What Was the Scariest Movie/TV Show When You Were Young

Outer limts






And Dark Shadows

Kidding!

:P

I had nightmares about those damn freaky lookin clay dinosaurs

and those freaky caveman kids too..

i hear they are making a live action movie based on the show too.

and raise a Twilight Zone

I see your Twilight Zone and raise you a............

Night Gallery

i was totally freaked for about 2 weeks afterwards........anytime i heard a helicopter or airplane i got scared the commies were attacking.

And I watched it on TV, so it was edited and had commercial breaks, and I didn't even watch it all (but I did get to see the head turning around, the bed bouncing, the puking...)

I was terrified going to bed that night.

I was 10 or 11.

I was 9 or 10, and I couldn't sleep alone for four nights.

Salem's Lot also scared the hell out me too. I think I saw that the same year too. I don't know what the heck my parents were thinking letting me watch that stuff back then.

I was flipping through channels and it was the original (all the others sucked). I decided against watching it because I would have had nightmares about it....again. :scared:

about 8 of us went to se it.

Everything was OK until we went to bed.

Then we heard the rats scratching in the walls of the dormatory......

Yeah, baby. Fuh shizzle.

Barnabas Collins, Quentin Collins, Angelique...some scary characters. :scared:

I was about 10 or 11 at the time, and that show scared the snot out of me! :scared:

Remember the one with Joan Crawford playing a rich woman who buys someone's eyes so she can see the view from her penthouse for just a few minutes....and then there's a blackout? :freak:

Dark Shadows...loved that B. Collins!

Zellacula Miller








Dickula Cheney

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Scares me to this day.

MONKEYS!!!111

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Glad we didn't have a color TV, B&W was bad enough.

Those flying monkeys still creep me out.

never let my kids watch it.

I hate those monkeys.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xkpxn_are-you-afraid-of-the-dark-s01e06

Unsolved Mysteries was creepy too, whenever they'd do paranormal phenomenon stories.

I am sure that to this day Nightstalker is the root of my sometimes odd obsession with scarey movies. Just got done watching Saw II and that is some fucked up shit.

That one with all the mannequins that push that guy out the window freaked me out for years. I still hate mannequins! :scared:

used to scare me a lot.

aA

"And now a Bobby and a Sissy............." arrrrrrrrrrrrghhhh

My Grandma would make me watch that..............

That witch scared the sh*t out of me when I was little. I had nightmares about being locked up in her castle.

Dark Shadows was a great soap opera! We used to run home from school each day to watch it.

The transformation scared the shit out of me as a kid in the early 60's.

Some scars will never heal...

"The Reincarnation of Peter Proud"

I watched this with my sister when I was 10 or 11 or so, and it freaked the hell out of us.

I watched many horror movies back then but nothing scared me quite like Poltergeist. I think it was the involvement of children that got me. For YEARS, I was terrified of that fucking clown and was convinced that one night, it would magically appear in my room and grab my leg and pull me under the bed while I was sleeping, never to be seen or heard from again. To this day, it still makes me a little uneasy to go to sleep with one leg hanging off the bed.

ABC Weekend Special circa 1983. :D

Next, Jaws.
I never swam in the gulf again.

It was rated PG, but it creeped me the F out when the vampire was in the prison going through the cells one by one killing off the prisoners

Scariest looking vampire EVER! Oh god, and when the little kid was floating outside his brother's window scratching to be let in. :scared:

Would you believe that was a PG movie?

It was broadcast over two nights if I remember correctly. I must have been in elementary school, because I remember I had a friend staying over night that DID NOT want to watch it. But I've always had a "thing" for vampires and really wanted to watch it. I think she hung out with my parents while I watched it. lol.

The robot's sphynx stare terrified me to no end when I was 3-4. I couldn't stay in the same room when it was playing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Robo#The_1967_Series

:-)

Talking Tina was so scary . . . she still creeps me out. "I'm Talking Tina and you'd better be nice to me." Yikes! What's scarier than than that?

The girl in The Exorcist was no joy either.

Funny how it was okay to watch The Twilight Zone and Peyton Place!

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but there was a movie I saw on our Chiller Theatre program one night very late. A woman was accused of being a witch and in the first scene, they condemn her and pounded a mask full of spikes into her face with a huge wooden hammer. I guess she was a witch or something because the movie continued when someone found her ancient burial site and cut his hand on the glass of the coffin which showed the mask through it. His blood dripped into it and she came back to life. That's all of it that I can remember. I was probably about 10 when I saw it and have never seen it since. I even remembered the name for years into my adulthood but it eludes me now.

I googled "witch face spikes blood" and found this. I'm surprised I didn't ever see this on our Sinister Cinema.

http://www.imagesjournal.com/issue09/reviews/blacksunday/

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That's the one! I'm sure I would laugh at it now or get really bored but I'll never forget that mask with spikes being pounded into her face! :scared:

Thanx for helping an old woman with some-timers disease remember something. It's your good deed for the day! :hi:

Eeek! I just saw that pic in the middle of all the pics toward the bottom of the page! Talk about flashbacks! :scared:

There were so many, and I remember being scared too scared to get up off the couch and go to bed.

