What is the scariest UK advertisement you have seen?

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pusopdiro@reddit

This Fire Kills ones in the early 2000s scared me shitless. Had little five year old me checking every night to make sure there was nothing outside my door and the hall windows were open.

Are there still public information films at the moment? I haven't seen any in ages, but then I mostly watch streaming without ads.

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crucible@reddit

Think! still run campaigns but I haven’t seen any on TV recently.

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And a road safety ad, where the unrestrained child in the back seat morphed into a baby elephant. To show that in a crash a child being propelled forward effectively weighs as much as a baby elephant. IIRC the voice over was about the mother getting killed by her daughter.

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crucible@reddit

The voice over was from a different PIF.

This is the elephant one

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Ancient-Cow-1038@reddit

Short film, rather than an advert, but The Finishing Line is fucking mental. Made in the 1970s (of course) and basically sees a bunch of kids getting chopped up and generally smashed by trains.

https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-the-finishing-line-1977-online

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crucible@reddit

While portraying an imagined “sports day on the railway”, too

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UlsterManInScotland@reddit

This Northern Irish drink driving advert is brutal… it stays with you

https://youtu.be/Wv1rKHGeMRk?si=pPrNQLsmMsIWuY8W

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Vault-Dweller1987@reddit

If any Northern Irish advert stays with you it’s the classic Cats in the Cradle terrorist advert. People are always shocked that when I show them this and have to tell them that yes it was a very real advert on our TV during the evening.

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crucible@reddit

That was on Tarrant on TV in the early 2000s, IIRC.

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simmyawardwinner@reddit (OP)

thats a great advert i just watched it

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maccathesaint@reddit

I posted this in a reply elsewhere but this

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bishcraft1979@reddit

Fucking Jesus that hits hard! A whole classroom of squashed kids?!

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MrsD12345@reddit

All the NI speeding ads are brutal.

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GuiltyCredit@reddit

Jfc, first time in have seen that!!!

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ByteSizedGenius@reddit

I used to hate the bone crunching sound every time.

https://youtu.be/HeUX6LABCEA?si=kTplyhWjqBlh3JEP

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TeHNeutral@reddit

The Irish ones are well horrific.
I remember the one where the kid isn't wearing a seat belt and kills his mum too.

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maccathesaint@reddit

I'm Im Northern Ireland and most of our road safety ads are made in conjunction with the ROI for obvious reasons.

I did not know that they weren't on in the mainland UK and when my buddy from London saw one when he was here (specifically this one he was just "what the fuck is wrong with you guys"

These have been normal to me since I was a kid!

I think we're all pretty desensitised to stuff, especially in the North and again, for obvious reasons lol

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puca_spooka@reddit

I knew the one you were linking to was either going to be the car barrelling into a bunch of kids or the couple getting crushed into each other by a car ramming them into the wall they’re leaning against… those ads used to be played on TG4 right before the kids shows started!

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maccathesaint@reddit

Bloody hel! They're post watershed only here I think lol

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GoodReverendHonk@reddit

Didn't even need to click it and thought 'I'll bet it's the reverse girl crash one'.

I see your reverse girl crash, and raise you this (although I still think yours is worse).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWmbUMStlGI

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ploddingonward@reddit

Oh I forgot about that one, used to scare the shit out of me!

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MerlinAW1@reddit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kADUAXf7hOo this one also sticks in my mind aswell

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GuiltyCredit@reddit

And this one https://youtu.be/mKHY69AFstE?si=9g-kKfe7e0lxTxLk

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SchoolForSedition@reddit

I remember that one. Very well done.

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tilt@reddit

Fuck me these are brutal. Kinda love them though

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Kayanne1990@reddit

I've never seen that one before. I'm genuinely a bit upset.

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Even_Passenger_3685@reddit

Fuck, I’d forgotten this one. I was going to go with Julie Knew Her Killer, but this is brutal

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simmyawardwinner@reddit (OP)

oh jesus, this has won the most scary. they did a great job sending out an important message here

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ladycrankyportcullis@reddit

This was the first thing that came to my mind too

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quite_acceptable_man@reddit

Not scary, but the chap that played the barman deserved an Oscar for this. He died not so long ago sadly.

https://youtu.be/pwHoOJazEMQ?si=tgH5o2O6sIohGkGg

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bishcraft1979@reddit

He did a great bit of acting. Who was he?

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quite_acceptable_man@reddit

His name was Adrian Schiller. From what I can gather he was a highly-regarded character actor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Schiller

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Kayanne1990@reddit

I don't even have to click that to know which one it is.

