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Subject: What scared you as a child in the 80s?
What kinds of things scared you when you were a child in the 80s?
For me, in no particular order:
- Cruella DeVille from "101 Dalmations"
- Medusa from "The Rescuers"
- the Bloody Mary urban legend (does anyone else know this one?)
- clowns, especially the clown doll in "Poltergeist"
- "Jaws"
- "Salem's Lot"
- the coming of 1984 (my dad always talked about Orwell's "prediction")
- the Soviet Union and the anticipation of World War III
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I got a chill whenever I had to go into one particular corner of the basement. Regardless of what the temprature was, whenever I approached that one corner area of the basement I would get goosepimples and feel cold. I felt like some demon was there watching me, setting a trap. It scared the stuffing out of me.
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What scred me as a child in the 80's:
Movies featuring Freddy Krueger & Jason
"Chucky"
Full House (it was too weird for me,especially for a 4 year old)
"ET" (It freaked me out)
Lamb Chop (It freaked me out)
Roseanne (now annoys me...click,switched channels)
Small Wonder (see "Full House"...creepy robot girl)
hyperdermic needles (normal)
darkness (normal)
spiders (normal)
"Alein Nation"
big dogs (normal, I guess?)
surgeries (as a small child...for my cleft pallet...ended in 2002 :))
Old horror movies shown late night on TV
"Jaws"
Cher (She still looks creepy)
...that's all I can remember
strangly enough, I wasn't afraid of hairband videos from MTV
I thought they looked funny! (No Offense)
Subject: Re: What scared you as a child in the 80s?
Real life: As I was raised by my grandparents, my greatest fear, growing-up in the 70's and 80's, was my father's (an alcoholic and drug addict) occasional talk of taking me away to live with him. I worried about it constantly.
Scary movies: Um, "Phantasm"?
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As a child, I had an irrational fear of Bigfoot/Sasquatch!!! ::) I remember watching one of those TV documentaries on the Search for Bigfoot, and being terrified!!! ;D I was probably so frightened because I grew up on a house that was on a lake surrounded by endless forest, so I was certain that Bigfoot was hiding in the woods, waiting for me!!! ;D
Subject: Re: What scared you as a child in the 80s?
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"ET" (It freaked me out)
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Me too. Ugly little freaky looking thing.
In the 70's the JCPenney Super Denim Robot scared me. That thing used to walk around the store and it freaked me out. I still have nightmares about that...
He isn't there anymore, is he? http://www.inthe00s.com/smilies/nervous.gif
Subject: Re: What scared you as a child in the 80s?
The song "In the Air Tonight" by Genesis (Phil Collins?) I used to sleep with the radio on and I had nightmares about this song playing on records, etc. and it just wouldn't end. I still get chills when I hear it.
Subject: Re: What scared you as a child in the 80s?
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The song "In the Air Tonight" by Genesis (Phil Collins?) I used to sleep with the radio on and I had nightmares about this song playing on records, etc. and it just wouldn't end. I still get chills when I hear it.
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Hee hee...when I was in Europe we saw a "remix" (if you can call it that) of that song where a bunch of druid-type dudes in the hills of Scotland were singing it in Gregorian chant. Funniest thing I'd seen until I saw South Park in the original Dutch ;D
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Hee hee...when I was in Europe we saw a "remix" (if you can call it that) of that song where a bunch of druid-type dudes in the hills of Scotland were singing it in Gregorian chant. Funniest thing I'd seen until I saw South Park in the original Dutch ;D
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Thanks Rice, now I'll probably dream about freaky druids singing it tonight ;)
Subject: Re: What scared you as a child in the 80s?
I was afraid of things underneath my bed grabbing my ankles. And most of all, I was scared to death of leprechans! Still am actually! :-/
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As a child:
Fictional:
Freddy Krueger!
Demons, spirits, and ghosts
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The scariest thing to come out of the 80's the clown under the bed in the movie Poltergeist. My sister wouldnt sleep with the lights out until she was 15.
Subject: Re: What scared you as a child in the 80s?
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I got a chill whenever I had to go into one particular corner of the basement. Regardless of what the temprature was, whenever I approached that one corner area of the basement I would get goosepimples and feel cold. I felt like some demon was there watching me, setting a trap. It scared the stuffing out of me.
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Makes me think of the utility room in the basement of our old house. Every time I tried going in there Id end up running up the stairs scared of the "furnace man".
Other things that would scare me bad:
The access plates on chimneys that sometimes had sun patterns on them (probably where the furnace man scare came from).
Those decorative plates that were mounted at the roof gables of farmhouses.
Any old style furniture with a lot of curvy cutouts.
The wall of the outside of a house if it didnt have any windows.
Wood floors (I was afraid I would fall through).
The music from Mission Impossible (I remember this one episode of Sanford and Son where they kept playing it).
That one part on Sesame Street where they would show a mountain shaking and crumbling apart into an alphabet letter, along with that freaky music playing.
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When I was a child I was afraid of The unknown comic, Black Sabbath, and Gary Numan.
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I still can recall being home one night in the early 80s watching Dukes of Hazzard when all of the sudden a commerical came on promoting a Kiss show at the Coliseum in Phoenix. I was mortified.
Subject: Re: What scared you as a child in the 80s?
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I still can recall being home one night in the early 80s watching Dukes of Hazzard when all of the sudden a commerical came on promoting a Kiss show at the Coliseum in Phoenix. I was mortified.
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LOL! ;D Actually the movie "Kiss Meets the Phantom" scared the cr@p outta me!
Subject: Re: What scared you as a child in the 80s?
Hmm... "Poltergeist" and "Alien" scared the $hit out of me when I first saw them.
Go read the (supposedly) true stories at http://theshadowlands.net/ghost/. The "Real Ghost Stories" section makes for some good reading... or at least to re-tell them at the next campfire you're at. ;)
Subject: Re: What scared you as a child in the 80s?
I was way scared of...
a) Daleks in Dr Who
b) Vivian from The Young Ones
c) Mr T in Rocky 3
d) Skeletor in He-Man
e) The entire 'The Day After' movie (still am!)
f) Gargamel in the Smurfs
g) 21 Jump Street
g) and most of all...my Grade 4 teacher!
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I remember in 1980 or 1981 there was a radio program on the whole "Paul McCartney is Dead" thing. It was trying to prove that he was dead. I don't know why but this scared the heck out of me, I couldn't sleep for a week.
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White-Snow stepmother! I remeber that when i was little i had a book with this story and the images from the stepmother scared me!
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I wasn't a kid in the 80s but at that time what really scared me was the movie Poltergist. I went to see it with my husband before we were married and a friend of ours. The first time something happened on the screen, our friend lets out this blood curddling scream. I hit the ceiling. I don't know if it was the movie or her screaming that scared me more. By the end of the movie, it seemed like the entire movie theatre was screaming. Not me. I just think I deformed my husband's hand by squeezing the sh*t out of it.
Cat
Subject: Re: What scared you as a child in the 80s?
My Father used to scare me with "The Basement Boogieman". ;D
Howard
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The Amityville Horror freaked me out...my father freaked out on me when he woke up and found me sleeping at the foot of the bed!
Someone mentioned the Bloody Mary urban legend thing...was that when you stared in the mirror and said the name so many times?
My buddy scared me when we were cutting through a cemetary with the evil eye, something about if you touch a gravestone you get cursed...messed me up bad.
The Ouija board always freked me out too!
Subject: Re: What scared you as a child in the 80s?
Quoting:Someone mentioned the Bloody Mary urban legend thing...was that when you stared in the mirror and said the name so many times?
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Yes. In the third grade I learned that if you stood alone in front of the bathroom mirror, in the dark with the door closed, and you said "Bloody Mary" three times, a naked little girl covered with blood and knives sticking out of her would appear in the mirror.
There was a movie called "Candyman" with a similar theme, except you said Candyman three times. I always wondered if that was a different urban legend or if the filmmakers just modified the Bloody Mary myth.
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The music video to Micheal Jackson's Thrillerwas around!!
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My biggest scare of the eighties was "Aliens" I saw one clip of the movie on the Academy Awards.The one where the lady was in the ship and the alien pops out and you see her blood splattered on the windshield.I couldnt sleep for weeks and couldnt get that sight out of my head either.
