View Full Version : What has freaked you out on TV
welshmatt
22-03-2004, 14:29
Im rarely shocked by what i see on TV, but a few times ive watched a program and got freaked out by something for no reason. In my case:
24 Season 1
When they realised it was Nina who was the mole, and they saw the footage of her killing Jamie - she had a crazed look about her
Alias Season 2
Last night I watched the episode where Sydneys friend was killed by the lookalike - very chilling and surprisingly scary
Anyone have any others or am i just a wuss?:help:
6_miles_loose
22-03-2004, 15:33
ghostwatch - thought it was real, had to turn it off
ChrisParrott
22-03-2004, 15:45
Ghostwatch.
/shiver
fattyboombatty
22-03-2004, 15:53
everytime i happen to stumble across 'eastenders' i get a shiver down my spine.....FACT!
Paul Lynock
22-03-2004, 17:21
I was sitting in bed one night a few years back watching Film'99, and they showed a small clip of the Blair Witch Project. It was the "Oh my god, what the edit is that" part, where they're running away. I hadn't heard much about it up until then and it really freaked me out.
Pity the film was crap though :searchme:
Hollyoaks going five times a week :oh-hum: and the Alias superbowl ep already mentioned by welshmatt.
morantic
22-03-2004, 18:14
Yes, Ghostwatch.
Although I remember on BBC2 about 8 years ago they had this programme about Joe Meek, the producer who did Telstar in the 1960-s and then shot his landlord with a shotgun. ANYWAY, it sounds really stupid and crud now but Joe Meek was convinced that people spoke to him from the spirit world, and used to go to his local graveyard with a tape recorder, and there was this bit where he comes across this kitten who, well, he started talking to, and it sounded like the kitten was talking back....
sounds really stoopid I know but it really did sound like this cat was talking to him and it freaked me out.
Also there was an Arthur C Clarke programme on in the late seventies about bigfoot where there was this photo of what looked like a man ape held up by a stick that really freaked me, but having seen the picture again recently I realise what a whus I was. It's just a regular monkey with a stick under it's chin.
Hey ho,
morantic.
DeadWalk
22-03-2004, 19:45
The Woman in Black (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098672/) . There's a scene in this which is absolutely terrifying. Those who have seen it will know the one I mean. Great stuff.
bikerqueen
22-03-2004, 21:28
ghostwatch, when I was a small child.
Watched it again 2 years ago, and if anything, was more scared than before.
pebbleinapond
22-03-2004, 22:03
The episodes of Twin Peaks when Laura's cousin is killed and the episode when they catch Laura's killer(the scenes in the prison cell)
Spooks with the deep fat fryer. Seriously, I still can't go NEAR a fish and chip shop, it's pathetic. The sizzling sound of hot fat makes me shudder.
Casualty used to freak me out when I was younger too.
Some of the short arthouse films Channel 4 used to show late at night freaked me out a bit at the time.
One that I vaguely recall was about two neighours, whose homes were seperated by a white picket fence. All I can remember about it was them bickering over something or other which gradually ascended to a full blown punch-up which in turn ended in them ripping eachothers faces off :eek: :cuckoo:
I'm pretty sure there wasn't any dialogue in it either.
I think it was called "Love Thy Neighbour", or something similar - can anyone confirm this? :confused:
Fatbloke
23-03-2004, 05:04
Most recent for me was on 24, day 3 episode 5
the prison breakout / russian roulette scene
but that sort of thing has always freaked me out :eek:
Day of the Triffids \0/
Salems Lot \0/ \0/
Threads \0/\0/\0/
Anyway, nothing recent 'cause I'm a big grown man :suspect:
Someone has already mentioned Twin Peaks.
I got freaked out by a different bit though:
The bit where the dwarf entered the room and then walked towards the camera, getting taller and taller because he was growing, climbing over the sofa and everything
and the bit from the last episode where
Coop looks in the mirror right at the end
The first of these still terrifies me now, and the second traumatised me for years - I couldn't look in a mirror for years in case it wasn't me looking back
Evilbones
23-03-2004, 11:55
Originally posted by DeadWalk
The Woman in Black (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098672/) . There's a scene in this which is absolutely terrifying. Those who have seen it will know the one I mean. Great stuff.
Was that i one with the person waking up and well, god.
