Wham!! Fresh from the thread on Dark Crystal 2 comes...

CHILDHOOD FEARS!!!

Which movies/experiences/songs/whatthefuckever gave you the chills when you were younger?

Our toilet makes a whole lot of noise whet it flushes. I used to make sure I was as far away from the loo when that noise kicked in after a flush. Who knows what causes that noise, it could be some scary animal!!!

When I was really young I was petrified of masks (of any kind). From Phantom Of The Opera to the oxygen masks in Top Gun and everything inbetween... stupid? yeah...

The long dark hallway (with huge windows) in my old house used to freak me out at night as there was no light switch down the end where my bedroom was, so I used to sprint (literally) down to the other end to turn on the light if I say, needed to go to the toilet at night.

At school they alwyas used to tell us about the dangers of strangers and fires. The fires thing really really got to me, I used to have rtouble sleeping, my parents had to move the smoke alarm next to my door and stuff....then when I was older I always had nightmares of there being a fire and I had to choose who I could save

And my sister used to dress as a witch with these big green fingers and chase me!

And this wind up swimming frog I had for the bath

Oh and when i was about 3 my mum used to do the "HE-MAN AND THE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE!" thign, that used to scare me, haha, I was scared of a lot!

That scene in Ghostbusters where Dana opens her fridge to find a demon dimension scared the living shit out of me when I was quite young.

I watched it recently and it looked cheesy.

I had very low "scare-the-shit-out" treshold for movies back then. I saw part of "The thing" in the tv once and was scarred for a long time.

I watched it recently and it looked cheesy.

Sometimes it's better not to refresh such things. There was some movie - Michael Mann's "The keep", which I saw very long time ago. I remembered it as a pretty good movie with great atmosphere. I tried to watch it recently and couldn't penetrate thick wall of tedium cemented with cheese. Action was slower, and special effects were worse than I remembered

Book is decent, though.

Spiders for a long time - when I was four I got my head stuck between the posts of our staircase (I can't remember how, which is probably for the best!) and my face was right next to a spider web. It was only a daddy long legs, but any spider's freaky when it's practically up your nose.

Also, escalators for a while. I was playing with my little brother and climbed up on the side of one: I perched myself on the outside of the belt so it'd carry me up, but lost my nerve when I'd gotten high enough to jump. I got to nearly the top of the thing before someone lifted me over, otherwise it would've meant a very painful & most likely terminal drop.

So, I was an active young tyke

the fucking "it" clown! and freddy krugger!

and i was a bit afraid of the dark

I'm still terrified of daddy long legs too!

Ssssssssnakesssssssssss! Respect, but stay away from me. It's not a fear really, if it's not poisonous I can take it in my hand, but those fast killing fucks on discovery AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

I hate horror movies, watched The House when I was little, fuck! Now I know what gets me: it's the music! Fucking high strings start really quiet and build an atmosphere so now I'm just like "Aha, ok, so in about 3-5 secs I'll jump out of my skin. ... C'mon, do it alreaAH fuck you!" Tried watching horror with the sound off and it's like cutting the rapist's dick clean off, haha. Can't get me now, idiots. But no fun. (whoa, not sure about this pun )

I also prefer light to dark.

At the end, I'm absolutely frightened of aggressive people. Creatures I can't communicate with and want to harm me scare me the most. I'm a sissy, rudy-poo candy-ass chicken, I know, but hey, I'm not into body contact with anything but the ladies.

sissy, rudy-poo candy-ass chicken

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the fucking "it" clown!

I read the book, and it scared the shit out of me, couldn't read it at night at all.

sissy, rudy-poo candy-ass chicken

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What? You don't know if you'd smack me, flush me, suck me, fuck me or eat me if you met me?

I'm still terrified of spiders and actually have serious uncontrollable behavioral reactions if they touch me or anything like that.

Ones that I don't have anymore:

lightning storms and other severe weather
the dark
being in certain rooms all alone
walking anywhere in the dark
dogs (lasted a VERY VERY short time, over it by the time I was 5 or 6)
the French

lightning storms and other severe weather
the dark
Slugs (because of the Horror movie Slugs when I saw it when I was 8 at my late Aunt's house)
Bleedling to death from nose bleed (I'm on Blood thinner forver now because my stroke back in November 2004)