What movie scared you the most as a kid? - Page 3

The Birds was the first movie to really scare me. I had seen many slasher movies at a young age, but I can't say that I was really that scared. Maybe it was because I didn't relate to the poeple being killed. I did relate to those kids being attacked in The Birds, though! That scared me.

The terror of my childhood was the old Incredible Hulk television series. Whenever Bill Bixby's eyes started turning different shades, I was always outside on the porch of my house afterwards. Hell, I even made my Mom unplug the TV on Friday nights so the Hulk wouldn't come out of the TV ,and chase me around. Another one was the miniseries V when I was nine. I was so into that flick when I was watching it, but when the aliens started swallowing rodents and birds whole, I started to get the hebbie jeebies. Then that flick proceded to finish off whatever courage I had left when the one Visitor removed his eyeballs, put them in a little carrying case,and turned around to reveal those red irised cat eyes that sent me running out of the room. Today I just watch both of those and just find them plain stupid ,but I can see what scared that nine year old within.

One thing that I've noticed that came up in this discussion is that many of us have been scared by the ads for these horror flicks. What I find sort of amusing today, is that many of these ads for these horror flicks, were aired with children's programing. You had flicks like Friday The 13th :The Final Chapter, Prince of Darkness, and The Forest being advertised with cartoons like Duck Tails, Tranformers, and Masters of The Universe. Reprehensible by todays uptight standards. However, I felt sorry for the partent trying to calm down thier child after he or she was watching He-Man, only to get an eyeful of the ad for SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT . Already at the time I had a wierd bugboo about Saint Nick coming to get me in my sleep on Christmas Eve, that trailer locked that image of the jolly old elf in my mind.....forever.

Damn me to bud, the boogey man used to scare the piss out of me as a kid.

That was the laughing visage of The Green Goblin from the Spider-Man comics. Cool, hey?

Oh yeah. If they remake Maximum Overdrive (again), imagine how cool it'd be to have this face bearing down on you:

How f'd up would that be?

Oh yeah, was that the one where in one scene a kid is sticking his head out a window and al of a sudden the window comes slamming down on his neck? If so, that was another good one...

The more I read this post, the more stuff I remember that traumatized me as a kid. Here's a big one:


IN SEARCH OF

(bigfoot, loch ness, UFO, and especially GHOST episodes).


EOD

It's been a long time but I vaguely remember a scene like that (though far more memorable to me were the kissing, double head knife empalement and the image of the girl floating in the air with the mirror shard over her eye, then there was the flying kitchen emplements scene!). I need to see that again, I've seen it as an adult, but it's been 10 years or so. I remember thinking what a cool, nightmarish vibe THE BOOGEY MAN has. A little like Phantasm in that regard, kind of disconnected, but it works. I don't know whether the tone of the film was intentional or complete accident, but it works.


EOD


PS The show best set up to scare the piss out of me as a child that failed to do so was KOLCHAK. Watched it every week, loved it, it never scared me once.

I just remembered...for about 2 years, "The Boogens" were my mortal enemies. Seeing the commercial as a kid, where the guy gets dragged underneath his truck, I couldn't go anywheres near a car at night. I had to have my mom carry me to the car once from our friends house on one dark night (and I wasn't a light kid back then either, not like now)

They just don't make commerecials for horror movies like that anymore. For some reason, watching a girl jumping up in the air, firing a shotgun at zombies in midair, all set to DMX's "Up In Here" doesn't have the same frightening effect on me. Call me crazy.

I remember Alligator really scaring me as a kid. And a few scenes in Gremlins.

Emil Muzz from the Tom Hanks Dragnet movie used to frighten me as a boy. He has one scary face.

"OK, Copper! Mr. Crimestopper! What's wrong with what we're doin'? We just like to dance in our GOAT SKIN PANTS around this ancient ruin."

Tobe Hooper's Invasion from Mars got me.

First Scares

I remember this Space 1999 episode when I was seven that actually freaked me out pretty bad. There was some sort of ship/creature thing that the main characters were fighting, and some of them were attempting to enter into it's hull to fight it. Those that did make it in came out barbecued. It actually spit them back out. For a seven year old, that was pretty messed up. I was chok full of about that for days. Sometime later JC's Halloween got to me. I was doing pretty good until Myers actually did get back up after the closet incident. I was hooked on horror after that. It just seemed to me that in the horror genre nothing was sacred, and that realization would be far more intriguing and exciting as the years rolled by. A few scenes that still haunt me from other shows:

The Exorcist - The sudden ghoulish appearance of the priest's mother on the white bed.

Stepfather (2, I believe) - The scene where the father is coming down the stairs nonchalantly to leave, and you see the blood stained carnage on the walls of the living room behind him. I actually didn't know it was this kind of a movie until that very moment.

The Exorcist 3 - Already been discussed previously I see, that buildup to the nurse's demise was nearly perfect, as well as the demonic joker statue that breifly appears later on.

Oh my God, YOU TOO? I swear I had no idea what these guys were before I read your post but remember seeing the commercials for them on TV when I was little. The guy with post it notes on is face taking them off slowly one at a time , the toilet paper guy, the way they moved around like spiderman, scared the piss out of me as a kid..... so now my childhood demons have a name...and that name is Mummenschanz.

I was also afraid of the last long limbed alien from Close encounters, I knew that creepy smily bastard was going to come in my room and take me away.

ET and that awful poster of him with his long creepy fingers coming out from behind Elliots closet door had the same effect along with Yoda from Empire. When Luke tells him that he isn't scared Yoda looks at him and says in a creepy voice "You will be, you WILL be...." lead to dreams of Yoda trying to kill me and my dad.

Yeah, thanks for drudging up all these childhood horrors

That one movie where the kids have the hole to hell in their backyard. The part where the telephone melts after the girl hangs it up scared me so bad

The flick your thinking of Rufus is the smi-1987 classic, THE GATE.

Now that is being super safe! Loved your post