<p>I’ve been told that when I was little I became hysterical whenever I saw Groucho Marx or heard the theme song to his TV show. And no wise cracks about my age please. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Invaders From Mars (1953).</p>
<p>You were probably frightened by his duck.</p>
<p>*Scary movies for me were poltergist, children of the corn, and the twilight zone, with the little creature out on the wing of the plan…shivers! *</p>
<p>That was a great episode with Bill Shatner.</p>
<p>Pearl Jam did a skit on SNL a year ago that was a tribute to that episode.</p>
<p>[SNL</a> Transcripts: Jude Law: 03/13/10: The Twilight Zone](<a href=“http://snltranscripts.jt.org/09/09qtwilight.phtml]SNL”>SNL Transcripts: Jude Law: 03/13/10: The Twilight Zone - SNL Transcripts Tonight)</p>
<p>Howdy Doody.</p>
<p>I hated that thing.</p>
<p>“The Birds” was the scariest movie I remembered from my childhood. I rented the DVD and watched with my D’s a few years ago…and it was terrible!</p>
<p>This time through, it was not scary at all. In fact, I found Tippi Hedren’s character so annoying that by the end of the movie, I was rooting for the birds! The kids just laughed.</p>
<p>For DH, his scariest memory was “Night of the Living Dead”. I had never seen it, so we rented it and watched with D2. D2 and I were convulsed with laughter – DH had built up the movie as the scariest ever, and it turns out to be a bad “B” movie. </p>
<p>“They’re coming to get you, Barbara” has turned into a code phrase for D2 and I. It means Dad’s off his rocker again!</p>
<p>[Barabbas</a> (1961 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barabbas_(1961_film)]Barabbas”>Barabbas (1961 film) - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>Anthony Quinn as Barrabas, trumped by Jack Palance as the chief gladiator of Rome. Lots of crucifixion and sulphur mine scenes.</p>
<p>Also the context: I saw it from the back of a station wagon at a drive-in theater at age 10, with my girlfriend and her parents, both of whom were Holocaust survivors. </p>
<p>Why on earth did they take us to that? Scared out of my mind, and the only person in the car who spoke coherent English was also 10 years old.</p>
<p>I think they knew they made a mistake, though; the following week they took us both back to see Annette Funicello in “Beach Blanket Bingo.”</p>
<p>I saw Wait Until Dark on TV- scared me to death.</p>
<p>Saturday afternoons and “Shock Theater,” which showed all the old black-and-white horror movies:</p>
<p>“The Creature From the Black Lagoon”
“The Mole People”</p>
<p>So stupid yet so scary.</p>
<p>And scary but definitely not stupid - the original “The Haunting.”</p>
<p>I was terrified of the flying monkeys in the Wizard of Oz also.</p>
<p>13 Ghosts (that bed that smothered people)
Darby O’Gill & the Little People (the Banshee call)
The Pit and the Pendulum (the eyes in the last scene)
and (as an adult) It</p>
<p>Dark Shadows. I was sure Barnabas Collins was hiding under my bed at night. </p>
<p>Gone With the Wind…saw it as a six year old with older sister who was sixteen. The Atlanta scene when they amputated the man’s leg and he was screaming scared me to pieces. I was so afriad they were going to show his hacked off bloody leg. Love GWTW now. </p>
<p>Wicked Witch in the Wizard of Oz was scary too.</p>
<p>There was a show that came on every Saturday night called “Creature Feature” that always had weird scary stuff in it.</p>
<p>I was scared to death of Cruella DeVille in the original version of 101 Dalmatians. She reminded me of our reclusive neighbor who shunned children and wore a fur coat.</p>
<p>[The</a> Beast with Five Fingers (1946) - IMDb](<a href=“http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038338/]The”>The Beast with Five Fingers (1946) - IMDb)</p>
<p>COMPLETELY freaked me out.</p>
<p>I was about 11 when " The Exorcist " came to theatres , and the radio commercials really scared me…I could be wrong , but I think they were not allowed to advertise on TV</p>
<p>Also Dark Shadows…couldn’t fall asleep when Barnabas Collins became a vampire ( I wasn’t allowed to watch , but I snuck a peek ) My mother was right to try to keep it from me ;)</p>
<p>Them . . . was on 8 times during a week I spent at my Dad’s in LA, and the sight of those mutant insects coming out of the desert will haunt me forever.</p>
<p>“The Blob” , the original version with a very young Steve McQueen.
I was so scared that I raced out of the theatre and ran all the way home.
Still don’t like scary movies.</p>
<p>There was an episode of Superman where a cloud figure of a huge representation of God was talking to Superman…on a road…that’s all I remember and I was petrified…</p>
<p>The Exorcist did me in as a teen; slept with my parents that night (at 16 years old)…cannot sit through anything similar since and have never been able to see that again…</p>
<p>but for some reason, Dark Shadows was one of my FAVORITE shows growing up; wish it were still on, in order of broadcast date (not like the SciFi channel where they occasionally bring it back); I’m too lazy (cheap) to buy the seasons…huge fan of David Selby (Quentin…anybody catch him as the lawyer in The Social Network??)</p>
<p>Twilight Zone (love those old reruns now 
). Still remember the first one I saw - some little girl talked to dead grandma on a toy phone. </p>
<p>After the TZ run ended, Serling had another show for a time called Night Gallery - also pretty scary.</p>
<p>I loved Night Gallery.</p>