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zombiewhacker
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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 Posted - 05/14/2009 : 3:49:27 PM
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... but not anymore. In fact, today as a mature (ahem) full-fledged adult you're embarrassed to admit they ever freaked you out at all. But when you were aged seven or thereabouts... hooboy!
Examples (in my case)
Invasion of the Saucer Men. It's been so long ago I can't even remember what this movie was about, except that there was this one scene where these Martians swarmed over some poor guy and stuck him with needle-like claws. Youch!
Horror of Party Beach. I'm probably risking a salvo from Ken here, but, hey, I was a munchkin at a time, so gimme a break! What's really weird is that at this same age I had no problem whatsoever with the Creature from the Black Lagoon (or Frankenstein, the Wolfman, the Mummy et al) but for some reason the monsters in this movie pushed all the (wrong) buttons.
The Blob. The grand-daddy of all the "yikes!" movies when I was young. Everything with Olin Howlin got to me. I also remember being terrified when that mechanic got nailed underneath the car. (That put me off auto-repair as a life vocation.)
Oh, and as an honorable mention: those bubble-brained femaliens from the Star Trek episode "The Cage/Menagerie." I remember watching it and any minute fearing that a secret panel would come sliding open in my living room and one of those creatures would come popping out to get me. (Not all Trek monsters bothered me, though. I was neutral on the Horta, and I thought the Gorn was way cool.)
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Greenhornet
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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Posted - 05/14/2009 : 6:02:26 PM
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Fiend Without A Face was my scary movie monster. My (extended) family raised beef, so we were lucky to get a freezer full of meat every year, but when we had steaks, I couldn't even LOOK at the fat. I would cut it off and push it aside, sometimes hiding it in an extra napkin!
Also, the "thing in the closet" from The Brain (or "Head") That Wouldn't Die was scary, even before it was revieled! And it bit a chunk of the doctor's neck off!
To this day, just the smell mini jawbreakers will bring that scene I saw in the Capital Theater back into sharp focus.
"The Queen is testing poisons." CLEOPATRA, 1935 |
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Neville
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Spain
1590 Posts |
Posted - 05/15/2009 : 05:06:24 AM
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For me it was the Alien. My parents wouldn't let me watch the movie on TV when I was a very youn kid, for fear it would be too graphic. As a result, I gathered as much data as I could from it from various sources (an incomplete comicbook adaptation, older kids who would agree to explain me the plot...) and my imagination created a far more extreme version of the events that would torment me at night.
Much later, on my teens, when I had already forgotten abbout the whole thing, I started having recurrent dreams in which I was stalked by those creatures. I guess my mind used them as stock monsters. |
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Ericb
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
648 Posts |
Posted - 05/15/2009 : 05:45:41 AM
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The Blob I wouldn't be able to sleep at night for days after watching this movie but for some reason I would always watch it again whenever it was on tv, with the same results every time.
"I am Temujin ... Barbarian ... I fight! I love! I conquer ... like a Barbarian!" |
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Sardu
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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Posted - 05/15/2009 : 08:44:20 AM
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Bozo The Clown. OK, not an intentional monster but he still freaked me out bad. And, in the vein of The Blob, the white corpuscles from Fantastic Voyage. They were such a mindless horror, globbing all over Donald Pleasence. And they were, like, inside me! Aaaaiiieee! *g* Although they were only removing foreign contaminants. Really whiny, emasculated spineless foreign contaminants.
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Flangepart
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
2329 Posts |
Posted - 05/15/2009 : 5:26:09 PM
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The blob!
And the selicates from ISLAND OF TERROR...espchually the ending in the chinese labs...mainland china!
"Vulcans : The designated drivers of the universe."
"Hoody Hoo, i waste 'em with my cross bow!" Bob Herzog- KODT
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hentai_wolf
Preeminent Apostolic Prelate of the Discipleship of Jabootu
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Posted - 05/15/2009 : 9:22:59 PM
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Originally posted by Neville
For me it was the Alien. My parents wouldn't let me watch the movie on TV when I was a very young kid
My parents did let me watch Alien when I was 8 or 9, and it scared me half to death. I couldn't retrieve my cat from any dark corners for years. |
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Bobby-G
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
904 Posts |
Posted - 05/16/2009 : 02:56:49 AM
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I guess I could STILL get the creeps if I think about it now, but these these had a nightmare effect on me as a kid (I'm sure there are more...):
CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON
IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE
INVASION OF THE SAUCERMEN
The werewolf from DARK SHADOWS (I'd not seen THE WOLFMAN till later)
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD
The Morlocks from THE TIME MACHINE
Most of the creatures from THE OUTER LIMITS and NIGHT GALLERY
The Green Gargantua from WAR OF THE GARGANTUAS
THE SHE-CREATURE
NAVY VS THE NIGHT MONSTERS
The Glowing Baby-cryin' jar of whatever in SOMETHING EVIL
DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK
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Jay
Diocesan Ecclesiarch of the Sacred Order of Jabootu
USA
57 Posts |
Posted - 05/16/2009 : 08:59:37 AM
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I can remember watching Alien at home (it was on ON TV - remember that?) through my fingers when I was about eight; I don't know what possessed my parents to let me watch that.
