Which Aliens scared you as a kid...

[Thursday]

Not an alien as such, but the beginning of American Werewolf in London scared the bejesus out of me.  Watched it when I was about twelve or so, and all alone in the house.  Then - then - I had to take the dog for a walk, in the dark, way out in the countryside, on my own.  

Bricking it every step of the way, to say the least.  

[Carlsborg Expert]

No, The crowd were not impressed with that move. :)http://www.moviedeaths.com/images/grabs/flash_gordon-young_treeman-2.jpg">

[johnnystress]

The Horror!http://www-scf.usc.edu/~chingyiw/GroupProject/NewPics/ET%202.jpg">

[hag]

i never really got the comfortable with the freindly aspect of et. like dogs, i was always expecting him to attack the kids randomly.

[Carlsborg Expert]

I was too scared to go and watch Superman at the pictures with my sisters as the 12 or PG rating made me think it was a teenhorror. I even trembled to think what the S symbol stood for!

Hes an alien too, right?

[Lobo Baggins]

To prevent uneccesary sanity point damage...

Huh, lightweights...

I'll see your 'Woman in Back of Car' and raise you 'Shape in Church'...http://uk.geocities.com/mattd.sharp@btinternet.com/thing.JPG">

[House of Usher]

Blake's 7. There was an episode (probably The Web, from series 1?) where there's a little guy in a fish tank (who's evil, yeah?); and there are creatures outside that he wants to wipe out, but they break in a kick the shit out of him. Horrible!

...and in another episode, people's heads were turning to scrambled egg, with a really gross special effect (as a kind of torture/execution?). I didn't like that one myself, but it's all my girlfriend could remember of Blake's 7 and she never watched it again until we saw the repeats on UK Gold.

[Quirkafleeg]

>little guy in a fish tank

That shit me up too...

Sleepness night came from some doc about Bigfoot and a very obscure Jackanory called The Nargon and the Stars about this horrible rock thing.

It's not a monster but let's just say 'hitch-hiker in yellow coat'... well I saw it again recently and it's still pretty damn scary....

[Mudcrab]

Hmm, Daleks yes I'd think, till Tom sorted them out. Davros was very creepy.

The cloth frog that was in the kids programme I can never remember the name of. It appeared really big in the screen by virtue of early video effects and that was just crazy. Hmm, might have evoked a few repressed fears there with that one.

And no, it wasn't Gabriel.

[Mudcrab]

Oh yeah, Aliens wasn't it. Erm, Greedo, the first time.

The huge plant monsters in Doctor Who and the Brain of Mobius creature.

Triffids for sure. Intelligent walking killer plants, aaargh.

Definitely NOT the Tripods.

Now only humans scare me. Speaking as an encephalopod.

[Mr C]

This thing from invaders from mars still shits me up.http://membres.lycos.fr/starmars/inv53_2.html">

[Mr C]

See? So scary it's terrified the internet into censoring the horror with a red cross!

Anyway, it's that silver bloke in the bottle with a tentacled little body and a big head.

[Leigh S]

Shape in Church was in the book too - and is pretty scary, but is so clear and obviously scary that its easy to dismiss it as a fake - the horror of woman in back of car is the fact that someone is passing that off as a ghost - well, why would they, if it isn't true?  Plus, "modernish day woman leaving her own funeral" has got that close to home feeling that "monk in old church I'll never visit" just doesn't.

[Art]

Tom Bakers teeth...

[Oddboy]

Not scarey, but while we're on the subject of classic faked photos - here's a topical one for y'all:http://homepages.uel.ac.uk/R.Kempadoo/cw3_final/images/fairies1.jpg">