Which Aliens scared you as a kid...

[Oddboy]

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[Banners]

Off-topic, but what ex-fucking-lactly are tripod.com achieving by stopping people from looking at their hosted images, apart from being really irritating?

You're using their bandwidth.

M@

[Leigh S]

But thats what makes it so creepy!  That and the reflection on the glasses that make it look like the eyes are weirdy

[Roger Godpleton]

The Tripods. Never seen the TV version.

[House of Usher]

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[House of Usher]

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[johnnystress]

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(wets self)

[Grant Goggans]

It's certainly true that British television threw a number of really freaking alien monsters at kids to spark y'all's nightmares, but believe me, you've never had TV-launched frights anything near the ones that the Sleestak from the NBC Saturday morning show Land of the Lost inspired.  If you were five years old in 1976, you had nightmares *constantly* from these things.

We didn't get Doctor Who in Atlanta until I was 12, so I was a bit old to be terrified of it, but since I've been watching the original series with my kids, now aged 7 and 8, they've had a few awful frights.  Principal terrors: the Silurians, the Auton troll doll, the Axons, the Sea Devils, the Drashigs, the Loch Ness Monster and the robot mummies from Pyramids of Mars.  We finished "Arc of Infinity" last night, and the images of Omega's helmet collapsing and all that black goo pouring out had my daughter hiding behind the sofa.  Of course, the unquiet dead and the gas-masked empty child from the new series had 'em freaked out as well.

The Baltans from Ultraman also had my daughter screaming bloody murder a couple of years ago.  Man, she hates that show.

--Grant

[Grant Goggans]

Darn my web-fu.

Link: http://images.google.com/images?q=sleestak&hl=en&safe=active" target="_blank">Sleestak images from Google

[I, Cosh]

There was a Tom Baker Who story where he got flung down a hole and this big amorphous green blobby thing was about to crush him.

Can't remember what story it was and I think it turned out to be friendly in the next episode, but that's the only one I remmeber being scared by as a kid.

That and the Woodbeast from Flash!

[Oddboy]

I don't mind admitting that I found the "Where's My Mummy" episode from the new Who series darned scary.

[House of Usher]

Looks awfully familiar. I don't remember ever seeing it TV, but I do remember one piece of merchandise. As a child I was given a Land of the Lost sticker and colouring book. It had pages to colour, and a gummed sheet of decals that you had to tear out and lick the back of like postage stamps to stick on the appropriate page.

It was an odd form of collage in that often the sticker would be a character's arm or head, or hat, and the rest of him would have to be coloured in using pencils.

But that's beside the point. I do recall I thought it looked cool, and wished I knew more about it and where it came from.

[House of Usher]

The Creature From the Pit

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[Carlsborg Expert]

That thing in Flash Gordon, on the Swampworld,was a nightmarish thing too. Combined with Duncans acting and the bit with Flash falling in the big swamp mousse, it all made for terrifying REM!

[House of Usher]

There's a summary of the Flash Gordon 'treemen' ritual here:

Link: http://www.moviedeaths.com/flash_gordon/young_treeman/" target="_blank">a Movie Deaths database...