Brain of Morbius. That is all I have to say.
What Monster Genuinely Gave You Nightmares?
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Originally Posted by juliancarswell:
“Two that gave me nightmares were The Night of the Demon and The Quatermass Experiment.
As you can guess from their age I am in my 50's.
They are of their time and kids would scoff at them now, but as a 9 year old they scared the bejesus out of me.
In NOTD it was the Demon itself and the chase through the woods, but in TQE it was the special effect on the faces of the victims. Comical now maybe but quite shocking at the time.
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“Two that gave me nightmares were The Night of the Demon and The Quatermass Experiment.
As you can guess from their age I am in my 50's.
They are of their time and kids would scoff at them now, but as a 9 year old they scared the bejesus out of me.
In NOTD it was the Demon itself and the chase through the woods, but in TQE it was the special effect on the faces of the victims. Comical now maybe but quite shocking at the time.
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Night of the Demon is still highly effective. I saw it the first time a few years ago. Someone had given the dvd to my father as a birthday present. They did that because he had mentioned having seen it in the cinema as a young man. Well, it turned out to have been an unwelcome gift. Dad was so freaked by it first time that he refused to watch it again and didn't even want it in the house. So he gave it to me (the unintentional irony of this will only be apparant to people that have seen it).
Very scary indeed. A corker.
Doctor Who nightmares for me- the Daleks. and the Krynoid. but mostly the giant spider on Sarah Jane's back. bloomin' horrible.
I had a dream where I had to choose between a room of Daleks or a room of Cybermen, turns out Daleks are far scarier but both are useless if they are pushed/fall over 
Originally Posted by tingramretro:
“None. They're not real.”
“None. They're not real.”
Oh, they're not? Gosh, there I was thinking Doctor Who was a documentary series.
I had a dreadful one a few weeks ago about a Weeping Angel-style monster, although in appearance it was more like a creepy girl with blank Weeping Angel eyes, and it would kill people by literally tearing them apart extremely quickly - so you'd blink and the person you were looking at would be in pieces I'm sure you never normally blink while in a dream, but I couldn't stop in this one 
I'm sure you never normally blink while in a dream, but I couldn't stop in this one
I never had any nightmares from any, but I was creeped out by the family in the audience in the McCoy era episode... Not sure of the name... Greatest Show On Earth? Or something... Also, the atmosphere in the early parts of Survival were, to me at least, exceptionally spooky!
Originally Posted by sebbie3000:
“I never had any nightmares from any, but I was creeped out by the family in the audience in the McCoy era episode... Not sure of the name... Greatest Show On Earth? Or something...”
“I never had any nightmares from any, but I was creeped out by the family in the audience in the McCoy era episode... Not sure of the name... Greatest Show On Earth? Or something...”
Greatest Show in the Galaxy. The family turned out to be the Gods of Ragnarok. The story was apparently a satire on the treatment of Dr Who by the BBC at the time - the family were supposed to be the top brass at the BBC.
I remember being scared of the long necked monsters in Death to the Daleks. I also had nightmares about Alpha Centauri... all sounds a bit Freudian, but I would have been about four at the time.
I think the Genesis of the Daleks freaked me out a bit too, at the time.
I think the Genesis of the Daleks freaked me out a bit too, at the time.
Ark in Space freaked me out too. And away from Doctor Who, Night of the Demon did the trick too. And The Haunting (black and white version). But the scariest TV was definitely Sapphire and Steel. Even the sound of Pack Up Your Troubles In Your Old Kit Bag sets the hairs on the back of my neck rising!
Mine was the creature in the pit!!! And the things that stepped through the portal in nightmare of Eden.
The Empty Child is the only one. I now have a huge fear of gasmasks and I haven't been able to rewatch the episode since it's original airing in 2005. 
Originally Posted by DavetheScot:
“Greatest Show in the Galaxy. The family turned out to be the Gods of Ragnarok. The story was apparently a satire on the treatment of Dr Who by the BBC at the time - the family were supposed to be the top brass at the BBC.”
“Greatest Show in the Galaxy. The family turned out to be the Gods of Ragnarok. The story was apparently a satire on the treatment of Dr Who by the BBC at the time - the family were supposed to be the top brass at the BBC.”
Thanks! Couldn't remember the name...
Originally Posted by Hot Dogg:
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The Yeti in Web of Fear. Had been up to London and went on the tube a few weeks before which made it even scarier...”
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The Yeti in Web of Fear. Had been up to London and went on the tube a few weeks before which made it even scarier...
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I went a few weeks after - not happy!
Got to be that Gas Mask child from The Empty Child. I was quite young at the time, and I was literally terrified, especially by the 'Are you my mummy?' lines!
Mind you, I'm older now and that gas mask would still freak me out!
Mind you, I'm older now and that gas mask would still freak me out!
Originally Posted by loreal_q:
“Got to be that Gas Mask child from The Empty Child. I was quite young at the time, and I was literally terrified, especially by the 'Are you my mummy?' lines!
Mind you, I'm older now and that gas mask would still freak me out!”
“Got to be that Gas Mask child from The Empty Child. I was quite young at the time, and I was literally terrified, especially by the 'Are you my mummy?' lines!
Mind you, I'm older now and that gas mask would still freak me out!”
The Weeping Angels still me the creeps-and I'm in my
30s!
When Hieronymous's mask is removed in the Masque of Madragora to reveal the swirling Helix Energy!
Give me nightmares for ages!
Give me nightmares for ages!
This is a weird one, but while no TV monster scared me, the Cybermen in Spare Parts merged into the imagery from the US remake of The Ring (the video tape stuff) to give me one horrific nightmare one night...
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