<p>EK - ditto on Wait until dark. They showed it at a youth group sleepover and I screamed so loudly my gum shot out and lodged in the girl in front of me’s hair. At sleep away camp I refused to go to the scary movie where there were (real) bats flying around the hall while the movie played. I think it was the Birds. I could hear the screams all the way back in my cabin. Eek. The whole neighborhood would come in from playing outside (kickball) to watch dark shadows. Remember when whatsername came back from the dead and lifted her veil? Man oh man. </p>
<p>But the kicker for me was I was watching my parents’ little black and white TV, laying on the bed on my back with my head hanging down and the TV uspside down like, when the news broke in because Jack Ruby shot Sirhan Sirhan - oh wait - that makes no sense, but it was one of the assasinations caught on TV - Lee Harvey Oswald? It was on every channel. It was surreal. I was like emotionally looking around (tho alone) asking the folks around (tho they were not there) like, “umm, is this shiz for real yo?” Hah except the hard shell-speak was not available to a 1960’s grammar schooler so I was like all 'what?, who?, why?, huh??? wha? please put my cartoons back? Was that a gun? was that for real? wow popping sound? where’s my mom? ooh I don’t want my mom I want my cartoons" etc. etc. etc.</p>
<p>Mmmm. Twighlight Zone. Pig people pig people. Librarian’s glasses crunched. Sweetheart travels to outer space but wakes up missing Sweetie pie so ages but Sweetie pie surprises him on return as a young woman who slept while he was supposed to. Plane demon mmHmmm.</p>
<p>We called the Wicked Witch the Bicky Bitc* in our house. Toddler nailed it.</p>
<p>“The “Miri” episode of the original Star Trek.” My youngest was somewhat traumatized by the “The Doomsday Machine” - he had to learn the mantra “Captain Kirk never dies.”</p>
<p>The worst thing my parents did to me was giving me nightmares by allowing us to only see the first half the “The Night of the Triffids” and deciding it was too scary for us. We were much more scared by not seeing that it turned out all right in the end.</p>
<p>Hugcheck, that’s funny, I also saw “Wait Until Dark” at a youth group sleepover, on New Year’s Eve at my church. I loved the movie, and that whistled tune haunted me for awhile.</p>
<p>Have to agree with the trees and flying monkeys in “The Wizard of Oz”. Those monkeys were much scarier than the witch for some reason.</p>
<p>Alfred Hitchcock scared me because some of the episodes seem like they could actually happen. But those pickled people were really scary. I was intrigued by an episode where a woman was hit and killed by a car. A psychiatrist worked diligently with her husband to help him recall the license plate of the car that hit her. The episode ended with the husband jumping up and writing the license number on a chalkboard, and someone coming in to take the “psychiatrist” away, as he was actually an escaped patient from a mental institution. But I couldn’t help wondering if the number was actually correct. I saw the episode later, paid attention to the license plate, and realized it actually was the right number. I thought that was really cool.</p>
<p>I’ve never found anyone who shares this, but for some reason Gumby and Pokey gave me the creeps. Must have been that claymation movement.</p>
<p>The original Salem’s Lot. Watched it with some of my floormates over Thanksgiving break freshman year of college. Read the book during Christmas break a few weeks later. Don’t think I slept a wink most of the break.</p>
<p>Still can’t relax in open water because of Jaws.</p>
<p>Okay here are some from when I was really young:</p>
<p>Bozo the Clown had an episode where he was in a cannon and was going to be shot out.</p>
<p>A TV show called Diver Dan (I can’t find very many people who know this show). He was a deep sea diver who had talking fish that would swim around him. In one episode one of the mean fish cut his airway.</p>
<p>We used to spend summers at my grandmothers and watched her soaps everyday. In the show The Doctors some guy was on the top of a roof and thought he could fly or something (I think he had taken some kind of drug) anyway in pure soap fashion he was on that roof for a whole weeks worth of shows.</p>
<p>It’s funny how vivid my memories are of those episodes!</p>
<p>I remember Diver Dan, and his mermaid sidekick Miss Minerva. Wasn’t there some sinister fish called Baron Barracuda who was always lurking behind the coral?</p>
<p>Was Diver Dan a friend of Clutch Cargo and his sidekicks Spinner and Paddlefoot?</p>
<p>Some Twilight Zones just stay with you forever…like the one where a child rolls out of bed and through the bedroom wall, into another dimension!</p>
<p>I remember Diver Dan! I believe the mean fish was the barracuda.</p>
<p>For some reason, I was always mesmerized by the end scene of waves quietly washing up on the beach, in black and white of course. Can’t remember if there was theme music; just the wash of waves back and forth.</p>
<p>I have no idea what the name of the movie that scared me to pieces as a kid. I am pretty sure it was black and white and the scene I remember is a family in a car trying to out race flood waters that are chasing them down the highway. In the scene I remember, the little girl looks out the back window and the water is gaining on them and then… the camera shows her sun hat floating away. Dams have always made me nervous since then. </p>
<p>And giant crabs- I stayed up late (probably around the age of 5 or so) and watched Attack of the Giant Crab Monsters. Normal sized crabs don’t bother me, but giant ones…</p>
<p>The Fifty Foot Woman terrified me- had nightmares from it. There was also another one but I don’t know the name- my husband remembers it too. Aliens land on earth and pull people down thru the ground into tunnels. At the end a kid wakes up and you realize it is all a dream. Then he looks out his window and sees someone getting sucked thru the earth… Absolutely terrified me.</p>
<p>^^^Oh, yes, that was an awesome movie! I can’t remember the title, either. It wasn’t the pod people, but it was similar. The people became emotionless. I think they had tell tale signs on the back of their neck if they were “infected”. It was one of the 50s sci fi classics. They used to run on Sunday mornings. Loved those movies!</p>
<p>Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, The Haunting, and a sci-fi movie where a ship full of tarantula-like aliens crashes in the desert and they have a taste for humans–they turn out to be criminals exiled from their own planet. Definite heebie-jeebies as they swarmed over their victims…</p>
<p>Why hasn’t anyone mentioned “Night Gallery” - the episode where the person lives through the excruciating pain of an earwig boring its way through his brain over the course of days - only to find out that it was female and laid eggs along the way!</p>
<p>Think about it (and sleep tight and have sweet dreams tonight and…don’t let the bedbugs bite!).</p>