I was thinking back to being a kid and those scenes that scared me or otherwise disturbed me and I had to look away from the television set. I am a big chicken
and my imagination always messed with me more than actually seeing graphic gore, so Hitchcock and Serling were the best ones to freak me out. Wondering what scenes made you glance away from the television or movie screen (and maybe still do)?
As an adult, I admit that I still get creeped out by some of the same stuff that haunted me as a kid and find myself covering my eyes!
Here's my top ten list (I am sure that there are plenty of others but just can't think of them - maybe I've suppressed them!):
10. The clown's face in the two-part Little House on the Prairie episode called "Sylvia" (I didn't understand it as a child except that it scared me, but later learned that the masked face belonged to a rapist)
9. Each time the witch appeared outside Dorothy's window, cackling and flying on her broomstick, in The Wizard of Oz
8. Any time that there is a childbirth scene - real or simulated. (I fainted during "The Miracle of Life" video in high school
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7. When the man pulls back the curtain by his window on the airplane and there's a gremlin right outside on the wing, staring back at him in The Twilight Zone's "Nightmare at 10,000 Feet."
6. In Star Trek's "The Mark of Gideon" when Kirk is on board the "fake" Enterprise with Odona and suddenly all the faces of these people appear outside, watching them.
5. Any time there was a make-out session and my parents were watching with me, it made me squirm!
4. When the boy swims out to the sunken airplane in the movie Hatchet and the dead pilot's body is still trapped in the cockpit - and the fishies have gotten to him.
3. The war hospital scene in Gone with the Wind when Scarlett comes searching for Dr. Meade.
2. The baby found dead in its crib in the movie Trainspotting
1. The entire scourge scene in The Passion of the Christ
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and there's some scenes in jurassic park that, no matter how many times i watch, i still flinch.
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