The first appearance of the Daleks.

1963, so I was 8. Terrifying.




And this was before Eddie Izzard pointed out that one could escape from them by simply going upstairs. If only I'd realized that at the time...

Y'know what's terrifying to me? That a person could live for 66 years and have no idea why you can have an emotional response when watching movies. Yikes.

On topic, Large Marge from Peewee's Big Adventure scared the piss out of me as a kid. Well, maybe more shocked than scared. Also that scene in Howard The Duck where Jeffrey Jones sticks his tongue in the cigarette lighter. Those aliens were pretty badass looking too.

SafeAsMilk wrote:[Howard The Duck]
Those aliens were pretty badass looking too.

Ah yes... the Dark Overlord, courtesy of stop-motion animation by Phil Tippett and his crew.
After the svelte Lea Thompson in T-shirt and panties, the stop-motion animation was the second-best part of the movie...

It was the Cybermen for me who were my 'behind the sofa' aliens from Doctor Who.

Fallible wrote:It was the Cybermen for me who were my 'behind the sofa' aliens from Doctor Who.

Me too.

Anyone remembers Quatermass in the 1950's on television. Scared the living daylights out of me and I was only watching on a black and white tv with 405 lines definition.

Fallible wrote:It was the Cybermen for me who were my 'behind the sofa' aliens from Doctor Who.

Somebody should have made a horror film called "The Thing That Could See Through Sofas". Then the kiddies would have no place to hide...

Scot Dutchy wrote:Anyone remembers Quatermass in the 1950's on television. Scared the living daylights out of me and I was only watching on a black and white tv with 405 lines definition.

Well that's interesting. This year's Scot is not the same as last year's Scot who apparently never had the problem of being scared while watching a film, and who couldn't understand why anyone would.

Fallible wrote:

Scot Dutchy wrote:Anyone remembers Quatermass in the 1950's on television. Scared the living daylights out of me and I was only watching on a black and white tv with 405 lines definition.

Well that's interesting. This year's Scot is not the same as last year's Scot who apparently never had the problem of being scared while watching a film, and who couldn't understand why anyone would.

It was thanks to Quatermass that I realised how stupid it was to be scared of a tv programme.

I was doing my National Service at that time. We were all in the NCOs mess, er, comforting the lady NCOs... Quatermass was, er, 'scary'.

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Scot Dutchy wrote:

Fallible wrote:

Scot Dutchy wrote:Anyone remembers Quatermass in the 1950's on television. Scared the living daylights out of me and I was only watching on a black and white tv with 405 lines definition.

Well that's interesting. This year's Scot is not the same as last year's Scot who apparently never had the problem of being scared while watching a film, and who couldn't understand why anyone would.

It was thanks to Quatermass that I realised how stupid it was to be scared of a tv programme.

Scot Dutchy wrote:That is your problem. I never had that problem.

Please feel free to carry on backpedalling furiously, but forgive me if I don't hang around to see it. Gets boring after the first 50 times.

Fallible wrote:It was the Cybermen for me who were my 'behind the sofa' aliens from Doctor Who.

Absolutely. They still give me chills.

I think it's because you can't reason with them, but you know what they once were.

It's fairly common but that big nosed child catching fucker in Vulgaria freaked the crap out of me for years (think I saw it around age 4)
My brother used to shout, "Lollipops, ice cream" when I was trying to get to sleep.

We went to Neuschwanstein when I was about 7 and I was still spooked when twatneck told me we were going down into the village for "lollipops and ice cream" afterwards.

Yeah he was seriously creepy.

Fallible wrote:

Scot Dutchy wrote:

Fallible wrote:

Scot Dutchy wrote:Anyone remembers Quatermass in the 1950's on television. Scared the living daylights out of me and I was only watching on a black and white tv with 405 lines definition.

Well that's interesting. This year's Scot is not the same as last year's Scot who apparently never had the problem of being scared while watching a film, and who couldn't understand why anyone would.

It was thanks to Quatermass that I realised how stupid it was to be scared of a tv programme.

Scot Dutchy wrote:That is your problem. I never had that problem.

Please feel free to carry on backpedalling furiously, but forgive me if I don't hang around to see it. Gets boring after the first 50 times.

A ligner darf hoben a guten zechron.

Fallible wrote:

Scot Dutchy wrote:

Fallible wrote:

Scot Dutchy wrote:Anyone remembers Quatermass in the 1950's on television. Scared the living daylights out of me and I was only watching on a black and white tv with 405 lines definition.

Well that's interesting. This year's Scot is not the same as last year's Scot who apparently never had the problem of being scared while watching a film, and who couldn't understand why anyone would.

It was thanks to Quatermass that I realised how stupid it was to be scared of a tv programme.

Scot Dutchy wrote:That is your problem. I never had that problem.

Please feel free to carry on backpedalling furiously, but forgive me if I don't hang around to see it. Gets boring after the first 50 times.

It gets boring when you cant think logically. Why did you think I did not have a problem? I solved it at a very young age so what is the problem? Is that just too difficult for you to get your head around?

As I said, feel free to backpedal as much as you think you need to.