Unwashed Village
General Discussion => Unwashed Village => Topic started by: Doombot on March 03, 2009, 09:18:45 AM
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Since the early 80's, I had a memory of toy solders coming to life and killing people. I remember it freaking me out. For some reason, it just stuck with me but I could NEVER remember the show. People thought I was referencing that movie with the toy solders in the late 90's but that wasn't it.
Finally I found it and it doesn't seem that scary.
The Darkroom - The Seige of 31 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vis6WHsJfOc)
The intro is nice though. =)
Darkroom Intro (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKEviu7T2NI)
Now, if I can only find that book/movie about a meteorite landing on earth and turning people into plants (complete with roots for feet) my childhood fears will leaf me.
What's yours?
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I saw Jaws when I was too young and for several years I couldn't sleep with my feet sticking over my mattress because the carpet sharks were coming to get meh! :stunned:
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I saw Jaws when I was too young and for several years I couldn't sleep with my feet sticking over my mattress because the carpet sharks were coming to get meh! :stunned:
My aunt used to think she saw fins swimming around her bed.
Eh, I was scared of a lot of things, but one thing that still scares me to this day are Muppets. Not the regular Muppets; Mean Muppets. (I was like 3 or 4.) To this day, I'm still convinced that there was more going on than just simply "bad dreams". It all seemed so real that I'm reluctant to write it off.
These Mean Muppets would come into the house after my parents and I were asleep. And they'd walk around the house going "Mup...mup...mup...mup". There was a huge one who'd periodically go walking up and down the hallway past my bedroom door, and every so often they'd ride what sounded like a choo-choo train around the house. They wanted to eat me, so I stayed in my room and cried until I fell asleep and they went away...except for one time.
One night, for some reason, I felt compelled to get up and go out into the living room, and when I say compelled, I mean it was like my legs moved of their own accord! They completely ignored what I wanted them to do, and it took a profound act of will on my part to make them move with me again. Anyway, I made it out to the living room and I. SAW. THEM! They were silhouetted against the living rooms windows outside my house making their way to the front door. These were distinctly Muppet-shaped silhouettes. I somehow managed to force myself to run back to my room and shut the door and climb in bed, and soon I heard them unlock the door, come inside, and do their usual nightly routine.
They eventually quit coming as I got older, but to this day, I have no freakin' idea what that whole thing was about. The same phenomenon, night after night, for what seemed like forever?! I was awake when this was happening. I heard them doing these things and I even saw them, (kinda'). My best guess is that I was sleepwalking or having night terrors, but man, I hate to think about the spookier possibilities, like a creature or species of creatures that fed on children, and were given form by images from the children's subconscious minds. Nonsense, I know, but if such a creature existed, and only little children saw it, and they told you about it, would you believe them? ::shudder::
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There's an episode of Get Smart where a phone booth fills up with water and drowns someone who is trapped in it. I was terrified! Now it's ludicrous, but at the time all I could think about was that poor person trapped in a little glass box that was filling with water.
I think afterwards the operator says "The party you were speaking with has been drowned." to Agent Smart.
Terrifying!
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hmm, Jaws did indeed make me scared of water - but also seaweed. My grandfather used to find it funny to piggy back me out to a patch of seaweed and drop me there. *shivers* I am well aware there is no monster in the seaweed and no huge shark in the swimming pool...but I gotta admit if I think to much on these while in water, they still bother me. :D
Oh, and I used to not be able to close my eyes while have a shower cause I was always sure that blood would start coming out of the shower head, instead of water. Not sure, but I think this image came from a movie I saw as a kid.
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Leeches.... I hate leeches to this day. One has to rember I was a kid who grew up for most of my life in a swamp, and would wander around in it all the time. I found out that they were there after one day I was netting some minnows to use as bait (and turtles to play with.... OH boy the time I scared good ol' mom with a dozen or so cute little snapping turtles running free in the living room...released while she was napping of course...... Those are some fun memories!) and realized the funny black "squiggles" I were getting with the minnows were leeches. Lots and lots of leeches. squiggling, disgusting blood sucking parisitic leeches. *shudder* god I hate leeches.... Always was paranoid about staying in stagnant or murky water without some serious boots and tucked in pants after that.
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shudder* god I hate leeches.... Always was paranoid about staying in stagnant or murky water without some serious boots and tucked in pants after that.
Isn't it strange. You can outrace a train with your three friends and see a dead body but leeches Wil make you shiver.
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I used to think leeches were a curious thing, even when they were latched onto my belly. They were infesting a lake I used to swim in when I was about 10. Great big fat green-grey ones.
I used to have nightmares that ants were attacking me and crawling into my ears. The nightmares carried through to my waking hours when I got an ear infection and was convinced it was the ants. Apparently the whole ant fear started when I was watching an ant trail once and my mum warned me they'd bite me if I got too close just in time for one to divert from the trail and take a few steps toward me; I screamed and ran back to her, thinking it was chasing me.
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shudder* god I hate leeches.... Always was paranoid about staying in stagnant or murky water without some serious boots and tucked in pants after that.
Isn't it strange. You can outrace a train with your three friends and see a dead body but leeches Wil make you shiver.
