TV/Movie Moments That Imprinted On Your Mind

[EliSnow]

We're watching Wizard of Oz with our 2 year old, Maggie, and the sight of a tunnel leading to the Wizard reminded me of the Bigfoot episode of the Six Million Dollar Man, which, according to my memory, had a similar looking tunnel in it. Couldn't tell you much else about the ep, but I do remember that.

I also remember as a kid watching an ep of the Twilight Zone where a guy was dating a young woman with an older woman in her house. There was a scarab scene that really imprinted on my mind, such that I had a weird nightmare that night that I still remember.

What tv/movie moments were vividly imprinted on your young impressionable minds that still stick with you years later?

[mdr55]

The one where a Hand comes up from the Ground. I think it was Chiller Theater or something like that. It was always in the beginning.

[Stankfoot]

The one where a Hand comes up from the Ground. I think it was Chiller Theater or something like that. It was always in the beginning.

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[Foster]

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Oh My God!
That hand came out of the ground and it had six fingers!
Freaky!

[mdr55]

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That's it! When ever that came on t.v as a kid,. I had to look away. It seemed scarier on black and white though (that's the t.v. we had).

[Brad_Rush]

That's it! When ever that came on t.v as a kid,. I had to look away. It seemed scarier on black and white though (that's the t.v. we had).

That is the creepiest thing I've seen in a long while... who the hell would think of something like that!

[Coach]

We're watching Wizard of Oz with our 2 year old, Maggie, and the sight of a tunnel leading to the Wizard reminded me of the Bigfoot episode of the Six Million Dollar Man, which, according to my memory, had a similar looking tunnel in it. Couldn't tell you much else about the ep, but I do remember that.

I also remember as a kid watching an ep of the Twilight Zone where a guy was dating a young woman with an older woman in her house. There was a scarab scene that really imprinted on my mind, such that I had a weird nightmare that night that I still remember.

What tv/movie moments were vividly imprinted on your young impressionable minds that still stick with you years later?Yes it was and it spun. Bigfoot was bionic as well and protected a group of aliens I believe.
A few:
the show Starblazers..where they turn a old battleship into a spaceship with a big fraking gun called the Wave Motion Gun.
"we're off to outer space..we're leaving mother Earth..to save the human race."

A Sunday morning show from Channel 9 in Secaucus called Wonderama? Some old fart who seemed really thrilled to be there doing a game show like thing for kids with cartoons.

[razorboy]

Phantasm. The entire movie. How my parents didn't stop me from watching it to begin with, I'll never know. At my great-grandmother's wake, when I was five, I honestly sat on the curb outside of the funeral home for three hours crying while my dad tried to convince me to come inside. To this day I can't go into funeral homes.

[jonyrotn]

I was a huge Arthur Fonzarelli fan, so I think I'm gonna go with the episode when Fonzie locked the burglar in the closet by putting the chair under the doorknob, then fed him pizza that he slid under the door...

I dedcided then. If I ever caught a burglar, that's how I whould handle it..

[PapaBear]

Phantasm. The entire movie. How my parents didn't stop me from watching it to begin with, I'll never know. At my great-grandmother's wake, when I was five, I honestly sat on the curb outside of the funeral home for three hours crying while my dad tried to convince me to come inside. To this day I can't go into funeral homes.

I just stumbled upon that movie for the first time when I was all alone in the house and it was playing on Count Gore De Vol's Creature Feature (Bobo's long lost father). It scared the shit out of me.

I was a huge Arthur Fonzarelli fan, so I think I'm gonna go with the episode when Fonzie locked the burglar in the closet by putting the chair under the doorknob, then fed him pizza that he slid under the door...

I dedcided then. If I ever caught a burglar, that's how I whould handle it..

This is quite possibly the funniest thing I've seen/heard all day!:lol:

[razorboy]

I just stumbled upon that movie for the first time when I was all alone in the house and it was playing on Count Gore De Vol's Creature Feature (Bobo's long lost father). It scared the shit out of me.

I really wish i were kidding when I tell you how terrified I was to walk the hallways of my house as a kid after everyone was asleep, always sure that the tall man was behind me just around the last corner.

[PapaBear]

I really wish i were kidding when I tell you how terrified I was to walk the hallways of my house as a kid after everyone was asleep, always sure that the tall man was behind me just around the last corner.
I went to a funeral for a friend of mine in 1989. During the last part of the service, the Priest spoke to us in one of those mausoleum things (where they entomb people above ground. Not sure if that's what they're called). As sad as I was about my friend, I couldn't get the image of that damn steel bladed ball flying around the corner.

