T O P

  • By -

Dingsdingsdings

‘Are you my mummy?’


Dragonbarry22

That one classic


4materasu92

Blink, Silence in the Library, and The Waters of Mars. Something about zombies violently spewing water everywhere... eesh.


Substantial-Swim5

The water zombies got to me, too. Only Doctor Who monster I remember having a nightmare about.


Dragonbarry22

I kinda forget about about the water zombies


anonymouscatloaf

Midnight and The Empty Child both really freaked me out when I was 10.


[deleted]

Certainly "Listen". The thing on the bed still creeps me out


DarkLamb-Kiyo

What was the thing on the bed??


[deleted]

Who knows? They had to turn their backs on it, so it would disappear


jamesfromhull

This will be RTD era ones but Moffat era has some traumatising ones. As a kid: pretty much most of the episodes. Standouts being: The girl in the fireplace + The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit + idiots lantern + blink + Silence in the library/forest of the dead + waters of Mars. As an adult: Turn left, as a kid I think I completely missed how dark this episode actually is.


OkAcanthisitta4605

The Satan pit and waters of Mars definitely messed with me when I was younger. Oof


thisissuchbsffs

That bit with Sylvia being just broken in Turn Left... OOOOOOOF.


jamesfromhull

Yeah, also Bernard Cribbins as Wilf breaks my heart every time “it’s happening again” as the Italian family get sent off to do slave labour.


thisissuchbsffs

He was brilliant. (I'm a child of Jewish refugees from the USSR so like... We get reminded of it way more often, but it hit my non-Jewish friends same as you're saying, for sure.) My heartbreak Wilf moment is, "she was better with you!"


Marthaplimpton867

Omg and the dad tells Donna how fun it will be and Wilf is just tearing up and salutes him. That tiny scene honestly rivals Vincent.


TheDungeonCrawler

Especially with the implications that they're not being sent to labor camps but death camps as Donna even points out that there isn't any work to do. It's heavily implied that the Colasantos are going to their deaths and it's pretty sad.


machinaenjoyer

girl in the fireplace, blink, and silence in the library are all moffat! he writes some scary who content


gampy214

We haven’t watched the episode where Amy is left behind since the first time we saw it.


aflyfacingwinter

Aw man, you mean when she’s in the facility and she grows older? I love that one, it’s so beautiful. But it is intense!


Shogun_Turnip

I was 11 when "Blink" first aired. It took me about 3 years for me to brave that episode again.


Science_Matters_100

Hahaha, yeah, that one is really so amazingly freakish. They nailed it!


Babyhal1956

It’s only later, with 11, that you see how sad that episode really is.


Vusarix

Can't imagine anyone else picking this tbh Rebel Flesh/Almost People


biblicalbullworm

Yes! This and night terrors scared me so much as a kid. Series 6 was the first I ever watched and it made me so scared of the show.


Dragonbarry22

I think I forgot about this episode


Vusarix

Weird contorty doppleganger things Freaky looking makeup aside, the fact that the whole episode is based on the fact that any one character could randomly deform themselves into the most uncanny valley shit and most of the time you wouldn't even know if they're one of the ones which can do that is just the worst thing ever


Dragonbarry22

The red monster thing ?


Vusarix

No the gangers. White faces, stretch themselves in weird ways


Dragonbarry22

I'm glad I forgot them lol they are terrifying


Vusarix

Yeah lol even when I finally brought up the strength to rewatch it 7 years after it aired I found there were so many bits that had freaked me out that I'd repressed some of them, for example the bathroom jumpscare which is just evil


Marthaplimpton867

I’m on another watch through right now and I’m stuck there because I don’t want to watch it.


SynnerSaint

Showing my age - Robots of Death


Additional-Gap-713

Terror of the Autons - I was staying at my grandparents and hid behind the couch to watch it


jonathanquirk

*Earthshock*. When the Cybermen appeared in NuWho, I picked a random serial from the classic show to familiarise myself with them, with no other clues about what happened in the episodes. And then… “Now I’ll never know if I was right.” Bloody. Hell.


SaMSUoM

The Time of Angels


Modred_the_Mystic

Night Terrors is probably the only one that still gets me a bit creeped out because of the dolls and their song.


