Cowering behind the sofa

[Bendy]

When you were little, who made you want to hide behind the sofa?

Evil Edna from Willo the Wisp, Zelda from Terrahawks (and the scary dice things), the Cybermen and the guitarist from The Sensational Alex Harvey Band did it for me.

Oh, and the scarecrow dude from The Moomins books.

[iCraig]

ET .

[Sparks!]

ET
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[Kris]

The daleks
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[Korn]

Critters
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The Gremlins were also equally as scary as ET
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[Steve H]

Davros - Still get shivers down my spine when I think of him.

The scene in Jaws where Richard Dreyfuss is attempting to get the sharks tooth out of the boats hull and the head falls through the hole made me spill my cola over my flares and drop my packet of Rainbow drops when I watched it at the Cinema (a very long time ago!).

I'm sure younger people think that 'hiding behind the sofa' is purely a euphemism for being scared of something on the TV - they don't realise that in the 70's we actually DID do it - erm or was it just me

SteveH
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Magicians cutting people in half. I never waited to see the bit where they came out whole at the end.
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[Bendy]

We had a nice green 70s swirly velour three seater to hide behind. I could often be found there during episodes of Doctor Who.

Thing is, our telly actually looked a bit like Evil Edna, so that was just doubling the fear factor.

I also had an irrational fear of this weird shaped mirror that was in the hall and used to run past it with my eyes shut. I think I had it down as a portal to an evil dimension or something...

[Danny]

That film where they turn the kids into mice, scared the crap out of me.

[karen_moomin]

My brother!

He was such a bully. Until I stabbed him with a BBQ fork in his arm anyway.

[Jo]

[Stew]

[JonB]

ooeeerrr,I still cower behind the sofa whenever England go to penalties in a football competition

E.T made me cry...it didn't scare me though?

The Magic Roundabout always seems to scare me, it is so surreal!
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[synaptyx]

Some git of a babysitter showed me American Werewolf in London whan I was 8. I still cannot watch that film even though I am a horror addict. Weird. More recently Mothman Prophesies creeped the hell out of me.

[McJamweasel]

That BBC Ghostwatch fake documentary thing. Nasty.

I keep meaning to buy it on DVD actually.
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[byke95]

I know it sounds really pompous but nothing ever made me scared as a kid, well, I mean things made me scared but I loved it!

That's when it came to movies/rides/jumping off stuff...I only shit myself and want to hide behind the sofa when I've got to do presentations at work!

[Wave2k]

The Incredable hulk, when he went green
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[zaknafien]

Zelda and the Critters did it for me.
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