I noticed the thread about movies that scare you as a child, but as a child who wasn't exposed to movies much, I can't really relate. Since that thread is over 6 months old, I may as well revive the topic to include any childhood fears.
When I was a little girl, my family had a video game called Simon's Quest, and boy, was it disturbing. It's about this dude that's trying to break some kind of a curse over a town, and he must do it by killing dracula. Here are some images that scared the pants off of me, and gave me nightmares as a kid:
Also, Garfield Halloween special used to make me run out of the room when this guy popped up:
Prom. I was terrified of prom, oh and plymouths. Sounds bizzare but as a little kid my aunts thought it was a good idea to take me to see Christine and Carrie at a drive in. I was way too young for those movies, maybe 4 or 5. Still cannot watch them to this day.
I was scared of the movie Matilda, Mrs Trunchbull scared the living daylights out of me! Funny how I always obeyed all the rules in school, avoided getting detention at all costs.
Bambi and Dumbo! I was afraid my mom would get taken away.
I also used to think lifesized teddy bear in the corner of my room was trying to kidnap me in the dark. I'm still pretty afraid of the dark and sleep with my tv on when I'm alone.
Creepy.
@tksjewelry: Eww. No good! I saw that when I was about 14 and I was disturbed then.
Come to think of it, when I was 4 or 5 my father was watching one of the Omen movies in which an elevator cable fell and sliced a guy in half. For many years, I couldn't ride in an elevator without standing in the corner. Same for my sister.
I'm not a fan of scary movies to this day. I refuse to watch them. They just don't do it for me.
Also, I was once attacked by an animal, so I'm also very cautious of anyone else's pet. If I see your German shepherd in Petco, I'm going to avoid you. Do not let your doggie follow me just because it wants to say hi! Dogs do not dictate what gets to happen!
@RnbwznPuppies: Aww! That is sad, come to think of it. Stupid Disney ruining things...
I also keep the TV on when trying to sleep, but mostly for white noise. When I lived by myself in my first ever apartment, the first couple of weeks terrified me because I wasn't used to the outside sounds that was normal for my neighborhood. I refused to turn out all the lights then.
@StuporDuck: Living alone is so scary at first. Damn, I'm such a scared little bitch.
@StuporDuck: I am not unhappy that plymouth closed in 01. I still will not get into one, totally irrational, but I swear they have headlight eyes and the car will stangle me with their creepy seat belts.
I used to be afraid of not being blonde any more. Both my parents used to be blonde and then just became brunettes as they aged. I was terrified it would happen to me!
I was also scared of the Wicked Witch of the West in the Wizard of Oz. I would hide behind the couch whenever her theme music played because I knew that she was coming.
I was also scared of man hole covers on the road. I thought that my sister would be sucked in! I used to dream about it. Not sure where that one came from.
And the dark. What kid isn't scared of the dark though?
Oh! And that I would be swimming in a pool and there would be a shark or crocodile in it and I would have to get away from. I would always check for one before going in the pool.
I also used to be mighty afraid of the oven when I first learned to bake. That's left over from being about 4-- my mother accidentally left an iron on, and I went into the room it was sitting in. She had been ironing on the floor, so it was about calf level for me. As I passed by it, my leg brushed against it, and melted some skin off. It took a long time for me to get over hot things too. Poor Mom felt horrible.
I was so afraid of The Little Mermaid. Ursula scared the heck outta me!
I was also afraid of thunderstorms. Like, phobia afraid. I still get anxious during storms.
i was afraid of dinosaurs. i watched jurassic park (without my parents permission of course) and had nightmares for years. then my parents made me go on the dino ride at disney world and i was practically hyperventilating. i closed my eyes and put my hands over my ears the whole time.. they ended up buying a picture from the ride because they thought it was funny. even though they are obviously still not around.. i still can't watch anything with dinosaurs in it!
@Tickles: I was scared of the Wicked Witch of the West too, "I'll get you my pretty, and your little dog too!" Miss Gulch mainly because she took away Toto! I still cry when I see that bit, horrible woman!
