The scene of Freddy Krueger from the original "A Nightmare On Elm Street" where he is walking down the back alley with really long outstretched arms always creeped me out as a kid. That scene still has the power to send a few chills down my spine even now.
The scene you mentioned from Salem's Lot with the kid at the window did scare me a lot as a kid, I was also terrified by that part in Nicholas Roegs adaptation of The Witches as a child where the gran tells the little boy about how when she was a kid her friend was trapped in a painting by a witch, something about that scene disturbed me. But the film that scared me more then anything else as a child was the 1989 TV adaptation of Susan Hills The Woman In Black, the scene where she's hovering over the lead character while he's lying in bed is still to this day the scariest moment in film I've ever seen & even as an adult that woman's face is the stuff of my nightmares.
No no no.... the scariest scene/film of ALL time - has to be ..... Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's "The Child Catcher" .... it freaked me out as a kid and I cannot watch it to this day!
I don't even think i've watched The Never Ending Story, but I do remember seeing that scene with the horse. It's something that terrified me as a child and has stuck with me ever since
Dougal and the Blue Cat still gives me chills just thinking about it, I remember being taken to my Gran's house to stay the night and being sat down to watch it, not sure if I've ever recovered from the psychological scars and even just the mention of the title in your video here invoked a feeling of complete abject horror from deep inside me!
As a kid , the scene with Medusa hunting in the dark temple freaked me out with nightmares for years and the Bantha fodder scene in Star Wars. Also, Jonathan Pryce in Something Wicked this way comes 😱 *shudder*
I love Dougal & the Blue Cat - the Blue Voice is truly sinister... One of the scariest I remember from childhood as a TV series called 'Children of the Stones', a very disturbing and claustrophobic story. Probably wouldn't be allowed now. Another moment that scared the cr*p out of me was the 'Talos' scene from Jason & the Argonauts - Harryhousen at his finest
I love sharks for the beautiful animals they are, having said that, Jaws still scares the living daylights out of me. Even the music makes my heart start pounding.
The Thing (original) - King Kong (original) - Twilight Zone (tv early ones,,,,,,the dopple ganger one with Vera Miles) - Poltergeist (the mirror scene - his face comes off),,,,,,the last film to creep me out The Grunge also, the early Hammer films
Actually, now I look back, the vile Fascist officer in Pan's Labyrinth unnerved me more than the Pale Man whilst watching the film. However, given del Toro's ability to meld horror and elegance and my ongoing aversion to anything involving eyes (Django Unchained's mandingo gouge, the Joker's "disappearing pencil" and various other scenes of ocular brutality have had me cringing) meant that it still makes me shiver seven years on.
I found the later Thomas the Tank Engine stuff scary. Enormous ghostly boulders, haunted ghostly boulders, haunted ravines and bridges caused by previous deaths. It's scary when you're 4.
As a child, 6 or 7, I remember loving 'The NeverEnding Story', but never reaching the actual end of the movie because of that big black dog looking thing that is supposed to represent 'The Nothing'. Then, when I was about 14, I overcame my fear of horror movies, after seeing John Capenter's Halloween all the way through for the first time. I had to go back to sleeping with a night light for at least a couple of weeks.
That film terrorised the children of misjudging parents all through the 80s. Truly horrific and sad, no-one I knew who saw it as a kid ever really got over it lol
probably just the verbal version of a 'typo', or maybe the person posting it in got the decades mixed up and Mark hadn't clocked it (??). Mark's very rarely not on the ball with this sort of stuff...........
. hmmmmn i think for me its a film adaptation of i think a m.r. james story , which was partially recorded over a black adder video i used to like as a kid that my mum and dad had taped, it involved two victorian (i think) pale kids scratching on a manor house bedroom door that really quite disturbed me cant remember anything else about it. The sound of the Countdown clock also used to scare me, as did a french n saunders exorcist skit, and the judderman advert
@HannibalCat Yeah,that whole movie had several really memorably scray scene, such as the one with Elisha Cook Jr. entering his bedroom and finding the revenant guy. Also when the vampire first appears in the kitchen.
Oh my god - I have the exact same feeling about 'foriegn textures' and have always felt that way about the dragon in never ending story. Always thought it was just me!
oh i remember another one which again was partially taped over a recording of black adder or the young ones or something and it was a couple of scenes from jean pierre juenets The City Of Lost Children, it was worryingly warped and dreamlike and i forgot id seen it but id have a reoccurring dream which was incredibly similiar it was only yrs later that i realised my dreams which wer both scary and strangly uplifting had been subconsciously inspired by that film... its my favourite film now
Jacob's ladder scared the living shit out of me. There's something so nightmarish about the whole movie. When he's being wheeled through the hospital with all the body parts lying around and no-one is listening to him
I’ll be the only one to say this I’m sure, but the live action Jungle Book from the 90’s had some horrific deaths in its final act. (Quicksand, buried alive in sand, drowned and eaten by a giant snake) I was allowed to see it so young because my parent thought it would be as tame as the cartoon. Wrong.
