Idris the Dragon!

The scary high temperature squeaky voiced bastard!

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

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! 😳

Noseybonk

Des O’Conner

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

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!

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 .

Scared me sh*tless.

Look and Read – The Boy from Space. Freaky little b…..

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

Then…

Now – the dumbed down version…

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

They remind me of roadies 😉
+1 for the child catcher
but

the other included a nun whose face was always covered by a black cloth.

That’ll be Armchair Thriller..

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=747SKishQPg[/video]

Enjoy!

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.

Ghost Trains

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

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

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYBiTkiwFBM&NR=1[/video]

The library ghost from Ghostbusters:

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.

How come no one has said the Moomins yet? Not the newer cartoon version but the older stop motion style one.

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

weren’t scared o nowt me.

onzadog – agree on the old Moomins, even seeing old style Moomin images/characters still freaks me out!

Jonathan King

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.

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

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X64d0hGnRW0[/video]

And with added Bjørk for to makes more scary:

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIqGvu39muo[/video]

This theme music used to spook me..

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xez4o1ujOPI[/video]

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

Large Black Dogs

The Boy From Space and Grotbags.

+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.

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

These freaked me…

that’s them 😯

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

Dr Who the Autons –
Mannequins 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 😀

After watching The Changes I had a fear of these too.

ARGH!

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.

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.

Terrified me…

Maggie Thatcher by james@watkinsforcongress.com, on Flickr

she was pretty scary….failing that Davros or were they the same??