sprazzi Posted September 30, 2016 Share Posted September 30, 2016 No, really. What did scare you as a child? For me it was this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtDlcM0Zmzg and this game:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP9NS9R3VSY Really: I can recall it 40 years later ...... And for you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Intymike Posted September 30, 2016 Share Posted September 30, 2016 (edited) Some horror and scifi movies on tv scared me back then. Phase 4 the ant horror movie for example. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bcs3_b3VXSU Edited September 30, 2016 by Intymike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tep392 Posted September 30, 2016 Share Posted September 30, 2016 My sister told me about Bloody Mary, or was it Mary Worth? Anyhow, for a while I had a hard time walking into the bathroom with the lights off or getting up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+nanochess Posted September 30, 2016 Share Posted September 30, 2016 Planet of Vampires, saw it when age 8 and it scared the shit out of me, never could take out from my mind the final scene of the movie. Almost 20 years! And now I've read this movie practically inspired Alien. So I saw the masterpiece too young ! BTW this trailer doesn't look cool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-PcyyDlytM Prometheus-style trailer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu__16YxV3k Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Tarzilla Posted September 30, 2016 Share Posted September 30, 2016 I never watched this one, but the trailer freaked me out when I was 9 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYh7G2HQI98 Mainly because of this image: 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sprazzi Posted September 30, 2016 Author Share Posted September 30, 2016 (edited) Planet of Vampires, saw it when age 8 and it scared the shit out of me, never could take out from my mind the final scene of the movie. Almost 20 years! And now I've read this movie practically inspired Alien. So I saw the masterpiece too young ! BTW this trailer doesn't look cool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-PcyyDlytM Prometheus-style trailer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu__16YxV3k wow planet of the vampires aka "terrore nello spazio" mario bava as director... a sci-fi flick cult of mine good taste!!! Edited September 30, 2016 by sprazzi 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric7100 Posted September 30, 2016 Share Posted September 30, 2016 (edited) Duneedon, the floating alien head from the TV series "Read All About It": Duneedon's humanly-disguised counterpart, Mayor Don Eden, was equally creepy. Interestingly, the actor who played him doesn't look too creepy at all: Edited September 30, 2016 by Eric7100 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m-crew Posted September 30, 2016 Share Posted September 30, 2016 not sure if this will post. trim.76F7A01F-C781-4BCB-B73D-BE4B2600975E.MOV 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+JasonlikesINTV Posted October 1, 2016 Share Posted October 1, 2016 I watched the movie The Changeling when I was a kid....scared the crap out of me. I was 3 yr old when the movie released, but probably at least 5-7 when I watched it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Changeling_(1980_film) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+JasonlikesINTV Posted October 1, 2016 Share Posted October 1, 2016 I'll tell you what scared me recently, though. I saw a video of a snapping turtle in a tank during feeding time. Someone dropped in a mouse/hamster rodent and the turtle literally bit off the entire lower body of the rodent...but the upper half swam away Nightmares, I tell you! DON'T Google it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NE146 Posted October 1, 2016 Share Posted October 1, 2016 lol.. I was about to post that "Bug" movie. That was it man. Maybe this is more because where I'm from during the 70's and early 80's, but I'll tell you what else freaked me out as a kid, and that's japanese BIG EYES in their cartoons and comics. AND, Also the "mean" looking samurai that seemed to be on every friggin calendar hung at every home where I grew up (some pictures even had blood). Also the japanese cartoons were always way more scary and violent than Yogi Bear... I believe it was an episode of "Captain Harlock" 70's tv series that terrified me one day and lasted for weeks. With all that said, I have to say it was with a great sense of bemusement that I witnessed japanese manga and anime steadily grow in popularity over the decades in the the western world. Oh! One last thing.. this alien at the end of every Star Trek. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freewheel Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 Taxes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Lathe26 Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 Old monster movies, when I was little. I chuckle at them now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qjuWr9vka4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m-crew Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 Old monster movies, when I was little. I chuckle at them now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qjuWr9vka4 I was opposite of you , I loved couldn't get enough of those Godzilla movies. Cheese and all. When there mouths were still moving after they finished the English dubbin, priceless childhood memories. Lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Lathe26 Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 I was opposite of you , I loved couldn't get enough of those Godzilla movies. Cheese and all. When there mouths were still moving after they finished the English dubbin, priceless childhood memories. Lol I loved them, too. I watched as many of these as I could back in pre-VCR days. Our local ABC TV station showed old movies of all kinds on Sunday afternoons. When I was little and a monster movie was playing, I would have to step out of the room when I became terrified. I'd tell myself it was only a movie for a minute or so (and get annoyed with myself for getting so worked up) . Then I would return to watch the rest. My young brain processed the special effects as realistic. