Things in media that scared you as a kid.
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The transporter accident scene from Star Trek: The Motion Picture. You have a sudden and frankly-jarring alarm sound, followed by a scene where two people are malforming while in transport, screaming horribly. The book was more detailed about just how grotesque it was.
Another thing is that I had a curious fear reaction to certain B-level movies, like for instance The Green Slime, Forbidden Planet, and The Blob (either version). Of course, 80s-version Blob may actually be A-level material, but who knows? It was actually more the scene of being trapped in the diner basement that gave me nightmares. Forbidden Planet gave me fears of being attacked in the dark by an invisible monster, something I can't even begin to resist. The Green Slime was hokey sci-fi, but the sound the creatures made and the electricution attacks freaked me out.
Oddly enough, John Carpenter's: The Thing should be nightmare fuel, but no one in my family has ever been affected by it. Most it ever did was give me a dream about being Kurt Russell.
Another thing is that I had a curious fear reaction to certain B-level movies, like for instance The Green Slime, Forbidden Planet, and The Blob (either version). Of course, 80s-version Blob may actually be A-level material, but who knows? It was actually more the scene of being trapped in the diner basement that gave me nightmares. Forbidden Planet gave me fears of being attacked in the dark by an invisible monster, something I can't even begin to resist. The Green Slime was hokey sci-fi, but the sound the creatures made and the electricution attacks freaked me out.
Oddly enough, John Carpenter's: The Thing should be nightmare fuel, but no one in my family has ever been affected by it. Most it ever did was give me a dream about being Kurt Russell.
The 1953 b-movie The War of the Worlds had some scary shit. I lived in the countryside when I watched it, and the prospect of a UFO slamming into the side of our house in the night seemed plausible.
Also, Stoppit and Tidyup scared the hell out of me when I was a toddler.
Also, Stoppit and Tidyup scared the hell out of me when I was a toddler.
I remember seeing the original x-files airing as a kid and one thing, or the only thing I really remember is an episode about a haunted death-row prison where somebody's head was found in a bucket, amongst other ghostly murders. But that kinda is all I recall being scared by on TV.
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Resident Evil 2 was my first exposure to zombies, and seeing them and the Licker for the first scared me shitless. I hid behind my older brother on the first playthrough. I had nightmares for nearly two weeks.
Then there was Parasite Eve, though I was less scared of that compared to Resident Evil.
There are episodes of Are Afraid of the Dark that did scare me between the ages of 4-6. It didn't help that despite mostly happy or bittersweet endings of episodes, death was implied or outright stated for characters that met a tragic fate.
I found this more creepy, than scary, but the episode Doug's Nightmare on Jumbo Street. Whenever Doug had a bad dream about the movie (The Abnormal) he saw; his nightmares were more disturbing, than whatever he witnessed. This rings really true for the first nightmare. The Abnormal in his nightmares comes off like a cross between Freddy Kruger and Jack Nicholson. It doesn't help that the voice actor is obviously doing a Jack Nicholson voice in the second nightmare; "Here's Porkchop!". Nowadays, I find that episode funny.
Child's Play. It didn't help that my older brother would intentionally change the channel if airing, just to give me a brief scare. Today, Chuck does not bother me.
Resident Evil 2 was my first exposure to zombies, and seeing them and the Licker for the first scared me shitless. I hid behind my older brother on the first playthrough. I had nightmares for nearly two weeks.
Then there was Parasite Eve, though I was less scared of that compared to Resident Evil.
There are episodes of Are Afraid of the Dark that did scare me between the ages of 4-6. It didn't help that despite mostly happy or bittersweet endings of episodes, death was implied or outright stated for characters that met a tragic fate.
I found this more creepy, than scary, but the episode Doug's Nightmare on Jumbo Street. Whenever Doug had a bad dream about the movie (The Abnormal) he saw; his nightmares were more disturbing, than whatever he witnessed. This rings really true for the first nightmare. The Abnormal in his nightmares comes off like a cross between Freddy Kruger and Jack Nicholson. It doesn't help that the voice actor is obviously doing a Jack Nicholson voice in the second nightmare; "Here's Porkchop!". Nowadays, I find that episode funny.
Child's Play. It didn't help that my older brother would intentionally change the channel if airing, just to give me a brief scare. Today, Chuck does not bother me.
