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Re: Age-inappropriate things that scared you as a child.
BeoPuppy:
Dr.Who. Not the nice ones we have now but, like, dr.No.5 and 7, with their lurid, harsh coloured special effects. That creeped me out a bit, then.
Jimmy the Squid:
I have, to this day, an intense phobia of Freddy Krugar as my brother made me watch Nightmare on Elm St VI just after I'd gotten out of hospital for a skin graft on my ear drums. The bit where the deaf kid is pleading with Kruger/His mother not deafen him with the giant cotton bud (Q-tips to you yankees) has stayed with me for the last 11 years and still makes me feel a little ill. He also made me watch Friday the 13th (number 8 I think) and I had nightmares about Jason Voorhees tapping on my window for months. But not hockey mask Jason. Jason as a little kid with the ugly face floating under the water.
The silliest thing I was ever freaked out by was when I was little my dad had the BBC tv version of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy on video. The scene where Arthur and Ford are having Vogon poetry read at them freaked me the fuck out.
MusicScribbles:
Man, Gremlins at age 7 is scary shit. So is The Shining a year later.
MadassAlex:
I first watched Neon Genesis: Evangelion as a child of 8. That show is full of nightmare fuel, but this part stuck with me:
During one of the later episodes, an experimental Eva unit rejects control and starts fucking shit up for everyone. Shinji (the protagonist) is sent in to destroy it, using his own Eva unit. He discovers, however, that one of his best friends is the pilot (although his friend isn't in control), and refuses to damage the enemy Eva. The enemy Eva gets to work trying to destroy Shinji, but the commander of the operation steps in and initiates the "dummy plug" technology. The dummy plug is essentially an autonomous fighting system for the Eva, and it immediately gets to work.
First, Shinji's unit snaps the neck of the enemy unit. This isn't enough - it then throws the enemy to the ground, rips off its frontal armour, and proceeds to violently tear out its internal organs as the blood seeps into the nearby river and sprays across nearby skyscrapers. At one point, the fist of Shinji's unit comes down and mangles the head of the enemy unit, causing its eyeballs to roll around. As if to add insult to injury, Shinji's unit identifies the entry plug (cockpit equivalent) of the enemy unit, pulls it out, and crushes it in front of Shinji's eyes, despite the fact that a good friend was in there.
All the while, the commander of the operation (who is Shinji's father) is grinning widely, elated at the efficiency of his creation.
Cartilage Head:
I'm pretty sure when I was little I got scared by the scene in Akira where the guy's girlfriend got crushed. I still haven't seen that whole movie, not because I'm scared to, I just haven't gotten around to it.
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