I think the Entity was about a woman being raped by a demon. :eek:
As for tv i think the X files had its moments
1: Yes, the entity includes a demonic being and there have been reports of rape by it during sleep paralysis.
2: X Files is massive fun - going through it all again with the other half, currently on the 3rd season. But of course, legendarily it's 'Squeeze' with Eugene Tooms that remains long in the memory. Especially if it's the first episode you ever saw when you were about 15.
Salem's Lot - the TV version with David Soul and James Mason. The dead boy floating at the window; the first appearance of the vampire...brrr!
Ghostwatch.
The Mad Death - a BBC Scotland drama series about rabies coming to the UK.
Another vote for Salem's Lot. Truly, truly terrifying and I have no desire to go back and rewatch it.
I remember that I used to put my rocking chair onto the landing every night, as I couldn't sleep with it in the room. I recall there was one scene where an older vampire was just sitting rocking back and forth.
And another for Threads, bleak and at the time of showing, the threat was pretty real. I was quite young but remember the horrible threat of nuclear war. It was so scary for me, because there felt a real possibility that it could happen.
And I fancied Reece Dinsdale in it. But the aftermath part still upsets me. And when I think about it now, as a mother, it is more horrifying that the baby was born and grew up in that bleak, very scary world.
Sapphire and Steel scared the crap out of me when I was a kid of about 12, and I'm sure I only half understood what was going on.
I don't know when it was last broadcast but I would like to see it again.
Wikipedia says it was released on DVD in 2007 but showing it on something like UKGold would be nice
Salem's Lot scared me too when it was on the BBC in the mid 80s. I'd been allowed to stay up late because I was ill and was off school the next day and it was on after Blackadder 2. Absolutely shat myself when the vampire is at the window and where to boy sits up in the coffin even though it was obviously going to happen. Second episode wasn't as scary though.
Ghostwatch was quite scary, although it was a bit much for people to complain about a post-9pm show that was so obviously fiction, and was billed as such.
Twin Peaks also scared me, and I can't name exactly what it was about it, just a sense of unease. And the film was even worse.
There was one episode from X Files that gave me nightmares repeatedly! Weird deformed monster demon thing!
I saw Salem's Lot a few years ago.
I know its a film, but in A Level Film we were shown Nosferatu and it was very creepy for an old film. It was the way it was shot and the way that everything was so abstract and obviously the vampire itself is still one of the scariest looking in all these years.
Try episode 12 of Hammer House of Horror (1980): The Two Faces of Evil, probably my all-time creepiest piece of television fiction, featuring a tour-de-force performance from Anna Calder-Marshall.
Twin Peaks also scared me, and I can't name exactly what it was about it, just a sense of unease. And the film was even worse.
There is a sense of something innate to horror films about Twin Peaks, even though there is little typical 'horror film' activity depicted on-screen. I think it's this quality that captured my imagination at the time (my mother and I only started watching it to prevent my father watching the nine o'clock news).
Having said that, there are indeed scary moments, particularly the dream sequence where the comatose girl has a nightmare flashback to Laura's murder, and the subsequent murder of Maddy. Ironically it's now rather than first time round that those two sequences scare/disturb me.
I guess when I was younger I was less attuned to the disturbing quality of the implications of things that unfolded before my eyes, and more to the visceral 'thrill' of violence and terror. I still can't believe that Maddy's murder was filmed let alone shown in an American Network TV programme at that time - it's still incredibly intense and brutal to watch.
I agree about Twin Peaks, I think it's just because there was no indication Bob could be stopped, all paths lead to the black lodge, ultimately there is no hope there.
I choose to read the final scene of Fire Walk With Me as being a happy ending, because I think it needed it; just for me.
The episode Hush from Buffy was terrifying.
There was one episode from X Files that gave me nightmares repeatedly! Weird deformed monster demon thing!
I saw Salem's Lot a few years ago.
I know its a film, but in A Level Film we were shown Nosferatu and it was very creepy for an old film. It was the way it was shot and the way that everything was so abstract and obviously the vampire itself is still one of the scariest looking in all these years.
I agree very eerie. I have a friend who was a hardcore Buffy fan and she couldnt watch the full episode because it creeped her out so much.
They use to open each episode with a piece of music that was mildly sinister-but it was the longer piece of music they played out with at the end of the episode that was really brilliant and creepy. The closing credits theme was just so brooding and atmospheric. It was written by Roxy Music saxophonist Andy Mackay.
Not sure if this is classed as tv or film but the BFG animation scared the hell out of me. The big grey giants that used to come out at night and wander the streets planting nightmares in your head :eek:
when i was younger i remember watching 'under the mountain' and it scaring the hell out of me. No idea what it was about, it was on UTV (and more than likely all ITV regions) in the summer holidays. I was probably just an easily scared child and it was about rabbits and guinea pigs though...
1. Stephen King's It
2. The X-Files
3. Ghostwatch
4. Tales of the Unexpected
5. Sapphire and Steel
6. Twin Peaks
7. Quatermass and the Pit
8. The Twilight Zone
9. American Gothic
10. The Outer Limits
11. The Woman in Black
12. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
13. The League of Gentlemen
14. Millennium
15. Children of the Stones
16. Survivors
17. Chimera
18. The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
19. Chimera
20. The Singing Ringing Tree
Armchair Thriller .....a particular episode called 'Looking For Rachel' stays with me to this day as extremely powerful. Very Sinister and not shown too late in the evening from memory approx 7.30pm
On a similar theme the ''I'll be back......'' Public Information Film with the Black Cloak floating in water warning kids to stay away from open water in the summer in the mid 70's !
