Something that scared you back then but should not

Dups. · Post by **Dups.** » July 14, 2004, 4:14 pm

I was thinking of this the other day.

There are two skits in Sesame Street that scared me quite a bit when I was younger and when I think about it now-a-days it's kinda silly that it did.

The first skit was I believe it was Grover that was having a picnic and then a bear comes along. That bear scared the heck out of me but in the skit he was not even meant to be scary.

The second skit was when Burt and Ernie go into a pyramid and Bert seperates from Ernie. Then suddenly a statue guy starts dancing around. When Ernie shouts for Bert the statue stops dancing.

Also in Fraggle Rock those big guys that try to capture the Fraggles scared me.

Anyone else have anything that used to scare them but now it seems kinda silly?

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » July 14, 2004, 4:17 pm

Dups. wrote:

Anyone else have anything that used to scare them but now it seems kinda silly?

Besides the standard Willy Wonka Oompa Loompa answer, I'd have to say nothing in the Electric Company or Sesame Street scared me. Barney may have freaked me out if I was from that generation.

Animalor · Post by **Animalor** » July 14, 2004, 4:40 pm

Those 2 dogs at the end of Ghost Busters 1 scared me quite a bit for quite a while.

Keverian FireCry · Post by **Keverian FireCry** » July 14, 2004, 5:06 pm

Peewee's Big Adventure...When he is hitchiking and gets picked up by that scary trucker, who makes that ghastly face. That scene still freaks me out =p

Desolet · Post by **Desolet** » July 14, 2004, 5:09 pm

Large Marge!!!!

Yea, definetly scary.

XunilTlatoani · Post by **XunilTlatoani** » July 14, 2004, 6:01 pm

The librarian ghost at the beginning of Ghostbusters.

The part in The Last Starfighter where Alex is riding with Centauri for the first time and Centauri takes off his human face to reveal his alien one.

Those are the only two I can think of off the top of my head, but I know there were more

**edit** oh yea, thriller scared the crap outta me too...then again, all little boys watching Michael Jackson videos should be afraid

Desolet · Post by **Desolet** » July 14, 2004, 6:51 pm

The fat boys music video for one of their songs on a Nightmare on Elm Street movie.

Mawafu · Post by **Mawafu** » July 14, 2004, 8:31 pm

E.T. scared me though I liked the movie. My grandma did ceramics at the time and made me an E.T. statuette (like 6" tall or something) that I would make face the wall at night when I tried to sleep because it scared me.

Michael Jackson Thriller video, Gremlins, Jaws to name a few others.

Thess · Post by **Thess** » July 14, 2004, 8:35 pm

Jaws scared me, me and my sister would jump from couch to couch not wanting to touch the floor (we were afraid of a shark coming through the floor of our house).

Ransure · Post by **Ransure** » July 14, 2004, 8:49 pm

Ants.... after that McGuyver episode where one of his friends gets eaten by the ants in South Africa... that same summer there were Fire Ants at our beach house and I got some bad bites on my legs...

I still dont like ants... but Im not really afraid of them anymore.

Akaran_D · Post by **Akaran_D** » July 14, 2004, 10:57 pm

Willa Wonka and the Choclate Factory still scares the hell out of me to this day.

Ennia · Post by **Ennia** » July 15, 2004, 1:18 am

my daughter turned off Wizard of Oz because she said it's a scary movie, she was 6 back then and the witch scared the crap out of her

I don't remember anything scary from my early childhood, I remember being scared after seeing Poltergeist at 13 or 14

Canelek · Post by **Canelek** » July 15, 2004, 3:33 am

Then ending of 'Sleepaway Camp'...freaked me out.

Also that movie, XTRO, from the 80s..

Dregor Thule · Post by **Dregor Thule** » July 15, 2004, 4:46 am

Goonies first time I saw it

Dregor Thule · Post by **Dregor Thule** » July 15, 2004, 4:49 am

XunilTlatoani wrote:The part in The Last Starfighter where Alex is riding with Centauri for the first time and Centauri takes off his human face to reveal his alien one.

DUDE! Oh man, that's so right. When the old guy takes his eyes out to clean them... oh man that grossed me out big time as a kid! Shit.. I need to rent that movie.

vn_Tanc · Post by **vn_Tanc** » July 15, 2004, 5:10 am

Dr Who ><

Cotto · Post by **Cotto** » July 15, 2004, 8:40 am

Every episode, of every childrens T.V show that ever had a fucking clown in it.

Fredonia Coldheart · Post by **Fredonia Coldheart** » July 15, 2004, 9:54 am

Heh - the flying monkies in Wizard of Oz - I was ok with the witch - but couldn't watch the monkies!

What is really sad is my daughter who is 14 just laughs at all the old scary movies. She has always watched today's horror flicks that I could never have watched when I was her age. She loved Underworld and got the DVD last month. No way I would have watched that when I was 14 without being scared.

