Lasting Movie Images From Childhood

[orangestar]

The crabwalk scene in The Exorcist

Large Marge the truck driver in Pee Wee's Big Adventure is one of the most vivid images from my childhood. Scared me to death.

[Roderick Usher]

The opening scene of Night of the Living Dead with"they're coming to get you Bah-ba-ra" was soooo sinister.

It still gives me the willies

And the oil-slick/blob thingy from "The Raft" in Creepshow 2. I still think of that everytime I'm swimming in a lake.

[Vodstok]

oddly enough, it is partially responsible for me NOT swimming in lakes.

My cousin had the comic book of Creepshow when i was a kid. The Crate cost me sleep for about 2 years.

[The Flayed One]

Originally posted by Roderick Usher
And the oil-slick/blob thingy from "The Raft" in Creepshow 2. I still think of that everytime I'm swimming in a lake.

Oh yeah! That also reminds me of the thing in 'The Crate' episode, which scared the beejeezus out of me!

[1beastieibe]

Large Marge the truck driver in Pee Wee's Big Adventure is one of the most vivid images from my childhood. Scared me to death.

I still cannot watch that scene! I literally went into shock the first time I saw that.

Poltergeist 2- When Caine is yelling "your all gonna die in there" and when they show him underground with all his followers.

Jaws 3-it's very scary in 3-D when you are 3 years old

Stand by Me- I puked when I saw the leech in the underwear scene.

Cloak and Dagger- When the old woman takes off her glove and shows she is missing fingers.

Sleepaway Camp- The end, but it was more of her face then the other part.

[waffle]

With ya on the melting scene in Robocop.

PLUS: Superman 3. When that woman gets trapped in the machine at the end, and comes out covered in wires and chips and shit (although for some reason, in my head and until I saw it again for the first time since I was 7 last year, she came out covered in apples and pears. weird.)

And

A film called Pin. I just have this hazy memory of a fat nurse having sex with this bizarre mannequin/dummy kinda thing. It makes me feel queasy now just thinking about it, and is probably the root of all kinds of sexual neuroses. Anyone else familiar with that film?

[Miss Olivia]

The robot lady in Superman 3 scared me really bad too now that I think of it....the part where her eye turns all silver freaked me out pretty bad.

Oh yeah, and the little troll thing from Cat's Eye that came out of the wall was really scary too.

And the thing in the glass cube in Something Wicked This Way Comes with the glowing eyes and the ring on it's finger....

And since we're talking about childhood fears, the giant octopus from Godzilla vs. King Kong terrified me for a lot of my formative years....it was so SLIMY and made horrible NOISES.
Ick.

[newb]

"The Shuttered Room"[1967] cost me a nights sleep when I was a wee ladd.

There was a scene in "No Way to Treat a Lady"[1968] where Rod Steigers character strangles a lady to death, that was kinda disturbing to me as a boy.

[Posher778]

The clown in the sewer scene at the beginning of IT, where it ate that poor kid. Too this day, I will not look down or walk within 3 feet of one of those.

[Vodstok]

Originally posted by Posher778
The clown in the sewer scene at the beginning of IT, where it ate that poor kid. Too this day, I will not look down or walk within 3 feet of one of those.

I think IT gets an award for causing mental problems. i dont knwo a single adult who has seen it that doesnt shudder when i say "We all float down here..."