What character TERRIFIED you out of your little wits?

CiDeRmAn

Dr Who opening credits, we used to hide behind the sofa as the music played, we had been on a high after Basil Brush and then WHAM, scary music and monsters, liked Tom Baker and his bag of jelly babies though, there was an animated hand however found in a quarry in one episode that really scared me though, that kept me up for a while if memory serves.

BrianD3

The Shape (aka the man with no face) from Sapphire and Steel

NoDayBut2Day

The Yip Yip alien things from Sesame Street.
Those things were creepy... haha.

Lurk

The Triffids were blinkin' scary, as a previous poster said. The skeksis from The Dark Crystal horrified my wee brain as a child, but actually I'd be more scared of the gelflings now. (I doubt if many of the youngsters here know what I'm on about...they don't make trauma-inducing villains like they used to )

r3nu4l

The Wheelers from return to Oz, crazy little feckers!!!

Also was terrified of General Woundworth in Watership Down, absoltely bawled my eyes out in primary school when we were shown the film as a 'treat' Read the book years later and loved it (and cried at the end, I'm such a sap )

monkeyfudge

Lurk wrote:

The Triffids were blinkin' scary, as a previous poster said. The skeksis from The Dark Crystal horrified my wee brain as a child, but actually I'd be more scared of the gelflings now. (I doubt if many of the youngsters here know what I'm on about...they don't make trauma-inducing villains like they used to )

There's a sequel to the Dark Crystal in the works to terrify a whole new generation.

Also Return to Oz was a very dark film... most people didn't expect that. I was old enough when I went to see it, but I remember lots of kids were taken out of the cinema in tears.

buzzerxx

Salem's Lot.I was only about 10.That scratching noise they made as they hovered outside the window whispering "let me in" and their weird eyes.
The part also when the guy was in the rocking chair waiting for the priest.
i should have reported my parents to the authorities for letting me watch that film.

the Shades

It seems really stupid now but I remember when I was about 5 the Wicked Witch of the West gave me the creeps. 'Come my pretties, let's watch the move'...

As a kid I was petrified of Evil Edna from Willo the Wisp. She was the telly on legs and used to screech a lot.

the Shades

Ah Edna used to make me laugh. I loved Will O' The Wisp.

Catari Jaguar

It the clown. Saw it when I was about 7. but never saw the end, so I thought he was still out there!! I was scared of drains and showers and fortune cookies for years oh and Freddie Kreuger and Lady in Red

Corruptedmorals

Bagpuss. Ugh. And IT the clown as well.

CiDeRmAn

Its been mentioned a couple of times, The Day OF The Triffids, the BBC version, awesome stuff, that knocking from the bottom of their stems as they shuffle towards their victim then lashing out, brilliant.
The first screen version was pretty freaky too, a kindly Doctor giving our hero advice before throwing himself out the window, that left a mark!

Kolodny

Deleted User wrote:

As a kid I was petrified of Evil Edna from Willo the Wisp. She was the telly on legs and used to screech a lot.

Of course! I'd forgotten all about her. Very scary - at least until she was turned into a game of Pong in one story. The Wisp kind of gave me the creep too, not just because of Kenneth Williams' slightly sinister voice, but his shape and the way he moved.

Charlie

Worzel Gummidge aswel, it was more so the opening credits. I don't think the sound of crows crowing is ever a great way for a chid to get inot a programme.

I don't think anyone has mentioned him yet but Freddie Kruger used to scare the sh*t out of me.

Also, does anyone remember a program called "You Can't Do that on Television", U.S sketch from early 80's on TCC show that was really weird, people got slimed every 2 minutes. The opening credits use to freak me out for some reason http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO5agWqCvs8

faceman

I had a list of scarey stuff as i was a sensitive child! Nice to see i wasnt the only one with some of these! in order:

1. Duncan the Dragon (Anyone remember him? he was a puppet)
2. Beaker (lol its true)
3. Banshee from Darby O'Gill (was afraid of me shoite for weeks to go outdoors at night alone)
4. not really a kids show but the rockin chair scene in Salem's lot also had me petrified.

monkeyfudge

charlie mchugh wrote:

Also, does anyone remember a program called "You Can't Do that on Television", U.S sketch from early 80's on TCC show that was really weird, people got slimed every 2 minutes. The opening credits use to freak me out for some reason http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO5agWqCvs8

I think it was actually Canadian. Alanis Morrisette was one of the kids on that show too.

