Oh my God.
I recall that from my younger days. I heard it from upstairs; didn’t see it.
I found it hilarious! A punch line, delivered very well for a monster.
AHHH! Me, too! I used to love to watch it when I was a preteen, because I loved to freak out over the ridiculous ghost stories they showed sometimes. I would watch that damn show in the dark, in my bedroom, and hide under the covers, practically wetting my fool pants everytime that music played. I still kind of start a bit if it comes on unexpectedly in the background.
I can’t remember if the lady in the film I mentioned was talking on a phone or not… I just remember her being very calm and deliberate. I’m sure that’s what threw me off the most; people who were murderers were supposed to be more violent, or mean. She just looked so calm… shiver
I guess it was just an early lesson: killers can look friendly or otherwise normal, too. Freaked me out.
Classic TZ episode – “Little Girl Lost”. It was written by the omnipresent Richard Matheson, adapted from a short story of hisShe actually went into another dimension, and had to get rescued.
Shrewd observers will see a lot of similarity between that episode and the original Poltergeist. It was pointed out in the magazine Cinefantastique. I think they reported that Spielberg obtained the rights or got permission before he used tyhe idea, but I could be wrong.
(Drew Barrymore used the title for her autobio, even though she didn’t play the little girl in Poltergeist or in TZ.)
Parodied – as so many TZ episodes were – in a Simpsons “Treehouse of Horror”.
Not a TV show but a movie that was shown on TV.
When I was 10 we finally got piped tv in Dublin. Piped TV meant that you got ITV and the BBC channels so it wasn’t just RTE 1 and 2. My Mam was out one Friday night so it was just me and my Dad watching TV together in the living room (sisters were in bed). He was waiting for an Elvis special to come on the BBC. The special was on after a movie staring Burt Reynolds. So far so good.
The movie in question was Deliverance.
Even with the wierdness of the dueling banjos/guitars it still seemed like a good movie.
Then Ned Beatty gets brutally raped by two redneck hillbilly types.
We did not have a remote control.
I was 9/10 and both my Dad and I sat in stunned silence as the scene played itself out. He desperately wanted to change the channel but didn’t want to bring attention to what was going by getting up and changing the channel.
I barely understood sex much less man on man rape.
When the scene ended he sent me to bed. I still remember my Mam coming home and I guess my Dad told her about it. He laughed when he told her and she responded thusly (in her thick north-side Dublin accent):
“Jaysus Christ Maurice, what sort of fucking ejit are you!!”
Hilarity did not ensue.
I’ve never seen that movie since. Never want to. Never discussed it with my Dad either.
Squeal like a pig indeed.
TZ was always great for a total creep-out! Here’s the two that got to me big time:
Lee Marvin as the bounty hunter finally catching up with his outlaw quarry after he was killed by the townspeople. The whole graveside scene cost me a couple of nights sleep!
The woman who receives phone calls from her deceased fiance.
“I…always…do…as…you…say” :eek:
Okay, here’s one that freaked me out as a grownup, and can still make me sick to my stomache just thinking about it-
The Believers with Martin Sheen. Holy guacamole! One of the opening scenes shows a happy family having breakfast, and something spills on the floor. Mommy is standing in the puddle but doesn’t know it, and she does something with the toaster. She gets electrocuted, right in front of her husband and young son. It is not a quick scene- you see her twitching agony, the horror of the child, and the desperation of the husband as he searches for a broom or something to knock her free.
It was fucking horrible. I am actually shaking as I type this.
Since having my two kids, I am 100% unable to do the whole “children in peril” thing. When I am taken by surprise (Syriana had a surprise “CIP” scene and I nearly died), I am very pissed off. Hell, I even have a hard time watching that team of horses bear down on Maximus’ son in Gladiator.
The idea of harm coming to my children is the Worst. Thing. In. The. World.
I remember that era. What scared me was the graphic that the news show my parents watched always put up: a silhouette of a young boy looming over the state of Georgia.
