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I'm not necessarily talking about horror movies. Those were intentionally scary. But what other stuff scared you when you were little?
I'm in my mid-30's, so some of you guys might not remember the stuff I'm talking about, but here goes:
1. The Cliffhanger on The Price is Right. I wasn't scared of the climber himself, but I was SO SCARED that he was going to fall off, and when he did, I'd bury my face in the couch cushions and scare bloody murder. It happens at 5:25 here.
2. The Tic Tac Dough dragon. This pixelated monster made me want to wet myself.
3. The flying monkeys from the Wizard of Oz. I'm sure I'm not the only person who was terrified of them.
4. Artax dying in the Swamp of Sadness in The Neverending Story. I watched this today and was close to tears.
5. The Nazis' faces melting at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark. Sure, they deserved it, but I still couldn't watch it.
6. The woman who got sucked into the computer and then turned into a killer robot at the end of Superman III.
I remember most of those! I love that you found the Cliffhanger guy scary. That's fantastic. My scariest movie moment (if you count intentionally scary movies) was watching Carrie with my teenage cousins. I was 5, and obviously did not get the whole blood-in-the-shower thing. They thought it would be hysterical to make me sleep by the window that night (I was visiting their house), and make scary noises outside all night. Ahhh . . . cousins. (But I still love them anyway.)
Oh my gosh this is so funny!!!
Ok here is my random thing....
In a Muppet Christmas Carol, when the Marley ghosts come back from the dead in chains....OMG scared the living daylights out of me!! hahah
Not on tv or movies but my boss and I were just talking about learning about lepers in Catholic school and they freaked me out like the would just pop up if your bad and attack you with the leper disease.
ET. Scariest freaking movie ever conceived in the minds of man. I remember hiding behind the couch whenever it came on because I hated seeing the little alien.
This might have had something to do with the fact that dad owned an ET mask (basically a cone of horrifying ET plastic), put it on, and jumped at us when my sister and I were taking a bath. I never recovered.
So yeah. No ET for me.
Okay don't make fun of me, but ever since I was a little kid, I've been afraid of helium balloons....but only when I'm outside. Haha I know it's dumb and I can't explain why, but I've always been terrified! I will not carry helium balloons outside til this day. They don't bother me inside, for some reason.
Alright, go ahead and laugh at me! Haha. I'm such a dork. But the normal stuff I was afraid of as a child include clowns and ET, even though I eventually grew to love that movie.
OMG my oma had a stuffed ET doll and whenever I slept over I would always try and hid it somewhere else in the house.
Ooh great thread! Okay two big things: The scary wolf monster thing in the Neverending Story with those awful big glowy eyes. I'm still nervous around black dogs because of it.
Second, the ape-like guys in Willow that could climb on the undersides of bridges and up walls. I used to think they were under my bed and were going to crawl out to get me when I fell asleep.
@minutiae - Weird, I hadn't even read your comment when I included ET lol. That's funny!
@minutiae - It's weird though, I was so scared of it from ages 2-5, but then when I turned 6 I begged my Mom for an ET poster and suddenly wasn't afraid of it anymore. lol On a funnier note, my dad used to call sausage links "ET fingers" haha. It always cracked me up.
Ah! I love the never ending story and I still cry when Artax dies...
But back to stuff that scared me...
-In a moment of poor parenting, I was allowed to watch two steve king movies: pet semetary and it (still scared of clowns, but who isnt those things are creepy!)
-ET, Carmen Sandiego (hat + sunglasses = scary, i dont know why) and Legends of the hidden Temple - oh.that.was.scary! the talking head and the creatures which would come and grab the kids while they were in the temple! geez!
Ha! I hadn't read that you all were scared of ET either! When I was 5 or so, my mom brought me and my borther to the video store (remember those?!) because ET was there to take pictures with people. I wasnt scared of ET when the movie first came out, but as soon as i saw a 6 foot tall ET in the store, i ran away from my mom and hid in the back of the store behind a rack of movies.
we have a very nice picture of my mom, brother and ET though...
OH yeah - those flying monkeys were HORRIBLE!
I was(am!) a huge scardy-cat! As a kid, Scoobie Doo would FREAK me out - haha - every single episode would have me covering my eyes!
Twins... and not just any twins. The kinda twins that can read each others minds and communicate silently and/or speak in their own languages.
well not really scared of that anymore but when I was little there was a show (maybe an episode of unsloved mysteries? not sure) about these twins that planned to kill their mother in their heads and then did it... freaked me the eff out. seriously!
I was terrified of ET. I have never actually watched it as an adult but the light in the chest thing still freaks me out.
The movie "Hook". I slept in my favorite pj's every night for months in case I was taken in the middle of the night and had to live in them indefinitely!
lol, i like this thread! there's still a 20 minute span on "Howard the Duck" that i still haven't seen, the gremlin's movie [i watched that a few years ago and couldn't believe i was afraid of that] and those wheelers on the return to oz.
ET!!! Just like Minutae and some others!! I peed my pants in the mall when there was a life size cut out of the thing. and i still wont watch the movie!!
The opening sequence of Are You Afraid of the Dark? scared the crap out of me....creepy swinging swing with no one on it, clown in the attic, eerie music....yikes. But, I loved the show itself! haha, who knows. That and in Edward Scissorhands when he first comes out of the dark corner in the attic. I LOVE the movie and Johnny Depp, but for some reason as a kid, that one part scared me!
