Movies That Were Probably Made By a Spasm of Six Year-Olds on Acid: The Top 75 Action Films Poll Results Thread

i saw so much fucked-up shit in the 70's on t.v. starsky & hutch alone...probably a lot of it went over my head. saw so many hookers get murdered by the time i was 10.

aged 8 that ET-in-a-ditch bit was the most shocking scene ever, still getting over that one. horrifying!

same here. I was watching old episodes of the night stalker on netflix recently and couldn't believe how gritty it was. one scene took place in a brothel.

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don't be afraid of the dark, though. jesus. that was on regular t.v. in the middle of the day when i first saw that. severe trauma.

Mr Veg still has his recorded-off-the-tv vhs cassette of Assault on Precinct 13. We watched it a few years ago and it is kind of awesome that the icecream truck scene happens and then *boop* commercial break. O_O

night stalker was a great find on KCPQ back in the days of yore.

"hi, lil' scott. see ya later when you're in bed..."

http://campblood.org/Newblog/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/dbaotd.jpg

Hill Street Blues was way grittier than any movie i'd seen and yet no one seemed to mind me watching it as a pre-teen kid just cause it was on TV. it's like *proper* gritty if you're 9.

http://www.kindertrauma.com/

a) Christopher Lloyd revealed his cartoony eyes in Who Framed Roger Rabbit This is terrifying.

b) If you are not crying by AT LEAST the time the older brother finds ET in the drainage ditch after he disappears on Halloween - This is the part I mean!! I am a goner from that point straight through to the end.

c) AP you should see it. It's wonderful.

Sick ET is the saddest. He's all pale and transparent and I bet if I thought hard enough about it or looked for pics online I would get misty-eyed.

Poltergeist and ET both had their origins in the unmade script for Night Skies

large marge hella freaked out my son a year or two ago, took a lot of coaching to get him to finish watching the movie

and yeah, Christopher Lloyd in Roger Rabbit was the scariest thing i'd ever seen as a kid

More disturbing for me in "Roger Rabbit" was

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwPkAUBr4Sc

http://www.kindertrauma.com/

a website started and run by my best friend, fyi.

The scariest thing I ever saw on TV was an episode of a Nightmare on Elm St TV SERIES that only I seem to remember. Anyway, a babysitter let me watch it and I freaked the fuck out. I made my parents let me fall asleep downstairs for months afterward because I was too scared to be alone in the dark in my own room. It was a bad scene.

This is why we were not allowed to watch tv. Or movies.

Or stay up late.

uncle lancifer of kindertrauma and i spent our childhood and young adulthood watching the scariest things we could find.

The biohazard suits and contamination chambers and all those big plastic tunnels everywhere in ET were v scary to me, I remember that much

ya that was so freaky

V-The Series scared the pants off me
That creepyass preacher in Poltergeist II definitely gave me nightmares

that fucking clown doll in poltergeist gah

Man, I love kindertrauma! One of like four horror sites in my RSS feed.

he does a great job with it! i'm very proud of him.

12 yo me was super pissed when I was barred entry to the evil dead... "no one under 17 will be admitted to this film"

V-The Series scared the pants off me

I remember my friend's older brother watching this and seeing them swallow whole mice and realizing very quickly that it was not the show for me.

can't believe a) how scary i thought this scene in V was as a kid and b) then how badly i PMSL at it 20 years on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VObQfWMgmIM

PeeMySeLf?

aye! well almost..

I remember being mad at my mom for not letting me watch The Excorcist with my friends at age 7 or 8. In retrospect, I think I should probably thank her.

x-post I AM SO NOT WATCHING THAT. I don't care how funny you say it is now.

What was the episode of Nightmare on Elm Street, ENBB? I seem to remember that show being quite violent and gory but ridiculous.
The only episode I remember was about a "fat, ugly" girl who got plastic surgery-shown graphically but stupidly-and I think later she ate some children she was babysitting or something?

