What classic movie monster scared you as a kid?

[Political Tiger]

For me, it was the Werewolf! :scared:

[NightWatcher]

1. Other: Anthony Perkins from Psycho. I still have clear shower curtains to this day

I know he's not a "classic" movie monster, but that scene is just great. Everyone's been there, tired from a long day on the road, showering in a motel........

[Political Tiger]

42. And Jaws!

I stayed out of the water for years after seeing that movie!

[BuelahWitch]

2. Nosferatu

[BarenakedLady]

65. Yup.

[txwhitedove]

3. 'Them' old black & white movie about giant ants! Watched it on TV

when I was 13 in hospital after appendectomy, late at night, all alone, in the dark, by myself....scared myself silly and kept turning it off and on.

[nuxvomica]

4. Two: The Tingler and Mr. Sardonicus

The tingler was a microscopic create living on your spine that grows with your fear until it breaks your back and kills you. The only way to stop it is with a scream.

Mr. Sardonicus dug up his dead father's grave to get a winning lottery ticket and was so shocked by the rigor mortis-induced grin on the corpse that his face was permanently paralyzed into a big toothy smile.

The classic Universal monsters didn't scare me because I lovingly assembled and painted the Aurora models for all of them.

[Ikonoklast]

15. I remember those models!

My brother and I had most of them, and years later we blew them all up with firecrackers on the Fourth of July.

Of course, we used to blow up a lot of things on the Fourth.


The classic movie monsters never scared me, but The Blob gave me the horrors.

[hibbing]

61. Love the Tingler

Hi,
Wow, I did not notice this post before I posted mine. The Tingler was pretty scary!

Peace

[yy4me]

5. King Kong (the original ) and Godzilla

[Graybeard]

6. Frankenstein monster.

I was about 4 yrs old. Mom took me to see an age appropriate movie but the "Coming Attractions" was for a re-release of Frankenstein. It scared the livin' crap out of me. I tried to hide under my seat.

[azmouse]

7. The Blob (the original with Steve McQueen)

I was only 6 when I saw it. I thought the Blob was under my bed. :scared:

Now I watch that movie and laugh but to a little girl many, many years ago it was scary.

[PassingFair]

8. Zombies in "Night of the Living Dead".

I'm not gonna lie...they
scared the crap out of me.

[denbot]

9. The creature from the black lagoon scarred the crap out of me..

A very close second was a cyclops that bent down and looked in a window. I can't remember if it was a movie or a Twilight Zone, or Outter Limits thing, but I looked for him to peek in my window night after night..

[Political Tiger]

44. The Creature from the Black Lagoon would be my second.

Just the name is scary! ;)

[femmocrat]

10. Other: "The Blob"

:scared: Oh the humanity!

[tigereye]

11. we watched Creature during a 6th grade slumber party...

:scared:

[NJmaverick]

12. Dracula, mummy, frankenstien's monster and godzilla

if I count when I was very young.

[Zomby Woof]

13. The Flying Monkeys in "The Wizard of Oz"

[Political Tiger]

45. Those flying monkeys scared the hell out of me too. n/t

[Sigh Sister]

14. Creature from the Black Lagoon scared the crap out of me.

However, the scariest "creature" by far was "Shaky Hand" My mother and aunt liked to torture us. One time, my mother got us into her bed to tell us scary stories and unbeknownst to us, my aunt was underneath the bed. On cue, my aunt stuck her hand through the gap between the headboard and mattress and started grabbing us. My mother, to whip us into a complete frenzy yelled, "Help! Help! It's Shaky Hand" My sisters and I were traumatized, and I've never been the same. :scared: :)

[dixiegrrrrl]

16. King Kong. I was 5 when a well meaning aunt took to the movies.

My first movie, at that.
I screamed and ducked behind the seat back in front of me, then occasionally peeked at the screen.

More recently, Alien. Cannot bear to watch it.

[Inchworm]

17. Damien!

:scared:

[mitchum]

18. Joan Crawford

even though we are related, she still scared the hell out of me

[Sigh Sister]

21. NO MORE WIRE HANGERS!!!! n/t

[laylah]

19. There was a movie about leeches

in a lake. Where I grew up, our swimmin' hole was an old railroad area. The movie involved swimming in a lake and HUGE leeches taking the victims to their lairs under the water. I was 14, and to this DAY, at (almost) 58, I will NOT swim in small swimmin' holes :scared:

[Orrex]

69. Was it Attack of the Giant Leeches, by chance?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053611/


Creepy!

[old mark]

20. Creature From The Black Lagoon - I went to the local theatre by

myself for the first time - I was really scared.

I can't even watch it today without laughing- you can see the zipper.....:rofl:


mark:patriot:

[Sigh Sister]

23. You can see the zipper?!

:rofl:

[old mark]

25. On the monster's costume......

What were you thinking, devil?:-)

mark

[Sigh Sister]

26. I was thinking just that. My mind is pure.

O8)

[old mark]

28. Oh, so YOU'RE the one......

:rofl:


:hi:

mark

[Sigh Sister]

29. Whatever I did, I'm glad you enjoyed it!

:shrug:

[old mark]

30. I heard there was someone around here with a clean mind -

never thought I'd meet you.....

