Lasting Movie Images From Childhood

[cmitchell]

Hey,

Had a thought I was curious about - does anyone have any scary movie images that they experienced as children and still scare them today?

Not that it's a horror move as such, but a friend of mine still gets scared of a scene from the movie Manhunter where there's a guy on fire in a wheelchair rolling down an undercover parking lot ramp. Scared him when he saw it as a child, still scares him today.

For me, there are a couple of scenes from the original Nightmare on Elm Street (the goat scene really stands out) that still scare me today, even after the many sequels where Freddy became more comical than frightening. Hey, I saw it when I was 11.

Curious as to what other people think.

[hammerfan]

I saw The Exorcist when it came out when I was 13. Scared the hell out of me then, and still does to this day!

[Miss Olivia]

Oh man, I have a LOT.
The scene in Alien where the the monster is full grown and pops through the guys skull with his toothy tongue.

The Blob (remake) where Meg comes in the office to see her date covered in goo and being dissolved. (I had a nightmare tied to this last night, actually.)

The Day of the Triffids where the triffid sneaks up on the greenhouse guard....those squishy feet get me freaked out to this day.

The Thing where the dogs get dissolved by the dog alien.

From Beyond where the guy got his hair sucked off by the tube worm, and then the scene where the cop gets eaten by the bugs.

The Ice Pirates, the space herpe. I know it's not scary, but it freaked me out when I was a kid.

I almost forgot the plane scene in The Twilight Zone movie. The part where he jerks the shade up and the thing is pressed up to the glass almost made me pee myself, and the cartoon monsters in the Anthony short scared me pretty badly too.

[cmitchell]

Nice responses so far - I totally forgot the space herpe in Ice Pirates, I need to watch that again.

I forgot one of mine - Pennywise the clown from the TV version of Stephen's King IT. Clowns used to scare me as a child, so that helped, but there was a scene that I remember where Pennywise is sneaking up behind some laundry hanging on a clothesline in a yard. Freaked me out.

[The Flayed One]

See my avatar;)

Also, am I the only one whom meg Mucklebones from Legend gave the creeps to?

[Disease]

they don't scare me today but when i was a kid there was a few, I thought Big Ben from house was in my closet the night after I saw it, After I saw goulies i thought those to little dudes in black where hanging out in the hallway outside my room, and I had nightmares about Kruger comeing out of the guys stomach in elm street two for a while, but i've had worst nightmares than that, gremlins freaked me out to, i think or maybe i just used it as an excuse to get out of school. these days i was freaked out about spalding after devils rejects but there was a few days of sleep deprivation involved.

[Vodstok]

Originally posted by Miss Olivia
The scene in Alien where the the monster is full grown and pops through the guys skull with his toothy tongue.

The Blob (remake) where Meg comes in the office to see her date covered in goo and being dissolved. (I had a nightmare tied to this last night, actually.)
The Ice Pirates, the space herpe. I know it's not scary, but it freaked me out when I was a kid.

I almost forgot the plane scene in The Twilight Zone movie. The part where he jerks the shade up and the thing is pressed up to the glass almost made me pee myself, and the cartoon monsters in the Anthony short scared me pretty badly too.

Man.. Nailed 3 big ones for me. another one from twilight Zone... The sister with no mouth. that gave me that burning feeling you get in your stomach when you suddenly feel like you are in danger...


When i was 5, i saw the best scenes from alien, the chestburster, bret getting bitten in the face, and Ash gettin ghis block knocked off. I was kinda ookay with the first tweo, but when that head came off and the neck started spewing white shit, and the body just kept going... Bleh... Stuck with me for years....

[The Mothman]

the toxic waste scene in Robocop gave me nightmares for years when i was a kid.

[Vodstok]

Originally posted by The Mothman
the toxic waste scene in Robocop gave me nightmares for years when i was a kid.

Same here. i was 11 when i saw that and it kept me up all night. I could just hear him wailing and whispering "help me!"

[crabapple]

"Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things."

The scene with the dead people crawling out of the ground, all at once and all of them pissed off, is one of the most threatening and unpleasant horror sequences I've seen, and still works really well for me. Good god, how horrible!