Thread: Anyone else torture their family?

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My 12 year old "nothing scares me anymore" son just fled the house after watching his first "real" horror movie "The Ring". (previously had seen some light weight 'adventure' type horror movies) Oh, sure, I palmed my cell phone and made the phone ring at JUST the right moment right when the static hit at the end of the film and he was too afraid to pick it up...

Ah, another in a growing list of 'you're never too old for your dad to scare the crap out of you' moments.

Anyone else torture their family in the 'off' season?

"Torture my family"-The kids.
I would buy a very real looking, scary Haloween mask, walk into the room, pull it from the paper bag it was hidden in, show it to my toddler, it didn't mean anything to him?
Then I would wear it and growl and he screamed loudly and cried like crazy! I took it off, left the room with the mask on the floor at his feet, him still crying....
Listening from the next room , his crying stopped (he was alone in the room= no audience!)
I heard some random child-made sounds, then I peek in and he's slapping the mask, then I hear different sounds, I look in and he's wearing the mask, walking around the room like a Frankenstein monster, playing with it as such!
My kids have never been afraid of masks.
When my step-son worked at a Pizza Hut the others working there would try simple scares on him and he didn't even flinch. When they remarked about him being so impossible to scare he said, "You should have grown up in my Step-Dad's house like I did!"
I would say, "Come on everybody, let's go upstairs Right Now!" As I would then run up the stairs very quickly, tip-toe back down and be waiting around the corner of that first step to go "BOO! GOTCHA!" The steps were built in not the least bit open, thereby providing me this opportunity.
My oldest son was a novice horror fan, seeing Jaws on network TV for it's first time, I had my Wife (his evil step-mother) pretend to lose her rational mind (which did come much later) and pretend to suddenly (for no reason) demand he go upstairs to his room "Right Now!"
As he laid there mumbling , mad on his bed, with the lights "on" suddenly his bed, with him on it began violently shaking Ala Exorcist (and his bed was very old and very close to the floor too, I wouldn't fit under it today.)
Those feet hit the floor right NOW!
When I was maybe 12 I was an insider to my Uncle scaring the 5 of us 12 yr. olds while we were spending the night in my treehouse. My best friend Mike and I accidentally caught my Uncle in-costume a block away in my Mother's house getting ready to scare all 5 of us, but since we stumbled into his fun we helped set it up more with a story about "a pyscho old farmer who escaped from the local "bin" was somewhere within this county". As my Uncle walked knocking down ten foot high weeds around and on his way to my treehouse laughing with his deep voice like a maniac, the three not in on it were scared!
Unfortunately many years later, as an adult I found the one guy there that night was so scared he went catatonic while it was happening and years later as an adult, he would Not go outside in the dark unless he had a loaded gun and bright flashlite.(His first Wife told me this and told me it came from this incident)
Long-term harm or unplanned negative influences can happen from such simple and usually innocent things, even when you think you know how it should happen...

Torture the kids? Just alla time. They love it. But I sometimes go all out, we be talkin' strobe lights, fog, masks and a soundtrack. The neighborhood kids can't get enough of it either.

I saw this clip on TV the other day. I never thought of Easter as being scary, but I might have to try this....

My 10 year old daughter won a $10 bet last night for watching all of the The Exorcist, it was edited for television but she stuck it out! For years we have played the "scary game"; we turn out all of lights, Dad and I put on masks and hide around the house and then they come looking for us, there is always lots of screaming and laughing!!

I have to think about it. we are torture our kids.... mmmmmmmm alots of thinking to do.

i don't scare my kids, but there are always a few scary masks in the hall closet the grandson and his friends put on to play....ghost in the grave yard. and they run around the town in them scaring other kids. plus the town play ground is close by. real small kids are off limits though.
those poor kids will probably be afraid of easter the rest of their lives.

unorth, the you can't scare me are the funnest to scare for sure. and the ring movie would do it. that's a riot you had the phone ring at the exact time. i wouldn't ansewr the phone. good movie, but for sure scary.

Those kids thought it was the Night of the Lepus!

Another member has a 4 year old who watches all the scary movies...he had me LOL last year during a cannibal scene when all of a sudden he said "Oh eyeball...yum,yum,yum" as he patted his belly. The kid barely spoke and THIS is what he had to say!

Every few months, I give my wife a good scare with some halloween prop or mask. Funny part, is we have always a few props around, like our life size Micheal Myers, ands she know's it's there, but still, almost everytime she goes in the basement, she jumps.