Apart from the doctor who theme.
Remember being told about the nuclear bomb and when if it was dropped from an airplane that was the end of the world and every time a plane went over head i would run home thinking this is it.

Jaws, no not the guy off James Bond, but the frigging big Great White. I used to be petrified watching it, used to imagine seeing the fin raising through the carpet, i used to leg it to bed and hide under the blanket shitting meself

The Bamboo Kid was pretty scary. Donald Winpenny.

And my teeth go where the Wildgoose goes. The school dental service in Park Road

Dead fish. Floaters if you will.
Shittified me as a kid, and still do to this day

It's an official phobia, whose name is too long to type

frank the wank! chased off him a few times comming home from the bmx track on church st.

I would like to lodge an official protest re the above. I was only trying to keep law and order.
And it's Nobby Jack, not Donald Winpenny.

There was an old man who used to walk round Richies field with a purple tongued chow. Long white fur +purple tongue+deep growl=

Sounds like mouldy

Skinheads armed with hamburgers.

Same for me and maybe just maybe.. i'd be the first kid eaten by one swimming in Great Britain.

purple tongue and staffie you cheeky blither.

St Oswalds church at night from me Nanas back bedroom windows was a scary sight.I was convinced it was castle Dracula.

This used to scare the shiit out of me....



I was only about 5 to be fair but when I kipped over my nans I used to think they would come and get me while I was asleep.

That film they showed us all at school about the young lad who was a good footballer who took a short cut across the train tracks and he got his foot stuck and at the end you seen him in his bed looking at his boots on the back of the door. Mind you it done the trick i never went no where near train tracks

The theme tune and credits to Tales of the Unexpected.

Also, when they showed Threads at school

What them ladies dancing bollocko to Tales of the Unexpected ..

The opening credits to Tales Of The Unexpected for me too!

A trilogy of books yet TV only did the first two.

I foolishly watched the first Friday the 13th when I was 9 or 10 and had nightmares for weeks afterwards. I still don't go to bed without checking to see if anyone is underneath

Rooks due to been little and took past a field with hundreds in and because i was been a little tw@t (Hard to believe I know) the babysitter said if i dont creep past them they'd come and start pecking and eating us....... I still shite myself these's day when i remember it and see loads.... she has scared me for life...

Eyes and people stairing at me, still freaks me out to this day. Think it was something to do with the shining and the two little girls. That is and has been the only film I have ever been scared of.

Mampi used to be shit scared of war of the worlds and the music on it. He confronted his deamons this year by going to the stage version in the metro arena.

Aye, the flooded lavvie is always a creepy one.
They make my middle kid cry inexplicably???

Aside that, most Public Information films used to do the trick, be it frozen pipes, Fireworks ones, and especially the grizzly 'Clunk-Click' ones of the '70s. I remember billboard posters of people's shredded faces being particularly shittifying. Oh, and the hammer and peach one...

Worst ever thing for me was, back in the days of the Cold War, being shown the Raymond Briggs cartoon 'When the wind blows' by a rebel teacher at Martyrs. 32 kids left that class soiling themselves and writing their own suicide notes. This was meant to be an end-of-term treat! It's still very uneasy viewing, and is serialised on Youtube, for the very brave

Were the books any good? Was the tv series based very closely on them?

This thing always scared me too for some reason...

They always played fairly eerie music with it too

Genius, Mr TFC, one of the most incisive and modernist comments on the 'reds under the bed' situation.

So. You want to own a wasteland do you??

Apparently it's the Arabs now.............

The teacher concerned was 'relieved of his duties' shortly after word had got out.

Still scared the shite out of us.

Yer daft so-n-so. Nuns aren't scary. They're nice.

Any way, it ws the Cybermen on Dr Who who scared the short trousers off me.

the resident evil games ages ago for psx

dracula films the hammer house of horror ones,i used to go to bed and pull the covers up round my neck so i could'nt be bit,thing is i was 16 at the time

As I remember it the series was a pretty good representation of the books.
I thought the books were very fgood & I read the full trilogy,but I was only 11 years old at the time.
I went to the library today to see if I could et a copy for my daughter to read & they haven't got it

The Gary Oldman Dracula film is one of my all-time favourites.

Those old Hammer Horror films were the biz. And always used the same sets at the old Bray studios.

Me too,but I was around 10 when Hammer horrors were on telly a lot & used to kip at my Nanas on Lancaster road regularly
Christopher Lee is the all time greatest Dracula

I'd be more scared walking along Milbank Road at night. And Castle Dracula was probably cleaner than some of those houses.

I mean, Dracula never put his settee on the front garden ... did he?

can anyone from the manor remember the big old house that used to be in rossy way near the park we always used to run past there even during the daytime creepy as fook that place

I think I will check ebay for them.

Hartlepool library have ordered the first one today.
I take it you know the titles & author ?

There ya go Grave.
There are now 4 in the trilogy as theres been a prequel written
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/THE-TRIPODS-4-books-box-set-John-Christopher-exc-cond_W0QQitemZ280399353409QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Books_Fiction_GL?hash=item41491a9641&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

Cheers for that GC!!

A lot of his books are good, he writes under psyd.. er different names as well. I remember "The Lotus Caves", "The Guardians" & The Sword series (can't remember the full name) as being great as a teenager.

Shows you how scary this is it got de-classified to a pg:

I wonder if some of the village locals in that film said something along the lines of ,"we don't talk about such things round these ere parts," or " we don't like strangers round these ere parts," or "I wouldn't hang around these ere parts if I were you."
I could never figure out why anyone stayed in a little village where zombies came to eat you during the night.
You wouldn't see my arse for dust

Nor mine...but we don't mention such things around these ere parts...

Kenny Bottles what a freak he was and scared me shiitless.

[youtube]www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMNQ84nHFZo [/youtube]

This thing is on rte daily at 6pm before the news.
What the flip is it all about?
Sinister, i tell ye

here you go...




ps, thats pretty weird!

Cheers!

Yeah it's strange. Although I do often find myself stopping inexplicably at 6pm each night for a brief ponder...before carrying on where I left off

Wonder if any of our Irish contingent do it?
Imagine big Denis about to launch a free-kick, yet stopping to marvel at the wonders of creation...before blamming the oppposing keeper into the back of the net

Strange thing the Angelus...