Hiding behind the sofa...

Sickboy · Post by **Sickboy** » Thu Mar 13, 2003 3:50 pm 0

polyhex wrote:Does anyone remember that bbc halloween special they got in loads of trouble over basically a fake live night at a haunted house with craig charles and sarah green and michael parkinson back in the studio... sort of blair witch but you didn't know it was fake.

Freaked the living daylights out of me.....

Yeah. It was all dependant on what point you tuned in. When I turned it on, everything seemed fairly normal and then... and then... the weird shit started happening. For the three or four seconds it took me to readjust my brain into 'Oh, This Is Fake' mode, it was fucking terrifying.

aureole · Post by **aureole** » Thu Mar 13, 2003 3:55 pm 0

For me, it was the cybermen. Creepy bastards. I wanted to carry something gold with me just to be on the safe sides, but the pocket money of an 8 year old doesn't really stretch to that....

dtj · Post by **dtj** » Thu Mar 13, 2003 7:54 pm 0

PVB wrote:Here it is:

*gulp*

Yes, but of course, when it turned out to actually be Ron Howard's malformed little brother* in a toga... well... took the edge right off it, for me...

Glass of Tranya anyone?

*Who is actually a great character actor...

Post by **Jedburgh** » Thu Mar 13, 2003 9:01 pm 0

Sickboy wrote:
polyhex wrote:Does anyone remember that bbc halloween special they got in loads of trouble over basically a fake live night at a haunted house with craig charles and sarah green and michael parkinson back in the studio... sort of blair witch but you didn't know it was fake.

Freaked the living daylights out of me.....
Yeah. It was all dependant on what point you tuned in. When I turned it on, everything seemed fairly normal and then... and then... the weird shit started happening. For the three or four seconds it took me to readjust my brain into 'Oh, This Is Fake' mode, it was fucking terrifying.

Yep. Ghostwatch. I missed it, and after all the complaints they had it was never repeated or released to video.

Until recently when the BFI released it on DVD. Well worth hunting for

PVB · Post by **PVB** » Thu Mar 13, 2003 9:13 pm 0

Jedburgh wrote: Yep. Ghostwatch. I missed it, and after all the complaints they had it was never repeated or released to video.

Until recently when the BFI released it on DVD. Well worth hunting for

Hunted down:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASI ... 00-6352616

haniff · Post by **haniff** » Thu Mar 13, 2003 9:19 pm 0

Yep. Ghostwatch. I missed it, and after all the complaints they had it was never repeated or released to video.

I knew it was fake when I was watching it .... along with all those new ones
on those living channels on sky.....

You can spot "fake realilty" to " real reality".

e.g. sept11, did you ever think that's not real? You know it's real by the way it was presented.

That's why Orson Wells Radio show was believable, it wasn't announced. It was like listening to real news, and there was no clue that that was nothing other than real news.

A recent example is a scene from "signs" using the same concept but showing the reaction of people watching the news.

moobaa · Post by **moobaa** » Thu Mar 13, 2003 11:19 pm 0

troutmaster wrote: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

No-one told you about the needles?

tryptamine · Post by **tryptamine** » Thu Mar 13, 2003 11:40 pm 0

moobaa wrote:
troutmaster wrote: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
No-one told you about the needles?

Yeah - we put 'em there

(not really, that'd be evil

)

mamemeister · Post by **mamemeister** » Thu Mar 13, 2003 11:44 pm 0

Jedburgh wrote:
Sickboy wrote:
polyhex wrote:Does anyone remember that bbc halloween special they got in loads of trouble over basically a fake live night at a haunted house with craig charles and sarah green and michael parkinson back in the studio... sort of blair witch but you didn't know it was fake.

Freaked the living daylights out of me.....
Yeah. It was all dependant on what point you tuned in. When I turned it on, everything seemed fairly normal and then... and then... the weird shit started happening. For the three or four seconds it took me to readjust my brain into 'Oh, This Is Fake' mode, it was fucking terrifying.
Yep. Ghostwatch. I missed it, and after all the complaints they had it was never repeated or released to video.

Until recently when the BFI released it on DVD. Well worth hunting for

That scared the living shit out off me, it was only after my Dad phoned me half way thro and told me it had appearred in the listings of the Radio Times that we sussed it was fake. Even then, i sat in bed with my eyes wide open for half the night.

Post by **Jedburgh** » Fri Mar 14, 2003 12:35 pm 0

Sadly, a lot of actors seem unable to do a convincing 'ordinary people appearing on telly' performance. Don't know why but it always rings false, and it did in Ghostwatch. That, and Parky was miscast, and the ending went so far over the top it was almost in orbit.

Still, despite that, and knowing it was fake and watching it on DVD ten years on, it's an excellent piece of 'FUCK ME THAT'S SCARY' television. You all owe it to yourselves to get it.

Finer · Post by **Finer** » Sat Mar 15, 2003 1:04 pm 0

Well, in chronological order I can remember being scared of the film Wizard of Oz, Dr. Who (Darleks screaming "exterminate") and the Incredible Hulk.

Later on in life it was a documentary about Mount Vesuvius destroying Pompei (very graphic I felt at the time, couldn't sleep for days since there was a mountain near were we lived that looked unervingly like a volcano); and the sci-fi series "V" (those throat bulging, hamster eating lizards really freaked me out and dreaded every Saturday afternoon. Still, it didn't stop me making those cool laser guns out of cardboard cutouts given away in magazines

YakYak

Hiding behind the sofa...

emotional intelligence

What scared me.