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phasmid: Jan 16, 2015; Booty Shaker
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Emperor Palpatine was pretty scary.

# ? Sep 4, 2016 03:48

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# ? Apr 29, 2024 07:58

Applewhite: Aug 16, 2014; by vyelkin; Nap Ghost

Hexxus from Fern Gully.

# ? Sep 4, 2016 03:48

Egbert Souse: Nov 6, 2008

# ? Sep 4, 2016 03:58

down n out: Sep 16, 2008; Nap Ghost

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j16qvvZ_Eis

# ? Sep 4, 2016 04:02

Gatekeeper: Aug 3, 2003; He was warrior and mystic, ogre and saint, the fox and the innocent, chivalrous, ruthless, less than a god, more than a man.

Egbert Souse posted:

me irl

# ? Sep 4, 2016 04:04

Sialia: Feb 12, 2016

But the song was catchy.

Don't you open that... Trapdoor!

# ? Sep 4, 2016 04:11

Rockman Reserve: Oct 2, 2007; "Carbons? Purge? What are you talking about?!"

that creepy motherfucker is from ghost writer which despite the name was a lighthearted children's educational show about the power of reading

then this guy shows up and like encases people in loving bubblegum and moves on his own and is genuinely freaky as poo poo

and I'm pretty sure it was a two part episode and I never saw the second half so it was like just a bunch of lovable literate rascals getting horribly mostly-murdered with no resolution ever

# ? Sep 4, 2016 04:42

glowstick party tonight: Oct 4, 2003; by zen death robot

When I was a kid I was scared I was going to die alone

now that i'm older and know I'm def going to die alone I realize it ain't so bad

# ? Sep 4, 2016 04:59

Rockman Reserve: Oct 2, 2007; "Carbons? Purge? What are you talking about?!"

when I was a little kid I was terrified of aids and cancer

then I saw once upon a forest and was suddenly afraid of aids, cancer, and getting killed by toxic gasses released from transportation accidents

# ? Sep 4, 2016 05:26

not a rereg hth: Sep 2, 2016; by LadyAmbien

The introduction to Another World / Out of This World was terrifying, because I knew that tiger thing would eat me and there wasn't anything I could do to stop it.

link

# ? Sep 4, 2016 06:25

yo mamma a Horus: Apr 7, 2008; Nap Ghost

Egbert Souse posted:

please tell me what this is from

# ? Sep 4, 2016 07:14

Buckets: Apr 10, 2009; ...THE CHILD...

Buckets posted:

Quoting myself because I found a video of this goddamn show and it's still loving scary. Seriously who thought this poo poo was gonna work? Also Rosie O'Donnell is in it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ge3AJPCPF0

# ? Sep 4, 2016 07:39

Wifi Toilet: Oct 1, 2004; Toilet Rascal

Munsun posted:

please tell me what this is from

Hint:

The Last Starfighter

This freaked me the gently caress out every time...

# ? Sep 4, 2016 07:51

Egoist: Aug 19, 2010; Love myself today
Let you go today; Lipstick Apathy

El Chupacabra (I grew up in Florida so idek how) and Cell from DBZ with his hosed up tail that sucked people

# ? Sep 4, 2016 07:54

A Typical Goon: Feb 25, 2011

The Blair Witch Project. My 10 year old self was absolutely convinced it was real and it really freaked me out for quite a while after watching it

# ? Sep 4, 2016 08:07

Tarkus: Aug 27, 2000

While Fire in the Sky was outright scarier, this haunted me more because they could be anywhere. It took a while before I could sleep well again. Still gives me a little shiver watching it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdWrvhF1HvA

# ? Sep 4, 2016 08:36

Synthbuttrange: May 6, 2007

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcZUPDMXzJ8

# ? Sep 4, 2016 08:50

Genesplicer: Oct 19, 2002; I give your invention the worst grade imaginable: An A-minus-minus!; Total Clam

I had quite a few fears as a kid, and all of them came back to revisit me when the movie "Poltergeist" was released. The tree outside the window was pretty freaky. When I was in 5th grade, we lived on the 3rd floor of the base apartment complex, and there was a massive oak tree outside in the courtyard. One branch managed to grow right out to the point where it would brush against my bedroom window whenever the wind blew.

but the worst memory was my clown doll. It was large, and my mom put it in the chair right next to my door (This was when I was about 8 or 9). I was terrified of that drat thing. I imagined that it would come to life in the dead of night, scamper to my bed, and kill me in my sleep. I eventually managed to damage it enough that mom got decided it couldn't be repaired any longer and finally got rid of it. When I saw Poltergeist, all that came flooding back.

Steven Spielberg can rot in hell.

