Your Personal Nightmare Fuel

[RetroVortex]

So I was reading the recent Cracked article on scary kids movie moments

(as seen here: http://www.cracked.com/article_19265_9-traumatizing-moments-from-classic-kids-movies.html)

And I thought sharing what sharing our Nightmare Fuel experiences could be quite fun.

Tropes link for refreshing thyselves, (ensure ye tie a rope around thyself before venturing into the eternal void, lest thee gets sucked in!):
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NightmareFuel

I guess I'll start

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I'll admit not much scared me as a kid, AW WHO AM I KIDDING! I WAS A GREAT BIG SCAREDY CAT!! (Still am! XD)

Movies:

Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey:

The Easter Bunny

http://www.themoderndaypirates.com/pirates/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/vlcsnap-13628825.png

That thing is freaky man! Its....just.... not... right...

Especially this specific bit where all the bad memories are chasing them.

The Mummy:

http://images.wikia.com/mummy/images/b/ba/My_057Imhotep.jpg

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Yeah, this was back when CGI was only at its infancy, but it was well done enough to terrify little me at least! XD

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zail7Gdqro

The boat ride.

Who wasn't afraid of that!

TV series:

Spiderman (the 90s version):

I always avoided the intro and a few select episodes.

Its obvious why:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZaDCEs7EbA

Silly now, but Venom is more scary than awesome to a young kid.

Videogames:

Soul Edge:

Voldo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li0pB68obEM

DO I NEED TO EXPLAIN THIS!!

[tredlow]

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lbslmb4YjE1qdcvu8o1_500.gif

[Secret Fawful]

The microscope scene from The Phantom. It scarred me so bad, and I wasn't even looking because I turned around, that I couldn't watch action or horror or sci-fi movies for a number of years.

[Captain Mickey]

Large Marge (thanks for the GIF by the way...-_-) also didn't help that my Game Design teacher decided to project it on the large monitor and closed the lights.

Also. Judge Doom from Who Framed Roger Rabbit. ESPECIALLY during the final fight. Those eyes and that voice... Guuuuuuh. Still creeps me out....

[ShaggE]

Twilight Zone movie. Namely, this:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jT7u1Bq52JU/SuDG2iX8XuI/AAAAAAAACBY/lBfBM8yaWWg/s400/Twilight+Zone+The+Movie+01.jpg

Freaked me right the hell out as a kid.

[RingmasterJ5]

http://www.telltalegames.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=2646&stc=1&d=1309028721
http://www.telltalegames.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=2645&stc=1&d=1309028721

[RetroVortex]

Ah here's another one:

Runaway Brain

[Giant Tope]

http://i.imgur.com/D8GZb.jpg

[ShaggE]

NOT THE MOMMA! NOT THE MOMMA!

*twitch*

[JedExodus]

What?! The baby was fuckin' brilliant. Get out of my sight!!

[Secret Fawful]

Also:

http://i.imgur.com/K7ZLY.jpg

and a lot of Edward Gorey's illustrations. House of Leaves, "Grounded" episode of Morel Orel, Batman Beyond Return of the Joker flashback, Puddinface, I could go on but that's enough.

[Profanity]

http://actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/wp-content/uploads/Slender-Man-2.jpg

Feel the wiggly might of slenderman!

[Sausy Gibbon]

Almost anything by Marty and Sid Kroft, H.R Puffenstuff and Sigmund the Sea Monster would give me the willies. Also something probably nobody on here has heard of The Ozelotz, a kids show about puppets based around Australian animals. I don't recall what was so frightening about it but until I was about nine the start of the theme tune would send me running out the room.

[dumpling321]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7dxhbHAGRE

need I say more

[StrongBrush1]

Is it fair for me to say that I am afraid of this guy? (http://youtu.be/WBuggMdUbog)

His face is just so creepy. And he will not compromise or stop.

[corruptbiggins]

I remember having some weird dreams when I was younger based on something I watched back then (though I'm not actually 100% sure that it really happened but anyway) which was in an episode of Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds and basically involved Dogtanian trying to find his girlfriend (or the girl/dog that he just fell in love with, not sure of the status of the relationship) and then he spots the back of her and runs to her. He then runs around to her front but still sees her back and so he keeps running around but all he sees his her back. Could have been a weird dream sequence I think. Anyway, I think what freaked me out the most about it (if it really happened) was the thought of a normal body but with no face, just a blank space.

I suck at remembering things clearly.

[Remolay]

Furbys. Those things are demonic man. Demonic.

