What scared the **** out of you when you were little???

[tygerSI33]

Originally Posted by Fixer

Scott.....OMG........I thought I was the only one ever frightened by those dastardly flying monkeys! They were pure evil! Horror movies in general never bothered me but an Academy Awarding winning musical scared the bejesus out me! Great, now I'm not going to able to sleep tonight thinking those monkeys are going to land on my window ledge and whisk me away. Thanks Scott.

Your welcome. I also am a fan of Andretti racing. I have many items signed by Mario and Michael (hats, cards, posters, etc...).

[tygerSI33]

Originally Posted by atruhondagrl

I forgot Gozer from Ghostbusters. That woman scared the crud out of me. I was 8 when I saw Ghostbusters in the theatre.

I thought she was hot.

[reelbigfish241]

reading those stories about spiders gave me the chills. disgusting.

I'm also afraid of the dark, I think it's because I don't feel like I have control over the situation when I can't see the situation, haha.

I usually keep my gecko leopards light on at night, or my computer monitor

spiders + the dark = heart attack

[atruhondagrl]

Originally Posted by tygerSI33

I thought she was hot.

She looked like Sheena Easton as a corpse.

[Jaranath]

Originally Posted by atruhondagrl

She looked like Sheena Easton as a corpse.

"Ray...when someone asks you if you're a god, you say...YES!!!"

[atruhondagrl]

Originally Posted by Jaranath

"Ray...when someone asks you if you're a god, you say...YES!!!"

[Phlipcyde]

When I was young I was very afraid of moths. Even today they will still startle me. I absolutely HATE those flying minions of evil and will not hesitate to hunt them down. Just look at this picture and tell me these creatures are not the spawn of satan himself.

[si_civic]

Seriously, clowns are the worst. Maybe not visually, but mentally. I hate them. Ronald can go to hell too. Birthday clowns, shoot em all. No clowns coming to my bday. never.

Stephen King's "It" (or ES for some reason, it's now ES lol) is scary as f***. Just the part where the clown f*cker is in the sewer drain looking out.

But, as a kid... I guess the closet scared me. Things "touching my feet" while in bed. Chainsaws too.


My girlfriend when she was 9 (two years ago) was scared of this:

[fa1]

that dam clown...now I'm gonna have nightmares...

[Jaranath]

Originally Posted by Phlipcyde

When I was young I was very afraid of moths. Even today they will still startle me. I absolutely HATE those flying minions of evil and will not hesitate to hunt them down. Just look at this picture and tell me these creatures are not the spawn of satan himself.

I dunno...all I see are compound eyes and one HELL of a chemoreceptive apparatus

[PhoenixDown]

Fire in the Sky kept me up for months -- when I was five, a neighbor and I saw what I believe to be an alien. Years later a ufo was spotted blocks from where I live. Scaaaaary.

[atruhondagrl]

Originally Posted by si_civic

Seriously, clowns are the worst. Maybe not visually, but mentally. I hate them. Ronald can go to hell too. Birthday clowns, shoot em all. No clowns coming to my bday. never.

Stephen King's "It" (or ES for some reason, it's now ES lol) is scary as f***. Just the part where the clown f*cker is in the sewer drain looking out.

"Balloons that FLOAT!" I was in highschool or jr highschool when that movie came out. I've always hated clowns and that movie just made me hate them more.

[CameronJr9]

Originally Posted by si_civic

Things "touching my feet" while in bed.

Yeah. That used to bother me. Nothing ever did touch my feet, but I always thought they would. Maybe that's why even today, no matter how hot it is, I have to sleep with at least one blanket.

[Fixer]

Originally Posted by si_civic

Seriously, clowns are the worst. Maybe not visually, but mentally. I hate them. Ronald can go to hell too. Birthday clowns, shoot em all. No clowns coming to my bday. never.

Stephen King's "It" (or ES for some reason, it's now ES lol) is scary as f***. Just the part where the clown f*cker is in the sewer drain looking out.

But, as a kid... I guess the closet scared me. Things "touching my feet" while in bed. Chainsaws too.

Es is German for IT. So you got the German ad somehow. Creepy movie and book. In fact all of King's early work was pretty creepy. I remember reading Pet Cemetary as a brand spanking new father and it really rattled me pretty good. Good authors can really mess with your head!

