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A Fancy Hat posted:Horror comedy in general for me as a kid. God, this post reminds me that the scene in Beetlejuice where the people are possessed or something and Day-O plays in the background freaked me all the way out, and to this day the song makes me vaguely uneasy. I loved the Beetlejuice cartoon though.
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When you’re gutting a fish that you caught and you have to put your finger up its butt to pull its innards out. I know it’s the best way to do it but it always seemed weird to me.
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bird with big dick posted:I feel like the piss tea story needs more backstory or some kind of conclusion or explanation like I didn’t think a guy walking around with a cup of piss was normal but maybe I’m wrong clamdestineboyster is actually insane and often goes of their meds so i'm going to guess someone just spilled tea on them and not that a shambling Elderly Zombie accosted them with a teacup full of urine in a church
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bossy lady posted:I had a similar reaction as an adult when I realized the indian guy was a white man wearing makeup. 
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HUG ME FOREVER posted:For some reason, TV station identification cards with silence as the backdrop. It's rare to see one now but the thought still makes me incredibly uneasy. Haha I thought I was the only one. When I was about 5 in the 80s, the station I used to watch cartoons on did this from like 1 am to 6 am and I used to be up at the crack of dawn. The channel would just have a huge number 5 with either silence or smooth jazz as the background and it used to creep me out like crazy. I still have no idea why it did but it's good to know I'm not the only one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8aEQ7Z2DmQ
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My fathers friend told me that guinea pig venom was even more deadly than cobra venom and I believed him until my mom told me he was full of it. I freaked out after reading Dracula and started sleeping with a blanket over my head, which I do to this day but not so much because of Dracula and more because I have embraced my own fear of sunlight.
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Jan 13, 2020 17:05
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Ventriloquist dummies. All of them. Scared the crap out of me.
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Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:Haha I thought I was the only one. PBS here would do it between shows every now and then. Scared preschool me shitless when I was just trying to watch Sesame Street. I'd love to know what triggers a fear response to that.
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When the NES glitched out and would hang on some awful off key tune with hosed up glitch graphics
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Hammerite posted:The Mr. Hyde version of Tweety Pie from that one Sylvester & Tweety cartoon terrified me as a child Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers    That short terrified me as a kid. Of course at the time I had no knowledge of Body Snatchers.
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In the late 80's I had a Tiger style handheld game with an alarm clock feature. Of course this stupid thing couldn't just have a beeper like most alarm clock features this fucker featured a buzzer version of Für Elise. Somehow the alarm clock feature got turned on when the thing ended up in the bottom of my toy box, so every night for like two weeks I was awakened to this nightmareish rendition before I could figure out where it was coming from and took the batteries out. Because of that, for years I associated Für Elise with ghosts, and I still find it a bit spooky. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1iZXyWLnXg
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Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest scared me so badly as a kid when night would fall and the townspeople would turn into monsters that I sold it for a copy of the original GB Kirby's Dream Land, which is a terrible game and even as an easily scared kid I felt like I had made a poor choice.
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wa27 posted:Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers Oh FUUUUUCK this! I loved Looney Tunes but this was an endurance test for kid teen witch. I was so happy for a newer Looney Tunes cartoon but then I’d watch it and  gently caress I’m going to get ripped and see if I can handle it at 28.
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food court bailiff posted:Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest scared me so badly as a kid when night would fall and the townspeople would turn into monsters that I sold it for a copy of the original GB Kirby's Dream Land, which is a terrible game and even as an easily scared kid I felt like I had made a poor choice. Ha! That reminds me! A games magazine I read did an in-house The Haunting feat. Polterguy pin-up, I’d anyone remembers that game. The art-style was less comic than the game’s; think VHS airbrushed horror cover art. I thought I’d be cool and tough and put it up but it scared me so much my dad had to sit in the room until I fell asleep. It was gone in the morning.
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static on the tv, more so the loud noise that accompanied it. flipping through the inputs trying to get the nintendo to work, landing on the wrong one and blowing out my eardrums with white noise. still fucks me up.
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bitterandtwisted posted:Judge Doom killing the squeaky shoe. I fastforwarded that bit every time. This, and that one scene in temple of doom.
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HUG ME FOREVER posted:PBS here would do it between shows every now and then. Scared preschool me shitless when I was just trying to watch Sesame Street. I'd love to know what triggers a fear response to that. I'd love for a goon psychologist to post insight into this
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 Loys’ Ape from some book about cryptids. Still not a huge fan of it.
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the left behind books, any time a parent was late for anything or I couldn't immediately find them I thought they had been taken to heaven and I was left here on earth with the damned
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my parents rented this move Powder once and my 7 year old mind found it really disturbing. i had already seen Alien and a bunch of other horror movies so I don't know why this struck me like that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM1jktXwcSI
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Grew up in 1980's The various aliens from Close Encounters. I was sure they were probably in my basement. TV static, because of Poltergeist. And finally, Nuclear War, probably until at least college. Mainly because my Mom is a horrible person and when I was like in 4th or 5th grade and first learned about nuclear war, I asked her, "It's not likely to happen, is it?" and she replied "It's very likely". I don't think she was being mean, just narcissistic, not understanding that as a parent this is something you DO NOT say to a child. I will never forgive her for that. Oh and when I was in 8th grade I watched Threads on TV, so that's what kept that fear going all through high school. The way Greta Thunberg talks today, that's the way I felt in high school, I was like what's the point, everyone is going to die within the next 10 years or less. By the way, Threads recently finally got a Blu-Ray release, scanned at 2K from the original BBC 16mm CRI prints. To make things confusing, in addition to this UK Blu-Ray, there was also an American Blu-Ray, ALSO scanned at 2K, but from DIFFERENT source that was not as good as the original. So the UK disc is the one to get, if you're getting (Simply Media).
