What's the scariest thing you've seen on television...?

[bliss_eternal]

(...aside from the results of the 2000 or 2004 elections, any speech coverage of *, or the coronation of the boy king...):D

In elementary school, I recall all the kids coming to school discussing a show called Trilogy of Terror that was aired as a tv movie in the early 70's. They were all freaked out by it.

I saw it as an adult. I got through the first segment or so of the trilogy and wondered why everyone was so scared. Then the third one.
:wow:

That fuckin' tiki doll was no joke! Scary as hell! Don't know if the doll was the scariest thing or the horrible sound it made. Or maybe it was just the actress--scary, scary woman!

Either way, that was ONE of the scariest things I've seen on tv. That and of course The Exorcist. Commercials for the Exorcist scare the shit out of me.

What about you?

[NNadir]

1. The 2004 (s)election returns.

[bliss_eternal]

5. I know--it goes w/out saying, that was terrifying

and beyond depressing.

[soleft]

2. Karen Black, who was great in Airport 75

I actually had a crush on Karen Black when I saw Trilogy of Terror, so imagine my horror- yeah, that little doll was pretty horrific.

But I think Tim Curry in It is one of the scariest things I've seen. I can't even watch it it creeps me out so bad.

Also, I think there was a Twilight Zone episode that had a woman's head in a jar, I remember that freaked me out when I was kid.

[bliss_eternal]

7. Tim Curry was in it, too?

See what an impression Karen Black and that damned doll made? I don't even remember Tim Curry. What was his sequence about?

[soleft]

28. No, lol, Tim Curry was in "It" - Stephen King Mini series

played the clown Mr. Pennyworth? Pennywise. Wait, I'll find a pic,

[BigMcLargehuge]

40. Airport 75 wasn't a Steven King miniseries!

BWAHAHAHAHAHAH (trying to get that Who's on First vibe going)

[soleft]

44. But weren't they flying to Maine and some invisbile thing ate the scenery?

[bliss_eternal]

48. Ooops, sorry for the misunderstanding. Yes, IT was

more than a little scary. I couldn't even watch the whole thing. Didn't think he could ever be that terrifying.

[BigMcLargehuge]

3. Karen Black and the Zuni Fetish Doll... MAN that scared me when I was a

tot.

Went on to love that kind of cinema though, so I guess it did me good. The one that really got to me was the original Tales from the Crypt when an escaped mental patient dressed as Santa on Christmas eve whacks Joan Collins with a fireplace poker...

Christmas was never the same for me after that.

[libnnc]

33. yes, yes, yes!!! The Zuni Fetish Doll

scared the crap outta me! Was that an ABC Movie of the Week? I remember when they aired Rosemary's Baby on the tee-vee for the first time. My mom banished me to my room. :scared:

and for some strange reason, the opening cartoon for I Dream of Jeanie scared the shit out of me. Something about those blinking eyes in the bottle...:shrug:

[spacelady]

4. Oh yeah, I remember that doll in trilogy of terror, but my personal

early years freakout was an episode of Lost In Space where there was a planet with a video screen with a floating skull that talked on it...kind of a fuzzy memory but I imagined that thing was in my closet!

[LTR]

6. "The Day After"

Scariest movie I've ever seen.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0001WTVUW/qid=1124940518/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/103-1931845-8359048?v=glance&s=dvd

[bliss_eternal]

8. I remember that!

I cried during and after that movie, it freaked me out so much.

[soleft]

29. I once spliced the Day After with Gumby's Big Adventure

Now that was scary

[ofrfxsk]

32. Me too!!!

My parents who would let me watch every "bad" movie wouldn't let me watch the finale. I remember coming into school that Monday and everyone talking about it. My home room teacher actually asked who watched it and how did they feel afterwards. Weird times.

[democracyindanger]

47. My parents made me watch it.

Source of a few nightmares, I'd bet.

[Rabrrrrrr]

9. The Star Wars Christmas special, Barbara Mandrell's Xmas specials,

and the Bob Hope specials in the last 5 years of his life.

Also, I saw the Exorcist on TV when I was in high school - tenth grade I think - scared the fucking shit out of me for days on end.