Return to Oz should NOT be shown to kids lol! For me, not a film but Zelda from TerraHawks makes me wonder what Gerry Anderson's thought process was! I showed in my teenage kids and they couldn't believe it was a a kids show.
mark please listen to george clooney's talk about why hollywood sequels (which are mostly terrible) and do a video on if it is a 100% sincere in what he's saying. it made sense to me but i dont know the industry so....its called "george clooney defends sequels" i believe
The scene of Freddy Krueger from the original "A Nightmare On Elm Street" where he is walking down the back alley with really long outstretched arms always creeped me out as a kid. That scene still has the power to send a few chills down my spine even now.
The scene you mentioned from Salem's Lot with the kid at the window did scare me a lot as a kid, I was also terrified by that part in Nicholas Roegs adaptation of The Witches as a child where the gran tells the little boy about how when she was a kid her friend was trapped in a painting by a witch, something about that scene disturbed me. But the film that scared me more then anything else as a child was the 1989 TV adaptation of Susan Hills The Woman In Black, the scene where she's hovering over the lead character while he's lying in bed is still to this day the scariest moment in film I've ever seen & even as an adult that woman's face is the stuff of my nightmares.
Raiders of the Lost Arc, when they open the arc. The melting faces creeped me out.
The Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
But for true atavistic terror, Nosy Bonk from childrens TV prog. Jigsaw,
When the Queen turns herself into a hag in Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs - that was terrifying!
No no no.... the scariest scene/film of ALL time - has to be ..... Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's "The Child Catcher" .... it freaked me out as a kid and I cannot watch it to this day!
Raiders of the Lost Ark when I was 6/7 - angels turning into demons, faces melting. My colon extended like a party whistle!
The Ghost of Christmas Yet-to-come in the Muppets' version is fantastic - undoubtedly the best imagination of him. Very scary indeed.
It’s Ralphie at Danny's window. Danny appears later on, at Marks's window. Deeply affected me at the time.
I don't even think i've watched The Never Ending Story, but I do remember seeing that scene with the horse. It's something that terrified me as a child and has stuck with me ever since
I had Dougal and the Blue Cat on vinyl as a child. I absolutely loved it and may have to invest in the DVD.
When I saw The Hole and The Woman In Black in cinemas as a tween, I couldn't sleep for weeks!
That scene in Salem's Lot is still scary
Dougal and the Blue Cat still gives me chills just thinking about it, I remember being taken to my Gran's house to stay the night and being sat down to watch it, not sure if I've ever recovered from the psychological scars and even just the mention of the title in your video here invoked a feeling of complete abject horror from deep inside me!
As a kid , the scene with Medusa hunting in the dark temple freaked me out with nightmares for years and the Bantha fodder scene in Star Wars. Also, Jonathan Pryce in Something Wicked this way comes 😱 *shudder*
I love Dougal & the Blue Cat - the Blue Voice is truly sinister... One of the scariest I remember from childhood as a TV series called 'Children of the Stones', a very disturbing and claustrophobic story. Probably wouldn't be allowed now.
Another moment that scared the cr*p out of me was the 'Talos' scene from Jason & the Argonauts - Harryhousen at his finest
I love sharks for the beautiful animals they are, having said that, Jaws still scares the living daylights out of me. Even the music makes my heart start pounding.
The Thing (original) - King Kong (original) - Twilight Zone (tv early ones,,,,,,the dopple ganger one with Vera Miles) - Poltergeist (the mirror scene - his face comes off),,,,,,the last film to creep me out The Grunge also, the early Hammer films
Carry on Screaming frightened the life out of me. I watched it for the first time when I was 6 years old. Since then I have been a horror film wuss!
Return to Oz was terrifying.
Actually, now I look back, the vile Fascist officer in Pan's Labyrinth unnerved me more than the Pale Man whilst watching the film. However, given del Toro's ability to meld horror and elegance and my ongoing aversion to anything involving eyes (Django Unchained's mandingo gouge, the Joker's "disappearing pencil" and various other scenes of ocular brutality have had me cringing) meant that it still makes me shiver seven years on.