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+nanochess Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 My young brain processed the special effects as realistic. That's so true for many movies I saw as a kid, I remember seeing the Time Machine as the greatest ever movie, and playing it again after 20 years I see clearly the backdrops are done in cardboard! anyway great movie 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 I swear, even in hindsight, that my family lived in a haunted house when I was a kid. I can remember a few nights hearing footsteps getting louder and louder until they were so loud I thought they were in the room with me. I remember screaming and my mother running in to comfort me. I also remember every few nights seeing this hand reaching down at me out of the darkness, directly towards my face. But it would just keep coming down and go through me and disappear. As for external things, one of my most vivid fear memories was seeing the movie "Roller Coaster" in Sensaround or whatever fad technology they used for the original release of that movie... it was incredibly loud and I think they had subwoofers under the seats or something, so the seats would rumble in the scenes with the roller coaster. I literally ran out of the theater. My mom had to run after me. I think if I was warned about the sensaround, I might have been ok. I think my mom sort of wanted to surprise me and see what my reaction would be, but as a little kid I just thought the roller coaster was actually going to come through the screen and crush us all. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onmode-ky Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 I can't really compete with encountering actual paranormal phenomena, but anyway. . . . Maybe this is more because where I'm from during the 70's and early 80's, but I'll tell you what else freaked me out as a kid, and that's japanese BIG EYES in their cartoons and comics. AND, Also the "mean" looking samurai that seemed to be on every friggin calendar hung at every home where I grew up (some pictures even had blood). Also the japanese cartoons were always way more scary and violent than Yogi Bear... I believe it was an episode of "Captain Harlock" 70's tv series that terrified me one day and lasted for weeks. If you want to check which episode of Harlock it was, the entire series is available in your current hemisphere for about $50. At some point, I plan to get that myself.For me, back in the late 80s or early 90s, I saw a traumatic episode of a super robot anime series which I have unfortunately not been able to identify all these years later. There aren't all that many super robots whose crews are kids at school, but I haven't found the one with this episode. In it, while a boy is sleeping in bed, an evil monster larva comes in through his open window and lands next to his head. It crawls into his ear and does something like biting his eye (he sits up, crying out and grabbing his face like his eye is in pain). Then, he seems to calm down and go back to sleep. The next day, he's behaving strangely at school. At one point, he's found eating reptiles and/or amphibians in the science lab (or some other room--not sure if they were class pets or to-be-dissected experiment subjects). By the end of the episode, he's turned into a giant monster, whom his super robot pilot classmates have to battle. The remnant of humanity that's still within him asks his friends to go ahead and kill him, and so they slice or stab him with the robot's sword.That episode freaked the hell out of me, and that's despite me at the time being either in the show's target age group or slightly older! The Ceti eel scene of STII:TWOK (which I probably saw a few years later) didn't even have anywhere near a comparable effect on me! Anyway, if there's anyone here who can identify the show, please tell me. The only "elementary school team of kids commands a super robot" shows that I'm aware of are Sunrise's Eldran trio, but I have not been able to determine whether one of them is where this episode came from. All I know is that it isn't in the first half of Raijin-Oh, the first Eldran show, since I have those episodes on DVD now.onmode-ky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accousticguitar Posted October 11, 2016 Share Posted October 11, 2016 Bigfoot, I watched some documentary type show about bigfoot when I was young and then was scared to go near the windows at night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+JasonlikesINTV Posted October 11, 2016 Share Posted October 11, 2016 I thought Bigfoot was more of a daytime kinda fella. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accousticguitar Posted October 11, 2016 Share Posted October 11, 2016 I thought Bigfoot was more of a daytime kinda fella. Perhaps, but in the daytime I could see there weren't any Bigfoots near, but after dark I couldn't tell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+fdr4prez Posted October 11, 2016 Share Posted October 11, 2016 Perhaps, but in the daytime I could see there weren't any Bigfoots near, but after dark I couldn't tell. sounds like you'd be a nice candidate for Scare Tactics https://youtu.be/UUZ3CKu-YCg 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+JasonlikesINTV Posted October 13, 2016 Share Posted October 13, 2016 Well, this was strange. https://youtu.be/ak3z2Pm7Iwg 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m-crew Posted October 13, 2016 Share Posted October 13, 2016 Well, this was strange. https://youtu.be/ak3z2Pm7Iwg Yup!!! Very ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+save2600 Posted October 13, 2016 Share Posted October 13, 2016 The Blob (original b/w film), when it oozed out of the projection room and onto unsuspecting moviegoers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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