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MSPain posted:my parents rented this move Powder once and my 7 year old mind found it really disturbing. What is even more disturbing, is watching this movie, knowing that the director is a convicted child molester. Thankfully the sequel is much more uplifting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv5lYwO5IlU
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The illustrations in these motherfuckers. 
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Macasaurus posted:the left behind books, any time a parent was late for anything or I couldn't immediately find them I thought they had been taken to heaven and I was left here on earth with the damned turns out you were right!!!
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Jay_Zombie posted:The illustrations in these motherfuckers. That's not dumb though? It was supposed to freak you out.
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temple posted:nice dick Thanks  That’s a clitoris so I assume you’re talking to me.
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Jay_Zombie posted:The illustrations in these motherfuckers. These books are the reason I love horror movies and games to this day. I still have them somewhere in my apartment.
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Hazo posted:Thanks That's a huge loving monkey clit 
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WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW posted:That's not dumb though? It was supposed to freak you out. I would say that getting freaked out by the drawings in a kids book to the point where you covered them up just so you could keep reading is pretty dumb. bossy lady posted:These books are the reason I love horror movies and games to this day. I still have them somewhere in my apartment. Same. I don't know what happened to mine though.
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This goddamn book The black dogs were nightmare fuel for young me
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MSPain posted:my parents rented this move Powder once and my 7 year old mind found it really disturbing. i had already seen Alien and a bunch of other horror movies so I don't know why this struck me like that when i was 12 or 13 my friends and i went and saw powder in the theater. it was a pretty popular movie. when it was over and we were leaving, there was a line of people waiting to get in for the next showing. one man asked me if it was good and i was like "yeah it sucked when he died at the end", ruining the movie for people in the line. that's my powder story. e: in like 11th grade the teacher showed the movie in class one day for some reason and another friend of mine cried during it and therefore got ridiculed. i have two powder stories.
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Jay_Zombie posted:I would say that getting freaked out by the drawings in a kids book to the point where you covered them up just so you could keep reading is pretty dumb. I have them. I offered them to my nephew when he was about eight, and I am happy to say they freak the young generation out as well. He left them here and reads them when he visits. I went through about a year of being freaked out by station wagons. It felt like riding in a hearse. Semi trucks also freaked me out. I was scared of being sucked under them. Oh, and body parts could never, ever dangle over the side of the bed, or the bad thing could grab them.
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Thunderstorms at night were scary because you wouldn't be able to see a tornado coming. Tornadoes are rare where I live and I've never actually seen one. I also couldn't sleep at night because I knew weirs existed and I would get caught in an endless loop of imagining what it would be like to drown in one. I used to live in a really small town, and our backyard opened up to farmers fields. I'd be afraid to look out my window at night in case there were wild animals or monsters or aliens that would see me looking at them and come attack me. But that fear would distract me from my weir induced anxiety attacks so I'd just stare out my window into the field, for a long time, in the middle of the night. 6 year old me had insomnia issues.
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Watching the Langoliers TV movie as a kid led to me having nightmares that the shower drain cap was going to fly up and kill me. I would throw a washcloth on top of the drain whenever I had to shower as a result.  In fact all kinds of flying baddies freaked me out as a kid like that sun in Mario or the tiles that flew up at you in Zelda.
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sleeping on my back. mummies are on their backs so if i sleep like that theyll get me
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I legit thought that both quick-sand and volcanoes were going to be real problems in my life. I had a kind of mixed up first few years with a lot of turmoil though, so my mom thinks it's just becuase I was stressed out all the time.
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Picnic Princess posted:Thunderstorms at night were scary because you wouldn't be able to see a tornado coming. Tornadoes are rare where I live and I've never actually seen one. if it makesyou feel better i live in an area with multiple totnados a year and all you can really do is get drunk and see if you die or not
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TheOrange posted:Watching the Langoliers TV movie as a kid led to me having nightmares that the shower drain cap was going to fly up and kill me. I would throw a washcloth on top of the drain whenever I had to shower as a result. Fun fact the langoliers movie is Ulillillias favorite movie and is where he got some of his ideas for his books
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Biohazard posted:I legit thought that both quick-sand and volcanoes were going to be real problems in my life. I had a kind of mixed up first few years with a lot of turmoil though, so my mom thinks it's just becuase I was stressed out all the time. when i was young i would frequent a beach that had little waist-deep pools of quicksand about 80 feet back from the water and we'd always play jungle adventure in them i had no idea that wasn't an experience everyone had had until i was in school a couple years later and several kids were arguing that quicksand isn't even a real phenomenon TheOrange posted:In fact all kinds of flying baddies freaked me out as a kid like that sun in Mario or the tiles that flew up at you in Zelda. the mask in Mario 2 was terrifying, it was rare for me to get past 1-2 because even that tiny little run would scare the heck outta me
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