Kwonryu DragonFist · Post by **Kwonryu DragonFist** » July 15, 2004, 10:29 am

The Thing with Kurt Russell was the first Horror movie i ever saw and it scared me OMGIAMRETARDEDCAUSEALOTISTWOWORDS back then! Good effects!

Krimson Klaw · Post by **Krimson Klaw** » July 15, 2004, 11:54 am

The Sleestaks from Land of the Lost. Those flipped me out bigtime.

XunilTlatoani · Post by **XunilTlatoani** » July 15, 2004, 12:24 pm

Krimson Klaw wrote:The Sleestaks from Land of the Lost. Those flipped me out bigtime.

hmm, was Bill Laimbeer scarier as a Sleestack or as a Piston with that clear face shield

masteen · Post by **masteen** » July 15, 2004, 1:51 pm

Kwonryu DragonFist wrote:The Thing with Kurt Russell was the first Horror movie i ever saw and it scared me OMGIAMRETARDEDCAUSEALOTISTWOWORDS back then! Good effects!

Agree. When that one guy had his head cut off, and it sprouted legs and ran off, I lost my shit. Vary scary.

Lalanae · Post by **Lalanae** » July 15, 2004, 2:35 pm

Dregor Thule wrote:
XunilTlatoani wrote:The part in The Last Starfighter where Alex is riding with Centauri for the first time and Centauri takes off his human face to reveal his alien one.
DUDE! Oh man, that's so right. When the old guy takes his eyes out to clean them... oh man that grossed me out big time as a kid! Shit.. I need to rent that movie.

No you don't. It was on TV the other day and I realized how BAD a movie it is.

Post by **Sylvus** » July 15, 2004, 3:07 pm

I saw the previews for Pink Floyd's The Wall when I was at another movie when I was a little kid, like 5 or 6, and it gave me horrible nightmares. I'm not really sure why...

I vividly remember one of the nightmares. I was sitting outside a barn on some farm (i didn't live on a farm or anything) and all these men that I knew (dad, uncles, grandfathers, etc) were like parading past me. They'd pass a certain point and then they'd start aging faster and faster until they were just bones and they'd collapse on the ground. It scared the fucking shit out of me for like a month.

Sheryl · Post by **Sheryl** » July 16, 2004, 12:47 am

that scene in the dark crystal where the sketsie (sp?) emperor shrivels up and turns to dust used to freak me out.

Sylvus wrote:I saw the previews for Pink Floyd's The Wall when I was at another movie when I was a little kid, like 5 or 6, and it gave me horrible nightmares. I'm not really sure why...

i did something similar with alien and nightmare on elm street. my parents wouldn't let me watch either movie and based on the previews i somehow managed to work them both into the same nightmare. there were 2 freddy's with claws on both hands, green reptile skin and big sharp alien teeth and they were chasing me around all over the town i lived in at the time. one of them finally "got" me and i woke up.

Dregor Thule · Post by **Dregor Thule** » July 16, 2004, 1:04 am

Scary!!

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » July 16, 2004, 2:14 am

Bob Ross was amazing. For most of the show his paintings looked like shit and then near the end he would add some happy clouds and the entire picture would come to life.

He made painting look so easy.

Best PBS show ever!

Dregor Thule · Post by **Dregor Thule** » July 16, 2004, 4:12 am

I won't argue the guy could paint like a motherfucker, but he was one freaky looking dude.

vn_Tanc · Post by **vn_Tanc** » July 16, 2004, 6:00 am

Bob Ross was a living god! RIP

Rasspotari · Post by **Rasspotari** » July 16, 2004, 10:10 am

one scene in twin peaks

there "bob" is sitting in a sofa , facing away from you, he then in a fluid motion stands up and climbs over the sofa towards the camera.

when me and my little brother were watching that on tv, home alone, it was i think near the end of one of the episodes or there was a commercial break soon after. I had to go to the bathroom soon after anyways, and i was lying on the floor with a big pillow from our sofa as a headrest, he sat behind me in the sofa, i made the same move as Bob did, and i've never seen anyone as scared. i didn't even find it funny, just apologized to him and went to pee, he was 9 at the time.

but that scene was sorta scary in a weird way.

edit: erm .. i so sounded like pils here didn't i ?

Tegellan · Post by **Tegellan** » July 16, 2004, 10:41 am

The hound of Baskerville! Had it on audio tape and it used to scare me shitless, I couldn't even sleep at night for a while coz I was afraid it was lying in ambush under my bed.

Fredonia Coldheart · Post by **Fredonia Coldheart** » July 16, 2004, 11:43 am

Tegellan wrote:The hound of Baskerville! Had it on audio tape and it used to scare me shitless, I couldn't even sleep at night for a while coz I was afraid it was lying in ambush under my bed.

