What are some things you can remember seeing on tv as a child that scared you? I got the idea for this topic from an article on io9 (http://io9.com/5797499/). It reminded me of how I would always run for cover whenever these commercials for these "Mysteries of the Unknown" Time-Life books came on, especially this one. Holy freakin' crap! I still find it a little creepy today!
The 1980s United Artists logo thingy also scared the crap out of me whenever it came on in front of a movie.
When I was about 12 or 13, I saw this Japanese sci-fi movie called Zeiram on the Sci-Fi channel at night that scared me a little (I think it was mainly this weird, slightly phallic appendage that the titular alien would shoot out of its forehead that had a little kabuki mask thing on the end that freaked me out a little), but I think that by that time, I kind of enjoyed being scared by movies a little bit. (IIRC, like most late-night tv in the early 90s, the movie was accompanied by lots of ads for phone sex numbers, which may have aroused a whole other set of weird and slightly uncomfortable feelings.)
Come to think of it, I also saw the Stephen King tv-movie It when it first came out. I'm kind of amazed that my mom let me watch it (I think she did have kind of a "Why on earth would you want to watch that?" reaction; weirdly enough, she became a big fan of the HBO series True Blood years later). It scared me a little, but I think I wanted to be a little scared.
Did any of these scare you when you were a child?
The 1980s United Artists logo thingy also scared the crap out of me whenever it came on in front of a movie.
When I was about 12 or 13, I saw this Japanese sci-fi movie called Zeiram on the Sci-Fi channel at night that scared me a little (I think it was mainly this weird, slightly phallic appendage that the titular alien would shoot out of its forehead that had a little kabuki mask thing on the end that freaked me out a little), but I think that by that time, I kind of enjoyed being scared by movies a little bit. (IIRC, like most late-night tv in the early 90s, the movie was accompanied by lots of ads for phone sex numbers, which may have aroused a whole other set of weird and slightly uncomfortable feelings.)
Come to think of it, I also saw the Stephen King tv-movie It when it first came out. I'm kind of amazed that my mom let me watch it (I think she did have kind of a "Why on earth would you want to watch that?" reaction; weirdly enough, she became a big fan of the HBO series True Blood years later). It scared me a little, but I think I wanted to be a little scared.
Did any of these scare you when you were a child?
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