Charlie

monkeyfudge wrote:

I think it was actually Canadian. Alanis Morrisette was one of the kids on that show too.

you're right it was

Yeah you're right it was a Canadian produced show, but was picked up early on by Nickelodeon (u.s Nick.) and showed very few signs that it was actually a Canadian programme.

I remember this one sketch of a burger bar or something except the place was manky and the chef used to wipe the burgers under his arms. I was at the impressionable age where I believed this actually happened and I think it was a while before I agreed to eat in a canteen aftre seeing it.

jencar01

Mrs. MacGyver wrote:

Worzel Gummidge - really frightened me to bits when i was young. Couldnt watch him.

I’d have to say him too. He’d even frighten me now if I seen him on tv :eek:

Sizzler

Forty Coats! I could never get my head round how the beardy chap had forty coats but only 50 pockets...a real head fcuk when I was a nipper

Reku

CiDeRmAn wrote:

there was an animated hand however found in a quarry in one episode that really scared me though, that kept me up for a while if memory serves.

Yup, that one did it for me. Didn't have sky one or a video player so wasn't exposed to much else to be afraid of, e.g. didn't get to see IT until I was in my teens, by which point it wasn't that scary...

jazoo

that man david banner dont get in his way, if he was around now he would be on sky news bulletins THE NOT SO JOLLY GREEN GIANT..........:eek:

Ruu_Old

Speaking of green men, I didn't particularly like the green goblin a whole lot.

smallpaws

The old soap opera called "Dark Shadows" scared the living snot out of me, but I am told by my mother that I was determined to watch it every day, no matter what. Also, I remember being petrified of a tv show called "Edge of Night" and a night time show called "Circle of Fear" but again, mum said, I was damned if I wasn't going to watch them every time those shows were on. I dug Quentin COllins but was scared to death of Barnabus.

Also, the professor character with the giant brain-filled head on Underdog used to freak me out to no end. For some reason, I labored under the delusion that he lived in the toilet and wanted to bite my ass off. True story, I have no idea how I ever got to thinking that.

cooker3

Robert Stack in unsolved mysteries, ok he is not character but everything about that show scared me music, his trenchcoats, the murders everything!

Catari Jaguar

I used to watch unsolved mysteries!! lol! I remember that was freaky

Catari Jaguar

Just remembered Watership Down. argh!!:eek:


Not suitable to watch in class!!

Wurzel Gummage
IT the clown
Bagpuss, particularly the music to bagpuss, my god, that was strange

funny how there seems to be the same answers for a lot of people

monkeyfudge

The clown was named Pennywise by the way.

Kolodny

josco da walrus wrote:

Bagpuss, particularly the music to bagpuss, my god, that was strange

I used to think the little singing mice in Bagpuss were quite sinister for some reason (we will fix it, we will mend it, etc.)

ciaran76

Not really a character but it was the alien-plants in Day of the Triffids.

I just hated them and I am not sure why really. They still kinda freak me out a little.

is_that_so

A few things
Elsa Lancaster in Bride of Frankenstein with that giant wig, staring eyes and twitch. Still disturbing
Oliver Reed as Bill Sykes in Oliver and the aforementioned Child Catcher.
I never ran away. Was always morbidly transfixed by it and then had nightmares later.

Raekwon

deedee lepoopoo wrote:

The Incredible Hulk

Was really scarey all that green anger and ripped denim.

I was scared ****less of when *Bruce Banner changed into The Incredible Hulk!

Those white contacts gave me many a nightmare!





*EDIT: I stand corrected, his name was actually David Banner.

DublinWriter

There used to be a series in the late 70's called Children of the Stones.

Just listen to the theme music from the following site to understand the psychological terror of being a child in the 1970's....

http://www.clivebanks.co.uk/ChildrenOTS%20Intro.htm

glitter-bug

The roller monkeys from return to oz..... monkeys with wheelie hands is there not anything scarier :eek:

ferdi

pennywise the clown

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E12JECcVSbo

"they all float down here"

Steve_o

Frank from Bosco.....ITS ALL IN THE EYES!!!!

wexhun

SNEAKY SNAKE from forty coats how pathetic, hey? A bleedin jumped up sock.:o

monkeyfudge

glitter-bug wrote:

The roller monkeys from return to oz..... monkeys with wheelie hands is there not anything scarier :eek:

They weren't monkeys... I'd remember if they were monkeys... but they were pretty creepy alright. And that witch with the interchangeable heads was disturbing too and the whole ECT opening scenes.