This is a great thread, I didn't know there were so many people who were afraid of ET! =)
The beginning of Wizard of Oz (for the longest time I didn't even know that part was black and white because I never watched it). And when Malificent turns into a Dragon in Sleeping Beauty. Most Disney movies and the likes didn't scare me, but this one did lol
Not a movie, but I was terrified of that ride at Disney where you sit in the cars at the haunted house thing and supposedly you see ghosts in the mirrors or whatever. I don't know what that ride is called, and I had my head burried in in my dad's side the entire time so I have no idea what happened!
@joeswife, that's the haunted mansion. i loved that ride though i will admit the hitchhiking ghosts at the end [the part you're talking about] creeped me out a bit when i first went on it.
I was absolutely TERRIFIED of the Mr. Yuck commercial that used to come on when I was little.
Pet Cemetary...I don't think my parents realized what the movie was about when they rented it.
Dolls...especially child-sized dolls. They creep me out.
When I was younger, The Stand (TV movie from the Stephen King novel) was on TV. I watched Part 1 the first night and had horrible, horrible nightmares! My dad and brother still watched the last few parts of the movie while I locked myself in my room and refused to come downstairs. I think I still had nightmares for weeks and had really intense fears of the world being wiped out for months afterwards.
And in the Disney animated Pinocchio, I used to get freaked out when they turned into donkeys.
I too was terrified of ET! Even the intro pizza place scene would freak me out because of its association and for a while I really didn't like the red and white checks so common at Italian restaurants.
Other than that, the main thing that scared me is that I thought when people died in live-action movies that they actually died in real life. I always wondered what kind of person would volunteer to do that - and what would happen if they died wrong and ruined the death scene. Would they have to find a new character and shoot the film all over?
I've never said this before, but...The pink elephants on Parade from Dumbo. So creepy.
I had a very deep fear of Gremlins. I never saw the movie but knew what they looked like. I was so terrified of them that I made a wall of stuffed animals around my bed to keep them from getting to me . . . and then I decided that they could probably get through the mattress and get me.
I also one day developed a mild fear of Little Monsters (with Fred Savage) even though I had watched the movie a few times before and never had issues with it. Weird.
@Camofojo-those elephants ARE scary as hell!! Now that you mention that I got pretty uncomfortable every time I saw them.
I just could not watch Unsolved Mysteries. I mean, OK, maybe that show was a little inappropriate for a 5 year old, but dammit, I wanted to be just like my dad and watch his favorite shows. I could handle COPS and I really thought I'd grow up to be a lawyer and live in Atlanta just like Matlock... oh, yeah, I wanted to be Matlock. But I always thought it was just too scary that the bad guys, real life criminals no less, were still out there, cuz, you know, the mysteries remained unsolved or they wouldn't be on that show...
haha @Amaryllis I was just going to say America's Most Wanted was a scary show when I was a kid, but I agree Unsolved Mysteries was too! I always asked my parents, "Do you know that guy?!" Like maybe we could find him and get him put away. Sometimes they still scare me now whenever I'm home alone.
And I agree about Are You Afraid of the Dark, some of them were pretty creepy!
@rachelrobin: I watched Pet Cemetery and it was TERRIFYING! My parents had cats and I was always SO scared of them at night!!!
@Amaryllis: I actually fell asleep during an Unsolved Mysteries marathon when I had mono in high school and was "in" the episode during my dream. Talk about CREEPY!
My top things:
Wizard of Oz flying monkeys (OMG they scared me SO much)
David Bowie in the Labrynth. Out of all the weird things in that movie and creepy creatures, it was David Bowie who freaked me out. I'm 25 and have still never seen the movie all the way through.
Kansas -- No thank you! I never did grow to tolerate that show, and you have just explained why!
I used to be terrified of the scene in Indiana Jones and the temple of doom when the natives sacrificed that poor guy by ripping his heart out and lowering him into a pool of fire...Ahh...I can see the guys's scary painted face now as he rips the heart out!
ET never bothered me, but my old college roommate had a weird ET issue.
You know near the end of the movie, when ET is sick, and they find him in a ditch and he's all white? The whiteness reminded her of milk, so she refused to drink milk through most of her childhood, because it reminded her of sick, dying ET.
@Amarylis: At least we're not alone :)
I love that we all have such weird/different fears about silly things! :)
@tea I was going to say Return to Oz too. The wheelers were terrifying, but I would lay in bed for hours worried that if I fell down, my carpet in the night was the desolate desert, and I would turn to dust. Or, I'd have nightmares about having to pick my family members out of the room of trinkets, or someone stealing my head and wearing it. Come to think of it, I don't know what about that movie screams "Children's movie".
@sapphiresun, i think about that too. there's nothing in that movie that screams "children's movie" well, maybe the hen and tik tok. lol
The Stephen King movie, It. I was about 6 or 7 and it came on TV. I was supposed to be asleep; I think my parents were watching it. Needless to say I developed a fear of clowns after that... oh, and those old Goosebumps movies! I guess they're not old... but I'm really young... I remember a Tower of Terror one that scared the hell out of me.
Besides that, I used to have bad dreams that my favorite characters got hurt or killed. I'd wake up terrified that something bad had happened to Ariel from the Little Mermaid or Misty of Chincoteage or something.
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