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Freddy Kruegar
Pennywise the clown from It

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was unnerved by "Churkie". Looking back now can nt believe I was

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The Wheelers from Return to Oz. God, those dudes were creepy... I think the worst thing about them was that they got right up behind Dorthy when they came around multiple times, and who knows what they would've done had they gotten her. Not grabbed, what with their wheels - maybe run over her? Their laughs were a thing of beauty. I recommend that movie just for the maniacal laughter.

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When I was about 8 yo I saw a movie (sorry, can't remember the title) about a scientist who lived on an island. He invited his daughter to come visit as he had a new experiment to show her. When they arrived at the island, no one was to be found. Turns out the scientist had created a man out of mud who then turned on his creators and killed them all. The daughter brought some friends along and they all get knocked off one by one. The survivors eventually figure out that salt water will kill the monster. This would have been in the late 70s. I was scared to death. I would not go to bed by myself for months.

Lou Ferringo as The Incredible Hulk used to scare the crap out of me.

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I'm with you on this. I still can watch Paul Ruben in a movie!

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no doubt about it... Michael Myers lol

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It would have to be "It"!! I HATED that movie...I'm scared of clowns now!! LOL!

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Clown from the movie IT

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I used to be afraid of Kaa from the Jungle Book, i just couldn't stand his eyes!O_o

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Fidget the bat from The Great Mouse detective in the opening sequences always used to get me.

I had a very sheltered childhood.

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The Scary Clown Pennywise from the Movie "IT"
used to scare me a lot when i was a kid.

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Also movies from Dracula when they were in black and white

Ray

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This guy from Fantasia
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Oh, by a street, The Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz. That bitch gave me the runs back in the day.

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The Haunting and The Pit and the Pendulum (particularly the last shot, which haunted me for years until I watched it again recently) scared me when I was little. There were others but those are the two I remember most.

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The Childcatcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang scared the bejesus out of me.

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My mom had to carry me out of a showing of Snow White when I was a toddler - although I'm still not sure what scared me - it was either the Queen, the Queen disguised as a witch or the Magic Mirror. (I'm guessing it was the mirror as it seems the "spookiest".)

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from the original Land of the Lost. The Zarn (an interdimensional traveler) was in a couple of episodes. In one of them he had a helper robot - "Fred". It was just show's producer's re-using a prop (the internal metal skeleton of the T-Rex models) but for some reason a big armless robot dinosaur was absolutely terrifying to me.



The oldest memory I have is a nightmare where that stupid thing was standing over me in my bedroom when I was something like 5 years old.

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Gmork from The Neverending Story. The way he says "if you come any closer, I'll rip you to shreds" still gives me chills when I think about it.

Gort from The Day the Earth Stood Still

The Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

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And the Flying Monkeys from The Wizard of Oz

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I watched Salem's Lot at an age when I was evidently not ready for such things, because it scarred me pretty bad. As I sprinted down the hallway to my bedroom every night I had to pass a dark room with a chair facing the door, and I was convinced that one night I'd look in there and see Geoffrey Lewis sitting there staring at me.

I dunno about character, but I saw The Omen way too young and a particular moment, the one I'm sure you can all guess, freaked me out for awhile.

[quote=gbgoodies;2302151]The Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

I named the Childcatcher too!!

Every time that trolley showed up, things started to get a little uneasy. In a show filled with creepy characters Lady Elaine was the creepiest.
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I don't recognize Lady Elaine. Is she from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood?

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Yes she is. I didn't watch Mr. Rogers often and that entire world that the trolley went to is a big reason. I didn't like the King or that weird meow meow kitty either but Lady Elaine was just a nightmare of a puppet.

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Regan/Pazuzu was the only time I got scared watching something. It was a trauma, I was six. Watched hidden from my parents just to go to their room sleep with them 'cause I was so freaking scared of the dark. ha-ha
The image of Regan going down the stairs haunted my dreams for months.

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Years ago I worked in a Savings Bank. The Head Teller looked exactly like Lady Elaine. She had red blotchy skin, bulbous nose AND she was very short. I had to hold in a laugh every time I spoke to her. It felt like I was talking to a hand puppet.