:hi:

mark

[Sigh Sister]

32. ROFL!

:hi: I'm pure AND I'm slow.

[old mark]

33. Sometimes

they go hand in hand.....

Welcome to this snake pit of happiness.
:pals:

mark

[Sigh Sister]

34. Why thank you, kind sir.

I really love DU, especially the lounge. Some really smart, funny people here.


:toast:

[old mark]

35. Here?!!!!!

Well, I guess maybe...:eyes:

mark

[foxfeet]

22. Ethel Merman.

[mvd]

24. Dracula really scared me

I started watching for vampires at night for a long time.

[WinkyDink]

27. The Fly wasn't a scary "monster".

[Shell Beau]

31. I didn't get scared by the monster movies. I only got scared by

the creepy movies like The Shining.


Well, let me take that back. I guess the clowns in "It" scared me.

[realisticphish]

36. The Wicked Witch of the West

I HATED that movie when I saw it the first time (I was 5-6)

[canoeist52]

57. I'm with you on the Wicked Witch -

- caused my earliest remembered nightmare at 5 yrs. too. For years I couldn't look out a certain window in my house at night for fear the witch would look back at me and cackle..

[Mr. Ected]

37. The Abominable Dr. Phibes

Vincent Price scared the crap out of me at 11.

[pleah]

39. Theatre of Blood with Price and Robert Morley,

The poodle pie.:wow:

[mitchum]

52. The much lauded "Se7en" was merely a rip off of that movie and "Dr Phibes"

I'm still astounded that I am seemingly the only person who noticed the borrowing.

[Forkboy]

58. Hmmmmmm...my curiosity is piqued.

It's been many years since I've seen either one, but I can still see what you're saying. I own Se7en, but I'm going to track down Dr. Phibes and watch them back to back one day. Like I need a reason to buy Vincent Price movies.

[Mr. Ected]

66. The creatures from behind the paper mache rocks on Lost In Space

The music would become calamitous, and Will Robinson and his sisters and Dr. Smith would all be walking backwards into its path, while Robot wailed out "Danger, Danger Will Robinson".

Scared the holy crap out of me every week.

[no_hypocrisy]

38. I consider "Horror Hotel" to be a classic.

"I am Elizabeth Selwyn!"

[kwassa]

40. the aliens in the original "War of the Worlds" movie

the mechanical tentacles with the three-color eyes that would slither through the house, zap someone, and turned them into a dust outline of their former self. I had nightmares for a long time.....

[6000eliot]

41. The Blob!

I can't believe what a goofy kid I must have been.

[Lyric]

43. Michael Myers.

I used to watch the shadows out in the hallway from my bedroom in terror. He seemed so REAL, unlike the others.

:scared:

[Strong Atheist]

46. There was an early episode of Space 1999 where a light with tentacles

fried people into mummies... gave me nightmares...

[Political Tiger]

47. I seem to remember that. I loved that show!

n/t

[Strong Atheist]

48. Oh, yeah, in general the show was great, but that episode gave me nightmares... nt.

[LostInAnomie]

49. I have no idea what movie it was in...

... but there was this scene with these really fat zombie women that scared the shit out of me. I would spend the night staring at my closet doors just knowing they were in there.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

50. Wolfman as well

I had a horrible recurring dream that Oliver Reed's version of the Werewolf (Curse of the Werewolf, I think) would come through my kitchen window, and chase me into my living room before tearing me apart.

[RushIsRot]

51. The Thing!

[bliss_eternal]

53. The devil...

...in the Exorcist.

:puke::scared:

[Moondog]

54. I honestly can't remember ever being scared by a movie or by a TV show.

[Forkboy]

55. I saw the original Godzilla when I was 6 and it scared the Hell out of me.

But within a couple months it had morphed into fascination, and after that I was never scared by any of the others. To quote Uncle Jim, "Ya know, I always felt sorry for the monster."

[triguy46]

56. Other: Walt Disney's "Shaggy Dog". EVery morning afraid to look in a mirror. Pure Evil

[rug]

59. The Tingler.

[hibbing]

64. nice!

Hi,
Sweet picture, thanks for posting that, got a tingle down my spine!

Peace

[hibbing]

60. Other: The Tingler

Hi,
Vincent Price, some creature that looked like a lobster. Cheesy, but scary when young.

Peace

[BlueJazz]

62. Werewolf

[SoxFan]

63. Richard Nixon

[alphafemale]

67. There was some sort of Mudman creature movie that played on TV when I was maybe 8

It was probably campy and stupid but it scared the hell out of me at the time.

Many years later as a supposed adult in my late teens Freddy Kruger caused me to "sleep?" HA! NOT! with the lights on. :rofl:

[Orrex]

68. I was out-of-my-mind terrified of "Grey" aliens

I could watch Sigourney Weaver duke it out with the xenomorph without batting an eye, but the cute little guys at the end of Close Encounters had me nearly insane with horror.

[peekaloo]

70. The H Man

I fear the slime!