Things on T.V that scared you as a child.
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kalidarkone
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The first things I can remember that scared me from TV (I used to hide behind the sofa) were people on top of the pops- Noddy Holder, Gary Glitter and Den Heggerty-it was the scary eyes!! Also Emu! I was about 3years old.
miniGMgoit
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The opening credits to World in Action used to frighten the life out of me. Something about the urgency of it all. Like we're all going to die.
Panorama did that to me - it was the graphics of the opening sequence.
That's going to happen whatever the background music.
That weird bulbous nose freak thing still disturbs me to this day 
Me too. It was all too much - the Vitruvian Man (?) had a scary face and scary hair and, to my seven-year-old mind, four arms and four legs. The music was , as you say, doom-laden. And then you'd get some report about gloomy adult mysteries like Supplementary Benefit or the People's March for Jobs.
Now, I'd be so pleased if ITV had something half as substantive say, once a year, let alone once a week.
punchdrunkme
the fuck I do?
Moomins and assorted 'friends'. Bloody terrifying.
LOOK AT THE EYES
Pure evil.
These used to scare the shit out of me. Esp that little lady. That woman in the film of The Beach look just like her and she freaks me out a bit too. Tilda Swinton she's called.
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2103220992/nm0842770
Yeah, still a bit freaked out looking at that picture like. Horrible.
ice-is-forming
let me rephrase that... Fuck off
Balham
If it ain't in London then, well, it just ain't.
Already mentioned but Dr Who And The Daleks (William Hartnell). Not just the dwarf from the Sing Rining Tree but the series "Tales From Europe" from which it came was a bit creepy at times. The big dog in the Tinderbox . . . .. scary!
1960s public information films. There were some about children, boiling water and all that.
1960s public information films. There were some about children, boiling water and all that.
miniGMgoit
OverWeightUnderAchiever
In fact here it is 
miniGMgoit
OverWeightUnderAchiever
Also this episode of Marmalade Atkins where she gets put in "The Bad Girl Cupboard" also frightened me so much I cried and screamed. Can't remember which bit but I guess it was when she nudged the skeleton and it's head moved. Seems so unfrightening now though :confused"
6 minutes mark had me screaming for my mum and dad and crying????
6 minutes mark had me screaming for my mum and dad and crying????
billy_bob
Air of bewilderment model's own
The Two Ronnies doing The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town. The phantom Raspberry blower shit me up
Thanks a lot - I'm on my own in the house.
(I remember being aware that this was
even at the time but was still scared of it)
gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
We didn't have a telly, so it was only very occasionally round my aunty's that I got to hide behind a cushion for the Daleks.
Since then I have studiously avoided watching anything scary or unpleasant.
Since then I have studiously avoided watching anything scary or unpleasant.
Psychonaut
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i found that clip very unsettling (seeing it for the first time now - i think) the 'nuns' and the whole set up of the school has a very macabre & sinister quality. thats building upon the theme of having been taken/abandoned from the security and protection of home/parents (admittedly this was a reccuring nightmare for me).
the skeleton bit does seems completely lame now.
ruffneck23
front left
saphire and steele for me, the one about the plague , i think it was, with the 'ring o ring of roses ' theme going on
Garek
Living n ADDled chaos
I can't believe they needed an public safety video to tell you how stupid that was. Though maybe the fact that's my reaction shows the success of the video (I was born after it).
Youtube has this for a related video
That's a bit graphic!
A blackened corpse and and a small child lit up like Blackpool.Similar threads
