What scares the bejesus out of you?

[Fata Morgana]

I'm not talking death, being alone or spiders.

Silly crap from your childhood that still gets under your skin. Me and spacekowboy were on about Trilogy of Terror the other week. The final story in it shit me up as a child. I mean look at the little fucker. Anyone else remember this little bastard? He terrorized Karen Black mercilessly.

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a97/foxkitsune/zumidoll_zps3a89ff71.jpg

Also this had a long lasting effect on me. A faceless nun sitting in a rocking chair from Armchair Thriller. Probably only Sean or Roobarb will remember this. I was scared for months and convinced there was a faceless nun hiding in the cubby hole in our house.

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a97/foxkitsune/quietasanuncover_zps26694a43.jpg

Also as a child my parents had a lightbulb that had a red glowing cross in it. That scared me for some reason too. Praps I was possessed.

 

[lovetoread]

Child sized dolls like this:

https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQP7zcfA4LNzpPyrcir10JkSD7wCBFb-EU_InAQj4Eghl7YzycYxQ

And that creepy doll from the Trilogy Of Terror

 

[JudasIscariot]

The religious statues at the end of corridors in school.

The clown from the movie IT.

Clowns.

The programme button moon.

Porcelain dolls.

 

[Fata Morgana]

Child sized dolls like this:

https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQP7zcfA4LNzpPyrcir10JkSD7wCBFb-EU_InAQj4Eghl7YzycYxQ

And that creepy doll from the Trilogy Of Terror

Children are usually creepy in horror films full stop.

 

[Fata Morgana]

I didn't exactly see this at a tender age but the twat still bothers me now.

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a97/foxkitsune/kane_zpsbc26f8d3.jpg

 

[duranman]

http://www.beststarsofyear.com/images/jo-brand-01.jpg

 

[lovetoread]

Go toward the light, carol anne

 

[Fata Morgana]

The religious statues at the end of corridors in school.

The clown from the movie IT.

Clowns.

The programme button moon.

Porcelain dolls.

Are you Catholic? I am and yes, some of those are really bloody creepy. The really tortured Jesus freaks me out. The one with the mouth open and the eyes imploring up to the sky? Horrible.

Button Moon?

Our coal shed scared me. No idea why, but I guess I thought there was something in it.

 

[anchoredinocean]

When I was a kid, my mother bought me an ET doll right after we saw the film.

I had to hide it in my closet every night because it scared the living fuck out of me.

Also, Stevie Nicks.

 

[Fata Morgana]

Indie's beard.

 

[Sean]

Also this had a long lasting effect on me. A faceless nun sitting in a rocking chair from Armchair Thriller. Probably only Sean or Roobarb will remember this. I was scared for months and convinced there was a faceless nun hiding in the cubby hole in our house.

I remember that scene clearly as the camera pans round in an attic and the nun has no face. Must be nearly forty years ago and I still remember the fucker.

Also that swim safely advert with death stalking a bunch of kids.

 

[JudasIscariot]

Are you Catholic? I am and yes, some of those are really bloody creepy. The really tortured Jesus freaks me out. The one with the mouth open and the eyes imploring up to the sky? Horrible.

Button Moon?

Our coal shed scared me. No idea why, but I guess I thought there was something in it.

I am a catholic. Yes, those statues where pretty horrifying. I still don't know why they made us stare Jesus in the face when he was in total agony. Probably a reminder I guess. We had at one end the Virgin Mary (whom I always liked to see) but the other end of the corridor was a woman in black. Still no idea who she was. I think it may have been Mary Magdalene? But it was really creepy.

Button moon was on TV when I was a young child.

Lofts and basements used to be scary too.

 

[Fata Morgana]

http://www.beststarsofyear.com/images/jo-brand-01.jpg

Can I suggest you get rid of the Chippendale and use this as an av. I mean really? This is how you come across in your inane ramblings.

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a97/foxkitsune/derek-2_zpsc58926e9.jpg

 

[lovetoread]

Indie's beard.

Nah his beard is hawt, its his taste in music that is scary.

 

[Fata Morgana]

I remember that scene clearly as the camera pans round in an attic and the nun has no face. Must be nearly forty years ago and I still remember the fucker.

Also that swim safely advert with death stalking a bunch of kids.

Exactly. It really did have a huge effect on me for a long time.

Yes! With the Donald Pleasence voice over. I'll be baaack back back back back....

 

[duranman]

Can I suggest you get rid of the Chippendale and use this as an av. I mean really? This is how you come across in your inane ramblings.

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a97/foxkitsune/derek-2_zpsc58926e9.jpg

Chippendale? Why thank you kind madam! Isn't age cruel? So I'm Derek/ Ricky Gervais now- you'd still shag me and ya know it....