[SillyStell]

OH GOD! Why did I come here?! Now I'm all freaked out! Damn it slender man I thought I escaped that. Now I wont sleep. My brother played an old game called It Came from the Desert when I was a small child. Freaked the hell outta me but it doesn't take much... as you read at the start. Now I'm gunna try and avoid this thread before I get freaked out even more XD

[Soeroah]

When I was a kid, I had nightmares for weeks after seeing some TV show where there was some...weird, purple alien toy that for some reason moved around of it's own volition, covering people in chewing gum and kidnapping them. I still don't know what the show was, all I know is it freaked the hell out of me.



Flash forward to today, where I strongly believe nothing really scary is coming out of movies and shows anymore. "Scary" for me implies staying up at night, most "horror" movies in Hollywood today are just long suspenseful quiet scenes broken by a sudden loud noise. I call them "shockers".

[TomPravetz]

http://img56.imageshack.us/img56/1590/gbscarete2.gif

This frightened me. O_o


But looking for that image found me this!

http://i.imgur.com/RrRNQ.gif

[Epic Kiwi]

I can't bear to even look on youtube for my worst childhood nightmare fuel, but this comes in at a pretty close 2nd: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXIEtGFcXx8

[Trenchfoot]

Me.

[RetroVortex]

I can't bear to even look on youtube for my worst childhood nightmare fuel, but this comes in at a pretty close 2nd: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXIEtGFcXx8

OH GOD! That was another film I refused to watch as a kid.
That scene is pretty damn creepy.

Another one for videogames: Alien 3

I know its based on a horror film, but compared to the other games I had, like Robocop vs Terminator, (loved the "tomato gun"), this game was just really, really damn scary.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPGer4QOoBg

It wasn't just the close up of the aliens, (which is incredibly well done), I could get past that, it was the game itself.

It is a really hard game, that fills you with dread.
Those damn aliens can pop out almost anywhere, and they can be hard to kill sometimes, because they can climb walls, squeeze through small spaces.

The game brilliantly conveyed the idea that nowhere was really safe, but you had to look around to free people and get items.

The sound effects and the music just added to it!

[Alcoremortis]

A piece of homework that only got a nine out of ten.

[Harald B]

As a kid I got nightmares from a short level in Gargoyle's Quest where you have to get through a spike-filled cave while being chased by deadly evergrowing plants. For years after any plant-based horror has been nightmare fuel for me.

[RetroVortex]

As a kid I got nightmares from a short level in Gargoyle's Quest where you have to get through a spike-filled cave while being chased by deadly evergrowing plants. For years after any plant-based horror has been nightmare fuel for me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ovu0_VFJsBY

[Martin McFly]

Are You Afraid of the Dark (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jitg-3xbmKU") really scared me when I was younger and I also wasn't too fond of the scene in Raiders (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3ythpzsu18) when all of the Nazis were melting/exploding.

[allaboardfilms]

...and I also wasn't too fond of the scene in Raiders (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3ythpzsu18) when all of the Nazis were melting/exploding.

Beat me to it.

I still can't watch this particular scene without freaking out.

[DAISHI]

Everything in the claymation Mark Twain movie.

[Pocketim]

This level in Lemmings always comes to mind:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckKGpkMzVj8

For some reason, this never scared me the first time I saw it, but then after that, I was scared to play it again. Yeah, I don't get it either. Now I actually think the level is awesome, because it's so unexpected! Though maybe they went a LITTLE bit too far... Pretty cool music though!

THIS level in an obscure little game called Bugdom freaked the hell out of me entirely the first time I played it, and heck, it's still kinda eerie now. So, what part of it scared me? Pretty much the whole level. Yeah, I was a wimp as a kid xD http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tauElX0xI0g

[Harald B]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ovu0_VFJsBYYup, that one pretty much ticks all the boxes. Looking at it I can still sense some of that old fear, but now it's just enough to make enjoy the scene more.

[tredlow]

Monkeybone: Crappy writing, awesome special effects. Also, disturbing as hell.

[DAISHI]

Nightmare Fuel
Mark Twain, Claymation, and Satan

http://youtu.be/q29CmMHSQ3M

[StrongBrush1]

The Video for Black Hole Sun. (http://youtu.be/3mbBbFH9fAg)

That shit is FUCKED UP with a capital FUCK.