There was one where a woman went home after being hypnotized and it looked like she was going to wash her face, but she turned on her gas stove and stuck her face into the burner . . . that freaks me out thinking about it, still, though I don't remember anything else about the movie.

And then there was stuff like The Wasp Woman. Just plain silly. I loved it anyway, though.

I wonder if there's a collection of these really good bad horror movies somewhere?

http://sepnet.com/rcramer/horror.htm

I'm going to go to bed now and try not to have bad dreams! :hi:

Oh! I just thought of another one!:

http://imdb.com/title/tt0055894/

Scared me half to death. It was on TV not long ago and it still scares me. Scares me thinking about it, in fact.

Night Gallery, the one with the little voodoo doll chasing Karen Black around. Oooooh. :scared:

I can still recall watching it with all my older siblings when I was a kid. Freaked me right out.

Saturday matinee, 25 cents.

The Blob with Steve McQueen.
Mothra.
The Incredible Shrinking Man, even though it was black and white. I was practically hiding under the seats, and really too young to see that stuff, as a toddler.

Exorcist....however, one of the scariest movies that could have been real I ever watched was when I happened across Wait Until Dark on a Saturday night movie program when I was a teenager (not 1967 when the movie was first made, but in the mid 70's). Amazing and fantastic movie!

The movies that scared the hell out of me as an adult? Jaws first...I still freak out in deep salt water..Aliens, and An American Werewolf in London (I have YET to get through the first half hour of that movie...even during broad daylight hours)

and the Nightly News with Viet Nam footage......

Gave me nightmares for weeks.....

Scared the shit out of me.

That episode was called "Amelia " and was written by Richard Matheson, adapted from his short story "Prey."

I remember both of my parents were working the night it came on, and I conned my babysitter into letting me stay up and watch it. Big mistake! I was so scared, I made my little brother sleep with me that night.

'trilogy of terror', made for ABC tv in the mid seventies iirc. hilarious stuff. the evil doll was based on a richard matheson story too. i remember the scene with her sitting on the floor with that knife and a mouthful of nasty sharp pointy teeth well.

I was only seven when it came out on VHS. I didn't sleep right for a week after watching that.

One of the first times I stayed up to see the late night horror movie; Chiller Thriller or something like that. The introduction before the movie was so scary, that I never made it to the flick. That was enough.

Don't tell anybody.

inherited or moved into a house with some strange occupants already inside.

They spent the whole movie "haunting" her, and then...



Definitely very unsettling.

I 1st saw it in the early to mid-seventies. I must have been around 11 or 12. I had nightmares for weeks about those gnome-like creatures.

It's too bad, but this movie has all been forgotten by horror fans. It's definitely work a look if you can find it on video.

that had little creatures in the basement? I remember watching a movie that scared the crap out of me like that but don't remember it's name. The scene I remember the most was when the girl went down to the basement and the lights went out. The little demons started coming after her and she had a camera and every time she would fire the flash they would retreat. Could be why to this day I never leave the house without a camera.

decades ago by previous owners for "unknown reasons" and she had to go opening it up.

The whole way the thing ended, if you remember it, was very disturbing. I was also a kid watching this on TV. :scared:

To this day, I have a clear shower curtain and lock the door when I shower.

There was an episode where some parents were too busy smoking marijuana to notice that their child had drowned in the bathtub. That seemed like a more real possibility and scared the crap out of me more than the horror movies I grew up with.

Dragnet a few years ago. Of course, I assumed it would be fine for my youngest child to watch because...well..they were old..:eyes: . (1956-1957)

The first episode we watched was about a Pedophile! And it showed him kidnapping children from a park!

I'm pretty sure they toned down the subject matter in later years.

Your story reminds me of the anti-drug movies we watched in high school, though. I'll never forget the one where the babysitter drops acid and puts the baby in the oven... :crazy:

Tales From the Darkside.....:D

but there was this movie about giant, man-eating ants. Scared the bejeebers out of me. I think I was in 3rd grade.

That's the last one that really, really got to me, though.

great film. a true classic. i've always wondered what happened to the giant ant props.

Bea Arthur was one scarry woman....

:scared: It scared the shit out of me when I was a kid, but I wouldn't stop watching it. Dark Shadows was just creepy and fun, and I loved it. Outer Limits was just...well...Outer Limits. :hi:

I wandered downstairs in the middle of the night because my mom wasn't in her room. She was watching the Exorcist on tv. I asked her what she was doing and then I heard Reagan growl. I slept with my light on until I was in college. That screwed me up for a long time. Now it's my favorite horror movie. I just love the film quality they got in those 70s horror films.

Also, when I was in the 2nd grade I was inside on a rainy Saturday afternoon. Everyone was watching tv and a 70s rerun of a show called Ghost Stories came on. the episode was about a little boy my age, at the time, that had an evil twin that popped up when the boy was alone. The evil twin wanted to kill the boy and live in his place. The evil twin ended up killing the boy's grandmother. I don't remember what happened to the boy. I just remember not wanting to go anywhere by myself ever for like 4 years afraid my evil twin was going to appear and try to kill me and steal my life. It was probably so scary to me because I had always lived with my grandparents and I was afraid someone was going to kill my grandma. Knowing then, what I know know I should have been looking for that evil twin.