What scared you as a child but makes laugh now?

[Tom]

That was George Romero's first film and the film that kicked off his career.
It was filmed about 75 miles north of my home.
Romero and John Russo co-wrote it and it was filmed on a paltery $150,000 budget.

Yes, I have seen all five of his films. Enjoyed them all. I think he passed away this year.

 

[Tom]

LOL...so many of those first episodes of "The Outer Limits" in 1963 scared me plenty.

The Galaxy Being was pretty freaky. I think it was the eyes...

 

[Nitro]

Yes, I have seen all five of his films. Enjoyed them all. I think he passed away this year.

Nuts! I wasn't aware of that.
Tom Savini who did special effects for a few of his films is still local to me.

In fact,I used to go to the mall where Dawn of the Dead was filmed. Savini did makeup,played a bit part in it and I know some of the bikers who were extras.

 

[Tom]

Nuts! I wasn't aware of that.
Tom Savini who did special effects for a few of his films is still local to me.

In fact,I used to go to the mall where Dawn of the Dead was filmed. Savini did makeup,played a bit part in it and I know some of the bikers who were extras.

That one (Dawn of the Dead) is one of the rare sequels as good or better then original. I have seen it often listed at the top of all Zombie films.

 

[Nitro]

That one (Dawn of the Dead) is one of the rare sequels as good or better then original. I have seen it often listed at the top of all Zombie films.

For the mall footage,they filmed Dawn of the Dead on Sundays when the mall was closed and the parking lot would be empty.
The guys who rode bikes in the film told me how slippery it was on the mall floors but a blast it was to be able to trash the joint.
This next part is going to age me a bit
I'm sure a lot of the younger members here from the USA would be lost if we tried to tell them about Sunday blue laws.

 

[Celestiune]

I remember playing Pokemon Platinum and stumbled across a haunted mansion in the middle of a forest (I had no guide or internet access so i was doing this game completely blind). It had this large kitchen area, and sometimes a ghost of a butler appears and I remember being completely confused and eventually scared of the place. So much so that I'd begged my cousin to go in the mansion to catch a Pokemon to access the post-game. I'm still scared of this place but its so funny that I'm literally scared of some dumb haunted house in an E-rated game.

This is the song that plays in the area BTW

 

[Gracey]

The pattern on a wooden veneered door I had to pass in our hallway. (Childhood home) it resembled Edward Munces scream. My brothers told me it was the face of the monster trapped in there trying to get out.



The flush sound of the loo in the dark.
I could reach the bathroom pull switch light but neither the landing or hallway light switches.
I had to go up the stairs in the dark on my own.
Find comfort in the turning on of bathroom light.

But then turn off the light after I'd flushed (and run across the landing and down the stairs) whilst the water was making a really, really loud noise and it was so dark I had to count my paces and feel for hand rails.

 

[SusanLR]

The first thing that scared me as a child was a spider.
And I still get the creeps with them.
I didn't feel much fear as a child and the only thing I can think of that scared me me was the horrible loud noise of firecrackers.
Now I can enjoy fireworks going off right next to me.

 

[Mr Allen]

A wrestling event I watched years ago, think it was the 1994 Survivor Series (WWF), Jake "The Snake" Roberts set a King Cobra on the late great "Macho Man" Randy Savage! Being scared of big Snakes anyway I was terrified! Then somebody told me the Snake had been defanged prior to the event.

 

[AGXStarseed]

Charn from Look and Read's Through the Dragon's Eye. This guy looks like a cross between a plague doctor and a raven, with a visible rib-cage and large claws on his hands that could shoot green lightning bolts; turning you into a puddle of sludge in one hit.
As a kid he creeped me out, while for others he was scary enough to give them nightmares and make parents request that their kids skip the video sessions in class.

Nowadays, he looks pretty silly.
He appears from Episode 5 to Episode 8 with him and Gorwen - a dragon who beat and banished him previously - battling it out in the final part:

 

[SchrodingersMeerkat]

A wrestling event I watched years ago, think it was the 1994 Survivor Series (WWF), Jake "The Snake" Roberts set a King Cobra on the late great "Macho Man" Randy Savage! Being scared of big Snakes anyway I was terrified! Then somebody told me the Snake had been defanged prior to the event.