I found the later Thomas the Tank Engine stuff scary. Enormous ghostly boulders, haunted ghostly boulders, haunted ravines and bridges caused by previous deaths. It's scary when you're 4.
The eye monster from Pan's Labyrinth. Saw it when I was 11/12... weuurgh.
dark crystal -those sketches and the weird old thing with 1 eye freaked me out as a child lol
the subway peddler in the Whiz
As a child, 6 or 7, I remember loving 'The NeverEnding Story', but never reaching the actual end of the movie because of that big black dog looking thing that is supposed to represent 'The Nothing'. Then, when I was about 14, I overcame my fear of horror movies, after seeing John Capenter's Halloween all the way through for the first time. I had to go back to sleeping with a night light for at least a couple of weeks.
As a kid 'Children of the Stones' scared the crap out of me.
watership down, something about it scared me
That film terrorised the children of misjudging parents all through the 80s. Truly horrific and sad, no-one I knew who saw it as a kid ever really got over it lol
Warning to the curious- Uk bbc tv ghost story - 12 years old and it wrecked my sleep for weeks.
Frank Langella's Dracula, with that soundtrack created by John Willians.
Some of the Betty Boop cartoons are very scary!
hey mark, i remember when i was younger and i watched Spirited Away. I was so scared that i left the room crying.
Return to Oz was '85, not '75... it isn't that old...
probably just the verbal version of a 'typo', or maybe the person posting it in got the decades mixed up and Mark hadn't clocked it (??). Mark's very rarely not on the ball with this sort of stuff...........
. hmmmmn i think for me its a film adaptation of i think a m.r. james story , which was partially recorded over a black adder video i used to like as a kid that my mum and dad had taped, it involved two victorian (i think) pale kids scratching on a manor house bedroom door that really quite disturbed me cant remember anything else about it. The sound of the Countdown clock also used to scare me, as did a french n saunders exorcist skit, and the judderman advert
I saw, Them, aged about 9 , a giant radio active spider trying to break into a caravan I had recurring nightmares for years afterwards.
@HannibalCat
Yeah,that whole movie had several really memorably scray scene, such as the one with Elisha Cook Jr. entering his bedroom and finding the revenant guy.
Also when the vampire first appears in the kitchen.
Willem Dafoe's Green Goblin in Spider Man 2 gave me nightmares for weeks!
Oh my god - I have the exact same feeling about 'foriegn textures' and have always felt that way about the dragon in never ending story. Always thought it was just me!
Black hole - scene where maximillion uses its whirrung blade to kill someone
oh i remember another one which again was partially taped over a recording of black adder or the young ones or something and it was a couple of scenes from jean pierre juenets The City Of Lost Children, it was worryingly warped and dreamlike and i forgot id seen it but id have a reoccurring dream which was incredibly similiar it was only yrs later that i realised my dreams which wer both scary and strangly uplifting had been subconsciously inspired by that film... its my favourite film now
I know you don't do TV but Paulus the gnome is simply the most frightening thing ever
Good talk Mank
"SKY" episode 1 scared the crap out of me.
The beyond, jacobs ladder, alien, elm street 2, Insidious, pet sematary are terrifying
Jacob's ladder scared the living shit out of me. There's something so nightmarish about the whole movie. When he's being wheeled through the hospital with all the body parts lying around and no-one is listening to him
The film that really scared me most as a youngster was The Curse of the Faceless Man, scared the c--p out of me.
@KingOfTheShrews Thanks man cause of that info I join Kermode Uncut. Thnx man
Father karas dreams.. Omen.. Etruscan cemetary..
I’ll be the only one to say this I’m sure, but the live action Jungle Book from the 90’s had some horrific deaths in its final act. (Quicksand, buried alive in sand, drowned and eaten by a giant snake) I was allowed to see it so young because my parent thought it would be as tame as the cartoon. Wrong.
what was the film at 2:50?
@tooyjfwn Runaway! Robotic spiders and Gene Simmons, terrifying.
More kids films should have more troubling moments, toughen them up
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@madammao Usually, but it really is a matter of opinion. What do you think?
The singing ringing tree at age 5/6.
Return to Oz should NOT be shown to kids lol!
For me, not a film but Zelda from TerraHawks makes me wonder what Gerry Anderson's thought process was! I showed in my teenage kids and they couldn't believe it was a a kids show.
Really what part ?
@TeddyRuxpinMomma
The human Brain another one - makes my stomache turn
mark please listen to george clooney's talk about why hollywood sequels (which are mostly terrible) and do a video on if it is a 100% sincere in what he's saying. it made sense to me but i dont know the industry so....its called "george clooney defends sequels" i believe
Felix the cat