Another one for Ghostwatch here.
Also The Budget and Tony Blair
Thornastor
23-03-2004, 11:59
A couple of shows in my teenage years
Salems Lot. (Lets hope the new mini series is good with Rob Lowe)
Sapphire and Steel
Terrahawks ( Puppets)
DeadWalk
23-03-2004, 12:38
Originally posted by Evilbones
Was that i one with the person waking up and well, god.
That's the one! I literally didn't sleep for days after I saw that - I couldn't get that image out of my head.
Also, having thought about it a little bit more, there was also the BBC's late '70s tv adaptation of The Hunchback of Notre Dame (the scene where we first see Quasimodo) and the "Royal Jelly" episode of Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected, which starred Timothy West. I was only about 6 at the time when I saw this but Timothy West's laugh at the end of the episode still brings a shiver down my spine whenever I see it.
On LivingTV recently they did a like Ouija Board on a show called 'Im a celebrity and im scared' and it was extremely convincing. Just seeing the glass move freaked me out, and you could tell noone was pushing it. If they were they did a good job. :eek:
Originally posted by Joober
On LivingTV recently they did a like Ouija Board on a show called 'Im a celebrity and im scared' and it was extremely convincing. Just seeing the glass move freaked me out, and you could tell noone was pushing it. If they were they did a good job. :eek:
My lass was cacking it. I thought it was a right con.
Hammer house of horror, the hitchhiker in the yellow mac freaked me when I was a kid.
Every time Coronation Street showed Julie Goodyear without makeup.
I once saw Pat Butcher on my big screen projector image whilst watching Eastenders. Her earrings are permenantly burned onto my corneas for ever. It wasnt a pretty site.:cry:
Mr Silly
23-03-2004, 18:16
I've watched Horror Films, I've watched Twin Peaks and most of the other programmes mentioned in this thread, but the one that really scared me as a kid was...
Look And Read: The Boy From Space http://www.lookandread.fsnet.co.uk/stories/boy1/
A Spaceship fell to earth, but one of the aliens was a bid mad and went round kidnapping people - and it was a school's programme :suspect: He even sneaked up on people, well spooky
I mean, eight years old and they show us an alien sneaking up on kids and trying to kill them. No wonder Alien didn't scare me, had nothing on this...
Love to see it now though
I was actually just shocked by whats on BBC2, that peadophile programme ... the images are censored but its easy to make out whats going on, really difficult to watch, in fact I just switched it off.
must be terrible for the officers who have to sit and document all that stuff :gag:
As already said the last episode of Twin Peaks, I even had a tape of it and used to watch it at Halloween, but somehow it became even weirder and I had to stop. :lol:
The Woman in Black, very scary, reminds me of the Others in some ways, and when I was very tiny I was apparently frightened of Dr Who, but I have no idea why now. :searchme:
mr starface
24-03-2004, 08:32
The chair at the start of "Armchair Thriller" on ITV in the eighties. Spooky music played and then the chair swung round to face you with no-one on it:eek: :eek: :eek:
Well I was young.....
Originally posted by Brad123
I once saw Pat Butcher on my big screen projector image whilst watching Eastenders. Her earrings are permenantly burned onto my corneas for ever. It wasnt a pretty site.:cry:
I advise you not to look at those nude pics of her on certain' sites then...
Things that have freaked me out -
Sapphire And Steel - the episode where the people in a photograph died when the photo was burnt
Doctor Who - a Tom Baker story, featured the Mona Lisa and had someone turn into a skeleton
Threads - 'nuff said
Hammer House of Horror - The House That Bled To Death http://members.lycos.co.uk/agnetha666/rocker.gif - the dismembered hand, Timmy's remains
Hammer house of horror where people was trapped in a house with some goo chasing them and it turned out they had shrunk and was trapped in a dolls house and the goo was a chocolate bar or something as the house and been put in an airing cupboard so was getting really hot.
Please someone say they remember this.
:cry:
Originally posted by Brad123
Hammer house of horror where people was trapped in a house with some goo chasing them and it turned out they had shrunk and was trapped in a dolls house and the goo was a chocolate bar or something as the house and been put in an airing cupboard so was getting really hot.
Please someone say they remember this.
