TV ..... films ...... books ...... stuff that troubled you as a kid.

axisus

I remember being both disturbed and fascinated by The Singing Ringing Tree as a kid, although overall the fascination won out. The bear looked scary, the imp was worrying, the vivid colour and narration made it like nothing else. Weird but wonderful.

I remember being freaked out by 2 Dr Who episodes in particular: Killer Yeti's in the underground (I was almost 5), and one with the Master where there was a plastic sofa that killed people, a daffodil that squirted plastic over your face to kill you and a sculptured figure that came to life when heated up. Somebody bought it from a gallery, put it in the back of the car and drove off with the heating on. The figure came to life and strangled him.

I loved Dr Seuss books very much, but my older bro was freaked out by the pictures. He absolutely refused to have the books in our shared bedroom at night time. I remember him stomping off to tell my dad when I snuck one in to read.

There was a kids series - don't recall much about it now - but there were these pumpkins that could move, and they touched a kid and turned him into a pumpkin. Had several nightmares about that one! I'd love to know what it was???

kjdowd

Bagpuss creeped the hell out of me. He is one sinister motherf'er. 

Veganic

Hamble.

DiscoStu

The Moomins. It was weird enough anyway but then when they had a picnic and the tabletop was vertical and nothing slid off it, that freaked me.

Bridgehouse

The theme tune to Some Mothers Do Ave Em.

I would run as fast as my teeny legs would take me, tears streaming down my cheeks..

HAL9000

The child catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. When you spend your childhood being warned about strangers offering sweets this was proper scary.

jpttaylor

The opening of the animated BFG film terrified me so much that I never saw beyond the first few minutes for years afterwards.

pintspiller

Jim 'll Fix It

Some Dr Who (Planet of the Spiders was the first, with that chanting bit)

sinbaadi

Moondial.

scrumhalf

The Ice Warriors in Dr Who.

They whispered. I never trusted people who whispered, it was usually my two older brothers up to something.

Gallagherone

I remember being 6 years old and Are You Afraid of The Dark came on TV. It was on Nickelodeon so didn't think it could be anything too bad. How wrong my 6 year old self was!

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Flanging_Fred

Day of the Triffids
Tripods
Pipkin's

Marmalade Atkins

All disturbed me in various ways.

tone1

Evil Dead

ArchtopDave

Quatermass when it was on the radio - I was about 6 or 7 at the time.
 I've never liked pantomimes, apart from one which is rarely performed.

DarnWeight

The opening titles to the ITV series Armchair Thriller
The mini-series of Stephen's King's Salem's Lot
The Sapphire And Steel episode with the faceless man in the photograph
The Jagaroth in Doctor Who
Most of Hammer House Of Horror (although they're all pretty laughable on rewatching as an adult)

menamestom

My dad used to listen to these on his hifi with the lights off, scared the shit out of me when I was 6 or 7:-

One Of These Days off Meddle
Jeff Waynes War Of The Worlds

ICBM

'The Changes' - some sort of post-apocalyptic sci-fi series that was on TV in the early 70s. I never actually watched it, the intro creeped me out too much. Apparently it's available on DVD now so I should really get around to watching it… it's been more than 40 years so it may be safe now .

Also in a slightly different way that chilled me and really made me think rather than outright scared me - a couple of short stories by Ray Bradbury from a collection called R Is For Rocket, 'A Sound Of Thunder' (which is very famous and is the origin of the term Butterfly Effect) and 'Frost And Fire'.

Strangefan

American werewolf in London, my mothers one and only moment of insanity letting an 8 year old watch that.    I needed someone to accompany me to the toilet at night to check for the army monsters for at least a month and a half. 

shrinkwrap

Hid behind sofa when round at friend's house to see first episode of Dr Who.
Beatrix Potter's Tale of Samuel Whiskas - that's dark - the rat catches a kitten and trusses it up in a pie so his wife can bake it. It's all done behind the skirting board and under the floorboards. Grim.
When my mum asked me if I'd name my son after my grandfather, Samuel, the story was the first thing that came to mind.

mellowsun

Doctor Who:
The Giant Robot
Pyramids of Mars
The Seeds of Doom

Armchair Thriller:
The Black Nun

Fortheloveofguitar

Terrahawks scared the shit out of me as a kid. Especially the witch looking woman