I used to try to leap from the doorway to my bed to avoid the monsters under there... And no part of my body could dangle over the edge. Hell, I still don't like dangling my arms over!
Aliens. I did not get over it (and I'm still freaked out by the ones with the huge black eyes), until my twenties, so it wasn't until then that I saw ET, Star Wars, Lilo and Stitch or anything.
Now....zombies. Holy crap they scare me. Mr. D has to watch his shows and movies and play his games when I'm not home. I seriously cry. I try not to, but they scare me that much. Which sucks because they are EVERYWHERE now.
@StuporDuck: what the HECK was your dad doing watching a horror movie with you present?
I used to get irrationally afraid that TV characters would die. I think it dated back to watching some drama show when I was young, in which the stories were usually quite nonviolent, then without warning a character got "killed off".
I was scared of the 1944 Disney short Halloween film called Donald Duck & The Gorilla. If you don't know what I'm talking about, here's the synopsis: "Donald's nephews get revenge on Donald by dressing up in a gorilla suit, when a real escaped gorilla breaks into the house."
Here are the screen caps:
But the creepiest thing is the radio voice at the start: "Attention all listeners, attention all listeners, Ajax - a terrible gorilla - has escaped from the city zoo. Be on the lookout. This animal is a killer. That is all."
Like, really?? How disturbing! Still creeps me out to look at it. I just found the youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GyiXa3ou2Y
@Jacqui90: haha, we loved that movie! "Agatha...this is Magnus!"
Chucky! Oh my gosh I still can't sleep facing a closet for fear he will get me or let me feet hang off the bed because SURELY he is under my bed just waiting to snatch my foot, haha.
OH! Another thing! The opening to Michael Jackson's "Thriller" that voice in the beginning terrified me!
I was really scared of this one Wishbone episode where these creepy creatures lived in the dark and had bright red eyes!! The episode had something to do with a time machine, I can't really remember..I just remember the creatures! :(
ETA: They were called morlocks I think and the episode was Bark to the Future. You can see them in the first couple seconds of this clip http://youtu.be/ZIKZwy60Oio
I had this really bizarre fear of things under the bed, or being pulled off my bed if the sheets or an arm or a leg were dangling off the side of the bed. So I would tuck the blankets tightly under my feet - no hospital corners for me! I still do it sometimes now...I can't stand the top sheet being tucked under the mattress. I think the movie Beetlejuice or Little Monsters had the world of monsters under the bed...and it freaked the crap out of me! Lol.
My bedroom was beside the living room when I was younger and my dad used to watch ufo shows or unsolved mysteries, the music itself from those shows still freaks me out because I could hear it through the closed door sometimes.
@Jacqui90: I was sooo scared of Mrs Trunchbull. In the part when the boy east the cake she says ‘blood & sweat went into making this’ and I used to want to throw up when he ate it because I didn’t realise it was a figure of speech!
I’m another one that was scared of the Wizard of OZ but not the wicked witch but I was petrified of the part where they meet Zeke the cowardly lion in the forest and he jumped out! I used to watch it at my nanas house and every time they entered the forest I would hide behind her when I knew he was coming out haha even though I new he was a scardy cat :P
I was pretty young when the original Furby came out. I wanted one so bad. I scraped together every penny I could find to pay for at least part of it. It was awesome at first, but soon I regretted it.
When I was little, I became traumatized by the movie The Goonies and, in particular, a scene with a blender. So I was irrationally terrified of both that movie and blenders. I still haven't been able to bring myself to watch the movie but I have used a blender.
@jlc3: This was also a huge fear of mine!!! I've never met anyone before who shares it. I'll be honest....I still have to make sure that all parts of me are covered with a blanket sometimes, especially after nightmares.
Alice and Wonderland and the beginning of Snow White, where she's walking through the woods.. I could NEVER watch that part!
