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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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What has been the non-horror movie that scared you as a kid?
For me it was Ghostbusters 2. Silly I know but this movie was darker than the first movie. What scared me was the painting of the movie's villain Vigo The Carpathian. It was the way he was staring out of his painting that unnerved me. I couldn't even watch the movie until many years later. |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
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Not quite as a kid, more teens was the thriller Dressed To Kill with Angie Dickinson and Michael Caine...checked under the bed and in the wardrobes before going to bed after seeing that!!
Childcatcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang petrified me as a kid though |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Still makes me shudder.
Oh my god me too!!! Willy wonker is creepy as fook and don't even start me on those oompah loompa things  "
Original or remake? |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Gremlins "
That movie had a moment that scared me as a kid. It was the scene when the dog Barney jumps over the counter at the bank startling Mrs Deagle causing the snowman's head she was holding to smash on the floor. I don't know why but the shot of the smashed snowman's head on the floor really upset me |
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"Gremlins
That movie had a moment that scared me as a kid. It was the scene when the dog Barney jumps over the counter at the bank startling Mrs Deagle causing the snowman's head she was holding to smash on the floor. I don't know why but the shot of the smashed snowman's head on the floor really upset me"
I can't even remember details, just that I was scared and had to look away a lot  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"I was fucking terrified of Jaws after a babysitter let me stay up and watch it. And Jurassic Park was really scary at the cinema. "
I remember being unnerved by seeing that severed leg after that bloke gets knocked out of the boat by the shark.
When the lawyer gets eaten by the T-Rex in Jurassic Park, I remember staying in the cinema lobby throughout the rest of the movie after that. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"a series they made us watch at school about a boy from outer space who wrote backwards.
i made an excuse every week that i was ill when the TV came out."
I've heard of that programme. Never seen it but I remember seeing a clip of it on Russell Brand's Ponderland with two kids being chased by some guy wearing a mac and a hat |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"a series they made us watch at school about a boy from outer space who wrote backwards.
i made an excuse every week that i was ill when the TV came out.
I've heard of that programme. Never seen it but I remember seeing a clip of it on Russell Brand's Ponderland with two kids being chased by some guy wearing a mac and a hat"
really? that's cool. might try and look that up, thanks. |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
There and to the left a bit |
"I was fucking terrified of Jaws after a babysitter let me stay up and watch it. And Jurassic Park was really scary at the cinema. "
That's just reminded me of the time not long after I saw Jaws that I went swimming and was the only person in the outdoor pool for some reason and spent the whole (brief) time I was in there scared that I was going to be eaten by a Great White...illogical I know...but I was about 10 or 11 at the time!! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"a series they made us watch at school about a boy from outer space who wrote backwards.
i made an excuse every week that i was ill when the TV came out.
I've heard of that programme. Never seen it but I remember seeing a clip of it on Russell Brand's Ponderland with two kids being chased by some guy wearing a mac and a hat
really? that's cool. might try and look that up, thanks."
You're welcome. That clip with the thin man from Boy from space is on Youtube |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I know it's not a movie, but Michael Jackson's thriller music video scared the crap out of me when I was a kid! It turns out I was right, kids should be scared of M.J  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"The wolves of Willoughby Chase
Watership Down
BFG
A weird half animated half live action version of Lord of the rings"
Even the book of the Wolves of Willoughby Chase scared me! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"a series they made us watch at school about a boy from outer space who wrote backwards.
i made an excuse every week that i was ill when the TV came out.
I've heard of that programme. Never seen it but I remember seeing a clip of it on Russell Brand's Ponderland with two kids being chased by some guy wearing a mac and a hat
really? that's cool. might try and look that up, thanks.
You're welcome. That clip with the thin man from Boy from space is on Youtube"
I remember that. He wrote backwards as he saw an inside out bag with writing on it. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I used to hate the theme tune on Casualty  I'd have to go out of the room and cover my ears.. not a movie I know but just popped into my head
Jaws used to freak me out too.
Em |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"a series they made us watch at school about a boy from outer space who wrote backwards.
i made an excuse every week that i was ill when the TV came out.
I've heard of that programme. Never seen it but I remember seeing a clip of it on Russell Brand's Ponderland with two kids being chased by some guy wearing a mac and a hat
really? that's cool. might try and look that up, thanks.
You're welcome. That clip with the thin man from Boy from space is on Youtube"
that was handy, that the series was called the boy from space coz i didn't know what it was called, just what it was about. just watched a couple of clips and wonder why they made us watch that in the infants? 
and the tall man clip cut off just as that kid fell over. the suspense.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Indiana Jones - the one with all insects and she has to put her arm in them . I have an insect phobia and I'm sure my brother forcing me to watch that bit is to blame |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The bit in Pinocchio when the boys in the fairground turn into donkeys. I HATED it!
