Thanks a lot. ***NOW ***I’m scarred for life.
Little House on the Prairie again…What is it with this show??? The one where Pa has to help Albert get off of narcotics and Albert is puking up some gooey white crap. Dear Lord.
Not to give things away, but is that the one with the knife? If so, it’s the one I was going to mention, except I couldn’t remember any of the identifying details. Scared the heck out of me, and what made it worse, I walked into the dining room immediately afterward, in the dark, and looked at myself in the small mirror there. Just for fun I tried imitating that smile, and freaked myself out. I can still see that face.
The boat scene is why I still won’t watch that movie to this day. As a child, it made me afraid of the hallway in our house for YEARS. I would have to brace myself, then RUN as fast as I could to get to the other end.
I also saw that movie and was totally freaked out.
But nowhere near as freaked out as when, soon after, I went to Universal Studios and they had that damned doll on display!
Maybe someone can help me with this…
I have a very fuzzy memory of seeing this late-70’s-to-early-80’s British film on television about a guy who enters a weird village. The village is suffering from some sort of famine and the protagonist befriends a childlike woman who talks about rabbits a lot.
Anyhoo, the protagonist asks the woman how the village continues to eat despite the famine. The girl talks about eating from “boxes”, then points to a nearby graveyard littered with open, empty caskets.
“Boxes gone now,” she says.
Just realizing the implication of cannibalism was quite the shock to my five-year-old mind.
I have a vague memory of this. I think the people in the village were ghouls who looked human. They ran an ambulance service into the normal world to collect more bodies.
If I remember correctly, the parents were getting divorced, and the children were very unhappy. They escaped through the pool to the magical land to live with “Mother Goose.” I don’t think she was a witch with ulterior motives, the other children had chores to do, and she was providing an escape for unhappy little ones.
You’re right. Mary Badham, who played Scout in To Kill A Mockingbird was the little girl. And the “Mother Goose” (I forget who played her now) was kind, not mean.
I never saw the footage on the day of, or surrounding. I was waiting at my desk for my brother to call from NYC (he worked in WTC 7 and was on the street to see the plane hit and I was lucky enough to get his call before the phones overloaded) and then avoided the coverage.
Imagine my shock when I am watching that movie about the terminally ill Canadian guy, he’s watching TV and out of nowhere in movie-theater size they show a close-up of the plane hitting the building. :eek: I felt like there should have been a warning.
Sweet Jeebus, yes. I haven’t had the nerve to watch it since it originally aired. Then again, I don’t recall ever seeing it being rerun on tv… I ordered the tape online about a year ago. After several weeks the company said it was out of stock and they couldn’t get it anymore. Divine intervention, I say.
And another one…I think the movie might have been Frances, but I don’t remember for sure. I know it was a bio. When the main character was a little girl, her mother went insane and was behaving strangely. The little girl could see mom sitting on her bed, so she went in to see her. Mom turned to look at her and her eyes were HUGE and blank. In my little kid’s mind, those eyes were all out of proportion to her face. I couldn’t sleep that night.
I remember the pilot episode of The Greatest American Hero–this guy got electocuted and the fellow who was with him freaked out and ran for help. Then all of a sudden, the fried guy just SITS UP as if he were pulled by strings (and I suppose he was–alien strings!) and he has this frozen “dead man” face. Ook.
Then there was Lord of the Flies. I didn’t see much–I just happened to click over to it during the scene where they dropped the boulder on Piggy. Oh, hell, that really freaked me out–I couldn’t change the channel fast enough. I literally sat there trembling for several minutes and it stayed on my mind for quite a few days.
And I’ll second that episode of MAS*H where they were all having the nightmares. All of them were creepy, but the one where the priest dreams that he’s the pope was the worst. He’s giving a sermon with a crucifix behind him. The scene cuts to an open bible and you see drops of blood spatter onto it. Then the scene draws back and the crucifix has changed into a dead soldier hanging there dripping blood. shiver
The worst for me was the TV movie Sybil - the multiple personalties wasn’t bad, it was the repressed memories of her mother shoving a button hook (for buttoned-up shoes) inside her little daughter, and making her daughter sit in the corner holding her urine while the mother pounds away at the piano. Psycho!
I’m going to try to post this without vomiting and then bleach my brain and try to forget:
The SNL sketch where this family has the son’s girlfriend over for dinner, and their other son turns out to have some sort of disorder where he doesn’t produce saliva or something, so family members chew his food for him, then spit it into his mouth. Which they really did. I think it was Chris Kattan who was on the disgusting receiving end of that mess.
I ran out of the room and gagged into the toilet for about five minutes when I saw it. I’m having a hard time not gagging just remembering it.
I was coming back to post this very thing – the scenes in the kitchen and at the piano are difficult for me to recall, because I remember them far too well.
No wonder she was a mess.
Mine, as I found out in this very forum, was from Caligula. My Dad was watching it on TV and I came in to say goodnight to him, and saw this on the screen: people buried up to their necks in dirt and being trampled by horses. Haunted me until about two years ago. Somehow, knowing it was in Caligula takes the sting out of it.
Oh yeah, and another “saying goodnight to Dad” memory. Makes me wonder what in the hell that man was watching? Anyway, all I saw was a Jewish man having his hat nailed to his head. Freaked me right the hell out. I still have no idea what that could have been a part of.
Anyone remember that episode of, I think, Dark Shadows, with the boogeyman? I don’t remember it very clearly. The main kid somehow becomes an ally with the Boogeyman, and sends the Boogeyman after all his little enemies from school and the neighborhood. The scene I remember is where the kid is sitting on a swing and the Boogeyman suddenly swoops up from underneath him. Gah! I had such a fear of the gap between my bed and the wall after that show.
Jus remember another one. Not a childhood memory- ithink I saw it about six or seven years ago.
It was part of a continuing tv miniseries and I only saw about half an hour of it. It was about a man who was having weird flashbacks and semi-psychic dreams of a nunch of blue-lit people who I think were saying stuff like, “You can free us” to him.
The people in his dreams were test subjects of a contaminated drug? or something? and were all in comas together in some research facility. The people holding them there had discovered that what one experienced, they all felt- I remember vividly someone cutting or pinching one of them, and this ghostly groan arising from the whole room.
Does anyone know what the show was?
It scared the crap out of me. I’m a wuss. I’m not allowed to watch The X-Files, and sometimes I get freaked out by Lost and Buffy.
I think I posted this in a past thread, but a scene in the finale(?) of “Six Feet Under” disturbed me: The sister of dead main character (sorry, can’t remember names) is sitting in the dark at his grave out in a grove of trees. She hears weird animal noises and is chased out of the grove and drives like wild down a dirt road and wrecks. :eek:
We didn’t have a TV in the house until I was 16, so pretty much anything I watched at a friend or neighbor’s house was freaky. “Fantasy Island” was terrifying!
That little Trilogy of Terror thing is called the “Zuni fetish doll”. That segment of the movie is based on a short story by Richard Matheson called “Prey”. The movie does a mighty fine job of bringing the story to life; that doll was a vicious little bastard.