The first tv/film(s) to scare you

[crazy about cars]

Freddy Kruger - Nightmare on Elm Street

[vanordinaire]

Apparently (I can't remember) I was terrified of the Daleks when they were first on TV. I've Googled it and their first ever appearance was when I was six weeks old, no wonder I was scared.

[chris watton]

Beati Dogu said:

Mcphisto said:

Trilogy of Terror had me out in a cold sweat when I was young.

It's a mini Russell Brand !

I actually have this on DVD - Managed to track it down and bought it from the US.

hammer House of Horror did one like it too, called 'Charlie Boy'

[davegreg]

FerdiZ28 said:

Threads.

Still gives me the creeps now, realistic to my young mind and probably not far off a certain reality one day.

Watched that film for the first time fairly recently - probably the most grim and realistic film about nuclear war as you'll get. Depressing in the extreme.

[4sure]

Nom de ploom said:

As a kid the triffids 80s series scared teh bejaysus out of me.

as a slightly older kid the first time I saw "The Thing" i dumped my rubbish.....

"The Thing"original for me too,put me off electric blankets for life

[Blackpuddin]

The Beast With Five Fingers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=he58B8gjfBc
and The Pit And The Pendulum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPG92YqKx5A

[matrignano]

S10GTA said:

IT, when I was about 7 or 8. Couldn't go into the bathroom without putting the plug in.

I still shiver at the thought of that bd wker clown

[ShyTallKnight]

It was the summer of 1983 and I was hospitalised at the age of 11 with suspected rheumatoid arthritis. I remember watching a TV drama about rabies was it 'The mad death' (??) where a fox contracts rabies and the terror ensues. Fcked me right up that did especially as I was suffering from hallucinations at the time and that damn fox would appear to me in the middle of the night....

[SeanyD]

davegreg said:

FerdiZ28 said:

Threads.

Still gives me the creeps now, realistic to my young mind and probably not far off a certain reality one day.

Watched that film for the first time fairly recently - probably the most grim and realistic film about nuclear war as you'll get. Depressing in the extreme.

Yep, watched Threads as a young lad and it probably scarred me for Life, terrifying.

and The Shining, the first VHS video my parents hired for a night, scared me stupid.

[qube_TA]

The Shining was one of the first films we got on VHS, the novelty of being able to watch a film when you wanted was quite strong so ended up watching this over and over, much to the upset of my mother who is still scared to death by 'scary' films.

[droopsnoot]

Elroy Blue said:

Salems Lot. (The one with David Soul and James Mason) The vampire guy floating and tapping at the bedroom window terrified me for weeks.

And me. Though for me it was when the guy inexplicably jumped down into the open grave of the kid that had been suspiciously killed and opened the lid of the coffin. Camera turns to one side to show bloke, turns back and "dead" kid is sitting up facing him.

I don't really remember watching "Day of the Triffids" when it was originally on (though I remember it being on, perhaps just dismissed it as being similar to "Survivors") but I did enjoy watching it over the last few weeks when they repeated it on BBC4 on Sunday nights.

[goldblum]

droopsnoot said:

And me. Though for me it was when the guy inexplicably jumped down into the open grave of the kid that had been suspiciously killed and opened the lid of the coffin. Camera turns to one side to show bloke, turns back and "dead" kid is sitting up facing him.

* shudder *

[cianha]

Triffids, (my eyes!)

The Incredible Hulk used to give me recurring nightmares for about a year.

And as for the raptors in the kitchen…

[RizzoTheRat]

First film to properly make me jump was The Shining, although that wasn't so much the film as the really annoying girl sat in front of me in the uni hall of residence TV room who screamed very loudly quite regularly. Although not as loudly as she screamed when someone got back to her room before her and wrote REDRUM on the back of her door in red lipstick, I heard that from 2 buildings away.

The biggest proper jump I've had from a film in the cinema was Event Horizon, a quite scene when one of the lead characters suddenly has some thought leap in to his mind and I nearly took off

[SpudLink]

As a child I had recurring nightmares of a big hairy creature with giant claws attacking me. Decades later I watched an early John Pertwee Doctor Who, and realised where my nightmare came from. (I thought I'd imagined it.)

I remember the first time The Omen was broadcast on TV, and that was the scariest thing I'd seen.

The first real scare in the cinema was Alien, which I snuck in to see at 14 (it was the equivalent of the modern 18 certificate).

[Hammerhead]

Jaws. The head popping out of the sunken boat had me checking under my bed for ages.. That scene still makes me jump now.

Some episodes of Star Trek had me hiding behind the sofa, as a nipper.

The Fog. Just creepy.

Event Horizon.

[Johnnytheboy]

SlidingSideways said:

Nom de ploom said:

As a kid the triffids 80s series scared teh bejaysus out of me.

Yup, I think I must have only been about 6 when it was on, not sure what possessed my parents to let me watch it.

Saw it on some random Freeview channel the other weekend. Remembered what really scared me: the title sequence, with some atonal choral music over the top of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HLGkgM5U50

[chris watton]

Hammerhead said:

Jaws. The head popping out of the sunken boat had me checking under my bed for ages.. That scene still makes me jump now.

That's the part that made me jump so much in the cinema, I my arms involuntary went up and threw my coat over my dad!

[Nom de ploom]

Johnnytheboy said:

SlidingSideways said:

Nom de ploom said:

As a kid the triffids 80s series scared teh bejaysus out of me.

Yup, I think I must have only been about 6 when it was on, not sure what possessed my parents to let me watch it.

Saw it on some random Freeview channel the other weekend. Remembered what really scared me: the title sequence, with some atonal choral music over the top of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HLGkgM5U50

wasn't Tripods similar???? that was creepy but not scary....

[Johnnytheboy]

I don't remember the Tripods titles.