:cry:
I remember it - not sure about the goo but I remember them being trapped in a dolls house. Hammer House of Horror was cult viewing at my school when I was about 9 but I don't think it's stood the test of time very well.
Originally posted by Mr Silly
I've watched Horror Films, I've watched Twin Peaks and most of the other programmes mentioned in this thread, but the one that really scared me as a kid was...
Look And Read: The Boy From Space http://www.lookandread.fsnet.co.uk/stories/boy1/
A Spaceship fell to earth, but one of the aliens was a bid mad and went round kidnapping people - and it was a school's programme :suspect: He even sneaked up on people, well spooky
I mean, eight years old and they show us an alien sneaking up on kids and trying to kill them. No wonder Alien didn't scare me, had nothing on this...
Love to see it now though
I remember that!! Peep-Peep the crappy alien kid. That site was good fun to look around - found Dark Towers on there too! :D
Scotty12
30-03-2004, 08:35
I switched on the TV a couple of years ago, half way through a programme that was done as a US news flash. The programme was saying that Nuclear missiles had been launched and that there was a war about to start. Trouble is, it was done so well, me and the missus believed it and it scared the life out of us. Unfortunatley I can not remember what the programme was called.
Originally posted by Brad123
Hammer house of horror where people was trapped in a house with some goo chasing them and it turned out they had shrunk and was trapped in a dolls house and the goo was a chocolate bar or something as the house and been put in an airing cupboard so was getting really hot.
Please someone say they remember this.
:cry:
Sure that was Twilight Zone/Outer Limits ep.
i turned over halfway through The Day Today, the spoof news series by Chris Morris to see a sketch about cowboy dentists pulling out teeth down sidestreets. hadn't see the show before so didnt realise it was a comedy until later but it looked very real at the time!!
Originally posted by Brad123
Hammer house of horror where people was trapped in a house with some goo chasing them and it turned out they had shrunk and was trapped in a dolls house and the goo was a chocolate bar or something as the house and been put in an airing cupboard so was getting really hot.
Please someone say they remember this.
:cry:
as taken from TV Tome, this was an episode of Hammer House of Mystery and suspense:
12. Child's Play
gs: Mary Crosby (Ann Preston) Nicholas Clay (Mike Preston) Debbie Chasan (Sarah Preston) Suzanne Church (Mother) Joanna Joseph (Daughter)
A family wakes up one morning and realizes that they are trapped in their home by a mysterious and unbreakable steel wall. An intense heat comes over the house as well. The TV reception has been replaced by some sort of emergency signal for which the symbol is a lightning bolt (which is also the symbol on all their clothes and food products as well as their car). They begin losing feeling in their bodies and losing their memories as well. Soon enough, they can not remember any life at all outside the house. All this time, a green blob has been forming in another room, slowly stalking the family.
Another great surprise ending to another great episode of this anthology series.
b: 02-May-1986 w: Graham Wassell d: Val Guest
So no, you're not going mad !! :cuckoo:
Cheers
Edz
Originally posted by edz2k4
as taken from TV Tome, this was an episode of Hammer House of Mystery and suspense:
12. Child's Play
That's the one. Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense isn't remembered all that fondly and was somewhat slated at the time (I always liked it myself but I suppose it isn't as 'classic' as HHoH) but this episode is a particular goodie.
bertieblueshirt
30-03-2004, 11:55
Any prog with CCTV footage of drunken jobs kicking the crud out of someone.:mad:
Evilbones
30-03-2004, 12:42
Originally posted by bertieblueshirt
Any prog with CCTV footage of drunken jobs kicking the crud out of someone.:mad:
:thinking:
bertieblueshirt
30-03-2004, 15:08
Originally posted by Evilbones
:thinking:
I'm referring to any of the late night 'caught on camera' type programmes that show footage, usually from city centre CCTV, of horrendous beatings and general violent nastiness at kicking out time.
As per the title thread, this is the stuff on TV that freaks me out.
Is that a sufficient explanation Evilbones?:thinking:
Evilbones
30-03-2004, 15:13
I See, i thought you meant yobs, sry
bertieblueshirt
30-03-2004, 15:23
Originally posted by Evilbones
I See, i thought you meant yobs, sry
I'd say that yobs is a good way of describing a bunch of nutters brawling in the street. Have I missed something here? Is there a TV prog called yobs or something?:confused:
Threads - wasn't bothered about nuclear war before that. Then had a vivid nightmare about it happening and didn't sleep for 3 nights.
