What tv character freaked you out as a kid?

darkdubh · 12-01-2018 10:12am

beans wrote: »

E.T. used to terrify me. I'd think he'd be hiding in my teddies, behind my curtains, looking all grey and gross like when he was sick.

He was my first boogeyman.

I remember sometime before the film was released I came upon a colour full page picture of him in one of the Sunday papers, I hadn't heard of of the film yet at this stage and I remember recoiling at the sight of him. I thought for a moment he was some kind of horribly deformed child.

Ralf and Florian · 12-01-2018 2:00pm

The giants or whatever they were supposed to be in Fraggle Rock. Especially the one called Junior because of his freaky looking staring eyes.

Lorelli! · 12-01-2018 7:09pm

Giggernaut wrote: »

I'd have to say "Darby o Gill and the little people" scared the bejaysus out of me when I was rugrat.
Headless horseman and freaky leprechauns left me a quivering mess,thanks alot Disney!

Freaked me out as well.

I was talking about that film the other day and only realised it was Sean Connery who played Micheal.

Oh and Charlie and The Chocolate Factory scared me too.

branie2 · 13-01-2018 8:55pm

Not kids programmes, but those ads for safety warnings in a workplace, such as a man getting electrocuted; they used to make me cry.

the purple tin · 14-01-2018 12:13pm

branie2 wrote: »

Not kids programmes, but those ads for safety warnings in a workplace, such as a man getting electrocuted; they used to make me cry.

Or the old ad where the little boy climbs a pylon to get a football or frisbee down and gets zapped :eek:

Sleeper12 · 14-01-2018 12:29pm

The witch in Disneys Sleeping Beauty. I had nightmare for months. I still rate it as one of the scariest movies of all times for young kids

Ralf and Florian · 15-01-2018 1:26pm

Kinder egg humpty dumpty man. Wasn't scared of him as such but did find him kind of unsettling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ocoIKCtF9s

Lorelli! · 15-01-2018 1:46pm

Anjelica Huston in The Witches and when Pinnochio starts turning into a donkey!

Mutant z · 15-01-2018 1:50pm

Jafar of Alladin.

Tom Mann Centuria · 15-01-2018 1:51pm

Zelda and Cystar from Terrahawks, I wasn't even that young either, just scary models! I didn't like Worzel Gummidge either, and lastly the Skeksis from The Dark Crystal.
I shudder to remember any of them.

Mutant z · 15-01-2018 2:00pm

Lorelli! wrote: »

Anjelica Huston in The Witches and when Pinnochio starts turning into a donkey!

I agree that scene on Pinnochio was among the most disturbing things i saw as a kid in fact i was freaked out by a lot of the things in Disney films in general there was a surprising amount of darkness to them which make modern childrens TV pretty tame by comparison.

Zaph · 15-01-2018 2:06pm

Not a character as such, but there was one Dr. Who story called The Green Death (Jon Pertwee's last as The Doctor) and it had a load of these giant maggots in it. It was originally broadcast in 1973 when I was nearly 6, but we didn't get our first colour TV until I was about 8 so I presume I was about that age when I saw it. Whatever age I was, those maggots really put the sh*ts up me. I think it's the only time I can ever remember actually watching TV from behind the couch.

Lorelli! · 15-01-2018 2:09pm

Mutant z wrote: »

I agree that scene on Pinnochio was among the most disturbing things i saw as a kid in fact i was freaked out by a lot of the things in Disney films in general there was a surprising amount of darkness to them which make modern childrens TV pretty tame by comparison.

I just had a quick look at it again there and it's still scary af

the purple tin · 15-01-2018 2:11pm

Saw an old horror film when I was young where a mad woman (babysitter I think) chasing a little boy around a house. When she finally caught him she drowned him in the bath tub. I had horrible nightmares about it for ages.

Lorelli! · 15-01-2018 2:18pm

I remember catching a bit of a film and all I can remember was there was an infectious disease and people were stuck on a train. Looked it up there and I think it may have been The Cassandra Crossing.

cavemeister · 15-01-2018 3:21pm

I just remembered another movie moment that gave me nightmares as a kid...
I have no idea how I even saw it - Might have been a video rented for me.

It was called the Adventures of Mark Twain and was a claymation movie about 3 kids helping Mark Twain find Haley's Comet.

In one scene they encountered death / the devil and he teaches them about love and loss.... I actually re-watched it and it is still deeply unsettling.. I don't know how anyone signed this off for children.

Here is the clip!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhgLEkgO0yo

the purple tin · 16-01-2018 1:48pm

The twins from the Shining.
Damien from the Omen.
Danny Glick from Salems Lot.
The children from Village of the Damned.
Any evil or spooky children used to scare the absolute crap out of me.

Lorelli! · 16-01-2018 5:17pm

My mother had the War Of The Worlds album. I loved the music but I was terrified of it and especially the pictures from the booklet.

branie2 · 18-01-2018 11:32pm

the purple tin wrote: »

Or the old ad where the little boy climbs a pylon to get a football or frisbee down and gets zapped :eek:

Not that one, the ads I saw had grown men

darkdubh · 19-01-2018 11:13pm

branie2 wrote: »

Not that one, the ads I saw had grown men

This one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNzblpcZwyM

smilerf · 19-01-2018 11:27pm

If anyone remembers Knightmare. That wizard with the grey hair and the red stripe through it freaked me out

Mattie500 · 19-01-2018 11:31pm

Incredible Hulk on TV

George White · 21-01-2018 4:56pm

Zaph wrote: »

Not a character as such, but there was one Dr. Who story called The Green Death (Jon Pertwee's last as The Doctor) and it had a load of these giant maggots in it. It was originally broadcast in 1973 when I was nearly 6, but we didn't get our first colour TV until I was about 8 so I presume I was about that age when I saw it. Whatever age I was, those maggots really put the sh*ts up me. I think it's the only time I can ever remember actually watching TV from behind the couch.