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MidnightRambler87@reddit

Oh yes, gave me frights every time.

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GRDCS1980@reddit

Has anyone said Dark And Lonely Water yet? Because the answer will always be Dark And Lonely Water.

https://youtu.be/XNPMYRlvySY?si=aQB3lpWXtuppR5gI

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crucible@reddit

I should mention my fun fact regarding this.

About 13 seconds in. See the lad in the cream jumper?

The late Terry Sue-Patt, who later found fame as Benny Green in Grange Hill.

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Double_Field9835@reddit

Those Public Information films are on another level for terror. The Frisby/Jimmeeee one did it for me.

For a 'normal' ad, the Kinder Surprise Humpty ad disturbed me as a kid. Mainly around Humpty cracking his big sweaty skull as he falls backwards with glee.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7fNQt8_XEc

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kalashnikova00@reddit

My mum quotes this kinder ad all the time! lol

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coldestclock@reddit

I see British PSAs brought up on Reddit from time to time and it makes me think, do Americans not have PSAs created to scare the shit outta you?

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tabbeh12347@reddit

Sensible children?!!

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Maximum-Sky8563@reddit

100% I’ll be back ack ack ack

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bishcraft1979@reddit

I have been re-traumatised. Thank you very fucking much!!!

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Least-Conference9547@reddit

Cant agree more,put the shits up me as a kid!!!

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Rude-Possibility4682@reddit

There was a really funny Dave Allen take on this advert back in the 80s .

https://youtu.be/Zt0lYdY6H1s?si=tSXpELDIdRK5jygN

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MrPilgrim@reddit

This! Although the Rolf Harris learn to swim one now seems disturbing...

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Organic_Mechanic_702@reddit

Damn just said the same thing!!!....It never leaves you does it!

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Soggy_Amoeba9334@reddit

Metz Judderman

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BollockOff@reddit

I loved that ad as it gave me Tim Burton vibes.

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SkullCowgirl@reddit

I had nightmares about the Judderman until I was 21.

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majestic_spiral@reddit

Beware the Judderman my friend…

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DondeT@reddit

I think of this every time the moon is fat.

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ellasfella68@reddit

“My dear…”

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barbieshell75@reddit

Yup that was scary, totally creeped me out 🤣😜

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takhana@reddit

This absolutely terrified me as a kid.

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SomeWomanFromEngland@reddit

I was an adult when that advert came out and I still thought the Judderman puppet was horrible to look at. It would have scared the crap out of me as a kid.

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Bright-Ad9305@reddit

Didn’t they also have one with a guy in a red balaclava who talked about friends he had that don’t know him anymore?

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ThePicardIsAngry@reddit

Came here to say this and it was the first comment I saw 🤣

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londonwithlittles@reddit

Same.

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Hippadoppaloppa@reddit

Metz was my tipple, I miss it.

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ljofa@reddit

Loved Metz. That slightly chalky taste was amazing.

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Astro_Bot_Dad@reddit

Years ago phones 4 u or carephone warehouse did a creepy horror girl thing t kept flashing up and scared the fuck out of me. Basically for 1 second every other ad until the end it would advertise them but spaced over an ad break

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Acceptable-Trash8861@reddit

That was Phones4u. I briefly worked in the complaints department there and the amount of complaints we got was horrific.

Although one funny one was a mother complaining that her daughter was being bullied at school because she looked like ‘Scary Mary’ from the ad.

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Astro_Bot_Dad@reddit

Really lmao 🤣 it honestly freaked me out in car park and she kept flashing forward i think it went on all night till much later it was like ihh yeah just phones4u

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josh5676543@reddit

The old public information films.

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josh5676543@reddit

The old public information films.

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NeilJonesOnline@reddit

I'm also convinced that when Megabus started, this guy used to be peeking through a blind just to make him look even more creepy

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SharklessFinn@reddit

When I was a kid, that overly energetic window salesman on TV used to scare the hell out of me. I can't remember the company name but he just kept yelling "you buy one, you get one free. You heard me? YOU BUY ONE, YOU GET ONE FREE."

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NeilJonesOnline@reddit

Ah yes, Safestyle windows, like having a dangerous psychopath and/or Alexei Sayle shouting in your face.

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NeilJonesOnline@reddit

The 'Apaches' series of public safety ads from the 1970s. Basically a group of kids being horrifically killed off one by one by avoidable accidents, e.g. drowning in a slurry pit, accidentally drinking agricultural chemicals.