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The 'Pigs in Space' from The Muppets used to give me the creaps big time. :o
http://www.islandnet.com/~pacific/spacepig.html
Subject: Re: What scared you as a child in the 80s?
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- the Bloody Mary urban legend (does anyone else know this one?)
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I do. It's still kind of an urban legend. Somebody sent me a chain letter with a story about Bloody Mary.
Subject: Re: What scared you as a child in the 80s?
Another thing that used to scare me was when we would have slumber parties & play "Light as a feather, stiff as a board", did anyone else do this?
Subject: Re: What scared you as a child in the 80s?
"Red Rum, Red Rum." ;)
Cat
Subject: Re: What scared you as a child in the 80s?
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I was afraid of things underneath my bed grabbing my ankles. And most of all, I was scared to death of leprechans! Still am actually! :-/
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Don't go outside tonight.
Subject: Re: What scared you as a child in the 80s?
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Another thing that used to scare me was when we would have slumber parties & play "Light as a feather, stiff as a board", did anyone else do this?
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What is that?
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What is that?
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http://www.castleofspirits.com/levitation.html
Read about it on this link (it really is dumb when I look back on it now) ::)
Subject: Re: What scared you as a child in the 80s?
Never heard of it before. But that link reminded me how much The Exorcist scared me when I was a kid. Actually it still gives me the creeps today.
Subject: Re: What scared you as a child in the 80s?
When my Parents turned out the lights and I was afraid of the dark.
Howard
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The scariest thing to me was Christine, the car. I was only 3 when I saw it the first time and I was really scared of old red cars because I didn't understand the concept. I thought it was real. But, since that time, I have had an unwavering obsession with old, red cars. Go figure that one.I dunno. Another thing that scared me to death was the Shining. I was really little and once again, thought the movie was real. Oh well. I was also afraid of electrical wires, i still sort of am. that one is a weird one because it all started after I watched a movie about a house coming to life through the electricity and killing a bunch of people who came in. I don't know the name of it but it was really stupid now that I think of it but if anyone knows the name of it....
Subject: Re: What scared you as a child in the 80s?
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The scariest thing to come out of the 80's the clown under the bed in the movie Poltergeist. My sister wouldnt sleep with the lights out until she was 15.
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??? ??? ???Wasn't that Pennywise the clown from "It"by Stephen King?Cheers! :o :o
Subject: Re: What scared you as a child in the 80s?
Oh a lot, lol..Nuclear war and the Soviets (I have to probably be among the last group of people born to fear the USSR..it collapsed the very month I started h.s.). Whenever I heard the names "Reagan" or "Gorbachev" I'd go numb! Poltergeist..yes..it scared me..now just think it's rather comical..but I do clearly remember being sad when the lil girl in those movies died (I was about 12 I think). Some Sesame stuff..but I liked as much as I feared in that. A lot of other "home" stuff scared me, not really related to the decade.
Subject: Re: What scared you as a child in the 80s?
Things that scared me as a kid were:
- Wendy O. Williams...and The Plasmatics in general. This was the beginning of the 80's and I hadn't yet been exposed to punk rock. Even the Sex Pistols.
- The Talking Heads' video for "Burning Down The House" (David Byrne's face on the side of the house...going down the road, etc.)
- Friday The 13th
- Gene Simmons of KISS, especially when he spit (fake) blood
- Michael Jackson's "Thriller" video
- renting a compilation video of Duran Duran videos and finding it had the uncensored version of "Girls On Film" on it
That's all I can remember for the moment...
Absolutely Vile
Subject: Re: What scared you as a child in the 80s?
http://www.starwars.com/databank/character/jabbathehutt/img/movie_bg.jpg
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Genesis: Land of Confusion video
Especially the drummer... brrrr :o
Subject: Re: What scared you as a child in the 80s?
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The scariest thing to come out of the 80's the clown under the bed in the movie Poltergeist. My sister wouldnt sleep with the lights out until she was 15.
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??? ??? ???Wasn't that Pennywise the clown from "It"by Stephen King?Cheers! :o :o
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Actually, there was a doll in Poltergeist that was like a Raggedy-Ann clown and it attacked the little boy in his bed. That scared the crap out of me, especially since my sister had a similar doll.
Pennywise was scary as hell also. I guess clowns are just freaky. :)
Subject: Re: What scared you as a child in the 80s?
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I was also afraid of electrical wires, i still sort of am. that one is a weird one because it all started after I watched a movie about a house coming to life through the electricity and killing a bunch of people who came in. I don't know the name of it but it was really stupid now that I think of it but if anyone knows the name of it....
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I think that was called "Pulse" or "The Pulse".
Subject: Re: What scared you as a child in the 80s?
EXAMS!!!!
Subject: Re: What scared you as a child in the 80s?
Hmm, things that scared me as a kid? Well, aside from the dark, big dogs (actually, any dogs would probably be more accurate, they ALL looked big to me! ), and heights-which still scare the cr@p out of me, I'd have to say:
Hey Dad - When I was young I had this recurring nightmare for about a year (on and off), where I'd be lying on this stone table (like Frankenstein's slab) with electrodes wired up to me and Nudge and Mr. Kelly from Hey Dad would hover over me and then one of them (can't remember which) would pull a gigantic lever and I'd be ELECTROCUTED! Weird huh? But do you blame me for being scared of the show after that?
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The Incredible Hulk, every time his eyes would turn green.
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Anyone remember "The Fog"? those red eyes scared me and the board with the ship's name start to bleed!
Subject: Re: What scared you as a child in the 80s?
Every horror movie I saw as a kid(Shining , Exorcist, Poltergeist,Elm Street Series, Friday the 13th series, you name it our parents let us watch it. I believed it was all real. Finally got over it a few years ago when I finally lived by myself.LOL. Weird stuff I was afraid of. Mr. Roboto song or any song I was told that had Satan on it. One Night in Bangkok.The opening sequence to the Hitchhiker. This pod people movie. Wasn't sure if it was a remake or not. Gremlins. My sister said my chicken looked like a Gremlin and I didn't eat chicken for years. That Care Bears movie,whoever the bad guy was and the little evil boy scared the crap out of me.Finally, my stepfather sneezing. Always really loud and unexpected. Scared the crap out of me too.Oh yeah, Jehovah's Witnesses.My folks also scared me with that end of the world crap.
Subject: Re: What scared you as a child in the 80s?
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Genesis: Land of Confusion video
Especially the drummer... brrrr :o
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LOL! I love that video! ;D ::)
Subject: Re: What scared you as a child in the 80s?
:o What scared me and my friends was running or walking down aa alley way here in Philly known as dead man's alley. Rumor has it that someone was killed in that alley way and that his ghost haunted it. Needless to say we were either brave or crazy, but we would always see some figure in the night and still go down that alley. :o
Tim
RATT-n-ROLL
Subject: Re: What scared you as a child in the 80s?
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Every horror movie I saw as a kid(Shining , Exorcist, Poltergeist,Elm Street Series, Friday the 13th series, you name it our parents let us watch it. I believed it was all real. Finally got over it a few years ago when I finally lived by myself.LOL. Weird stuff I was afraid of. Mr. Roboto song or any song I was told that had Satan on it. One Night in Bangkok.The opening sequence to the Hitchhiker. This pod people movie. Wasn't sure if it was a remake or not. Gremlins. My sister said my chicken looked like a Gremlin and I didn't eat chicken for years. That Care Bears movie,whoever the bad guy was and the little evil boy scared the crap out of me.Finally, my stepfather sneezing. Always really loud and unexpected. Scared the crap out of me too.Oh yeah, Jehovah's Witnesses.My folks also scared me with that end of the world crap.
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The pod people movie you are referring to I believe is ( Invasion of The Bode Snatchers) Great flick!
Tim
RATT-n-ROLL
Subject: Re: What scared you as a child in the 80s?
The big bald-headed alien in the silver space suit that featured in a couple of the Tom Baker episodes of Dr Who, called the Sontarans.
