Gen X childhood TV and film moments that felt genuinely frightening

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Gen X scary things:
Noseybonk
Mr Bronson -‘kendalllllll’
Triffids
Chocky
Tripods
Worzel Gummidge when he changed heads
Daleks
The Wheelers in Return to Oz
Any others ?

The cartoon film of the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe - when they killed Aslan on the stone table

and yes... the public information films were millions scarier than actual horror films.

The dogs with rabies, the aids tombstone the nuclear war one. God.

The secret of nimh (which I seem to be the only person to have ever heard of)

I'm a geriatric Millennial rather than gen X, but Boy From Space gave us all nightmares in ~1991 year 2 English.

The Boy from Space! That weird blond kid in the blue suit and the older blond man? It was filmed in a quarry and we had a quarry near us to was always spooked out going past it

This!

I was scared of when Teen Wolf’s eyes glowed red and he said ‘give me a keg of beer!’

We watched that yearly at our primary school on a new build estate in the suburbs of a city...

Made my eldest watch it with me on you tube. 25 year old her was horrified we watched it so young.

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Re: Flowers in the Attic.

11 year old me just casually devouring a whole series of books with themes of child abuse, imprisonment and incest, probably while inhaling my dad’s secondhand fag smoke and chowing down on some plastic white bread and Dairylea sandwiches washed down with a pint of Vimto 🤣

Another vote here for Watership Down - absolutely terrifying!! I’ve never been able to watch it again since our teacher put it on the class TV on our last day of year 6!!

I loved Flowers in the Attic, read them all !

I've gone down a You Tube rabbit hole of Boy from Space clips now, I'll never sleep tonight 😂

Watership Down was a traumatic watch. I couldn’t watch it all the way through as I cried so much my mum had to put me to bed and couldn’t leave me until I’d fallen asleep I was so shaken.

It was the scary alien man in Boy from Space that terrified me
Also Stig of the Dump

Quatermass (late 1970s version)

The episode of the Twilight Zone with the girl without a mouth.

Fraggle Rock - The Terrible Tunnel
The Tall Knight of Dark Towers

Those Jimmy Savile safety videos they showed in schools- lots of footage of kids trapped in window blinds and being squashed under farm machinery.

Traumatised me for years!

There was something sinister about the jester guy in Rentaghost, too.

I watched a clip of it online a while ago and the whole thing is like a bad acid trip.

I tried watching this recently but the child catcher still scares me!

That particular episode stuck with me for years.

There was also the information film about the dangers of railways called Finishing Line that I saw at school. It was so disturbing it was later withdrawn(!)

I mean ….????

We didn’t get the safety videos at our school. Other than the green cross code and ‘Charlie Says don’t talk to strangers’, which weren’t very scary.

The Boy from Space for me too. Peep Peep was really strange.

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Incredible Hulk
Doctor Who
Poltergeist

Hulk - When David Banner’s eyes turned !!!

Oh yes, I came to say Ghost Watch. Petrifying!