Comments on: The Stuff of Sci-Fi Nightmares

By: joem

joem — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 07:46:20 +0000

I guess I’m a bit younger than most of y’all, but I caught Communion on TV once 19 or 20 years ago…… To this day, the ‘greys’ creep me out sooooooo much.

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gedblog » Blog Archive » The Eagle Has Landed — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:43:54 +0000

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By: Greg Maletic

Greg Maletic — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:11:15 +0000

Oh, yeah, Ged, I’d completely forgotten about the Twilight Zone. The “After Hours” episode was one of the scariest things I’d ever seen.

By: Ged

Ged — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:04:51 +0000

Oooh! The fembots! Yep, totally creepy along with the Death Probe that Steve had to battle that was pretty much unstoppable.

Don’t even get me going about the gremlin on the wing of the plane in Twilight zone either. Woulda scared me more if if came out when I was still a kid. Didn’t see it until I was a teenager some years later.

By: Greg Maletic

Greg Maletic — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:33:34 +0000

Agree with Dave above: the Fembot episodes of Six Million Dollar Man and Bionic Woman fame were terrifying to me at age 8. And there was a Bionic Woman episode with a Doomsday Machine that, while not terrifying exactly, gave me pause.

In the theaters, nothing was more terrifying than Close Encounters of the Third Kind. We lived out in the middle of the wilderness and every night I imagined aliens landing outside of our house.

By: twilight2000

twilight2000 — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:18:54 +0000

First ever aired ep of ST: TOS – The Man Trap – gave me heebie jeebies for *weeks* – ‘casue I was 6 and man, you didn’t know if your mom was your mom. Scared the CRAP out of me.

Funny – mom was all about getting back up on your horse – so made sure I watched the next week’s ep (whatever it was – My brain says “Devil in the Dark” – but as it’s listed as 3.9.67, my memory must be wrong ;>) – I became a fan for life. 40 years later I’m eagerly awaiting J.J. Abrahms take and hoping to hell he doesn’t screw it up ;>.

Thanks, mom ;>.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:54:46 +0000

The Bionic Man. There was an episode in which Lee Majors was battling an army of androids. They looked exactly like humans, except when their “faces” had been removed to reveal the mechanics inside.

That scared me so badly, I had nightmares for weeks.