Anyone remember a show called “That’s Incredible”? They did a segment once on people who’d had near-death experiences and seen themselves in hell. I must have been about nine years old at the time, so I was highly susceptible. Didn’t register with me that two different people described completely different scenarios. Didn’t matter to me that I’d been told in Bible school that as long as you honor the Lord, you’re assured a spot in heaven. In fact, I don’t think I even reacted in terms of thinking I was going to hell, like tomorrow or something. It was just. plain. scary. And the best part is, when I tried to talk to my mom about it, she said, “Oh, I blocked that out of my mind.” :rolleyes:
And when Reagan was shot, I was petrified. Even though I didn’t like him, mostly because my parents didn’t like him, I must have been old enough to know that his death could throw the country into chaos. I remember asking my mom, “Do you think Bush (the younger) can run the country?” That time, she was more reassuring, and told me that ever since JFK, the Vice President is well aware that he’s next in line, and ready to assume those duties if it comes to that. (Of course, she didn’t know about Al Haig until afterwards…)
The episode of Hill Street Blues that ended with a criminal attacking a judge while in court.
The image of the judge standing up and emptying a .45 in to the guy and then standing there in a slient court while smoke curls up around him out of the gun is burned into my mind. I’m pretty sure thats when I vowed never to get on the wrong side of the law (I must have been 9 when I saw it).
I’ve had several “scarred for life” moments from television.
The most profound one was when I saw Salem’s Lot on TV at the age of 10. Left me with a fear of vampires so bad that when I saw The Lost Boys 10 years later I was shaking throughout half the movie.
Another wrenching experience for me was watching Bad Ronald. The idea of someone imprisoned in the house like that and the residents of the house not knowing that he was there was quite disturbing to me.
Yet another one was while watching an episode of Superfriends as a kid. The villians came across a device of some kind that could kill the Superfriends. The first one to die was Batman when he was killed by the Riddler. Superman was next. By the time they offed Wonder Woman I was so freaked out (I was a kid of about six or seven) that I had to turn it off. I never did find out what happened at the end.
Zev Steinhardt
I saw a movie on t.v. in around 1982 I think? There was a teenage girl who I think was adopted by this family - I can’t remember the name of it right now - something like “Don’t Close Your Eyes” or “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark” or something doom-and-gloomy like that.
She terrorized this family and the scene I remember most vividly was her chasing after somebody with one of those pizza cutters - you know the little steel wheel with a serrated edge?
CREEPY!!!
When I was a little kid, I used to watch the Twilight Zone and movies like The Exorcist and Creepshow all the time. My mom says I used to laugh at the “scariest” parts of those movies and shows. I have grown up to be an avid horror movie fan. However, there’s this one movie I can’t remember the name of that seriously screwed me up for a while.
I can’t remember the plot or anything, but I remember the opening scene(s) were at a birthday(?) party of some sort. A lady is going to a pawn shop to buy a gun to kill herself (or something) when a car runs her over. As they pull her out from under the car, her leg comes off. The next scene is a couple of girls in a department store. One of them drops something as they’re getting to the top of the escalator they’re riding and she bends over to pick it up, but her pearl necklace gets stuck in the part where the stairs reach the top of the climb. She can’t free herself and she’s mauled by the escalator. Seems like a really random plot, and I don’t remember how the two incidents connected, but the entire movie was like that (from what I remember).
Does anyone know what I’m talking about?
