Media that scared you as a kid

[Deleted member 884]

 

[OmegaPunch's icon OmegaPunch OmegaPunch]

Anything with zombies in them.

 

[Antihero]

Back in the day, when I was a dumb ass kid the only person I was scared of was wwe superstar Kane.

 

[CardcaptorEd2019]

Chucky from Childs Play
E.T. - he is still creepy looking to look at
General media with claymation in it
The box are to Gremlins - I now think that Gizmo is cute

 

[Ruky Ruky]

 

[Cureless]

Back in the late 80s, there was a horror anthology show on TV called "Tales from the Darkside". The intro to it scared me more than anything as I would stay up on Friday nights with a bag of Doritos while watching that and old monster movies until the sun came up.

 

[trickybus]

Seeing myself in the mirror
No need to sad react I pinky promise I’m being facetious

This but literally. When I was very young, I believed that my reflection was a separate, sapient being and that they hated me, wanted to kill me, and then replace me. I'm still not a fan of large mirrors as an adult.

Media-wise, there's a scene in The Phantom Tollbooth film that scared me so badly, I ran out of the living room. It looks really silly to me now but 4-to-5-yo me genuinely thought I was about to get snatched by a T.V. demon

 

[miguk miguk]

Back in the late 80s, there was a horror anthology show on TV called "Tales from the Darkside". The intro to it scared me more than anything as I would stay up on Friday nights with a bag of Doritos while watching that and old monster movies until the sun came up.

Wow, sometimes I think I'm the only one who remembers that show. It was one of my favorite anthology series, especially since it was much creepier than The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, and the relatively family-friendly Amazing Stories.

 

[trickybus]

Wow, sometimes I think I'm the only one who remembers that show. It was one of my favorite anthology series, especially since it was much creepier than The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, and the relatively family-friendly Amazing Stories.

Back in the late 80s, there was a horror anthology show on TV called "Tales from the Darkside".

After a quick search, I just found out that I've been misattributting an episode of Tales from the Darkside to The Outer Limits. It's episode 80, Love Hungry. I watched that episode over two decades ago and I still remember it because of how much it creeped me out.

 

[Gorse]

I was never really afraid of any specific movies or TV shows (though that butterfly close-up in Spongbob was pretty awful), but I remember one thing both creeping me the F out and really impressing me. When Saw IV was coming out, instead of having commercials to promote it, they'd cut grainy footage of Jigsaw into other commercials, with absolutely no buildup or introduction. See an example here:

These little interjections would appear periodically throughout the span of a single commercial break, and they'd only show a promo card for the movie right at the end of it before going back to the show. I remember watching late-night Family Guy broadcasts with my brother when we were alone in the house, and we'd both be friggin' terrified of whenever it would go to commercial because we thought Jigsaw was somehow hacking into our TV feed.

I've never seen any other advertising campaign work this way, and I think it was really, really effective. That stuff still freaks me out.

 

[merzbun]

I Spy Spooky Mansion. This little guy was like seeing the devil

 

[Izzy]

Hokuto no Ken: Gekijoban. Saw it as a kid and I didn't know what was going on, but just watching Ken getting finger stabbed by Shin made me run out the room. Ffwd some years later, I decide to watch the entire movie as a whole, then go for the series. And as a bit of stress test, I watched G13: The Professional, Queen Bee and Amon: Apocalypse of Devilman afterwards.

 

[DjQuick2008]

The doctor who theme used to make me hide behind dofa. now im nearly 40 i appreciate the music and love it.

 

[Benjamillion]

Media that scared me as a kid? Well for some reason I used to find the closing logo for Viacom to be quite intimidating. It's like they were saying "we own you, couch slaves!"

 

[trickybus]

Media that scared me as a kid? Well for some reason I used to find the closing logo for Viacom to be quite intimidating. It's like they were saying "we own you, couch slaves!"

Aww, I liked that one lol

 

[Duke_11037]

Was obsessed with dinosaurs as a kid so ofc I had to watch Jurassic Park. I remember hiding behind the arm rest when the T-Rex came on screen. Couldn't sleep that night because I thought one would emerge out the closet.

 

[Deleted member 288390]

John Carpenter's 1982 The Thing. I watched Terminator 1&2, Predator 1&2, Alien & Aliens, no problem. The Thing? Couldn't sit through it as a kid. Freaked me out. One of my favourite films now, though.

 

[_oBSOLEte_]

I've seen Alien at the age of 9 and thought it was a cool movie.

This show tho, was something else. Filled me with pure horror. Disclaimer : all Sonic fans out there, watch at your own risk.

 

[miguk miguk]

I've seen Alien at the age of 9 and thought it was a cool movie.

This show tho, was something else. Filled me with pure horror. Disclaimer : all Sonic fans out there, watch at your own risk.

I loved The Storyteller when I was young. Then again, I loved all things Jim Henson or Frank Oz back then. The closest he got to scaring me was with the first episode of that series (as Death was pretty creepy looking), but even then I enjoyed it.

 

[_oBSOLEte_]

I loved The Storyteller when I was young. Then again, I loved all things Jim Henson or Frank Oz back then. The closest he got to scaring me was with the first episode of that series (as Death was pretty creepy looking), but even then I enjoyed it.

As a kid that "Hans my Hedgehog" episode was a shock. Like some cruel Kafkaesque nightmare. A WereHog... Some friends of mine were also disturbed by Dark Crystal and Labyrinth, but I found those really cool. The Storyteller is amazing, all of the work of Henson was traduced in French and very popular here in the 80s.

 

[RageBurner]

Alien 3. the Xenomorph scarred my psyche for a long time.
I watched a part of by accident while browsing late night TV as a kid.

Also the eye bulging scene in Total Recall. Anything involving eyes bothers me to this day.

 

[miguk miguk]

As a kid that "Hans my Hedgehog" episode was a shock. Like some cruel Kafkaesque nightmare. A WereHog... Some friends of mine were also disturbed by Dark Crystal and Labyrinth, but I found those really cool. The Storyteller is amazing, all of the work of Henson was traduced in French and very popular here in the 80s.

The Dark Crystal was just too cool to be scared to watch it. Labyrinth had Jennifer Connelly (and David Bowie, for that matter), so nothing about it could make me look away.

 

[Tr4sh_Kun]

Andross from Star Fox 64, especially his brain, when I was a kid for some reason I was really scared of big disembodied heads, including Mario's head from Super Mario 64, I couldn't get past the press start screen because of my fear

 

[Yousef]

Sonic heroes scared me with its bad gameplay, I replayed it recently, still the best horror game for that reason.

 

[_oBSOLEte_]

John Carpenter's 1982 The Thing. I watched Terminator 1&2, Predator 1&2, Alien & Aliens, no problem. The Thing? Couldn't sit through it as a kid. Freaked me out. One of my favourite films now, though.

That movie... The kennel scene is still tense to watch for me. The dogs seems genuinely scared, trying to escape, biting to try to make a hole through the grid...