What advert scared the hell out of you when you were young?

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CasualGlam87@reddit

This car crime prevention ad with the hyenas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Epe3i9GnZ3s

I was terrified of car parks as a child cause I thought they were full of hyenas who would try to attack me

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internati0nalvelvet@reddit

There is an advert for Specsavers, I’m not sure when it aired but it’s about a farmer who accidentally shaves his dog and it traumatised me as a kid for no apparent reason

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internati0nalvelvet@reddit

I remember being so scared of it that one day my mum had to tell me it had been banned, to calm me down… then it came on the next day 🫣

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DarthScabies@reddit (OP)

Oh shit. I checked looks like it was shown around 2012/3.

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internati0nalvelvet@reddit

I did think I was about 7 when I first saw it (I was born in 2006). Always wanted to know if I was the only person freaked out by it

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DarthScabies@reddit (OP)

I imagine there were a fair few. The guy in the ad definitely looked like an oddball.

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internati0nalvelvet@reddit

God yes I think it was him that made it so scary for me 😬 that, and the music they used in it

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DarthScabies@reddit (OP)

I always found it odd that it was in black and white.

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internati0nalvelvet@reddit

I wondered if it was something to do with dogs seeing in black and white, so maybe it’s from the dog’s perspective idk

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internati0nalvelvet@reddit

Ignore that, apparently dogs don’t see in black and white, I’ve been lied to my whole life 😅

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Stunning_Bluejay7212@reddit

Public safety advert about water, featuring Donald Pleasance. He had such a creepy voice.

https://youtu.be/xZWD2sDRESk?si=uE3tdXulDwmgvd2N

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Least-Conference9547@reddit

Scarier than a fair few horror films ive watched.

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Belle_TainSummer@reddit

There was a seriously creepy poster in the vet's office, I think it was for Rabies, just showing the shadow/ghost image of a dog and a cat with white eyes.

I hated that poster so much, I had nightmares about it.

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When I was a small kid in 70s London, they used to have some posters warning of driving without a seat belt that featured photographs of people with facial injuries after going through windscreens. I hated them. They were often on bus stops and so at eye level for my small self. I'd get my mum to warn me if she saw one and she'd shepherd me around so I didn't have to see it.
It's quite funny as I grew up to enjoy a bit of gore and I remember seeing Jaws with my dad when I was 7 and then going to London Dungeons (which was then more of a torture museum back then with gruesome tableaux of people being tortured or executed) and loving it. But the accident posters were around when I was about 4 so I was pretty sensitive to them then.

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Orange_fan1@reddit

Beware the Judderman my dear... https://youtu.be/z-VUlXl0wUQ?si=GcZLls-f_LAkpb99

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Cal_PCGW@reddit

Ah I liked that one, but I was an adult when it came out.

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DarthScabies@reddit (OP)

That always reminds me of Homer's Mr Plow advert in The Simpsons. 🤣

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IndividualCurious322@reddit

The cravendale cow adverts. They also had full billboard ones (which I archived!) that implied the cows caused deaths in pursuit of milk.

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cgknight1@reddit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_we-3Uqu5sw

Apaches.

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aezy01@reddit

That’s how to make a public awareness campaign. Never lived or worked on a farm, but I would definitely be super careful after having seen that.

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Any-Web-3347@reddit

Omg. I don’t think I saw that, and I should have in 1977. I would definitely have remembered the slurry pit one.

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CMR1891@reddit

The one where the guy didn’t wear his seatbelt in the back seat and when they crashed, he head butted the seat and killed his mum who was in front of him, driving the car.

Nobody gets in my car if they aren’t willing to wear a seatbelt because of that advert.

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Key-Original-225@reddit

The first gremlins film (specifically the scene where they hatch) Watching that aged 5 scared me, though I’d watch it repeatedly

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piskyfi@reddit

“You can be sure of Shell” ad. Family driving at night, all sorts of terrors and peril on the road. It made me terrified of night driving.

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Legitimate_War_397@reddit

Richard didn’t want to die

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Martipar@reddit

Edward Scissorhands. The film came out when i was 4 or 5 but i remember being terrified of the trailer, i have subsequently seen the film multiple times, it's superb.

I'm sure if I'd actually watched it I'd have been fine but as soon as Ed came on I'd be off.

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DarthScabies@reddit (OP)

They were really traumatic. Hopefully they worked.

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GeggingIn@reddit

Teddy Ruxspin. Always Teddy Ruxspin.

https://youtu.be/8xfSf38_TVw?si=uCgAm9R5zyo8wbVC

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Zealousideal-Habit82@reddit

AIDS don't die of ignorance.

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