To this day, that is, in fact, the only movie/TV show/book/literature/ride/whatever-entertainment-thing that's ever scared me, and it scared me WAY OVER THE FUCKING EDGE.

And I didn't watch all of it!!

And to this day, I still have not had the courage to actually watch the full movie without commercial interruption and network censoring.

[bliss_eternal]

13. Don't do it! It's terrifying!

In college, I was an RA. Every year for Halloween I organized an all night horror film festival. The only time that I abandoned my own event was when it was time to show The Exorcist.

All of the attendees insisted it be shown exactly at midnight.

:scared:

Something about that big, dark voice coming out of that little girl still freaks me out.

[LTR]

18. BOO!

http://www.starwarsholidayspecial.com/

[bliss_eternal]

10. I recall being afraid of Night Gallery even though I have no

conscious memory of specific episodes of the show. All I recall is the music and being scared.

Was it a scary show? Anyone remember it?

[youthere]

11. Don't laugh...

but the episode of "The Brady Bunch" where they go to Hawaii and they have the cursed pendant.

[OrwellwasRight]

16. Sorry. Have to laugh.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[bliss_eternal]

17. Hey--that WAS a creepy episode, for the Brady's!!

:scared:

Why would I laugh? I got freaked out by a Little House episode. Shhhh, don't tell anyone.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

12. 'Don't be Afraid of the Dark', an old 70s made for TV flick, Kim Darby.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0069992/

She played some gal who inherited a house or something. Creepy 'little people' with heads like peach pits lived in the crawl spaces, fireplace etc. They were screwing around with her through the whole movie, and in the end...




Too, too horrible. :scared:

[OrwellwasRight]

14. Sssssssssss!

Dirk Benedict from Battlestar Galactica turned into a snake. I don't know why, but i couldn't sleep for a week.

And Invasion of the Body Snatchers and the Exorcist were worse. I still can't play ouija boards or sleep next to watermelons.

[bliss_eternal]

19. They still show that movie from time to time--

Particularly come Halloween time. They trot it out for scary movie marathons. It scared me enough that I still haven't seen the entire movie.

I don't know of anyone that would dare play with a ouija after seeing the Exorcist.

[OrwellwasRight]

51. Funny, with today's special effects,

I can't see how they would show that today. It has got to be so dated.

[bliss_eternal]

56. Oh yes, very dated...but dated enough to still be creepy.

At least to me it was. I think it was playing on Sci Fi channel. You know they don't care about quality. LOL!

[OrwellwasRight]

58. Sci Fi Channel? Quality? LMAO! n/t

[LeftyMom]

15. Televangelists

I don't like being reminded of the extent of human stupidity.

[bliss_eternal]

21. Try watching when they are having their 'Praise-athons'...

:eyes:

Blatant, obligatory effort to collect huge sums of money. Truly terrifying!

[graywarrior]

20. Karen Black & the doll is the thing I always remember as

being the scariest. That and Talking Tina.

[bliss_eternal]

22. Ah, Talking Tina--creepiness at it's best EVER!

That episode was profoundly disturbing to watch as a kid.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

23. When I was a little kid, Ernie Kovacs was on t.v. and he had

a band of monkeys that played these wacky songs. I was about four or five, and had never seen people in animal costumes before, and that just freaked the shit out of me. Ernie himself was one of the monkeys and he had his signature cigar in his mouth, which made it even stranger. I remember screaming and running in the other room, but still peaking around the corner, fascinated. Boy, I really dated myself here, huh?

[5X]

24. When my dad brought home our first tv, a big console from Sears,

we hooked it up and turned it on (this is the first thing I have
ever seen on tv) a black and white movie was on about giant spiders.
A little girl goes inside an old garage or shed and it is full of
spider eggs and webs. I was freaked out about spiders for a while.

[bliss_eternal]

27. Oh Wow! That sounds pretty scary!

I wonder what movie that was...

[5X]

31. I have looked for that movie and never found it. n/t

[Roland99]

25. *'s cackle during the 3rd Presidential debate

I damn near came out of my skin.

[Arkana]

26. Either the movie "Child's Play" or the movie "Final Destination".

"Child's Play" just freaked me out. Nothing is scarier than a homicidal, possessed doll.