 

[Fata Morgana]

I am a catholic. Yes, those statues where pretty horrifying. I still don't know why they made us stare Jesus in the face when he was in total agony. Probably a reminder I guess. We had at one end the Virgin Mary (whom I always liked to see) but the other end of the corridor was a woman in black. Still no idea who she was. I think it may have been Mary Magdalene? But it was really creepy.

Button moon was on TV when I was a young child.

Lofts and basements used to be scary too.

I doubt they'd have a statue of Mary Magdalene. Maybe you saw a ghost! Sounds fucking creepy though. As a kid and forced to go to confession there was a gorgeous huge statue of St Patrick outside the confessional. He looked like Santa. But I used to be scared going in there, confessional is scary as a young kid I think.

Oh yes, attics and cellars especially in old places. My friend bought a new very old house before Christmas. Her cellar is terrifying. Like a pair of lackwits we went down with candles to have a look before she moved in. There's a trough running all the way round for the blood from when they slaughtered animals in there. Mind you I was on the lookout for spiders most of the time.

 

[Fata Morgana]

Chippendale? Why thank you kind madam! Isn't age cruel? So I'm Derek/ Ricky Gervais now- you'd still shag me and ya know it....

Yes dear.

 

[doctor_insanus]

This fucking thing.

http://i.imgur.com/2mleShF.gif

http://bavatuesdays.com/files/2012/02/Bodysnatchers-1.gif

 

[Fata Morgana]

http://i.imgur.com/2mleShF.gif

http://bavatuesdays.com/files/2012/02/Bodysnatchers-1.gif

Oh my god yes! That was awful. The worst scene in that film. Wasn't there a creepy screaming/mouth open/weird noise thing too?

 

[JudasIscariot]

I doubt they'd have a statue of Mary Magdalene. Maybe you saw a ghost! Sounds fucking creepy though. As a kid and forced to go to confession there was a gorgeous huge statue of St Patrick outside the confessional. He looked like Santa. But I used to be scared going in there, confessional is scary as a young kid I think.

Oh yes, attics and cellars especially in old places. My friend bought a new very old house before Christmas. Her cellar is terrifying. Like a pair of lackwits we went down with candles to have a look before she moved in. There's a trough running all the way round for the blood from when they slaughtered animals in there. Mind you I was on the lookout for spiders most of the time.

That doesn't sound very homely at all.

I've no idea who she was then, it was an actual statue. I hated confession, I never knew what to say because I was just a kid. I remember being creeped out by the staircase at church that went up to the bell tower.

Finding rooms in school what I'd never seen was always scary too. Have to admit though I kind of enjoy scaring myself. I prefer to watch horror movies alone in pitch black.

 

[doctor_insanus]

Oh my god yes! That was awful. The worst scene in that film. Wasn't there a creepy screaming/mouth open/weird noise thing too?

Oh yes.

http://i561.photobucket.com/albums/ss55/cliche_city1/body-snatchers.jpg

 

[Fata Morgana]

Oh yes.

http://i561.photobucket.com/albums/ss55/cliche_city1/body-snatchers.jpg

That's it! The same expression I have when I read durantwat.

 

[Fata Morgana]

That doesn't sound very homely at all.

I've no idea who she was then, it was an actual statue. I hated confession, I never knew what to say because I was just a kid. I remember being creeped out by the staircase at church that went up to the bell tower.

Finding rooms in school what I'd never seen was always scary too. Have to admit though I kind of enjoy scaring myself. I prefer to watch horror movies alone in pitch black.

I do now. I love it. But I was a nervous kid. I do think it's a lot to do with the Catholic upbringing. Based on terror and the devil! I remember a teacher finding a copy of The Exorcist in my desk when I was a little older and she bawled me out saying I'd attract such things into my life by reading it. I threw it in a bin on my way home from school.

Confession I used to really work myself up into a state over. I never knew what to say, especially when I was very young. And dreaded getting told off for not going to Mass regularly (my mum and dad weren't church goers but we were made to go to full Latin Mass every Monday with school). Our priest was horrible. Father Shaw. He was about 6ft 3, very old and very very nasty. If he saw anyone even slightly misbehaving or not listening during mass he'd hurl his stick at them.

I was definitely scared of him.

 

[CandiCame]

I don't really have any movies or any 'things' that scare me, but I hate being completely alone. I mean with noone, no other humans or animals or noise- that freaky kind of quiet. If I'm ever in that situation, which I've only been in once or twice in my life, I'll turn a TV or radio or something on, even if I'm not going to interact with it, because that shit is scary.