Childhood night terrors

[mcchrist]

I was wondering, was there ever a film that scared the shit out of you as a kid or gave your nightmares for reasons you can't even comprehend to this day? I'm talking about irrational stuff, maybe something completely innocuous that took you off guard when you were a young'n...

For me, it was some freaky movie called The Electric Grandmother. I have very vague recolections, but every now and then I'm reminded of it and I remember it freaked me out for some reason.

[Mortis]

This might seem lame, but the original Evil Dead scared me. I had nightmares after my mom rented it when I was about nine or ten. She said I would scream in my sleep to get the pencil out of my ankle. The Exorcist also scared me when I was that age. Her face has been burned into my mind ever since.

[dwatts]

I honestly don't recall anything off the wall giving my nightmares. I started watching horror movies somewhere around the age of 9, starting with TV showing of the classic Universal horrors. They scared the crap out of me, and I can remember creeping upstairs to go to bed, checking behind doors etc. But off the wall stuff? No.

[betterdan]

Amityville Horror not the movie but the book. I read it in I think the 7th grade and had nightmares every night about waking up and looking out the window and the streets and everything were on fire and the devil was running down that street. I would get up and the walls would be leaking black slimy stuff and then I would scream and wake up. I had this dream for a few years:confused:

[Latency]

Poltergiest gave me nightmares when I was a kid. Halloween still gives me nightmares even to this day :) woohoo!!! :banana:

[slinker]

There was some old UK childrens TV program called `Jigsaw` which had this creepy segment called Mr.Noseybonks with this fuckin damn right frightening guy in a suit and a white mask which constantly freaked the living shit outta me, i still have nightmares to this day! This program is soo rare that i cant even find a link to show you this scary shit! :nervous: :(

Update :
Mr Noseybonks! (http://www.lynn3686.freeserve.co.uk/jigsaw/bignoseybonk.jpg)

Please dont laugh at me that shits scary when ya young! :p

[arcaneimagery]

This might sound really fucked up but when I was five the Wonderwoman series (the one from the mid to late seventies) on tv with Linda Carter scared the holy living shit out of me, my mom and dad said when the intro came on I used to freak out and scream she's too good. Even to this day I cant stand superhero tv shows or movies while in stark contrast I love movies with an anti-hero like Tyler Durden from Fight Club.

[Wolf Man]

Originally posted by slinker
Please dont laugh at me that shits scary when ya young! :p From the picture you provided, I'm guessing that the character wasn't intended to be even kiddie-scary, right? The reason I ask is that I remember having a similar reaction to Vincent Price guest-starring on The Muppet Show. Those Muppet monsters never bothered me when I was a kid, but damn, when you put Vincent Price in there with them! He was just so sinister-looking. Guess that's why I love his movies so much now.

[mcchrist]

In regards to Mr. Noseybonks...

Now that's the shit I'm talking about, I swear to god if I'd seen that as a kid I'd be a nervous wreck today!

[Mortis]

I can't remember anything non-horror that scared me. My mom had me watching horror since I was a single digit.

[Suicide]

There's something that scares the crap out of me still, but I was like 13 when I saw it. I guess that counts as childhood, kinda. It's in the movie Bad Channels, they have a few music videos in the movie and one is by a band called Sychotic Sinfony (sorry I have no clue how to spell it, it was something like that though.) They were like Gwar but with cheaper costumes. One was a nun with a mask on, one guy was dressed as a cow, and so on, and the song they played was really bizarre. I have no idea why but that still scares the living hell out of me when I think about it. It never gave me nightmares, but it did scar me for life, just a little bit.

[drown021]

McChrist,are you talking about the original twilight zone show about the robot grandmother? Just wondering.I think it was called sing the body electric or something like that.hmm.


Anyways,I remember some of the "tales from the darkside" creeped me out.

[mcchrist]

No, it was a TV movie, a family film of some sort (written by Bradbury)

[aoiookami]

just like everyone else, it sounds fugged up but the 'wheelers' from Retrun to Oz, and the Boogyman from the animated Ghostbusters traumatized me:nervous:

[mcchrist]

Oh shit, I forgot to mention those orange guys tossing their heads around in Labyrinth... :nervous:

[Mortis]

Hah! How did that song go they sang?

[ReNeGaDe]

childs play i seen when i was 6 0r 7-- at that time i had one of those "my buddy" dolls for boys, and i threw it in the garbage and down the stairs and shit cuz it scared me to death


also ill admit when i saw blair witch i couldnt sleep that night-- and the ring i "had trouble" sleeping

[bwana the clown]

I was actually banned from watching 'Dr Who' for a while cos it gave me some badass nightmares! (Meanwhile, I was watching Friday The 13ths on video - go figure!)

My earliest memory of being freaked out by a movie would probably be when I saw 'Bad Ronald' on TV. I had to go around the house checking for peep-holes in the walls!!

[mcchrist]

You know, that's funny, I had absolutely no problem with horror movies as a kid. I was already well on my way with them, but some of these so called family films and children's programming threw me into fits. Right now I'm thinking of "Pinwheel" on Nickelodeon, adn also that other Nickelodeon show with the mannikin that came to life if you put on his magic hat (whatever that was called)

[Mortis]

Pinwheel, pinwheel, spinning around. Look at my Pinwheel and see what I've found.

Pinwheel, pinwheel, where have you been? Hello, how are you, and may I come in?

Pinwheel, pinwheel, spinning around. Look at my pinwheel and see what I found.

Pinwheel, pinwheel, breezy and bright. Spin me good morning, spin me good night.

http://www.rugratonline.com/pinwheel.gif

[mcchrist]

Gad! :eek1: :nervous:

[r_burgos2003]

What was scary for me was the TV MOVIE "What Ever Happened To...?". It was a remake of "What ever happened to baby jane?" and when the guy got a pair of siscors in his back I screamed as loud as I could!

[Atmims]

Originally posted by aoiookami
just like everyone else, it sounds fugged up but the 'wheelers' from Retrun to Oz, and the Boogyman from the animated Ghostbusters traumatized me:nervous:

Those wheelers scared me but not to the point of having nightmares. There were creepy for sure. I'm really suprised someone else would mention those!

[Atmims]

Originally posted by mcchrist
You know, that's funny, I had absolutely no problem with horror movies as a kid. I was already well on my way with them, but some of these so called family films and children's programming threw me into fits. Right now I'm thinking of "Pinwheel" on Nickelodeon, adn also that other Nickelodeon show with the mannikin that came to life if you put on his magic hat (whatever that was called)

McChrist, you have no idea how much Plus and Minus from Pinwheel creeped me out as a kid. I've actually mentioned it on this message board before. :nervous: I swear every single puppet on pinwheel was creepy as hell and that picture Mortis posted gives me a funny feeling just looking at it.

I don't know the direct cause of it but when I was little I had EXTREME night terrors. Ones where I would run around the house screaming at the top of my lungs in the middle of the night. I had so many I can't even count.

[Jamm]

Although I'd seen much scarier movies at ealier ages, I was only 8 or 9 when Salem's Lot came out. After seeing that movie, I used to wake up screaming from nightmares about some horrible thing floating outside my window!!!

[speanroc]

maniac gave me nightmares.

[r_burgos2003]

I remember looking at my window and being freaked out that HENRY LEE LUCAS (Henry: Portrait of a serial killer) would kill me (I had a screwy childhood) or the theme song from ROSEMARY'S BABY (the title credits one) La la la la la la la la la la la la la la la....la la la la la la la....la la la la la la......freaky! Right?

[Mark Relford]

Originally posted by mcchrist
that other Nickelodeon show with the mannikin that came to life if you put on his magic hat (whatever that was called)

Today's Special (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0198253)
What about the New Zoo Revue? Henrietta Hippo gave me nightmares!:D

[slinker]

Another Update!

Check out this link to see Mr.Noseybonks in action (realplayer) and tell me he wouldnt make a terrifying killer!! :nervous:

Mr Noseybonks In Action. (http://www.lynn3686.freeserve.co.uk/jigsaw.html#clips)

Click on the 3rd Link titled` Noseybonks pottering about`

That shit scarred me for life! :(

[Eddie Quist]

Remember that movie THE WIZ from the 1970's? There was this scene where these weird, big-eyed freaks were chasing Diana Ross and Michael Jackson down the road... That's all I remember, but I know those things scared the shit out of me at the time. :nervous:

"Ease on down the road" my ass!!

[mcchrist]

I know this is much much later, but what about Zoobalie Zoo? I swear if that had come out during my formative years I'd be in jail.

[Mortis]

That one pic on that page looks like Jason Vorhees. :D

Originally posted by slinker
Another Update!

Check out this link to see Mr.Noseybonks in action (realplayer) and tell me he wouldnt make a terrifying killer!! :nervous:

Mr Noseybonks In Action. (http://www.lynn3686.freeserve.co.uk/jigsaw.html#clips)

Click on the 3rd Link titled` Noseybonks pottering about`

That shit scarred me for life! :(

[Mortis]

http://www.zoobileezoo.com/castsm2.jpg

Originally posted by mcchrist
I know this is much much later, but what about Zoobalie Zoo? I swear if that had come out during my formative years I'd be in jail.

[mcchrist]

Fucking hell! Tell me that isn't some scary shit! :nervous:

[mcchrist]

Check out this link to see Mr.Noseybonks in action (realplayer) and tell me he wouldnt make a terrifying killer!!

Nosebonks planting "Nosegays"... My god that is scary as hell!

[arcaneimagery]

Im not trying to get off topic here but since were talking about freaky shit from our childhood and Nickelodian seems too be popping up, does anyone remember one of the first min series they put out called the "Third Eye"? It came out around 83 or 84 when Nickelodian first came on cable and if anyone knows where I can get a copy of it or the other series with the kids that found out the secrets of Stonehendge that would be cool, hell i'll even make you a svcd or vcd copy your choice.

[legnadibrom]

an episode of "knight rider" and movie "mister boogedy"

[Atmims]

oh god! Zoobalie Zoo! :nervous: I forgot about that sick show.

Scariest puppet ever:

Lady Elaine from Mr. Rogers.
http://www.blairmag.com/blair6/madame/elaine.jpg

:nervous: Still creepy...
If anyone can find better picture please post.

[MegamanX]

E.T. probably scared me the most. I don't know what it was about him, but I had a dream that he tried to kill me.

My sister gave me a ceramic E.T. with a red stomach that would light up when you plugged it in to an outlet. I would wake up sometimes and it felt like he was plotting to kill me!! :nervous:

So i had my mom take it out of my room. This was when i was 6 or 7.