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Mum, I'm Scared.

Johnny Mother

11:05 / 07.12.01

Inspired by the thread on 'Sapphire & Steel', what TV/Film scared you as a child, or even today?

I would have to go for 'The Woman In Black' TV adaptation. Saw it when I was about 8 and it scared the living fuck out of me. Infamous BBC hoax-a-rama Ghostwatch UK had the same effect, especially when they played the recording of 'pipes' in the studio...

The Natural Way

11:22 / 07.12.01

The Woman in Black upset me so much. I still have difficulty watching the fever dream bit. But it's worse in the book.

I was scared of fucking everything when I was younger - from Dick Turpin to Blake's 7 to Battle of the Planets to the Muppets....

I was almost pathologicaly scared of the bearded muppet with the detonator. I used to look for him lurking in the corners of that bloody great theatre they all lived (?) in. Really marred my enjoyment of the show.

Sax

11:33 / 07.12.01

Dawn of the Dead. Absolutely fucking terrified me, and still does. Hate zombie movies. I can't even watch that Mini advert.

suds

11:34 / 07.12.01

i was scared of the dog in 'fraggle rock' because i thought he'd kill all the fraggles, including my favourite, who i remember being the only girl.
i was scared of the ghost in the library in ghostbusters the film.
and i was scared that i'd end up like the teen-agers on top of the pops.

Kit-Cat Club

11:37 / 07.12.01

The scariest thing in my entire childhood, even beating the lions which lived down the plughole, was an episode of 'Music Time' that involved a one-man-band sitting on a tree stump and then falling off it, backwards. I think I thought he was dead. Never watched the programme again.

Rev. Wright

11:44 / 07.12.01

Childhood, scares...
..has to be THREADS, nuclear holocaust story based in Sheffield. Pisses all over 'The Day After' Was banned from video for many years and I don't think it has ever been rebroadcast. Would love to own a copy.

Sax

11:55 / 07.12.01

quote:Originally posted by Kit-Cat Club:
even beating the lions which lived down the plughole

Sorry to laugh at your innermost fears but that just made me piss my sides for four minutes.

Kit-Cat Club

12:04 / 07.12.01

You brute!

The Knowledge +1

12:16 / 07.12.01

Aliens 2 - Especially the bit when she's home free and she CHOOSES to go back to save Newt.

Critters put the eebie jeebies up me, as did Gremlins.

I was DISTURBED by images like the boy that gets crushed between the massive clothes presser in The Wolves Of Willoughby Chase and Leatherface brandishing the chainsaw in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

And Wurzel Gummidge used to put the shits up me.

[ 07-12-2001: Message edited by: The Knowledge +1 ]

Johnny Mother

12:32 / 07.12.01

Wurzel Gummidge was fucking terrifying. In an annual that accompanied the show, he had many different heads, one of which being Adolf Hitler.

Speaking of multiple heads, the wheelers in 'Return To Oz' freaked me out...

grant

13:20 / 07.12.01

as a little kid, i remember three things that terrified me:

1. The Yellow Submarine. Not so much Glove as the Blue Meanies.

2. A televised puppet show version of Beauty and the Beast. There was a spider puppet, I recall - and "Beauty" herself was so non-human, she terrified me.

3. A horror movie that I tracked down on here and have now re-forgotten the name. Featured a bricked-up fireplace in this old home these people open up... and release these little apple-doll-faced creatures that cause all sorts of havoc & bloodshed. They whispered at night to each other. Something offerings, I think it was called. But not Burnt Offerings, that's a different movie.

pointless and uncalled for

13:40 / 07.12.01

Terry Wogan's hair has plagued my nightmares since I was six. There was a particularly nasty time when it would wear thigh-high stilletos and sing Elton John songs. Usually it sang Rocket Man.

Mazarine

15:26 / 07.12.01

The White Mountains. I think they showed it to us during school actually.

The Strobe

16:18 / 07.12.01

The title sequence to The Box of Delights freaked me out a treat when I was three. All those spinny heads, especially the jester's one, were really, really ODD. Then I watched the thing when I was a couple of years older, and it was all brilliant. But yeah. Wwwuuh.

invisible_al

19:20 / 07.12.01

I vaguely remembering being scared shitless by Gonzo, not generally, just when he blew his trumpet.

And lay off the guy with lions down the plug hole :-) I know someone who had impossible wolves after him.

chockablock.

Snuck downstairs and watched The Omen when I was 8 and had a fear of any black dogs for ages after that.

Also remember a kiddies programme about a demon horse with glowing eyes.

I also found Pipkins very scary and very claustraphobic. Hartley was a demon!!!

British ChildrensTV was scary in the seventies!!!

daisy

08:03 / 09.12.01

oompa loompa's, even now,that green hair and orange face combination and those songs give me shivers.and those flying monkeys from wizard of oz. My biggest fear was planet of the apes though,they used to induce bad dreams of apes surrounging my house and getting at me.

Shortfatdyke

08:08 / 09.12.01

when the video to 'the monster mash' was shown on totp back in the early 70s, my bruv, sis and myself screamed the house down. when my mum had restored some kind of order she had to ring the bbc and complain.

but, like gun runce, i was scared of everything as a kid. even/esp ice cream vans. thought they were driven by demons.

