What scared you on TV as a child?

When I was just a kid, X-Files were on.
There was this scene with kinda like a stalagmite sort of thing coming out of a guy's throat.

I felt so sick that my parents called the doctor.

And on another occassion The Outer Limits.
This kid was in his bed, and there was like a teddybear or something underneath it.

I remember being scared and checking underneath my bed afterwards a couple of times.

I always wonder about the overall obsession with horrors and crime in the west. What do you people think it is doing to your mental health.

My brother use to run and hide behind the sofa when incredible hulk was on and changed into hulk. He is 5 years younger than me. I could never understand why he was so scared.

invasion of body snatchers...original movie.
im still not over it.

the night of the living dead #2 and #3 i think it was. i was still with my birth parents and they got a kick out making me watch the two shows at i think 6 years old maybe 7.

then later at 9 or 10 right before i was moved to foster care they made me watch sleepwalkers and it freaked me out when they went into their wooden/sleep state lol.

That animation is still fantastic today

Wow that is so familiar. Must be 25 years or more since that.
I remember the title and music not so much the stories though

I was Catholic, going to a Catholic school and required to attend church...

The Exorcist

Poltergeist

Anything with a Demon LOL

It wasn't as scary as it was mysterious...How can the command center of the body get hijacked? How can I prevent it?

^this - the first horror movie i've seen. still know the feeling during and after watching it - something like white-noise times 100 within and without

Sleepwalkers scared me as a child too. The mother in it and the guys cat face. I never forget the cop impaled onto the fence but I felt relieved and happy when all the cats came to the rescue lol. Also I loved the car that changed.

The Daleks on Dr Who terrified me as a child , I used to hide behind a chair when they were on the TV.....but , I loved watching Dr Who

Still shudder if I hear WE WILL EXTERMINATE....

That was... pretty funny to me actually! I can see how it would be a bit scary to a kid though!

Another show besides unsolved mysteries that gave me the creeps was Alfred Hitchcock presents, that one episode where that guy was paralyzed and unable to communicate was especially disturbing.



Last Edited by Astrithr on 03/07/2021 06:11 AM

whoever wrote that script that was a manic depressive on drugs. tf? LOL.

I was about 7 staying with my family at my grandparents house in the country. Early evening an ad for a later program was on about Werewolves. I decided that was late enough for me to sneak down and watch, since everyone else would be in bed. This was something I had never done before. I managed to get downstairs and get the telly on without alerting anyone. This was an achievement in my house since my dad was an ex- Royal marine.
What I then watched about werewolves, kept me fucked up about them for the next 20 years or so. I don't remember anything about that program. I was too scared to move and spend the rest of the night wedged between two back to back sofas, breathing quietly. I even find dog soldiers scary.

They are probably my favourite type of scary movies. Anything ghostly demonic like The Conjuring or Hereditary. I love to be scared senseless with movies.
I went through an all boys Catholic school so you could be a reason why I like those movies. Not that we were thought religion all the time

Haha oh god you poor soul. Do you remember what happened in the movie? The only werewolf movie that really scared me as a child was American werewolf in London. When I think about it I just remember 2 Americans in a field at night in big puffy jackets being ripped to shreds.

I honestly was gonna say the same thing but decided on the cat instead. I thought LSD overload

My favourite movie is Hannibal

THIS..

i'd say

alien (the original)

and poltergeist (the original)


were pretty damn spooky for a 6-8 year old.

still better than some of the new stuff

The Good the Bad and the Ugly.

The bit when Clint was dragged across the desert behind the horse disturbed the shit out of me

For decades I never knew why it affected me so deeply, but now I know it's because it was revealing the suffering of the human condition, which my subconscious mind recognised even at an early age.

I've actually never seen these. I've heard of Alfred Hitchcock presents but only seen his movies. Ill definitely be downloading them now.