The bicycle in the wind of the tornado freaked me out.
Is it just me or was reading that absolutely hilarious?
The x-files episode Home about the Peacock family terrified me. I wasn’t the only one who thought it was gruesome. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/30/arts/television/the-x-files-home-scary-tv.html?_r=0 It was banned from TV for three years.
So who else besides my sister’s friend was scared of that devil-spawn of computer animation that was considered perfectly fine for daytime Cartoon Network? Of course we find him sexy now, but back then, why the hell would you show that during Hamtaro, when 5 year olds could be watching?
Trust me, his voice is even worse.
You’re going to have to be more specific…
THIS ungodly thing. Seriously. Who the hell thought that was acceptable to show during Hamtaro? Also, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6Uxa0z1njI 0:55 in, that’s when we first see him. That voice. They showed this to kids!!!
You wanna know the first time I saw that movie?
Travelling alone, in a hotel room by the ocean, in the dead of night, in a tiny town in Mexico.
The thing I never got over was one of the killers chasing a woman across a lawn and then later complaining that her wrist hurt from all the stabbing. Shit that was disturbing, if only because it dawned on me for the first time that killing is physical work. I don’t usually watch stuff like that, but I was mildly drunk so my anxiety reflex wasn’t as strong.
Metal Sonic’s voice in the Sonic OVA.
Remember when Max Torque sent WOOKINPANUB a link to a Zuni fetish doll? Well, I ran a search through the site, AmokTime.com, and found something a bit more pleasant. Enjoy your Luke Skywalker action figures, StraightDope. This is my Christmas present to you all. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Happy holidays. 
When I was a pretty young kid back in Russia, I chanced to watch some kind of short movie (one of those ‘artistic’ ones…?) - which included a small girl wandering through raspberry brambles with her stuffed bear, picking/eating raspberries. The kid alternatively fed and beat/berated the bear- it was made clear that she was basically repeating the actions towards her by her mom. The clip ended with her throwing herself off a cliff. Not sure how accurate the recollection is, that was in the mid-90s.
That video made a huge impression back then (I had a pretty unpleasant childhood and could relate), and it still occasionally pops into my head in context of domestic violence.
I was about 4 - 6 years old (making this sometime between '77 and '80) and at my babysitters place so it must have been in the afternoon. It seems to me (nearly 40 years removed) that it was black and white but may have been grey / grainy colour.
All I remember is a Neanderthal (I think it was young) throwing a fit in a room lined with cages as two lab-coat types looked on.
I don’t know that it scarred me but it has stuck with me for the best part of 4 decades.
I sort of want to see it just to put some meat to the memory but I have no idea what it was.
Trog?
I’m really not sure.
It’s hard to guess based on a single scene viewed 40 years lol. The photos seem way too colourful for what I remember.
I just watched “The Ugly Little Boy” and I don’t think that is it either.
I don’t know about “for life” but I saw The Norliss Tapes much too young. Yowsers! :eek:
1.) Twilight Zone episode (everybody has a Twilight Zone episode, huh?) - When that kid turns his drunk uncle into a clown before it’s suggested what a good thing it would be to send him to the corn field.
2.) In Roots: The Next Generation when a black man was burned at the stake for insisting on his right to vote.
3.) When Saturday kids’ programming The Secrets of Isis captured those two bad guys in the junkyard at the end, tying one guy up in a net, another by securing him into place with discarded tires. It was the very first episode of that show and she never did something like that again and I know because I watched every damn one of them! I guess it was more like getting a permanent tattoo than being scarred, but whatever.
Since this thread is back again, I will add that I just recently began watching “Black Mirror”.
The first episode? The one with
the pig
Yeah, nothing is likely going to disturb me that much again. No, not even the “white bear” episode was that incredible. (Close though.)
My sister’s friend’s mother used to be scared of that scene in Empire Strikes Back where Luke has that dream about his face being underneath Darth Vader’s helmet. I thought that part was hilarious IMO. Then again, she grew up in San Fernando Valley, and I think growing up there has effects on your mind. 
Me, Too!!!
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I think I can trace my hatred of Semi-Tractor Trailers (Mac Trucks) to the Spielberg/Weaver movie where Dennis Weaver is chased across country and terrorized by a Mac Truck.
It was called Duel
You remind me of a movie (I think it was made for TV) about “The Freeway Fiddler,” a van terrorizing women by tailgating and playing loud music. Don’t remember anything about it, but it left an impression.
My husband says:
“The scariest monster movie for me was “Island of Terror.” Low budget British. These arms/tentacles came out of a shell and sucked bones from people. My parents told me that these monsters were coming down our street to get me. I literally tried to crawl up the wall (no exaggeration) while screaming in panic. Meanwhile, my parents were rolling on the floor laughing at me.
Forgiveness is a very tough virtue to master.”