What tv shows/movies/ads did you find scary as a kid?

Question

I was always terrified of Chortle & The Wheelies. A whole town of people who had lost their legs governed by probably the scariest witch ever. I was also seriously disturbed by Watership Down. A kids cartoon movie where bunnies got mauled?! My friend was terrified of the penguins in the adverts for the chocolate bar of the same name. Although he is a bit of a wimp :) Whats yours??

Answer 1

Will O' the wisp - that wierd blue thing and the talkin TV... Weeeiird.

And also that Halloween poltergeist "live" thing BBC did with that Sarah woman who used to be on Live and kicking.

Answer 2

It depends. If you sit your kid in front of the TV and put on "The Devil's Rejects", it could traumatize them. On the other hand, when my kids were rather young (7 and 9), they wanted to see a really corey movie. I got one of the "Dead" movies, Day of the living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, something like that, and we watched the "making of" extras where they showed the actors having makeup applied, mixing up corn syrup and jelly for blood, and an actor with his facing half hanging off laughing and talking. Then we watched the movie, so they were very aware that it wasn't real, they understood the work behind the acting, makeup, special effects, etc, and thought it was fun. Up until they were a bit older, I never let them watch anything scary without first watching the "making of" parts first. I didn't let them watch things with sexual violence, and there were some things that I drew the line at, mainly some Japanese horror like "Audition". Neither of them ever mad a nightmare. But then they watched Jersey Shore and that garbage gives me nightmares.

Answer 3

Movies:

Poltergeist- The scene where the clown tries to pull the boy under the bed gave me nightmares. I HATE CLOWNS

Wizard of Oz - The flying monkeys scared me.

The Never Ending Story- wolf, the white dragon like thing

Answer 4

There was an advert in the early 70's warning children of the dangers of playing too close to water the voice over was done by Donald Pleasence it began

'I am the spirit of the dark waters'

and ended with

I'll be back back back back back

It used to really scare me :(

Answer 5

There are only two movies that I have found to scary, in the beginning, to be able to watch them. One was "The Birds" (Alfred Hitchcock, of course), and the other was "The Andromeda Strain". The remainder were tollerable.

My (younger) brother really got freaked by Twin Peaks, though.

Answer 6

There was an advert over the radio not long ago for Sainsbury's or someplace and it was the chef statue that sang a song. That terrified me.

Answer 7

T.V. - Dr. Who (In glorious black and white with William Hartnell as the doc)
Movie - The Fall of the house of Usher (Vincent Price)
Ad - They are all scary - they want you to spend more money on an already overloaded credit card!

Answer 8

The Moomins. There was a character made of twigs/sticks and I was terrified of it as it seemed to 'drift' around and creep up on the other characters. Don't know to this day if it was 'friend or foe'.

Answer 9

Do you remember those adverts warning you of the dangers of playing near pylons and slurry pits etc? I hated them And that one where the doll gets sucked down the escalator! It was the stuff nightmares were made of!!!

Answer 10

Creature Features, with the old werewolf, Dracula, mummy and Frankenstein movies. They were scary but funny at the same time.

Answer 11

Ewoks (sci-fi film)

X Files (i was really scared of aliens)

Wizard of Oz & Charlie & the chocolate factory (scared of midgets)

Return to Oz (wizard of oz 2 it had those wheelies in it!!!!! how weird!)

Are you afraid of thge Dark )a very crappy kids programme on Nikelodeon)

I WAS A RIGHT WHIMP COME TO THINK OF IT!