[fezident]

When my brother and I were very young, we were flipping though the channels and we stopped on what I suppose was HBO. It was a scene of a woman walking alone through her quiet house. She opened up a closet door where another person with a huge butcher knife was waiting and suddenly plunged it into the womans stomach. It went into her abdomen and came out her back.
The lady was quietly choking and stumbling around, hunched over, with the blade coming out her back. She died a moment later.

My brother and I were FRREEAAKING OUT. We were not expecting it to happen. We were scared beyond belief.


Adam was 10 and I was probably 8.
Every few years, we mention it. How scared we were. And how real it looked.


To this day, I have no idea what movie that was.

[Thebazile78]

Twilight Zone or Amazing Stories eps from the '80s:

(1) Episode in which a little girl would tell someone "goodbye" and then they would die; the last scene had her friend's scarf getting caught in the front door when she was on her way out ... "I can't help saying goodbye."

(2) There's this menagerie with parents behind glass and you could trade in the set you had.

Either an ABC "movie of the week" or a WonderWorks (on PBS) miniseries about a kid who was "made" in a factory and sealed in a can ... he's accidentally delivered to a lonely old lady and they have to escape from the factory owners or something.

Oh, and the lizard-baby twin that dies from the V miniseries made me cry, mostly because it made Robert Englund's character cry. And the lady who played the lead lizard-alien used to give me nightmares.

[patsopinion]

there was this show on sundance channel with mike myers and dipac chocra(sp) where the two talked about creativity and how everything is interlinked

and myers is talkin about a letter he got from the late george harrison
as a fan of both myers and harrison it is permamntly stuck there and i can replay the entire scene in my head word for word and have only seen it once

[PapaBear]

I just remembered one that REALLY hit me hard. When Charlie Rose interviewed Charles Manson, I was entranced by how incredibly insane he was. The moment that sticks out the most, is when he practically jumped across the table at Rose. Freaky.

[burrben]

the part with the tow-truck driver with the hook hand in Adventures in Babysitting.

[Tall_James]

1975's "Trilogy of Terror" TV Movie starring the always wonderful Karen Black.

The Zuni Hunting Fetish Doll that came to life and chased her around, trying to kill her still gives me chills when I think about it.

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[Marc with a c]

when deek admitted he couldn't read

[Jennitalia]

there was an episode on little house on the prairie (season 8) that was real dark for life on the prairie and creeped me out as a kid, and as i watched it this afternoon (just happened to be on), still creeps me out. the episode where sylvia gets raped by a clown. albert falls in love with her while the whole town thinks he knocked her up, (her own father calls her a whore) but she's really with clown child. ends up getting chased up a ladder for one more romp in the hey and the clown raper gets shot and killed. sylvia of course also dies. scariest clown ever.

[razorboy]

There was Australian or kiwi movie I saw when I was 8 or so called "The Navigator". It was about time travel and bubonic plague oddly enough. There was a really odd melancholy end scene amounting to the main character and his brother having contracted the plague and the time-travel having been a dream. I was really upset by this at the time and I began a very lenghty and extensive study of bubonic plague and medieval history in general. I watched it again a couple of years ago, and it is still an exeptionally wierd film.

[MrPink]

When I was kid I rented Dead Alive, and in the beginning some guy who got bit by a monkey had his arm cut off with a machete. First time I saw a dismemberment.

Also when I saw ET walking around outside the kid's house I couldn't sleep for days because I thought he was lurking around my place.

[ozzie]

I was probably around 9 or 10, and kept hearing grown-ups talking about this new, hillarious show called "Saturday Night Live". So I'm having a buddy spend the night, and he and I sneak down to the basement and turn on the TV on to watch the show.

Sometime around midnight this fucking commercial comes on, and it's a trailer for a new movie called "Magic"...

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When the fucking puppet says, "Magic is fun... we're dead" and rolls his eyes? Holy shit.

We just sat there for a long time in terrified silence, neither one of us wanting to admit how fucking scared we were, and went on watching the show. But when I went to cut out the lights, neither of us could get that fucking image out of our heads. We left the lights on the rest of the night, and I was literally afraid to shut my eyes because every time I did I saw that motherfucking puppet.