I keep meaning to post this, and forgetting, and then the threadwas off the front page, and I thought oh well…
But the old movie Bedlam scared the bejeebers out of me when I was a kid. I don’t remember too much about it now, but I remember the hands reaching out of the cells/rooms in a mental institute. >shudder< I woud like to see it again, to see if it still creeps me out.
i know it is a old thread but…
but when Jimmy Swaggart said “I have sinned against You, my Lord, and I would ask that Your Precious Blood would wash and cleanse every stain until it is in the seas of God’s forgetfulness, not to be remembered against me anymore.” or when on an episode of the television show China Beach the actress Chloe Webb, portraying a USO touring backup singer, offers a tender and emotional version of the song “Dedicated to the One I Love” both made me cry and i was so sad over both in fact both Brother Swaggart and Miss Webb wee both in tears too even my Mom was crying too
There was this horrible show or movie back in the 80s with a leather glove that used to kill people. The killing people was bad enough, but in between they would cut to shots of it just laying there, on the stairs or whatever, menacing.
This glove freaked the shit right out of me and I was suspicious of single gloves for a looong time. :dubious:
Zombie thread and Jimmy Swaggart…yeah, I’m pretty sure I’m scarred for life, now…
Others mentioned The Day After, but for me, it was a British version of post-nuclear war called Threads that totally creeped me out. Only saw it once and that was enough, thank you very much (and I was in my late 20’s at the time).
As a kid, I was about 5-6 when the original King Kong was on the TV, and that big gorilla and the dinosaurs kept me in my bedroom all during the show. I’ve gotten better, but still don’t care for that classic film (or the new one, for that matter).
A little later, the Johnny Quest episode with the Energy monster, when you first see it after it had been doused with paint, just scared me more than anything else that show had…and Johnny Quest could be scarry at any time…
Does anyone remember the scene from Futurama where Fry is going to re-amimate the mutt from his past, and then decides not too because it had already lived a long life after he had disappeared? And then you see the dog had spent it all pining away for Fry’s return? I’ve never really gotten into Futurama, mostly because that scene scarred me so badly.
And while this is not TV (althought it might well have appeared there, I defy anyone to watch a short 15-minute film called “The Lottery” and tell me it doesn’t leave a mark.
It’s here on You Tube: Part 1: The Lottery - Part 1 of 2 - YouTube
Part 2: The Lottery - part 2 of 2 - YouTube
I don’t know if anyone has answered this, but it sounds to me like an episode from Tales of the Unexpected, a great series hosted by Roald Dahl. I watched it when I was in college, and it often creeped me out as well!
When I was little, not only did I often get to stay up very late, I was frequently left on my own when my parents went out, especially after they divorced. (No, I didn’t think there was anything wrong with this; I liked being alone to watch as much television as I wanted and read comic books and make my own sandwiches and heat up TV dinners.)
Anyway, my dad left me at his girlfriend’s apartment when they went out on a date one Saturday night; I know I was five or six at the time (I think the girlfriend’s daughter, the same age, was there with me too). I always loved watching Laurel and Hardy on Saturday nights just before WCCO (Channel 4) went off the air. This week, though, they were showing Chumps at Oxford, and the scene where Stan and Ollie are being stalked in the maze scared the heebee-jeebees out of me!
My dad and his date got home around 3:00 am and found me sitting frozen in the living room with every light in the apartment turned on. More than 50 years later, that scene still makes me shiver!
I actually laughed-out-loud when I read this, because I remember that scene (Julia Marguiles was the guest star and she had to spit the burger into Chris Kattan’s mouth - I remember her trying not to laugh) but then I looked at who posted about it and became sad. 
Back on topic: The intro to Tales from the Darkside creeped the bejeezus out of me as a kid. That is the freakiest music I have ever heard. The scenes of American landscapes, etc. are so pretty but that music makes them terrifying. I used to turn down the volume until that intro was over.
A similar scenario to post #177, but a few years later (I was probably eight):
Left alone on a Saturday night in the hotel suite where my dad and I spent the summer in Joliet, I watch a '50s SF/horror flick in which the preserved corpse of a Spanish conquistador is reanimated by a bolt of lightning. Terror among the poor peasant townfolk ensues!
I was shaking every time I thought I heard someone in the corridor outside. I’d open the door to see if anyone was there, and the deathly quiet of the hallway scared me even more!
He had a purty mouth, though! 