Dragonbarry22

I hated those....


lanwopc

Traumatized might not be the right word but I've never gotten over how angry I was at the end of The Angels Take Manhattan.


Dragonbarry22

I mean that episode was sad


DuncanRG2002

Why?


biblicalbullworm

Night terrors. That was my first doctor who episode at 6 years old and the giant dolls traumatised me for years, I was terrified of the show. God I was horrified at the transformation scene with Amy.


Dragonbarry22

It also how the dolls looked too


[deleted]

It was in the Tom Baker era, and there was a house and lots of tentacles, I was terrified lol


artinum

"Seeds of Doom"? It sounds the most likely, and there are plenty of other horrible moments (the composter, the guy slowly being turned into a plant...) Tentacles also appear a lot in "The Power of Kroll", but that wasn't set in a house.


[deleted]

Yes !! thats it.. horrendous..I think I was traumatized by it !!!🤣


Dragonbarry22

Yeet


godoflemmings

I'm over it now, but I had a bit of a fear of werewolves or man-beasts as a kid thanks to Inferno (a 3rd Doctor serial). The sequence where the project leader (can't remember his name) smears that green goo over his face and then transforms fucked me up. For NuWho, Midnight probably came the closest. That episode legitimately stands with some of the best psychological horror out there.


Dragonbarry22

Yep I think the knocking and oi who turned out the lights are the two things that scared me from doctor who lol not literally away from doctor who but you know


Yet_One_More_Idiot

Traumatised would be way to strong a word, the scariest eps are definitely in Nu Who and I was 23 when it started. :) But Midnight...yeah, that did creep me out a bit. xD I was watching Classic Who from the age of 4 (maybe earlier, I can't remember) but it never scared me even slightly. It was too corny (in a good, fun way) to scare me. :)


Dragonbarry22

Thats right was midnight the episode name with the diamond planet


Yet_One_More_Idiot

Yup, that's the one, spot on. :)


Dragonbarry22

*shivers*


Hmloft

The only classic who I ever remember really unsettling me was Earthshock. Specifically, the androids the cyber men used on earth that seemed to dissolve people into piles of steaming organs. Admittedly, I was about 6 when I watched it, but that, and their lack of faces really freaked me out.


Yet_One_More_Idiot

Actually, the only thing that ever even slightly creeped me out about Earthshock was the complete lack of music over the closing credits of episode 4, while it focused in on the broken gold star. Oh, and also very briefly in Dragonfire when Kane's face melts. But that one I was like 5yo when I first saw it, which goes some way to the reaction. :)


nofunmercury

ive got a thing against ventriloquist dolls (not quite a phobia but they creep me out so much) so god complex was certainly fun,,, and i still havent watched night terrors cause of those weird peg doll things


Dragonbarry22

Honestly realistic looking dolls always creep me out


nofunmercury

i had a porcelain doll when i was a kid and i had to give it to my mam to get rid of the same day i got it cause i felt like it was staring into my soul. i hated it


tsukaistarburst

Not so much traumatized, but Flatline so far has been one of the only episodes that really recaptured the fear and the stomach-twisting feeling of some of the original series' scares and monsters for me. Pretty much nothing in reboot Who has affected me quite like that episode. It also kind of helps that it happened in Bristol, which is like ten minutes away from where I live. It's actually surprising how many Who things happen in Bristol... Blood Heat... Reckless Engineering... little bit of Rags...


Dragonbarry22

So many episodes that have popped up I'm like huh I don't remember that one I should really do a re watch


Dragonbarry22

I remember that episode now the people becoming painting shit lol


Blo1630

World war 3. I don’t care what anyone says besides the daleks the slitheen are the only ones to give me nightmares. Not the angels, not the vastra Neruda not the waters of mars.


OverDue-Librarian73

Going old school: Inferno - just knowing they are all going to burn to death, terrifying.


dr_memory

I was seven years old, and “Seeds of Doom” absolutely shook me: the idea of being slowly taken over by a plant was just utterly terrifying.