# ? Sep 4, 2016 08:58

Necc0: Jun 30, 2005; by exmarx; Broken Cake

the loving pink slime bathtub monster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmhFFGIWoG4

i had recurring nightmares for years and it wasn't until high school when we were all talking about nightmares we had as a kid that i brought up the neon pink bathtub monster i had nightmares about. in unison my entire group of friends said, 'what like in ghostbusters 2?' and they showed me the clip and i had my mind blown

# ? Sep 4, 2016 10:08

Facebook Aunt: Oct 4, 2008; wiggle wiggle

I was about 10, and my mom was working the late shift so I was alone until about midnight. Watching SCTV, a comedy sketch show. Maybe it was because I was home alone, but this episode scared me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlOtXaG4uxE

I turned the TV off right at the moment they show the kid in the fright wig, so I never saw how the episode ended. Haunted me for months.

# ? Sep 4, 2016 10:39

Everdraed: Sep 7, 2003; _{spankety, spankety, spankety}

Gatekeeper posted:

those lil dolls bitin the crap out of Jane fonda in barbarella

Haha, I remember thinking those were cool as a little kid.

I saw a lot of inappropriate stuff as a child, Akira when I was six was fun but didn't really scare me since it was just cartoons. But the Hellraiser series at that same age got me pretty good:

Especially since my brother was able to find one of those little cubes and liked to freak me out with it haha. When you're a little kid and the gap between fantasy and reality is sort of pushed in that way, it can be pretty traumatizing.

Edit: Oh, I didn't like that one scene in Aeon Flux where the lady got her legs amputated, but less because of it being scary and more because it felt really unfair and just plain rude.

Buckets posted:

Quoting myself because I found a video of this goddamn show and it's still loving scary. Seriously who thought this poo poo was gonna work? Also Rosie O'Donnell is in it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ge3AJPCPF0

This rat owns!! Thanks for linking that, I totally remember seeing it aired.

Also this Scary Story to Tell in the Dark and image that went with it scared me:

Not at first, but pretty soon after I read it my dad took me deep into the woods 'to show me something interesting.'

That something interesting was a mangled, decomposed horse carcass with a nicely exposed skull. Oh man did that freak me out, I had actually blocked the memory until he brought it up again recently.

Everdraed fucked around with this message at 11:27 on Sep 4, 2016

# ? Sep 4, 2016 10:39

mind the walrus: Sep 22, 2006

My parents were the kind-of dumb assholes who felt that limiting exposure to "mature" material was a healthy idea, then wondered why all their kids were total pussies well up until 12. So whenever we'd go to Palmer or West Coast Video I'd go off and sneak peeks into the horror aisle. All the gory, usually hand-drawn covers set my imagination on fire and because this was pre-internet I didn't find out until much later how terribly 95% of them were. As I got older I would literally practice walking down the aisle and reading one or two back covers to desensitize my candy-rear end. Even then touching the paper that had the images just felt.... wrong... like I was holding some grimoire that could summon the worst of whatever was on the cover.

I'm going to split this up into general covers I remember freaking me out followed by an awards section.

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General Spookiness

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AWARDS

Hellraiser wins "movie I recall having a reputation as the goriest and scariest of them all, with Pinhead being the baddest of the bads"

Pumpkinhead wins "most bizarre monster I remember on a cover"

Clint Howard on this cover earns the "why the gently caress was I ever afraid of this?" award

House II wins "most evocative of potential, especially when you consider how loving boring the actual movie is" award

Nightmare on Elm Street 5 wins "first time I remember noticing horror and comedy blending well"

Nightmare on Elm Street 3 wins "Thing my Power Rangers-loving rear end was most entranced by for the potential of superheroes fighting a nightmare demon"

The Blob earns the "Cover that I could recognize as tubular and rad even thought it scared the poo poo out of me," with honorary mention to The Stuff for doing the same

The Surgeon earns "Most arrogant tagline"-- you can't read it; it says 'First Jason... Then Freddy... Finally, A PROFESSIONAL'

The Incredible Melting Man earns "Cover so gory that it was one of the last ones I could stand to look at"

Slumber Party Massacre earns the "Cover that told me my sex drive had kicked in"

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And top award goes to

CRITTERS

Look at that loving thing. It's like a Furby hosed a Komodo Dragon with a Dreamworks face. Even today I look at that and think "I would hate to run into that fucker"

And Critters 2 gets an honorary award for being the perfect blend of goofy as all gently caress yet still scary to a small child. I think that contributed to my unease around Venus Flytraps until I was an adult and marginally less of a dandy.

GOODNIGHT EVERYBODY

# ? Sep 4, 2016 11:51

Putty: Mar 21, 2013; HOOKED ON THE BROTHERS

Everdraed posted:

Also this Scary Story to Tell in the Dark and image that went with it scared me:

Not at first, but pretty soon after I read it my dad took me deep into the woods 'to show me something interesting.'

That something interesting was a mangled, decomposed horse carcass with a nicely exposed skull. Oh man did that freak me out, I had actually blocked the memory until he brought it up again recently.

The illustrations by Stephen Gammell of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark did a drat good job making relatively tame spooky stories into nightmares.

