Post a piece of pop culture that traumatised you as a child

[Raining on Me]

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I wasn't so bothered by the monstrous looking witch, it was more this that really frightened me. It all felt TOO REAL and chilling in terms of someone abducting you. And the fact he was sort of trapped in the tree.

 

[Raining on Me]

This was the worst. I'm feeling emotionally wrecked just finding it again. And then Diana cooing over it all later on just finished me off.

 

[jivafox]

 

[floppet]

The flying monkeys in Wizard of Oz. I still don't like them

 

[Christian]

I didn't mind the monkeys at all, but the witch totally terrified me.

 

[Christian]

I used to listen to it to go to sleep every night. We must have been very different children.

If my parents had popped this on instead of The Muppets Greatest Hits, I probably would have left home.

I was also terrified of Anne Frank, spontaneous combustion, and any height over 50 centimetres at the time, so probably not the most robust individual.

 

[Ill Advised]

 

[jyxz]

The podling getting drained in The Dark Crystal

 

[rhythmbandit]

Terrified me as a kid, absolutely hilarious now.

 

[Saltwater]

 

[Saltwater]

 

[Saltwater]

 

[Saltwater]

Almost shat myself when she spoke Greek here.

 

[Sheena]

When they had corpses with their eyes open on Miss Marple, when she was played by Joan Hickson.

When I hear the theme tune, my blood runs cold, even now.

 

[Kratz]

I was never find of when somebody got ran over by a car on The Animals of Farthing Wood

 

[Martha Skidd]

 

[Zu]

Luckily you can always wipe it on the WALL and also he does have a pair of slacks handy

 

[Pipo]

I've no idea why I was watching this as a child but this left a SCAR on ME

 

[Saltwater]

Also The birds, The omen, The night of the living dead, The village of the damned and for different reasons Flesh and Blood.

 

[SystemAddict]

The opening to CHOCKY always put the willies up me.

That SCREAM followed by desolate music and finishing up with a creepy whisper is a trilogy of terror.

 

[Slave]

When I was 11, my friend's older sister was tasked with watching us for the evening but had already made plans to rent Fear (starring Reese Witherspoon and Mark Wahlberg) with her mates. She agreed to let us watch it with them and the dog's-head-through-the-door scene kept me awake for several nights.

 

[Ill Advised]

 

[Lee]

This was the worst. I'm feeling emotionally wrecked just finding it again. And then Diana cooing over it all later on just finished me off.

Very much this!
I used to watch this together with my mum as a child and she used to be a big Diana Ross fan. It’s going to make me ugly cry a lot when she goes. Even the opening bars of the song are a struggle.

 

[octophone]

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I remember watching this. It was totally portrayed as a live 'documentary' and not as a drama. Which was genius, really. I haven't seen it since but it was properly scary because of the context.

 

[OutSynk]

 

[Helen_S]

 

[GinAg (39)]

Congratulations to @Helen_S on your 99th post.

 

[Ellie]

Another child friendly film!

 

[wendy the goat]

Autons from old Dr Who. I must have watched it on a rerun in the 80s and it scared the shite out of me

 

[wendy the goat]

Also, my mum probably shouldn't have let me watch 999 with Michael Burke as it has now given me an irrational fear of gas explosions and falling into deep fat fryers.