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Post by sqwerty on Oct 3, 2016 20:19:16 GMT
 marvellous! - thanks!
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Post by sootycat on Oct 3, 2016 20:55:41 GMT
I remember a film called The Blair Witch Project years back.
Everybody raved about it but it left me cold.
I didn't find I the least scary but very contrived.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2016 12:16:47 GMT
I know it wouldn't be considered scary now, but in 1962, I was scared by The Day of the Triffids. With the special effects of the day, the Triffids themselves would now be considered to be giant corn stalks with legs, but at that time, they were menacing. But what really scared was virtually the whole population having been struck blind, and unable to see approaching danger.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2016 21:25:45 GMT
We recently watched an old British film from 1936 called 'Crimes At The Dark House' with Tod Slaughter ....... hammy and way OTT with maniacal laughing and moustache twirling .. but hugely enjoyable .. it was based on Wilkie Collins' The Woman In White
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Post by yellowcat on Oct 5, 2016 21:59:22 GMT
I found Quatermass and The Pit to be really creepy.
Anyone here remember 'The Stone Tape' a made for TV sci-fi horror film from 1972?
Another creepy one was the 1972 children's series "Escape Into Night", bases on the book Marianne Dreams by Catherine Storr.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2016 4:37:55 GMT
Children of the Stones was good too.
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Post by sootycat on Oct 6, 2016 12:27:22 GMT
Anyone remember Children of the Dammed, all those children with the creepy eyes....Beware the eyes that Paralyze  |
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Post by hoodylover on Oct 6, 2016 19:44:40 GMT
Anyone remember Children of the Dammed, all those children with the creepy eyes....Beware the eyes that Paralyze I remember that. They all had very pale blond hair if I'm thinking of the right film. |
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Post by Miranda on Oct 6, 2016 19:52:45 GMT
Wasn't that Midwich Cuckoos?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2016 20:30:04 GMT
That was the book
The first film was Village of the Damned then came Children of the Damned.
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Post by goodhelenstar on Oct 7, 2016 14:55:07 GMT
A scary old favourite of mine is (don't laugh) The Cat and the Canary, which stars Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard. There is slapstick, as you'd expect, but it's also pretty creepy. A group of people gather on an island in the middle of a lake to hear the reading of a will, in which everything is left to one character. Then it becomes clear someone – one of them as they're cut off on the island – is trying to kill that character. Every cliche in the book, from fog to secret passageways to things going bump in the night.
Has anyone mentioned The Stone Tape yet? It's a play rather than a film but is mentioned on IMDB as a film for television. Deeply scary.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2016 20:03:38 GMT
Sapphire and Steel.
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Post by Miranda on Oct 7, 2016 20:38:02 GMT
Joanna Lumley's first acting job, wasn't it?
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Post by hoodylover on Oct 7, 2016 21:22:40 GMT
Joanna Lumley's first acting job, wasn't it? Her first acting job was in Corrie I think. She played Ken Barlow's posh girlfriend. |
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Post by Miranda on Oct 7, 2016 22:20:15 GMT
Before my time, I think.
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Anymore to come?
