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Friday, Apr 24, 2009

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 )

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

Wicked Witch of the West Shatner and Gremlin

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Those are all pretty scary, though when I was little I used to freak out whenever the Emergency Broadcast System was tested. I guess you were a bit more brave than I was.
Posted Apr 24, 2009 8:24 am PT
i didnt watch ET until well after i turned 13.

and there's some scenes in jurassic park that, no matter how many times i watch, i still flinch.
Posted Apr 24, 2009 10:15 am PT
Number five is always the worst. Not scary or anything to make you look away, just really awkward. Lol at the childbirth thing. For some reason a lot of people pass on that, whether it be out or not. What are the bottom pictures from?
Posted Apr 24, 2009 12:35 pm PT
Almost any scene in Schindler's List makes me feel sick.
Posted Apr 24, 2009 6:48 pm PT
Good topic! I remember that clown face. It was pretty scary. When I was a kid I wouldn't watch Twilight Zone because it was too scary. I've watched a few episodes as an adult, but I don't go looking for it. The movie Wait Until Dark had a really scary scene when Alan Arkin was stalking Audry Hepburn in a dark room. The movie Charade, one of my favorites, has a kind of creepy image of a dead George Kennedy submerged in a bathtub. I may think of more.
Posted Apr 24, 2009 8:58 pm PT
When I first saw The Wizard Of Oz way, way back when, the Cowardly Lion looked pretty spooky when he first appeared. Also, somewhat like you, I couldn't stand to see kissing. One of my sistersalso looked away and hid whenever My Three Sons came on and went off. Something about the animated legs scared her.
Posted Apr 25, 2009 6:10 am PT
The rape of Apalonia in the HBO show Carnivale and butters getting a ninja star in the eye on South Park. Oh, and anything that Michael Bey has a hand in.
Posted Apr 26, 2009 5:20 am PT
I think the last thing shown on TV that spooked me was the gargoyles movie that aired in the early '70s. The witch in "The Wizard of Oz" was creepy, but I wasn't afraid of her since I knew I could just pour some water on her. The flying monkeys scared me more, since they could carry a little kid like me away...in the spring, we would get swarms of big crows, and I always had to look twice to make sure they weren't flying monkeys.
Posted Apr 26, 2009 12:07 pm PT
In "Dead Calm" when the husband goes over to the other boat, and finds all the bodies, that creeped me out. Some of the stuff in "Saving Private Ryan" did too. I never had trouble with watching childbirth scenes or with make out sessions, though. Although, as Annie, the Mom in one of my favorite tv shows, 7th Heaven, said once, that sort of thing is "perfectly natural, but it's not meant for anyone else to watch." The scene in the original Alien movie when the alien pops out of the guys stomach did keep me up at night, though.
Posted Apr 27, 2009 3:34 pm PT
I can't stand watching childbirth scenes or make-out scenes with anyone else either. Also, THIS scene from the kid's/teen's show Are You Afraid of the Dark kept me awake at night for years to come.
Posted May 3, 2009 3:21 pm PT
#5 is something that still bothers me to this day.
Posted May 8, 2009 9:50 pm PT
Yeah that scene in Trainspotting got to me. But they were junkies & didn't take care of it. The scene in Gone w the Wind where the horse drops dead from exhaustion also made me sad. Stupid Scarlett!
Posted Aug 21, 2009 4:13 pm PT
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