Also, the Dark Crystal, Gremlins, that awful Tom Cruise film with unicorns and Tim Curry as the devil, and Robocop. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"a series they made us watch at school about a boy from outer space who wrote backwards.
i made an excuse every week that i was ill when the TV came out.
I've heard of that programme. Never seen it but I remember seeing a clip of it on Russell Brand's Ponderland with two kids being chased by some guy wearing a mac and a hat
really? that's cool. might try and look that up, thanks.
You're welcome. That clip with the thin man from Boy from space is on Youtube
that was handy, that the series was called the boy from space coz i didn't know what it was called, just what it was about. just watched a couple of clips and wonder why they made us watch that in the infants?
and the tall man clip cut off just as that kid fell over. the suspense. "
Yeah I noticed that when I saw it on Youtube. On Ponderland, it shows the zoom in on the tall man's face and then it cuts to Russell Brand which was talking about this programme and says "Now spell mac and hat" |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"a series they made us watch at school about a boy from outer space who wrote backwards.
i made an excuse every week that i was ill when the TV came out.
I've heard of that programme. Never seen it but I remember seeing a clip of it on Russell Brand's Ponderland with two kids being chased by some guy wearing a mac and a hat
really? that's cool. might try and look that up, thanks.
You're welcome. That clip with the thin man from Boy from space is on Youtube
that was handy, that the series was called the boy from space coz i didn't know what it was called, just what it was about. just watched a couple of clips and wonder why they made us watch that in the infants?
and the tall man clip cut off just as that kid fell over. the suspense.
Yeah I noticed that when I saw it on Youtube. On Ponderland, it shows the zoom in on the tall man's face and then it cuts to Russell Brand which was talking about this programme and says "Now spell mac and hat""
haha. i never watched most the series because i was 'ill' it but did notice it was some kind of educational programme.
couldn't find a russell brand clip of it. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"a series they made us watch at school about a boy from outer space who wrote backwards.
i made an excuse every week that i was ill when the TV came out.
I've heard of that programme. Never seen it but I remember seeing a clip of it on Russell Brand's Ponderland with two kids being chased by some guy wearing a mac and a hat
really? that's cool. might try and look that up, thanks.
You're welcome. That clip with the thin man from Boy from space is on Youtube
that was handy, that the series was called the boy from space coz i didn't know what it was called, just what it was about. just watched a couple of clips and wonder why they made us watch that in the infants?
and the tall man clip cut off just as that kid fell over. the suspense.
Yeah I noticed that when I saw it on Youtube. On Ponderland, it shows the zoom in on the tall man's face and then it cuts to Russell Brand which was talking about this programme and says "Now spell mac and hat"
haha. i never watched most the series because i was 'ill' it but did notice it was some kind of educational programme.
couldn't find a russell brand clip of it."
Ah ok. Type in Ponderland mac and hat on google and click on the vid of the whole episode on Dailymotion and skip to 8:20 where he talks about that programme |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"The dark crystal
And
Watership down"
That is one Jim Henson movie I find dark and weird. The Emperor Skeksis' death was just freaky when it started falling apart |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"a series they made us watch at school about a boy from outer space who wrote backwards.
i made an excuse every week that i was ill when the TV came out.
I've heard of that programme. Never seen it but I remember seeing a clip of it on Russell Brand's Ponderland with two kids being chased by some guy wearing a mac and a hat
really? that's cool. might try and look that up, thanks.
You're welcome. That clip with the thin man from Boy from space is on Youtube
that was handy, that the series was called the boy from space coz i didn't know what it was called, just what it was about. just watched a couple of clips and wonder why they made us watch that in the infants?
and the tall man clip cut off just as that kid fell over. the suspense.
Yeah I noticed that when I saw it on Youtube. On Ponderland, it shows the zoom in on the tall man's face and then it cuts to Russell Brand which was talking about this programme and says "Now spell mac and hat"
haha. i never watched most the series because i was 'ill' it but did notice it was some kind of educational programme.
couldn't find a russell brand clip of it.
Ah ok. Type in Ponderland mac and hat on google and click on the vid of the whole episode on Dailymotion and skip to 8:20 where he talks about that programme"
channel 4 had blocked my country but i found a clip of it on dailymotion.
think i know where you got the idea for that scary PSA topic from now. looks good though, i'm gonna watch the rest of it. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"a series they made us watch at school about a boy from outer space who wrote backwards.
i made an excuse every week that i was ill when the TV came out.
I've heard of that programme. Never seen it but I remember seeing a clip of it on Russell Brand's Ponderland with two kids being chased by some guy wearing a mac and a hat
really? that's cool. might try and look that up, thanks.
