What character TERRIFIED you out of your little wits?

Miss Fluff

When I was about two (and I was a fearsome little rascal) my mother said the only thing that made me go a bit pensive, nay, a bit terrified, it was the Count in Sesame Street. :eek: As soon as he had completed his counting and gave his Mwaa-Haaa-Haaa laugh and lightening strike I would SCREECH with terror and run away.

As I reached the ages of about 5-10 it was the witch in the Wizard of Oz. :eek:

And if I'm honest I'm STILL petrified whenever I see a clip of the Child Catcher in Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang.

Who made you nearly pee your pants with fear?:eek:

GAA widow

The Greatest American Hero - used to bawl my eyes out to the opening credits

Ruu_Old

Supergran for some reason, hid under the table everytime the show came on.

whiskeyman

The Daleks (sp?) in Doctor Who.
I was scared sh*tless of those things. Couldn't watch it.
I even couldn't sleep in my bedroom if the hoover was there (looked like a mini Dalek).
Had sooo many nightmares with those things in them.

trout

Miss Fluff wrote:

And if I'm honest I'm STILL petrified whenever I see a clip of the Child Catcher in Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang.

seconded ... taps into primal fears alright

now .. what really, really made me cry as a child is any time Cleo Lane came on the telly. If you are a child of the 70's you'll remember Cleo Lane ...

http://www.quarternotes.com/cleohome.htm

As a mature (well) person now ... I'm sure she is a lovely woman, and a fine singer ... but as a kid ... brown trousers time every time she appeared, and especially when she was going through a free-form skippidididididippidy song ... older boards.ie readers will know what i mean

i need a lie down:o

Owen

Pat Kenny.

edward scissorhands

Nightwish

David Bowie's character in Labyrinth scared the bejesus out of me.

Trode

Triffids. Still get a little shiver when I see them. Also some random plant-monster from Doctor Who that looked like an ambulatory pile of bright-green seaweed.

Oh, and Betty Boo(Boop?), the freakish cartoon midget woman from the 1920s with the huge eyes. Always found her frighteningly ugly, made all the more unsettling by the suggestion that she was supposed to be attractive. Ugh.

Sleipnir

Sneaky-Snake in Wanderly Wagon. Or as I called him;- Neaky Nake.

Oh the nightmares....

Huggles

Miss Fluff wrote:

And if I'm honest I'm STILL petrified whenever I see a clip of the Child Catcher in Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang.

Spot On....hated him and still makes me uncomfortable ugh.

abetarrush

Thunderbirds aka psycho-tot-TV

Dingatron

The Whirligig Witch scared the life out of me. And the Dalek's of course. Also Jim'll fix it!

boneless

I used to hate Zebedee in the Magic Roundabout... only cos I knew that I had to do me school homework after he appeared to tell them that it was time for bed...

I also still shiver when I think of the Cyber men in Doctor Who... and the Zygons were evil baskets too!!

layke

The giant wasps in those old Sinbad movies, used to freak me out.

Mrs. MacGyver

Worzel Gummidge - really frightened me to bits when i was young. Couldnt watch him.

Bateman

There was a monster on a Corn Flakes sticker that used to glow in the dark, used to have nightmares about it all the time, possibly because it was stuck on my wall beside my bed.

Ruu_Old

Mrs. MacGyver wrote:

Worzel Gummidge - really frightened me to bits when i was young. Couldnt watch him.

Time to face your fears, schweetheart! Linkage.

Steven

You're doing it wrong, Ruu. She'll never go for that.

Here, Mrs. MacGyver Look at these fluffy bunnies to take your mind off that horrible experience.

<_<

constitutionus

Dingatron wrote:

The Whirligig Witch scared the life out of me. And the Dalek's of course. Also Jim'll fix it!

she was a red head wasnt she? think i used to fancy her, along with slightly bonkers. i feel kinda dirty now

as to characters that scared me ive said it in another thread, the guy with no face in the "sapphire and steel" show that used to kill people in photographs. scared me ****less, just some bloke in the backround of any picture who you couldnt see in a bowler hat would turn around in the picture and stab you and you'd die in real life. it was one ****ed up show

Faith

Any form of clown.

_blank_

Michael Jackson.

No, really. The full length Thriller video had me with nightmares for weeks.

Some baddie in Star Trek too, but I can't rightly remember which.

the Shades

The Child Catcher still sends a shiver down my spine too, and my sister's when I do an impression of him hehe

Far more recently and yeah I was far too old to be watching it but the villains in the second series of Digimon scared the crap out of me. They were a pretty strange mix...