I fucking love the internetz, and being able to find this clip to prove that I didn't just dream this shit up... but I have never gotten this scene out of my head. I forgot all the lines that came before it... but the "Magic is fun... we're dead"... I've never forgotten.

[fezident]

I just remembered one that REALLY hit me hard. When Charlie Rose interviewed Charles Manson, I was entranced by how incredibly insane he was. The moment that sticks out the most, is when he practically jumped across the table at Rose. Freaky.

Oh man. I would love to see that interview.

[STC-Dub]

The one where a Hand comes up from the Ground. I think it was Chiller Theater or something like that. It was always in the beginning.

I think the movie I remember was actually on Chiller Theater. I do not remember much of the movie but there was a some sort of magical cannibal pot in a cave that would somehow make people disappear or something like that. I was real young so what happened in the movie is sketchy but I remember the pot very well 30+ year later.

[DiabloSammich]

Anybody remember an episode of MASH, where I think everybody was having dreams or nightmares, and all I remember is Hot Lips ending up in a field that was filled with dead or dying soldiers all wrapped up in blood red sheets. I couldn't have been more than 4 or 5 but that shit stuck with me.


edit: Holy shit, I found it on You Tube. Just Hot Lips part. The rest was cheesy. That blood red wedding dress was a little much for a four year old.

Bonus, I never knew the words to MASH's theme song.

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[Chigworthy]

Some scene in Beverly Hills Cop where a guy gets shot in the head.

The eraser plug things in Eraserhead.

The murderer as a child killing his mom in "Pieces"

The guy fucking the girl on "The Raft" in Creepshow, when the slime eats her during the act. I may have read that one before seeing the movie.

[Coach]

ohh ohhh! I got another one!..
I think I was in class in like 6th or 7th grade and the teacher thought it would be a good idea for social studies to watch a live press conference on tv. Two Words and a Letter:
R. Bud Dwyer.."no no no, this'll hurt someone...BLAM!" we were in church 5 minutes later.

[Stankfoot]

The Twilight Zone - "Little Girl Lost"

A couple can hear their daughter's desperate cries, yet she is
nowhere to be found - she's fallen through an invisible "hole" in her
wall, and is lost in the fourth dimension.

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[Mike Teacher]

ohh ohhh! I got another one!..
I think I was in class in like 6th or 7th grade and the teacher thought it would be a good idea for social studies to watch a live press conference on tv. Two Words and a Letter:
R. Bud Dwyer.."no no no, this'll hurt someone...BLAM!" we were in church 5 minutes later.

Thread looked like live TV wasnt part of it; I was wondering coz 9 of my top 10 would be stuff that happened on live TV.

[Chigworthy]

The L.A. riots were brutal to see. I've never seen the footage since it was live, but I remember seeing a Reginald Denny type scenario where they beat some poor bastard then gut shot him with a 12 guage.

[Coach]

Thread looked like live TV wasnt part of it; I was wondering coz 9 of my top 10 would be stuff that happened on live TV.The title IS TV/Movie Moments that Imprinted on Your Mind..so I don't see why not.

[Thebazile78]

Thread looked like live TV wasnt part of it; I was wondering coz 9 of my top 10 would be stuff that happened on live TV.

Like the Challenger explosion?

It's 22, going on 23 years later and I still can't watch that.

[El Mudo]

For me as a kid, the movie Glory was one of those things that brought history "alive" for me. I had been reading books and going to battlefields with my dad, but it was a whole other thing to actually SEE the things I had been reading about (albeit through a movie that stretched the truth a little bit)

There was just something that stuck with me about the chaos, the terror, almost the pageantry of civil war battle...the sight of all these young men WILLINGLY marching to their deaths that got me to delve deeper into history

[Thebazile78]

For me as a kid, the movie Glory was one of those things that brought history "alive" for me. I had been reading books and going to battlefields with my dad, but it was a whole other thing to actually SEE the things I had been reading about (albeit through a movie that stretched the truth a little bit)

There was just something that stuck with me about the chaos, the terror, almost the pageantry of civil war battle...the sight of all these young men WILLINGLY marching to their deaths that got me to delve deeper into history

Great movie to get started on ... interesting story despite the exaggerations. When I finally learned more about the regiment, I was really impressed.

