When I was about 8 years old (2016) I woke up early while my parents were still asleep and turned on the TV to see what to watch. Superjail was on and I cried due to so much gore being on the TV, even if it was cartoon gore. I was 8.

  • daannii@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I loved horror even as a kid (I’m a millennial and seems common in my gen).

    Since I never complained of nightmares my mom would let me watch pretty much any horror movie I wanted. As long as it didn’t have titties.

    Anywho.

    I remember watching something. Idk if it was a movie or TV show. Or anthology. (I’ve searched all over the internet and can’t find it).

    In the show there are some boys or kids. And there was this bully at school. Real asshole.

    And in one scene the boys are in the bathroom and the bully is being a bully and this big nasty monster creature comes out of the vent in the ceiling and kills the bully.

    This is slightly embarrassing to admit, because I’m a rational woman of science and I don’t believe in monster creatures. But.

    I would get anxiety every time I used a public toilet with a vent above the toilet. To the point I would not use that toilet.

    And if there was a ceiling vent and I was the only person in the restroom (even in the stall farthest from the vent), my heart would race and sometimes id leave until someone else came in.

    I was also unhappy about the fact that a stupid show did this to me.

    I tried to find the show , so that I could watch it with my adult mind and “get over it”, see how fake the monster looked, but I never found it.

    So I decided I was going to fix it myself. I first started forcing myself to use the stall next to the stall with the vent. And then to use the vent stall when others were around. And then use it when alone.

    Only took about 2 weeks to fully get over it. I worked in a big office at the time so lots of opportunities to test myself.

    But yeah. Isn’t that ridiculous that some cheap horror show made me scared of public restrooms with vents for over a decade. ?

    Never had bad effects from Stephen king movies or slashers. Just this one scene in something I can’t even find.

      • daannii@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 days ago

        I can’t remember details very well but yeah I think whoever the victim was , was pulled up into the vent. Maybe it was a teacher and not a bully.

        The monster was likely a man in a suit so probably humanoid.

        When I try to imagine it , I feel like it was dark brown and black. Maybe slimy or wet. But I can’t say for sure.

        I think I must have seen this movie when I was like 10-12 ish.

        So that would have been 1995-1997. Show could have came out around then or earlier.

        I assume some of my memory details aren’t quite right since Ive never been able to find it.

        Do you have a lead?

        I have spent numerous occasions searching. Even watching full reviews of every tales of the crypt episode, thinking it had to be one of those.

        The only other lead I have is this. I recall this other horror show or short anthology episode. And I thought maybe it was from the same show /anthology.

        I’m the scene was a weird kid who collected dead flies and made little diorama like scenes with them. Glued to wires or something. Or maybe it was cockroaches.

        And the kid was chubby. Dorky looking.

        I can’t remember anything else. But the dead insects being made into little scenes was disturbing.

        Idk that’s my only other possible clue.

          • daannii@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            1 day ago

            Omg. I think that’s it.

            Wow.

            All these years. … Monster is in the bathroom. Brownish. I guess they used toilet humor there to design it.

            I always assumed it was an adult show. But I forget how much horror was in kids shows in the late 80s and early 90s.

            I still can’t believe you knew what I was talking about.

            Wow.

            Also I guess the kid with the flies WAS from the same show.

            I was right about that.

            Also explains why I kept thinking it was an anthology. I guess cause it was.

            I’m actually surprised by how much I did get right and yet could not find it on the internet for nothing.

            • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
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              1 day ago

              Neat! I am glad to have helped connect some dots! Your description fired some neurons and I had to think back to a Halloween party in maybe 1993 or so.