"Final Destination" played mind games with me. You knew the people were going to die--you just didn't know how, or where, or when.

[bliss_eternal]

30. I still havent' seen Final D. Gotta' rent it this Halloween season.

Homicidal, possessed dolls are scary--but Chuckie always manages to make me laugh.

Not to make light of what you said. He was still scary, even though he was funny to me.

[Arkana]

34. Nah, there was just SOMETHING about the look on Chucky's face...

That look of "Yee-hah! I'm really enjoyin' this!" that scared the piss out of me.

And FD is great--but watch it early in the day, with all the lights on, and with friends. Trust me on this.

[shockingelk]

35. Ann Coulter n/t

[texanwitch]

36. When I was about 11 years old and having a sleep over with a friend

we were watch "The Haunting of Hill House".

This was on a weekend so we could stay up late and there was a really bad thunder storm going on.

We were so into the movie we didn't hear her Mother come into the room to check on us, she scared the hell out of us.

[Orrin_73]

37. John Carpenter's 'The Thing'

each time I see hat movie, I cant sleep for days .The thing scares the hell out of me.

[Rabrrrrrr]

39. That is, in my estimation, one of the top ten movies ever made

Abso-fucking-lutely brilliant.

It really is.

And it's wonderfully nihilistically perfect.

It's kind of the first Orson Welles-ish movie since Orson Welles had done movies, in terms of artistry, noir, and pure directorial and cinematographic perfection.

And it's also cool because so many of the special effects were real - like the final scene, when the actors were running around blowing shit up with dynamite: that really was the real actors, really running around the set, really blowing it up with real dynamite. With, as John Carpenter said, about half the LA fire department outside the studio on "standby" just in case.

And all the flamethrower shots? Also real flameflowers, wielded by the actors, in real time, really.

[5X]

38. My wife was home with a broken leg on 9-11 and I was in the

room with her and we both saw the second plane hit. That, of course, takes it for me.

[Poiuyt]

41. The original 1963 version of The Haunting

The best ghost story ever put on film. They don't show anything, they make you use your imagination. There is one scene at the end, however, where you will need to change your pants

[texanwitch]

45. My friend's Mother came into the room during the scene when

the ghosts were beating on the doors, and the two women were alone.

The thunderstorm was right over the house, not a good time to touch a couple of scared kids.

[Beware the Beast Man]

42. Bud Dwyer putting a .357 in his mouth and firing.

Viewers of Channel 11 in Pittsburgh had the pleasure of seeing the whole damn thing. I saw the edited version originally. Still scary as fuck.

[LTR]

46. Is that the one shown in "Bowling For Columbine"?

If it's the one I'm thinking of, it have been pretty freaky seeing the whole thing.

[Beware the Beast Man]

49. I haven't seen B4C yet, but more than likely.

It was also the inspiration for Filter's "Hey Man, Nice Shot."

[bliss_eternal]

52. OMG--that sounds horrible.

:wow:

Yikes!

[hickman1937]

43. I was 13yrs old and babysitting for my younger siblings.

It was friday night just before Halloween and shock theater was on. I fell asleep right after the movie started, and woke up just as they were showing, after the movie, horrible masks from I don't know where. This boon dock kid almost wet her pants. The only reason I didn't scream and run was because my 8 year old brother was curled up asleep next to me on the family room floor and he already had enough problems. I had nightmares for years, no kidding.

[bliss_eternal]

50. Wizard of Oz played to Pink Floyd--Dark Side of Moon?

Anyone ever done this...

Dh and I tried it, and it scared me! :scared: I'm such a wimp...

[countingbluecars]

53. I remember having nightmares

about an episode of the Outer Limits. It had these insect like creatures that had big fried egg looking eyes. I can't remember too much else about the episode.

[Porcupine]

54. Ronald Reagun. Just knowing he could let loose the nukes

as he bobbed his Alzheimers addled head around oblivious to what was going on around him. People knew something was wrong.

[enigmatic]

55. Pink Lady And Jeff

w/ a dose of blotter acid; oy!

[Initech]

57. Probably that clip of Bush giving the finger.