QotD: Childhood Frights
What were you afraid of as a child that seems silly to you now?
Submitted by navelgazer.
![Tron [1982] (REGION 1) (NTSC)](https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/wp-content/772/2006/11/6a00d8341da3af53ef0133f3896e35970b-200pi-1.jpg "Tron [1982] (REGION 1) (NTSC)")
There was a single scene in Tron that terrified me as a 10 year old when I first saw it. The hero of the movie is "shot" with a laser and digitised into the computer. I've no idea why it scared me so much, but I refused to have a computer in my bedroom, until getting my first Mac at university left me no choice.
While that particular fear is pretty much gone, I still get seriously freaked out by what you might call "cyber-horror", where human bodies are partially replaced by mechanical parts. The cyber-conversion scenes in the most recent series of Doctor Who really freaked me out, for example, as did "cyberwoman" from Torchwood.
While that particular fear is pretty much gone, I still get seriously freaked out by what you might call "cyber-horror", where human bodies are partially replaced by mechanical parts. The cyber-conversion scenes in the most recent series of Doctor Who really freaked me out, for example, as did "cyberwoman" from Torchwood.