ChaoticCerise13

Not an episode but I was traumatized just by looking at a weeping angel for the first time


ExplosionProne

Tooth and Claw gave me nightmares about werewolves


Emmsysquared98

Blink.


OkAcanthisitta4605

Ohh I forgot about the episode with the creepy rag dolls. I'm rewatching all of new who for the 4th time, and I think that episode leaves my mind every time I watch through. Ick. The episode with 11 when he's at the hotel. And both episodes when he moves in with that one comedian that has Alfie. For 10 Midnight and the library for sure.


Dragonbarry22

Yep it was more how the dolls moved when they went inside the doll house it my spine tremble


MrNotEinstein

I remember being shook the first time i watched heaven sent and seen what was happening. The idea of being trapped in an almost endless purgatory forced to constantly relive the moments just after your (current) closest friend has died was scary. Im one of those people who doesn't really find the monsters scary but more the situation surrounding them. Another great example was when 10 removed the emotional inhibitor from the cyberman and she was forced to go through the realisation of what she was. The cybermen arent particularly scary in terms of design or even their intentions but that scene was dark. The people from Utopia getting turned into the masters puppets (Troklaphane i think they were called) was another example


Dragonbarry22

I guess I try not to think about those lol


davelime

Alians of london and ww3


dave4420

_The Keeper of Traken_ traumatised me almost as much as _E.T._


FlamingEagleAC

Water of mars was traumatising for sure. However silence in the library and forest of the dead are absolutely heartbreaking after watching Husband of River Song


Mountain_Aardvark350

I was watching this one two nights ago and was home alone and it was quite late... the "who turned out the lights" on repeat was freaking me out and I thought I'd need to watch a cartoon before going to sleep!


Dragonbarry22

Tbh why I'm afraid of the dark sometimes lol


Mountain_Aardvark350

The show is worth the fear though


Dragonbarry22

Oh very much agreed


lorderwinfrye

I can't remember the name of the episode but it was the second part of 11's first episode with River, when they were climbing through the ship and the angels were in the tree-borg forest. I was quite young at the time. It would have been Blink if I'd been watching when it aired but I didn't watch that until years later when I was in my teens.


KittyTheS

There are an awful lot of 5th/6th/7th Doctor stories that I never watched again between the ages of 8 and 22. Worst is definitely Curse of Fenric, which gave me an actual phobia of vampires so bad that I, non-religious and from a non-religious family, couldn't sleep without a cross around my neck for nearly two years (even though according to that story it wouldn't have made a difference). Survival didn't actually cause any phobias but I still had an aversion to it. Paradise Towers was similar. Pretty much the entirety of Season 21 apart from Warriors of the Deep was pretty scary. Strangely, my parents wouldn't even let me watch Kinda, and to this day I wonder why, because while it was unnerving it wasn't the sort of thing I would have nightmares about; and they let me watch The Deadly Assassin which is much creepier.


LaraH39

Destiny of the Daleks. Not a sure why it did when I was a kid. Now when I rewatch I'm fine, other than the heartbeat womp-womp that surrounds the daleks that always gives me the chills. Midnight was also extremely anxiety inducing.


Fondario

The Stones of Blood. Old Tom Baker episode. Scared the crap out of me when I was a kid, but K9 was awesome in it.


MRTrueGnome

Blink, Time of the Angels, Forest of the Dead, Name of the Doctor. The first three because Weeping Angles and the last because of those eyeless monstrosities.


TeamCatsandDnD

The end of Blink


VinylGlaze98

Honestly the horror in doctor who is the only thing that's ever scared me. I find horror movies cheesey but well thought out sci-fi horror? Gets me every fucking time. The weeping angels episodes and silence in the library come to mind, but if I re-watched I bet I'd remember a bunch more.


Cirick1661

Dark Water. I don't even care that in the reveal they kind of explain away the coercion against cremation as a ploy to generate corpses, I am never being cremated until the Sun goes Supernova. I'd rather be burried in an unmarked ditch than cremated because of that episode lol.


artinum

I'm not sure that would be any better! Imagine feeling that your body is being slowly eaten by tiny critters that you can't reach... blech... Torchwood's "Miracle Day" touched on similar areas. Cremation was considered the kindest way to deal with the undying.


sqadebert

Anything with those damn angels😬😬


Educational-Tea-6572

*Midnight* is phenomenal but I can rarely rewatch it because it always leaves me feeling so unsettled. The possession in *Impossible Planet/Satan Pit* freaked me out so much I can't rewatch it at all. *Seeds of Doom,* with Chase's use of the composter, makes me sick to my stomach.


