell in love again and the guy offered to stay with her, woke up in the middle of the night and she had turned into some demon or something and was coming after him. He killed her and then some witch appeared and said that the curse had been broken. Ring any bells?
I think I was like nine or ten when I saw that episode, and I was hiding my face in a pillow and crying 'cause it scared me so bad. My step-sister was more than happy to give me all the gory details.
Tales from the Darkside held many terrors for me when I was a kid. My mother used to watch it after we’d gone up to bed, but I could still hear the music playing at the beginning. Creeped me the heck out. Even does now.
I remember one episode I wasn’t supposed to see/hear…some bully was roughing up a black cat all through the episode (when he wasn’t roughing up people). At the end, the cat apparently attacks him and bites a body part off (not unlike “The Cat With Hands” linked upthread). The end of the episode is the bully’s mother, calling from inside the house. When he doesn’t answer, she says, “What’s the matter, dear? Cat got your tongue?” And the ep ends on a slow fade of the cat’s shadow against the wall.
Mentions of “Doctor Who” made me think of the Axos. It’s not one of the most well-known monsters, even in the “whoniverse” (Doctor Who fangeekworld), but I remember it was one of the first “Who” stories I saw, and it scared me silly when I was 8 years old.
Another monster that gave me the creeps were the Zygons. It’s seems pretty obvious to me that the writers on “Doctor Who” in the early 1970s were big, big, BIG fans of H.P. Lovecraft. Every serial played like a horror story, with creepy weird things that would probably feel right at home in C’thulhu’s undersea city.
The first time I saw “The Fly” was at three in the morning.
:eek: when I see the man/fly.
:eek: :eek: :eek: when I see the fly/man.
Not having learned by lesson, I see the sequel an week later at the same time.
:eek: when I see the man/hamster.
:eek: :eek: :eek: when I see the hamster/man.
Okay, this is a weird one. There’s an episode of Mork and Mindy freaked me out. It was the one where Mork kept shrinking and eventually ended up falling between the molecules of a tablecloth into another world.
The bad guy was King Exicon and he had Xs on his eyelids. The episode was too surreal for my young impressionalbe mind and it freaked me out.
Particularly the idea of falling between molecules into another world.
You know, it’s much harder to be scared of Daleks when you’re introduced to them at age 34 by someone who describes them as “a trashcan with a plunger and a curling iron.”
For those who like the gambler/lighter story, here is the Four Rooms Quentin Tarantino spin on it, which I adore:
Oh, first Ernie and now this - this was a bad one. I actually saw this on TV a few years ago (age 25 or so) and my stomach started to seize up right before this bit. “Hmm, that’s weird, my stomach hurts, I wonder…AHHH!”
The scariest series I’ve ever seen is supposed to be reairing on the scifi channel, I think on Wednesday nights - Haunted. The commericals when it first aired called it “the scariest show ever to air on broadcast television” and for once it lived up to the hype! So of course it was canned after only 7 episodes aired. I’m hoping that scifi has the 6 unaired ones and plays them.
Oo! Oo! I just read a story very much like this one a few days ago in an anthology of horror stories that I found in my bookshelf. I wonder if the episode’s based on it. In the story, the cat belongs to an old woman who lives in a run-down house. The bully and his friends think she’s a witch, and the bully ends up setting fire to the house by accident and she burns to death. And then the cat starts following him around…
On Googling, I find it’s “Catnip”, by Robert Bloch.
Mine is a very short-lived series from the very early 80s, Sapphire and Steel . David McCallum and Joanna Lumley - and I think my 10 year old self was so engrossed since I wasn’t sure which one of them I found more attractive
One particular storyline concerned killer light patches that could travel under doors to get you. I know - killer light patches, but still - they could travel UNDER DOORS!
