[Closed] TV/Flims that scared you as a kid

I was scared of these

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after seeing [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Changes_(TV_series) ]this[/url].

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Watership Down is not for 8-year-olds. Fact.

I was genuinely scarred for life by salems lot!! That little ****er tapping on the window!! Didn't help we lived in a cottage connected to a huge old hall, and the fact my sister once saw an old woman looking out of the window whilst we played in the courtyard 😯 😯

Good call Wrightyson. Scared the bejeebus out of me that did

I was a but uneasy with this horrible **** also.

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Hartley Hare! Good god man.

The public relations video warning kids about swimming in ponds/lakes. Evil was represented by a cloak.

Scares me still!

The Groak from the original fuzzy felt Moomins did for me. And Grotbags. And that 'kids' tv series "The Tripods".

The day of Triffids scared me as a nipper

Nightmare on Elm Street. All of them.

I also remember a tv prog broadcast at halloween one year called Ghost Watch. Terrifying.

DRS**** - oh gods i remember that one! 😯

Also, anyone remember a similar public information film about the dangers of fireworks? It laid the whole 'burns' thing on pretty heavily, and then this horrible apparition suddenly popped up on screen at the end. Ws it a guy fawkes or the girl who had been burnt?

Always wondered..

"The Owl Service" nothing else has ever come close.....

Actually, you lot might be able to help me out with something here. I have half a memory of a series that proper gave me the willies as a kid and I'm damned if I know what it is. This is what I remember, though I might not be 100% on the details.

It was a sci-fi show with a basic premise of some sort of clandestine alien invasion I think; I'm guessing it aired around the early 80s. People were being replaced by alien dopplegangers, with the transformation occurring off-camera (presumably for SFX budgetary reasons). When someone was attacked, it showed the view from outside the room, with a trademark throbbing green glow visible round the edges of the door.

There was also some sort of device, like a green lantern, which all(?) the aliens had. I can't remember what it was for, but finding one of these hidden lights was a shibboleth that someone wasn't who they seemed.

Does that ring [i]any [/i]bells with anyone? It fair gave me the shits as a kid, and it's bugged me for years as an adult. It might even be something already mentioned here, like Tripods - I vaguely remember that being on but only really remember the Tripods themselves; whether it's the same show or not, I've no idea.

I remember something like that Cougar - wasn't a remake of 'bodysnatchers' was it?

wasn't a remake of 'bodysnatchers' was it?

That's entirely possible, and a thought that's crossed my mind before, but I honestly don't know. The premise is basically the same from what I remember; was there an IOTBS series around that time perhaps?

Sounds stupid but jaws scared the hell out of me when I was a kid. It wasn't the actual film, it was swimming in the sea afterwards. Remember seeing a shadow in the water (probably seaweed) and utterly crapping myself. Found it hard to swim in the sea for a long time after. Stupid really, guess it was the unseen thing with big teeth angle that got me.

DrS**** - this one by any chance? 😆

I remember actually seeing a fin in the water when snorkelling in the Red Sea - pretty sure i came out of the water like Polaris and landed on the boats deck perfectly upright!! 😆

Rupert's blue mate and potato headed spaceman petrified me as a child.

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Agh!! you utter, utter barnacle!!!

That's the bloke, that horrible twiggy-headed blue sod up there - bloody scraggetty!

<Hides behind sofa again in 40 odd year old panic>

Alien. Don't remember seeing it (must have gone downstairs when my parents were watching it when I was very young) but I used to have recurring nightmares about this thing that lived in our loft and would grab people as they walked under the hatch.

Only realised where it came from when I saw the film years later and recognised the thing from the loft!

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Remember thinking i was going to watch jungle book in the cinema when i was a kid,ended up being taken to see jaws,scared the shit out of me,also haloween scared me for some reason!!

The Invisible man series that was on BBC1 after Howards Way on a Sunday night used to freak me out.

For muddy 😉

Zelda from the Terrhawks
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aka Irene from Home and Away
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aka Shirley from eastenders
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aka Davros
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aka one of the Riddlers
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:peeks out from behind sofa:

Funny I caught a glimpse of alien the original as a kid, when Dallas is in the ventilation duct, incredibly tense and edgy, great cinematic moment that should have shit me up as a kid but to this day alien and aliens are two of my all time favourite films!!

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Watched The Exorcist when I was 10 years old at my mate Greg's house.

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Not a good idea.

We also watched some of his mum and dad's porn. 😀

We also watched some of his mum and dad's porn.

