DALEKS

proggy

Bridgehouse said:

proggy said:

Bridgehouse said:

proggy said:

I'm really not comfortable with dolls for some reason.

If you let a bit of the air out you can make them more comfortable....

Thanks, that's a top tip. I bought a cardboard one but it just wasn't cut out for that sort of thing.

The cardboard ones dig in too much - and you don't get a good 'o' face on them...

I'll make a note of that.

thermionic

Dr Who never scared me, but I started watching horror films at an early age. The werewolf film with Oliver Reed disturbed me when I watched it aged about 11. I think because he got shot at the end, possibly by his own father. Loved horror films after that though.

ICBM

I never found the original Daleks scary - they were too obviously made from plywood, bits of sink plunger and Morris Minor, and being unable to go up stairs made them pretty pathetic really.

But the CGI one in the Christopher Eccleston 'Dalek' episode was something else entirely - finally, it became the unstoppable killing machine they were always meant to be. Sadly they later blew it by making them too mundane, and then multicoloured…

The early Cybermen did scare me though. The new ones, less so - although the episode where they're invisible in the glass tanks until the water is drained out was quite good.

Weeping Angels are probably the best of the new monsters.

RobDavies

Sea devils for me.  We used to rent a holiday home by the sea when I was a nipper and I was convinced they would come out of the Solent and get me while I was asleep. 

Wasnt overly keen on the Sontaran back in the Tom Baker days, either. 

Jeremiah

I was never that scared by any TV monsters, but I remember reading a story about a ghost you could only see in a mirror, that had me terrified of mirrors for a while.

mike_l

Nothing scares me.


Apart from clowns. They're evil cunts.

Dominic

Yes Sea Devils scared me too 
 Now they operate mainly off the coast of Somalia

Sporky

proggy said:

Yeah, he's another scary little fucker. I'm really not comfortable with dolls for some reason.

It's an Uncanny Valley thing.

thermionic

ICBM said:

I never found the original Daleks scary - they were too obviously made from plywood, bits of sink plunger and Morris Minor, and being unable to go up stairs made them pretty pathetic really.

But the CGI one in the Christopher Eccleston 'Dalek' episode was something else entirely - finally, it became the unstoppable killing machine they were always meant to be. Sadly they later blew it by making them too mundane, and then multicoloured…

The early Cybermen did scare me though. The new ones, less so - although the episode where they're invisible in the glass tanks until the water is drained out was quite good.

Weeping Angels are probably the best of the new monsters.

I have an old Dr Who special magazine from the 1970s somewhere, I think it was a BBC/Radio Times thing. It lists all the episodes up until then - plots, actors, scriptwriters etc, and a few in-depth articles like an interview with Terry Nation and an illustrated Dalek short story. Also in there are detailed plans on how to build a Dalek, presumably from the BBC props department. The lights on top of the head are indicators from a Ford Anglia or something.

Majorscale

Dr Who baddies not so much, but Zelda from Terrahawks....I would rip that bitch puppet apart if I saw it these days for repeatedly scaring the crap out of me as a kid!

axisus

Daleks were never a problem for me, but yeti's in underground tunnels (patrick troughton as Dr who) made me scared. I was a little nipper back then. I also remember being a bit freaked out by the sea Devils, and especially by an auton/master episode with Pertwee Where a small clay man came alive when heated and strangled some guy in his car.

blobb

As a kid -Blue Meanies
As an (alleged) Adult - Paul McCartney

Also, the Gerald Scarfe imagery in The Wall was pretty scary.

littlegreenman

The Sontarans emerging from the sea back in the 70's freaked me out. Nasty banana-headed freaks!!!

Clarky

Daleks are awesome…
the best baddies ever in anything

edit: apart from The Shadows in Babylon 5 cos they were awesome too

sinbaadi

Always just thought they looked like shit amusement park decorations.  The kind of thing you see on a trailer at Blackpool.

axisus

littlegreenman said:

The Sontarans emerging from the sea back in the 70's freaked me out. Nasty banana-headed freaks!!!

I don't remember the Sontarans coming out of the sea? The Sea devils certainly did.

ICBM

Still not sure I'm keen on Sontarans…

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57Deluxe

it was those Wasp Men vrs Giant Antoids that got me shitting my shorts

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Fretwired

New series: John Simm is back as the Master.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/doctor-gets-mastered-john-simm-returns-latest-series-161524916.html

TheBlueWolf

Jimmy Saville used to creep me out as a kid.

Turns out it wasn't just me.....