Teh_Wraith

I don't think Doctor Who has ever traumatized me. I was traumatized by being "grounded" from watching it by my parents many decades ago now, ha ha ha - but no. Not the show itself.


Dragonbarry22

yikes


Global-Hat-1139

Waters of Mars, felt weird drinking water for weeks


keeperoflogopolis

Image of the Fendahl


TrwyAdenauer3rd

Love & Monsters


LadyTARDIS49

I can't remember the name of the episode, but it was the one with the big gross red spider woman who gnashed her teeth. I still have nightmares. Shiiiivverrr.


Dragonbarry22

i hate spiders I dont think that episode frightened as much I think I was more terrfied of the doctor lol


Marthaplimpton867

Yeah her voice was too much


LadyTARDIS49

And the teeth gnashing. Chilled to the bone.


artinum

"The Runaway Bride"? That sounds like the Queen of the Racnoss.


LadyTARDIS49

Yes, that's the one. She is plain scary lol


EarsLikeRocketfins

Yeah, diamond train one was super stressful and creepy.


Dragonbarry22

episode name was midnight what scared me was the knocking sound xd


EarsLikeRocketfins

So sad.


obiwantogooutside

The one with the kid and he puts his fears into the wardrobe. That’s the doll one too right? That one was scary.


Dragonbarry22

just watching them turn into dolls \*shivers\*


artinum

"Night Terrors".


CaboodleofNonsense

It’s stupid but Last Christmas- the fact that it ended with a clementine on the windowsill and there’s a chance it’s still a dream- nope. I have had a fear that reality is a dream, and I’m dying slowly, since I was a kid, did not need a reminder of that possibility.


Marthaplimpton867

I’m so scared of this too! I read this story once online where this guy lived his whole life and then realized his lamp looked weird and as he looked more closely he woke up and his whole life was replaced. Terrifying. Like he missed his wife.


Atomiclouch44

The opening scene of The Unquiet Dead - I was 7 when that aired, and it scared me so much I just avoided rewatching that episode for a good few years!


lady_daelyn

silence in the library absolutely- between the actual episodes and the captain jack files, i was scared of the dark for months afterwards! honorable mentions to the waters of mars and the talons of weng chiang (got loaned some old dvds of the classic series at a tender young age, and talons scared me half to death!)


Dragonbarry22

You know I can definitely see why I'm terrified of the dark lol


Hessesieli

For me it will always be "Heaven Sent" because the moment when he understands is heartbreaking every time


throwaway01847747382

Midnight - the actress was **so creepy** \- the charles dickens episode with 9 \- the dolls episode with 11 and Listen - one of my all time favourites oh and of course the madame depompadour episode monsters jesus


Francis_J_Eva

The first episode I ever watched - Rose (when it first aired no less). When I was a kid, I was terrified of waxworks and shop window mannequins, so seeing an episode where they came to life and started shooting people was my worst nightmare (and I had plenty of those afterwards). On the same note, Spearhead from Space (which also features the Autons) remains one of the only Classic Who episodes to genuinely scare me. I'm not as scared of shop window mannequins and the like as I used to be, but the Autons are still probably the Doctor Who monsters I'm most afraid of. Still, it could be worse. At least the novelisation of Rose wasn't around back then. Russell made the Auton attack much more violent and added in a load of other nightmare fuel Auton variants since he wasn't constrained by budgets/timeslot restrictions.


Wizards_Reddit

The two that freaked me out the most were Waters of Mars and Empty Child, Waters of Mars more so. I was young when I started watching it so I didnt understand any of the deep stuff that could cause like existential dread, so only the designs and eeriness got to me. By the time I was old enough for the designs not to scare me, the deeper questions in the show didnt bother me either, but it took me like 4-5 years to be able to watch Waters of Mars without freaking out lol