but why? I don't think i even saw it
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Quote: Huge Bear @ July 16 2008, 11:29 PM BSTH R Pufnstuf, which for the little ones amongst you was a children's show that aired around 1970. But you had to have seen it when you were about 6 - and it was the only kiddies programme that should have had an 18 rating. Giant psychedelic multi-coloured puppets, a witch on a broomstick (who was probably the nicest character in the show) and a child actor who died young in real life and I'm NOT surprised: it was seriously, seriously freaky and weird. I honestly reckon a high proportion of kids from that time grew up with psychological problems thanks to that one.
Jack Wilde wasn't it?
I thought it had a Monkees connection too - not that I ever saw it though. I was too old even then.
Quote: sootyj @ July 16 2008, 11:38 PM BSTbut why? I don't think i even saw it
That's because he's got too much power. A real megalomaniac. He acts like he owns this site!
Quote: sootyj @ July 16 2008, 11:38 PM BSTbut why? I don't think i even saw it
It wasn't very interesting.
Not that that's stopped me before of course.
[quote name="David Chapman" post="208350" date="July 16 2008, 11:40 PM BST"]Jack Wilde wasn't it?
I thought it had a Monkees connection too - not that I ever saw it though. I was too old even then.
Jack Wild was the original Oliver! Would love to know the Monkees conection.
Quote: David Bussell @ July 16 2008, 10:21 PM BSThttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0kWgcIlWn0
Yep that's the one. You hear the lion's roar just after Mr Kinney throws the gun to the floor.
Quote: David Bussell @ July 16 2008, 10:49 PM BSTThere's an extended cut of that scene that goes on for more like a minute. He's splashed out on the table and he's still getting shot. Ribald!
Anyone ever seen a film where a voodoo guy puts a curse on a socialite's powder puff so when she uses it her cheek swells up and bursts apart with hundreds spiders? I saw it when I was a kid and it's the only film I've ever seen that I had to hit the stop button for.
For some reason you just made me laugh very loud indeed with your unexpected use of the word "ribald".
I sat and looked at that for a while too.
I like it.
Quote: Aaron @ July 16 2008, 11:03 PM BSTIs that because they're anti-semitic?
Ya bugger you!
Quote: Griff @ July 17 2008, 12:23 AM BSTHR Pufnstuf scared me as a kid, I remember, good call whoever suggested that one.
As did the Wicked Witch Of The West in the Wizard of Oz film. (Back when witches were proper ugly mingers rather than being played by Eva Green or Nicole Kidman).
Dr.Who "Planet Of The Spiders" worried me too.
As a teenager, I remember John Carpenter's "The Thing" scaring me, and I think "Alien" too, but I watched that in a roomful of mates all having a laugh so its power was much diminished. (It is an awesome, awesome film.)
The only thing I can remember scaring me as an adult was, errr, the gangster film "Casino". Not particularly when I was watching it, but I had a massive nightmare afterwards involving the scene when Joe Pesci got buried alive. (Not that the mouthy little f**k didn't deserve it, mind you.) Maybe I'd been eating cheese or something.
The Thing was another film I saw as an impressionable youth with no preparation, very scary, and not jsut Kurt Russell's beard.
That scene from Casino is particulasrly nasty, and that includes the sight of Jose Pesci in his pants. But yeh very nasty scene. Good fellas the better film though.
The Blob really freaked me out when I was about ten, especially the bit with the farmer and a stickful of goo.
Quote: Griff @ July 17 2008, 12:10 PM BSTStop feeding Sooty set-up lines. It only encourages him.
Just fulfilling my role as the Ernie Wise of the BSG.
Quote: David Bussell @ July 16 2008, 10:49 PM BSTAnyone ever seen a film where a voodoo guy puts a curse on a socialite's powder puff so when she uses it her cheek swells up and bursts apart with hundreds spiders? I saw it when I was a kid and it's the only film I've ever seen that I had to hit the stop button for.
I haven't seen that, but I'm thinking it might be The Serpent and the Rainbow or Deadly Blessing, both Wes Craven films. The latter is more likely.
I remember being scared when very young by the witch in Paulus the Wood Gnome, which no-one here will remember. I think I must have had a thing about witches because the witch in a King Arthur cartoon series used to freak me out as well. Everytime they'd cut to the witch's castle some loud dramatic music would play, and all the scenes in her castle would be scary.
Dr Who also scared me. Sometimes I'd see old Frankenstein & Dracula movies, but they never worked for me. These days I like zombie films, and also ghost stories (who's seen The Woman in Black on TV - now that is the real stuff!).
I've not seen it on TV but I did see The Woman in Black at the theatre and nearly died of fright! It was great fun though, but utterly terrifying at the same time. It's weird seeing a horror/thriller at the theatre.
When I was a kid, I couldn't sleep after seeing Ghost Watch and Pet Sematary.
Has anyone seen Creep? Horrible film. >_<
Quote: Griff @ July 17 2008, 12:10 PM BSTStop feeding Sooty set-up lines. It only encourages him.
Oh to be critiqued by a fella scared of a pudgy, Italian in his underpants.
Quote: JuliaC @ July 17 2008, 2:16 PM BSTI've not seen it on TV but I did see The Woman in Black at the theatre and nearly died of fright! It was great fun though, but utterly terrifying at the same time. It's weird seeing a horror/thriller at the theatre.
When I was a kid, I couldn't sleep after seeing Ghost Watch and Pet Sematary.
Has anyone seen Creep? Horrible film. >_<
Saw that at the theatre as well, was quite scary some how being a play made it worse.
Quote: chipolata @ July 17 2008, 12:12 PM BSTJust fulfilling my role as the Ernie Wise of the BSG.
I hope that doesn't mean I have to sleep with you in a vaguely sinister homo-erotic manner.
I used to be scared of the closedown announcer at the end of the evening when I was little. I don't think I've ever been more scared of anything.
Quote: sootyj @ July 16 2008, 9:15 PM BSTWhat scared you, disturbed you, made you hide in your parents' bed (after weeing in your own)?
Also saw a public safety film, where six 1970s-style tearaways go play on a farm.
They all died, horribly (I think there was an even nastier one with paedophiles).
I saw that farm one! I think I was about six when they showed us that at school, I shit myself (for real >_< ), I have never been so traumatised before or since. I had a friend who lived on a farm and I refused to go and see him for ages 