Nightmare Fuel

Jim North · Post by **Jim North** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 9:38 pm

Nightmare Fuel is stuff that's supposed to be non-frightening, but for some strange reason comes out weirdly, insanely, mind-bending super-scary.

For example, behold the Hugga Wugga. Vort's involvment notwithstanding, many people have found this to be very weird and disturbing.

Though Nightmare Fuel is often subjective, it seems to be an almost universal occurrence . . . at one point or another in everyone's lives, they're going to run up against something that plants the seeds of unreasoning fear in the fertile soil of their imagination, whether it was meant to do so or not.

Personally, I remember this TV movie or show (tho' I can't remember the name) in which a bunch of toys in a kid's room came to life, but if someone caught them moving around they'd die a horrible squealing death that scared the bejeebus out of me. I was also one of those kids who ran and hid behind the couch when Bill Bixby turned into a giant green Lou Ferrigno in The Incredible Hulk. And I was surprised to find out recently that I wasn't the only person slightly unnerved by the Viacom "V of Doom".

So . . . what non-scary stuff scares the hell out of you?

Nanda · Post by **Nanda** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 10:13 pm

The Walrus and the Carpenter

They look like babies and they ate them! THEY LOOK LIKE BABIES AND THEY ATE THEM!

I can't stand it.... I couldn't even watch the whole thing.

Edit: I just remembered that the end of Tom Petty's Don't Come Around Here No More used to scare me, too. When she's a cake and they cut her up, specifically. I guess I have Alice in Wonderland issues.

Lei · Post by **Lei** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 10:41 pm

Alice in Wonderland in general gave me nightmares. ><

Also – the Wishbone episode of The Hound of the Baskervilles. Scared the ever-loving crap out of me. As did the Pink Elephants from Dumbo.

As for scary logos – THX. Nuff said.

I'm also terrified of lawnmowers, thanks to my mom telling me about people getting their toes chopped off by them when I was a kid to get my out of the way when she was cutting the grass.

Lunar · Post by **Lunar** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 10:42 pm

BUNYIP!

DJMayhem · Post by **DJMayhem** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 11:08 pm

Jim North. He stalks me on my deviantArt account...

Killbert-Robby · Post by **Killbert-Robby** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 11:32 pm

I have an irrational phobia of monkeys.

CJBurgandy · Post by **CJBurgandy** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 12:07 am

I saw that toy movie you're talking about Jim, but I don't remember what it was called either. We watched it as a special treat in my 3rd or 4th grade class one day (I think a field trip got canceled due to road conditions or maybe there was a bear on the playground or something?). It ended with half the class crying because one of the toys died and kids were afraid they might have killed one of their toys but they'll never know.

Thinking back on that now, it was funny.

John Lovitz scares me and I can't figure out why. I can only think that one of his movie roles had to have scared me as a kid.
And as most kids, I loved Sesame Street when I was learning to count, except for one puppet. Ernie gave me nightmares. I know you'd think Bert was the more scary looking one, but Ernie was the nightmare fuel for me. I outgrew my fear of him when I got the age when I relised puppets weren't real people, except the hands under their foamy skin.

Tellurider · Post by **Tellurider** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 12:22 am

This image haunts my mind.

Nanda · Post by **Nanda** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 12:26 am

cjburgandy wrote:John Lovitz scares me and I can't figure out why.

Heh... My best friend in HS used to tell me that when she was little, she was afraid of George Wendt, and whenever she pictured a "stranger," that's who she pictured. The intro to Cheers used to really freak her out, too, apparently.

KWill · Post by **KWill** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 1:35 am

Ghengis Khan scared the crap out of me the first time I played Civilization. And the villain named Bookend from Mixed-Up Fairy Tales scared me so badly I couldn't play.

MixedMyth · Post by **MixedMyth** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 2:10 am

Really the whole movie, but particularly the boat ride. Oh Gene Wilder...

THE ROWERS KEEP ON ROWING!

Garneta · Post by **Garneta** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 7:37 am

Ever since Jim showed me the 'Hugga Wugga' monster a few nights ago I've had it in my head.

The entire movie 'Raggedy Ann and Andy, A Musical Adventure' is freaky. Here's a clip from it. Bad quality, but eh...oh well.

Also the Gumby short 'Of Clay and Critters.' Man I wish I could find that to link it...it's really fucked up.

CaptainClaude · Post by **CaptainClaude** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 7:41 am

Tellurider wrote:This image haunts my mind.

mmmm, lasting effect

Doll · Post by **Doll** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 8:07 am

Chico the Rainmaker was a talking shrunken head that these two kids used to hide inside a football...

Magpye · Post by **Magpye** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 8:15 am

I attribute recurring nightmares I have about pyramids to the malign influence of <A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL45FvcexEU">Chocky</A>.

Even the book scared the bejesus out of me.

Jim North · Post by **Jim North** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 9:31 am

DJMayhem wrote:Jim North. He stalks me on my deviantArt account...

I also collect small bits of your hair when you're sleeping.

cjburgandy wrote:Thinking back on that now, it was funny.

Also, emotionally scarring.

Doll wrote:Chico the Rainmaker

holy shit

Cope · Post by **Cope** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 9:58 am

Garneta wrote:The entire movie 'Raggedy Ann and Andy, A Musical Adventure' is freaky. Here's a clip from it. Bad quality, but eh...oh well.

I couldn't look away.

Jim North wrote:
Doll wrote:Chico the Rainmaker
holy shit

AUGH THOSE WILD EYES

Lei · Post by **Lei** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 10:34 am

JANE FRIGGIN EYRE.

I saw some BBC movie of it as a kid and issues for years. I'd lie awake at night and think every creaking board was some crazy lady who was gonna set my house on fire.

DJMayhem · Post by **DJMayhem** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 10:59 am

ryclaude wrote:
Tellurider wrote:This image haunts my mind.
mmmm, lasting effect

Jim North wrote:
DJMayhem wrote:Jim North. He stalks me on my deviantArt account...
I also collect small bits of your hair when you're sleeping.

goddammit not again!

Sketchywallflowr · Post by **Sketchywallflowr** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 11:52 am

My dad used to let us watch scary movies when my mom wasn't home, and one weekend we watched "Creepshow". And I was fine with everything but the episode with Ted Danson and Leslie Neilson. When the two water people started walking through the house, and when they ta;led it sounded like they were drowning... creeped me out for god only knows how long.

I guess you could count that as actually scary, except nothing else in the movie bothered me, and still to this day I don't like them.

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