Ashes to Ashes.I was a MASSIVE scaredy cat as a kid, I finally grew out of it in my early twentiesHere are some of mine:
- I don't care if anyone tells me they're meant to be funny but I completely blame The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror episodes for a lot of my fears. Some of them are shit scary!! The zombie one, the one with the gremlin on the side of the bus carrying Flanders severed head, the one where the Pierce Brosnan house takes over, the one where they're eating the school kids in the cafeteria, the one where the gas turns them inside out, the one where Groundskeeper Willy kills them in their sleep.... I could go on and on.
- The Witches film. For some reason, they put it on as an end-of-term "treat", and I cried so hard the teacher had to take me out of the room and I remember months later I saw The Witches book in a National Trust gift shop and had a breakdown again lol.
- Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids, especially the story where the boy that never went to bed when his parents told him got his eyelids stitched open permanently as punishment. Watching this as a kid who consistently had trouble sleeping was awful, I thought some grim reaper was going to come to me in the night to stitch my eyes open.
- Watership Down and Animal Farm and Fox and the Hound were traumatising for me. Especially that beastly rabbit covered in blood.
- What was the sequel to Life on Mars called with the David Bowie clown running towards the camera in it? Life on Mars itself was pretty scary too with the little girl and the clown technical difficulties sign....
I still don’t like stairs with gaps at my ageI was terrified of the film jaws and particularly the music as he got closer to eating people
Stairs with gaps in the back of them
One of my cousin’s was very much the same. We’d walk to school together and I’d go to call on her and she’d be watching Freddy Kruger films in the morning.My uncle told me about a film where a gangster stabs someone in the face with a biro - can’t remember what it was called now, maybe Casino?
Anyway he knew someone when he was younger who got a call to come and pick his son up from school as he’d stabbed another child with a biro! He told my uncle that he let his kids watch those films cos “it’s what they like”
I blame crime watch for why I am scared of the dark!! I can't have lights on and curtains open if its dark as I know anyone can see straight through. I will not go out in the dark alone, not even in my own garden or to put something in the wheelie binsNot as a child but .. I watched an episode of Crimewatch ... the reconstructions are too real... one episode there was a young girl walking and talking to her boyfriend on her mobile.... and she was pulled into an alley and raped and it was a terrifying recon of the event, I was terrified. Poor boyfriend on the other end of the phone trying to get to her.Same episode they did another reconstruction about an elderly lady burnt to death in her bed in a care home. Again.... fucking terrifying !! Haven’t been able to watch since.
Crimewatch used to scare me too! "Dont have nightmares"Not as a child but .. I watched an episode of Crimewatch ... the reconstructions are too real... one episode there was a young girl walking and talking to her boyfriend on her mobile.... and she was pulled into an alley and raped and it was a terrifying recon of the event, I was terrified. Poor boyfriend on the other end of the phone trying to get to her.Same episode they did another reconstruction about an elderly lady burnt to death in her bed in a care home. Again.... fucking terrifying !! Haven’t been able to watch since.
oh god you’ve unearthed a fear of mine I locked awayMy mum used to let me watch casualty with her on Saturday nights when I was about 8. There was one episode where someone stole a car that had a kid in the back and from then on I was terrified of being left in the car. If my mum got out to pay for petrol, or to put a letter in the letterbox, I’d have to get out too because I was convinced there was a real chance of someone taking the car with me in it
oh god you’ve unearthed a fear of mine I locked away
I think it was also casualty or holby city. I watched an episode with my mum when I was younger
Someone put open gas cylinders in the boot of someone’s car in the hospital car park and when they started the car it blew up
It was terrifying
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