Moomins & Little My.

rcaz

Dr. Robotnik, from whatever Sonic game I had on the Sega Game Gear. I think it was the music more than anything, but on the last stage of the game, he came in in this little mech thing with legs, and started shooting lasers at you, but yeah, the music got me. So much so I kept complaining about how scared I was while I was playing it, and my sister took the game off me

Pigman II

The Banshee from DarbyOGillAndTheLittlePeople. She'll put the brown in your trousers

trout

is peig sayers too far off topic ?:rolleyes:

i mean ... a woman smokin' a pipe! ... all those tragedies ... brings a shiver to me spine even now

Aoide

Pennywise the clown from "It". I'm scared of clowns anyway and this put me over the top!
(Also, agree with the child catcher from Chitty Chitty--extremely scary)

JungleBunny

Definitely agree with Pennywise form IT. (any clown really)
Used to be petreiffied of the Skexis from the movie "The Dark Crystal".

Ph3n0m

Jaws - simple as, really shouldnt have watched that film when I was very young

brown*eyed*girl

seansouth wrote:

Michael Jackson.

No, really. The full length Thriller video had me with nightmares for weeks.

Some baddie in Star Trek too, but I can't rightly remember which.

I remember as plain as day the first time I watched the Thriller video. I must've been around 7 or 8 and I cried and like you had nightmares for ages. Those mummies were so scary and MJ's green eyes in the end just freaked me out.

I was also scared of Freddy Kruger from Nightmare on Elm Street and the witch in Forty Coats.

Have to say I was a biatch to keep watching even though I was terrified and knew I'd have nightmares but I'd still have to watch it.

monkeyfudge

It has to be the Black Rabbit of Death in Watership Down for me... in fact the whole film was terribly disturbing.



I went to see it in the Stardust on the day it burned down actually... they used to show films there during the day. That just all added to the trauma for me.

Lirange

The Tall Man from Phantasm.

I had nightmares. I wouldn't see him. But I'd hear the voice.

"Boy!" :eek:

The Bollox

Leatherface, I saw The Texas CHainsaw Massacre when I was about 8 and was terrified, still am

Rhyme

Watership Down antagonist and the child catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (in later years i learned that the guy was a ballet dancer which made my fear even greater)

Chinafoot

Chucky from Child's Play. I spied on my sisters watching it. Big mistake. To this day I can't watch it.

It was made worse by the fact that at the time I had a doll called Baby Secrets who talked to you when you squeezed her hand and when you pressed the little heart shaped sticker on her chest she'd whisper to you. After seeing bits of the movie the doll was unceremoniously shoved into the bottom of the wardrobe. Unfortunately in the middle of the night something in the wardrobe must have moved or fallen onto the doll because she started talking. I have never screamed so loudly in my life!

brown*eyed*girl

peachypants wrote:

Chucky from Child's Play. I spied on my sisters watching it. Big mistake. To this day I can't watch it.

It was made worse by the fact that at the time I had a doll called Baby Secrets who talked to you when you squeezed her hand and when you pressed the little heart shaped sticker on her chest she'd whisper to you. After seeing bits of the movie the doll was unceremoniously shoved into the bottom of the wardrobe. Unfortunately in the middle of the night something in the wardrobe must have moved or fallen onto the doll because she started talking. I have never screamed so loudly in my life!

#

LOL I'd say you nearly died! I would've fainting. Some lifelike dolls used to freak me out too. I was convinced my dolls came to life when I went to sleep. One night around xmas I left a little miniture bar of cadburys dark chocolate (not in the Roses box any more ) in my Barbie's hand and the next day it was gone. I was convinced she had eaten it. Turns out my uncle ate it when he came in from the pub that night. God I had such an imagination when I was a kid..

constitutionus

monkeyfudge wrote:

It has to be the Black Rabbit of Death in Watership Down for me... in fact the whole film was terribly disturbing.



I went to see it in the Stardust on the day it burned down actually... they used to show films there during the day. That just all added to the trauma for me.

i actually thought the black rabbit of death was quite serene. though i wasn't scared of him i was very impressed with the main bad guy from the other warren, general wormwood or something? for some reason he always reminded me of the traitor general in rogue trooper

ya cant beat fascist military rabbit regime's

Tha Gopher

Trevor McDonald apparently :eek: According to my granny Id hide behind the pillow when he came on, when I was around two.

Hey, it was the 80s, the only black folks we knew were light skinned Irish heroes like Phil and McGrath.....

Mind you, despite this for some reason I thought Frank Bruno (or Frank Beano as I apparently called him) was the man, ditto Mr T.

