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Idris the Dragon!

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The scary high temperature squeaky voiced bastard!

What put the willies up you (ooh-err!)?


 
Posted : 04/11/2010 12:33 pm
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There was an episode of Blakes 7 that had a baddie (Man or robot, can't remember) that lost it's head and was wandering about headless. That scared the crap out of me for quite some time! 😳


 
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Cybermen scared the life out of me with their blank, soul-less expressions.

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There were two TV dramas that scared me shitless as a kid. One was about an alien that crashed on a scottish island, the other included a nun whose face was always covered by a black cloth. Didn't help I was at a catholic primary school mostly staffed by penguins at the time.

Many sleepless nights after watching those!


 
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I walked in on my parents watching An American werewolf in London with the scene where he's dreaming his family gets massacred, That haunted me for a very long time.
Another notable mention must go to the original series of V .


 
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Scared me sh*tless.


 
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Look and Read - The Boy from Space. Freaky little b.....


 
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The xenomorph. After I watched Alien I decided it was safer to sleep with the bedroom door well and truly shut.


 
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Then...
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Now - the dumbed down version...
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Posted : 04/11/2010 12:45 pm
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Cybermen scared the life out of me with their blank, soul-less expressions

They remind me of roadies 😉
+1 for the child catcher
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the other included a nun whose face was always covered by a black cloth.

That'll be Armchair Thriller..

Enjoy!


 
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missingfrontallobe - I remember that one, but wan't it a half human/animal from a Russian submarine? They used a red screen to show what he was seeing.

I was terrified by the elderly Quaker couple that lived up the road.
I refused to leave the house if they were out in the street.


 
Posted : 04/11/2010 12:51 pm
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Ghost Trains

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Wow! Armchair Thriller... I used to sing the theme tune through the bedroom wall to scare my little brother!


 
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Aye classic TV, the first one was the best..


 
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The library ghost from Ghostbusters:
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Watched it again a while back - bit disappointed by her actually just being a Muppet, and not the proper scary monster I remember from being a 9 year old. Good film though, still very funny.


 
Posted : 04/11/2010 1:00 pm
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How come no one has said the Moomins yet? Not the newer cartoon version but the older stop motion style one.


 
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Hammer house of horror, tame nowadays though at the time it scared me sh**less


 
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weren't scared o nowt me.


 
Posted : 04/11/2010 1:05 pm
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onzadog - agree on the old Moomins, even seeing old style Moomin images/characters still freaks me out!


 
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Jonathan King
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V
The TV in Willow the wisp
Spotty in Super Ted
Dale Hinds, he was from the rough end of town and used to nick my lunch.


 
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The Moomins rawked!! Brilliant, and the books were amazing.

And with added Bjørk for to makes more scary:


 
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This theme music used to spook me..


 
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Dr Who - would only watch it from behind the sofa & with my grandfather in the room.

Large Black Dogs


 
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The Boy From Space and Grotbags.


 
Posted : 04/11/2010 1:19 pm
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+1 for the child catcher( ran out of the cinema blubbing 😳 )
+1 for the Cybermen

Also there was a thing on Dr Who with showroom dummies that had hinged hands that dropped down to reveal guns. Not sure why but that terrified me too.


 
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Freddie used to play havoc with my sleeping patterns too. 😯


 
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These freaked me...
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that's them 😯


 
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This too. Made me think all statues would come to life and try and kill me.


 
Posted : 04/11/2010 1:27 pm
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Dr Who the Autons -
[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spearhead_from_Space ]Mannequins[/url] I didn't want to go high street shopping for ages, worried that I'd be attacked outside M&S.

That and the spiders in our garage, monstrous they were, with big thick nasty pointy fangs 😀


 
Posted : 04/11/2010 1:29 pm
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After watching [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Changes_(TV_series) ]The Changes[/url] I had a fear of these too.

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ARGH!


 
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the gremlins.... walked past a room where some older kids were watching it and walked past during one of the scenes where tis all going a bit mental, things are getting wrecked, things are melting etc.

if i had watched the whole film (like i did when i growed up like) then i think i would've been fine.


 
Posted : 04/11/2010 1:34 pm
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Okay, not as a kid, I was in my 30s but on the Dr Who theme, the dead kid in WWII with the gasmask for a face.

"Are you my mummy?"

That was freaky.


 
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Terrified me...
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Posted : 04/11/2010 2:18 pm
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she was pretty scary....failing that Davros or were they the same??


 
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That freaky clown was looking right at me!


 
Posted : 04/11/2010 2:24 pm
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This scared the s*it out of me

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I couldn't work out why a horse lived in the house


 
Posted : 04/11/2010 2:27 pm
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Harry_the_Spider's pylon just reminded me that when I was really small, about 3 or 4, I had a phase of being flippin' terrified of the transmitter mast on [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windy_Hill_(Pennines) ]Windy Hill[/url], the one you see when you go over the M62 summit. Lord alone knows why, but I used to hide from it under my coat until we got right down into Rochdale. Weird...


 
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I have very fond memories of that very same mast with a young lady called Sarah in a Rover Metro...
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I still have a smile to myself now every time I pass by.


 
Posted : 04/11/2010 2:59 pm
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Cookie Monster.

My uncle Trevor (biker with a big ginger beard and tea cosy hat)

Sapphire and Steel.


 
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