In elementary school, I braved the United Artist logo almost everyday to watch Pink Panther, which was the school's mascot at the time. Shortly before we moved, they changed it to an orca, which made me upset.
Things in media that scared you as a kid.
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Nice one, what a great movie that was!Canadamus Prime said:
The desert itself was pretty scary, as it turned anything that touched it to sand sculptures (which of course then crumbled). Also, Princess Mombi was terrifying- a witch who swapped heads when she pleased. And the Nomes, all stop motion and ghastly... sooo creepy.
I forget the name of the episode but there was one Doctor Who (in the Tom Baker era I beleive) where a Dalek's shell was destroyed but the thing inside survived and was going around killing people.
Terrified me at the time.
Terrified me at the time.
There are a lot of things in that movie that are quite freaky when you think about it. Esp. when you get to the climax and the Nome king is huge and surrounded by fire and talking about literally eating our protagonists.the December King said:
Saw the movie Arachnophobia (1990) as a kid. Probably around the age of seven or eight.
Much like the name of the movie says, I do to this day (22 years later) still heavily dislike spiders, and they seriously gives me the shivers. Saw it again last year, still terrifying.
Also, what part of that movie was supposed to be "comedy"?
Much like the name of the movie says, I do to this day (22 years later) still heavily dislike spiders, and they seriously gives me the shivers. Saw it again last year, still terrifying.
Also, what part of that movie was supposed to be "comedy"?
That would be Resurrection of the Daleks, a Peter Davidson one.votemarvel said:
Also, bleak story, they'd moved into being gruesome for the sake of it for a bit there.
Two examples I can remember were
The Cat Motel with Spiders episode from Courage the Cowardly Dog which freaked me the fuck out, the rest of Courage's episodes were pretty interesting attempts at doing kids horror with stuff like the clear Exorcist reference, the cursed haunted box and alien ducks as well as humorous with the all consuming mob foot fungus and the escaped criminal with dual personalities but seriously fuck that initial episode. The idea of being casually caught by a smooth talking cat and being fed to spiders alive was terrifying as a kid not to mention that the way that whole episode was animated compared to the others was very unsettling.
And the other was these guys:
Now the actual monsters themselves were not scary but the way Bioware described and set them up before you had even encountered them was extremely unnerving. So you hear some rumors from the Upper Levels of Taris about this infection going around the lowest and confined levels of the city and how it's been having devastating effects to the people down there. You then go further down and you learn about the Rakghul plague and how it's Sith created disease that was being used to keep the population in the slums in check and involved someone getting sicker and sicker as time went on before eventually undergoing a horrifying and graphic transformation involving their skin being ripped to shreds and bones being shifted before becoming some kind of monster that could continue spreading the plague. Now as I kid I did wonder if Bioware had actually included such an effect in the game but it was enough to make me go nope and not come back to the game for a couple years.
The Cat Motel with Spiders episode from Courage the Cowardly Dog which freaked me the fuck out, the rest of Courage's episodes were pretty interesting attempts at doing kids horror with stuff like the clear Exorcist reference, the cursed haunted box and alien ducks as well as humorous with the all consuming mob foot fungus and the escaped criminal with dual personalities but seriously fuck that initial episode. The idea of being casually caught by a smooth talking cat and being fed to spiders alive was terrifying as a kid not to mention that the way that whole episode was animated compared to the others was very unsettling.
And the other was these guys:
Now the actual monsters themselves were not scary but the way Bioware described and set them up before you had even encountered them was extremely unnerving. So you hear some rumors from the Upper Levels of Taris about this infection going around the lowest and confined levels of the city and how it's been having devastating effects to the people down there. You then go further down and you learn about the Rakghul plague and how it's Sith created disease that was being used to keep the population in the slums in check and involved someone getting sicker and sicker as time went on before eventually undergoing a horrifying and graphic transformation involving their skin being ripped to shreds and bones being shifted before becoming some kind of monster that could continue spreading the plague. Now as I kid I did wonder if Bioware had actually included such an effect in the game but it was enough to make me go nope and not come back to the game for a couple years.
For me it was the episode of the returned astronaut claiming to have seen a space ghost. Lame, i know, but it stuck with me for a long time. Much of it had to do with the image being used in the opening.Xsjadoblayde said:
Yes, Fred came off as kind of bad-touchy. Ramses was weird looking but he just wanted his stuff back, i respect that.HotPie said:Courage the Cowardly Dog. Not Ramses, like most people seem to remember but this ************
Oh, I was afraid of the mad cow disease, an alladin/sindbad/something movie with stretchy arm action, some episodes from one of the tales from the crypt-likes. I was also afraid of violent video games, dangerous dave 2 and some fantasy wolfenstein-like i persuaded my mother to play for me.
I've always thought that movie was severely underrated. It's got some truly great creature and gore effects, which look a hell of a lot better than a lot of the CGI crap we get nowadays. The one that always bothered me when I was younger was the boyfriend character who died in the hospital while trying to make a phone call. The effects in that scene are top notch. Frankly, I put a lot of the creature effects in that movie on-par with Carpenter's The Thing.FalloutJack said:
Let's be honest here; we've all had that dream.
The scarabs in The Mummy, as a kid I didn't even flinch when I saw the mummy in all of its decomposed glory, but seeing those things going under a guy's skin and devouring a human alive scarred me to the point I freak out when I feel something crawling my skin.