Hehe - we bought the DVD version the other day with Basil Rathbone. There will never be another Sherlock Holmes better than Basil.

emmer · Post by **emmer** » July 17, 2004, 2:44 am

The Scary Stories series by Alvin Schwartz. These books were obviously meant to be scary, but they got to me like no movie or tv show ever did. At the time I read them I had seen dozens of horror flicks, but the detailed writing and weird/freaky illustrations coupled with my vivid imagination at the time scared the shit out of me. I still remember a lot of the stories in detail, yet I couldn't tell you the plot of a slasher flick I watched a couple months ago...

I became desensitized to hollywood blood and gore at a young age, but when I read the story about the brat who's mother finally left him and was replaced by a witch with a wooden leg and tail, I wouldn't let my mom out of my sight for like a month.

Krimson Klaw · Post by **Krimson Klaw** » July 17, 2004, 12:17 pm

Ohh, another one was the book 'Where the Wild things are'. Those pics freaked me as a child.

Sparty · Post by **Sparty** » July 18, 2004, 1:03 pm

Wizard of Oz scared me a little, but Return to Oz really freaked me out. http://imdb.com/title/tt0089908/

Is as they say

Kylere · Post by **Kylere** » July 18, 2004, 7:13 pm

Jaws

I was 5 the summer it was released ( if IMDB was right about it being 75 heh) and was one a trip with my father and his family to a lake, we all went to see a movie and I was afraid to lower my legs into the floor of the aisle.

The rest of that vacation trip I always made sure there was someone further out in the water than I was also, figuring when they got munched I could head for shore.

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » July 19, 2004, 12:24 am

Kylere wrote:Jaws

I was 5 the summer it was released ( if IMDB was right about it being 75 heh) and was one a trip with my father and his family to a lake, we all went to see a movie and I was afraid to lower my legs into the floor of the aisle.

The rest of that vacation trip I always made sure there was someone further out in the water than I was also, figuring when they got munched I could head for shore.

I threw up right after seeing Jaws. I did the deed in the parking lot of a Sizzler in Orange County Calfornia.

Dregor Thule · Post by **Dregor Thule** » July 19, 2004, 2:29 am

I'd just like to point out that the topic was stuff that scared you but shouldn't have... a lot of things that are understandably scary being said here!

Anuin · Post by **Anuin** » July 19, 2004, 3:35 am

Aliens (Sigourney Weaver aliens) scared the crap out of me when I was 7. Who was there to tell me that some random alien wasnt going to pop out of the chest of the kid next to me at any time? No one. So I lived in constant fear.

Fredonia Coldheart · Post by **Fredonia Coldheart** » July 19, 2004, 9:34 am

Anuin wrote:Aliens (Sigourney Weaver aliens) scared the crap out of me when I was 7. Who was there to tell me that some random alien wasnt going to pop out of the chest of the kid next to me at any time? No one. So I lived in constant fear.

Hehe - when I was pregnant with my first child I woke up one night and felt something moving in my stomach. The first thing that popped into my head was that scene from Aliens. Freaked me out at first, but then I finally came fully awake and realized what it was.

Sabek · Post by **Sabek** » July 19, 2004, 10:53 am

Krimson Klaw wrote:Ohh, another one was the book 'Where the Wild things are'. Those pics freaked me as a child.

They freak out my daughter to. She won't let me read that book to her.

flankmen · Post by **flankmen** » July 19, 2004, 2:57 pm

Speaking of books, "Berenstain Bears and the Spooky Old Tree" used to feak me out so much that I would hide it so my mom wouldn't read it to me.

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » July 19, 2004, 3:14 pm

flankmen wrote:Speaking of books, "Berenstain Bears and the Spooky Old Tree" used to feak me out so much that I would hide it so my mom wouldn't read it to me.

Way off topic but Berenstain Bears were my favorite kids books. "The Big Honey Hunt" being the best of books.

Legenae · Post by **Legenae** » July 19, 2004, 3:29 pm

As a kid there were a couple of scenes in "the Dark Crystal" and the Secret of Nimb" that freaked me out. Oh, and "Watership Down" had a few scenes too.

Bojangels · Post by **Bojangels** » July 22, 2004, 8:19 am

The Care Bears movie...kept me scared for a good long while.

Farrel · Post by **Farrel** » July 22, 2004, 2:12 pm

the voice at the end of the old tootsie pop commercial
"how many licks...."
dude was creepy as hell.

Fash · Post by **Fash** » March 21, 2005, 3:17 am

I can't remember what it even looks like now... but I remember when I was a kid I had nightmares about the monster at the end of Howard the Duck.

Drinsic Darkwood · Post by **Drinsic Darkwood** » March 21, 2005, 4:01 am

The stairs that had a mouth on the Peewee Herman show. I remember some horrible nightmares about getting eaten by those stairs. I think that's what it was anyways =/

Spang · Post by **Spang** » March 21, 2005, 6:08 am

the gremlins

Bubba Grizz · Post by **Bubba Grizz** » March 21, 2005, 9:31 am

The only nightmare from my childhood that had me standing in my bed screaming had to do with Horton the Elephant and a Twilight Zone spiral thingy. I think I was 7.

One of the few movies that scared me was Prince of Darkness.

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