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Boldboy72@reddit

"Daddy or chips"

She had to think about it... IT'S ALWAYS CHIPS! stupid girl.

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IndividualCurious322@reddit

Cravendale cows.

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Violent-Moth@reddit

So good, the cows want it back!

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IndividualCurious322@reddit

*Moooooo*

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landscape0@reddit

Not a TV ad, but a YouTube ad - https://youtu.be/KOJ4ltb0p_0

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hochiho923@reddit

looks like she's eating some internal organs

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mopeyunicyle@reddit

Honestly either the puppy as a toy with the river toss or the give us a pound or we put him down then they just point a revolver at the dog

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Relaxed_ButtonTrader@reddit

There’s a book series and podcast (and facecloth group) called Scarred For Life that delves into this whole dark side of 70s telly.

https://linktr.ee/scarredforlife

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ans-myonul@reddit

This one for Oasis. It traumatised 11-year-old me and my dad said it shouldn't be allowed on TV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfZs7zSkTWM

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DonkeyBronchiole@reddit

I really remember this one! It seemed to be on quite a lot at the time! Unnecessarily freaky

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SomeWomanFromEngland@reddit

That seems unnecessarily scary for a soft drink ad.

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ans-myonul@reddit

Definitely. I wondered if it ever got banned but I can't really seem to find much info about it, it seems like quite an obscure advert

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internati0nalvelvet@reddit

I commented on a post exactly like this earlier today but I will take the chance to say again that I was and still am terrified of the Specsavers sheepdog advert, no particular reason, just traumatised me as a kid, hoping I’m not the only one lol

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dinkidoo7693@reddit

There were an safety advert about not going near pylons. Think some kids were playing football or something.

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eltictac@reddit

I really like the film Possum, which took some inspiration in the way it looks from old public information films.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possum_(film)

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simmyawardwinner@reddit (OP)

this looks horrifying

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eltictac@reddit

I really enjoyed it. Bit different to anything I've seen before. Directed by the guy who plays Garth Marenghi. If you've ever seen Garth Marenghi's Dark Place.

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GoodReverendHonk@reddit

I think it was a frisbee, maybe early 80s or something. One kid goes in, grabs it, then the girl screams. That one?

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Deep-Engineering-533@reddit

Yeah https://youtu.be/KryOYburlFI?si=-t5tS_RBNgTgkjOd

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crucible@reddit

That was the one I remember from school.

This is the one OP means:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-qRbUrz4nw

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badmother@reddit

In that genre, the kid running along the beach... The action stops just as his foot is about to land on a broken bottle. Something about disposing of litter considerately. Cringed every single time

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crucible@reddit

This one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-qRbUrz4nw

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Ill-Door-8854@reddit

https://youtu.be/dGngGiVQfqU?si=W7w_B97olz56Q0fr

I found this one

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allthingskerri@reddit

A road safety speed one. But with a little boy is run over and his body is bent out of shape. The man sees him everywhere -He's under a desk at work seen on his route home a walk in the park ect. used to haunt my memories for ages.

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melp0mene@reddit

there was one for strepsils that had a teacher and a really creepy version of oranges and lemons. This is going back to the late 90s. I was only a kid but it freaked me out so much that I’ve never forgotten it.

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SkullCowgirl@reddit

Oh my god! I thought I was the only one terrified by that.

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GabberZZ@reddit

The AIDS iceberg advert.

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SchoolForSedition@reddit

Very much criticised at the time as not really being obvious to everyone what it was about.

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RRC_driver@reddit

Yeah, just as I was hitting puberty, having the idea that getting laid was Russian roulette

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harrythebau5@reddit

This

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azurezero_hdev@reddit

the one with the hook in the cheek about how addictive smoking is

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django_undead@reddit

The world's first natural born smoker worlds first natural born smoker

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herrsteely@reddit

Watch out, theres a humphrey about

It put me off milk in case it attracted a humphrey

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Hollyandhavisham@reddit

There was one several years ago of a car giving birth to another car. Scarred me for life.

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bfsfan101@reddit

When I was a kid, the “now you see him, now you don’t” ad really creeped me out.

The banned Rabies ad from the 80s is genuinely horrific.

There was a child abuse ad starring Johnny Harris as a Dad beating up his cartoon son that is disturbing.

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HeavenDraven@reddit

Is the rabies one the one with the kitten in the bag?