Forgive me.... I know thats a reference to something..... but I cant quite rember it....A movie? :anxious:
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Now, if I can only find that book/movie about a meteorite landing on earth and turning people into plants (complete with roots for feet) my childhood fears will leaf me.
Well there's always Goblin 2, or The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weeds_(short_story)) from the first Creepshow.
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shudder* god I hate leeches.... Always was paranoid about staying in stagnant or murky water without some serious boots and tucked in pants after that.
Isn't it strange. You can outrace a train with your three friends and see a dead body but leeches Wil make you shiver.
Forgive me.... I know thats a reference to something..... but I cant quite rember it....A movie? :anxious:
Stand My Me with Wil Wheaton
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Now, if I can only find that book/movie about a meteorite landing on earth and turning people into plants (complete with roots for feet) my childhood fears will leaf me.
Are you thinking of Creepshow (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgXrxNEZ39s&feature=related)?
The story with a person turning into a plant starts about 1 minute in at the link.
NSFW language
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Now, if I can only find that book/movie about a meteorite landing on earth and turning people into plants (complete with roots for feet) my childhood fears will leaf me.
Are you thinking of Creepshow (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgXrxNEZ39s&feature=related)?
The story with a person turning into a plant starts about 1 minute in at the link.
NSFW language
While Creepshow is very similar... it's not that bit with Steven King.
More people were affected by the meteorite and I remember someone seeing their mother in the kitchen with leaves around her body. She may have been trying to get water from the sink.
I think even the military was involved and at the end a cure was discovered and the scientists were going to announce it over the radio and then more meteorites landed and the radio went dead. Maybe blinking lights in the sky were involved.
Not sure about the last part though.
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Hm,
Troll 2 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105643/) sounds similar. That has a kid's mom getting turned into a vegetable and eaten by goblins and a guy getting turned into a tree and later getting whacked in the crotch with a chainsaw (http://www.headinjurytheater.com/article88.htm). A masterpiece if ever there was one; it's a film that has NOTHING to do with the first Troll, and involves a convoluted story about vegetarian goblins that turn people into vegetables so they can eat them. The acting is atrocious, and the story is more atrocious still, atrocious enough to warrant a documentary about its atrociousness (http://www.bestworstmovie.com/downloads/teaser/). Nothing about meteorites, though.
The meteorites thing sounds a lot like the Lonesome Death... sequence of Creepshow or maybe Day of the Triffids.
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Now, if I can only find that book/movie about a meteorite landing on earth and turning people into plants (complete with roots for feet) my childhood fears will leaf me.
Are you thinking of Creepshow (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgXrxNEZ39s&feature=related)?
The story with a person turning into a plant starts about 1 minute in at the link.
NSFW language
While Creepshow is very similar... it's not that bit with Steven King.
More people were affected by the meteorite and I remember someone seeing their mother in the kitchen with leaves around her body. She may have been trying to get water from the sink.
I think even the military was involved and at the end a cure was discovered and the scientists were going to announce it over the radio and then more meteorites landed and the radio went dead. Maybe blinking lights in the sky were involved.
Not sure about the last part though.
Hrmph, didn't we already have this discussion once? :P http://www.unwashed.eu/forum/index.php?topic=1588.msg14923#msg14923 (there's a link in that post to a list of sci-fi plants, maybe that has your plant monster on it!
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Knowing what Doctor Who fan Doomsie is, she's probably thinking of the Krynoids from the episode The Seeds of Doom (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seeds_of_Doom). (heh)
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Now, if I can only find that book/movie about a meteorite landing on earth and turning people into plants (complete with roots for feet) my childhood fears will leaf me.
Are you thinking of Creepshow (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgXrxNEZ39s&feature=related)?
The story with a person turning into a plant starts about 1 minute in at the link.
NSFW language
While Creepshow is very similar... it's not that bit with Steven King.
More people were affected by the meteorite and I remember someone seeing their mother in the kitchen with leaves around her body. She may have been trying to get water from the sink.
I think even the military was involved and at the end a cure was discovered and the scientists were going to announce it over the radio and then more meteorites landed and the radio went dead. Maybe blinking lights in the sky were involved.
Not sure about the last part though.
Hrmph, didn't we already have this discussion once? :P http://www.unwashed.eu/forum/index.php?topic=1588.msg14923#msg14923 (there's a link in that post to a list of sci-fi plants, maybe that has your plant monster on it!
We did but it's still twigging me out since I haven't been able to root out the movie/show/book.
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Knowing what Doctor Who fan Doomsie is, she's probably thinking of the Krynoids from the episode The Seeds of Doom (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seeds_of_Doom). (heh)
Very nice try but the Doctor wasn't in it.
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We did but it's still twigging me out since I haven't been able to root out the movie/show/book.
Hrm, you think maybe you're merging memories of different movies/books together? From your description it sounds a bit like Day of the Triffids, as mentioned previously, but, aside from the plant aspect, it also sounds a bit like Invaders from Mars, and It Came From Outer Space, and... but I can't see to find anything that has the people being turned into plants...mindless zombies, food sources, pod peoples, but not plants! Hrm, you've stumped us, Doomsie! Here, have a toaster. ;)
You said this was a book? Novel, story book, short story, comic book? Maybe it was an episode of The Twilight Zone or The Outer Limits?