Yes, that’s her.
I remembered Kim Darby and William Demarest being in this, but when I read the review linked above, I was surprised to see that Kim’s character’s husband was Jim Hutton. You’d think Ellery Queen would have a little more on the ball when people in his house are being stalked and murdered by nasty little gnomes!
Gremlins. Never know when they could be under your bed.
The wolf creature from The Neverending Story.
The scene with the troll in Willow.
The melting Nazis scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark.
ET, especially when he’s all pale and sickly.
I had a recurring dream where I woke up in my own bed, then looked over the side of the bed to the floor, where the Tasmanian Devil roared at me.
I wasn’t so much afraid of the cartoons themselves, the nightmares started after my sister won a Taz stuffed animal at Marriott’s Great America…it was always the stuffed animal that came to life.
Movies that freaked me out:
Oh, pale sickly ET was the WORST. I hate sick things and I hate E.T. so together it was horrible.
“Invaders From Mars” - 1953, William Cameron Menzies. I saw it on TV one afternoon.
Kid wakes up in the middle of the night and sees a spaceship landing behind a hill. Tells his parents, who don’t believe him, and before you can say “alien implant” everyone’s got these chips in their necks. But you never know who until you see the little scar. Scary, scary, then…he wakes up! Goes to Mom and Dad! All is well! Hahaha!
Goes back to his room and looks out the window and sees…a spaceship landing behind a hill.
AAARRRGGGHHH!!!
I was afraid to fall asleep and I was afraid to stay awake.
GAH. Yes, childhood trauma right there.
Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, and God. I watched a LOT of In Search Of… as a child. I was scared of Jack the Ripper, too, but he was real.
My grandparents had a coconut head (similar to this one) that somebody brought them from Hawaii. They kept it on a shelf in their hallway. That thing scared the bejeezus out of me- I’d have to close my eyes to go down that hallway sometimes.
There was a scene late in the movie Fright Night where the heroine (Marcy from Married With Children) was crying and normal looking, and the hero went over to console her, and from the camera’s point of view (but not the hero’s) she lifted her head up and had this horrible toothy evil smile.
Yeah, it freaked me out.
The alien face at the end of the Star Trek credits
The creepy hand from “Chiller Theater”
Enough things in the Twilight Zone that I refused to watch it, ever
E.T.
a commercial when I was little featuring a girl in an iron lung “The only problem is, IT WILL OUTLIVE HER.”
the Venus Probe* from the Six Million Dollar Man
the planet-eating thing from Star Trek… also, the salt monster
the eyeball from the board game Ka-Bala
Oh, there are so many more. I was a pretty nervous kid.
*sounds a lot more sexy and less scary now that I’m grown up…
[ul][li]All the characters (including Max) in Where the Wild Things Are[/ul][/li][ul][li]The “Sleestaks” in the old *Land of the Lost series.[/ul][/li][ul][li]The whole original Star Trek series. The episodes just creeped me right out when I was young (8-9 years old). It was something about the music and the stories that filled me with a sense of dread. ST:TNG, on the other hand, seemed positively bright and cheery, but I was much older when I saw it, too.[/ul][/li][ul][]Similarly, *Space: 1999 * was creepy as well.[/ul]
Nah…that’s just Martin Landau.
This.exact.thing.
My mom had to sleep with me (I was afraid of Michael Jackson as the werewolf) and my dad had to sleep with my brother (he was afraid of Michael Jackson as the zombie).
My brother and I had seen the video at a friend’s house, so after a few nights of being bunkmates, my parents marched us back to the friend’s house to watch the making of video. Seeing the behind the scenes helped, but it was a while before I was “fine.”
Freddy Kruger was the other one I was afraid of, and I’d never even watched any of those movies (still haven’t). I guess I knew him from commercials on tv or something.
Oh, wow, somebody else has seen that movie! 
It didn’t scare me–in fact I loved it, cheese and all, and it turned me on to a lifetime love for horror author Graham Masterton. But it’s so great to see that someone else actually admits to have seen it. 
As for what scared me as a child–I’m another one who’ll admit that the Bumble on Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer scared the crap out of me when I was little. And Talky Tina, from that old Twilight Zone episode. And that clown from Poltergeist…that thing freaked me out for years. Ditto Pennywise from “It.” I hate clowns.
I loved the tunnel scene in Willy Wonka, though. I think I might have been one of the few kids who did.
Speaking of Kim Darby (and how often does one?), she was in the movie True Grit. There’s a scene in which her character is thrown into a pit that has rattlesnakes. That used to really scare me as a kid; I have a lifelong fear of snakes anyway (one that I manage by figuring out “where are snakes likely to be?” and then avoiding those places) but the notion of being in a snakepit terrified me as a kid because of that movie (and because of my mother telling me that there was a time when people were lowered into snake pits to cure mental illness [no idea if this is true]).
I mentioned when discussing the book Helter Skelter that the imagination can produce more terrifying images than celluloid. When I was in third grade they showed a film about stranger-danger in which a little girl gets into the car of a man who’s giving her candy, and then at the end of the movie they showed a little girl’s body being moved on a gurney while the police talked among themselves about how tragic it was that more kids don’t know to stay away from strangers. We weren’t that terrified by the film but the notions of what her body looked like were probably way more chilling than crime scene photos would have been as third grade boys and girls talking, each trying to outdo each other in the creep-out factor, can be amazingly vivid and disgustingly evocative. Perhaps this was intentional on the part of the film makers but I doubt it.
