I know a lot of you hated Large Marge from Pee Wee’s Big Adventure.
For me, I didn’t have a lot that freaked me out. The one thing that did still scares me to this day. Though not as much as when I was eight. It was the Roald Dahl book and movie based on the book, The Witches. It wasn’t till after I graduated college that I could watch that scene without flipping channels or hiding under the bed or both. And I still give ladies wearing gloves the stinkeye. (You never know.)
Apologies in advance if this thread has been done before.
I was 1 when the first Ninja Turtles animated series came out. I pretty much obsessed about them until the point when I was 7 or 8 or so. And yet for most of that period, I was intensely afraid of the mousers. If I had nickel for every nightmare induced by those robotic little monsters…then there was metalhead, the one and off villain who was an evil robotic turtle.
I read Treasure Island when I was 6 years old (part of my dad’s Summer Reading Program for Keeping Little BobbyArrgh’s Mind Occupied). The name “Billy Bones” was not one I liked to hear.
Especially when my brothers used to go through my bedroom telling all the ghosts, goblins, witches, and pirates what time I went to bed. All the while, they would shouting in a creepy voice, “Billy Bones … Billy Bones … he goes to bed at 8 o’clock!”
Remember in The Wiz, when they’re going down into the subway? And the columns start chasing them with that creepy music? I’ve given every column and support beam the stink eye since I saw that…
I remember watching an old movie where there is a tribe that buries their dead in trees and lets the trees grow around them. One night the trees start walking and attacking people. That night I had a nightmare about a tree breaking through my window and taking me back to the river bluff and throwing me off. I was leery of trees for years after that, especially in the winter when they don’t have any leaves.
I’m over it, but I noticed I didn’t like the Ents in the Lord of the Rings.
When I was 5 I saw a horror movie called The Lost Continent – really dumb movie, really crappy FX, but when you’re 5 everything seems equally real, you know? It featured a kind of mobile seaweed that eats people. For a long time after, I was terrified to go in the water.
They’re horrifying, especially given the context. The turtles and master Splinter would be quietly sitting around, minding their own business, and then the walls would start to crack all around you as a hoard of mousers eat their way through your walls, presumably with the intent of ripping your flesh with their metal teeth. It’s not just the individual ones that are scary, but the fact that they came at you in swarms, like bees on McCauly Culkin.
You know. You go into a bathroom at night with the lights off at midnight, and all your friends chant “BLOODY MARY BLOODY MARY” and you look in the mirror and YOU SEE HER FACE INSTEAD OF YOURS!!!
I still don’t like going past a mirror in a darkened room.
Link’s not working for me, but is this another pic of them?
I still say cute…but I think I remember what you’re talking about, how they’d randomly burst in. I think this is a case of how many would be scary–like, a huge crowd? Yeah. One? I could train him to do tricks and make him my best friend!
Darby O’Gill and the Little People is a delightful Walt Disney movie about a lovable old man’s adventure among charming leprechauns. Oh, yeah, it also has a freakin’ banshee.
When I was really little, Sam the Eagle from the Muppets really scared me. He looked so mean.
When I was a little older, the move Children of the Corn scared the crap out of me. Now that I am old enough to really understand religious zealousness and seeing so much of it where I live, it scares me even more.
Yes, I suppose the context of “I ran out of the room everytime they were on TV for a quarter of life to date” probably has me biased towards them. There were a lot of electronic such things that I didn’t like - the lady who “yelled” at me when I dialed a number not in service, and those dancing 7Up cans that move when you clap your hands…:rolleyes:
