What scared you as a child?

[Hazy]

Spoiler

I hated this bastard.

 

[zf6hellion]

The Scream masks.

Since the guy that wore them always wore a flowing black robe, chances are, the only thing you'd see coming out of the darkeness would be a floating, bleached-bone white face of a man in perpetual torment.

Scary Movie fixed that - about 15 years later >.>

Funnily enough, that made me regress back into fearing the masks.

Well seeing a drug addled killer kind of dulled the fear for me, not to mention his guise was being mentally retarded - after that I couldn't take him seriously, then again Michael Myers still creeps me out - but the AVGN helps with that

 

[Shycte]

The transforming scene in Snowwhite. When the queen drinks that shit and becomes that old hag.

Always skipped that part.

 

[Disaster Button]

I couldn't go into the Slender Man thread. I skimmed over the OP and it creeped me out for the rest of the night. I haven't known paranoi/anxiety like that in a long time.

But as a child the thought that my parents, my cat, my floor, anything could turn into the T-1000 and slice me up. I was terrified of that.

 

[The Salty Vulcan]

Very early in my childhood it was hieghts but I quickly grew outta that one.

 

[Sonicron]

Sirens used to scare the shit out of me as a kid.
Also, whenever a bee or wasp got too close to me I jumped up and fleed in terror... needless to say I was a lot of fun at barbeques.

One thing that still terrifies me are thunderstorms. Many years back, a lightning bolt cracked down about 50 metres away from me, and it felt like God was using me as target practice for the new apocalyptic whip he'd bought that day. The thought of getting struck by lightning and the accompanying feeling of utter helplessness still mortifies me.

 

[gustcq]

Skeletons :/

 

[DRTJR]

cockroaches they still creep me out

 

[Jeronus]

Vampires. I was afraid they would pop out of dark places and bite me unexpectedly. If only Twilight had existed when I was kid, then I would find them lame instead of scary.

 

[BubbaJeff]

WATERSHIP DOWN

 

[Hoppetussa]

Spoiler

I was eight...

Same here. I hate that sound the eye makes. Actually, almost the whole game creeped me out when I was a kid. Gorons, the spiders, the zombies, Ganondorf... Even the guards looked creepy. Like they were about to rape someone. And don't get me started on Majora's Mask...

 

[vaderaider]

The thought of the mummmy i used to think therewas in my mums wardrobe.

 

[JoshFTL]

Whats this Slender Man thing that people keep mentioning?

Also, Bees creeped me the hell out, I still feel un-easy around them.

 

[hermes]

I was attacked by a dog when I was younger, so I suffered some cynophobia for some time.

 

[Z of the Na'vi]

A lot of scenes from the old Indiana Jones movies used to freak me the hell out.

Like the Ark of the Covenant scene or the part where that one guy drinks the wrong Holy Grail.

Gave me nightmares for a few weeks.

 

[stag3]

Just remembered something, did anyone ever watch Watership Down as a kid? Its the animated movie where all those bunnies get brutally murdered. Scarred me for life watching that.

 

[Acidwell]

The dark and spiders fairly common but still scary as fuck.

 

[Tandrews]

Don't think this will apply to american readers here but.....
The carlton advert they did before a film in the odeon....that thing was terrifying.

I've still not recovered and I haven't seen the advert in years.....

 

[SkullCap]

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