Things that shit you up as a kid

[Pidge]

This might sound mad, but does anybody remember a programme shown on CITV in the mid 90s? I can't remember the name of it, but it seriously shit me up and gave me bad nightmares for ages!

 

Basically, it was about some rock thing that came down from space and when people went near it, it shot a green laser beam into their eyes and they became possessed by this alien type thing. Their eyes would glow green and they'd turn into baddies. For the life of me, I can't remember what it was called but it scared the shit out of me.

 

If anybody helps me put a name on this thing that's antagonised me 15 years or so, then you'll be suitably repped.

 

I know what you're talking about, but I looked at a load of Stephen King stuff earlier and can't get beyond "The Tommyknockers" from your description.

[Faustus]

I know what you're talking about, but I looked at a load of Stephen King stuff earlier and can't get beyond "The Tommyknockers" from your description.

 

Nah, it deffo wasn't The Tommyknockers. It was only a kids TV series that was set in Britain.

 

Just can't think of the name of it!

[Mel Wood]

Judge Doom however is nothing compared to this monstrosity.

 

KHT-Tf4RSXo

Which one? Andi Peters or Edd the Duck?

[chorlton]

 

When i was a kid i saw that episode of V and that thing freaked me out, i was in a real fear about it.

 

Then my mum says, right bed time John. It seemed a bit early, i couldn't understand why i was being sent to be. I asked if i'd done anything wrong.

 

School in the morning, early night. So i grumpily went to bed.

 

My hilarious sadistic parents had put a cabbage in my bed, lifted the covers and went fucking skitz running round the house.

 

Also this gave me the fear as a kid.

 

[Pidge]

 

Also this gave me the fear as a kid.

 

 

looks like Nick Cave.

 

I had one mate who was scared shitless by Watership Down, couldn't even bear to hear Bright Eyes. Also, this gripped me when we did Look and Read at primary school, Charn was a freaky fella.

 

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[fowler9]

some of those paedo like alien things in Power Rangers

[Adebisi]

 

This fucker right here. I was 3 or 4 years old when my brother showed me the bit with the drain. A couple of days later we went to the fair and every time I saw a clown I ran away crying.

 

And there was a fucking drain about 10 feet away from my friend's house with the remains of a yellow balloon in it. I still think it was planted there by his dad to creep us out, the bastard.

 

I also remember renting a video from the local years and years ago. By this point I'd as good as forgotten about IT and Pennywise, then one of the previews came on. It was that fucker! That was it. Video ejected, every light in the house on, doors locked.

 

I bought it on DVD last year, but am still wary of watching it.

[Liverpool lad]

Crimewatch reconstructions

[jamespp]

The Storyteller, especially the Devils and the Griffin with the Golden Feather

Strange but True with Michael Aspel

Crimewatch (still hate E-fits now)

The Dark Crystal, Them bird things

[JohnnyH]

[Antynwa]

Robocop - Death of Alex Murphy • VideoSift: Online Video *Quality Control

[Guest Slim(fast)Shady]

Chocky?

[Top of the Kop]

The Storyteller, especially the Devils and the Griffin with the Golden Feather

Strange but True with Michael Aspel

Crimewatch (still hate E-fits now)

The Dark Crystal, Them bird things

 

Very good call.

[Duncan Clench]

 

 

 

 

 

These things really shit me up. Good shouts.

[WaltonRed]

Crimewatch music

Wheelers (top shout that)

The dog/statue on Ghostbusters that chases Rick Moranis

Ghostwatch

[Warwick Hunt]

I've been dying to tell someone that the Wheelers of Oz used to shit me up when I was kid but have been too embarrassed til now.

 

MOID and Yuri off Terrahawks were nasty little beasts too

[a stoner]

American werewolf in London.

It was the talk of my school when I was a kid so I set the video to tape it and watched it on the sunday morning before anyone else was up. Scared the living shit outta me.

[Pidge]

I've been dying to tell someone that the Wheelers of Oz used to shit me up when I was kid but have been too embarrassed til now.

 

embarrassed?! I said Dizzy Heights and Charn from Look and Read for crying out loud... Look and Read!

 

There's no shame in what scared you when you were young and had a kids imagination.

[emryscb]

sleepless nights after seeing this

 

 

[rubble-rouser]

Fucking hell, how could I forget this shit.

 

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* shits kecks

 

Bastard!!!! I'd successfullyu erased that from my memory.

[rubble-rouser]

[The Great Jacko]

The bit where they came up from under the water gave me nightmares about what was under the sea....

 

 

 

And....

 

 

 

Mother of God yes - the kids tapping on the bedroom window in Salem's Lot scared the fuck out of me for about 10 years.

[Mel Wood]

In Space:1999 there was a scene where a tribe were kidnapping midgets and gassing them in a phonebox type contraption and that shit me right up, despite not being a midget myself.

 

I don't think the fear of it coming true fully passed until the real year 2000 when we still hadn't built a base on the moon, let alone travelled off from there to that midget gassing planet.

[Paulie Dangerously]

[dirty_sanchez]

Can I just check, it's ok to still be shit up by Pennywise at the age of 30?