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simmyawardwinner@reddit (OP)

i think so... its so effing creepy i watched it on youtube earlier after someone had linked ..

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TheCammack81@reddit

IIRC that Rabies PIF had footage of a real person dying of the disease. I haven’t seen it in years and I’ve no intention of doing so now.

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IvyKingslayer@reddit

There was a car safety one, about how she knew the person who killed her and you think it’s the car they crash into but no it’s her son in the backseat who wasn’t wearing a seatbelt.

I mean I guess it worked? Because I’m in my early thirties and I put my seatbelt on as soon as I get into the car.

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DescriptionFuture851@reddit

Drunk driving.

Some lad killed a little girl and the memory haunts him.

He walked into an empty car park late at night and was ready to go home, he put his seatbelt on and looked to his right.

The dead girl was stood there, lifeless, staring into his soul.

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Laurence-UK@reddit

Belly's gonna get ya...

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greetp@reddit

Mostly filmed in Romford town centre. Makes my blood run cold.

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Great-Category-1197@reddit

The road safety one in the 90s where the kid is crossing the road and the car comes up from the tarmac like the terminator

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hawkdeath@reddit

I have a vivid memory of what I think was a fire safety ad in the 80s where a toy in a doll house played with a match and ended up burning herself.

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Jarvisnamesake@reddit

This Seatbelt awareness ad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw2aevh6oZ8 .

So gory for daytime advertising!

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Master-Necessary7560@reddit

THINK was really effective. There was another with a pizza and this one in a bar

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Jarvisnamesake@reddit

Omg yes! Memory unlocked. Off to search more think add

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Dechibrator@reddit

Only saw it once on French news, saying it was really effective. Still remember it

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DavidJonnsJewellery@reddit

Cravendale biscuit boy. Man, this was creepy

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newnortherner21@reddit

The BBC trailer for Mrs Brown's Boys. Reminds you that the foul mouthed disgrace is still being shown.

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Kayanne1990@reddit

That's an odd thing to pin point about that show.

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Timely_Egg_6827@reddit

The dog climbing out of someone's throat - it actually got banned. The Wrigley's Xcite 'dog breath'.

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Kayanne1990@reddit

I only saw the censored version of that add. Had no idea it actually climbed out of this mouth until someone else posted it.

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DMBear89@reddit

Defo this

https://youtu.be/iroty5zwOVw?si=CACHD6NmGuk5c18i

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greetp@reddit

Narrated by John Hurt?

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rice_fish_and_eggs@reddit

https://youtu.be/J5IJLIX2wmU?si=vyjb-iqkEBCMHrjt

Belly did in fact get me.

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Kayanne1990@reddit

Why did you remind me this existed.

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FromYoTown@reddit

I was looking for this

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RianJohnsonIsAFool@reddit

It's the fact that it is so big yet moves so quickly.

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Dutch_Slim@reddit

Julie knew her killer.

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Cyborg_Ninja_Cat@reddit

That's one of the most disturbing out of the set, but nothing quite beats If you hit me at 40. It's not so much that the subject is more shocking, there's just something about the sound effects.

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Independent-Bed-4644@reddit

Jimmy Saville clunk click with every trip.

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Jamericho@reddit

Has to be this drink driving awareness one from 1992… it used to air pre watershed and I was a toddler! I still remember it.

It’s the shift from “in the summertime” to death. Like fairly graphic death.

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HyperDogOwner458@reddit

this

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WiggyDiggyPoo@reddit

Irish Speeding Advert

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GoodReverendHonk@reddit

Well, you've got the Playstation 3 baby, of course.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqkNPcUMffU

And also the weird Playstation girl, which is more unsettling than scary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWmbUMStlGI

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10b0b@reddit

The PS2 Third Place ones were great with added David Lynch

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CyGuy6587@reddit

I'd say the Xbox "Life is Short" advert is even worse: https://youtu.be/ELPRVu0GxYo?si=lshcygATeOOpXDAr

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FromYoTown@reddit

Bloody speed runners spoil everything!

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GoodReverendHonk@reddit

Oh cripes, I remember that. A bit odd how none of the adverts bothered showing the product.

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fluentindothraki@reddit

I rather like that one

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Kayanne1990@reddit

There's an add that's been living in my brain for close to 30 years and I've never been able to find it again. It was about road safety. This boy, around 10 or so was playing on his gameboy or something like that. You get a shot of him walking and then a shot of a car zooming along a motor way. But the car was depicted as is it was part of the road. Like those Tom and Jerry cartoons where Jerry is crawling under a rug. Like the car was UNDER the road. There are a few back and forth shots of the boy and the car, then a close up on the boys terrified face, then a Birdseye view of the boy laying face down on the road. I have looked everywhere for this add and I can't find it for the life of me.