He gave me nightmares as a child. :o
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/doctorwho/episodeguide/sontaranexperiment/
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I was at best an older child, but I guess I still had some fears then that were really extensions of my "child in the '70s"....
red&barfyellow striped shirts (extends to my revulsion of the great Skip Away's blinker hood and jockey colors in the '90s - I love him but hate the hood)
purple/brown/black striped/blotched pants
OK, a little more seriously now!
ghosts - I was fascinated but also afraid we mite have 1 in the house
my grandma's wig-holder - a pure-white styrofoam head&shoulders bust that contrasted sharply w/the darkness of the Edwardian decor of her house esp. w/lites off; you could see it from almost anywhere on that floor - it gave me and my cousins the creeps! :o
Subject: Re: What scared you as a child in the 80s?
1.- The scene in poltergeist when the guy is going to wash his face and then the blood starts falling down... :P
2.- There was a kind'a horror movie made by Disney studios ("the watcher in the woods", year 1980), that is about a girl that vanished long time ago, for staying in another dimension. Years later a lot of weird stuff happens in the mansion where her old mom works... visions of her, blinded, askin' for help... I don't remember if it's in this movie too but there are in the forest a couple of red eyes that they are not suppoused to see 'cause something reaaaaally bad can happen to them. Well, that red eyes. Scary!!! And more in the nigth! And if the red eyes were in another movie, this movie is still scary!
3.- The deep open ocean... after seeing "Jaws" (the movie)
4.- Friday 13th music in a lonely, dark (without ANY light) house.
5.- Loosing my parents, after seeing "Bambi", "dumbo" or any of that walt disney movies where that freaks that wrote the stories are obsessed with the characters loosing their parents.
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good to know i'm not the only one freaked out by the movie "ET". :) my friends think i'm nuts because i still don't like it, but when he came back to life under the sheet - whoooo, yeah.
strangely, although it was one of my favourite movies, "Return to Oz" scared me a whole lot. not mombi, the witch who could change her heads at will, i was fine with that, but the wheelers really freaked me out for some reason. until this year i didn't realize that wear a mask that goes on the top of their head, in addition to their real face. anyone else remember that movie? still one of my favourite kid movies.
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The song "Maneater" by Darryl Hall and John Oates,for obvious reasons.The melody was very scary and I took the lyrics literally .(If you ever heard that song,you know I mean).
The famous "KISS" band was totally terrifying to me as a youngster! I didn't know that it was paint on their faces! I thought that's how their faces actually looked! GEEZ!! :o
The movies: "The Fury","The Shining","Poltergeist", "Nightmare on Elm street",
"Salem's Lot" (creeeeppy), also the ending scene in "Carrie" kept me up many a nights,(thank you very much). "The Exorist" was the worst for me,though!! That was a terrible movie to watch as a young child, I would not recommend it even today!
Michael Jackson's "Thriller" video: gave me goosebumps and chills everytime it came on. :o :o
Subject: Re: What scared you as a child in the 80s?
POLTERGEIST......Hands down!
That clown was the scariest thing in the 80's!
I couldn't go to sleep without lookin under my bed.
And what was up with all that red jello goo that was all over carol ann and her mom when they came back from "the other side?".....My friend and I called it Evil Meat.
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"Alien" was pretty scary for a 13 yr old. :o
But one of the scariest movies I ever saw, and I can't believe my mom and dad let me watch it, was called "Trilogy of Terror". I know it came out in the 70's but it had such an effect on me that I think it may be the reason why I don't care for thrillers. (Or maybe it was all those bad 80's slasher flicks like Friday the 13th part 1 thru 20 :P). Anyways, that Zuni warrior doll scared the living $hit out of me (I was only 8).
http://www.monstersinmotion.com/dvd/trilogyofterror.jpg
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( 8)= eight) I should have also mentioned that when I watched that movie my bedroom was in the basement of a creepy old black house that had some strange things about it.
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:o When your eight a lot can scare you, but does anyone remember that stupid Pe Wee's Big Adventure movie? It was really silly and going along like that I was fooled into a false sense of security then BAM! This big truck driver woman flashes this horrid face, it took up like the entire vision of my mental eye and I don't think I slept for a week and I still WILL NOT watch that movie.
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:o When your eight a lot can scare you, but does anyone remember that stupid Pe Wee's Big Adventure movie? It was really silly and going along like that I was fooled into a false sense of security then BAM! This big truck driver woman flashes this horrid face, it took up like the entire vision of my mental eye and I don't think I slept for a week and I still WILL NOT watch that movie.
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i remember that bit it was freaky but the main scary part was peewee himself
other scary things for me
escaletors can not go down i hate them its like going in to a sharks mouth i mean why do they have to move for any way and whats wiht the fucking teeth
the terror hawks the leader of the bad side actully that show scared the crap out of me alltoger but it was the evil hag that did it
skelletor only reson i am scared of him was becaus my first dad wore a mask and scared me to death
all horror movies when i was young but the top of the list whould have to be mike myres from halloween my freand from my old home after watching it told me he comes for people on halloween and kill them that put e of the movies for weeks
the penquin from batman returns first of all danny deveto looke scary as f**K (THOUGHT ID SAVE HAIRSPRAY THE TROUBLE OF CENCERONG ME) also because my feand yes the same one told he was comming for me how stupid was that
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i remember that bit it was freaky but the main scary part was peewee himself
other scary things for me
escaletors can not go down i hate them its like going in to a sharks mouth i mean why do they have to move for any way and whats wiht the fucking teeth
the terror hawks the leader of the bad side actully that show scared the crap out of me alltoger but it was the evil hag that did it End Quote
I guess I understand the escalator thing. There were British adverts at the time warning people not to stand too near the edge of escalators.
TerrorHawks was something I detested when I was little. Probably for the same reason as Mr Crowly. The baddies teeth were that deformed and twisted that we called them fags (cigarettes). I thought the baddies were smoking. ;D
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LOL! I'm sorry everybody. I forgotten that the word I used previously for cigarettes meant something else (hence the filtering). ;)
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LOL! I'm sorry everybody. I forgotten that the word I used previously for cigarettes meant something else (hence the filtering). ;)
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Hahaha..!! My parents said that back in their days you could go up to someone say "can I bum a f*g?" (translated: can I borrow a smoke off ya?). It sure has a different meaning now, eh? :D
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What scared me in the 80's was finding out that one night in 1982 a wargames simulation tape had been accidentally left running in a computer at NORAD which indicated that a full scale nuclear attack from the Soviet Union was underway against the USA. :o
And that it was a very close call.
Subject: Re: What scared you as a child in the 80s?
Does anyone remember a movie called 'the car'? About an mean, devilish black car with blinded windows terrorizing innocent drivers on lonely roads.
Every time it sneaked up one of its victims it scared the living daylights out of me. Specially because u never get to see who's behind the wheel...
Looked like a remake of Spielberg's 'Duel' but was much scarier
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What scared me in the 80's was finding out that one night in 1982 a wargames simulation tape had been accidentally left running in a computer at NORAD which indicated that a full scale nuclear attack from the Soviet Union was underway against the USA. :o
And that it was a very close call.
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Yeah, in the 80s it seemed like it was generally accepted that a nuclear war was going to happen eventually, we just didn't know when. That was scary.
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Yeah, in the 80s it seemed like it was generally accepted that a nuclear war was going to happen eventually, we just didn't know when. That was scary.
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Yeah, "THE COLD WAR" years were VERY scary time for many people back then.
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:oAs a child, I was pretty weird (and still somewhat am) so I had quite a few phobias, but I think my strongest fear was to be alone because I was afraid of somebody attacking me! I think that fear was from watching too many "Charlie's Angels" reruns. I was scared to go to bed at night because I'd be alone in my room (I would end up turning on the light to try to chase any "bad guys" away for an hour, and then our puppy would seem to wake up and run up to my room....---it was like a routine!); to let myself in after school if I was to be alone even for a few minutes; I was even afraid to walk down the street alone! I think this was the time when the hit "Somebody's Watching Me," but it's a blessing that I didn't see the video back then (I saw it for the first time around five years ago), or that would have scared the cr@p out of me!!
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Anyone remember "The Fog"? those red eyes scared me and the board with the ship's name start to bleed!
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Heck yeah, "The Fog" scared me too. Hard to sleep especially on a foggy night, being a kid you lay in your bed waiting for the knocking at the door with the hook. Another movie that scared me was "Salem's Lot" (came out in '79). The part when the glick kids come scratching at the windows as vampires still freaks me out when I see it today!
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They did when they first appeared and they do to this day:
MARY KATE AND ASHLEY OLSEN!
