What's the scariest tv advert you have ever seen?

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The smoking ones are usually bad.

I came on to say “beware the judderman when the moon is fat”.
but I see it’s already been mentioned.

The seatbelt one. "Like most victims, Julie knew her killer. It was her son."

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lw2aevh6oZ8

Oh I remember that “Julie knew her killer” one! I forgot that one. I always remember the speeding awareness one with the girl which replays backwards and shows her on the floor first and then her arms and legs breaking back into normality and says something like she would have survived at 20.

There was a PSA about leaving young kids unattended near water, featured the POV of a toddler waddling off a pier into the murky deep… I was about 5 and hated it coming on tv!

As an adult, the one where it’s a red headed call centre advisor chatting away and then she suddenly stops and leaves or something, because she was actually a scammer and stealing info. I think it’s well acted and effective because even now it gives me the creeps 😬

Urgh ! 😂

That's the one I remember too with the little dead girl and time going backwards. "If you hit me at 30 there's an 80% chance I'll die" or something like that.

Yes!!

No so much scary as weird- the KFC advert where a a cult carries a giant egg through the woods, and man is immersed in gravy and comes out as a piece of deep fried chicken

Yes I remember the seat belt one, also the one with the pizza where they replayed it with and without seatbelts so the pizza mess was ...powerful.

Not just this one - and there’s one doing the rounds just now but I can’t remember what it’s for - but any where the people have knitted faces and you can see the wool and stitching etc

These.

Made me so disproportionately terrified of Bonfire Night as a kid. I don't think I held a sparkler until I was about 18.

The one about flying kites near power lines.

Omg in the 80s there was some horrific public information films about fires.

There was one with a tank blasting fire into a room with a young girl in a nightdress.
Another with a couch bursting into flames and destroying a house.
There was one about drunk driving that was scary too...

Possibly only memorable to those in NI but there used to be an ad in the 90s released by either the government or then RUC, in relation to the troubles and trying to demotivate people from becoming involved. The ads were really graphic and as a child scared the living shit out of me. Especially as the content was very real at the time over here

‘Cat’s In The Cradle’ was the accompanying song. Still makes me feel sick when I hear it!

My favourite 😁

I loved the Judderman, gave me proper shivers. Very German expressionist. And I loved Metz. It was no Reef, but I could neck quite a few.

All the films featuring kids on a farm.
Anything with Jimmy Saville!
All the firework films.

They all made brutal viewing. To this day, I hate fireworks!

Phones 4U advert about 15 years ago.
The Aids adverts were v scary.

I loved Joe & Petunia.

I remember crying to my mother aged around 11ish begging her to take me to the Dr because I had AIDS

That made laugh and it really shouldn't have.
Poor eleven year old you.

The one where the boys go off fishing but are too close to the overhead cables.

Anything broadcast in the 80s about safety near railways.

This would have been about 1991/1992. A Liquorice Allsorts advert where the people eating them turned into the corresponding All Sort.

i was about 5, so actually believed this and couldn’t understand seeing packets for sale. Who would want to be one?!

Then later in life, summoning the courage to eat one and finding out liquorice is absolutely rank. A nightmare all over again!

A road safety one where a little girl’s mum was making her a dress. She finished the dress, called “Finished!”-and there was a squeal of brakes and a thud from outside. Haunted me, that has!

Yes to all the road safety / seat belt ones. Also a stranger danger one with a man in a car approaching a girl (mid 80s?) We were made to watch an extended version of it at primary school. Completely freaked me out though can’t remember what went on to happen and highly suspicious of anyone and everyone that I didn’t know for a very long time.