What horror creatures creep you the Hell out?

[Karn Maeshalanadae]

Originally Posted by AnyaKimlin

The Kandy Man from 80s Dr Who - there is something about a giant animated sweet that wants to drown you in liquid candy. Only baddy that truly had me had hiding behind the sofa, and I still can't eat liquorice allsorts without a measure of trepidation.

Does that mean you never saw Ghostbusters 2 with the Staypuft Marshmallow Man?

[AnyaKimlin]

Yeah but he wasn't a sweet we generally had around the house. The Kandy Man was my Mum's favourite Nor was he commanded by Shiela Hancock with pink hair

[Karn Maeshalanadae]

I rather liked Staypuft, though.


He seemed to be a cross between the Pillsbury Dough boy, the Michelin man, and in Donald Duck's outfit.

[Daisy-Boo]

Originally Posted by pyan

Not a creature, specifically - but the "background creature" that the camera pans past, maybe in a mirror, or a dark corner, or just visible for a fraction of a second...

Those scare me witless. Any kind of haunting-type creature scares me actually.

I can deal with monsters (except for Stephen King monsters) easily but ghosty-types have me clutching the duvet over my head.

[Daisy-Boo]

Originally Posted by gully_foyle

Dolls that move off your bedroom chair when you blink.

When I was a child, I refused to sleep with my dolls facing me. I'd either pack them away in a cupboard or I'd turn them to face the wall. I couldn't sleep with the thought of those dead eyes on me all night. * shudder *

[HoopyFrood]

I've realised that 70s style lounges -- just lounges -- freak me out a little bit. Those porcelain dogs on the mantle, the blankets over the backs of the chairs...I think it's because it reminds me of the poltergeist story I wrote about. Or just because...70s lounges, man. Weird places.

[Riley Dawson]

It clown lol

[Karn Maeshalanadae]

Originally Posted by Riley Dawson

It clown lol

Yeah, everyone might say Pennyweather.


I think Stephen King scared an entire generation to the thought of clowns....

[geordie bob]

Iv'e always found children in horror very very scary especially the twins in the shining.

[j. d. worthington]

Originally Posted by geordie bob

Iv'e always found children in horror very very scary especially the twins in the shining.

Or Miles and Flora in The Turn of the Screw (though Quint and Jessel are even more so); or Niles and Holland in Thomas Tryon's The Other... or several of Bradbury's earlier stories....

[Quokka]

Trees


When I was really little there was a show on tv, might have been called nightmares but it was a twilight zone/stand alone episodes type of series, I can't remember if it was a kids show or something I shouldn't have been watching, I moved towns when I was 7 so I was younger than that at least.

One episode a mean farmer clears trees to make room for his flowers or something like that, its all very hazy but in the end he is turned into a tree. I remember the special effects as he changed and that the idea of eternity as a tree in a dark forrest was more scary than any vampires, monsters or aliens.

[HareBrain]

Originally Posted by HoopyFrood

I've realised that 70s style lounges -- just lounges -- freak me out a little bit.

Ugh, I hated when we came up against them in D&D. Who'd have thought beige dralon would be Armour Class -6?

For me, it's anything you can only see at the edge of your vision, and which disappears when you look straight at it. Especially in a wet wood at dusk. And which you think -- but can't be sure -- might be wearing a top hat.

[Karn Maeshalanadae]

Originally Posted by HareBrain

Ugh, I hated when we came up against them in D&D. Who'd have thought beige dralon would be Armour Class -6?

For me, it's anything you can only see at the edge of your vision, and which disappears when you look straight at it. Especially in a wet wood at dusk. And which you think -- but can't be sure -- might be wearing a top hat.

Actually, the top hat alone might be reason for freaking out.

[springs]

I have to say vampires, after the scene in Salem's lot "I'll see you sleep like the dead, teacher"; the written one, not the film though. Partially because I read it in the middle of a dark insomniac night, in halls at uni, and then realised I only ever saw the security guard at night; horror into reality, I've never really got past that... Therapy, anyone?

[Karn Maeshalanadae]

That guard wasn't a vampire, Springs....


He was the ghost of Mr. George Hobbler McSpoffington the XXXXVIIII of Kent and he was looking for his favorite false teeth.