Things That Scared You As A Child- Page 4

[Gavino77]

Posted: 3/11/07 at 11:27am

Matilda (The Movie)
Clay things (ex. Nightmare before christmas)
Cousin Skeeter

[Rose_MacShane]

Posted: 3/11/07 at 2:15pm

The drug PSAs they ran in the late 80s through the late 90s absolutely terrified me. The ones I remember:

*The one with the acapella choir singing about the effects of meth
*A very old one, with a kid talking about how he took drugs and they weren't mind-altering, then turns on a buzzsaw or something and the implication is that he, like, sawed his arm off or something after the blackout
*The black and white heroin spot, which featured a beautiful girl gradually degrading her looks, ending with her removing her teeth
*The inhalant ad where a girl's room fills with water and she drowns

[worrell4077]

Posted: 3/11/07 at 3:06pm

The movie Lepreachaun(SP???). I remember seeing the commercial for it and getting so scared that he was going to kill me or something.

Basically any really scary movie that came out when I was younger that and spiders. I was really scared of spiders as a kid, but I've kinda come out of that phase. I'm not as scared as I used to be, but I'm still kinda freaked out by them.

[chinkie azn jai]

Posted: 3/11/07 at 4:53pm

ET and the face of the Phantom in POTO. It was especially hard because my cousins were obsessed with ET and my parents' favorite musical was POTO.

[keen on kean]

Posted: 3/11/07 at 7:04pm

The 1940's English horror classic "Dead of Night." It contains a number of separate stories in a circular plot setting (so that at the end the scene is reset for all the things you have seen to happen again or for real). I was ten or eleven and saw it on TV. I was so fascinated that I couldn't stop watching it but had nightmares for weeks afterwards, especially the episode about the ventriloquist and his dummy. About three years ago, I finally purchased the VHS tape of it from Criterion, and sat and watched it - still horrified but at least I exorcised the demons in my memory.

Posted: 3/11/07 at 7:16pm

Excellent movie! Found this on Amazon.

Amazon.com
While horror conventions may change from generation to generation, there are ideas that will scare us no matter what time period we inhabit. Dead of Night is a classic horror anthology that effectively plays on those timeless fears. Mervyn Johns stars as a man who has been summoned to a house with a group of strangers he has never met but has seen in his dreams. As they convene, he predicts certain events will happen as they do in his dreams, and when they do, the other guests relate their own experiences with the supernatural, including tales of a possessed mirror, a sinister ventriloquist's dummy, and an eerie premonition of death. Throughout the group meeting, the protagonist fears something horrible will happen to him, and we are left to wonder what it might be. The film's final, revelatory sequence offers an unexpectedly horrific surprise. It may have been made in 1945, but Dead of Night is still spooky. --Bryan Reesman