AND BARNEY!
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I remember seeing some horror film at a friend's house where a girl got a pitchfork through her neck as she walked through some woods and yes I had to walk home through some woods that night,scared me stupid I must say !
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are you thinking of friday the 13th that was bleeding gruesome boby my fear of escaletors has nothing to do with the 80s or adverts sorry about the confusion
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I reckon the film was Friday the 13th. They were all truly awful until 'Jason Lives' back in 1986. That had the great soundtrack of 'The Man behind the Mask' by Alice Cooper.
As for your fear of escalators not relating to adverts, Mr Crowly - erm - fair enough then. ;)
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Does anyone remember a movie called 'the car'?
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I just tried to get that movie from netflix- they didn`t have it. i seen it back in the 80`s a few times, it was always on real late.
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I was scared of the following:
:o :o
1.) Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street)
2.) Michael Myers (Halloween)
3.) The Marshmellow Puff monster (Ghostbusters)
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Some of the things that scared me during the 80s was two particular singers. Let me give you a clue, one of the singers name starts with a P, the other singer name starts with a M. Keep in mind I was a very young child at the time.
And it is good to be back on this website!
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Some of the things that scared me during the 80s was two particular singers. Let me give you a clue, one of the singers name started with a P, the other singer name starts with a M. Keep in mind I was a very young child at the time.
And it is good to be back on this website!
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Would it be "PRINCE" and "MADONNA"?
If not...tell us!! ;D :D ???
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One of them is right, one of them is wrong.
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I betcha the other is Michael Jackson. ;D
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I was scared of the vacuum cleaner when I was a child in the 80s because my dad was trying to cut the household budget.
My dad didn't put a normal hoover bag in but a KwikSave carrier bag. Because they have no air holes to let the bag breathe, the hoover made a right racket and started to expand. It got so big that I thought it was going to burst and I ran out of the room screaming.
I was also scared of music being played on the wrong record speed (which would make the song slower or faster). Know I get a shiver down my spine when I hear 'Happy Birthday' by Altered Images.
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freddy , jason, the exorcist...my dad..scared the house was haunted..
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:o
I was always scared of the captain in the book "the little tug boat" - everytime my mom turned to that page when she was reading to me I would scream bloody murder and cry..so weird
I was (and still am) scared of clowns, beefcakes, and birthday parties. They all represented something older, something more mundane and something definitely on the side of evil things laden.
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when michael Jackson started to turn into I white boy :o
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Wasn't much to be scared of. I was under ten when I started watching Freddy Krueger, Jason Vorhes, Mike Myers and the likes, so you build up an imunity after a while. Now horror movies do nothing for me.
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The most traumatizing thing from my childhood was...the car wash! I mean the old drive-thru kind with the huge bushy brushes that looked like muppet monsters with no eyes?? I always waited outside while my family drove through the car wash without me. I'm embarrassed to say that this went on for at least a couple of years. ::)
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ok guys, i admit i haven't read the whole thread, but the movies that scared me to death was:
THE THING
(didn't ate yoghurt or ice cream for a year after that)
FREDDY KRUEGER
(the early ones)
POLTERGEIST
(still give me the shivers, even though i'm 26)
But there were other things that scared me, like Michael Jackson 'thriller' video, I know sounds silly but i was scared to death, come on I was a kid! LOL but then it was the first vinyl i bought after saving my monthly allowance and money for school lunches.
Some plane crashes scared me a lot, because I used to travel by my own to visit my grandma in another city.
Also the death of Karen Carpenter, I was a kid but I will never forget the images on tv of her looking like an angel with her floating white dress and I had no clue that someone could die because of such a disease.
And last thing:
After i learned reading, i started browsing everything, including newspapers so there was a big article about AIDS and how kids could die because of blood transfusions. THen i got to know that a son of my grandma's friend, died of AIDS and i remember he being a very cool guy, he was a hairdresser and make-up artist and was homossexual. Also my greatgrandma who used to tell me histories about sonambulism and stuff, got ill and died due kidney failure and I cried and became scared about the whole death existance.
Other stuff that scared me was my stepfather beating up my mom and fighting, so me and my sister would go to our bedrooms and cry without knowing what to do to help.
My bestfather didn't like me and he scared me to death too.
MY father never showed up after the divorce with my mom when i was 2yrs old and when i finally met him he scared me and made me anxious so I cried lots.
anyway, that's it for now
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The most traumatizing thing from my childhood was...the car wash! I mean the old drive-thru kind with the huge bushy brushes that looked like muppet monsters with no eyes?? I always waited outside while my family drove through the car wash without me. I'm embarrassed to say that this went on for at least a couple of years. ::)
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I totally agree with you about those car washes! I was afraid of those as a very small child for the same reason.
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Other stuff that scared me was my stepfather beating up my mom and fighting, so me and my sister would go to our bedrooms and cry without knowing what to do to help.
My bestfather didn't like me and he scared me to death too.
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I'm very sorry to hear that, Digitales. My childhood wasn't a pretty one so I really understand the pain and fear you must have felt. My home-life was awful before my mum and dad divorced when I was 11, which was very messy. Since then I was thrown out of both my mum and dad's houses and have dealt with a lot of mental anguish. However, I have rebuilt my life and am now a lot happier.
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Funny you should mention that and give me the opportunity to refresh your fearz. :) A good friend of mine worked at a self serve gas station in '89 that had one of those automated car washes. One day some guy walked into the store and said that he's been waiting in line about 20 minutes to use it but that there was a car still inside. Well, it turns out this lady had been stuck in this car wash the whole time and that when it started up, the overhead brushes crashed down on her windshield and smashed it in! She was soaked from head to toe with water and soap suds! :D The equipment was malfunctioning and it did quite a bit of damage to her car and she was hysterical with fear. She said she thought she was going to die in there. :) They had to call an ambulance. Poor woman..
BTW, I used to be afraid of elevators. They still fill me with unease when I am forced to use them. I'm not too keen about tall buildings, either. I used to have an apartment on the 10th floor when a fire broke out in the building. Too much smoke in the halls and the fire escapes to make it out (believe me, I tried!). I had to sit it out on my balcony until the firemen could get up to my floor and escort me out. But I saw first hand that fire truck ladders can barely make it to the 10th. :o
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i used to watch the ryan white story whenever it was on(the young boy who died of the hiv virus)aids always scared me. then a closs friend of the family (who we knew was a homosexual) told us he had aids and that he had it ever since he was 18....he died at age 29 on july 4th 1992. so watching the fireworks hurts a little..i get tested every year..(i'm not a slut ..i am married)i was only going into the 6th grade when he died but it really made an impact in my life ...scary...i also knew a family in 88 killed by a drunk driver 2 days after x mas..the drunk guy walked away from the wreck not a scratch on him..there car blew up on impact..so i am really scared of people who drink and drive..
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As a child, I had an irrational fear of Bigfoot/Sasquatch!!! ::) I remember watching one of those TV documentaries on the Search for Bigfoot, and being terrified!!! ;D I was probably so frightened because I grew up on a house that was on a lake surrounded by endless forest, so I was certain that Bigfoot was hiding in the woods, waiting for me!!! ;D
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Cor, I remember that sort of thing... I saw a Sasquatch program where one put his hand through a bathroom window, it scared me for years at the time, and my bathroom was on the first floor! :-/
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Or how about those German stormtroopers from the dream sequences in "American Werewolf in London"- not a particularily scary film I might add, it's just some bits made you jump...
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Or how about those German stormtroopers from the dream sequences in "American Werewolf in London"- not a particularily scary film I might add, it's just some bits made you jump...
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The part that made me jump the most was when the guy was in hospital and he had a bad dream, he woke up and you thought everything was back to normal but he was in the middle of another.
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I was also scared of those staircases that had those slits between the steps because I was afraid I was going to fall through one of them!
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i remember the movie "Cat's Eye" with a tiny evil troll who tried to suck the life out of a little girl. Her cat saved her life.
I was always afraid that a troll would kill me in the middle of the night!!
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I would be watching sledgehammer(i barely remember what the show was about now..I must have been like five or so) and Moonligthing and Tums commercial would come on..>TUM TA TUM TUM TUMMMMS! would scare the CRAP outta me!
