Which movie character scared you as a young child?

[jpgray]

(Inspired by UdoKier's thread)

For me it was the evil queen in Snow White. Hey, I was young.

[maveric]

1. The Wolfman. Lon Chaney Jr.

It still scares me to this day.

[calico1]

5. Ooohh, me too!

As a little kid in the 60's we had this show called "Chiller Theater" where they showed scary movies every Saturday night. The Wolfman, Frankenstein and King Kong all scared me! :scared:

[SpaceCatMeetsMars]

19. Do you mean the one in Pittsburgh with Chilly Billy?

I loved that show. In the seventies, the highlight of my sad high school existence was Second City TV, followed by Chiller Theater! I still love B horror movies.

[calico1]

22. I don't remember the name of the host.

But I do remember that when the show began, and during the breaks I think there was a hand that came out of the ground slowly (very creepy). And yes, it was all B movies from the 30's, 40's and 50's. I grew up in NYC by the way so I don't know if your Chiller Theater was the same as mine. And I remember it from the 60's too! But it could have been the same one. Sounds similar!

[SpaceCatMeetsMars]

24. There was a hand

Maybe it was the same show, but in different cities with different hosts.

[calico1]

25. Then it must have been the same show!

I remember a deep voice: "Chilller....chilller theater!" I thought I was the only one who remembered that show!

[HEyHEY]

2. The bear in "The fox and the hound"

[LoisMustDie]

3. Dr. Phibes

[Lovecrafty]

4. The Tall Man from Phantasm..especially at the end...

BOOOOOOOOOY!

[pagerbear]

6. The Wicked Witch of the West

I used to cry hysterically as soon as The Wizard of Oz would come on TV because I knew the WW of the W was coming!

[Beaverhausen]

15. Me too! Also Mrs. Gulch-she took Toto!

[Kat45]

27. Me too. And the flying monkeys.

[lil-petunia]

30. me three

but in highschool, after being in all sorts of plays and musicals, as a senior male, I tried out and won that part for our HS production.

Talk about a thrilling role.

"Ah hahahahahah Do-ro-thy! My little one!"

[readmylips]

7. Stiff & morbid status in Catholic church....

Religious status and Jesus on that cross was creepy, always looked away from them in church. Never got over it.

[Placebo]

8. E.T the EXTRATERRESTRIAL

He fucking SCARED THE HELL OUT OF ME. :scared:

I used to have nightmares where i would be all alone in the house and all the lights would be off except in the hallway and he would walk slowly to opposite end of the hallway looking at me, then extend his neck and do that HIGH PITCHED SCREAM and start RUNNING towards me screaming with that waddle type walk with his arms outreached towards me and I had no where else to run and I wanted to DIE!!!!!!!!!! :scared: :scared:

[dorktv]

9. Hey something like that happened to me when I was a kid.

My dad made my stepmom an ET costume as a Halloween costume and she wore for us. I took one look at her and ran out of the house screaming. They found me hiding under the garbage cans later. Nothing scarer then a 5 foot ET coming down a hallway. I saw the costume years later and it STILL scares me.

[Placebo]

11. SEE it IS frightening!

It's freakin' scary as hell.

My parents used to joke that they were going to buy a life size replica of E.T. and put it at the foot of my bed while I was sleeping for me to find when I woke up.

I think I would either NOT be able to stop screaming, or NOT be able to scream at all because i'd be stricken with total paralyzing fear, OR simply keel over and die of fright right there. :scared:

[dorktv]

17. Parents have really weird senses of humor you know.

[Placebo]

18. Damn parents

*rings fist at the sky* damn them to blazes :mad:

[charlyvi]

10. Norman Bates....

And I still shudder when I hear shrill violin music.

[ablbodyed]

12. The Martians in>>>>

War of the Worlds. I was 8 when we went to the drive-in and started watching the movie. When the A-Bomb didn't phase them, I lost it: orange-soda-and-popcorn puke all over the floor of my grandfather's Dodge. We, of course, left. I had nightmares for years: the Martians pushing dirt up around my house, trapping me inside. I didn't see the outcome until my early 20's (no, I didn't have mightmares (is that four more years of chimpy in office? or Clydesdale mothers?)... er, nightmares for that long. My parents were not scared: it was too unreal for them, while Frankenstein was more believable to them, and I laughed at it. But for an 8-year-old, terrified of 'THE BOMB' this movie was the scariest. That fact that it was a well-made film, and stands today as a fine entertainment, may have had something to do with it.

[DemWitch]

13. The first Zombie in Night of the Living Dead

My folks went to see it at the Drive-in as a second feature to Jaws. I was 11 and had nightmares for weeks afterwards about "they coming to get you Barbara"...

[Susang]

23. OMG, I thought I was the only one who freaked out at that point

The first time I tried to watch Night of the Living Dead, I made it up to the point where the first zombie sticks it to her brother and chases her back to her car.

Funny thing was, I was about 12 and already a big horror movie fanatic. But that scene scared me so badly that I started crying and had to go to avoid watching the rest of the movie. I went to bed at 11:30 on a Saturday night! My mother and brother (who both were looking forward to watching the movie again) couldn't believe it.

When I watch the movie now, I still find that scene to one of the most frightening. :scared:

[jpgray]

28. I love those movies

The new one Romero's working on looks to be a steaming pile, but the first two are excellent zombie fun. :D (And I hope I'm wrong about the new one, by the way, and I'll definitely see it.)

[jackieforthedems]

31. Ditto

"Night Of The Living Dead" as a young child at the drive in movies. Then Jack Nicholson in "The Shining" as a teen.:scared:

[Shoeempress]

14. The flying monkeys in WOZ. They totally freaked me out. Guess

it was just a foreshadowing of the current regime.

[Culture Mind]

16. The Humungus

from Road Warrior. In fact all of the baddies from Road Warrior scared the shit outta me. My parents took me to see RW in the theatre, i got one look at The Humungus and had to go next door and see Tron again instead.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

20. YES. Lots of Disney crap scared me then, like in Pinnochio.

Not like the sanitized Disney movies now.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

21. Freddy Krueger

Scared the hell out of me.
Duckie

[msu2ba]

26. The Banshee

from "Darby O'Gill and the Little People"

[Mara Steele]

29. Mr. DARK... from Something Wicked This Way Comes...

:scared:

As played by Jonathan Price, a most excellent actor...

[Raiden]

32. I don't remember being

scared at any particular movie characters. The only thing I can think of would be Night of the Living Dead. That movie seems cheesy when I watch it now, but it scared the hell out of me as a kid. I was just horrified at the thought of zombies bustin' into my bedroom.

[VOX]

33. Greg Peck as Ahab in "Moby Dick."

I was way too young to know that Peck was one of the nicest guys in the world, and that Ahab was just a character, and that Peck was probably miscast.

All I knew was that I was terrified of this tall gruff guy in a black hat, with a long whalebone scar in his face, and a peg-leg.

Even in death, and lashed to Moby Dick, Ahab's flopping arm summoned his men -- "Ahab beckons!"

Yow! :scared: