The first tv/film(s) to scare you
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Remember when you first saw a scary film and because you were a child you couldn't sleep at night for being scared?
Whilst occasionally a film can leave me a little unsettled (Ringu, Martyrs for example) they can't really actually cause a scare 'cos they're only a moovie see'
However I do remember being absolutely terrified with 'The Legend of Boggy Creek' http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068837
It's basically a crap bigfoot film, but it said it was 'based on a true story' and my parents house had a big garden that backed onto a wood, therefore in my head that's where Bigfoot lived. I spent most of the winter evenings looking out my bedroom window convinced he was there!
Also 'Jaws', this premièred on the telly, my folks let me watch the start where the nice lady gets eaten, then tell me it was bed time!
Not a chance in hell of sleeping that night!!
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It's a pity in a way that you grow out of being scared, but I thought it might be fun to see if anyone had an equivalent scare when they were too young to know better.
Whilst occasionally a film can leave me a little unsettled (Ringu, Martyrs for example) they can't really actually cause a scare 'cos they're only a moovie see'
However I do remember being absolutely terrified with 'The Legend of Boggy Creek' http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068837
It's basically a crap bigfoot film, but it said it was 'based on a true story' and my parents house had a big garden that backed onto a wood, therefore in my head that's where Bigfoot lived. I spent most of the winter evenings looking out my bedroom window convinced he was there!
Also 'Jaws', this premièred on the telly, my folks let me watch the start where the nice lady gets eaten, then tell me it was bed time!
Not a chance in hell of sleeping that night!!
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ds!It's a pity in a way that you grow out of being scared, but I thought it might be fun to see if anyone had an equivalent scare when they were too young to know better.
Lotus Notes said:
the Darleks of course...
We only had a 13" B&W portable telly so it wasn't really able to scare.Didn't get a colour until Tom Baker
I remember when my younger sister saw Jaws, she was terrified and demanded to know 'why did they call that nasty fish George!'
I was never actually able to see horror films when I was little, my imagination could turn regular TV into one quite easily, seeing the titles to the TV series for The Hulk was enough to send me hinding behind the couch.
spats said:
The original "the Thing" it didn't scare me so much as horrify me. still love the work that went into the special effects back then.
One scene in The Invasion of the Body Snatchers scared me though. Right at the end when the last lady alive sees what she thinks is the last bloke alive, he turns to her when she reveals herself to be human to him and he just turns and starts the awful screaming while looking at pointing at her. I think its also the realisation the humankind has been wiped out and replaced completely as well.
This! Particularly IofBS I saw the original version when I was little, really quite worried me at the time.One scene in The Invasion of the Body Snatchers scared me though. Right at the end when the last lady alive sees what she thinks is the last bloke alive, he turns to her when she reveals herself to be human to him and he just turns and starts the awful screaming while looking at pointing at her. I think its also the realisation the humankind has been wiped out and replaced completely as well.
Quite often The Twilight Zone or the Outer Limits would leave me a little displaced, shame you don't really get TV like that any more.
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