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I was convinced we'd all blow up in a nuclear war- with all the talk about the arms race and "The Day After", etc
It would never cross my mind that the thing to really be afraid of was terrorists flying planes into buildings.
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What scared me in the 80's?
The fact it was the 80's!! ;D ;)
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Jason Voorheis. I will never forget in 1981, I was 14 and my brother was 12. We were home overnight by ourselves for the first time as our parents went out of town. Friday the 13th and Friday the 13th Part 2 were on The Movie Channel and (believe it or not) there was a thunderstorm. We were scared sh**less! :o
Those were the days!
Subject: Re: What scared you as a child in the 80s?
Mostly, I was afraid of the dark. Not necessarily the dark, but what might be in the dark. I was also very scared of The Amityvill Horror. I didn't sleep for the longest time because of just seeing the previews for that movie. ;D
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I used to be afraid of the dark.My father used to tease me about it. >:( :(
Howard
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i remember the movie "Cat's Eye" with a tiny evil troll who tried to suck the life out of a little girl. Her cat saved her life.
I was always afraid that a troll would kill me in the middle of the night!!
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OH, MY GOD, I remember that now! The troll guy lived in her wall, everyone kept saying cats "Steal your breath" but it was the troll, geeze that was creepy when it was standing on her chest sucking the life out of her, gives me shivers.
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When I was about 14, I had a freaky dream that there was a giant killer FROG upstairs in my house. But this frog was especially scary-- it was Sheena Easton... I kid you not. I was trying to pull my mom out of the house with me to safety. We made it to the car and took off. We passed a bum-- who was actually Bob Dylan and a cop-- who was Lionel Ritchie. This was a truly freaky dream... and the only thing I can figure is that I must've been sleeping with the radio on, I don't recall. Spoooooky...
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BTW, I used to be afraid of elevators. They still fill me with unease when I am forced to use them. I'm not too keen about tall buildings, either. I used to have an apartment on the 10th floor when a fire broke out in the building. Too much smoke in the halls and the fire escapes to make it out (believe me, I tried!). I had to sit it out on my balcony until the firemen could get up to my floor and escort me out. But I saw first hand that fire truck ladders can barely make it to the 10th. :o
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I am still afraid of elevators...I hate em. The thing that still freaks me out about 9/11 (aside from even thinking about being on the 100th floor of a building :o) is the thought "what if people were in the elevators when the planes hit?"
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I am still afraid of elevators...I hate em. The thing that still freaks me out about 9/11 (aside from even thinking about being on the 100th floor of a building :o) is the thought "what if people were in the elevators when the planes hit?"
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you probably have a phobia or something,Dag. ???
Howard
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you probably have a phobia or something,Dag. ???
Howard
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I am pretty sure I do. I am afraid of heights, and small enclosed spaces. In elevators all I think about is the cables snapping. Guess it is a good thing I don't live or work in buildings with elevators, isn't it? ;)
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Awesome show! :D http://www.sledgehammeronline.com/
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I am still afraid of elevators...I hate em. The thing that still freaks me out about 9/11 (aside from even thinking about being on the 100th floor of a building :o) is the thought "what if people were in the elevators when the planes hit?"
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Forgive me for leaning a bit off topic, but I'm a disaster freak and I have been following the New York Times investigation into the WTC disaster and very few people made it out of the elevator cars. I believe less than a dozen of the hundred or so elevators in each building discharged their passengers after the impacts. A couple of window washers made it out of WTC-2 after prying open the elevator doors and smashing their way thru 2 one inch thick drywall layers. Then walked the 46 floors down and made it about a block away from the building before it collapsed. Of course, not all elevators operated in the affected impact areas.
Yeah, this doesn't do much for those of us who are nervous about elevators ;) ...we're cursed with too wild of an imagination that figures out worst case scenarios!
And to think a guy climbed up the outside of the WTC with virtually no gear. http://commemoratewtc.com/history/facts/willig.php gutsy... more gutsy than the BASE jumpers.
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I am pretty sure I do. I am afraid of heights, and small enclosed spaces. In elevators all I think about is the cables snapping. Guess it is a good thing I don't live or work in buildings with elevators, isn't it? ;)
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I hope you get over it. :)
Howard
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I hope you get over it. :)
Howard
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Thanks, Howard. :)
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Of course the movies and television had a huge impact on scaring me for the greater part of my childhood. Freddy, the little troll from cat's eye, the little indian doll from trilogy of terror(if anybody else has seen this movie let me know, I believe Karen Black starred), the theme to tales from the darkside, gelflings from the dark crystal, fearing 1999 and being upset that I wasn't gonna live past 19, being alone in the house and letting my imagination wander leading to me freaking myself out at the time, critters, any basemet because I just knew there was something down there waiting. Mad Max movies freaked me out. Enemy Mine that creature was the worst. I'm sure theres millions more But from being so scarred from it emotionally and mentally I blocked it out. :'(
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Something else I was afraid of was that scene in "The Last Starfighter" where there is an alien in the main character's bed that is trying to take his place. That scared me to death.
Also, while on vacation my family went to see "Club Med" starring Robin Williams. The previews featured "The Fly". It showed the scene where Jeff Goldblum's character starts losing his fingernails. I thought it was horrible. I didn't sleep all that night in the hotel because I was thinking of that scene. I rewatched part of the movie just the other day. I felt stupid for ever being scared of that scene. It wasn't nearly as gross as I remembered.
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Thanks, Howard. :)
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you're welcome sister!
Howard
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Other things that scared me in the 80s..Mr Boogedy! AHHHHHHHHH!! probobly would still scare me today if I saw it.
And I know it wasnt an 80s movie but since I was born in 1980, I watched WIlly wonka in the 80s and when they would go through that tunnel on that wonkatania boat or whatever i hated hated HATED it LOL
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That stupid clown from Poltergeist, when Dr. David Banner changed into the Hulk. And their was a movie I saw once on tv a women was dragged down stairs by these little green men that came out of the fireplace.
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Oh yeah, this used to scare me --and when I go hiking in the backcountry, I try to keep my mind from wandering to the subject..... ::)
http://www.ufobc.ca/Supernatural/Bigfoot/spindlecanyon.htm
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I remember that movie its was 70's but it was called don't be afraid of the dark because those little men were light sensitive
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That stupid clown from Poltergeist, when Dr. David Banner changed into the Hulk. And their was a movie I saw once on tv a women was dragged down stairs by these little green men that came out of the fireplace.
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Subject: Re: What scared you as a child in the 80s?
1. Nuclear War / The 'Commies'
2. I thought the Terminator was going to get me
3. Predator
4. Freddy Kruger. We'd dress up as Freddy for Halloween. "Welcome to my world, b_tch!"
5. Stay-Puffed Marshmallow Man
6. Skeletor
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That I'd grow up to be a preppy, dork, yuppie like so many others. Wait, I'm looking in the mirror now... khaki Docker pants, Birkenstocks, Izod type sports shirt... Ahhhhhh, it's happened! Ahhhhhhhh!
It's too late for me, save yourselves!
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The ABC movie "The Day After"
News talking about AIDS
Jelly shoes
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What scared me in the 80's? Horror Movies. To this day I cannot watch a horror movie. I don't know why.
Another thing that scared me in the 80's it sounds cormy and all was a Black Buick Grand National. It looked like a pimp car. Maybe the car just gave me the vibe that people who drove the Grand National were thuggish or gangsta's and were going to come out of their Grand National's and get me. I got over that fear of that car. I don't what it was about that car. I was 8 years old at the time when the Grand National was hot. Whenever I see one now I still think it looks like a pimp car but it doesn't scare me or nothing.
Also when I was 9 years old once I heard Taylor Dayne's "Prove Your Love" when I was in somebody's car. That night I could not go to sleep. I could imagine Taylor Dayne singing "Prove Your Love" in my head. It was like her singing voice was haunting or intimidaitating me. If you listen to the tone of her voice that she used in that song you would understand why it would scare me at that age. I was crying or something I think that night too. My parents asked me whats wrong? I was too embarassed to tell them why I couldn't sleep. I got over the fear of that "Prove Your Love" song. I listen to it now and I'm not scared or nothing.
Abother song that haunted me was that Halloween song "Monster Mash". I cannot listen to "Monster Mash" to this day.
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The movie Jaws. To this day, I still will not go in the water.
