when I was about 5-6ish(?) my older-by-one-year cousin got this toy for Christmas called Monster Face. I'm not exactly sure what it really was, other than this giant head that you could do gross stuff to....kinda like a Mr. Potato Head for kids who like gross stuff. Anyway, I was fucking terrified of it. Like, wouldn't even be in the same room. I don't know, but it really fucked my shit up. My cousin told me that his mom used to have to tell him "Your cousin Billy is coming over....you better hide Monster Face."

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I saw the ending to the original Terminator at my aunt's house when I was like 4. That fucked me up for a few months.

Dinosaurs. As many other boys of that age, I was obsessed with the fuckers, but playing with my toys and looking at pictures in magazines wasn't very frightening. Then, Jurassic Park came out and for a year or so I'd have nightmares about T-rexes and velociraptors. Also those poisonous things that kill off Newman.

clowns.

that hasn't changed, actually.

The Basement

did you ever watch Bassie & Adriaan? they had a few episodes, or maybe movies with this character called "The Plaaggeest". that dude fucked me up for years. i think the last nightmare i ever had, which was about 8 years ago and was about him.

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I used to think Native American ghosts lived in my attic.

Damn straight. I was scared shitless of my parent's basement all my life. Even in my early 20's, I wouldn't go down there alone when it was dark (unless I was drunk, b/c I wasn't scared then). I swear there were ghosts and other sorts of paranormal trickery going on down there.

*shivers*

Unfinished Basements,

Especially if the stairs leading down are very long.

Scared Shitless.

1) Car washes


2) Thunderstorms, although I was also quite interested in them since I've always been a bit of a meteorology nut.

I was bassie & adriaans biggest fan (saw them in theatre once, yay) but nothing they showed ever really bothered me. those hamster cheeks and that colourful hat look really menacing tho


oh, WATERSHIP DOWN
up until a few weeks ago i thought it was an animated series instead of a movie. i remember watching it every week. now ive realised i watched the movie every week instead of a new episode. those years of nightmares make more sense now.

terrifying film

1. my parents fighting

2. the movie Psycho

3. church and church people

When i was 4 or 5 my grandmother gave me a pedal-car version of KITT from Knightrider. It talked and everything but i was so horrified by it they had to take the batteries out for me to even go near it.

For me, it was probably dark unfinished basements with the lights out.

I was 5 or 6 when I first saw Michael Jackson's Thriller video, 8 or 9 before I could sleep again...varsity letter jackets still sort of weird me out.

Real stuff (from scariest to least scary):
1. Tornados
2. Spiders
3. The monster under my bed. He was real to me as a kid.

Fictional stuff:
1. Clown from movie "It"
2. The dummy from the movie "Magic" w/ Anthony Hopkins
3. The movie "The Changeling"