TV/Flims that scared you as a kid

I remember being petrified to to point of tears by that ‘scraggetty’ character on Rupert Bear (the original one with the wooden puppets) and of course Dr Who always had me behind the sofa, but the first film i saw that terrified me was during a visit to the youth club during the summer holidays aged 11..

.. film was ‘Tommy’ by The Who – the bit with Tina Turner scared me rigid!

(Inspired by a birthday present of the DVD ftom MsD) 😆

I was scared of these

after seeing this.

Watership Down is not for 8-year-olds. Fact.

I was genuinely scarred for life by salems lot!! That little fecker tapping on the window!! Didn’t help we lived in a cottage connected to a huge old hall, and the fact my sister once saw an old woman looking out of the window whilst we played in the courtyard 😯 😯

Good call Wrightyson. Scared the bejeebus out of me that did

I was a but uneasy with this horrible **** also.

Hartley Hare! Good god man.

The public relations video warning kids about swimming in ponds/lakes. Evil was represented by a cloak.

Scares me still!

The Groak from the original fuzzy felt Moomins did for me. And Grotbags. And that ‘kids’ tv series “The Tripods”.

The day of Triffids scared me as a nipper

Nightmare on Elm Street. All of them.

I also remember a tv prog broadcast at halloween one year called Ghost Watch. Terrifying.

DRSwank – oh gods i remember that one! 😯

Also, anyone remember a similar public information film about the dangers of fireworks? It laid the whole ‘burns’ thing on pretty heavily, and then this horrible apparition suddenly popped up on screen at the end. Ws it a guy fawkes or the girl who had been burnt?

Always wondered..

“The Owl Service” nothing else has ever come close…..

Actually, you lot might be able to help me out with something here. I have half a memory of a series that proper gave me the willies as a kid and I’m damned if I know what it is. This is what I remember, though I might not be 100% on the details.

It was a sci-fi show with a basic premise of some sort of clandestine alien invasion I think; I’m guessing it aired around the early 80s. People were being replaced by alien dopplegangers, with the transformation occurring off-camera (presumably for SFX budgetary reasons). When someone was attacked, it showed the view from outside the room, with a trademark throbbing green glow visible round the edges of the door.

There was also some sort of device, like a green lantern, which all(?) the aliens had. I can’t remember what it was for, but finding one of these hidden lights was a shibboleth that someone wasn’t who they seemed.

Does that ring any bells with anyone? It fair gave me the shits as a kid, and it’s bugged me for years as an adult. It might even be something already mentioned here, like Tripods – I vaguely remember that being on but only really remember the Tripods themselves; whether it’s the same show or not, I’ve no idea.

I remember something like that Cougar – wasn’t a remake of ‘bodysnatchers’ was it?

wasn’t a remake of ‘bodysnatchers’ was it?

That’s entirely possible, and a thought that’s crossed my mind before, but I honestly don’t know. The premise is basically the same from what I remember; was there an IOTBS series around that time perhaps?

Sounds stupid but jaws scared the hell out of me when I was a kid. It wasn’t the actual film, it was swimming in the sea afterwards. Remember seeing a shadow in the water (probably seaweed) and utterly crapping myself. Found it hard to swim in the sea for a long time after. Stupid really, guess it was the unseen thing with big teeth angle that got me.

DrSwank – this one by any chance? 😆

I remember actually seeing a fin in the water when snorkelling in the Red Sea – pretty sure i came out of the water like Polaris and landed on the boats deck perfectly upright!! 😆

Rupert’s blue mate and potato headed spaceman petrified me as a child.

Agh!! you utter, utter barnacle!!!

That’s the bloke, that horrible twiggy-headed blue sod up there – bloody scraggetty!

<Hides behind sofa again in 40 odd year old panic>

Alien. Don’t remember seeing it (must have gone downstairs when my parents were watching it when I was very young) but I used to have recurring nightmares about this thing that lived in our loft and would grab people as they walked under the hatch.

Only realised where it came from when I saw the film years later and recognised the thing from the loft!

Remember thinking i was going to watch jungle book in the cinema when i was a kid,ended up being taken to see jaws,scared the shit out of me,also haloween scared me for some reason!!

The Invisible man series that was on BBC1 after Howards Way on a Sunday night used to freak me out.

For muddy 😉

Zelda from the Terrhawks

aka Irene from Home and Away

aka Shirley from eastenders

aka Davros

aka one of the Riddlers

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:peeks out from behind sofa:

Funny I caught a glimpse of alien the original as a kid, when Dallas is in the ventilation duct, incredibly tense and edgy, great cinematic moment that should have shit me up as a kid but to this day alien and aliens are two of my all time favourite films!!

Watched The Exorcist when I was 10 years old at my mate Greg’s house.

Not a good idea.

We also watched some of his mum and dad’s porn. 😀

We also watched some of his mum and dad’s porn.

Owned or starred in?

at my cousins. from behind the sofa. Aged 8. Still cant watch it now, and I appreciate now that its more a comedy!

cougar, I remember that, haven’t got a clue what is was though.

Worzel Gummidge used to freak me right out, especially the crowman. I alos remember a series set in a school where the dinner lady served this brown sludge, that also used to scare me quite a bit.

Owned or starred in?

Owned. Which was a shame because I had a bit of a thing about his mum.

Kids’ program from 70s, something to do with large stones, stone circles, like Stone Henge but way smaller. Stones had strange powers?

Another kids’ show that had a lift that occasionally went way below the bottom level to a very scary floor…

I’m sure I didn’t dream these two up!

The Singing Ringing Tree…..

watched the thing when i was 10 wished i hadn’t

Don’t think it was meant to be, but I found Catweazle proper scary when I were a kiddie.

Poltergeist, the first one.

I also watched this b movie where a kid had an imaginary tiger/ lion friend that visited at night. One night his mum found them together and the next scene was basically this kid standing in shot with bits of meat thrown at him. Awful.

The kid tapping on the window in Salem’s Lot.
The Exorcist.
Some animated film that we were shown in primary school. I can’t remember what it was but I think the characters looked like those in The Nightmare Before Christmas but I don’t think it was that.. opening scene was a character that I seem to remember looking like Jack Skellington, creeping into a somebodies bedroom at night (climbing up a drainpipe?) and I can’t remember much more than that! I think it was a cartoon..