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Post by shmeep on Feb 10, 2006 13:34:31 GMT -5
*Back in the 70's, there was a special on TV about Big Foot and how he might possibly be real. In one scene, Big Foot's fist broke through a window, narrowly missing a girl who had been sitting there watching TV. She started screaming. I don't know why, but that image stayed with me for years, making me leery of couches near windows. It took a long time for me to stop expecting to see that fist breaking through the glass.
*Little House on the Prairie: Where would one even start when it comes to the scarring in this show. A guy in a mask spying on a girl, raping her, and eventually causing her to fall to her death. The blind school burning to the ground with Alice Garvey and Mary's baby inside. Alice Garvey using the baby as a battering ram to try and break through a window. The Coopers wagon roll of death as the husband tells his wife to jump and she screams, "I can't! I can't!" The children being trapped in a barn as wild dogs kill all the livestock outside and then try and get in to them. All the plague episodes, complete with tertiary characters dying horrible deaths. Carrie's acting. I'm amazed if anyone who watched this show came out unscathed.
*Quincy: Vivid depiction of a drive-by shooting convinced me that people routinely drove around, aiming firearms at children who looked like they were having fun in their front yards.
Bones: Really good show but...did we need the scene during which Temperance took the skin of the hand of a dead person and wore it like a glove?
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Post by anna on Feb 10, 2006 17:56:27 GMT -5
When I was a small child, I saw an episode of Twilight Zone in which an image of a man in a mirror was yelling at a character in the show. That's all I remember about it, and I may not even remember it correctly. However, through much of my childhood, I did not like to glance unexpectedly at a mirror. Now, of course, I have other reasons for not wanting to look too closely in a mirror.  |
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Post by Duchess of Lashes on Feb 10, 2006 19:52:13 GMT -5
Here I go dating myself! Back when I was in Grade School (Grade Three if I remember correctly) there was a terribly(and I really mean that!) great daytime soap, Dark Shadows, (shown on dare I say it: ABC) written around a central character, Barnabus Collins and family. Barnabus, like many of his relatives, was a vampire! I used to watch this show at a friend's after school because it was highly taboo in my house - scared the pants off me - still does! My sister and I shared a room at the time and I was so thankful I had the top bunk because I was sure that if the vampires were real (and I was convinced they were - no one could tell me otherwise) they would certainly go for my sister first because she was on the bottom bunk and much easier prey! By the time they were done with her, they wouldn't even notice me! And when I got too big for the top bunk and my parents switched us, I can't tell you the fears I had! The covers were always up over my head - if they couldn't see me, they couldn't get me!  It was years before I could actually walk alone in the dark, or sleep without a light on. To this day, the only vampire movie I have been able to watch that didn't bring back the heebie jeebies is the Lost Boys. (And posting this picture tonite.... that hall light is staying on!) |
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Post by bjobsessed on Feb 11, 2006 9:48:58 GMT -5
That is a really scary picture! How did you ever watch the show?
I remember watching Goosebumps quite a bit. I can't remember anything specific, but I do remember being afraid to sleep in the dark or hang my hand over the side of the bed after watching it. Doors seemed to move all by themselves too. That show was always so wierd.
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Post by Duchess of Lashes on Feb 11, 2006 10:06:39 GMT -5
It was a very scary show and I think we all watched because you were a "chicken" if you didn't! I can't tell you the nightmares I had or the sleepless nights I endured because of my early addiction to this program. But of course, I couldn't stop watching, and I wouldn't stop watching even though it was a complete and total "horror"! I wasn't about to be labeled a "chicken" at the tender age of 7 !
I didn't know at that point that this show was going to scar (and scare) me for life!
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Post by inuvik on Feb 11, 2006 12:52:49 GMT -5
I don't remember being scarred by any TV shows. My TV time was very limited and always supervised.
But, for movies--obviously not monitored as closely.
I DO remember being scarred by ET. I saw it with my father when I was only 3 or 4. ET's illness and death scared me so much! I remember being scared that I would die. I had nightmares for ages, and I can still remember the fear I had. I think ET itself also scared me, kind of a scary looking thing when you are that young!