I have to agree with Tim Curry as Pennyworth in it...he was terrifying...that voice.

The creatures from Don't Be Afraid of the Dark' (1973).
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I was a young child in the 70s.

This is from the 2010 film remake and they are adorable.

My son asked me once what was the scariest movie. I said no movie is scary, there are scary scenes in movies. He asked what I thought was scary scenes. The window scratching from Salem' s Lot and the ending of Carrie. I know the ending of Carrie scene on YouTube scared him, when I showed it to him. :lol:

Ah, yeah. The scene where they tried to get Damien to go to church.

I was a little kid in the early 80s so I was both drawn to and terrified of Freddy. The, "he'll kill you in your dreams," is a good way to make those nightmares hit harder. Also the malleability of dream logic of when the world will shift and just try to kill you is tough to reason your childhood brain out of.

ETA, also growing up near to an area referred to as the blood triangle, sharks. Mainly great whites. Jaws was to blame for a large part of this. I'm not sure if Bruce counts as a character or a concept.

The scenes in The Omen are fun watches!

The Nanny, the plate of glass and the priest, I enjoy them all!

But in terms of sheer terror, we didn't have a nanny, there weren't stray panes of glass on trucks in my childhood, but every ******* Sunday... those clothes were a form of torture and the service was so boring and long.

We never dressed like that for church. My father is from a small Missouri town and they went to whatever church was in walking distance. My mother went to the RLDS church in Independence and was embarrassed as they were the poorest family so they got charity stuff. Religion was never forced on my siblings and I.

Ruined my relationship with dogs forever.
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Have read the entire thread and I can’t actually think of one. I’ve had a disturbed childhood, heh, watching horror since I was 5 (cinephile family oversight, no doubt), but if anything, I’d agree with Norman Bates as mother. The only scene that’s ever stayed with me in this kind of truly sickening way, as already noted elsewhere, was the grandmother’s legs melting in Dante’s Peak. Honestly don’t think any Saw shit or anything from the horror catalogue even comes close. *shrug*

The dog from the sandlot reminded me of another movie character who scared the hell out of me:

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Mine's from Cujo too. I deliberately picked a harmless looking picture of his. But that thing was a monster in the movie.

Claim to fame: I knew Danny Pintauro when he was a child (just a year of two before Cujo). He lived near me (1 block away) and I'd walk past his house everyday from my bus stop during high school. He'd often be outside and we'd talk as I passed by. He was a cute little kid, but at the time I had no idea he was going to be a movie star (or at least a TV star on Who's the Boss).

"The Robot Spy" - Jonny Quest

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Lady Elaine Fairchilde, the puppet from Mister Rogers Neighborhood

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Just look at it. Look at it!

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Growing up in Florida from 85-91, horror was at an all time high. Jason, Freddy, Michael, Chucky….all frightened me. Child’s Play gave me an immediate nightmare after I watched it where I was attacked by my sisters doll.

But the worst? Jaws and Alligator. Swimming in a lake or the Ocean, as one tends to do every weekend in Florida, meant taking a risk that you would get eaten alive by a alligator or shark (especially the latter in the eyes of a 10 year old).

I could convince myself the others don’t exist, but actual predators? That’s a different story.

Not quite from my childhood but this one still scares the bejaysus out of me to this day:

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This mother****er.


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Bwahahahaha

They didn't have a wide catalogue of frightening characters when I was a kid. The classic Universal monsters had been around forever but they weren't exactly nightmare inducing.

But I will go along with The Wicked Witch from The Wizard of Oz. Especially when she's skywriting SURRENDER DOROTHY. That level of extravagance and dissolution offended my prosaic sensibilities. Wicked Witch was off the chain and I didn't like it.

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The child catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Or the flying birds in one of the Wizard of Oz movies - TERRIFIED me.

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The talking, bandaged, severed female head from The Frozen Dead gave me nightmares for months when I saw it as a little boy.

I just thought of another one...remember that ABC movie of the week called Trilogy of Terror which starred the late Karen Black in three different roles? That little voodoo doll that terrorized her in third story scared the hell out of me. And I was a sophomore in high school!

