Which Aliens scared you as a kid...

johnnystress · 27 January, 2006, 03:49:32 PM

yeah! He was much scarier than his minions- who appeared to have suspiciously earth-like zippers up their backs

though this IS pretty cool
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I remember C4 did a whole series of old sci-fi movies in the mid-80s- great stuff

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auxlen · 27 January, 2006, 03:49:34 PM

Looking at it now...the shape in church is the more authentic photograph as it is clearly someone taking a photo of a church....the ghost is fake but the photo could be genuine.

Woman in car....who on earth takes photographs at funerals or even has a camera?

Still the only 'ghost' picture that had me leaving the light on hahahahah

MIKE COLLINS · 27 January, 2006, 04:22:38 PM

... the prehistoric horror that gets revealed in Nigel Kneale's The Stone Tape scared the crap out of me as a kid-- you don't really see anything but there's an amazing sense of dread and unforgiving evil.

When they repeated it last year on BBC3 (or 4?) still scared me....

Lobo Baggins · 27 January, 2006, 04:35:51 PM

Dr Who (Tom Baker) had some story involving fomay stuff coming out his ears too- it scared the living shit out of me, the episode ended with these weird seahorse looking aliens ..growing out of his ears ...or something?

The weird seahorse looking aliens were in [backslash]'Project UFO[backslash]', I think...

House of Usher · 27 January, 2006, 05:04:44 PM

Okay, this one scared me big time. And when I went to the library to borrow Doctor Who novelisations I knew this one was on the shelf and had to avoid looking at it while I was choosing which ones to read.

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Bad Andy · 27 January, 2006, 05:23:29 PM

The Malus from Doctor Who. Scary face in a church wall.

Incidentally, anyone ever been to a Dr Who exhibition where they[backslash]'ve got all the costumes of the monsters? Very creepy.

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Banners · 27 January, 2006, 05:33:04 PM

Not an alien, but this guy "Mr Noseybonk" from igsaw really used to panic me...

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House of Usher · 27 January, 2006, 05:59:33 PM

Does anyone remember a 'for schools' English programme from the '70s where the were some kids living in the countryside, and they find an ancient skull in some sand dunes, and there's a wasp's nest in the roof of their house? That was a bit creepy, which is not to say really scary, because it wasn't exactly, just a bit... brrrr!

auxlen · 27 January, 2006, 06:04:52 PM

OMG! Mr Noseybonk WAS creepy. In fact that whole programme was odd. 70s TV was quite strange. 'Charley says' don't go with strangers was creepy as were the Donald Pleasence 'don't go swimming' info films. Both worked very effectively for me...scarred me for life they did hahahahah I still can't live within 25 miles of a 'Deep Water' sing ;)

I realise this has nothing to do with aliens. sorry.

auxlen · 27 January, 2006, 06:21:15 PM

meant to be : deep water sign

curses. [edit] ahhh, if only

Quirkafleeg · 27 January, 2006, 06:55:56 PM

There was some serial on when I was kid that was an adaptation of some classic books about kids getting evacuated in the war and it ended with a big house being burnt down (and it was all a dream or something equally crap).

Massive un-pc bit... well there was this mentally disabled bloke in it who used to really creep me out as a kid. I think, being the 70s and everything it was supposed to creep you out.

I remember reading a book called 'Grinny' as a kid about some children who are visited by their nice old grandma... who turned out to be an alien android replacement (that glowed in the dark). How can anything so stupid souding be so frightning... it was so bad I never finished the book.

I, Cosh · 27 January, 2006, 07:03:58 PM

"Where you goin' now, then?"

Was that The Machine Gunners you're thinking of?

Roger Godpleton · 27 January, 2006, 07:19:09 PM

I read "Grinny". And its sequel. They were both shit. Teachers made us read it. They didn't make us read War of the Worlds though, because everyone complained (not me) that it was "boring". Even the smart kids. Wankers.

House of Usher · 27 January, 2006, 09:16:28 PM

Gary, you're thinking of Carrie's War. It was filmed as a BBC serial in 1974 and again as a BBC drama film in 2003. The guy you are talking about is known as Mr Johnny.

Seeing the 2003 version recently, I did wonder if that was the thing I'd seen as a kid, because that too has a skull in it. But it didn't have a wasp's nest that I know of, and I don't remember anything about evacuees in the thing I saw in the for schools English programme. I think they were 1970s children in that. Curses. Wonder what it was?

hag · 27 January, 2006, 09:19:25 PM

grinny was too aweful to be scary.

Which Aliens scared you as a kid...

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