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Post by nucleusofswarm on Jul 30, 2021 23:47:32 GMT
What's something that freaked you out when you saw it?
An easy candidate would be the transformation scene from Disney's Pinocchio.
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Jul 30, 2021 23:53:44 GMT
I saw "Never Ending Story" in the cinemas.. The horse in the quicksand scene. I was around 9-10..
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Post by Digi on Jul 31, 2021 0:17:01 GMT
Hard to pinpoint specific instances, but I know it was a mistake to watch Jaws as a child. To this day I get anxious on open water (even when on a boat), and even in a swimming pool if something brushes my foot/leg/whatever, my instinctive reaction is panic.
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Post by mark687 on Jul 31, 2021 10:49:24 GMT
Honestly the opening act of Labyrinth its really dark compared to the rest of it.
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Post by The Brigadier on Jul 31, 2021 11:35:12 GMT
Watership Down.
If you've seen it you'll know why..
If not, it was a Universal* (!!) rated British animated film from 1978 about wild rabbits that included such scenes as - a rabbit caught in a snare with blood oozing from it's mouth, a rabbit casually ripping the throat out of another rabbit because the latter disagreed with the former..oh, and red eyed rabbits suffocating in their Warren as bulldozers move in.
I was six at the time..🥺
*There was no PG rating back then. Only Universal or 15.
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Post by grinch on Jul 31, 2021 11:55:36 GMT
Probably the vast majority of Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin.
Had some extremely terrifying imagery in it.
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Post by sherlock on Jul 31, 2021 12:53:40 GMT
The attack at the start of Finding Nemo.
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Post by doctorkernow on Jul 31, 2021 16:31:10 GMT
Hello again
I cannot think of any movie that scared me as a child. But children’s tv in the late seventies and during the eighties, my goodness.
Number one offender: HTV’s truly terrifying Children of the Stones made worse because my lovely parents thought it would be character-forming to take us the stones used by the programme in Avebury, Wiltshire. They kept wondering why I wouldn’t go near the creepy things… you were watching the programme too, run away, run away…
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2021 17:03:49 GMT
Sticking to films actually aimed at kids here, a few come to mind still: 1: Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory (based on the first televised screening). The scene where Augustus Gloop falls in the chocolate lake and gets sucked down into the pipe works was nightmarish and claustrophobia inducing. 2: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The Kiddie Catcher was a traditional playground bogeyman and a warning against truancy for years: 3: Not sure it counts as a film, but The Singing, Ringing Tree. Like The Wizard of Oz, it gave me a childhood fear of Dwarves. Can't think why.... 4: And whilst It did not scare me watching it on its TV premiere on Xmas Day, (the same day the Charlie Chaplin passed away), it seemed to grow creepier with repeats, so an honorary mention:
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Post by doctorkernow on Jul 31, 2021 18:13:35 GMT
Hello again
Oh I’d forgotten about Watership Down, it must have been a thing in the uk in the late seventies and early eighties in primary school but both Mrs K and myself watched it for the first time at primary school. That horrible rabbit, the severe narration by Michael Hordern and the spooky song. It didn’t really affect me at the time but brrr…
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2021 19:16:13 GMT
Its notable that Watership Down crops up, but I don't think I really watched it. It was just a long animated film about anthropomorphic Rabbits when I saw it on the telly. I have been thinking of the Ray Harryhausen movies. I saw Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger at the cinema, but the only creepy horror bit, even aged at about 5, was when the villainess was wounded when changing back from a bird so ended up with a birds foot. The rest was purely exciting. Jason and the Argonauts, likewise, the giant statue that comes to life was mildly scary, yet the skeleton army did not trigger the same kind of fear, funnily enough. Was anyone scared by these as young kids? I suspect its a generational thing, as doctorkernow says, for many of us, TV serials was where the scares were. Certainly for me in the 1970's, before the fantasy boom in the eighties, where many other posters will have benefited from seeing pre-teen. Doctor Who and that episode of The Tomorrow People where people get taken over by their plastic body suits were the primary school era scares came from, for me. The opening titles of Armchair Thriller on and afternoon repeat, public information films before afternoon closedown (no daytime telly then) such as the Patrick Troughton narrated one about the polished floor (mantrap) and boys falling on the railway line (the horror freeze frame of the the boy seeing what has happened), little things that get repeated and gain a fear factor as you know what is coming..... Oh, and The Spy Who Loved Me had some scary moments with Jaws, such as the Valley of the Kings lightshow and the Piranha pool, watching at the cinema. The last of the classic Bond films to me at least.