Oh yeah, that little guy was frightening!

Cricket posted a photo of that little guy back on page 7. :)

Falconetti (William Smith) in Rich Man, Poor Man (1976) ...

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Nice try, Tommy Ray, but I won't be fooled again!



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I, too was terrified of Tim Curry's Pennywise in the original ABC miniseries...not so much Skarsgaard in the recent theatrical remake.

I found this movie so terrifying that I have never been able to watch it from beginning to end, I always end up turning it off at some point. This movie is really hard to watch.

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I remember that character, Falcon Eddy, he hit Peter Strauss in the knee with a hammer!

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Definitely King Kong, the 1933 version. I saw the movie on TV when I was very young, and it's the scene where Anne Darrow is in the tall building and the giant ape peers into the window, his face covering the whole window. For about 2 weeks, I had to have the curtains shut in my bedroom by an adult, who would check outside to be sure there was no giant ape in the back yard.

Chucky from Child's Play
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The aliens in The War of the Worlds (1953). Until the ending there was a feeling of absolute helplessness to defeat them.

Actually the aliens in Spielberg's 2005 re-make weren't too shabby either...:eek:

Started watching hard core horror at the movies in the 70s, so pretty much all of that stuff.

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Another one that I was probably too young to see, The Forbidden Planet, the Id Monster. You see foot prints in the sand, hear strange sounds, then it starts roaring. You don't see anything until the earthling's ray guns outline that giant monster. That one lived on in my dreams for a while too. Given a lack of digital animation, the hand-done animation where you see the monster outlined by the raygun bolts was very effective and the sound scared the crap out of this kid. I still like that effect now.

About 3 minutes into this clip the monster gets going. The sound production in this one is terrific for that time, so if you have good sound, it's worth turning it up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0n1nsTAzJ4&t=20s

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None. It was those characters that were scared of me!

Growing up in Tallahassee, Florida from 1985-1991, the specter of Ted Bundy still loomed large over the city. My older sister had a curfew. I still remember the live news of his execution. This was in 1989 I think?
So, 11 year old me was just learning that the killers in films could actually exist. This was amplified when I learned the Texas Chainsaw Massacre was based off of actual murderer, although exaggerated, of course. Still, 11 year old me didn’t know much outside that “he existed”. So now I start thinking any slasher film could have happened.
This was right when Halloween and Friday the 13th were dominating the cinemas. And of course, I was afraid they could exist in some way beyond the screen. So those two had real estate in my over active imagination.

It gets worse……there was this neighbor who convinced me that Bigfoot, or maybe something similar, existed in the swamplands near our house, and the woods behind us, by telling me tall tales that he found duck and/or geese torn up to bits….by something unimaginable.
So now, any creature film spooked me because it could easily be in my friggin back yard…..

It gets worse…..somewhat down the road from our house, under a small bridge, my brother and a mutual friend found a dead deer torn up and half way inside a garbage bag along with other animal carcasses strewn about. The horns had been removed. The rumor? Occult sacrifices.*
So now I had that fear going for me….

So yeah, pretty much every shadow spooked me with my overactive imagination and the stories being passed around with these occurrences.
And any horror movie legitimately frightened me because….well….it could have been real to me at that age.

*I was just asking my brother about this to make sure I remember the details correctly, and we both agree that it was likely hunters who wanted the horns as a keepsake. As a child, however, we believed any story that was passed on to us.

Yes, In the Seventies that serial killer fear was real. My family was visiting New York at the time of the Son of Sam killings and it was rumored that he went after woman with long brown hair. At least, that was what I was told.
As for the occult or satanic practices, a documentary on Netflix posits (or at least the man who the doco is about posits) that the Son of Sam murders in New York were linked to satanic worship some how. Or it could be that David Berkowitz just enjoyed toying with the writer who visited him. the documentary series is called The sons of Sam: A Descent into Darkness.

Oh yeah!! That was hands down the greatest sci-fi movie in that era, and I think it still holds up today. Wonderful special effects for its day. It scared the hell out of everybody.

It was probably the first time that an established serious star actor was featured in a sci-fi film. It's also a kick to see the young Leslie Nielson in his role.