Are you creeped out by something benign..something like clowns? Teletubbies?

[Onaicul]

When I was little I had an irrational fear of straws. I couldn't drink out of a straw at all until I was like 8. Other than that nothing too major, needles aren't fun though.

Wait, I remember I used to be paranoid that I'd somehow get a cigarette but on the sidewalk into my shoe, I hate tobacco products.

 

[BOZ]

saw poltergiest last night... not as creepy when our 9 year old calls it boring and not in the least bit scary. of course, this is the same girl whose mother ruined her on Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street and such since she was little... i didn't think anything could scare her again, until we showed her The Thing that is...

 

[diaglo]

saw poltergiest last night... not as creepy when our 9 year old calls it boring and not in the least bit scary. of course, this is the same girl whose mother ruined her on Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street and such since she was little... i didn't think anything could scare her again, until we showed her The Thing that is...

Them
Al Hitchock's Birds

or the Blob.

you need the classics.

 

[Gunslinger]

I have a fear of heights, but I'm only really scared when there aren't railings (or whatever). I have no problem with things like flying, but I'm uneasy crossing a bridge (on foot) with no railings that may only be about 20 feet above the water. Also, there was one time when I rappelled into this cavern (which I was fine with), but I got freaked out when it came time to head back up, because the staircase was made completely of metal, and it was very tall and very rusty.


In addition, I seem to have some sort of fear of choking. I realized recently that I chew my food much more than is normal, and I have extreme trouble swallowing anything (no matter the size) which I haven't chewed, at least to some degree. Thus, I cannot take pills without first chewing a bit of food to swallow with the pill.

 

[BOZ]

Al Hitchock's Birds

in fact, we did just watch that with her last week. it was more like "bleh" than scary to her. i don't think she gets the whole idea of the "set-up to create mood" sort of scary - and without modern CGI effects that she's used to, the birds just looked fake. i think for her, and a lot of kids today, things need to go BAM BAM BAM right away to catch their attention - i mean, for pete's sake she thought poltergeist was boring!

 

[Tinker Gnome]

Diaglo had to mention the Blob!

Ever since I saw that movie I do not like to put my hand too near drains in sinks, for fear that I will be sucked in by a blob and eaten.

 

[Darth K'Trava]

Another eye-related thing that freaks me out:

Car lights that look too much like eyes. I was driving to work yesterday, in the very early morning through the rain, and there was a car in front of me that was staring at me. The light had three parts, divided so they looked similar to a sclera (the white part of an eye), an iris, and a pupil. The sclera part and the pupil were on, so it looked just like a eye. Man, eyeballs must be the most terrifying thing in the world.

Dude, that is just freaky. I hate those too.

 

[Carbonated Soda]

I hate crouds, people that stare at my bubbly goodness, don't much care for needles. Though i'm not very good with heights, I also actually use to be agoraphobic ( i think that's how you spell, it's a fear of going outside or wide spaces as far as i know ).

 

[Naathez]

I am mildly afraid of dogs.

I'm deathly scared of porcelain dolls. Deathly. To the point of having to ask to remove them from a room in a house I am visiting, or not being able to sit in the same room.

And I am scared to hell, beyond, and a tour of the lower planes to boot, of looking at myself in the mirror when there isn't much light. I'm not afraid that I'll see someone creeping on me... I'm scared that MY reflection will smile at me and cackle.

OK, you can laugh now... but it's true.

(I freak out for eyeballs too... but that's pretty common.)

 

[Halivar]

Diaglo had to mention the Blob!

At least he didn't mention "Stuff"! Not so much a horror for its suspense as it was a horror that Hollywood could actually produce such stuff (I pun! You see?) using (semi-)big name actors.