It wasn't Pertwee's last, that was the next year's faintly similar sequel story Planet of the Spiders (about hyper-evolved giant telepathic talking super-spiders from the distant future controlling a depressed businessman who runs a meditation centre in rural England). A minor plot point in the Green Death involving the blue crystal of Metebelis 3 takes on more precedence in Planet.

Green Death is about maggots, though, giant maggots created by a pollution in an incredibly stereotyped Wales (a few years later, Tom Baker's Doctor visited a similarly caricatured Loch Ness in Terror of the Zygons, sadly no visit to Ireland...)

branie2 · 22-01-2018 11:47am

darkdubh wrote: »

This one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNzblpcZwyM

something similar to it

darkdubh · 22-01-2018 12:30pm

branie2 wrote: »

something similar to it

This is a British PIF but RTE showed it with a different voiceover or else their own version which was a shot for shot remake but I'd say it was the former as this is exactly how I remember it bar the voiceover.

Jimbob1977 · 22-01-2018 12:36pm

A New Zealand kids show called 'Under the Mountain'.

It was shown on RTE and UTV.

Essentially... twins had to stop these awful slithering alien mud creatures from dominating the Earth.

When the mud creatures were out of their lair, they took human form and drove around in a hearse.. but they sweated profusely and began to decompose back to mud over time.

In their lair, they slithered around in tunnels like Rainbow Rapids.

Lorelli! · 22-01-2018 12:41pm

Jimbob1977 wrote: »

In their lair, they slithered around in tunnels like Rainbow Rapids.

ah I remember Rainbow Rapids! I must ask my mam because I'm not sure if I ever went to it or not. Definitely remember asking to go though

Deep Thought · 29-01-2018 12:33pm

A program called "Children of the Stones" and Commander Strax in Dr Who from the 1970s

Jimbob1977 · 29-01-2018 12:38pm

Deep Thought wrote: »

A program called "Children of the Stones" and Commander Strax in Dr Who from the 1970s

Children of the Stones was brilliant. It was superbly made. Very eerie for a children's programme. Kinda like a teenage Wicker Man. If I recall, the Dad was Blake out of Blake's Seven.

Much in the vein of Chocky.

There was a creepy 90s show called Earthfasts, set on the Yorkshire moors.

CreativeSen · 29-01-2018 12:40pm

Worzel Gummidge....still freaks me out!

Jimbob1977 · 29-01-2018 12:45pm

Moondial

Elidor - four teenagers from Manchester trying to prevent evil characters from a parallel universe breaking through to our universe. One of them was dressed like The Gimp.

Terrahawks, especially Zelda

Quatermass (1978) with John Mills

George White · 30-01-2018 12:48pm

Not Strax, but Styre or Linx, surely. Strax is a NuSeries Sontaran, not a Classic.

Lorelli! · 30-01-2018 6:23pm

Watership Down

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aPBck3xcUJc

And Animal Farm especially when Boxer is taken away and they realise he is going to the glue factory

George White · 31-01-2018 10:37am

Jimbob1977 wrote: »

Quatermass (1978) with John Mills

Excellent, especially the Brexitesque future, and even features a young Brenda Fricker (in probably the last "young" role she played, at 33, was already playing the mothers of grown men in things like the Music Machine, but in Quatermass, her character is supposed in her twenties, young enough to be forced into the Planet People, the suicidal space-hippy sect)...

Deep Thought · 04-02-2018 11:39am

George White wrote: »

Not Strax, but Styre or Linx, surely. Strax is a NuSeries Sontaran, not a Classic.

You are right , it was Styre...Strax sparked that memory in my brain...

Styre is still scary...

tupenny · 15-02-2018 7:46pm

The "them bones need calcium" dude off that add terrified me

Also the Siamese cats in lady and the tramp. Horrid yokes!

The Pheasant2 · 16-02-2018 10:27am

Lorelli! wrote: »

And Animal Farm especially when Boxer is taken away and they realise he is going to the glue factory

For me moreso the scene where the pigs begin transforming into men :eek:

rubadub · 16-02-2018 4:43pm

Tom Mann Centuria wrote: »

Zelda and Cystar from Terrahawks,

Jimbob1977 wrote: »

Terrahawks, especially Zelda

even scarier in eastenders

branie2 · 16-02-2018 5:04pm

A villian in the A-team in one episode who got into a fight with Hannibal, and I think he choked him.

the purple tin · 24-02-2018 8:07pm

Deep Thought wrote: »

A program called "Children of the Stones" and Commander Strax in Dr Who from the 1970s

There's a radio documentary about the show with Stewart Lee on Monday
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01n1rbx

js35 · 24-02-2018 8:37pm

The count from Sesame Street

corks finest · 24-02-2018 10:22pm

Any of the aliens in the 60s sci hi series the invaders,, black and white but scary for a kid like me then, looking at an old re run last year , still creepy

wakka12 · 24-02-2018 10:25pm

I used to find the plasticine figurines in wallace and gromit and those kind of movies very frightening especially when they smiled

salmocab · 24-02-2018 10:27pm

Bagpuss scared the bejaysus out of me, even now the weird colour he was freaks me a little.

darkdubh · 25-02-2018 1:52pm

The giant in this episode of Wanderly Wagon. The special effects look laughable now but I was terrified of him everytime he'd appear out of the lake getting closer and closer. He makes his first appearance at 11.40.