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FizziiPopX@reddit

these ads about road safety from the 00s - I'm a little on the spooky side and always have been so I thought they looked visually fascinating, but they were genuinely creepy.

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Bloxskit@reddit

I've seen plenty of the PSAs but yeah actual product advertisement? Yeah the one about bad breath with a dog coming out of some guy's mouth, NO.

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WhereTheMoonSets@reddit

YouTube "70s kinder egg advert." As hilarious as it is terrifying. I still reference it to this day. Confuse the frack out of everyone when I day "me scrooble now." And "weeee" away. Trust me, its worth the watch.

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Zippyversion1@reddit

"There's no such thing as wardrobe monsters! It's the burglars that break in through the window you want to be worried about!"

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springsomnia@reddit

One of the earliest adverts raising awareness of child grooming on the internet where the child turns into an adult behind the screen. I can’t remember what the campaign was called but it still sticks in my brain, and is why I hate the Haribo adverts where the grown adults have kid voices!

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PersonalitySafe1810@reddit

Growing up in Belfast we had adds like these...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3i_p1mupPio

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TheCammack81@reddit

Bloody hell mate that’s horrible. I’m sorry that Northern Ireland had to deal with that.

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PersonalitySafe1810@reddit

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=krbLWskgQ_U

Billy Mitchell males an appearance in one 😆

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PersonalitySafe1810@reddit

Tough times, but ye just had to get on with it .

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lemonypinkett@reddit

Ooh on the tube there was a ad on the wall of the tracks that said "Come a little closer" and it was advertising funeral services I think

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simmyawardwinner@reddit (OP)

oh my. god!!!!

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Ancient-Cow-1038@reddit

I worked for the railways for ten years.

One of the adverts that was pitched was a guy getting electrocuted by overhead power lines, and the idea was to distribute it with a scratch-n-sniff card with the smells of various burning flesh, hair, clothes etc.

I swear I am not making this up.

The Chief Executive of Network Rail at the time took one look at the pitch and basically fired the ad agency.

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simmyawardwinner@reddit (OP)

jeeeesus

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fluentindothraki@reddit

Not an advert but

30 second drama:

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Euronymous316@reddit

Pepperami ads are pretty memorable to me as a kid. They had some suicidal sausage in each ad. Lots of variations eg this one

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lumpyspacequeen2@reddit

Similarly to the ventriloquist dummy, there was an NSPCC advert of a little girl at school or at the park... with a stern man lurking around her as the ventriloquist. Whenever someone spoke to her, the man's voice would come out of her mouth. A very brutal look at how grooming and abuse can be so insidious.

That one and the "real children don't bounce back" shit me up as a kid. Honestly NSPCC adverts were brutal (and rightfully so in the 2000s.

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simmyawardwinner@reddit (OP)

omg i cant believe you knew about this one - it was terrifying. probably also because it hit home..

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BrilloBruno95@reddit

All the adverts irritate me very much. Probably the Sun Life insurance adverts with violent women throwing their sons to the ground and older men completely naked sitting in a chair.

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HaveABakeBreak@reddit

The Beavertown Halloween advert:

https://youtu.be/4x7EzB_TIKo?si=qEVcnNbtFEIRuO8s

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onceandfuturecpuk@reddit

There are already 86 comments here and any of them that do not say “Judderman” are wrong.

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Individual-Storm-557@reddit

The child picking up a discarded sparkler that was shown the first week of November for a few years running

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C2112M@reddit

Surprised nobody has said this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqGsT6VM8Vg

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whiskydr3ams@reddit

There was an advert about gang violence and bringing guns . I think it was a family at the dinner table and one of them shoots the other in the head or something. That messed me up for a while.

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atsevoN@reddit

K-Fee Advert from the 2000s

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TheNathanNS@reddit

To add on for those who see this and may not know what K-Fee is, it's a German coffee company who had an entire ad campaign centred around jumpscares, which apparently aired across Germany, UK and Ireland, where the ad would be a relaxing, calm scene then a zombie or gargoyle would jump and scream, before the tag line of "Ever been so wide awake?? K-fee"

It's a very popular screamer prank, often called "Ghost Car" where there was a car driving down a green countryside, when the zombie pops up and screams. The jumpscare itself was reused in a lot of internet screamer pranks around the mid to late 2000s too.

