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"I'm afraid they'll eat my feet, mom!" Childhood horrors Thread
Klyka
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When I was a little kid I was never really afraid of anything I saw on the TV.
Freddy Krueger, Jason, Alien, Predator, I watched all that stuff with my parents/siblings and could always laugh it off because I knew it wasn't real and never would be real.
Except for one movie which haunted me for a few years after seeing it for the first time.
That movie?
CRITTERS.
It wasn't even a "real" horror movie, more of a horror-comedy actually.
But still,these stupid little furballs with teeth made me lie awake in bed, made me afraid of dangling my feet from it and generally scared the shit out of me.
So,what were YOU scared of, SE++?
Freddy Krueger, Jason, Alien, Predator, I watched all that stuff with my parents/siblings and could always laugh it off because I knew it wasn't real and never would be real.
Except for one movie which haunted me for a few years after seeing it for the first time.
That movie?
CRITTERS.
It wasn't even a "real" horror movie, more of a horror-comedy actually.
But still,these stupid little furballs with teeth made me lie awake in bed, made me afraid of dangling my feet from it and generally scared the shit out of me.
So,what were YOU scared of, SE++?
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I fucking hate zombies.
I watched the original Dawn of the Dead when I was 11 or 12 and I had a recurring nightmares about zombies, culminating in the Worst Dream(tm) where my family had been turned into zombies and I was forced to shoot them all in the head, including my 7 year old brother.
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scared the shit out of me, I recently watched it on youtube to, I tell ya it was still spooky enough
I love that.
I used to have nightmares about being trapped in the back of a moving car (rolling away at 5km/h down a gentle slope ahahahaha) when I was about six. Its just occurring to me that maybe there's a reason I'm only starting to learn to drive at 24 :P
also, I'm now a control freak
iron bars over every window that can be pumped with electricity
surely no velociraptor could get oh wait
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrAxNAl5rUQ&feature=related
Which episode was that?
Also, he didn't happen to get the glasses from SarDoh, did he?
i used to be scared shitless of zombies as a kid. i still sleep on my right side because growing up, if i slept on my left side, i would look out the windows in my room. AND THAT IS WHERE THEY WOULD COME FROM!!!!
try that
It was kind of a big deal.
But, if you can't see them coming how can you get prepared? It'd be a surprise zombie attack.
I couldn't sleep on my right hand side because if I did I would be facing the wall and so a prime vampire target.
i swear to god i used to sleep on my right side for the same reason. except it was because there was a high window on my left and i was scared a t-rex would come through it because i saw something on the news one night about how they were trying to clone dinosaurs.
This is the correct logic.
Cover your feet so the things under your bed can't eat them.
Face away from the wall so that things from inside your closet and/or outside your windows can't sneak up on you.
This is very basic stuff of night times survival.
it's going to sneak up on you anyways because you're sleeping.
There were these really tall lanky guys, they were cool, they liked people.
Then there were these really short stubby ones who wanted to eat you and kill the lanky guys.
That is all I remember about the story, but I was afraid of the stubby ones coming out of the toilet while I sat on it to take a poop for a good month or two. I'd squeeze my poop out really fast and often only wipe a little, then jump up slam the lid shut and flush it so that they wouldn't get me.
Yeah, I don't even know what the fuck.
They come out at night.
My childhood fear at night was eyes. When I was very young, I was terrified of glowing eyes that appeared in the ceiling at night, looking down on me.
My parents apparently didn't know what the problem was until I learned to talk and could explain what I saw.
The nuclear apocalypse.
I watched Terminator 2 as a kid, and I used to have nightmares and daydreams about watching the world blown to pieces before my eyes and somehow surviving, alone, unarmed, without my family to protect me.
As a kid most of my fears were fairly rational. Nightmares about daddy dying in a car accident, or about falling down a flight of stairs and being unable to call for help, trapped in the darkness, nightmares about those dead kittens we found that one time.
My hair is one of the only parts about me I really like, so that's a rather horrifying scenario.
In it, digital clocks and microwaves and ATMs display terrible messages and people kill eachother
Looking back it's a pretty lame idea, but when I was 10 and went to bed with my bright red digital clock staring at me in the darkness after I saw it for the first time
I was paralysed with fear.
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Did the book specifically say the stubby dudes lived in toilets.
I mean I always had a concern about something coming out of the toilet and biting my nuts. But I never knew there were stubby guys living in there. Man I would have had such an impacted colon if I had known about that as a child.
You'd think that there would be a logical connection, but no I think they just kind of resembled big fat turds in their shape in that book. Maybe that was it. I could try and find it but I don't know if I still have it.
I watched that for the first time like last week. It was pretty well done!
My parents were fundies and raised me with the certain knowledge that Jeebus could blow up the world any damn second and kill all my unbelieving friends for being heathens, so it would be best not to get too attached to them.
yeah, that led to a fair few tearful and fervent pre-teen prayers for the Sky Fairy to spare most of my third-grade class.
Except for Gavin, that kid was a fucking freak.
Rats. There was a movie in which a rat swam through the pipes into a toilet and attacked the guy sitting on it. It basically crawled up his ass and ripped it to shreds.
My toilet session were kept very, VERY short after seeing that.
I woke up several hours later to see an unmoving, spectoral, floating torso in my doorway, eerily illuminated by the moonlight coming through my thin blinds.
I have never been so scared for so long in my life
I went back and forth from staring, terrified at the thing, and shutting my eyes tight, willing it to leave me alone.
Finally the sun rose enough for me to realise it was a shirt, and I instantly fell asleep and woke up later feeling like an idiot.
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that's horrible and exploitative!
It's good parenting!
the next morning I saw the biggest fucking blue bottle I ever did see dead next to it.
I figure he flew head on into a string pretty fast
Revelations was my favorite chapter in the bible as a kid. Not because I wanted to go to heaven, honestly.
But because I wanted to fight demons and evil as some kind of Neo-Templar. I was super confident in the power of the Catholic Church as a kid, so I was entirely certain that because I partook in the sacrament of the Holy Eucharist I was pretty much guaranteed to go to heaven.
So why not volunteer to battle evil. Bring on the seven headed demons and shit. Bring on the New Jerusalem. Bring on the false prophet.
As you might guess, the history of the holy orders was my favorite thing. The Templars, the Hospitallers, the Teutons, the Knights of the Sepulcher, Knights of Santiago...
Yeah, it must of cost a fortune in long distance calls as well.