And I also had a period where I worried something was going to grab my feet as I was getting into bed. So I'd jump from about 10 feet out to avoid capture. Then I'd sleep perfectly in the middle of the bed with my arms crossing my chest. Often I would wake up in the exact same position and my mom told me to quit because it was creeping her out. Looked like I was in a coffin apparently. Nowadays the only thing that scares me is something happening to my kids and bad drivers.

[Fixer]

Originally Posted by tygerSI33

Your welcome. I also am a fan of Andretti racing. I have many items signed by Mario and Michael (hats, cards, posters, etc...).

I'm just grateful that the Wicked Witch of the East is dead and the monkeys do not have a spell cast upon them any longer. Ding, dong the witch is dead, the wicked witch is dead......

Started following Mario back in his F1 days. Really admire the guy. Finally got to meet and chat with him in '96 at the Champ car race in Cleveland as he was working with Michael's team. Nice guy and very fan friendly considering his legend status. Got an autograph but it's the handshake I remember most.

[cojaro]

When I was little, I absolutely HATED needles and anything resembling needles, which included anything that stings (i.e. bees, wasps, hornets, etc.)
I'm still quite wary around bees and wasps and the like.

Also, when I was little, I was deeply terrified of Pee-Wee Herman. If his show came on TV, I couldn't go into the room that had that TV.

[CivicWithNav]

hmm just the darkness

[sbigshot]

Originally Posted by CivicWithNav

hmm just the darkness

VID: night time @ the Dragon

[firmhonda]

What about that creepy clown from poltergeist??







That bastard scared the crap out of me for a while. I don't know, just something about dolls coming to life really f**ks with me. Maybe it's time for a little therapy..


Now that I think about it, that whole damn movie creeps me out. Especially the whole story about almost everyone associated with that movie dying in the years after it was made. Ghastly.

[Jaranath]

Originally Posted by firmhonda

Now that I think about it, that whole damn movie creeps me out. Especially the whole story about almost everyone associated with that movie dying in the years after it was made. Ghastly.

Heh, kinda forgot to mention my own scaries:

1. Haunted houses. No explanation, seems purely irrational, was utterly terrified of 'em as a kid and probably still have some remaining pathological fear. Damn near broke a friend's arm while fleeing one once.

2. Poltergeist. Again, no idea why. We rented two movies that evening. Once it got scary, despite being cuddled up with one of my parents, I shook through the entire film and most of the second, which was Tootsie. To this day, I have no idea what that movie was about, save that it featured Dustin Hoffman in drag.

The clown wasn't the issue for me, though it sure was for a friend of mine. I suspect Poltergeist got to me because it portrayed a very "normal," happy family with kids, much like mine, whose home and lives were invaded by this utter malevolence. Attacked my sense of security full-force, which had never really been challenged at all before that. On the plus side, once I'd gotten over the shock, no other movie could scare me, and I found the fun in scary movies. Which takes me to #3...:

3. Alien. The movie is good filmmaking in its own right, and it's a masterpiece of suspense/horror, even if it is finally showing its age. After my Poltergeist experience, I reasoned: "Well, nothing could be worse than that..." And I was right. I had learned the hard way that yes, movies could scare the crap out of you, but no, no matter how scary they still can't hurt you.

This is not to say Alien didn't scare me...it would have no business in this list if it didn't. But now, I savored the fear, learned to appreciate the thrill. Late at night, with my parents away at a neighborhood party or a dinner, I would turn off all lights, and pop the tape in. Our home had an odd, semi-open design with long hallways and "floating" cabinets in the kitchen that, in the dark, made it look disturbingly like the corridors of the Nostromo. Thus, I felt that I was on the set with the actors.

This, of course, was delicious. And the alien was the perfect monster...silent, stealthy, completely lethal, and utterly alien. If you saw it, you were dead. As Ash said:

"You still don't understand what you're dealing with, do you? A perfect organism. Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility."
"You admire it."
"... I admire its purity. A survivor. Unclouded by conscience...remorse...or delusions of morality."

And what was to say it wasn't somewhere in the hall behind me right now...perhaps by the laundry room...unfolding itself from the chute? Many nervous glances were stolen. The alien became my totem, as much my talisman against fear as my means of enjoying it.