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I was scared of darkness, burglars, falling from high places, being alone, drowning and Stevie Wonder (don't ask)!
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I was scared of darkness, burglars, falling from high places, being alone, drowning and Stevie Wonder (don't ask)!
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I'm sorry... (I really am)...I have to ask... Why were you afraid of Stevie Wonder?
confession: I have to admit, there was an album that Stevie Wonder released back in the 70's called "innervisions". It was a very good album,actually (probably one of his best to date).
well anyway, inside the album sleeve their was an artist depiction of "people" that was very disturbing to me as a young child. Even to this day,it kind of freaks me out. :o If that is what you're alluding to,then I understand completely! ;)
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Well, as I said, don't ask, but noe that you've asked, I have to say that I really don't remember anymore. I just remember seeing his video ("I Just Called to Say I'm Sory" I think it was) and when I saw him singing, it kinda freaked me out. Oh, and that reminds me, I was also scared of a TV show openig titles (it had very creepy music and these creepy slides) and to me as a child, that was very scary, actually I think I was scared of that more than anything else. :-/
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Um, dat wood bee "I Just Called to Say I Love You," not scary, just overplayed and nauseating.
I was a nervous kid with an overactive imagination, so A LOT of stuff scared me. That's why I was such a big fan of "The Far Side." I could relate to all those "monster" cartoons!
What scared me specific to the '80s?
David Lynch's "Elephant Man" REALLY freaked me out. It wasn't a horror move per se, but the make-up job they did on John Hurt was overwhelming. Also the the black-and-white cinematography and the Victorian-era carnival imagery were really creepy.
"The Shining" scared the hell out of me, and still does. I didn't see it until a few years after it came out. If I'd seen it when I was 11, I probably would've been traumatized. "The Shining" still frightens me. It may be the scariest movie I've ever seen.
"The Amityville Horror" made me nervous in the dark for so long I can't remember. The book came out in the '70s, but the movie came out in about '81. The movie repopularized the book. I didn't get to see the movie, but I snuck my sister's copy of the book and read that. I still get chills thinking about it.
Even though "The Amityville Horror" was largely fiction, I was too open to the power of suggestion, suggestions my young mind couldn't handle.
The person who started this thread way back in March mentioned the "Bloody Mary" urban legend. That is a prime example of the power of suggestion. "Bloody Mary" is sort of summer camp game played by young girls. It involves chanting "Bloody Mary" thirteen times before a mirror in a dark room. More here:
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/ghosts/bloody.htmIf you're told a demon or a witch will appear, or you'll die on the thirteenth repetition, you'll freak yourself out before you finish the chant.
The power of suggestion is how Hatian voodoo (or vodou) works. If you REALLY believe your enemy can cast a deadly spell on you, apparently, you can literally be scared to death.
I never played with the ouja bored, but my sister and my cousin used to scare themselves crazy with the thing. Again, the ouja is rubbish, but if you believe it....
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Um, dat wood bee "I Just Called to Say I Love You,"
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Oh yea, my bad! :-[ Must have been thinking of something else! :-[ :-[
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8)
I wasnt a child in the 80s, I was a teenager.
Here are the things that scared me:
Jason and Freddy from Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street.
That scene in American Werewolf in London where the two friends find themselves alone in a field and stalked by a howling, growling werewolf.
I was scared by that English movie Threads (England's version
of the Day After). A movie about England after the third world
war. Fortunately the Cold War had a happy ending.
And last but not least, I was scared by the PMRC and that
evil woman Tipper Gore. One of the reasons why Gore should never see the Oval Office is that wife of his.
http://twismor.tripod.com
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I'm sorry... (I really am)...I have to ask... Why were you afraid of Stevie Wonder?
confession: I have to admit, there was an album that Stevie Wonder released back in the 70's called "innervisions". It was a very good album,actually (probably one of his best to date).
well anyway, inside the album sleeve their was an artist depiction of "people" that was very disturbing to me as a young child. Even to this day,it kind of freaks me out. :o If that is what you're alluding to,then I understand completely! ;)
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I know why he was afraid of Stevie Wonder? Was it his album Talking Book where he had glasses off? ???
Howard
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8)
I wasnt a child in the 80s, I was a teenager.
Here are the things that scared me:
Jason and Freddy from Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street.
That scene in American Werewolf in London where the two friends find themselves alone in a field and stalked by a howling, growling werewolf.
I was scared by that English movie Threads (England's version
of the Day After). A movie about England after the third world
war. Fortunately the Cold War had a happy ending.
And last but not least, I was scared by the PMRC and that
evil woman Tipper Gore. One of the reasons why Gore should never see the Oval Office is that wife of his.
http://twismor.tripod.com
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I was a teenager too. Threads was WAAY better than the day after. The part that got to me was toward the end, when society has devolved into a kind of idiotic medievalism with the residuals of the pre-holocaust society still piled in the streets.
I agree, I don't like either Al or Tipper, but they're no where near as bad as people like John Ashcroft and Tom DeLay.
As far as the Cold War having a happy ending, yeah you could say so. There was no thermonuclear war, and the Russkies didn't take over, but, on the other hand, we've got a bigger defense budget than ever and the big boys are still playing chess with our lives via geo-political strategic games.
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The person who started this thread way back in March mentioned the "Bloody Mary" urban legend. That is a prime example of the power of suggestion. "Bloody Mary" is sort of summer camp game played by young girls. It involves chanting "Bloody Mary" thirteen times before a mirror in a dark room. More here:
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/ghosts/bloody.htmIf you're told a demon or a witch will appear, or you'll die on the thirteenth repetition, you'll freak yourself out before you finish the chant.
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Thanks for the link. I'll check it out.
One of the reasons I mentioned Bloody Mary was because the idea fascinated me as a child (I was never brave enough to try it.) and I wondered if it was a local thing or if people elsewhere were scaring little kids with the story.
There was that movie "Candyman" which was similar to the Bloody Mary thing, but I'm pretty sure either the story was based in New Orleans or the film was shot there, so that didn't answer my question.
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I remember seeing Kiss in full make-up when I was a child. It scared the crap out of me. Jean Simmons and that huge tongue. I cried all night because I was so scared. I also seen the Elephant Man - the old black and white film. I wasn't supposed to watch it, but I peeked in and seen his face. I remember hiding behind a chair balling.
As a teenager, who didn't get scared by Freddy in Nightmare on Elm Street? That movie still freaks me out. Also Night of the living Dead. I still to this day will not watch ANY scary movies with zombies. Don't do zombies!!
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I never actually did the Bloody Mary thing, but there was this idea going around that if you look into a mirror in the dark, you'll see what you will look like when you're "old." You see a sort of skullish reflection which gives you the creeps.
I remember the movie "Candyman." Pretty dumb. There was a much publicised kiddy porn sting on the web called "Candyman." They would send emails enticing men to join a kiddy porn Yahoo Group called "Candyman," and then when they joined, the FBI would bust 'em.
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Stephen Kings Pet Semetary (his spelling)
This book scared the crap otta me in 89, I was so shook up that I locked my cat in the basement for almost a week!
Any and all things smurfy, there was something so creepy about these blue creatures..I kinda was pulling for Gargamel to catch the littlle buggers.
E.T., how the heck this was a cute/touching movie I'll never understand, if I ever saw that thing in real life I'd shoot it and run away screaming..
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Stephen Kings Pet Semetary (his spelling)
This book scared the crap otta me in 89, I was so shook up that I locked my cat in the basement for almost a week!
Any and all things smurfy, there was something so creepy about these blue creatures..I kinda was pulling for Gargamel to catch the littlle buggers.
E.T., how the heck this was a cute/touching movie I'll never understand, if I ever saw that thing in real life I'd shoot it and run away screaming..
