. It was really gory.999 was terrifying! Even a seemingly simple walk along a canal path turned into disaster once when a guy got stung by a bee, unaware he was allergic, and went into life threatening shock. Fear round every bloody corner growing up with that999 in the 90s scared the crap out of me - and also not sure if this was even 999, but there was a shark episode where maybe 10 people were bobbing up and down tied together with their life jackets and they kept showing them from the shark's point of view circling underneath. Was absolutely terrifying! When a plane went overhead the people untied themselves to start waving / attracting attention and then the shark started picking them off...
I have lived with these nightmares for 30 years!
Don’t watch The Cement Garden it’s an unsettling film too. Just looked at the wiki page and Ian McEwan was accused of plagiarism when the book first came out in the 70’s. The plot is very similar to a book called Our Mother’s House which was adapted for the screen in 1967?No, must have been late sixties/early seventies. I don't recall anything sexual.
Roald Dahl wrote all of them - they were based on two collections of short stories he wrote. Definitely worth reading!
Another ridiculous one was this man who worked in a fish and chip shop and the giant fryer burst open scalding him from the waist down. He then had to sit in an upstairs window completely naked until the ambulance arrivedIt's possible. I have had a dislike of Dirk Bogarde all my life which I could never work out.
Ah Ian McEwan has form for plagiarism. He was accused by fans of Lucilla Andrews, a romance novelist of nicking details from her memoir .
I was just going to say that this is the one that sticks with me! I think it’s was a jacuzzi (that’s what I tell myself anyway
) and I remember that someone had to keep going under water and give her a breath to keep her alive. Traumatised me!Funny you say this as I always used to think he was one of those people who wore the same jeans unwashed for months on end. No idea where that came from.!
Watching the tripods with my dad is one of my earliest memories! In hindsight it definitely wasn’t age appropriate
Anyone remember the episode of Casualty where the old bloke goes in to the shed and he’s raking around, you’re on the edge of your seat wondering what horror will unfold, will he chop his arm off with that chainsaw, knock over that can of petrol and go up in flames?My most traumatising Casualty episode was one where 2 men were playing squash and one of them hit the ball - and for reasons I can’t quite remember, his arm snapped and the bone pierced right through the flesh and was poking right out
No I haven't seen that one, luckily for me then as it sounds like something that would have really upset me at the time. I was always a very intense child, my brain always used to go to the worst case scenario something that could happen...in fact it still does!
I remember my cousins, who were much older than I was, making me watch that when I was staying with them. It terrified me then and it terrified me again when I watched it years later as an adult!
Sadly none, I wish I did!
I have seen Event Horizon and all I can remember about it is the young bloke who lets himself out of the airlock into space. Maybe it was so scary that I've blocked the rest of it out of my mind?
Just Google which one deleted all his social media accounts after the story broke.
