Post scary stuff from your childhood.

Oh you too?

Seems to me this could be the inspiration behind your user pic.

I know this scene scared me as a kid, the first time I saw it:

Vera Webster being turned into a mindless cyborg:





I think it scared most of us back then!




I wish I knew how they did those Special Effects...


Did you know there is a continuity error with this scene.

Vera is wearing gloves. When she is transformed, the gloves are gone. When Vera is saved, she is wearing gloves again.

It is inevitable that all clowns become this:

I wish I could post an image, but I don't know what ghost movie it was that I saw when I was a youngster.

After I had a melt down after seeing "Bambi" as a kid, my parents forbade me from watching upsetting or scary movies. But when I went over to a friend's house, she and her sister were watching a scary movie on TV. There was a dark old mansion on a cliff by the sea, ghosts hid behind the walls and if someone looked into a mirror, the ghosts would reach out and grab the person, dragging that person through the mirror into the wall. OMG!!!

I had a look at old IMDb, and I found three possibilities, "The Uninvited" 1945, being the most likely given the old house on the cliff. Or it could have been another old (even then) movie, an anthology of several ghost stories, can't recall the name, or "The Haunting" 1966. Hard to tell, given how few images were available on IMDb.

But I was an impressionable, sensitive kid, and when I grew up, realized that it was hindering me in living a normal life, so I started to work on that. I watched "The Exorcist" on TV one night, but had to keep switching channels to "The Sound of Music" on another station.

Eventually I got over the fear of the supernatural, fearing more the natural - bad humans - and took steps to ensure my safety - ADT, motion-activated lights, et al. I binge-watched crime procedurals, trying to figure out what made people good or bad. Behavioral analysis became an area of interest.

So nothing supernatural scares me now, just humans behaving badly!


Edit: Well, AND the IRS...

They kept re-issuing this happy little bedtime story to theaters !