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Post by mark687 on Jul 31, 2021 19:42:32 GMT
Its notable that Watership Down crops up, but I don't think I really watched it. It was just a long animated film about anthropomorphic Rabbits when I saw it on the telly. I have been thinking of the Ray Harryhausen movies. I saw Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger at the cinema, but the only creepy horror bit, even aged at about 5, was when the villainess was wounded when changing back from a bird so ended up with a birds foot. The rest was purely exciting. Jason and the Argonauts, likewise, the giant statue that comes to life was mildly scary, yet the skeleton army did not trigger the same kind of fear, funnily enough. Was anyone scared by these as young kids? I suspect its a generational thing, as doctorkernow says, for many of us, TV serials was where the scares were. Certainly for me in the 1970's, before the fantasy boom in the eighties, where many other posters will have benefited from seeing pre-teen. Doctor Who and that episode of The Tomorrow People where people get taken over by their plastic body suits were the primary school era scares came from, for me. The opening titles of Armchair Thriller on and afternoon repeat, public information films before afternoon closedown (no daytime telly then) such as the Patrick Troughton narrated one about the polished floor (mantrap) and boys falling on the railway line (the horror freeze frame of the the boy seeing what has happened), little things that get repeated and gain a fear factor as you know what is coming..... Oh, and The Spy Who Loved Me had some scary moments with Jaws, such as the Valley of the Kings lightshow and the Piranha pool, watching at the cinema. The last of the classic Bond films to me at least. Oh sticking with "Bond" based on when I 1st saw it the clown killing in Octapussy the music clashing with what was happening particularity. Regards mark687
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Post by doctorkernow on Jul 31, 2021 21:10:00 GMT
Hello again
I know why the Armchair Thriller opening sequence is so scary. It's a relative of the Auton chair from Terror of the Autons...
I'll get my coat...
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2021 21:15:33 GMT
Hello again I know why the Armchair Thriller opening sequence is so scary. It's a relative of the Auton chair from Terror of the Autons... I'll get my coat... Do you remember the music? Like the 'near and far' opening titles to my recollection ( BBC Schools circa 1982). I'm going on 40+ year old childhood memories here.....
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Post by mark687 on Jul 31, 2021 21:24:52 GMT
Hello again I know why the Armchair Thriller opening sequence is so scary. It's a relative of the Auton chair from Terror of the Autons... I'll get my coat... Do you remember the music? Like the 'near and far' opening titles to my recollection ( BBC Schools circa 1982). I'm going on 40+ year old childhood memories here..... That I'd file under wierd rather than scary a bit like the the Theme Tune for Ruth Rendell's Tales of the Unexpected it sometimes jarred with the style of drama being presented. Regards mark687
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2021 21:31:19 GMT
Do you remember the music? Like the 'near and far' opening titles to my recollection ( BBC Schools circa 1982). I'm going on 40+ year old childhood memories here..... That I'd file under wierd rather than scary a bit like the the Theme Tune for Ruth Rendell's Tales of the Unexpected it sometimes jarred with the style of drama being presented. Regards mark687 I agree regards the disparity of what is promised and delivered. I read some reviews of the Network DVD set and it seems the content of the show did not match my memories of the opening titles (which was all I recollected). So I have never dipped in (it is slow and episodic, so I gather). Far better is Brian Clemens Thriller series for setting the benchmark. And maybe leading the way for the Hammer House of Horror series?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2021 21:56:32 GMT
I suspect its a generational thing, as doctorkernow says, for many of us, TV serials was where the scares were. Certainly for me in the 1970's, before the fantasy boom in the eighties, where many other posters will have benefited from seeing pre-teen. Forgive my snipping your post but - you've just reminded me of the three most terrifying moments of my childhood, bar none. Moments that caused me to sleep with the light on for weeks, give me nightmares, and ensured I fell in love with horror genre for the rest of my life (so far, at least).
1. Hammer House of Horror - The Two Faces of Evil. Wholesome and appealing family unit becoming hosts to some of the most horrifying scenes of domestic/fantasy terror. Borusa from the Five Doctors was in it too.
2. Sky - ITV series, episode 1. The six part series lapsed into fairly turgid sci-fi folk horror if I'm absolutely honest, but that first episode, with the character of Sky - all David Bowie and blank eyed - emerging from beneath autumn leaves was trouser-worryingly shocking.
3. Armchair Thriller - Quiet as a Nun. Another fairly run-of-the-mill ITV crime caper, with horror elements thrown in - chiefly the end of (I think) part 3 (it was a 6 parter) when 'the nun' was revealed. Decades before The Conjuring business, this was the real mccoy. Rocking in that awful, squeaking rocking chair in that isolated tower, blank faced and utterly horrible!! If you know, you know.
So not movies then - have no real horror recollections there - so apologies for that. But pure terror nonetheless.