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at my cousins. from behind the sofa. Aged 8. Still cant watch it now, and I appreciate now that its more a comedy!

cougar, I remember that, haven't got a clue what is was though.

Worzel Gummidge used to freak me right out, especially the crowman. I alos remember a series set in a school where the dinner lady served this brown sludge, that also used to scare me quite a bit.

Owned or starred in?

Owned. Which was a shame because I had a bit of a thing about his mum.

Kids' program from 70s, something to do with large stones, stone circles, like Stone Henge but way smaller. Stones had strange powers?

Another kids' show that had a lift that occasionally went way below the bottom level to a very scary floor...

I'm sure I didn't dream these two up!

The Singing Ringing Tree.....

watched the thing when i was 10 wished i hadn't

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Don't think it was meant to be, but I found Catweazle proper scary when I were a kiddie.

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Poltergeist, the first one.

I also watched this b movie where a kid had an imaginary tiger/ lion friend that visited at night. One night his mum found them together and the next scene was basically this kid standing in shot with bits of meat thrown at him. Awful.

The kid tapping on the window in Salem's Lot.
The Exorcist.
Some animated film that we were shown in primary school. I can't remember what it was but I think the characters looked like those in The Nightmare Before Christmas but I don't think it was that.. opening scene was a character that I seem to remember looking like Jack Skellington, creeping into a somebodies bedroom at night (climbing up a drainpipe?) and I can't remember much more than that! I think it was a cartoon..

Cougar, could the cloned individuals be spotted by an inability to bend one or some of their fingers?

For me, the Daleks were pretty scary stuff but if you really wanted to put the shits up a kid in the 70's, you'd make some public information films. I will guarantee now that there are many, many people in their fourties who today, still can't run barefoot on a beach or attend an open water swimming session.

I apologise profusely for posting these links but they really should serve as a warning to public information film makers..

Look, really. If you've never seen this one, don't watch it, it will ruin your life!
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Death!
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Salems Lot WOW .....

Scared me shitless when i was a young un..
Does now HE HE ! 😆

Slaughter high. Apparently it's a comedy horror.
Not at the time.

Salems Lot made me take up prayer!

But [url= http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072750/ ]Bug 1975[/url] kept me away from phones and door handles for ages.

Worzel Gummage - clearly pure evil incarnate and the wheeled monkeys and headless witch in the wizard of oz. <shudders> And that pic of zelda is putting the shi7s up me now!!

Willy wonka & The Chocolate Factory. Had nightmares about the Oompa-Loompas For weeks after...

Cougar, could the cloned individuals be spotted by an inability to bend one or some of their fingers?

That rings vague bells actually, but I couldn't be sure either way. Where are you going with that?

Heh Muddy you o.k. mate

🙂

It sounds reasonably similar to "The invaders" which was made before you were born but might have been re-run to scare yet more children.

Watcher in the woods.. Still scares me!

Yeah the Invader - architect dude David Vincent(?) too tired to drive any further gets groped by 'humans' with a bad finger and glowey 50p bit. Class.

Ghos****ch! I watched it with my brother, we were basically near heart failure by the end, tears of terror... At school the next day, all the chat was about Ghos****ch, and it turned out only 2 of us in our entire year were both allowed to stay up and watch the end, and had the moral fibre to tough it out, which made us both absolute [i]legends[/i]. And that did go some way to making up for the fact I didn't sleep at all for days afterwards and had some really interesting nightmares for ages after.

I got the DVD a couple of years back and watched it on Halloween, and it still puts the s**ts right up me 😆 Brilliant stuff.

that pic of zelda is putting the shi7s up me now!!

Yep really used to freak me out.

Jesus I had to quickly scroll down past that little Salem ****er!! Reckon thats the winner from this thread!!

[b]althepal[/b] was just scrolling through the thread to see if anyone had mentioned Watcher in the woods.

I'd like to see it again to see what I make of it as an adult.

Another +1 for Zelda, typing her name just filled me with fear! The Incredible Hulk used to make me cry and hide behind the sofa when the transformation from David Banner took place.

+1 for 'The Thing'.
Not a good idea to watch aged 10........

The fella from 'The Black Hole' Maximilian is a badass robot.

I was born in 1976 and the film released in 79 so I guess it would have been a few years later when I saw it on TV.

Sapphire and Steel was v v scary.