You're welcome. That clip with the thin man from Boy from space is on Youtube
that was handy, that the series was called the boy from space coz i didn't know what it was called, just what it was about. just watched a couple of clips and wonder why they made us watch that in the infants?
and the tall man clip cut off just as that kid fell over. the suspense.
Yeah I noticed that when I saw it on Youtube. On Ponderland, it shows the zoom in on the tall man's face and then it cuts to Russell Brand which was talking about this programme and says "Now spell mac and hat"
haha. i never watched most the series because i was 'ill' it but did notice it was some kind of educational programme.
couldn't find a russell brand clip of it.
Ah ok. Type in Ponderland mac and hat on google and click on the vid of the whole episode on Dailymotion and skip to 8:20 where he talks about that programme
channel 4 had blocked my country but i found a clip of it on dailymotion.
think i know where you got the idea for that scary PSA topic from now. looks good though, i'm gonna watch the rest of it."
Good idea. That episode of Ponderland was where I saw that PIF of Lonely Water for the first time |
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By *tmmCouple
over a year ago
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Too many including some mentioned et, jaws, Jurassic park etc
But the worst one was The Witches (another Rohl Dahl) even at 24 I still haven't actually watched all the way through really should find the film and put that to rest. |
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By *ucyfur77Woman
over a year ago
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"The dark crystal
And
Watership down
That is one Jim Henson movie I find dark and weird. The Emperor Skeksis' death was just freaky when it started falling apart "
It's hella creepy, even now
The podlings tho |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"The dark crystal
And
Watership down
That is one Jim Henson movie I find dark and weird. The Emperor Skeksis' death was just freaky when it started falling apart
It's hella creepy, even now
The podlings tho "
I found the podlings kind of adorable. I do feel bad for them being the skeksis slaves |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Gremlins scared the crap out of me lol xx
Still does! "
As much as a couple of moments in that movie scared me when I was a kid, I enjoy watching it now along with the sequel as well. I always saw Gizmo as the cutest character in movie history |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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The scene in Superman 3 where the character Vera gets cyberized by the super computer was pretty horrifying. I can still remember leaving the room as the kid every time that scene was coming up and wait until after she had been fully cyberized.
The super computer itself in the movie was scary as well when it becomes self aware and starts draining all the electricity causing major wide blackouts across the country. For a Superman movie, this was pretty dark and this was a year before we were introduced to Skynet in The Terminator. |
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"Does anyone remember a movie called Hawk the Slayer? "
I’m a year late to reply to this but, yes!!! - Classic film! And what a cool soundtrack to.
Trivia: If you recall the ending was left open (with Jack Palace’s villain awaiting resurrection) for a sequel which was tentatively planned.
Sadly, it wasn’t to be however |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Does anyone remember a movie called Hawk the Slayer?
I’m a year late to reply to this but, yes!!! - Classic film! And what a cool soundtrack to.
Trivia: If you recall the ending was left open (with Jack Palace’s villain awaiting resurrection) for a sequel which was tentatively planned.
Sadly, it wasn’t to be however "
Ah ok. I haven't watched this movie ever since I was a kid and still can't watch it because of that damn hawk flying towards the camera screaming. |
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On the topic of non-horror films which scared me as a kid; Jim Henson’s, The Dark Crystal. Scared the crap out of me!
Also, Disney’s live action (criminally forgotten) classic, DragonSlayer - that made me feel a bit uneasy  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Wasnt a movie but terror hawks
Zelda scared me to death"
Ah yes. Zelda is pretty freaky looking plus the puppets used in Terrahawks were on the uncanny side.
I still loved this show. The intro is fucking awesome and it just feels so epic when the theme starts playing. |
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Also Wizard of Oz for me......when the tree slaps the apple out of Dorothy's hand then tries to grab her.....Oooh and the bit when she's in the whirlwind and the evil old bag on the bicycle changes into the wicked witch......  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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All three indiana jones movies had moments that scared me as a kid.
The opening of the ark in Raiders was horrifying especially when Toht's head melts.
Donovan's death in Last Crusade had me shooting out of the room when he started aging rapidly after drinking the wrong grail.
In Temple of Doom, the only that had me leaving the room all the time was not any of the deaths but the eyeball soup during the dinner scene. I don't know why but I just didn't like anything to do with eyes.
Speaking of eyes, I still can't watch Total Recall because of the the nightmare scene at the beginning and the villain's death at the end where the eyes protrude out of the sockets. I can't stand the villain's horrific gasps for air during that scene either. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Disney’s, The Watcher In The Woods was another creepy one which scared me as a kid.
I mean, even the bloody title is pretty freaky right? "
I agree. The POV shots are creepy and this was before it was used in the first Evil Dead movie.
The one scene that scared me was that jumpscare on the ghost train with a freaky looking dummy of a ghost or monster. I still can't stand that horrible screeching noise it makes. |
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