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Post by The Brigadier on Jul 31, 2021 21:58:54 GMT
Do you remember the music? Like the 'near and far' opening titles to my recollection ( BBC Schools circa 1982). I'm going on 40+ year old childhood memories here..... That I'd file under wierd rather than scary a bit like the the Theme Tune for Ruth Rendell's Tales of the Unexpected it sometimes jarred with the style of drama being presented. Regards mark687 Weird maybe. But the opening credits to Armchair Thriller absolutely terrified me as a child to the point where I'd bolt from the room when it came on. Hmmm..between that and Watership Down it's a miracle I didn't need therapy before I hit my teens..😊
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2021 22:11:09 GMT
I suspect its a generational thing, as doctorkernow says, for many of us, TV serials was where the scares were. Certainly for me in the 1970's, before the fantasy boom in the eighties, where many other posters will have benefited from seeing pre-teen. Forgive my snipping your post but - you've just reminded me of the three most terrifying moments of my childhood, bar none. Moments that caused me to sleep with the light on for weeks, give me nightmares, and ensured I fell in love with horror genre for the rest of my life (so far, at least).
1. Hammer House of Horror - The Two Faces of Evil. Wholesome and appealing family unit becoming hosts to some of the most horrifying scenes of domestic/fantasy terror. Borusa from the Five Doctors was in it too.
2. Sky - ITV series, episode 1. The six part series lapsed into fairly turgid sci-fi folk horror if I'm absolutely honest, but that first episode, with the character of Sky - all David Bowie and blank eyed - emerging from beneath autumn leaves was trouser-worryingly shocking.
3. Armchair Thriller - Quiet as a Nun. Another fairly run-of-the-mill ITV crime caper, with horror elements thrown in - chiefly the end of (I think) part 3 (it was a 6 parter) when 'the nun' was revealed. Decades before The Conjuring business, this was the real mccoy. Rocking in that awful, squeaking rocking chair in that isolated tower, blank faced and utterly horrible!! If you know, you know.
So not movies then - have no real horror recollections there - so apologies for that. But pure terror nonetheless.
Hammer House of Horror - The Two Faces of Evil. Yup. That's the proper scary one to this day... Interesting that the wife/mother is the wife of David Burke ( Watson #1 to Jeremy Brett's Sherlock Holmes) and mother of Tom Burke ( M.R James Number 13, BBC Ghost Stories for Christmas). My Brother gave me a yellow waterproof mac that he said was just like Lis Sladen's in The Sontaran Experiment, which I keep in the boot of one of the Jags, in case of emergency, but to me, it is always associated with this tale (shivers).. N.B. I also used to teach a boy who was the absolute double of the son in the story. I avoided telling his mother at parents evenings that 'interesting fact'.....
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2021 22:17:51 GMT
Forgive my snipping your post but - you've just reminded me of the three most terrifying moments of my childhood, bar none. Moments that caused me to sleep with the light on for weeks, give me nightmares, and ensured I fell in love with horror genre for the rest of my life (so far, at least).
1. Hammer House of Horror - The Two Faces of Evil. Wholesome and appealing family unit becoming hosts to some of the most horrifying scenes of domestic/fantasy terror. Borusa from the Five Doctors was in it too.
2. Sky - ITV series, episode 1. The six part series lapsed into fairly turgid sci-fi folk horror if I'm absolutely honest, but that first episode, with the character of Sky - all David Bowie and blank eyed - emerging from beneath autumn leaves was trouser-worryingly shocking.
3. Armchair Thriller - Quiet as a Nun. Another fairly run-of-the-mill ITV crime caper, with horror elements thrown in - chiefly the end of (I think) part 3 (it was a 6 parter) when 'the nun' was revealed. Decades before The Conjuring business, this was the real mccoy. Rocking in that awful, squeaking rocking chair in that isolated tower, blank faced and utterly horrible!! If you know, you know.
So not movies then - have no real horror recollections there - so apologies for that. But pure terror nonetheless.
Hammer House of Horror - The Two Faces of Evil. Yup. That's the proper scary one to this day... Interesting that the wife/mother is the wife of David Burke ( Watson #1 to Jeremy Brett's Sherlock Holmes) and mother of Tom Burke ( M.R James Number 13, BBC Ghost Stories for Christmas). My Brother gave me a yellow waterproof mac that he said was just like Lis Sladen's in The Sontaran Experiment, which I keep in the boot of one of the Jags, in case of emergency, but to me, it is always associated with this tale (shivers).. N.B. I also used to teach a boy who was the absolute double of the son in the story. I avoided telling his mother at parents evenings that 'interesting fact'..... He didn't have a toy aeroplane too did he (I think it was a toy plane in the show)? I didn't know that about other cast members, so thanks - but what a performance from 'dad'. Utterly chilling! Thinking about it, I suppose my first movie was actually 'The Omen', which I watched with family at a young age because they were fans of Gregory Peck. Scares abound. It wasn't the fate of Pat Troughton, David Warner or even Lee Remick that *really* unnerved me. It was that reduced, sunken, shrivelled monk character whose name I forget currently. His scenes were my earliest, scariest movie memories.
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