If that wasn't bad enough, they also had RADIO ads, which masqueraded as investment services and santa talking about Christmas before a deafening scream plays out of nowhere.

The ads ended up being banned because of shocking content, but it's still talked about today and even for it's time it appeared on Tarrant on TV.

Entire fan-wiki article on it: https://screamer.wiki/K-fee_commercials

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Greengrass7772@reddit

Smash, this was in the 70s, I used to shout at mother to turn the telly over, “not the tin men, turn off the tin men”.

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hayley-pilates78@reddit

There was one on the 80’s about house fires and a little girl sitting on her bed and tank rolled up and set her bedroom door on fire. I still remember the music.. traumatized!

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BoysenberrySevere224@reddit

The gambling adds should be banned IMO. Those companies are profiting off of addiction and suffering.

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inspectorgadget9999@reddit

Any radio advert with a police siren or horn

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MiddleElevator96@reddit

Ghosts in the Phone4U ads.

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redditshieldsnonces@reddit

Any northern Irish driving safety ads, straight to the point and hard to watch. Doesn't stop everyone on this island driving like they're just out of the pub mind you

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MiddleElevator96@reddit

Cos they are.

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Riqitch@reddit

The old NHS FAST stroke advert used to have me shitting bricks

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BaseballFuryThurman@reddit

spooky season

I have not missed that term at all

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Professor_plunge@reddit

Sugar puffs ad around 1988. The one where kids brushing his teeth and changes into honey monster. I ran out the room and hid behind the door.

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4materasu92@reddit

The advert where the car loses control crashes into some bushes and ploughs into a bunch of children having a picnic or playing in the park.

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OnlymyOP@reddit

The Charlie Says public information ads .. They still creep me out.

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NecroVelcro@reddit

I don't remember it and have no idea of the make or model but a car advert apparently used to terrify me as a child. It would have been in the late '70s or early '80s.

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geese_moe_howard@reddit

That Kinder Egg motherfucker.

"Kinderrr...Chocadooby!"

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Efficient_Bedroom_64@reddit

Mr Soft, I think it was Trebor. I’d have been four or five and the telly had to be turned over whenever it came on

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Dutch_Slim@reddit

My mate looked just like him growing up 🤣

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GabberZZ@reddit

But... He was so soft.

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Efficient_Bedroom_64@reddit

He has that going for him. I think the scariest bit was the post box chewing a mint.

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DarthScabies@reddit

Ahem.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskUK/s/KBxZAnawLm

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FinnemoreFan@reddit

A public safety film about being careful around open fires. A little girl was in a long floaty nightdress, and was delighted her mum had made an identical nightdress for her doll from the same material.

Yes, the doll went up in flames. My childhood memory is that the camera lingered on the burning doll while the child screamed.

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LaughingGravy1001@reddit

Not technically an advert, but these crimestoppers reconstructions used to make me shit myself

https://youtu.be/ta49SKAKeFE?si=WSjxdIgfvALO_nJH

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Organic_Mechanic_702@reddit

I dont know if it counts as an advertisement, but they use to show public information films to stop people doing stupid things - 'Dark and Lonely Water ' scared the crap out of me as a kid...it would probably be banned today.

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alancake@reddit

Beware the Judderman my dear... When the moon is fat

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migo_81@reddit

The Metz judderman adverts got loads of complaints back in the day

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GoodReverendHonk@reddit

OH CRIPES, THE ONE WHERE THE GUY THROWS UP A DOG.

Wrigleys gum advert. Loads of complaints about this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUxpct269Ko

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Striking_Meringue328@reddit

The fatty cigarette ads were pretty grim https://youtu.be/cDAN7Oi62e0?si=E478eRNlqZxx2W5z

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poogobberr@reddit

Natural born smoker https://youtu.be/evIrwW6cLCg?si=ahAF19PvgaYegaDq

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Mr5wift@reddit

This one stuck with me. Danger of deep waters. https://youtu.be/xZWD2sDRESk?si=-ErBTp9q0pXHp3xh

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Jack-Rabbit-002@reddit

I wouldn't say scary but I remember the motor neural diseases ad where the woman's been thrown around and stripped whilst her limbs all conjoin etc was pretty powerful & The disaster one where the Scottish Lass was following people around saying all the things that could go wrong

Again not creepy but it was weighty and the Lass played/narrated it well

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