Telling me the snake had been defanged would have probably made me even more scared. Hearing about animals being hurt...especially deliberately always bothered me.

 

[pjcnet]

Having my photo taken, I screamed and went into meltdown when I was around 3 years old after they tried to take a souvenir photograph of me after returning from a pleasure flight in a light single engine aircraft, the flying part didn't bother me in the slightest and it's one of my earliest memories lol!

Edit: I also used to have nightmares as a young child about light shades coming after me, spinning making weird noises, when I was awake and looked at them they always looked like they were leaning towards me and looking at me, I hated them.

PS: The 2nd time I flew was also in a light aircraft when I did a parachute jump for charity at the age of 18.

 

[Meg12]

Night Gallery

 

[Katleya]

This:

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Find it really hilarious and quite ugly now. It's a children's savings bank, that terrified me as a child. Now I find it funny. It's still really creepy looking though.
The yellow stuff on it was always there, it had pieces of tape keeping it together. The face itself, always lacked one eye, which gave me nightmares.

Heck, I'm scared of it now, and I'm an adult
I couldn't have put money in it either. Or maybe I could have, but would never have felt brave enough to try to get it back.

LOL...so many of those first episodes of "The Outer Limits" in 1963 scared me plenty.

I'd actually like to see some of those again, now. Isn't there a reboot in the works? I think I read somewhere that there would be one, but will it be any good?
That being said, one episode terrified me. Can't remember anything about it except a coin (being tossed or dropped, I just remember a frame of the coin doing that little flipping dance before it lands flat).
So just hearing the theme play was enough to terrify me, and my imagination would pick up from there on.

On a similar note: The X-Files theme. Just hearing it play across the hallway in my parents' living-room was enough to send me into meltdown mode. Took 3 years for me to be able to watch an episode (shouldn't have, lol), but had to cover my ears so I wouldn't hear the music. I'm not sure I'd laugh about it now, but I could probably stand to hear it without going in a full panic.

 

[Judge]

I'd actually like to see some of those again, now. Isn't there a reboot in the works? I think I read somewhere that there would be one, but will it be any good?

The Outer Limits (1963-64) was rebooted several years ago in 1995 with 154 episodes to 2002. I saw most if not all of those episodes. Rather good too, although they seemed to make an attempt not to overlap the stories of the original series.

To my knowledge both series have been available on video for some time. I have every episode of the original series on DVD.

 

[Katleya]

The Outer Limits (1963-64) was rebooted several years ago in 1995 with 154 episodes to 2002. I saw most if not all of those episodes. Rather good too, although they seemed to make an attempt not to overlap the stories of the original series.

To my knowledge both series have been available on video for some time. I have every episode of the original series on DVD.

Thanks for the clarification! Got my reboots mixed up, it's the Twilight Zone that's getting a do-over. Oh boy... add that theme to the list. Looks like music really did a number on me, when I was little.

 

[Judge]

Thanks for the clarification! Got my reboots mixed up, it's the Twilight Zone that's getting a do-over. Oh boy... add that theme to the list. Looks like music really did a number on me, when I was little.

The Twilight Zone was also rebooted from 1985 to 1989. But not as classy as the original, IMO.

 

[Katleya]

I wonder if it's going to be a reboot to the reboot, or a different reboot altogether.
But that's the one I meant to post the link to an hour ago: ‘Twilight Zone’ Reboot From Jordan Peele, Simon Kinberg, Marco Ramirez Greenlit at CBS All Access

 

[AGXStarseed]

The Twilight Zone was also rebooted from 1985 to 1989. But not as classy as the original, IMO.

The 1980's reboot did have some decent episodes, though.

The same can't be said for the 2002 reboot, though, which was pretty terrible. The only episode of it I remember well was a 'sequel' to "it's a good life" which showed the boy with the freaky powers now grown up and with a child of his own. It was good as well to see them bring the original actor back - now grown up - and had the actor's actual daughter play the little girl in the episode.

 

[xDominiel]

There was this African-style sculpture a family member had, a very thin mis-shapen man leaning on a drum. For some reason it always spooked me a bit. Eventually over the years it looked more and more worn until the hay it had for hair just lost its grip and slid off. It stopped being scary and started being funny at that point.