[Pony Bone]

Twilight Zone movie. Namely, this:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jT7u1Bq52JU/SuDG2iX8XuI/AAAAAAAACBY/lBfBM8yaWWg/s400/Twilight+Zone+The+Movie+01.jpg

Freaked me right the hell out as a kid.

Yep. Me too. Still unnerves me.

[JedExodus]

I never got nightmares when I was a kid cos I never got to see any good stuff.

This gave me creeps though, I was probably a big boy an' all at the time!

http://cdn.buzznet.com/assets/users16/wrechedheart/default/beware-judderman-dear-moon-fat--large-msg-119314858451.jpg

"Beware the Judderman my dear, when the moon is fat." (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TUOPeNJCK8)

This was an ad for bloody schnapes!

[Secret Fawful]

The Video for Black Hole Sun. (http://youtu.be/3mbBbFH9fAg)

That shit is FUCKED UP with a capital FUCK.

I'm terrified of that video. I can't watch it.

[Pony Bone]

haha, I think Black Hole Sun freaks everybody out

[Captain Mickey]

The Video for Black Hole Sun. (http://youtu.be/3mbBbFH9fAg)

That shit is FUCKED UP with a capital FUCK.

Okay, had no idea why people thought it was messed up when the music video started.

....Then I found out why. Good bye any possibility of sleep tonight.

[Alcoremortis]

I have no idea why I felt it necessary to read this thread RIGHT BEFORE I'M GOING TO SLEEP.

Well...guess that's that plan shot. Guess I'll just post some more nightmare fuel.

Chuckie. I never even saw that movie. I didn't even see trailers. Or promo pics. Or ANYTHING. I only heard second, maybe third hand about the rough idea of plot and I was terrified of my dolls. So terrified that I put them up on a high shelf so that I'd hear the crash if they decided to off me some night. Don't know what I'd do then, but whatever.

It occurs to me that this is more a general paranoia than an actual nightmare, but what the hey?

[ShaggE]

Only song that creeps me out: Hamburger Lady by Throbbing Gristle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPrTUC7BDn4).

[Pony Bone]

Pennywise (Tim Curry) from It.

[tredlow]

Salad Fingers.

[Alcoremortis]

Salad Fingers.

I didn't find this to be nightmare-making in the sense that I never lost any sleep over it, but yes, I did find it intensely disturbing.

And I suppose I only watched the first two, so...yeah...maybe I'm totally wrong about the whole thing.

[DAISHI]

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bmVkPlaCi8k/TKEFfhqUTwI/AAAAAAAAABU/4_LTiNXQdzk/s320/twain-13-small.jpg

[Pony Bone]

Salad Fingers.

that actually makes me laugh! :eek:

[Secret Fawful]

Another one of mine:

Warning: Very vulgar and disturbing. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begotten)

[Pony Bone]

Another one of mine:

Warning: Very vulgar and disturbing. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begotten)

Major LOL!!! Time Magazine said "Makes "Eraserhead" look like Ernest Saves Christmas."

[tredlow]

Some pictures off this website. (http://shitbrix.com/)

The surprise is not scary, it's the buildup.

[yoshiwam]

I've always thought the next scene was particularly creepy x3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30rUL2oVlfI

[Javi-Wan Kenobi]

Films:
E.T. The Extraterrestrial

TV Series:
V (original series)
Chocky

[JuntMonkey]

David Lynch - Rabbits

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxRzWv9TeTc&feature=related

Slept with the light on sporadically for weeks and occasionally for months after - as an adult.

[RetroVortex]

Remember this kids! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sql-aPwX8ac)

[der_ketzer]

Flying rabid guinea pigs in Nazi uniforms.

[tredlow]

that actually makes me laugh! :eek:

Whaa, seriously? Not being disturbed by it is one thing, but it makes you laugh? I don't think there's anything really laugh-worthy in it.

The Jerry Jackson cartoons, however, are hilarious.

[Epic Kiwi]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rU7tHB-HM - Street of Crocodiles

Had to watch this in an animation class once, and was thoroughly creeped out.

[der_ketzer]

Pennywise (Tim Curry) from It.

you taste so much better when you are afraid.

[TomPravetz]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rU7tHB-HM - Street of Crocodiles

Had to watch this in an animation class once, and was thoroughly creeped out.

What in the hell did I just watch?

[Epic Kiwi]

Yeah, that pretty much sums it up.

[crfh]

The California Raisins.

Seriously, look at that crap.

Oh, also, Moonwalker. The Speed Demon segment, which I think now is awesome, used to creep the hell outta me.

Oooh and Vincent Price's bit on Thriller.