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HaHa!! locked your cat in the basement for almost a week!... Thats' classic!! :D :D
I agree with you on the smurfs,they were kinda creppy, eventhough I DID watch the show. ;D
As for the E.T. thing...well.....he WAS an alien. But I understand. :) :)
Subject: Re: What scared you as a child in the 80s?
what scared me was havin a fever , i would always halucinate.
my brothers upside down cross that he made from a century 21 realty sign, he painted it black an hung it from our bed room ceiling.
the thriller video
swimmin' in the dark, thinkin that thares sharks in the pool
an jus' bout all scary movies
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what scared me was havin a fever , i would always halucinate.
my brothers upside down cross that he made from a century 21 realty sign, he painted it black an hung it from our bed room ceiling.
the thriller video
swimmin' in the dark, thinkin that thares sharks in the pool
an jus' bout all scary movies
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Whenevery I'd get a fever, I used to have terrifying nightmares. You wished you'd get sick so you wouldn't have to go to school, and could like lie in bed and watch cartoons and stuff. When you really did get sick, you'd feel dizzy, chilly, and sweaty. You'd puke up everything you'd try to eat, and your head hurt so bad you didn't even wanna watch TV.
Anyway, I had a lot of nightmares when I was a kid. Sometimes they would scare me for days afterward. One of the worst I still remember is hard to explain why it was so scary. I hadn't seen the movie "Rosemary's Baby," but that's the best thing I can compare it to. I was living out in the suburbs somewhere, and there was this sweet old lady across the street, much like Ruth Gordon's character in Rosemary. One day this sweet old lady came home with her friend, another sweet old lady, who turned out to be THE DEVIL! I mean you've got to picture a "Leave It To Beaver" Mayfield kind of street. So, the two of them are walking up to the old lady's nice suburban house, and this hag-devil turns around agnd gives me the THE MOST MALEVOLENT GRIN I have ever seen! That nightmare scared me like I'd never been scared before. I had all the dreams of ghouls, and snakes, and crocodiles, and vampires, and falling out of windows, but that one evil grin from the satan lady was on another level. I was a nervous wreck for days with that image burning in my mind.
Maybe it was a prescient sign to all the terrible things that would befall me a few years down the road.
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The scariest horror flick ever
Halloween part 1
That movie wow!
John Carpenter scared the crap ot ouf me in those days, well I think it was actually made in 1979 but still
EEEEEK!
Daniel
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Its a levetation thing, and come to think of it, it was kinda freaky, NEVER worked though. Does anybody else remember this?
Subject: Re: What scared you as a child in the 80s?
Alot of things scared me as a kid during the 80's. Here are some things that did scare me when I was little:
Horror movies like Nightmare On Elm Streets, Friday The 13ths, Halloweens, Polterguist, Death Ship, The Exorcist (though it came out in the 70's), etc.
That scene in Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom were that Morlam (sp?) character takes the heart out of that guy. Also, later in that scene where they burned to death that same guy in the lava pits. I had nightmares for months about that.
That Bigfoot/Sasquatch thing also frightned me as a child. It still kinda scares me today because I now live near the forest and mountains.
Gmork (that wolf from The Neverending Story) also scared me as a kid.
That two-headed dog/wolf, Medusa, and the Krakan from movie Clash Of The Titans.
That scene in movie Full Metal Jacket where the character "Gomer Pyle" is pinned down to the bed by some of the platoon while the rest of the platoon beats him up repeadly with soup bars (which were wrapped up in towels). I also had nightmares for months about that scene. I was only 5 yrs. old when I saw this movie (when it first came out on video in the late 80's).
The basement at the house where I use to live.
that dragon from movie Dragonslayer
those Deathguards from movie The Beastmaster (especially the scene where they turn that guy into one)
this house down the street where I use to live because some kids in school told me that ghosts haunt that place.
That's all I can think of right now.
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Hulk and Kiss both gave me nightmares.
I was scared of escalators up until a couple of years ago because I heard about this kid that got her raincoat strings stuck in one of the escalators and got killed.
The dark
The garbage disposal - that came when I was older and saw a cheesy horror movie where someone was putting something in the garbage disposal and it got turned on.
(shudder)
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I'm sorry I mispelt something. I meant "soap bars" (for the Full Metal Jacket scene I mentioned), not soup bars. Sorry.
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That scene in movie Full Metal Jacket where the character "Gomer Pyle" is pinned down to the bed by some of the platoon while the rest of the platoon beats him up repeadly with soup bars (which were wrapped up in towels). I also had nightmares for months about that scene. I was only 5 yrs. old when I saw this movie (when it first came out on video in the late 80's).
The basement at the house where I use to live.
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You were 5 when you saw that? I was 18 and it was still hard to watch. It wasn't scary, so much as I just felt so bad for the poor guy. The actor who played Sgt.Hartman, Lee Ermey, was a drill sgt. for real (now you can see him on the History Channel), which made it so horrifying. The reason they started doing Marine boot camp like that was due to studies at the end of WWII. They found most soldiers in combat were standing there, scared shitless, not firing their weapons. Thus, the military determined they had to dehumanize their soldiers beforehand; they would literally make them "killing machines." That's what you saw going on in FMJ, and why certain Vietnam vets couldn't cope with what the military turned them into.
Oh, and basements? Let me tell you about our basement when I was a kid. We had an old farm house. Old farm houses don't have basements. They have CELLARS.
It was damp and scummy at all times of the year. There was strange mold everywhere, and really thick webs spun by BIG motherass albino spiders. There were many small chambers and passages you couldn't brighten no matter how big a flashlight you had. There was a monsterous looking 19th century coal furnace. There were odd tools and fragments of farm machinery from ages past. Then there were the Mason jars. In one chamber there were shelves full of Mason jars filled with...I never figured out quite what. I assumed they were pickled preserves left behind by the farm family we bought the place from. I HOPED they were preserves. The jars were coated with dust and mold, obscuring the disintegrated contents. I never dared to investigate further...
What a scene Gary Larson woulda made of that joint! :o
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One thing I like about you MaxwellSmart,is that you're very entertaining and informative! ;) :) ...But no thanks to giving me nightmares about the old farm house/cellar story..You and Stephen King should collaborate on a really good horror book/ movie in the future. ;D :o
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You were 5 when you saw that? I was 18 and it was still hard to watch. It wasn't scary, so much as I just felt so bad for the poor guy. The actor who played Sgt.Hartman, Lee Ermey, was a drill sgt. for real (now you can see him on the History Channel), which made it so horrifying. The reason they started doing Marine boot camp like that was due to studies at the end of WWII. They found most soldiers in combat were standing there, scared shitless, not firing their weapons. Thus, the military determined they had to dehumanize their soldiers beforehand; they would literally make them "killing machines." That's what you saw going on in FMJ, and why certain Vietnam vets couldn't cope with what the military turned them into.
Oh, and basements? Let me tell you about our basement when I was a kid. We had an old farm house. Old farm houses don't have basements. They have CELLARS.
It was damp and scummy at all times of the year. There was strange mold everywhere, and really thick webs spun by BIG motherass albino spiders. There were many small chambers and passages you couldn't brighten no matter how big a flashlight you had. There was a monsterous looking 19th century coal furnace. There were odd tools and fragments of farm machinery from ages past. Then there were the Mason jars. In one chamber there were shelves full of Mason jars filled with...I never figured out quite what. I assumed they were pickled preserves left behind by the farm family we bought the place from. I HOPED they were preserves. The jars were coated with dust and mold, obscuring the disintegrated contents. I never dared to investigate further...
What a scene Gary Larson woulda made of that joint! :o
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Subject: Re: What scared you as a child in the 80s?
Yeah, but the cellar wasn't haunted. That was the attic and the original portion of the house, built c. 1775.
OK, I'm skeptical about the supernatural, but there were some weeeeird presences to be felt in those upstairs rooms...oh and that ATTIC. It didn't help to have ragged, white-turned-yellow curtians hanging in the attic window since God knows when. Why were they there? You couldn't occupy that space, it was just beams and insulation. Then there was the attached 19th century barn. Another world of weirdness and spider. I embellished a little when I said ALBINO. There were some whitish ones, mostly they were just huge. I'm not arachnophobic, but barn spiders are another story. It's a good idea to have a healthy respect for spiders that big!
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We SOOo used to play Bloody Mary and it scared the carp (aren't I clever, using a fish n all!) out of us! Also, EVERY character in The Dark Crystal scared me (well, they ARE creepy lookin little things!). Oh, and clowns (and of course my mom used to collect the stupid things- porcelain clown dolls EVERYwhere!)
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The arm wrestling scene in the remake of The Fly
Face peeling scene in Poltergeist
clowns
Subject: Re: What scared you as a child in the 80s?