Dr Who - The Green Death with Jon Pertwee Watched from behind the settee. Again nightmares.
Salems Lot - watched late at night on a 14" black & white TV. Made the whole film more spooky. The master wasn't scary, just
when the grave digger jumps into the open grave and open the boy's coffin. Then the boy sits up. Also the dead boy scratching at the window. Slept with the lights on. ;)
VintageWhino
30-03-2004, 21:23
The elephant man.
First time he pulls the cloth away from his head, well that left me freaked for sometime.
Hi,
I was watching American History X the other day and the bit where..
Derek Vinyard gets the guy to bite the curb stone and then stamps on the back of his head.
Couldn't get that image out of my head for ages.... :gag:
Originally posted by agnetha
Hammer House of Horror - The House That Bled To Death http://members.lycos.co.uk/agnetha666/rocker.gif - the dismembered hand, Timmy's remains [/B]
Oh yes, that freaked me out as a kid.
As did a couple of episodes of that ITV series called 'Beasts' from around the same time.
I had just served 3 years in Cyprus and came back when the film Independance Day was released. I was unaware of this film and the hype and sat down to watch some TV and the Americans had done a very realistic news flash show on live reports of an invasion. Sounds silly now, but I was on my own and the confusion of whether it was real or not , scared the sh't out of me.
Oh yeah, and that Hammer house of Horror Series, I remember the yellow mack hitchhiker, not nice.
On the last live 'Most Haunted' , I had 3 light bulbs go pop on me during the show, and being on my own, I almost filled my pants !!!!
The slow motion video footage of the planes crashing into the WTC :(
Even now when I think of it, it sends shivers down my spine.
I think it is because it almost looked like a movie, yet you knew it was real.
Pike Bishop
01-04-2004, 12:05
Some programme I watched on the massacre in Rowanda, a guy with a handheld camera was filming secretly from a distance a gang hacking people to death with machette's. You couldn't see all the details as it was filmed from a distance but you got the general idea - very disturbing.
derek cassidy
12-10-2007, 22:39
There is an episode of "Hazell" where Nicholas Ball stabs a corkscrew through a man's hand...you see it all & it's certainly the most violent moment ever seen in a mainstream brit tv programme.
unrealnils
12-10-2007, 23:08
Someone has already mentioned Twin Peaks.
I got freaked out by a different bit though:
The bit where the dwarf entered the room and then walked towards the camera, getting taller and taller because he was growing, climbing over the sofa and everything
and the bit from the last episode where
Coop looks in the mirror right at the end
The first of these still terrifies me now, and the second traumatised me for years - I couldn't look in a mirror for years in case it wasn't me looking back
holy crap same here, except its not a dwarf its bob himself
that show (TWIN PEAKS ) scared the crap out of me when i just to watch it on bbc all those many moons ago :eek:
Hi,
I was watching American History X the other day and the bit where..
Derek Vinyard gets the guy to bite the curb stone and then stamps on the back of his head.
Couldn't get that image out of my head for ages.... :gag:
My New Halo Battle Cry "Bite the Kerb Biatch"
probably wont stop you killing me though
just rewatching the X files and that's surprisingly scary in a nothing really truly happens kinda way.
Quincunx
12-10-2007, 23:36
I have vague, scary memories of watching The Omega Factor when I was very young. I know I watched a few episodes but the only bit I remember was someone running down a road and the street lamps were going off as he passed them.
Not a lot scared (scares) me but that programme stuck for some reason.
"Tripods" scared the crap out of me when i was a kid. i had nightmares about them stomping into my garden for years afterwards
SIMON ADEBISI
13-10-2007, 08:58
I remember watching a programme about Borley Rectory, supposedly the most haunted house in England with my brother. 2 of us were in tatters after it and didnt sleep properly for weeks after it.