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Post by bjobsessed on Feb 11, 2006 12:57:06 GMT -5
I think ET itself also scared me, kind of a scary looking thing when you are that young! I loved ET and always thought he was cute, but I was a whole lot older than three so I'm sure that had something to do with it. |
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Post by hoosier on Feb 11, 2006 17:12:43 GMT -5
There used to be a commerical for some kind of tire when I was a kid and a hand would come out of the sky and "grip the road for extra traction". Scared the dickens out of me every time.
The first time they showed the Exorcist on TV my brothers and sisters and I wanted to see it really bad. Well, we did and when one of us had to go to the bathroom, all of us had to go to the bathroom! We were too scared to go alone and no one wanted to stay in the other room alone!
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Post by doobrah on Feb 11, 2006 18:29:06 GMT -5
Back when I was in Grade School there was a terribly(and I really mean that!) great daytime soap, Dark Shadows, (shown on dare I say it: ABC) written around a central character, Barnabus Collins and family. Barnabus, like many of his relatives, was a vampire! I used to watch this show at a friend's after school because it was highly taboo in my house - scared the pants off me - still does! I LOVED "Dark Shadows." It was THE show in school. Either I would watch at a friend's house or they would watch at mine. And we'd miss every other Monday's episode because that when our Girl Scouts' troop met. And this was pre-VCRs. It was truly must-see TV. Barnabas didn't scare me much. It was Angelique who was truly evil. And when Quentin turned into a zombie, and the ghosts would appear... YIKES! ----------- There are a couple of Twilight Zone and Night Gallery (both hosted by Rod Serling) episodes that still give me the heebie-jeebies. The TZ about the phone line that comes loose in the cemetery. The woman in the grave it falls on calls her toddler grandson on the phone, but the parents don't believe the kid when he says he's talking to Grandma. She wants to be reunited with him and tells him to do dangerous things like run into traffic. Finally the boy's father (the dead woman's son) takes the phone away from the boy and tell grandma to leave him alone. Years later, when my grandmother died, I still remembered that show and worried that she would call me from the grave. I wouldn't answer the phone for the longest time. The other episode is about a guy who "abuses" his appliances and is rough with them. By the end of the episode they've all had enough, and the can opener, the razor, the vacuum and all the other appliances come after him seeking revenge. Sounds stupid, but it was really scary! |
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Post by Eyphur on Feb 11, 2006 19:52:43 GMT -5
The only TV show that I can remember really scarring me for life was some type of "World's Scariest Places" or "Most Haunted Places" type show. I'm not sure what it was called. IT wasn't a type of show that I would normally watch but I was spending the night with relatives that don't have internet access so I had nothing better to do. I stopped on that particular show because it was talking about this supposedly haunted room at Ohio University in Athens and I had visited the school the previous year on a band field trip so because of that connection I watched it and actually had a nightmare. That is the only time I can ever remember having a nightmare from something on TV. When I was a little kid my family would watch Rescue 911 and I remember being terrified of programs that featured house fires. I was always afraid when we went on vacation that I would come home and my house would have burned down. As for movies, The Green Mile was probably the most scarring. I was 17 when I first saw it and I slept with the lights on (Actually just the TV which cast enough light into the room and provided entertainment to keep my mind from contemplating the Green Mile) for a month afterwords. I think I usually watched and fell asleep during while watching the final episode of M*A*S*H. I never did have any nightmares about the movie although I still shudder to think of it. * Little House on the Prairie: Where would one even start when it comes to the scarring in this show. A guy in a mask spying on a girl, raping her, and eventually causing her to fall to her death. The blind school burning to the ground with Alice Garvey and Mary's baby inside. Alice Garvey using the baby as a battering ram to try and break through a window. The Coopers wagon roll of death as the husband tells his wife to jump and she screams, "I can't! I can't!" The children being trapped in a barn as wild dogs kill all the livestock outside and then try and get in to them. All the plague episodes, complete with tertiary characters dying horrible deaths. Carrie's acting. I'm amazed if anyone who watched this show came out unscathed. Although I didn't like Little House on the Prairie as a little kid (or even a big kid) though I later came to love the books, and I still don't love the show now, but if there is nothing better on I will watch it. I don't find it scarring me for life but instead through Little House I have learned a valuable lesson from shmeep about how much fun it is to make snarky comments about a show. |
