Scary tv moments when you were a child?

[Talcyoyo]

What made you hide behind the sofa???

Mine......Lizzie Dripping
Sapphire and steel

Oh, and was allowed to watch The Omen aged 10

Felix the Cat. Too old and doomy-looking.

And I was terrified of Radio Luxembourg. Mum and Dad used to tune into it on late-night car journeys. Don't remember any of the content, just that it was always on very quietly and it used to fade in and out of reception in a really spooky way.

Have to say that I watched Sapphire and Steel and didn't find it at all frightening, but can't really remember it now. Also watched Tales of the Unexpected but again didn't find it particularly scary, not as scary as that f*ing rabbit.

Talcyoyo - I LOVED Misty - I still have a couple of the annuals! Lots of creepy Victorian stories, usually poor servant girl scared out of her wits. And I remember one story called blood oranges - delivered to an R A Claud (anagram!) - that spooked me a bit, years before I'd eat one!

South East Astra - that's great! I don't know why, but I'm glad I do actually remember the programme.

As for Hartley bloody Hare, I remembered loving Pipkins so bought the DVD for DD2 - it is absolutely pants but she loves it. He's an ugly, camp, poorly made whinging puppet - why does it appeal to pre-schooleres?!

...and given that I was only 7 when the Bethnal Green programme was made, what the hell was my mum doing letting me watch it?! No wonder I had nightmares!

only read misty once, housemum, some story about victorian vampire girl.Prefered Bunty!!!!

ditto the CHILD CATCHER

It was the way he moved, the nose sniffing......

I used to get Misty every week, and the Annuals - don't know why as I am so easily scared. I found them quite spooky but read them at a time when I also got into Flowers in the Attic so was obviously going through a bit of a dark phase.

The first tiem I remember being really petrified was when I couldn't sleep one night when my mum was out and dad let me stay up but didn't turn off the film he was watching called, I think, The She Devil. Can't remeber it exactly but horrified when even the hamster died!

I looked through these messages hoping to find a movie we watched at a school PTA Film Club one Saturday morning that terrified me for years and years. I tried to find it recently on E-bay but I can only remeber the title "The Man From Nowhere" and nothing came up. I would have seen it around 1983 aged 8 I think. Anyone else remeber that one?

Timeslip Have found the Timeslip website now, no-one else ever seems to remember it.

Just tried again...and it is on E-bay but in 16mm reels!

See listing for synopsis: cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190114658241&fromMakeTrack=true&ssPageName=VIP:watchlink:top:uk

Was terrified by the title scene but really can't remeber why!!!

Had a look lizandco,
don't remember that one!

'the green man' was creepy

Totally agree about the 'Denim' advert - very scary.

Does anyone else remember the Ugly Wugglies???

www.sausagenet.com/program.asp?mode=view&progid=41&progname=Enchanted+Castle,+The

Ooo it was the tune to Tales of the Unexpected. It still makes my skin crawl now, which makes my hubby lol.

Kinder advert........yibble shakey

and this was scary!

darleks scared the crap out of me. pathetic, i know!

went to the museum of the moving image and they had one there - it was programmed to say 'exterminate!' as you went downstairs. never been so terrified in my life...

armchair thriller!
When I was seven,I watched 'Don't look now'
I've never been able to watch it again!

im sure this has already been mentioned. when was very little i watched childs play. scared the living crap out of me!!!!I threw all my dolls out next day. I still dont like them now!!

don't look now....horrid at the end

Squeakybub,

Was that the guy that was made of bile? If so, that was indeed horrible!

talcyoyo - OMG don't look now, i cant remember what happened in the end but that film trashed me completely, it even bothers me to think about it. In fact, and this is really stupid, DD tried on red rain coat today, looked adorable but it couln't buy it because it reminded me of the film. Funny thing though, that film nearly put me off having sex! I must have been about ten when i watched it, i think, maybe older, yes older and the sex scene stayed with me, i thought, no way NO WAY am i ever doing THAT!

Scary film - island of terror, with the giant bone sucking monsters and peter cushing (my dad used to clean his windows and his wife would make him apple pie!)

nightmare on elm street scared the shit out of me when i was 10.

one, two freddies' gonna get you
three four he's knocking at your door, blah blah. It's tame now lol.

Some "late-late-late show" about giant crabs invading the planet that some stupid babysitter let me watch when I was about 3 (I know I was 3-4 because my parents were still living together at that time).

No way is Nightmare on Elm St tame! Scary. eeeek!

well to nowadays standards of scaryness i think it is. the ring is horrible. i don't liek horror movies really.