don’t laugh my Mom was a big fan of Jimmy Swaggart back in the day so that was very moving plus the song while they were praying for him made me cry too it was “Come Holy Spirit I Need You”
I read the short story a long time ago and that was enough.
They showed that episode on VH1 Classic channel last night.
This was mine as well. Nightmares for weeks. I was probably 6 or 7 when I saw it.
I remember so little about this show - whether it was a movie or a tv episode, who acted in it, or even the name - that I hesitate to mention it, but it haunts me to this day (which is probabl why I’ve blocked it out).
The story was about a teenage girl, unmarried, with a daughter of about 3 years old. The girl is homeless, jobless, and completely without hope. At the close of the show, she leaves her daughter playing in a small park and walks away. Although it isn’t mentioned specifically, you are given to understand the mother is going off to kill herself.
You would think you’d be left with a hatred of that teenage mother and her decisions regarding herself and her daughter, but the young actress playing the part portrayed the pain and hopelessness involved so well, and let the viewer see the tremendous love she had for the child and how incredibly difficult it was to walk away from her that you wound up deeply sympathetic to her plight and seeing how she came to make these choices.
It still affect me. I’m tearin up writing about it.
The Monster Club, third segment.
They weren’t cannibals, they were ghouls.
Sorry, didn’t realise this is a zombie thread, and the question was already answered.
Mine includes “Bad Ronald”, a made for TV movie starring Scott Jacoby as a teenager who accidently kills someone, and his mom hid him in a room of their house; plastered the door closed and wallpapered over it. And then she died. The house got sold to a family and they had no idea of Bad Ronald living there. It was creepy to the max.
I was 15 when Roots was on TV and I watched every night with my parents. That touched my soul and changed me profoundly. Horrifying.
On “Rescue Me” when Tommy goes to Lou after the explosion during the fire they were fighting and turned him over to pull him out. Lou had held a certain door closed so the other guys could get away from it.
Lou was quite dead and his face burned beyond recognition.
I still can’t unsee that…
There was a made for TV movie set on a ship carrying a sarcophagus that supposedly contained the infant son of Satan that had been born the same time as Jesus. I think maybe he’d been killed when King Herod commanded that all male children under 2 be executed. There was a supposed biblical passage that prophesied that there would be a number of people on a ship with this deceased demon spawn (the biblical book that supposedly contained the passage was non-existent, IIRC). None of this scared me. However, at some point the sarcophagus started looking like it was breathing, as the Beelzebub baby was about to be resurrected. Whatever followed must have been either anticlimactic or very cheesy, because it never stuck in my mind. The breathing coffin creeped me out, though.
When I saw this thread it was only a fraction of a second before that damned doll came to my mind; before I even remembered when this thread was started or that I’d posted that very thing here. I believe it still stands.
From around the same time was the movie Suspiria. The movie itself wasn’t on tv but the commercial sure was. I only saw it once and after that every time it came on I ran out of the room, covering my ears and waiting what I hoped was a sufficient amount of time until it was over.
I think that most episodes of most modern homicide investigation programs (CSI, Bones, Forever, etc., etc.) have at least one scene that would have scarred, or at least nauseated, my pre-12 self. Now, I’m too jaded. But I still won’t watch The Walking Dead.
Not exactly “scarred for life”, but the original “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” when I was a kid (the scene where they’re chasing Kevin McCarthy and the horn is blowing).
Also, “Fiend Without a Face”, anybody remember that one? Disembodied brains that would creep along on their spinal cords. Saw it recently and laughed about how bad it was.
There was an episode of Animal Cops that was set in Phoenix. The animal control officers were called to someone’s back yard where there was a cat that had apparently been chased by a dog or something and had jumped over this person’s fence…right into her cactus garden!
Spoilered for those who don’t wish to know the details.
The cat was so covered in cactus barbs that you couldn’t see its fur. It looked like some tan-colored alien vaguely shaped like a cat. It was still conscious when the animal control officers picked it up and was conscious when the vet pulled out the first bunch of barbs. Oh, the agony that poor thing must have gone through! Why couldn’t they have just put the kitty out of its misery instead of making it suffer all the more?
Yeah, remembering that still bothers me. A lot.
In addition to the Trilogy of Terror Zuni doll, the Dragon’s Domain episode of Space: 1999. Monster with big tentacles drags people inside it, incinerates them and then spits out their charred bodies.
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In addition to the Trilogy of Terror Zuni doll, the Dragon’s Domain episode of Space: 1999. Monster with big tentacles drags people inside it, incinerates them and then spits out their charred bodies.
[/QUOTE]I remember that episode! It was really freaky, and I’m pretty sure it was the last time my parents let me watch that show.
Now, for my contribution.
What’s the most embarrassing thing you could ever think of doing?
If you were (at the time) the fastest marathon runner in the history of the United States, what would you be willing to do for $100,000 and a spot on the Olympic team?
In 1996, someone did this.
It’s on You Tube, in the unlikely event that you would want to see it.
Pete Sampras did the same thing at the U.S. Open a few months later - and he won, too! :eek:
As an aside, several months ago, Dr. Brantly, who unfortunately is famous for something else that led to an awful lot of puking, was called “Keith” by Obama on a live broadcast. :o IDK if the two are related.
ETA: If you read the last paragraph in the link, it has Daddy Kempainen’s name. I bet they both got razzed about that too.
Holy cow, that Space: 1999 episode was the first thing I thought of the moment I saw the topic. I even checked to see if I’d already posted it. Damn that was a scary episode to a five-year-old Devil.
Another thing that really warped me, sent me over the edge and is strongly responsible for much of my general perspective: Fantastic Planet. “Hey,” said little me. “A cartoon–a space cartoon. This is going to be great!”
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I forgot to mention that both incidents were on live national television. :eek:
Oh I remember that one! So sad. It didn’t scar me so much but I did get somewhat depressed when I saw it as a kid.
What scarred me was an old movie titled Beast From the Haunted Cave. A monster could catch people and wrap them up, kind of like a spider does, and feed off them while still alive. I was in grade school and it really scared me, even knowing it was fake.
The birth scene from the second V miniseries really freaked me out as a kid.
Night of the Living Dead, of course. No particular scene because it scared me from start to finish. I was only 3 or 4 years old (thanks big brothers and sisters for making me watch it).
It (Stephen King mini-series). For years I couldn’t walk near a storm drain. “We all float down here.” I had already hated clowns…
Nightmare on Elm Street: the scene where Freddie stretches his face (and maybe hands/body) through the wall. Yeah, I sat on the floor for a few months instead of the couch because we had the same shade of paint on our living room walls. The wall the couch backed up to was shared with the garage so (in my mind) it would be very easy for Freddie to “get me”.