I used to have a t-shirt with the slogan "Never let the facts get in the way of a good story" printed on it, underneath a cartoon-version of the "Justice" statue that's outside many courthouses. That's what movies tend to do.

[Gritty]

America's Got Talent - Busty Hart:

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Lock it up.


The country that is. We're done.


Over


Finished.


There's nothing left to see here.

[El Mudo]

Great movie to get started on ... interesting story despite the exaggerations. When I finally learned more about the regiment, I was really impressed.

I used to have a t-shirt with the slogan "Never let the facts get in the way of a good story" printed on it, underneath a cartoon-version of the "Justice" statue that's outside many courthouses. That's what movies tend to do.



They were a good outfit, the 54th Massachusetts, but their story is so "glamourous" that we sometimes lose sight of other contributions by other USCTs (if they ever do a movie on the battle of The Crater, and do it ACCURATELY there may be race riots). I call that the "20th Maine syndrome", where people think because theyve been told by the movies and hack historians that the 20th Maine somehow improbably saved America at Gettysburg (for one thing, we're not even really sure what happened there...the only account of the fight was written by a soldier who wasn't present at the fight, and Col. Chamberlain wrote his recollections almost 40 years later).

And i STILL think its clearly Broderick's best role. I can't think of anyone else who could have played that role as well as he did...i think he would make perfect George McClellan too if they ever make a movie where they need one

But thats really beside the point...it was a good chance to see all the things I had been reading about brought to life, and thats always fascinating

[Freakshow]

America's Got Talent - Busty Hart:
Lock it up.
The country that is. We're done.
Over
Finished.
There's nothing left to see here.

I think she did that on the man show like 5 or 6 years ago. And she did a better job, too.

[Furtherman]

the show Starblazers..where they turn a old battleship into a spaceship with a big fraking gun called the Wave Motion Gun.
"we're off to outer space..we're leaving mother Earth..to save the human race."

I bought the box set of Starblazers last year and sat mesmerized by it watching the whole series. I use to run home from school to catch it.

The guy fucking the girl on "The Raft" in Creepshow, when the slime eats her during the act.

OOOHHHH that one was horrible. Freaked me out.

Like the Challenger explosion?

Saw that live. That was a fun day at school.



Recently I re watched, for the first time since I was a kid, Disney's The Black Hole. I had forgotten how dark that movie was and how much it scarred the shit out me.

The music, the dead crew behind the robot masks, Maximilian! And the ending... that's what really got me, when the evil doctor and Maximilian meet in the black hole and they become one. Did the robot eat the doctor? He's inside the robot! How the? What the? These were the questions that freaked me out. And then he's standing on a mountian... IN HELL!! With thousands of lost souls and fire everywhere below. Scary stuff for a seven year old!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/Furtherman/maxinhell.jpg

The movie isn't perfect, but the specially effects hold up great. The spacecraft and surrounding space look a thousands times better than any modern day CGI.

http://www.wetcircuit.com/wp-content/myfotos/theblackhole/BlackHole00.jpg
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[EliSnow]

The guy fucking the girl on "The Raft" in Creepshow, when the slime eats her during the act. I may have read that one before seeing the movie.

I do have a memorable moment based on this movie, but not from the movie itself. I remember reading the graphic novel based on the movie (at a college book store) and I remember an image where the undead father twists his daughter's head off and uses the head for a birthday cake.

That image has really stuck with me.

[EliSnow]

Thread looked like live TV wasnt part of it; I was wondering coz 9 of my top 10 would be stuff that happened on live TV.

The title IS TV/Movie Moments that Imprinted on Your Mind..so I don't see why not.

Agreed.

[ANC]

I remember this awful movie, not sure what let up to it, but an 8 year old was running away from her mom after she got yelled at, the mom went after her to apologize, said "Who's that little girl in my eyes", the girl runs to the train tracks and gets hit by the train. Then there was an awful scene of the bloody girl on the operating table, the doctor is telling the parents she's dead and the mother is crying, screaming, and frantically throwing cash at the doctor and her daughter saying "I'll pay you, I'll pay you". It still creeps me out to this day. I never knew what movie it was or why I had watched it.. I must've been like 7 or 8 when I saw it.

[razorboy]

Like the Challenger explosion?

Living in Florida, I saw that standing on my front lawn. I could've seen it unassisted, but I was looking through binoculars even. I understood what had happened, but it was really hard to grasp for a five year old kid. It got really hard when my mom started crying.