what illogical things scared you when you were a kid?

[johnnystress]

"ooo ooo those standing stones which moved in the scary kids program. "



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[Queen Firey-Bou]

ewww he's scary !!

[Carlsborg Expert]

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[ARRISARRIS]

... the Kinder advert from (i think) the early 80's where he's a giant egg on a wall with the most grotesque head and horrible voice, maybe it reminded me of the first time a Sontaran took his helmet of in the Jon Pertwee Doctor Who story The Time Warrior, arrrrgh! wheres my sofa???...

[Floyd-the-k]

Dr Who never scared me, but Monty Python used to give me nightmares, as did the kids show with the giant evil pumpkins

[Lobo Baggins]

You mean Nigel Kneale's Beasts? Man, I wish I could get ahold of that. And The Year of the Sex Olympics too...some of us don't have this new-fangled digital television, you know...

Well, the BFI have released Year of the Sex Olympics...

No sign of Beasts anywhere, though.

Link: http://www.bfi.org.uk/booksvideo/video/details/sexolympics/" target="_blank">BFI Website

[Dudley]

A single illustration I once saw, which if I had any talent at all I could reproduce down to the last pencil line.

It's a man, sitting up in bed, holding the covers near his chin.  Around him stretches blackness to infinity.  The scene is lit by a single candle.  At the bottom of the bed is a gigantic, black pig, easily larger than a bus.  It has its trotters propped on the bars at the foot of the bed, rearing its full body height above the man.  Its eyes are alight with intelligence and malevolence, and you know, you just know, that in the next second it will fall on the man and eat... his... feet...



Also, men with dog's heads.  Still totally freaks me out.  Some kid came round trick-or-treating with a wolf's mask and I damn near shat myself.

[Steve Green]

OK, New candidate...

Link: http://www.media-file.net/fuccon/Ep24.mov" target="_blank">Japanese mannequin show

[Queen Firey-Bou]

Oh shit !

musta been ten or so?

tabloid newspaper, mirror or mail or sun, some boys at school got a hold of it & brought it to school to scare the girls. I was playing in the back bracken field where i had a den in the trees & this lad showed me this picture they had on the front cover;

It was a burned up body from an IRA type attack, some shock tactic horror story, unrecognisable black stump limbed mess on a white backround, i was very very very disturbed by it, the fact that they had printed it, the fact that the boys thought this was entertaining, the fact that somebodys loved one was reduced to this & used in this way, and the fact that fire can do that to a human body, i mean jeez there were no hands or feet.

whilst death & images of death or real dead people no longer distress me so, that aspect of humanity which exploits such images, & disrespects human values, has no regard for what trauma it can cause to children or vunerable people, still sickens me.  

I can't walk thru that back field without recalling the sickening terror that image filled me with.  They put PG ratings on films & yet kids are exposed to all sorts of inappropriate bollox every day. I wish people would take more resposibility for the images that get out there.

  This culture of de-sensitization isnt big or clever & it undermines all respect & empathy for human life.

[Byron Virgo]

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