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Scary Voices
chuffnobbler
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Watching The Masque of Mandragora, I was really impressed by the voice of Mandragora: deep and distorted, part machine part supervillain. Creepy. This got me thinking: the voice of the Intelligence in The Abominable Snowmen is just about the best thing in that story. Horribly stark and whispering.
Other suggestions for Scary Voices?
Other suggestions for Scary Voices?
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Silly answer : Bonnie Langford
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9NttGB9oOw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ-zt-o2mIM
Terry Malloy is definately the best Davros. Michael Wisher comes a close second, but Terry does it for me.
I quite enjoyed Malcolm Clarke's incidental music in Ressurection of the Daleks (which is where the first clip is from).
BTW Congrats to Mark Selby on winning the World Snooker Championship this year. I wonder if he's a Doctor Who watcher.
Oh wow, I've just found out he was the voice of Sutekh in The Pyramids of Mars too. The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit are such great episodes, possibly my all time favourites.
Think that'd be my choice too. Sutekh's voice gave me chills when I first saw POM on video and was delighted when Mr Woolf returned to chill a whole new generation. Tegan as the Mara freaked me out a bit as a kid...especially the "Go away!" bit in Snakedance. That made me jump!
Yes, I saw the final few frames online. I went to the BBC2 website and watched it live on there. Well, as live as it could be. The BBC2 website was ten seconds behind BBC2 on Sky.
The Beast in Series 2 had a fantastic voice of authority, shooting down the Doctors ideas of the universe with confidence. Very creepy and powerful.
Davros has an indisputably brilliant voice...I remember hearing him in the trailer for Journeys End which showed the madness that The Stolen Earth only alluded to. Even my Mum who hates the show was caught by his voice:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jUOa_XxfopM
The voice in the TARDIS in The Pandorica Opens is about as creepy as it gets. A shame that it was not ever explored again properly.
House in The Doctor's Wife was a brilliantly arrogant but powerful voice. Perfect for the episode.
The Great Intelligence, but then it was voiced by Ian McKellen to start off with. I think they should have found a way to use that voice in the Series 7 finale, as great as Richard E Grant was. But then finales seem less important and spectacular than they used to so maybe not.
That's Bernard Archard - he had one of those marvellously angular faces too. On the whole, actors are too smooth looking these days. We need more interesting faces on tv.
And that cliffhanger is a strong contender for the best ever in Doctor Who.
It made a huge impression on me when I first watched it in 1975, aged 8 - the weird black robed figure, his feet smoking as he stepped from the mummy case / time tunnel, and the hideous way his hands smoked as he strangled the Egyptian servant. Brilliant stuff.
And many many years later I was so delighted when I watched it on video and it was 100% just as good as I'd remembered.
Anyway, back on topic - scary voices. How about the original Dalek voices?
Nothing like that had ever been heard before. We're all so familiar with the sound of the Dalek these days that it's very hard to imagine quite how effectively alien and deeply scary these voices actually were back in 1963.
Those are scary now! The electronic larynx, the perfect Cyberman combination of human and machine parts working together.