Things that scared us as children

Kuato from this scene in Total Recall....

think i would have to think a bit further back than that to when i was a child

me and my mam used to sit up and watch the old corny horror movies and scare our selves silly. i used to have to sleep with my mam those nights. one film had a little native statue that would come to life and run round the floor with its little dagger stabbing people. one scene the woman locked herself in the bathroom and it hacked its way through the door. me and my mam wouldnt put our feet on the floor untill my stepdad came and checked under the couch think my mam was indulging me at the time. the main thing that used to frighten me though and it did frighten it sent a shiver and feeling of dread up my back was the music to the hammer house of horrors. that used to come on the telly after my bed time but if i heard i would run down the stairs crying my mam had to come sit on my bed till i fell asleep. she stopped watching it in the end cos of this. kids are silly really arent they

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There was a film , I think Stephen King , when they went to the upstairs window and there was someone up there floating , scratching and tapping , proper bricked it, and my brother had , and still has a dwarf thing going on

American Werewolf in London. Don't know why now though.

Mine was the child catcher from chitty chitty bang bang!! and I still hate to watch it even now at 41!!

Drop Dead Fred and the gremlins freaked me out. I have porcelin dolls and my cousins used to tell me they came alive at nite scarred the living crap out of me so I hid them in a suit case under my bed I got them back out a few years ago but now my boyfriend wont have them out because they freak him out mite have to stash a few round the house to see how he reacts lol.

For me it was Alfred Hitchkocks "The Birds". They still freak me out. I am always nervous of escalators. My mom was always freaked by them and would yell 'mind your toes' evertime we went on one. She regalled my brother and I with stories about them trapping your toes and squishing them

This freaked me out when i was little

can't think of ote!

I was a strange child and loved watching horror movies as if they were kiddy films

Evil Dead
Freddy
The toilet chain
The hoover.

I watched an documentary on John Merrick 'the elephant man' when I was about eight and it terrified me for years afterwards. Even though I felt sorry for him and knew his deformity wasn't his fault. Then, last year I thought I was over it and decided to watch the film with John Hurt, completely terrified myself and had to sleep with the light on. Just kept imagining him stumbling out the wardrobe in the mask and hat he wore. Took me several weeks to get over it again Stupid I know.
Also when I was really young there was this cartoon I loved called Mighty Max, my friend had a video of one episode about these green sea Zombies. I had nightmares for months after watching a minuite of it. Also I used to hallucinate things like this tall cloaked figure gliding around my room and coming to grab me.
I actually become more sensitive as i've got older. I cringe at bloody scenes in films and I never used to. I also get freaked out and cry a lot easier.

the candy man, couldn't look at a mirror properly for ages

The Night of the Hunter . Robert Mitchum terrified me when he slit the kids mothers throat and they see her body in the river . Lillian Gish saves them but i couldn't go for a pee after dark for months!! and i had to sleep with my duvet tucked up around my neck. I blame my parents for letting me watch it

steve76 wrote:the candy man, couldn't look at a mirror properly for ages

Love those movies. We used to chant Bloody Mary into the mirror when I was a kid