Another vote for "Tripods" when I was a kid
Also "Chocky" - a spinning triangle - that was just WEIRD!
fattyboombatty
13-10-2007, 11:06
a short film i saw on C4 a few years ago called DRIP. i was alone home at the time and the final scene **** me right up. i had to switch all the lights in the house on and i didn't sleep till it was day light.:help:
PockyMonster
13-10-2007, 12:06
When I was a kid and Sky One aired 'V' (original miniseries and the followup) it scared the living crap out of me, nightmares etc. I loved it :D (Still do.)
sleep4ever
13-10-2007, 18:21
The end of the Deadwood episode 'Suffer little children'
Grim stuff
SIMON ADEBISI
13-10-2007, 18:23
The end of the Deadwood episode 'Suffer little children'
Grim stuff
Ya, that was pretty rough alright. Even worse if you're a VM fan!
Childhood gems as others have said:
Hammer House of Horror
Salem's Lot - mainly the bit where with the gravedigger and the ghostly scratching outside the window scene
plus Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected - esp the royal jelly ep :help:
The only thing that seems to bother me much nowadays is the occasional crappy ghosts caught on camera late night prog on Sky which is on at 2am and I'm watching alone :D
mnementh
15-10-2007, 13:27
2 that really messed me up as a kid..
An episode of Bergerac all about witchcraft and black magic - scared me silly.
The other is really sad - There was a bulldog called Butch on the Sooty Show. Gave me nightmares for ages on seeing that.
Anyone remember the alzeimers program following the couple in their 60's not too long ago? I genuinely had no idea people who suffer with that end up how the bloke ended up. Basically a skeleton, and had to be treated literally as a baby as the brain literally reverts back to a baby-state. I remember sitting there in utter disbelief at the state the poor bloke ended up in.
I found it very hard to watch, as did my mother who I watched it with. To be perfectly honest, though it's probably the most admirable thing in the world that nurses look after people like that, IMO it really isn't on, and it certainly isn't on that humans are allowed to end up like that.
BigDavie2000
15-10-2007, 13:48
While I don't remember it scaring me as a kid my parents are constantly reminding me that I used to scream at the TV when ever the Lockets advert came on. This was before remotes and our TV never had channel buttons only a tuner dial (no flicking through the channels in those days even though there were only 3) therefore my parents had to endure my screaming until the advert had ended, at which point I would instantly stop. I am sure I must have seen an old horror film where someone was split in two and the chap in lockets advert splitting in two reminded me of it.
I can safely say that the advert no longer causes me to scream at the TV, which is quite a relief since they recently started having the chap split in two advert again.
Scuttler
15-10-2007, 15:06
plus Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected - esp the royal jelly ep :help:
I was just thinking of that one while reading the rest of the thread. :thumbs:
God knows what was actually in the cot at the end! :eek:
Aardvark
15-10-2007, 18:59
Coming home from work on a cold, dark winter's night, stepping through the door, glancing at the TV which my parents were watching, and seeing the space shuttle Challenger exploding against a blue Florida sky.
Twenty years later I still get sweaty palms every time I watch a live lift-off.
The Scary Door
"Look at that weird mirror" :D
As a kid the Hammer Horror show mentioned earlier with the trapped family and the goo. Also Tripods scared me but I loved the books.
As an adult there's 2 things that didn't bother me whilst watching but must have bugged my subconscious as I had a nightmare after both 1) The Dr Who episode with the children in the gas masks 2) The scene in Enemy at the Gate in the bombed out Store when you see the bombers flying towards the building dropping bombs as they fly in.
jamie_rowe
16-10-2007, 19:21
I vaguely recall one of those movies shown after Children's BBC (can't remember the name of the company but they churned out loads of films from the 70s onwards) about the ghost of a dead boy in a coal mine who haunts another young lad.
Another vote for Threads biting the umbilical cord
Absolutely anything with glowing eyes - an episode of the original Star Trek had a crew member who was affected by some alien force ad the rest of the crew were watching him in qurantine while he wandered around with..those...glowing...eyes!
snowball
16-10-2007, 21:31
ghostwatch - thought it was real, had to turn it off
was about to say that too. Still remember it and I wish they would repeat it. I bet it looks crap now though.
GoblinUK
16-10-2007, 21:35
was about to say that too. Still remember it and I wish they would repeat it. I bet it looks crap now though.
Its available on DVD. I watched it not long ago....one moment still made me jump about 6 foot in the air
Anyone remember a miniseries called "Chimera" I think...it was about this creature that escaped from some lab. That one got to me.
