Yes! Luther is brilliant. The killers are very next door neighbour type people too.I think a lot of episodes of Luther actually have nightmare fuel material in them:-
The guy slithering out from under the bed
The same guy hiding up the loft and floor boards all creaking
The entire Spring Heel Jack episodes were pretty creepy. That mask
The absolute worst from the most recent series: the guy on the night bus.
FUCK ME
You can't go wrong with kids for a good scare. Kids and Nuns.Classic here, full length
Legend of Hill House 1973You can't go wrong with kids for a good scare. Kids and Nuns.
I quite enjoyed The Haunting of Bly Manor '. (They're both based on the The Turn of the Screw).
Another classic that hasn't been bettered IMO is 'The Haunting' 1963.
I agree with the grudge original although the American remake wasn’t too)
Watched Poltergeist aged 11. Gave me nightmares for years. The bloody clown coming from under the bed.
Oh and Hellraiser! Pinhead scared the shit out of me.
I loved The Box of Delights. There’s the odd episode/clip on YouTube. I was super disappointed when I read the book and the show turned out to be an adaptation of two books. I couldn’t make head nor tail of it as a nipper.The Box of Delights - no one seems to remember this one, it's this amazing surreal 1980s BBC kid's serial, but it has some really creepy moments.
Your post really made me laugh. I misread Ringu as Pingu and thought WTF?Poltergeist! I saw it as a kid as well. That clown doll sneaking up on the little girl was legitimately terrifying. The tree coming through the window scared me for years
The Exorcist - seen it once, brilliant film, but never watching it again
The Omen (the old one) - when he's creeping around the house at the end trying to kidnap Damien. The graveyard with the jackals
Salem's Lot - James Mason slinking around and putting kids in binbags for his vampire master to nom on later. The coffin moving up the van
The Box of Delights - no one seems to remember this one, it's this amazing surreal 1980s BBC kid's serial, but it has some really creepy moments.
Ring / Ringu - have mercy I'm never watching those again
The Soft Mints advert from the early 1990s where everything in the world is sort of lumpy and soft and pillow shaped and the postbox laughs manically as Mr Soft strides past in his horrible pillow world way, drawling 'Mrrrrr Soffttttt' like he's just had a stroke. It freaked me out so much as kid I refused go near postboxes for a while
Edit: right you can all share my pain, I've found that bloody Mr Soft advert and it's just as creepy as I remember:
Mr Softttttt
Your post really made me laugh. I misread Ringu as Pingu and thought WTF?
And I’m not clicking the video but I too remember that advert and didn’t like it. The one that used to scare me were those skeletons that used to talk and looked creepy, can’t remember what it was for, and also the Scottish Widow lady as I thought she was a witch lol.
Scotch video tapes advert?Your post really made me laugh. I misread Ringu as Pingu and thought WTF?
And I’m not clicking the video but I too remember that advert and didn’t like it. The one that used to scare me were those skeletons that used to talk and looked creepy, can’t remember what it was for, and also the Scottish Widow lady as I thought she was a witch lol.
Eden Lake was so disturbing, really unsettled me!Films:
Fire Walk With Me: I found it creepy and unsettling.
Eden Lake: Not a typical horror film but felt so REAL that it was genuinely horrifying.
Hostel: Not so much scary but disgustingly gross.
TV:
Twin Peaks: The typical scariest parts were bad enough but even just the shots with the long pauses where nobody says or does anything creeps me out.
Are you Afraid of the Dark?: Not scary now but as a child - TERRIFYING!
Ghostwatch scared the shit out of me! Remember being unable to sleep because I was trembling so much and thinking I could hear a cat!The thing about Ghostwatch was that they trailed it for days on the BBC, including on kids shows like Going Live, so everyone who watched it went into it thinking it was going to be some mildly scary Halloween thing. It was presented by a respected broadcaster in Michael Parkinson, the reporter at the house was Sarah Green, kids TV presenter. Craig Charles was on it too. It was all set up to be a suitable, legitimate BBC broadcast.
We weren't expecting the sights or the sounds we saw, nor did we expect to see much-loved TV presenters being 'posessed'. It was the whole build up to it. To an adult now, it probably seems tame, but there's an entire generation of kids who were shit-scared of it, and rightly so. The BBC were irresponsible in their billing of the show. There was a 10 year ban on it being repeated, and I don't think they ever have, but its on YouTube. I think you probably had to be there at the time to get the full effect. I've seen brief clips of it since, and I still don't understand how they thought it wouldn't cause a problem with children.
Sinister is one of the few horror films I have actually watched in recent years, yet I hardly see it mentioned for some reason. I agree, very creepy. Good film too, a cut above the usual stuff from the genre.
Salem's Lot by a mile. I think because it was made for TV (and had nice David Soul from Starsky and Hutch) it made me think when I was young it would be fine.
It was terrifying.
Never seen it since so I've no idea how scary I would find it now.
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