Still, to this day, I'm scared to death to turn a light switch on and it not work. I have no idea why but I've had nightmares about it since I was little. You know when the power goes out and out of habit you flip the switch when you walk into a room even though you're holding a candle flashlight? Yeah, that sends me in a panic attack every. single. time.
I was terrified of Unsolved Mysteries (I used to watch it on Lifetime in the mornings, during the summer) and the X-files!! The music from the X-files still creeps me out....
Oh, and this is embarassing, but I am still afraid of flushing the toilet in the middle of the night. I can pee just fine, but I have to run back to bed really fast without flushing because I'm afraid of the noise in the dark. Weird, right? I've been terrified of this sincer I was out of diapers...
@jlc3: oooh we used to watch Unsolved Mysteries!!! There was this one episode where a psychic cut open a chicken and it didn't bleed, which meant death was coming...my brother and sister and I freaked ourselves out for awhile with that one. There was also an episode where room 256 in a hotel was supposedly haunted, and when my family went on vacation later that summer, we stayed in room 254 at our hotel - I was convinced the ghost was coming to get us from next door (even though the hotel was not the same one as in the show...or within like 1,000 miles).
The Rescue 911 theme music also freaked me out. God, I was a huge baby.
I was always afraid of the opening *dun dun* of law and order..then that creepy voice freaked me out!
@LilacViolet: I have the same bed thing. FI laughs at me because sometimes if I go to the bathroom after a nightmare and walk back to bed, I'll sort of fling myself into bed from half the room away and fly under the covers. It's not THAT obvious but he knows what it's about now... I still get creeped out way too easily.
@Jacqui90: OMG THAT MOVIE... the pictures of the boy eating the cake literally just made me actually upset.
I used to be afraid of The Secret of NIMH but loved it and watched it all the time anyway. I have a weird memory of watching it with a loose tooth, diving under a pillow on the couch and losing my tooth in the cracks of the couch and making my dad look for it.
I was afraid of fire. I had nightmares almost every night that I was burning alive. I don't even know where that idea came from but to this day I am adamently against being cremated. Too close to my nightmares! *shivers
I also had nightmares about being chased by giants. Like Gioliath type giants chasing me down and killing me with those spiked balls on a chain. Weird huh?
My other fear was monsters in the closet : ( I still hate having the closet door open while I am sleeping. I am not by amy means afraid it just is so messy looking. I cant even sleep if my room is a mess. I have gotten up at 2am to clean before because the mess woke me up. I am very OCD when it comes to my room I guess :D
I have to say my new fear is messy rooms. If my house is disorderly I have dreams that the mess attacks me in my sleepn how crazy is that? LOL
@LilacViolet: & @Bebealways: Haha, finally someone else can understand me! It seems strange to other ppl, but it's just a necessary thing we need to do from time to time. I totally do the flinging myself into bed sometimes in the middle of the night tooo!
@LissaBeans: ahhh that music! still sends shivers down my spine. The show isn't even THAT bad, I watch other shows like that now, lol.
@Jacqui90: ok you made me feel old!!! lol
I used to be afraid of the labrynth movie. I also didn't like the big white flying dog from the never ending story.
Don't ask why but I was afraid of the siamese cats in lady and the tramp. the whole "we are siamese" song just was creepy to me!
the video for michael jackson's song "leave me alone" was weird to me too.
I was a weird kid lol
@LissaBeans: omg the rescue 911 music!!! I actually was going to post that and didnt want to make myself look even more like a baby! lol so im not alone in that I guess.
haha I remember Simon's Quest! You should watch Kikoskia's let's play of it on YouTube, that will definitely remove any previous fears lol!
It's funny, but nothing really scared me, growing up. My best friend and I would watch the 'Nightmare on Elm Street' movies, 'Pet Cemetary'... plus we watched Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' so much, we learned the dance.
Now as a grown-up, however, I'm afraid of some very silly things. I'm afraid of being home alone, the dark, clowns, spiders... and although I love 'The Walking Dead', I constantly watch while peeking over a blanket.
@DeathByDesign: Is that a scary clip? I'm nervous! It's funny how fears stick with you.
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