Sickboy wrote:troutmaster wrote:And the bit where they fall into the cellar, firstly you think its about a 10 foot drop, then you get down there and see its about the height of a milk crate.
There was ten of us in a mates bedroom just rewinding that scene and almost dying of laughter for about 20 minutes - the kind of laughing where you can't breathe, tears are just streaming down your face and your lungs and the back of your head hurts from laughing so much. I'm getting the giggles just thinking about it...
I got that with the "Power of Christ compels you!" scene in The Exorcist. There's something very, very funny about the way they all pause and try to say it at the same time - rather poorly.
Yup - another comedy classic moment
Anyone else seen something that was meant to be scary, but just made you crack up instead?
And, back to my Public Information Film thing...
- The Beware-Of-Ponds one, voiced by Donald Pleasance and featuring an evil, cloaked figure beckoning some kids (including a young Todd Carty) to fall into some stagnant water and drown. When the kids wander off, the cloak flops into the water with an echoing "I'll be back!"
- The tour of a burnt-out house with a sing-song variant of The House That Jack Built ("This is the room where the children were born, who didn't wake up to see the morn...")
- The pitiless Protect & Survive films, with instructions on what to do with rotting bodies in the house.
- The one where the beflared urchin tries to unwedge a frisbee from the guts of an electrical sub-station and his feet explode ("Jimmeeeeeeeee!")
- The one where the kid is running along a beach barefoot and the film freezes as he's just about to step on a piece of sticky-up glass.
Have a nice day.
I remember a Public Information film they used to show in primary school about the dangers of playing on farms (grew up in a sheepie/cowish dairy farming area). Every time someone got killed they showed a closeup of the teacher taking their nametag off their peg, and the group of kids got smaller and smaller...
Featuring:
- A load of kids jumping up and down on a trailer being towed round a field by a farmer in a tractor. One kid falls under the wheels. Cue first nametag removal.
- Some kid climbing up a large metal gate that's been propped against the wall in a barn. Of course, the gate swings over on top of him. Blood trickles down nose. Teacher removes another tag.
- A group of kids playing hide-and-seek. One kid decides it'd be a good idea to climb over the railings of a slurry pit, she slips, falls in and drowns (eeew).
- Some kids poking around in an old shed, finds an Vimto bottle full of something that probably wasn't Vimto, and one of them decides he's thirsty... Stupid little sod *deserved* to have his nametag removed from his peg
- One kid playing on an old tractor thats perched on top of a very steep hill Accidentally knocks handbrake off, rolls down the hill and crashes into a farm building. Teacher probably on the lookout for a new job by now.
Didn't stop us playing on farms though and making dens in the hay etc, we had a bit of common sense you see, even at 7-8 years old
- The pitiless Protect & Survive films, with instructions on what to do with rotting bodies in the house.
Didn't see that one. Maybe Jeffery Dahmer and Dennis Nilsen did though.
Cracking Stuff indeed 
Was the bit she was sick at a birth scene, by any chance?