The Hammer House of Horror eps I remember being the worst were The House That Bled To Death. I remember the mark of the knife on the wall they couldn't paint over - my dad had exactly the same style of knife, a khukri, from when he was in the army! No, he wasn't a Ghurka, he was friends with a bunch of them and they gave him his own!
The other really bad one opened with a little girl apparently cuddling a lamb but as the camera panned out you realised she had bitten its head off. I think it was about werewolves...
The Woman in Black - that scene. I bought a dodgy DVD off Ebay as it's the only way to see it now. The scene scared the hell out of me as a kid and still made me jump off the sofa 20 years later!
Spooks, the deep fat fryer scene
BBC's superb Balkans War drama Warriors, very difficult to watch and played on my mind for a long time afterwards. I wish they'd release it on DVD.
wong fei hong
17-10-2007, 11:52
Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World had an episode about photographs of ghosts, including one of a distorted ghoul in front of a church altar. It's the most frightening thing I can ever remember seeing.
Though I was frightened of the Black Hand on Sooty. He threw porridge at you. :eek:
joconnor
17-10-2007, 13:31
The Woman in Black - that scene. I bought a dodgy DVD off Ebay as it's the only way to see it now. The scene scared the hell out of me as a kid and still made me jump off the sofa 20 years later!
Cheers for the heads up, I never knew this existed. Read the book a couple of years ago, one of the freakiest books I've ever picked up.
I'll try to hunt it down, hopefully the adaptation does the books 'moments' justice
It was a made for TV adaptation from either the late 80s or early 90s, very good though.
The slightly comedic stage play is superb as well, very scary in places!
SIMON ADEBISI
17-10-2007, 18:15
Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World had an episode about photographs of ghosts, including one of a distorted ghoul in front of a church altar. It's the most frightening thing I can ever remember seeing.
http://z.about.com/d/paranormal/1/0/V/A/hooded_monk_lg.jpg
Threads, probably. I can't quite bring myself to watch it again.
Another vote for Twin Peaks
The reveal of who Bob was
Bob/Leland killing Laura's cousin
Cooper being chased through the room with red curtains
The final scene
All those moments freaked me. The worst thing was that I watched it when I was about 17, and my parents were away on holiday, leaving me in the house alone. I watched the first two moments at about 1.30am, and they freaked me out so much that I couldn't go to bed after, I had to pop a Friends video in and watch a couple of episodes just to lighten the mood a bit.
snowball
17-10-2007, 20:44
The Crying Game - yes, THAT scene. Totally freaked me out and couldnt think straight for the next week.
Dr Derek Doctors
17-10-2007, 21:26
Its available on DVD. I watched it not long ago....one moment still made me jump about 6 foot in the air
I watched it on DVD a few years back. I settled down with the lights off in the room... 30 minutes in and I turned them back on. The show still has it...
Ghostwatch has to be the most scary TV prog ever. Its only ever been shown once and look at the reaction its caused in this thread. It was the authentic "crapness" at the start of it which helped people believe it.
The bit that will ALWAYS stick in my mind and make me shiver to this day is...
they are in a bedroom when there is a scream from downstairs the crew leave the room and the camera is last out. Just as its spun around to the doorway a figure can be seen in front of the curtains. :eek:
For days after I slept under the "safety" of the duvet.
Hope this Woman in Black is as scary as its made out to be. I have managed to source a copy to watch with the missus and she doesn't know anythin about it. Plus she hates scary/horror films.
Only thing I can remember that freaked me out a bit has to be the scene in Amistad when they remove the slaves from the ship. Don't want to say too much for those that haven't seen it, but it played on my mind for ages.
SIMON ADEBISI
18-10-2007, 00:42
Only thing I can remember that freaked me out a bit has to be the scene in Amistad when they remove the slaves from the ship. Don't want to say too much for those that haven't seen it, but it played on my mind for ages.
I hated that scene. Totally freaked me out. The whipping scene was too much for me too. And it takes a lot to make me turn away.
Did anyone see that woman on News 24 the other day/week who has the slimmest waist in the World...I'm talking about as thin as most peoples' necks. That was freaky and made all the more so because it was real. I think it was on the news because it was some sort of gathering of the Guinness book of records in London.
wong fei hong
18-10-2007, 08:38
http://z.about.com/d/paranormal/1/0/V/A/hooded_monk_lg.jpg
Brilliant way to start the day. :cry:
Natasha Kaplinsky is very freaky, I never realised wood could talk.
