I remember a T-zone where a grandmother gives her grandson a toy phone as a gift. Later on the grandmother dies, and the boy is always “pretending” to talk to her on the toy phone. One day the boy’s father picks up the phone and grandma is on the other end!
The episode ends with the father saying “just leave him alone mom.”
I got creeped out just writing about it, when I was a kid it freaked me out.
There’s a hysterical recap of this episode over on Television Without Pity.
There was an episode of Happy Days where they went to a haunted mansion on Halloween - which wouldn’t have been scary in itself, but I was staying overnight at my baby-sitters’ while my parents were out of town, watching it alone in a strange room with the lights off, and then had to turn out the TV to total blackness when it was over. I think I was six or seven at the time.
I was scared.
The clown episode of Little House freaked my sht, too. Actually, lots of episodes of Little House freaked my sht. For a kids’ show, it had some scary moments.
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Thanks for this! I could never remember enough details of this TV movie to successfully find it in IMDB. My brother and I thank you.
A 90’s TV 2-day miniseries called Intruders creeped me out throughout the program.
A flashback scene where Mare Winningham is remembering watching"aliens" approach her house from a window. Aaaaah!
Another scene with human-alien hybrids still makes my skin crawl.
I wish someone would put this out on DVD; last time I saw it is was available as a VHS rental in a mom&pop video store that no longer exists.
Mentioning Mare Winningham reminds me of another one: The New Twilight Zone had an episode where the young couple is given a box with a button on top by a Mysterious Stranger,who tells them “If you push the button, you’ll get a million dollars. But someone you don’t know will die.” The couple agonizes over the decision, until the wife (played by Mare) finally pushes the button.
The M.S. comes back, gives them the money, and takes the box. The husband asks “Wait a minute. What happens to the box?” M.S. answers “Oh, we use it again. We give it to someone that…you…don’t…know.”
Another one from the 1980’s Twilight Zone. This one was written by Stephen King and was entitled ‘Gramma’, from one of his books. It tells the story of a boy who has to stay at home alone with his dying grandmother who may or may not be a witch. I’m watching the series over again (I got the whole series on DVD) and am not-so-anxiously awaiting getting to that story.
The other goes back to a children’t PBS series titled Vegetable Soup. I was young enough to not remember much of it, but the puppets were very disturbing, as was their spaceship, and I distinctly remember a scene where the kids are in a house being chased around by evil aliens. Scared the hell out of me, and it wasn’t until recently that I found the show’s name to confront my fears.
How can these NOT scare you?
http://www.artstomp.com/osgallery.html
I’d always thought it was from the early-to-mid-'70s. But I could be wrong. I’d only seen it once, and ISTR that the shots and film stock looked mid-'70s-ish. If anyone comes up with the title I’ll be all like :smack: Of course! But this one has been eluding me for years.
Not to give you what? The movie? Or one of THESE?!?!?!?!!!?!?
Eeeeeeep! :eek:
I should have known not to open that ;you’re the jokester that provided the link to that heinous picture of Pyramid Head! A pox on your house, Max Torque 
I was creeped out by a Night Gallery episode (I was around 5 or 6) where a woman and her boyfriend kill her husband by drowning him somehow. The murderous duo are enjoying their new life together and the husband comes back all covered in seaweed to haunt them in their bedroom. What was creepy was my parents had the exact same curtains. 
I think I recall seeing Ted Danson in remake years later.
My parents wouldn’t let me watch Mission Impossible when I was small, but neglected to let the babysitter know that. When she was sitting with us one night there was episode where they had to go rescue somone from a South American country. The photo they had showed him clean shaven. but when the found him he had a long scraggly beard and looked deathly ill. I don’t know why, but I burst into tears.
But by far, the movie Where Have All the People Gone really made me have nightmares. Peter Graves was the star. Now that I think about it, I was uncomfortable when I saw Peter Graves in anything - that is until his redemption in Airplane! and even then he was creepy.
I’m still traumatized by the Flying Monkeys from The Wizard of Oz. After those, nothing else really bugs me. But 45 years later, I still get shivers whenever those monkeys appear.
For me, it’s when the Witch’s feet curl up and disappear under the house. :eek:
My favorite show is Alias but there have been so many scenes that have messed me up for a few days after, and made me very nauseous in the short-term.
-Setting off a neutron bomb near a Vatican Embassy, causing everyone to catch fire and run around, only to be left as piles of ashes.
-A guy being put in a reactor with no protection and melting, then desperately smashing himself against the glass, further mushing himself.
-Cutting off Sloane’s finger.
-Removing teeth as torture.
The worst for me was the first.
Ted Danson covered in seaweed would be one of the segments of the movie Creepshow . But I don’t recall a related Night Gallery episode.
Holy Granola – Where Have All the People Gone!!! I had totally forgotten how wigged I was by that!
Mine was also The Day After. I was in college, and we were going to talk about it in whatever class it was. I recall the scene where the people in Lawrence (I guess) were rampaging through the grocery store (I guess) but I’m not certain because I couldn’t see the TV well because I was sobbing hysterically.
Eventually my mom came out , took one look at me and turned it off.
Didn’t mullets get started about that time? Coincidence? I think not!
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When I was a very young girl, sometime in the early 80s, probably around '83-'84, there was a movie on television, and the only part I remember is showing a woman, very calmly, putting a pillow over the face of a small, crying child.>>
Oh wow- I was thinking of that same movie (or at least the same type of scene). I saw that when I was 6 or so and it really freaked me out. I even remember the lady talking on the phone and suffocating the kid :eek: I think she was sitting in the front of a mobile home, and since I lived in a mobile home at that age- it really seemed real to me. When I asked my mom later about it- she swore such a movie never existed and if it did I certainly didn’t watch it :dubious:
I also was a fan of In Search Of but the music alone could freak me out. And anyone remember the Amityville Horror one with the doll and its red freaky eyes. Of course, I saw it twenty years later and the “red eyes” looked ridiculously fake.
Oh… and I really get skeeved out by the “Unsolved Mysteries” music too…
You may very well be right. The hero of the movie had that sort of shaggy curly hair that was fasionable in the 70’s. And it would make sense that it was on a local station in the early 80’s, since enough time had passed since its release.
Grrrr, I wish I knew the title of this movie!
Nope, I was wrong. Monster Club (1981).
(Thanks to Linty Fresh.)
I’m thinking this was a Twilight Zone episode, but it might have been Alfred Hitchcock. There was a little girl who walked into her bedroom wall and disappeared. The wall looked solid, but she just walked right through it, into some limbo kind of place where she just floated around. She couldn’t find her way out, and her parents didn’t know where she was. They could hear her calling, but they couldn’t find her. Then when they figured out where she was, they realized the opening (portal?) in the wall was getting smaller. Her father put his arm into the space and called to her, and she managed to grab it and he pulled her out. They knocked on the wall right afterward and it was solid.
I think I was about six. Scared me half to death. I sure didn’t want to get trapped inside any walls. My older sister explained to me that there wasn’t enough room inside a wall for a person, but I wasn’t so sure.