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Post by dogma on Feb 12, 2006 1:08:57 GMT -5
two things come to mind :
one: i was very young,, maybe first grade,, and we had a neighborhood theater that showed kiddie weekend matinees for 35 cents,, i was at one,, and they showed a preview for an edgar allan poe movie,, there was a scene with a coffin opening up,, and a bloody hand reaching out,
i vividly remember waking up screaming, sitting on the side of my bed,, my mom called the theater,, to chastise them for showing such previews for a kiddie matinee,, and they told her if she didn't like it, then stay home,, which is exactly what we did,, boycotted that theater,, yup mom stuck to her guns,,,
two: remembering one specific twilight zone episode: a man was flushing a spider down the drain, and it kept coming back larger each time,, i still think of that when i flush a spider or bug down the drain
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Post by housemouse on Feb 12, 2006 16:47:29 GMT -5
I don't think I could name all the Twilight Zone episodes that freaked me out. Talking Tina anyone? How about " To Serve Man - it is a cookbook!" Or the one where that creepy Billy Mumy wished people away to the cornfield? My brothers used to watch that show constantly and I ran screaming almost every time. I'm not sure how old I was when I saw it, but there is a Partridge Family episode where Laurie hears The Rolling Stones on her braces. I always wondered if that would happen to me - it never did. My older brother told me once that the kid who played Chris (the second Chris) was named Brain. I think I believed that well into my teens. Then there was Fantasy Island. I would begin watching each episode wondering what remarkable fantasy would be fulfilled and always end up horrified at guest star Jack Klugman or Barbie Benton being mauled by a wild tiger or thrown into a fire. I never quite understood the cliche "be careful what you wish for" until I saw Mr. Rourke get a hold of those poor saps. Come to think of it, those of us who came of age in the 70's had to deal with some pretty frightening things on television. Am I the only person who remembers Bernie's afro from Room 222? Now that was terrifying!  I just remembered! The best anti-drug message I ever received as a child was an episode of Kojak! Telly Savalas was helping this teen heroin addict trying to break the habit. The poor guy was going the awful withdrawls. I don't remember the ending, I just remember swearing to myself I would never shoot up. I never did either! ;D |
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Post by Duchess of Lashes on Feb 12, 2006 17:03:11 GMT -5
Come to think of it, those of us who came of age in the 70's had to deal with some pretty frightening things on television. Am I the only person who remembers Bernie's afro from Room 222? Now that was terrifying! D Karma Mouse - for a great laugh! I had forgotten about Bernie and that hair years ago - but you are so right - it was frightening! And reminds me very much of a friend I went to school with who I swore had the same lack of barber! |
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Post by Eyphur on Feb 12, 2006 21:43:57 GMT -5
Oh I just though of another program that totally invoked my fear of nightmares. I think it was on the Discovery channel. It was a show about Shipwreck Savagers. In the program the crew of this company made several attempts over the period of a year to remove the burned out hull of a ship from where it had been stuck in the sand (I think the ship was mostly on land at that point). I remember them pumping the fish out of a holding tank where they had been since the ship had wreaked. It was rather disgusting. I'm sure there were other things about the program that bothered me but fortunately I've been able to put it out of my mind and no longer recall the specifics of it.
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Post by shmeep on Feb 13, 2006 12:59:37 GMT -5
Come to think of it, Discovery Health Channel has lots of programming designed to scar. Pregnant for 46 years, anyone? Pregnant with your own twin? The Half Ton Man? That little girl who was born with almost no face and had those eyes that popped out if she wasn't careful? I'm scarred all over again just thinking about it...
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