Not read all the way through the thread so don't know if it's been mentioned yet, but THREADS scared the crap out of me when it was on TV...and still disturbs me now when I watch it on DVD :help:
Did anyone see that woman on News 24 the other day/week who has the slimmest waist in the World...I'm talking about as thin as most peoples' necks. That was freaky and made all the more so because it was real. I think it was on the news because it was some sort of gathering of the Guinness book of records in London.
Link (http://www.unbelievablefacts.info/2007/10/granny-with-15-inch-waist.html) - this might have been her.
Kirs-tea
18-10-2007, 10:13
Natasha Kaplinsky is very freaky, I never realised wood could talk.
:lol:
Derren Brown's Seance, when it first aired on Channel 4.
The scariest thing was after the closing pay off, I took into account what had happened previously. Most likely Brown's point.
Lots have things over the years but the one that really sticks in my mind is the ending of The Telephone Box (La Cabina) which I first saw as a kid some time in the 70s. I really must watch that again.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065513/
If you haven't seen it don't read up about it before watching it all on YouTube. It is split in to 4 parts but there doesn't appear to be any other way of watching it.
I watched the telephone box when it was shown on TV years ago. Very strange, I thought it was funny though. :D
SqueakyG
18-10-2007, 16:33
I caught a short film a few years ago on a channel like BBC Four. I have no idea if this is a well-known piece, or if nobody else has ever seen it, but I'll describe it:
A young girl (maybe 12) is walking through a fairly bleak grimy Northern town carrying something in a plastic bag. She has a voiceover where she's wittering on about her life.... some bleak stuff, but spoken in a detached chatty way like she doesn't care. When she gets to a canal, she throws the plastic bag in the canal and walks away. Final shot from under the water: there's a dead baby in the bag.
I caught a short film a few years ago on a channel like BBC Four. I have no idea if this is a well-known piece, or if nobody else has ever seen it, but I'll describe it:
A young girl (maybe 12) is walking through a fairly bleak grimy Northern town carrying something in a plastic bag. She has a voiceover where she's wittering on about her life.... some bleak stuff, but spoken in a detached chatty way like she doesn't care. When she gets to a canal, she throws the plastic bag in the canal and walks away. Final shot from under the water: there's a dead baby in the bag.
About a girl directed by Brian Percival who also directed the pleasureland that was on channel 4s adult at 14.
SIMON ADEBISI
18-10-2007, 17:58
Brilliant way to start the day. :cry:
:D
The Singing Ringing Tree I suppose.
baloobas
19-10-2007, 03:59
Rebecca Loos tossing off a pig is the moment I knew that mankind was doomed.
Well, I watched the Woman in Black last night all lights off ready for a scarefest and what a disappointment :(
The scene
where she appears above the bed was more comical then frightening. It would have problably scared me if I had seen it when I was 10 years old.
The missus fell to sleep half way through as well. I imagine 15+ years ago it was pretty creepy like Ghostwatch but now it was IMO slow and drab.
MetalGearAl
19-10-2007, 10:30
Brilliant way to start the day. :cry:
What's that from?
I caught a short film a few years ago on a channel like BBC Four. I have no idea if this is a well-known piece, or if nobody else has ever seen it, but I'll describe it:
A young girl (maybe 12) is walking through a fairly bleak grimy Northern town carrying something in a plastic bag. She has a voiceover where she's wittering on about her life.... some bleak stuff, but spoken in a detached chatty way like she doesn't care. When she gets to a canal, she throws the plastic bag in the canal and walks away. Final shot from under the water: there's a dead baby in the bag.
We were shown that a few months ago at Uni. It's on a compilation DVD of short indie movies...was very good :thumbs:
The Singing Ringing Tree I suppose.
MRS-Speed keeps telling me about it and I've never heard of it!! I think she has it on DVD, so I should really take a look at it.
mr starface
04-02-2008, 12:38
Just a bump to say that Armchair Thriller is now available on DVD, have seen it at Play.
Would like to see them but its been so long dont know if I would still enjoy them or not.
Play.com (http://www.thedvdforums.com/affiliatelink.php?localaffiliateid=2&url=http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/4-/3623110/Armchair-Thriller-A-Dogs-Ransom/Product.html)
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