Films that terrified you when you were a child...

[TracerBullet42]

Of course, it wouldn't really matter if you kept your TV on or off, since it'll turn itself on when it's time.

See...just READING that is enough to creep me out...some night I'll roll over onto my remote, turn the tv on, and wake up screaming...thank you very much.

Although I'd probably scream anyway, even if you hadn't said that. So, um...carry on.

And yes, I know I'm a pansy.

 

[TracerBullet42]

Oh, and I'd like to add that the Michael Jackson "Thriller" video scared me as a child too...

And Michael Jackson scares me now. Now HE'S frightening...

And yes, I just thought of that because South Park is on right now and the Zombie Jackson is featured in it...

 

[Bill Scott]

The Night Gallery pilot. There were 3 stories, I think, but the only other one I remember is where a rich, blind woman buys a man's eyes. Spielberg directed that one, I believe.

The only thing that rings a bell is an episode of Friday The 13th The Series. A student gets an old camera that lets him bring to life the Wolfman. Later he turns into a werewolf himself. They had to strangle him with the movie film (which was silver nitrate).

I have no doubt that you're right on the Night Gallery thing but the second and third items goes way back before the Friday the 13th series. I recall that I watched them between the mid 70s to early 80s. I think the show was called either Chillers or Thriller, if I'm not mistaken, which was in a similiar series to Night Gallery

 

[Haradim]

1, Roddy McDowel played a rich young adult who left his father's, or grandfather, window open and he died of exposure. The old man was buried across the way in the family cemetary. In the house, there was a painting which showed the front of the house and cemetary. Now every time the RM character looked at the painting, which he does several times, he sees the old guy climb out of the grave and walk closer and closer to the house.

One of the few shows I can recall offhand that freaked me out.

In fact, it still kinda creeps me out; the memory of it returns to me often...

The American version of The Ring (haven't watched the Japanese version...yet) gave me the chills as well. Weird events and creepy backstory slowly build up to what would have been the ending in a good number of movies...and then you realise the movie isn't over, and that this particular supernatural nasty isn't easy to get rid of...

I'm sure there are others, but I tend to get more chilled than really scared, so they may not have stuck as easily in my memory.

 

[MaxKaladin]

Of course, it wouldn't really matter if you kept your TV on or off, since it'll turn itself on when it's time.

It's a good thing I haven't seen (and don't intend to see) this movie. See, my TV has this feature that allows me to program it to turn itself on at a preset time. I use it along with my alarm clock to wake myself up in the morning but I can see how that could really creep someone out given what you're saying about this movie.

 

[Villano]

I think the one was about an ex-Nazi who gets lost in Buenos Aires or something and gets stalked by Jews. Or something like that. I remember it was definitely a Nazi in South America, not sure about the rest. I recall the segment ended with a watercolor picture or something of the Nazi's corpse strung up. I haven't seen that movie for a while...

Okay, this jogged my memory. It's about a Nazi (head of a concentration camp) hiding in South America, on the run from the Isrealis. Everyday he goes to a museum and stares at a painting of a man fishing on a placid lake and wishes he could be inside the painting.

When the Isrealis track him down, he ends up at the museum. He throws himself down in front of the picture and begs God to place him inside of it. Finally, he looks up and screams.

Museum guards are attracted by the screaming and run to the spot, only to find no one there. Then we discover that the museum has rearranged the displays. Where the fisherman picture once hung is now a painting of the Holocaust, with a jew crucified in the foreground. The camera zooms in on the picture we see that the jew is now the Nazi, screaming in agony for all eternity.