Then there's the (& I can't believe it hasn't popped up here yet) Zuni doll from Trilogy of Terror that chased Karen Black all over her apartment. I remember thinking (I was too scared to talk) "GET IN THE BATHTUB!!! IT CAN'T JUMP!!!" Even at five years old I was planning out strategies for evading monsters.
The granddaddy of 'em all though - the friggin' clown from Poltergeist. That movie did absolutely nothing to quell my intense dislike of clowns or sleeping with my arm over the side of the bed or the closet door open (my wife makes fun of me for the closet thing; I tell her that, so far, the closet monster hasn't gotten me, so I must be doing something right).
Those three can still invoke a visceral response from me.
Inane ramblings - http://www.blahdityblahblah.blogspot.com |
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The Rev. D.D.
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
203 Posts |
Posted - 05/19/2009 : 09:14:17 AM
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The clown puppet from Poltergeist...*shudders* Such a short scene, and yet it freaked me the hell out. Thanks to this, along with the last one listed below, I was totally scared of things being under my bed for years.
I also got to see Alien on TV at a young age, and although the critter was scary throughout in all its forms, the chest-bursting scene nearly had me in hysterics. The facehugger's purpose hadn't registered, so when the guy starts coughing and spasming, and the blood spatters on his shirt from seemingly nowhere...I had no reference for what was going on, having never even DREAMED of something like that happening. WHOOO boy.
My first Godzilla movie was G '84 and he actually scared me a bit; my only reference up to that point had been his superheroics in the cartoon. Now he's stomping on people and destroying cities. I rarely retain memories of my dreams and nightmares, but the one I had with him stomping on my loved ones, and then coming for me, is one of a handful I still remember quite well to this day.
The big one came not from a movie, but a TV show. The Tales from the Darkside episode "Inside the Closet", and its hideous little red-eyed mutant, terrified me. Especially the scene where it gets under the bed and juuuust misses grabbing the protagonist's foot when she gets into bed, and then stares angrily at the camera from underneath said bed. I would not go near my closet at night, and I took a running leap at my bed for weeks, possibly months, afterward to avoid anything under there grabbing me.
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Edited by - The Rev. D.D. on 05/19/2009 09:16:10 AM |
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AnnGora
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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Posted - 05/19/2009 : 1:07:55 PM
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Although he might not strictly qualify as a monster, I remember being terrified of Moe of the Three Stooges. He was a scary character with a face scrunched up in perpetual anger, gouging, punching, slapping...hey, to a small kid, this is very frightening! It wasn't until I was 6 or 7 before I matured enough to appreciate the comedy and grew out of my childish cowardice.
She was bred in old Kentucky, but she's just a crumb up here. |
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Neville
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Spain
1590 Posts |
Posted - 05/19/2009 : 2:46:06 PM
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| Now this is funny, my sister once told me that she had this nightmare, about being chased through dark alleys by a vampiric version of the Bee Gees. They even moved to the rythm of "Staying alive", according to her. |
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kdraut
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
343 Posts |
Posted - 06/07/2009 : 07:46:39 AM
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I can't believe I'm admitting this on a public forum...
The the Eye Creatures.
When I was just a wee lad, I watched Attack of the the Eye Creatures on our little B&W TV.
I didn't sleep that night. Or the following night. I sat in bed with a flashlight, waiting to be attacked by monsters with visible zippers and heads that could be easily knocked off their shoulders.
Damn...
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RVHorror
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
532 Posts |
Posted - 06/07/2009 : 11:23:25 PM
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Okay, I cringe to admit this, but...The Brain from Planet Aros. When it first appeared on the TV screen it terrified me.
Also, the Chromoite from the Outer Limits episode, "The Mice." Damn was that thing scary. |
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andy80
Diocesan Ecclesiarch of the Sacred Order of Jabootu
81 Posts |
Posted - 06/10/2009 : 01:41:39 AM
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| Anyone remember the Large Marge scene from Peewees Big Adventure? That scared the hell out of me. Not too mention the creepy clown dream he has. |
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BT
Preeminent Apostolic Prelate of the Discipleship of Jabootu
USA
168 Posts |
Posted - 06/10/2009 : 11:31:50 AM
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| Not even close. The baby from Cohen's "It's Alive" |
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