I started a thread about 999 a couple of months back. I was glad to see it wasn't just me who was scared shitless by it. One episode in particular put me off fireworks for years. :eek:
There was one where a girl got her hair sucked into a vent in a swimming pool. I had to make sure my hair was totally pinned up when I went to the pool after that.
Ghostwatch would be top of my list too - I went to bed before the end and lay awake all night fearing pipes would get me.
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As for tv i think the X files had its moments
1: Yes, the entity includes a demonic being and there have been reports of rape by it during sleep paralysis.
2: X Files is massive fun - going through it all again with the other half, currently on the 3rd season. But of course, legendarily it's 'Squeeze' with Eugene Tooms that remains long in the memory. Especially if it's the first episode you ever saw when you were about 15.
The name of the ghost was Pipes
Also I remember there was a doc on channel 4 a few years ago about a poltergeist in a house in the 1970s
They show photos of girls been thrown from their bed and film footage of a old man's voice coming out of one of the girls:eek::eek::eek:
I saw that too :eek:. I need to stop reading this thread tonight cos its getting late and im going to have nightmares! Night all :yawn::sleep:
Another vote for Salem's Lot. Truly, truly terrifying and I have no desire to go back and rewatch it.
I remember that I used to put my rocking chair onto the landing every night, as I couldn't sleep with it in the room. I recall there was one scene where an older vampire was just sitting rocking back and forth.
And another for Threads, bleak and at the time of showing, the threat was pretty real. I was quite young but remember the horrible threat of nuclear war. It was so scary for me, because there felt a real possibility that it could happen.
And I fancied Reece Dinsdale in it. But the aftermath part still upsets me. And when I think about it now, as a mother, it is more horrifying that the baby was born and grew up in that bleak, very scary world.
I think that is a very good example. I was also very young when I watched it and I could not go into any other room on my own.
I don't know when it was last broadcast but I would like to see it again.
Wikipedia says it was released on DVD in 2007 but showing it on something like UKGold would be nice
Ghostwatch was quite scary, although it was a bit much for people to complain about a post-9pm show that was so obviously fiction, and was billed as such.
Twin Peaks also scared me, and I can't name exactly what it was about it, just a sense of unease. And the film was even worse.
There was one episode from X Files that gave me nightmares repeatedly! Weird deformed monster demon thing!
I saw Salem's Lot a few years ago.
I know its a film, but in A Level Film we were shown Nosferatu and it was very creepy for an old film. It was the way it was shot and the way that everything was so abstract and obviously the vampire itself is still one of the scariest looking in all these years.
I was going to say that too!!! :eek:
3 great choices there!
I was around 10 years old when most of these began! The themes to the first two were scary enough!!! :eek:
There is a sense of something innate to horror films about Twin Peaks, even though there is little typical 'horror film' activity depicted on-screen. I think it's this quality that captured my imagination at the time (my mother and I only started watching it to prevent my father watching the nine o'clock news).
Having said that, there are indeed scary moments, particularly the dream sequence where the comatose girl has a nightmare flashback to Laura's murder, and the subsequent murder of Maddy. Ironically it's now rather than first time round that those two sequences scare/disturb me.
I guess when I was younger I was less attuned to the disturbing quality of the implications of things that unfolded before my eyes, and more to the visceral 'thrill' of violence and terror. I still can't believe that Maddy's murder was filmed let alone shown in an American Network TV programme at that time - it's still incredibly intense and brutal to watch.
I choose to read the final scene of Fire Walk With Me as being a happy ending, because I think it needed it; just for me.
"The Outer Limits" title sequence has a close - up of an eye.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I7vPbthvWo
I agree very eerie. I have a friend who was a hardcore Buffy fan and she couldnt watch the full episode because it creeped her out so much.
The HHOH episode where the pipe broke during a childrens party and sprayed them with blood gave me nightmares for weeks :eek:
They use to open each episode with a piece of music that was mildly sinister-but it was the longer piece of music they played out with at the end of the episode that was really brilliant and creepy. The closing credits theme was just so brooding and atmospheric. It was written by Roxy Music saxophonist Andy Mackay.
1. Stephen King's It
2. The X-Files
3. Ghostwatch
4. Tales of the Unexpected
5. Sapphire and Steel
6. Twin Peaks
7. Quatermass and the Pit
8. The Twilight Zone
9. American Gothic
10. The Outer Limits
11. The Woman in Black
12. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
13. The League of Gentlemen
14. Millennium
15. Children of the Stones
16. Survivors
17. Chimera
18. The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
19. Chimera
20. The Singing Ringing Tree
On a similar theme the ''I'll be back......'' Public Information Film with the Black Cloak floating in water warning kids to stay away from open water in the summer in the mid 70's !
There was one where a girl got her hair sucked into a vent in a swimming pool. I had to make sure my hair was totally pinned up when I went to the pool after that.
Ghostwatch would be top of my list too - I went to bed before the end and lay awake all night fearing pipes would get me.