Which Aliens scared you as a kid...

hag · 26 January, 2006, 12:01:27 AM

Some how ended up having a chat with my Dad about Doctor Who the other day, and he said he used to fear the Darleks as a kid.

When i was young the Borg used to scare me senseless, I think the Borg are much scarier than the Darleks...

Anyway, which alien menaces were you fearful of as a child?

Carlsborg Expert · 26 January, 2006, 12:05:35 AM

Jeff Waynes chrysalises scared the piss out of me, for a period.Incidentally, the part of the London Park, mentioned, is it Hough End?

I have a nature preserve here in Chorlton called Hough End, thats all.

ming · 26 January, 2006, 12:09:56 AM

Triffids. Hands down, no contest, the scariest aliens on TV. Evah.

ARRISARRIS · 26 January, 2006, 12:19:02 AM

...sontarans...

Daveycandlish · 26 January, 2006, 12:22:34 AM

...Pete Burns...

VampiraJen · 26 January, 2006, 12:40:49 AM

THE alien

though why i was allowed to watch it as a kid was beyond me...

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Art · 26 January, 2006, 12:43:35 AM

...the plastic sofa of doom...

Though I think I must have seen it in a clip show or something because it was a bit before mey time.

Bico · 26 January, 2006, 12:48:52 AM

The Moomins.

hag · 26 January, 2006, 01:03:31 AM

the moomins? the moomins were lovable and scandinavian. i was scared of the Hattifatteners when i was really young though.

Dudley · 26 January, 2006, 01:12:31 AM

Jaws.

Bart Oliver · 26 January, 2006, 01:30:19 AM

Not really 'alien' I know- but the Wraiths in Ralph Bakshi's Lord Of The Rings
were fair frightening for me at seven.

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Adrian Bamforth · 26 January, 2006, 01:43:34 AM

The Moomins on TV was darkly magical, were the Hattifatteners frosty creatures who used to wander around outside and who everyone had to hide from? They were petrifying, especially the way it moved in the series, not exactly animated, just appearing and disappering in different places.

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House of Usher · 26 January, 2006, 01:59:48 AM

Jeff Wayne's Martians terrified me aged about 9 or 10. I used to listen to the record, fascinated, and afterwards try not to think about the sound of them shouting "ulla!" I sort of glimpsed one peering in our first floor living room window, and on another occasion I was left alone in the car for what seemed like an hour, and watching a field of green wheat waving in the wind I was trying not to imagine the red weed.

In Dr Who I found the skull in Image of the Fendahl a lot scary. The Wirrn had me hiding under the blankets at night. Genesis of the Daleks had plenty of scares, number one of which was Davros. The green slimy Dalek organisms were horrid too.

And bits of Watership Down had scary 'aliens' in too. Not so much General Woundwort, as Fiver's awful visions, and the words 'bones and wire' repeated over and over (there's a dog loose in the wood), and the terrible scene of the gassed rabbit warren with its exits blocked with bodies...

*ulp!*

House of Usher · 26 January, 2006, 02:01:10 AM

Oh yeah, and the mutant in This Island Earth. That was scary. I hid under the blankets from that one too.

Funt Solo · 26 January, 2006, 03:01:58 AM

The bugs from hell in the film Bug.