Family goes to Mexico and adopts a stray "dog"

# ? Sep 4, 2016 18:06

Owlbear Camus: Jan 3, 2013; Maybe this guy that flies is just sort of passing through, you know?

When the evil supercomputer in Superman 3 turns the dumpy broad into a cyborg.

https://youtu.be/fpTHrdemfQo

Hid under the covers every time.

# ? Sep 4, 2016 18:13

opus111: Jul 6, 2014

Egbert Souse posted:

For years I watched this from an edit I taped from the TV with that scene missing. Years later I downloaded a clean cut - what the gently caress!

# ? Sep 4, 2016 18:16

symbolic: Nov 2, 2014

Everdraed posted:

Also this Scary Story to Tell in the Dark and image that went with it scared me:

oh man, this brought up bad memories of those books, especially that one story about the scarecrow. i think it was called "Harold" and it ended with a guy being killed(?) and flayed by the scarecrow. that shook me up when i read that as a kid.

# ? Sep 4, 2016 18:19

Putty: Mar 21, 2013; HOOKED ON THE BROTHERS

symbolic posted:

oh man, this brought up bad memories of those books, especially that one story about the scarecrow. i think it was called "Harold" and it ended with a guy being killed(?) and flayed by the scarecrow. that shook me up when i read that as a kid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_I3ZVC8i74

# ? Sep 4, 2016 18:23

symbolic: Nov 2, 2014

Putty posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_I3ZVC8i74

did you just happen to have this on hand or

# ? Sep 4, 2016 18:28

VendaGoat: Nov 1, 2005

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6K518NKsZzs&t=57s
thanks for knocking this nightmare fuel loose.

# ? Sep 4, 2016 18:35

Ichabod Tane: Oct 30, 2005; A most notable
coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise breaker, the owner of no one good quality.

https://youtu.be/_Ojd0BdtMBY?t=4

My mom and dad let me watch robocop and predator when I was way too young, like, six or seven.

# ? Sep 4, 2016 18:38

Beef Turret: Jul 9, 2009; by Lowtax

# ? Sep 4, 2016 18:39

billy cuts: Aug 14, 2003; wrists of fury; Buglord

Buckets posted:

Oh another thing! Nickelodeon had a show apparently called And Now This back in the late 90's that had a segment where a man in a suit had his head replaced with a horrifying rat puppet. I can't find any screen shots or videos of it but I'm apparently not the only person who saw it because I found this drawing.

efb

# ? Sep 4, 2016 18:40

SweetMercifulCrap!: Jan 28, 2012; Lipstick Apathy

The seance scene in Beetlejuice where Barbara and Adam turn into creepy looking dried up corpse things. The idea of aging really fast in addition to how creepy they look really hosed with my mind.

# ? Sep 4, 2016 18:40

Ichabod Tane: Oct 30, 2005; A most notable
coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise breaker, the owner of no one good quality.

https://youtu.be/_Ojd0BdtMBY?t=4

Have goons posted spiders or the ocean and then exclaim how loving terrified they are

Also slenderman

# ? Sep 4, 2016 18:40

Gatekeeper: Aug 3, 2003; He was warrior and mystic, ogre and saint, the fox and the innocent, chivalrous, ruthless, less than a god, more than a man.

A Typical Goon posted:

The Blair Witch Project. My 10 year old self was absolutely convinced it was real and it really freaked me out for quite a while after watching it

I was a similar age when it came out, initially they really played up the "found footage, this really happened" thing. I remember the sci-fi channel I think even showed some fake documentary on the Blair witch a few weeks before the movie came out just to hype up the whole "seriously guys its real" thing.

My dad scored a really good copy of it about a week before the theatrical release and one night while I was home alone by myself I watched it and it totally scared the poo poo out of me.

Then it apparently scared the poo poo out of everyone. It took a while before everyone realized it was just a movie, too. Didn't it have a tiny release at first, then it got picked up for a wide release afterwards because it was so popular? I remember tons of "holy poo poo can you believe this really happened??" hype before the truth came out

mind the walrus posted:

CRITTERS

Aww thx you for postin this. I remember seeing Critters as a tiny lil guy. I also remember seeing Rocky Horror off-Broadway a number of years later and being very impressed by the guy who played Frank N Furter but not yet having the internet savvy to check imdb to see why he seemed so familiar (was imdb around yet in like '00/'01?)

But there he is, bottom left picture on the Critters cover. Terrence Mann. Talked with him after the show, he was super nice.

Apparently 9/11 killed this play which was sad because he was awesome and Sebastian fuckin Bach from skid row played riff raff which was extra dope and he too was very nice and friendly and when I explained that the girl I liked at school thought he was really hot and it would prob help me out a bit if I could get something signed for her he went like totally overboard givibg me signed poo poo for her and that's how I got to touch her boobs and pussy so thanks Sebastian Bach and thank you mind the walrus for finally making my Terrance mann mental connection after all these long years