Flashes the *not a racist* subliminal a la Father Ted.

Unpossible

Sneaky-Snake in Wanderly Wagon

My mum says I was scared of him too, I had to watch the show recently to find out what he looked like (I had forgotten everything about what was supposedly my favourite childhood show)

Kolodny

I used to have nightmares as a child about ‘Rover’, the big white beach ball thing in The Prisoner that stopped them leaving the island. The way it got bigger and bigger on the horizon terrified me (and I’m talking about the reruns of course as I’m far too young to remember it first time around )

And a couple of others already mentioned: The Count in Sesame Street often sent me scuttling behind the couch. What was the point of him? Terrorise young children into learning to count? And General Woundwort in Watership Down put me off rabbits for quite a while.

Pipp

ET
Ill never forget that night, my Dad had gotten a pirate copy of the movie on betamax tape and my granny and some of my cousins were in the house to watch it.
It was fine up until the point when he screamed or something and his neck went all long - well I screamed, and screamed and screamed and ran upstairs and got into the built in wardrobe in my bedroom and wedged the door shut with soft toys. I wouldnt come out of the wardrobe for over an hour and apparently when I came out I was white as a sheet and shaking like a leaf.
I must have been only four or five at the time but my god I can still remember it.
Im still terrified of ET in fact Id say Im slightly phobic. The thoughts of him is making me sweat right now.
Horrible horrible hideous thing.

Watership down was scary too, especially that black rabbit thingy that floated around the place.

curehead

:eek: :eek: witchipoo from hr pufnstuf used to scare the hell out of me


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jsgrEcNbHg

WunderFull

ET:eek:

monkeyfudge

If you were afraid of ET, then perhaps this clip will cheer you up

http://youtube.com/watch?v=gnjLG8xWxYg

deedee lepoopoo

The Incredible Hulk

Was really scarey all that green anger and ripped denim.

Daleks were scarey also. I had a hiding place on top of my brothers wardrobe in case they'd attack Dublin. 'exterminate, exterminate'

Rockee

seansouth wrote:

Michael Jackson.

No, really. The full length Thriller video had me with nightmares for weeks.

Amen to that amen, Im 25 now but can remember when I was 3 or 4 seeing the video on telly and I was balling my eyes out. To make matters worse my cousin had a 'Thriller' jumper..and the print showed all the different stages of Michaels transition into the werewolf...Jaysus...argh!!!!

jos28

The Child catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang scared the living daylights out of me. Just to hear him say "lollipops, lollipops"
AAGGHH !
I'll never sleep tonight

The tax man

Pipp wrote:

ET
Ill never forget that night, my Dad had gotten a pirate copy of the movie on betamax tape and my granny and some of my cousins were in the house to watch it.
It was fine up until the point when he screamed or something and his neck went all long - well I screamed, and screamed and screamed and ran upstairs and got into the built in wardrobe in my bedroom and wedged the door shut with soft toys. I wouldnt come out of the wardrobe for over an hour and apparently when I came out I was white as a sheet and shaking like a leaf.
I must have been only four or five at the time but my god I can still remember it.
Im still terrified of ET in fact Id say Im slightly phobic. The thoughts of him is making me sweat right now.
Horrible horrible hideous thing.

Holy crap:eek: :eek: Exact same story here. Dad got pirate copy on vhs(oh the days) and at this stage you heard about the film but didn't know what E.T. looked like etc. I was watching it on my own and ran out of the room when Elliot was running through some crop field trying to find ET. That first person camera shot always gets me,still does, but I don't think I even sat there long enough for Elliot to find ET,I was outta there.The screaming did it for me.In my mind,looking back,the mental picture I had of ET would've been something like you'd see in an Alien movie.

How wrong I was.:o

Nice to know I'm not alone about ET.:D

Pipp

monkeyfudge wrote:

If you were afraid of ET, then perhaps this clip will cheer you up

http://youtube.com/watch?v=gnjLG8xWxYg

Im actually too scared to look at that clip, it could be HIM:eek:

From reading some of the replies on here its great comfort to know that there are other people out there that fear that creature as much as I do

Im off to look at nice stuff now as reading this is giving me the shivers.

Muzzy

Captain Black from Captain Scarlet, he was evil and possesed or something, during the opening credits, the music would slow down and show a really detailed foggy grave yard and captain Black would be just standing there, I caould never look at it!



*Edit* just watched the opening credits for the first time, wasn't that bad afterall, it cut out at the last second, at the real scary bit http://youtube.com/watch?v=bV8YbLvGrb0