The Return Of Rothkoid

19:37 / 09.12.01

The Cybermen, purely because they lived in my bathroom when I was six. Them, and those eyeless robots in the "Robots Of Death" episode of Dr Who.

I have to say, too, that when Twin Peaks was first on, the BOB scenes, and the doppelganger bits frightened the living hell out of me. And, as this weekend's viewing has proven, still do.

Pin

19:56 / 09.12.01

quote:Originally posted by daisy:
My biggest fear was planet of the apes though,they used to induce bad dreams of apes surrounging my house and getting at me.

[was probablly funnier in my head]I love that. Not that they "got you" (broke the door off its hinges, run up the stairs, and mercilessly tore you limb from limb), but that they "got at you" (made loud moises and pulled that bloke you liked generally got on your tits)[/was probablly funnier in my head]

[N.O.B.O.D.Y.]

02:49 / 10.12.01

There were a lot of things that scared me when I was a kid...some of them:

- Alien. I saw it on my own when I was like 6 years old, at midnight and the lights were off. I was too scared to stand up from my chair and turn them on.
- The third of the Omens, the one with Sam Neill; I was 5 or 6 years old. It gave me nightmares; and that kind of religious stuff still gives me the creeps sometimes (you know, crosses bleeding, Carmina Burana, etc)
- Superman III. I was scared of the woman that becomes a robot or something like that towards the end of the movie.

The Return Of Rothkoid

07:05 / 10.12.01

quote:Superman III. I was scared of the woman that becomes a robot or something like that towards the end of the movie.[/QB]And her eye turn to metal! And she gets that electroshock afro! She was fearsome.

Bear

07:26 / 10.12.01

Nice thread, when I was younger the Amativyle House Horror scared the hell out of me (so much I can't spell it).. also birds but I've got a bit of a phobia about them (watched it at my friends and remember running home looking out for sparrows)....also the witch thing from Terrahawks so looked too evil....

Brian Dennehy

20:25 / 10.12.01

Speaking of robot transformation, the bit in 'Moonwalker' when Michael Jackson turns into a robot scared the shit out of me when I was about 8. And the claymation tourists with the giant heads.

Also, the truck driver who morphs into a monster in 'Pee Wee's Big Adventure' gave me the shits for about a week.

Saint Keggers

20:35 / 10.12.01

The Guards from The Wizard Of OZ

I think the movie was called "The Fog" or "The Mist" or something like that. I saw it through a haze of a hellish fever when I was a child.

Something Wicked This Way Comes. Saw it as a wee child. Scared the crap out of me.

Dracula...the one with Christopher Lee.

grant

16:27 / 11.12.01

quote:Originally posted by kegboy:
I think the movie was called "The Fog" or "The Mist" or something like that. I saw it through a haze of a hellish fever when I was a child.

The Fog was a John Carpenter ghost story about a zombified crew of sailors who spook the New England town of "Spivey Point" seeking their stolen treasure and exacting vengeance on the descendants of those who stole it. I remember this because I taped John Houseman telling the ghost story that introduces the film. Lovely voice.

[N.O.B.O.D.Y.]

17:53 / 11.12.01

quote:Originally posted by Brian Dennehy:
Speaking of robot transformation, the bit in 'Moonwalker' when Michael Jackson turns into a robot scared the shit out of me when I was about 8. And the claymation tourists with the giant heads.

Hey, Moonwalker scared me too!!!! Another one was Brazil, especially the dream parts. And Clockwork Orange's poster...Should I be ashamed of myself?

[ 11-12-2001: Message edited by: [N.O.B.O.D.Y.] -Thank You C.A.B.J.- ]

daisy

20:27 / 11.12.01

A cousin of mine went to see Nightmare on Elm Street when he was about 14. He arrived back home[ which was in the middle of nowhere],to find his parents out,and a power cut happening.He sat in the middle of the house,phoned his parents who were at ours,and actually said."please come home,I'm scared' !

Analogues On

20:30 / 11.12.01

quote: British Childrens TV was scary in the seventies!!!

I believe that evil forces were at the head of Children’s Programming in the 70s’/ 80s, as there were just loads of ridiculously scary shows on during afternoon/ early evening TV. More often than not these involved Victorian children, time travel, metamorphism or Patrick Troughton, and centred around strange goings on at an antique shop/ country home…….

My big scares:

Davros. Just horrific (in fact you can include all Dr Who baddies)
The Ugly Wuglies from the Enchanted Castle. Plain evil.
Triffids. Still can’t eat asparagus.
The Box of Delights. Man-wolves.
Tripods. Capping……….

But most horrible of all……………

The regional Why Don't You gangs. Bloodcurdling.

Saint Keggers

03:01 / 12.12.01

Also..the Spitting Image puppets used to creep
the hell out of me.

Haus about we all give each other a big lovely huggle?

07:03 / 12.12.01

God, the naked horror of "Why Don't You"...

Btw, there's a copy of "Threads" in thge Music and Video exchange, in "UK TV" or similar section.

Shortfatdyke

07:10 / 12.12.01

my sister has a cinema poster for the original texas chainsaw massacre. took her two decades to get it and she won't hang it up cos she says it'll give her nightmares.

the same one was on a massive hoarding near our local sweetshop. it was horrible, but fascinating all the same.

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