And DublinWriter is right. Children of the stones was very creepy. I saw it again recently on DVD... it may be a bit corny these days but there is still something not quiet right with it.

Another one was a New Zealand children's drama series called 'Under the Mountain' It was about two twins who were trying to stop these slug like aliens from destroying the Earth... There were some very disturbing bits in that.

The Chocky series was also really creepy.

Oh.. does anyone remember a short series which I think was on the BBC in the 80's... I think it was called the Blue Boy or something like that and it was pretty creepy and about an alien.

c - 13

monkeyfudge wrote:

They weren't monkeys... I'd remember if they were monkeys... but they were pretty creepy alright. And that witch with the interchangeable heads was disturbing too and the whole ECT opening scenes.

Yep that was a disturbing movie - and monkeyfudge is dead right they werent monkeys - A bit of googling returns the name "wheelers" but googling that gives a few unclear pics. IIRC they were kind of a robot like people with wheels for hands, freaky stuff when your young.

faceman

monkeyfudge wrote:

Another one was a New Zealand children's drama series called 'Under the Mountain' It was about two twins who were trying to stop these slug like aliens from destroying the Earth... There were some very disturbing bits in that.

feck ya, good call! I remember that, the first episode freaked the shoite outta me! Mr. Wilberforce was the bad alien leader's name and he was scary! The mentor to the kids was like an aussie obi wan kenobi rip off tho!

blobert

il gatto

The Child Catcher scared the bejaysus out of me. The Wicked Witch of the West and her damned flying monkies weren't much better. I also remember watching "V" and being terrified all night afterwards. F@ck knows why I kept watching it.
Freddie Kruger terrified me as well. And those evil, glow in the dark corn flakes stickers as mentioned above. And Pennywise from IT. And some version of Dracula. Vivid memories of Dracula scaling the prison wall and Renfield screaming to the prison guards to save him while I hid behind the couch. :eek: Well, I was only five or six.
I think I had (and have) an over active imagination.

Miss Fluff

il gatto wrote:

The Child Catcher scared the bejaysus out of me. The Wicked Witch of the West and her damned flying monkies weren't much better.

She TERRIFIED me :eek:

Just looking at this and I was diving under my desk for cover

http://www.gonemovies.com/WWW/MyWebFilms/Drama/WizardWest2.asp

lemon_of_old

Forty Coats - fearsome bearded coated creature. What was the name of the show he was from? Was it just called Forty Coats?

ET - with that big long finger and the light at the end of it. What's cute about a hairless alien that could KILL you with his finger? (he probably could, I can't watch the film because I'm afeard so I'm just guessing)

Worzel Gummidge - well, at the beginning I had real issues with old Worzel. Throwing cushions at the tv and such. I have now conquered my fear of walking talking scarecrows. Yay me!

Dar

That damn clown from Steven King's It gave me nightmares for years

Lpfsox

• The Flying Monkeys in the Wizard of Oz
• The Child Catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
• Children of the Stones
• Rothgo from Into the Labyrinth - a creepy kid's tv show from the 70s/80s (I think)
• not sure if this one was a book I read or if I saw the movie, but it was called Marianne Dreams and was about a bedbound girl who found an old pencil and used it to draw pictures which came alive. There were standing stones circling a house watching the occupants with a single eye - totally creeped me out

Busterpuss

blobert wrote:

agggggggggggggggggggggggg i was going to mention him, my god i dont want to see a pic. seriously this fella put the sh*ts up me then and he still does now. oh lord.

Lpfsox

Lpfsox wrote:

• not sure if this one was a book I read or if I saw the movie, but it was called Marianne Dreams and was about a bedbound girl who found an old pencil and used it to draw pictures which came alive. There were standing stones circling a house watching the occupants with a single eye - totally creeped me out

A quick google tells me that the book was called Marianne Dreams but the tv series was called Into the Night.

Damn creepy though.

the Shades

Raekwon wrote:

I was scared ****less of when *Bruce Banner changed into The Incredible Hulk!

Those white contacts gave me many a nightmare!

*EDIT: I stand corrected, his name was actually David Banner.

Actually he is Bruce Banner in the comics but the producers of the TV show thought Bruce was too gay a name after the camp Batman TV show so they changed it to David. Just a little pointless trivia.