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

TonyR · December 2016

TV - Doctor Who - the Daleks especially
Film - The Shuttered Room (not seen it as an adult but it had a lasting effect on both me and my sisters as kids)
Book - Let's Go Play At The Adams by Mendal W. Johnson, truly horrifying

RandallFlagg · December 2016

This public information film scared me, Dark and Lonely Water:

RandallFlagg · December 2016

The opening theme from Tales Of The Unexpected made me uneasy as you never knew what you were about to watch

pintspiller · December 2016

mellowsun said:

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

Armchair Thriller:
The Black Nun

Fuck yeah! That nun story. The episode with the nun on the rocking chair at the end! I never watched the rest of the series as I was too scared to go to bed for months.

RandallFlagg · December 2016

Stephen King's The Stand gave me several nightmares when I was 17, the chief protagonist troubled me, my view of him was very very different to the portrayal in the lame film that followed years later. In my nightmares he used to sit in a tree in our garden that I could see from my bedroom window grinning with red eyes and a thin face but he wore a black cowboy that that cast a black shadow over his face so all I could see were his red eyes and teeth.

Hence my username.

Steffo · December 2016

Watched the Russian roulette scene in: "The deer hunter" as a 10 year old.
I had nightmares for years.

lasermonkey · December 2016

The Changes spooked the bejeesus out of me as a kid, yet I have fond memories of it. Same with The Tomorrow People, especially the story regarding the different coloured badges which set people against each other. It sounds rubbish in print, but I was genuinely scared by it as a nipper.

stimpsonslostson · December 2016

Film: Watership Down.
Tv: X-files Toombes(?) stretchy man who eats people
Book: I am David. I couldn't get my head around WW2.

mellowsun · December 2016

Book:
'Something wicked this way comes' by Ray Bradbury

I had a really vivid imagination as a kid and this spooked me out as a 9 year old

The film was a real let down unfortunately

TTBZ · December 2016

The floating kid at the window in Salem's Lot.

ICBM · December 2016

mellowsun said:

Book:
'Something wicked this way comes' by Ray Bradbury

I had a really vivid imagination as a kid and this spooked me out as a 9 year old

The film was a real let down unfortunately

More Bradbury: The Martian Chronicles (film version). That was quite creepy and unsettling for me.

Also The Man Who Fell To Earth… David Bowie's best acting role and a quite disturbing film. I must have been about twelve when I saw it I think.

ennspek · December 2016

Doctor Who
An episode of the Bionic Man with, I think, a big robot tank and people with something like grey cardboard for faces.
An episode of Blake's 7 with a headless unstoppable android.
Some western where a baddie held down a woman and started pouring sand down her throat so she produce some diamonds to bribe him. He proceeded to force those down her throat instead.

boogieman · December 2016

The BBC used to do ghost stories at Xmas. The M R James ones like the Monkey's Paw and Whistle and I'll Come to You always scared the crap out of me but there was one particular one where a guy was looking for a bishop's treasure that really freaked me out for days.

axisus · December 2016

DarnWeight said:

The Sapphire And Steel episode with the faceless man in the photograph

Good call! very creepy. Also the one where strange things happened (like kids disappearing) if you read old nursery rhymes in certain old buildings.

axisus · December 2016

lasermonkey said:

..... Same with The Tomorrow People, especially the story regarding the different coloured badges which set people against each other. It sounds rubbish in print, but I was genuinely scared by it as a nipper.

Yeah! That was disturbing!

axisus · December 2016

ennspek said:

Doctor Who
An episode of the Bionic Man ........... people with something like grey cardboard for faces.

Are you getting mixed up? Grey cardboard for faces sounds more like old Dr Who budget.

d8m · December 2016

Gremlins

wayneirie · December 2016

Jim'll fix it

ICBM · December 2016

wayneirie said:

Jim'll fix it

I always found Savile creepy, although I can't claim any special foresight as to what had actually been going on. Can't say I was surprised either though.

I also never liked Rolf Harris.

dtr · December 2016

A TV show called The Survivors gave me nightmares about rabies for years. Before that, and mostly (mercifully) blanked from memory I had to be bundled out of a cinema after a full-on fit of traumatised screaming terror when my mum took little Magic Roundabout-loving me to see Dougal and the Blue Cat. I've watched it since and even as an adult I find it evil and creepy. The British Board of Film Classification were asleep on the job the day they gave that a U.

As a teenager I had panic attacks about nuclear war after watching the Day After and Threads, but that seems to be common to the whole generation. I think my kids do the same about Global Warming.

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