The Blob (1988)- nice. I still remember thinking that, in the sewers, they wouldn't let the "plucky wisecracking sidekick neighbor kid" get killed... and then BAM! It really lent the flick an edge of uncertainty about who may live or die (even if, looking back on it, it was still rather safely formulaic).FalloutJack said:
On topic, This is rather silly, but in Ghostbusters 2, Winston is called out in the sewers by staked rotting heads.
That... fucked me up.
Also, the rotting head underwater in Jim Gardener's boat in Jaws. Similar vibe, really.
The Golden Goose two-parter from Ducktales.
For those that haven't seen them, in it Scrooge McDuck gets his hands on the titular Golden Goose statue, which has the ability to turn anything into gold by letting its beak touch an object while the holder says "gold". The first episode concludes with the Beagle Boys stealing it and for good measure turning Huey, Dewey and Lewis into golden statues. The next episode involves the goose becoming alive, casually pecking at objects and turning them to gold as well. It then concludes with its final "evolution" where its golden exterior flows off it, gradually turning the entire planet into gold, a process that was only reversed at the end of the episode.
I repeat: a Disney cartoon that involves the petrification(either to death or aware petrification) of everything and everyone that exists on the planet. That stuff used to give me nightmares.
I also remember in Black & White from Lionhead where I'm going about, casually examining my rival god Lethys' territory, when suddenly Lethys, in the form of his holy symbol flies into my face and tells me sharply "Keep off my territory!". That scared me.
For those that haven't seen them, in it Scrooge McDuck gets his hands on the titular Golden Goose statue, which has the ability to turn anything into gold by letting its beak touch an object while the holder says "gold". The first episode concludes with the Beagle Boys stealing it and for good measure turning Huey, Dewey and Lewis into golden statues. The next episode involves the goose becoming alive, casually pecking at objects and turning them to gold as well. It then concludes with its final "evolution" where its golden exterior flows off it, gradually turning the entire planet into gold, a process that was only reversed at the end of the episode.
I repeat: a Disney cartoon that involves the petrification(either to death or aware petrification) of everything and everyone that exists on the planet. That stuff used to give me nightmares.
I also remember in Black & White from Lionhead where I'm going about, casually examining my rival god Lethys' territory, when suddenly Lethys, in the form of his holy symbol flies into my face and tells me sharply "Keep off my territory!". That scared me.
Chernobog, from Fantasia.
What else...Arachnophobia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachnophobia_(film)]. Idle Hands. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idle_Hands] Any zombie film; I always hated zombies more than anything else. I could never finish Half-Life because of headcrab zombies.
What else...Arachnophobia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachnophobia_(film)]. Idle Hands. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idle_Hands] Any zombie film; I always hated zombies more than anything else. I could never finish Half-Life because of headcrab zombies.
Spitting Image puppets. They scared the fuck out of me. 'Land of Confusion' was nightmare fuel.
Also, the movie Silver Bullit and the Gmork from The Neverending Story.
Also, the movie Silver Bullit and the Gmork from The Neverending Story.
thats ok they are just from a book and are not real and we dont have access to the internet and know where your tasty brain livesBobular said:One of the earliest nightmares I can remember having was of these things:
To this day there is a special part of my brain that knows it is tasty to these things and instinctively makes me want to stay away from them.
The only thing that scared me as a kid were those POV shots in Evil Dead.
The combination of weird camera movements and sounds and the fact that we never get to see those things creeped me out.
The combination of weird camera movements and sounds and the fact that we never get to see those things creeped me out.
I am in agreement with quite a few of the above.
Stones of Blood, part of the Key to Time arc in the latter Tom Baker years.trunkage said:
I was going to mention this- that was a fun arc. as to the rock monsters, the Ogri- they were like huge living menhirs or something- really creepy idea.Thaluikhain said:
You know the scream that the Banshee makes in Mass Effect 3? It brought back memories of a horror movie I saw when I was a kid called, I think, "Xtro-3". That high pitch haunting scream just makes me uncomfortable. When I heard it for the first time in Mass Effect 3, I said, "What the fuck?!? No. No no no no FUCKING NO!!!"
Yeah, the movie looked awful now but I was a kid, man. That shit scared me... and got me interested in SciFi. I didn't see Alien as a child but that would have haunted me.
Yeah, the movie looked awful now but I was a kid, man. That shit scared me... and got me interested in SciFi. I didn't see Alien as a child but that would have haunted me.
Not so much from my childhood and more from when I was a teenager, but the ending to the Goosebumps episode "My Best Friend is a Ghost" creeped me out.