In the V series, the most vivid thing I remember that scared me shitless was a little girl who gets a rash on her arm, and she starts scratching it and it gets all huge and pulsating and gross and one night she runs away into a cave and somehow ends up in this giant slime-cocoon thing and metamorphoses. and she emerges as a fully grown 20-something woman.

which might sound awesome to dudes but me as a 10 year old watching, it terrified me. I don't think I scratched a mosquito bite on my person for the next 5 years.

oh and the rat scene cracks me up now. but it was super scary at the time, for sure

The ghost librarian made me jump, but I wasn't scared. There's a long build up to it, and it's a sudden shock, but there's nothing else in Ghostbusters that's purposely designed to make you crap yourself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3ns6H5dHrU

I just read every episode of Freddie's Nightmares and I don't think it was one of those. What the hell was it then?! Oh this is bad. I'm not going to be able to until I figure out what it was.

As I remember it it was about two rival members of a HS Girls' Track team. I think they were running an event and once pushed the other off a cliff. The dead one then came back to haunt the live one and ended up killing her using the pointy person part of one of her trophies. I just remember it being really really bloody.

The story I've always heard, once from Dante himself, was that the original Columbus Gremlins script was totally vicious and violent, even more than the finished version, and that the studio had him tone things down. But Spielberg personally lobbied on behalf of Dante to have some of the more grisly bits reinstated! Between Poltergeist and Gremlins, Spielberg sure got away with some nasty stuff by proxy.

I read a comic book adaptation of Gremlins before seeing the movie and it's one of the more terrifying things I've ever read; the tone is completely different and there is nothing madcap or whimsical about any of the Gremlins at all. My big memory is the tonal difference of the scene where they mess with the stair-climber and launch the old woman out of her house between the two. In the comic book, it is legit terrifying whereas in the movie it plays out like slapstick farce.

xxp That bit's hilarious!

x-post to Dasher. btw your children eating babysitter ep seems to have been called "Missing Persons" A college student (Eva LaRue) with past weight problems goes back to her childhood house to babysit two children who love junk food.

I would pay $$$ for this Gremlins comic.

I read a comic book adaptation of Gremlins before seeing the movie and it's one of the more terrifying things I've ever read; the tone is completely different and there is nothing madcap or whimsical about any of the Gremlins at all. My big memory is the tonal difference of the scene where they mess with the stair-climber and launch the old woman out of her house between the two. In the comic book, it is legit terrifying whereas in the movie it plays out like slapstick farce.

― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Thursday, February 16, 2012 3:16 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I did this in the reverse order, but the comics still came across as dark and not cute or funny.

DJP, Did we see Gremlins together? I remember seeing this in the H theatre because bats occasionally flew in front of the projector.

I would pay $$$ for this Gremlins comic.

it might have been this: http://www.mycomicshop.com/search?mingr=0&TID=22153255

DJP, Did we see Gremlins together?

lol of course we did, come on now

was it this fella?

http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/6/64422/1921084-gremlins_large.jpg

i had the tie-in adaptation/novelisation thing but i so missed reading this as a kid.

thanks, ENBB!
The bloodiness does sound like Freddy's Nightmares...my knowledge of horror anthology shows of the time is not good so if it's not that I am not sure what else it could have been. I don't think Tales from the Darkside or Monsters (which I am not sure were even on at the same time) were that bloody? And it wasn't Friday the 13th the series, was it?
I am sure there were some other similar shows on at the time but I don't remember what they were...

a couple of my treasured childhood belongings

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/ALIEN_GN.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKSv85mJEmY

holy shit that's huge

xpost to DJP > I just wanted to make sure. I'm starting to misremember in my old age. Oh shit! We saw Robocop together in that theatre. jjjusten too. Robocop & Gremlins, man. GOD BLESS YOU DECREPIT BAT INFESTED THEATRE GOOD TIMES RIP