Why do you make all these blank posts, Sootyj?
Scariest film or TV programme you ever did see Page 8
Me and my sister still talk fondly about "Armchair Thriller" as one of our scariest tv memories. We both had horrific distorted memories about the titles featuring a shadowy ghost sitting in an armchair, and then his fingers extending freakily.
Anyway I found the opening credits on YouTube and it's not as scary as I remembered. Still, I must've only been about 9 or something.
Check it out, see if it scares you! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi4I_IcinzE
The most recent film to give me the collywobbles was Wolf Creek.
Is that one of those Aussie Outback Murderer films?
All of those scare me.
Scariest TV I ever did see: The first series of Dr Who with William Hartnell as the good doctor. Hid under the table we did, peeking out at a 12" black & white TV...
I remember being petrified when watching Worzel Gummidge - especially that bit at the start, where he'd fall backwards, screaming, as if it was all my fault!
Then, of course, there was this c**t: http://youtube.com/watch?v=jxWvn53n35g&feature=related The funny thing is, years after I used to watch that character, when I was in Senior school, I had a Geography teacher, who looked just like him, and was easily the most scary teacher I ever had.
I also remember getting really upset by certain things, e.g. when I watched the Richard Gere film 'Yanks', and all the white American soldiers were attacking the black one, my mum tells me I cried. Then, of course, there was 'The Elephant Man', which is probably the most upsetting film of all time.
Quote: Bad dog @ July 17 2008, 2:29 PM BSTI haven't seen it in the theatre, but I always wondered - do they do anything to mess with the audience? I mean, does anyone run through the audience or suddenly jump up and scream, or anything like that?
I saw "Woman in Black" in London during my one visit there in 2005, and the only interactive thing I remembered was one scene where the woman silently appeared walking down one of the aisles. Naturally, your attention and focus is on the stage, so it was kind of startling to look out of the corner of your eye and see this ghostly figure.
Most of the chilling moments were merely well-choreographed stage lighting and sound effects.
I hate the scene in Titanic when all the boiler men are trying to escape and you just KNOW that one is going to die.
Quote: David Bussell @ July 17 2008, 3:41 PM BSTWhy do you make all these blank posts, Sootyj?
BecauseI always accidentally put my words in the original block.
In that one I was trying to reassure Griff how unlikely he was to be hung, thnaks to the EU human rights legislation.
Quote: David Bussell @ July 16 2008, 10:15 PM BSTOkay, first off Robocop is the baddest mutha on the block and second of all it's "twenty seconds to comply". Don't you remember the Silver Bullet song?
I remember that song. I saw Silver Bullet live, ten years ago, at a big Hip Hop event in London, called Fresh '98.
Quote: Bad dog @ July 17 2008, 2:29 PM BSTI haven't seen it in the theatre, but I always wondered - do they do anything to mess with the audience? I mean, does anyone run through the audience or suddenly jump up and scream, or anything like that?
I don't remember any audience interaction but it is the potential for that, rather than just sitting with friends on your sofa or at the pictures, that makes it hyper-scary. There are several scream-out-loud moments and I actually grabbed the legs of the people sitting either side of me when I jumped at one point - fortunately I knew both of them... 
Quote: JerryG @ July 17 2008, 5:56 PM BSTI saw "Woman in Black" in London during my one visit there in 2005, and the only interactive thing I remembered was one scene where the woman silently appeared walking down one of the aisles. Naturally, your attention and focus is on the stage, so it was kind of startling to look out of the corner of your eye and see this ghostly figure.
Most of the chilling moments were merely well-choreographed stage lighting and sound effects.
Definitely excellent effects. Somehow it makes it more unnerving that there are only two actors, and most of the time only one, on the stage. I don't remember the 'aisle-walk' from our trip - I would probably have leapt right out of my seat! 
Quote: catskillz @ July 17 2008, 5:45 PM BSTThen, of course, there was 'The Elephant Man', which is probably the most upsetting film of all time.
What, you mean more upsetting than Dumbo? 
Quote: Frankie Rage @ July 17 2008, 9:40 PM BSTWhat, you mean more upsetting than Dumbo?
My parents tell me I used to scream the house down with Dumbo nightmares when I was four years old. Apparently I saw the beginning of the movie but for some reason not the rest. So for me Dumbo = Dumbo's mum dies. The End.
I used to watch Dumbo about 6 times a day according to my mum.
I am a freak.
Quote: Frankie Rage @ July 17 2008, 9:40 PM BSTWhat, you mean more upsetting than Dumbo?
I did cry when I saw Dumbo, and E.T. as well.