What freaked you out as a kid?
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someone needs to telly Shaggy to count the shadows.
My mom had this planter-pot in the bathroom sitting on top of the toilet-tank. The pot was a ceramic deal that looked like an owl. Following seeing "The Wizard of Oz" the pot freaked me out (somehow I had likened it to the flying monkies, or something) and it set-back my toilet training quite significantly until they realized what was going on. At times when I was in the bathroom by myself I turned the pot around so that the owl was "facing" away from me.
Did the card look something like this:
Did the card look something like this:
^where the hell does that freaky bear come from anyway? I see it online all the time.
another thing that freaked me out was Turbo Teen transforming. I think thats the first time I ever saw a transformation sequence that was slow & detailed, instead of just a puff of smoke & a "poof" sound. The first time I saw it I was left simultaneously confused & slightly naseous...
I mean this is disturbing shit to wake up to on a saturday morning!
another thing that freaked me out was Turbo Teen transforming. I think thats the first time I ever saw a transformation sequence that was slow & detailed, instead of just a puff of smoke & a "poof" sound. The first time I saw it I was left simultaneously confused & slightly naseous...
I mean this is disturbing shit to wake up to on a saturday morning!
This one pinball machine with a huge picture of the Devil on the front. It even talked. I think it was called "Gorgar". That scared the living shit out of me.
The PBS logo freaked me out when I was a little kid. I was sure the P head would jump out of the T.V. and eat me...
A similar logo that always freaked me out was that Fried Egg of Doom™ that was the Open University logo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPOo9mRQbTQ&videos=tc-5vPWC0t4&playnext_from=TL&playnext=1
^most pinball machine art was rather creepy & garish looking, huh? Kinda like those painted banners at sideshow carnivals.
That movie traumatized my little brother, too. I think it was the scene where Trog hung the butcher on his own meat-hook . . . .
Me, it was the credit sequence for the old "Outer Limits" tv show. "We have taken control of your tv set," etc. For some reason, that really freaked me out.
There is this old Elvis movie called "Harum Scarum" where they end up in some old ghost town where they're staying overnight. At one point, in a flash of lightning(IIRC), a werewolf head appears at one of the windows. Just that image and the fact that it is suddenly THERE, at the fucking WINDOW just made my little kid brain go in to spasms of primal terror.
Funny thing is though, every time that film was on, I HAD to watch it, to see that scene again. To this day, I LOVE being scared, even though I hate myself at the time, I LOVE the adrenalin rush.
Funny thing is though, every time that film was on, I HAD to watch it, to see that scene again. To this day, I LOVE being scared, even though I hate myself at the time, I LOVE the adrenalin rush.
Another thing that always freaked me out as a kid (and, until it was discontinued, even as an adult) was the National Anthem playing over a spinning globe at closedown on BBC 1, followed by that ever so sinister electronic tone. It gives me shivers even thinking about it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFlnqg4TIuE
(this version features the famous Test Card Girl a.k.a. Carole Hersee)
(Don't get me wrong, I'm still all for bringing back the national anthem, right after the public information film and just before the BBC News channel takes over at night. I mean, they still do it on Radio 4 before the World Service programmes start - or at least they used to, I don't listen to it at that time of night anymore.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFlnqg4TIuE
(this version features the famous Test Card Girl a.k.a. Carole Hersee)
(Don't get me wrong, I'm still all for bringing back the national anthem, right after the public information film and just before the BBC News channel takes over at night. I mean, they still do it on Radio 4 before the World Service programmes start - or at least they used to, I don't listen to it at that time of night anymore.)
Believe it or not, that's not the first time I've heard that from someone.The PBS logo freaked me out when I was a little kid. I was sure the P head would jump out of the T.V. and eat me...
You probably heard it from me, I've mentioned it in threads like these before.
My parents always like to take me out to a drive-in movie on the weekends. We went at least once a month or so and my scariest moment from that is the scene in Jaws where Richard Dreyfuss has that guys head pop out from that hole in the boat right in front of him. Back then it scared the crap out of me, now I look at that movie as a classic film, but I'll never forget how I reacted when I first saw that scene.
I also have to second the Space:1999 episode Dragon's Domain. After seeing that episode the whole scene, music, sound effects and everything stuck in my head for years. I still pop it in the DVD player occasionally and it's the only episode of the show my wife even likes.
I also have to second the Space:1999 episode Dragon's Domain. After seeing that episode the whole scene, music, sound effects and everything stuck in my head for years. I still pop it in the DVD player occasionally and it's the only episode of the show my wife even likes.
I've never seen a pinball machine (or pretty much *anything* outside of a Clive Barker or Takashi Miike film) that was scarier than this thing. Maybe it was because it was a picture of the devil. Or the scary voice. Or both. All I knew was I never played (or even touched) the thing!
Just about any episode of In Search Of... used to scare me.
I used to have nightmares from Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory about that girl turning into a blueberry. Although those Oompa Loompas probably helped me into years of couseling, too.
There was a PSA years ago in the 1970s where a beautiful blonde woman starts talking. Then she pulls her face off and it's Smokey the Bear actually wearing a mask. I had to turn away whenever that came on.
Man! When I put it all on screen at once, it looks like I had problems!
I used to have nightmares from Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory about that girl turning into a blueberry. Although those Oompa Loompas probably helped me into years of couseling, too.
There was a PSA years ago in the 1970s where a beautiful blonde woman starts talking. Then she pulls her face off and it's Smokey the Bear actually wearing a mask. I had to turn away whenever that came on.
Man! When I put it all on screen at once, it looks like I had problems!
I forgot to mention the Zuni Doll from Trilogy of Terror. How many here who were old enough to watch this in the 70's were NOT freaked out or just scared stupid by it?
Two from TOS : One is the crewmen Charlie Evans renders faceless. Two, and one that still unnerves me to this day, is the fate of Yeoman Leslie Thompson, reduced to a cube and then summarily crushed into powder. I once wrote a revenge fic wherein her parents forced the Kelvans to restore her from that and watched with satisfaction as their new Human bodies retched at the sight.
One that still gets me is Jane Seymour as The Bride in Frankenstein:The True Story. The Creature, rejected by this haughty, soulless creation, first exposes her neck scars before a genteel crowd that had been fawning over her, and then rips her head straight off.
One that absolutely terrified me was some news report that showed an animation of a baby being sucked down a drain (I'm guessing now that it was a report on anti-abortion groups, and the animation was one of theirs). I could not stay in a tub as it drained, ever again as a kid.
One that still gets me is Jane Seymour as The Bride in Frankenstein:The True Story. The Creature, rejected by this haughty, soulless creation, first exposes her neck scars before a genteel crowd that had been fawning over her, and then rips her head straight off.
One that absolutely terrified me was some news report that showed an animation of a baby being sucked down a drain (I'm guessing now that it was a report on anti-abortion groups, and the animation was one of theirs). I could not stay in a tub as it drained, ever again as a kid.
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