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May 20, 2017 - 8:22 AM
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Heath
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There was a TV series in the UK in the early 1970s based on a book "Marianne Dreams" by Madelene Story, which was later turned into a movie called "Paperhouse" in 1988. The movie was pretty good, but the TV show, "Escape into Night," was just so nightmarish to me. It's about a little girl who is crippled and bedridden, and she finds that anything she draws comes true in her dreams. It terrified me when she draws monsters as standing stones that appear with cyclops glowing eyes.
Yeah, that one haunted me for quite a while too. Sadly, perhaps, I bought the DVD of it a few years ago... and didn't get past episode one. The production values and performances were SO basic that I didn't want to ruin the enjoyable memory of its atmosphere that I had in my head. To watch more would have shattered the mystique. The memory cheats frequently, I'm afraid.
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May 20, 2017 - 8:30 AM
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Graham Watt
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jackfu's post, with the second clip from FIEND WITHOUT A FACE, reminded me of how absolutely terrifying that scene was - not so much the stop-motion brains, which were exciting and thrilling - but the way Gibbons appears at the door, his mind gone. I saw that one on Friday, October 13, 1972. I'd just turned eleven years old.
From my early childhood, the William Hartnell "Dr Whos " were pretty scary. Actually HE was pretty scary, and reminded me of a stern school teacher. The Cybermen gave me nightmares. Seen recently, it's obvious they're made of cloth. Cloth is not frightening, not today, no.
More TV ramblings - The early '70s British SF series "Timeslip" was supposedly for kids, but there was one scene that scared the schidt out of me, and it was when someone (a "woman") went into some kind of "machine" (memory is hazy) and staggered out of it having turned into an old crone.
On a similar note, Star Trek's "The Deadly Years" (was that the title?), in which the crew grow old, really gave me nightmares.
Looking at the above I see that I was never really "frightened" by monsters. Dracula and Frankenstein were thrilling for a 10-year-old, but they never gave me nightmares. They were almost like my friends. What did give me the heebies was the idea of going mad (see FIEND WITHOUT THE FACE reference). That plus the idea of suddenly finding oneself old, or becoming deformed. I don't know why that should be. Somehow it invaded the comfort of a safe childhood. Over to Dr McCrum.
From the age of nine until I was fifteen, I made a list of all the scary films on the telly. How creepy is that? Anyway, here, from that list, are a selected few titles of the earliest films which really haunted me -
January 9, 1971 (I was nine) - PARANOIAC (somebody drives somebody crazy).
October 8, 1971 (I had just turned ten) - HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL - (Ghosts!).
October 15, 1971 - CITY OF THE DEAD - (Witches!).
October 29, 1971 - THE BLACK SLEEP - (Madness and deformity!).
November 12, 1971 - WITCHCRAFT - (Witches!).
December 17, 1971 - THE GORGON - (Oldness, ugliness, madness!).
February 4, 1972 - CURSE OF THE FLY - (Madness and physical deformity).
February 18, 1972 - HOMICIDAL - (Madness!).
February 25, 1972 - NIGHTMARE - (Madness!).
March 3, 1972 - SARDONICUS - (Physical deformity and madness!)
October 13, 1972 - FIEND WITHOUT A FACE - (if only for the madness, not the brains!).
At that point I'd only just turned eleven, but after that I was never really terrified by anything. I've since then seen a lot of "disturbing" films, but very little has really left me feeling scared, unless it's the News.
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I think it was called FIEND WITHOUT A FACE.
IT FEATURED these brain like ceratures that attached themselves to humans.
STAR TREK TOS used a similar creature in the first season ep "Operation Annihilate These looked like pizzas
Speaking of Trek the scene where Charlie X removes the mouth from the female crew member. That still freaks me out.
We're all talking at the same time now. And about the same stuff!
I have corrected my post.
The STTOS ep confused me because a key part of the plot had Kirk saying "give me an alternative" plan to destroying the infested planet.
bro
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May 21, 2017 - 6:03 PM
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Timmer
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Many already mentioned that affected me include Invaders From Mars ( yes, the sand pit ), Fiend Without A Face, War of The Worlds, Night of The Demon ( still a favourite film ), Don't Be Afraid of The Dark and The Witches ( Hammer )
But the first one I remember is the first film I saw at the cinema, taken by my parents as a child, One Million Years B.C. Not the Dinosaurs which I loved but the cannibalistic monkey men that Tumak and Loana hide from up a tree in a cave. Years later it's still a creepy and threatening scene.
Another one is Hammer's SHE, Ursula Andress aging in the fire but even more so was the slaves thrown into the lava pit, as a kid I had an irrational fear of lava because of that. It might have been more understandable if I'd lived in Sicily or on Krakatoa rather than England 
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Speaking of Trek the scene where Charlie X removes the mouth from the female crew member. That still freaks me out.
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That CHARACTER always reminds me of a teen-age version of the kid from IT'S A GOOD LIFE - TZ
(Billy Mumy)
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