<p>frankenstein, dark shadows, invasion of the body snatchers, 3 faces of eve</p>
<p>For me it was the Twilight Zone episode where the little girl fell out of and then under her bed and ended up in another dimension–I was a little girl, my bed had an underneath–ack! I was terrified for a very long time. Then one day The Simpsons ran a spoof of the episode, and I told my kids how utterly terrifying the original was. They finally got to watch it during one of those Twilight Zone marathons and could nor believe that a black and white show with such cheesy special effects could have scared anyone. Eyerolls all around.</p>
<p>The Mummy!! When those bugs crawl under that guy’s skin or something…</p>
<p>Also, I remember watching an episode of the X-Files where this kid finds this skull, and then his friend looks at him and he has like bugs crawling under the skin in his face. That scarred me for life.</p>
<p>u/udad- I loved Night Gallery but I was in high school by the time it was on so I don’t think I was as easily scared. Still count it as one of the best shows on tv! The Blob did scare me too which is so funny since my Grandmother could have out-run it. Still, at the time it was scary. And I would count Night of the Living Dead as one of the all-time scary classics, as laughable as that may seem. </p>
<p>Once when I left our twin 16-year olds home to sit with our 4 year old, I came home and they were watching Scream- they thought he was too young to pay attention. I was so mad!!! He slept in our bed for something like the next 6 months and I still remind them of that. He really hates scary movies so I think it traumatized him for life.</p>
<p>I slept with my head under the covers for months after seeing the episode of the Brady Bunch where the tarantula crawled on Peter’s bed when they were in Hawaii.</p>
<p>Seriously.</p>
<p>^^^^^that reminds me- Arachnaphobia for the pure ick factor</p>
<p>Had anyone seen “The Giant Behemoth”? It was made in the 40’s and was replayed on the Million Dollar Movie. It was about a large dinosaur that came out of the water and terrified the city. The worst part was that it shot radiation from it’s neck and fried anything that got in it’s way. I slept with my head covered for months so if he tried to fry me I was safe.</p>
<p>Mysterious Island scared me to death, especially the scene with the giant bee and the people hiding in the hive. And The Blob. And The Twilight Zone. And The Omen.</p>
<p>I STILL get creeped out by “The Exorcist.” A few years ago they released an extended version with new scenes added. One such scene has the possessed Regan crawling upside-down like a crab or a spider - yeah, it freaks me out just thinking about it. Yikes.</p>
<p>Not scary, exactly, but the end of “Spartacus” horrified me.</p>
<p>This is a great thread, by the way.</p>
<p>Most of mine have been mentioned, The Birds, flying monkeys, The Exorcist and the Omen. But I was also terrified of Indian drums, so most westerns and Tarzan movies freaked me out. And one movie that really got to me was Imitation of Life. The music at the funeral procession haunted me for days.</p>
<p>takeitallin–Arachnophobia scarred my D for life. She saw it at some b-day party when she was about 10, and ended up sleeping on our floor for quite some time. Still has major spider issues.</p>
<p>Same experience as Sarha re: The Blob. Had nightmares for days and thought stuff was oozing under the door! Was that also the movie that had people coming out of things that looked like giant pea pods, or was that a different film?</p>
<p>I think the pods are from “Invasion of the Body Snatcher.” There have been various versions–the remake with Donald Sutherland is creepy and really depressing.</p>
<p>The pit and the pendulum and Nightmare on Elm Street are the only two I’ve had recurring nightmares about.</p>
<p>Did Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte feature a bloody hand that kept reappearing? The movie I’m thinking of had a scene where someone was driving down a dark road and a bloody stump slowly appeared out of the back seat and choked the driver. I remember someone throwing the bloody hand into a fire, but it came back to life.</p>
<p>I was about 7 or 8 when I saw “the hand” movie. For years afterward, I wouldn’t get into my bed at night until I’d checked to make sure “the hand” wasn’t in my closet or under my bed. I was also terrified of riding in the front seat of cars at night.</p>
<p>The flying monkeys in The Wizard of Oz scared the living daylights out of me, too!</p>
<p>Dark Shadows. I slept with the covers up to my ears (without air-conditioning), so that the vampires couldn’t get my neck. I saw an old (black & white) episode of it recently. It shocked me how amazingly cheezy it really was. The filming looked like somebody today with a bad camcorder.</p>
<p>The Night Gallery episode with the earwigs traumatized me for years. I saw it when I was 11, the first time my parents went out and left me in charge of my little sister with no sitter. I think I screamed when the doctor said “And females lay eggs”. I slept with wadded up kleenex in my ears for a year after that.
I loved Dark Shadows though.</p>
<p>Carrie had a hand coming out of the ground at the end, and there wa an episode of Twilight Zone that also had some detached hand doing weird stuff (I forget what, but we used a rubber glove dangling from a string down to the window of a dormmates room freshman yr of college as a practical joke after we all watched that episode)</p>
<p><strong>edit</strong> and thanks for the clarification about the “pod people”, Hunt</p>
<p>DEFINITELY “The Birds”! I saw it at the movie theater when it first came out and it scared me so much that I have never watched it again, even though it’s been on TV countless times. DH loves stuff like this, and he is required to watch it in another room where I can’t hear it.</p>