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That scene in Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom were that Morlam (sp?) character takes the heart out of that guy. Also, later in that scene where they burned to death that same guy in the lava pits. I had nightmares for months about that.
those Deathguards from movie The Beastmaster (especially the scene where they turn that guy into one)
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I'm so glad that I wasn't the only one afraid of these things. I LOVE The Beastmaster, but to this day, I still can't watch that scene. ;D
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We SOOo used to play Bloody Mary and it scared the carp (aren't I clever, using a fish n all!) out of us! Also, EVERY character in The Dark Crystal scared me (well, they ARE creepy lookin little things!). Oh, and clowns (and of course my mom used to collect the stupid things- porcelain clown dolls EVERYwhere!)
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Ah, "The Dark Crystal," with the Skeksies and the Mystics. That's some creepy stuff. Don't drop acid for that one!
Their is a bona-fide clown phobia out there. It's called coulrophobia.
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I don't have it myself, but I see why some people have it. There's something monstrous and wicked about clowns. Of course, it doesn't help knowing that John Wayne Gacy was a part-time clown. Gacy, you may remember, murdered 33 young men and boys in the '70s and interred them under his house. I think he lived in the Chicago area. Anyway, he was the most prolific American serial murderer until just this fall when Gary Ridgeway, the confessed "Green River Killer," was verified to have killed at least 48.
I also found some sick humor in the fact that Jeffrey Dahmer worked in a chocolate factory. Willy Wonka where are you?
Not to wax to macabre, I'll leave it there! :-X
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The movie Return to Oz scared me quite a bit when I was like 5 or 6.
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Ah, "The Dark Crystal," with the Skeksies and the Mystics. That's some creepy stuff. Don't drop acid for that one!
Their is a bona-fide clown phobia out there. It's called coulrophobia.
I don't have it myself, but I see why some people have it. There's something monstrous and wicked about clowns. Of course, it doesn't help knowing that John Wayne Gacy was a part-time clown. Gacy, you may remember, murdered 33 young men and boys in the '70s and interred them under his house. I think he lived in the Chicago area. Anyway, he was the most prolific American serial murderer until just this fall when Gary Ridgeway, the confessed "Green River Killer," was verified to have killed at least 48.
I also found some sick humor in the fact that Jeffrey Dahmer worked in a chocolate factory. Willy Wonka where are you?
Not to wax to macabre, I'll leave it there! :-X
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loved Dark Crystsal but they were a creppy bunch weren't they? (Even the good guys).
Willy Wonka USED to be one my favorite movies,until that disturbing news. Thanks again MaxwellSmart! (sarcasm) ;):) ;D :(
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I remember when i was a kid i was afraid that something called bloody mary would come and kill me or something if i turned of the lights and looked into a mirror and chanted her name 5 times, me and my cousins would do this, normaly atleast one of us would claim they seen her, I of course thought I did, could have just been brain trickery, later i was scared that the candyman would jump into my bath room window and kill me with a hook.
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The Nightmare On Elm Street movies. I remember specifically, Part 2, when Freddy emerges from the teenager's body, his razor gloves bursting through the fingertips. then splitting the body in two - sounds pretty cool now, but back then I was afraid of going to sleep! (The weird dream scenes in the Dream Warriors, and Part 4, were creepy, too.)
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what scared me was havin a fever , i would always halucinate.
my brothers upside down cross that he made from a century 21 realty sign, he painted it black an hung it from our bed room ceiling.
the thriller video
swimmin' in the dark, thinkin that thares sharks in the pool
an jus' bout all scary movies
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I had a really bad fever once on holiday Wales (UK) with my folks. I was in bed screaming, hallucinating black snakes slithering up the walls...
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Deemoe wrote:
Quoting:Willy Wonka USED to be one my favorite movies,until that disturbing news. Thanks again MaxwellSmart! (sarcasm) ;):) ;D :(
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Actually,Willy Wonka disturbed me when I was little because I didn't understand his motivations. I thought he was sadistical. It seemed to me that kids are rude and greedy, but that's no excuse for turning them into giant blueberries or sending them through chocolate-making machines. In a later viewing I understood that the kids would go back to normal, and that Wonka had to issue a rigorous test because the winner would inherit his magical chocolate factory! :) :)
I was only suggesting that Willy Wonka's Umpa-lumps would have made quick work out of Jeffrey D., and saved everybody a lot of misery!
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The Willy Wonka movie never scared me, but watching it now, I appreciate Wonka's sadistic streak ;)
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@OptimusPrime: I love your name!!! ;D
Back to the subject at hand... As a child, I was terribly afraid of the following:
1. Freddy Krueger
2. Poltergeist movie
3. Chucky
4. Michael Myers (Halloween)
5. Clowns
6. Spiders
7. Willy Wonka
8. The Exorcist
9. Gargamel (from the Smurfs)
10. Jason
Subject: Re: What scared you as a child in the 80s?
1. The last scene in the 1978 remake of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers". Donald Sutherland pointing and hissing at someone with an evil look on his face. Very creepy. 2. The Captain Howdy "Demon Face" in "The Exorcist". Now I can freeze frame the scenes with the face on my VCR, and realize it is just Eileen Dietz,Linda Blair's stunt double, with satanic makeup on her face. But when I saw the movie the first few times,I saw that face in my mind,for days! 3. All of the publicity surrounding the "Elephant Man" when it first came out. People said the makeup on John Hurt's was so hideous,the movie would never be shown on tv. Hearing those comments,and seeing the stills and posters with John Hurt wearing a cloth bag over his face made me stay home when my parent's went to the theater to see this movie. LOL! 4. Does anyone remember a sci-fi tv show from the mid 1980's called "Wishman". It was about a small alien creature from another planet who came to visit Earth. I remember the ads on tv put a box over this creature's face, and said you would have to watch the show to find out what it's face looked like. Those ads unnerved me! But when the show finally came on,during the "unmasking scene",his face looked like a cheap rubber Halloween mask! This show only lasted a couple of episodes,and no I am not getting it confused with "E.T." or "Mac and Me." :)Thanks! Sincerely,Steve.
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The Dark, I hated the Dark,
and the Fear of being abducted by aliens,
after seeing a TV special on Alien Abductions.
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I was also scared by a movie on tv called "Zardoz". It was made in the 1970's but I did not see it for the first time until the early 1980's. It was a weird sci-film Sean Connery did in between his James Bond movies. The first scene is a giant talking head floating in the sky. Seeing this image on a small black and white set, at 1:00 in the morning, was just too much for me! LOL! I always had a fear of scary faces,and weird looking heads. I saw "Alien" when it first came out in the theater,and the scene that scared me the most was NOT John Hurt's famous "chest-burster". It was the scene where Sigourney Weaver decapitates the android, but his head continues to move, and talk to her. Thinking of this scene made me keep my night-light on for weeks. LOL! I was also scared by an Italian horror movie called "Zombie", and felt nervous walking home from the theater with my buddies, that night. :oSincerely,Steve.
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Me too. Ugly little freaky looking thing.
In the 70's the JCPenney Super Denim Robot scared me. That thing used to walk around the store and it freaked me out. I still have nightmares about that...
He isn't there anymore, is he? http://www.inthe00s.com/smilies/nervous.gif
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. D.J.,I think I vaguely remember this JCPenney robot,but please refresh my memory. Was it an actual machine,or a man dressed up like a robot? How long did this advertising campaign last? What year was this,in the 70's? ???Thanks for the memories! Sincerely,Steve.
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@OptimusPrime: I love your name!!! ;D
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Thanks, Cheetara :)
I will add to my list of scary things from the 1980s, the UK VHS cover of The Thing (1982). That face haunted me for years.
http://home.iprimus.com.au/starbase_74/interests/movies/THINGVHSUK.jpg
The video was rated 18 in the UK, so I didn't see the movie till much later (even though my friend's mum would rent RoboCop and Predator for us :)
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I will add to my list of scary things from the 1980s, the UK VHS cover of The Thing (1982). That face haunted me for years.
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Eeeek, he's got teeth like Shane McGowan. That's another thing that scared me in the 1980s, Shane McGowan's teeth. They were prominant on the "Poguetry In Motion" EP.
"The Thing" face reminds me of the poster for Pink Floyd, "The Wall" movie. That one was creepy!
Subject: Re: What scared you as a child in the 80s?
The threat of nuclear war. Always on my mind, and always scared!