Another vote for Nightmare on Elm Street. I had to get the train back to Tawa afterwards, and walk up the hill to my house all alone. Walked up the middle of the street I was so scared, and ran once the streetlights ran out.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre was something else I should never have been allowed to watch.

The Burbs, how was that meant to be a family film??????

Someone brought Nightmare on Elm street on the final days in P6 or 7, lot of people not seen a horror at that point and the school got a lot of complaints!

Salems lot is a good call. The window tapping did it to me also.
Evil Dead. Funny when u watch it now .... but when it first came out when i was about 12yrs old!!!

TuckerUK, this is it [url= http://www.bilderberg.org/changes.htm ]The Changes[/url]

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Can't believe no one mentioned the kiddy catcher from chitty chitty bang bang. He scared the bejesus out of me, I can smell you .........

Also won't go near the sea after seeing Jaws
Saw Poltergeist aged 14 and spent most of the film hiding behind the sofa.

Scary films that left a mark on me as a mid eighties early teenager.....

American Werewolf .... mostly the scene out on the moors, still creeps up in back of my mind out in the dark to this day.

The Fog.....oh God that scared me , still does out on dark foggy nights.

The Thing.....sinister, suspense and gore.

The Evil Dead.....funny now , not back then.

I agree with others on Salems Lot being scary but i watched it recently as it was on and wanted to capture the fear of yesteryear but it was hilarious , didn't age well.

The public information film - "Rabies Means Death"

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In fact, most of those films scared me!

Glad I'm not the only one who was terrified of Zelda from Terrahawks. I was also scared of the Emperor in Return of the Jedi too. There was also an episode of Bergerac that terrified me because it had a hooded figure with a burnt face (I think).

I was also scared of pylons.

I used to hide behind the sofa during the Doctor Who music...watching the programme was ok, I just didn't like the music.

I also watched the body snatchers when I was about 10...Dad was looking after us one night and went out to get a video to keep us entertained. Didn't like that film.

TuckerUK - that sounds like Children of The Stones to me: ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_the_Stones).

OK, I was born in 1966 so early to late 70's do it for me. I remember reading The Amityville Horror (at an age when I should have been reading stuff much less frightening). Anyway, the bit both in the book and film where the big pig is looking out of the attic window was pretty scary.

Does anyone remember an item on Nationwide (70's 'news' programme) - about someone who had an Egyptian artefact in their house, and the dog god Sirrius comes 'round to steal it back. It was told as if it really happened, and to me (probably aged 7) it gave me nightmares for absolutley ages. Even though on the following evenings programme they apologised as they had so many 'calls from upset parents! Happy days

I am so soft when it comes to horror / jumpy films. I even shit myself when the Waltons had a poltergeist.

Rupert's blue mate and potato headed spaceman petrified me as a child.

And this episode of Hammer made me almost piss my pants - Two Faces of Evil.
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And finally - La Cabina - only ever shown once on British TV and not available on DVD (legally 😉 ) I wouldn't close the door of telephone boxes behind me for years after.
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I think those examples show that I am only really afraid of 'real life' situations - hitchhikers, telephone boxes etc. When I was a kid I could happily sit through film after film of gore - Evil Dead, I Spit on Your Grave, Flesheaters, Zombies etc - none of them really scared me.

This:

http://www.televisionheaven.co.uk/nightmareman.htm

... and 'Blood on Satans Claw' as well

Aside from the Dr. Who, the tales of the unexpected (had some good un's & bad ones), it's the Amityville films that scared me silly, still won't watch them (or the remake). Though I've never been a horror fan...

Again I have a vague recollection of Cougars reminiscence,though I'd say it was from the late 70 early 80's production, rather than Samuri's earlier suggestion, but as it's my memory, I could be very wide of the mark.

PS: Though I never found Worzel Gummidge to be scary, I was completly freaked out by the whole "change of head" thing though.

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This:

Scared me witless that did.

TuckerUK - that sounds like Children of The Stones to me: ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_the_Stones).

That's the one! Well Done!

I think 'the Fog' must rate as one of the scariest films ever, truly a masterpiece, scares me shatless even now!

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PJM1974, I thought that an excellent series and was very disappointed they didn't do the third and final series

Couple more just come to me from the Twilight Zone film, 1983. I would have been 9 or 10 when watching it on TV

"It's a good life"
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"Terror at 20,000ft"
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heavent read the baove but two stick in my mind...

kids tv show called Terrhawks... withthis doll!

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and 'salems lot' , my cousin made me wtach it when i was 7 it scared the living sh*t out of me!!