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DavidS - Oct 31, 2011 8:34:36 am PDT #16557 of 30000

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

( continues...) for TV miniseries with Michael Sarrazin, James Mason, Agnest Moorhead, John Gieulgeud, Ralph Richardson, Jane Seymour, David McCallum. Written by Christopher Isherwood/Don Bachardy. Condenses all the Hammer tropes into one gloriously overwrought yet effective soap opera. Veers pretty far from the original text and yet still loaded with iconic scenes and performances. Mason is super suave in his evil. Sarrazin is incredibly sympathetic.

"Dissolve to Black" - Way Out (Roald Dahl anthology horror show, 1961)

Fred Pete - Oct 31, 2011 9:16:18 am PDT #16558 of 30000

Ann, that's a ferret.

Have you seen When Michael Calls? It's a made-for-TV movie from the early '70s involving a boy (Michael) who keeps calling "Auntie My Helen." Problem -- Michael died 15 years ago in a blizzard. And when Michael starts complaining about people, and those people start dying....

I'm not sure it qualifies as great horror. On the other hand, there are several fairly spooky scenes by the standards of network TV in the early '70s. Plus, young Michael Douglas!

Beverly - Oct 31, 2011 9:26:50 am PDT #16559 of 30000

Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

OMG YES, Fred, When Michael Calls. Brrr.

Dana - Oct 31, 2011 9:36:25 am PDT #16560 of 30000

I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."

The scariest thing I remember seeing recently was the Torchwood episode where Gwen finds out that sometimes the Rift takes people.

Atropa - Oct 31, 2011 9:43:14 am PDT #16561 of 30000

The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

"Babylon" - Carnivale

Scariest. Ever. Every now and then I think I'd like to watch Carnivale again. And then I remember that I'd have to watch that episode, and my hindbrain goes NO, WE ARE NOT GOING TO DO THAT.

Anne W. - Oct 31, 2011 9:44:16 am PDT #16562 of 30000

The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

"Babylon" - Carnivale

Guh. Yes. Not just scary but completely gutting as well.

DavidS - Oct 31, 2011 9:54:51 am PDT #16563 of 30000

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Guh. Yes. Not just scary but completely gutting as well.

Yeah, that last image stays with you in a horrible, horrible way.

le nubian - Oct 31, 2011 9:59:50 am PDT #16564 of 30000

"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

OMG. yes. about the Carnivale. (shudder)

erikaj - Oct 31, 2011 10:06:15 am PDT #16565 of 30000

"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-

Homicide's generally regrettable season seven has one called "Homicide.com" where Tim Bayliss ends up watching a murder on...gasp! *The Internet* (Which feels antique now, but still managed to freak my shit out.) And there is a Poe themed one, too. With Munch and Sargeant Kay and a body walled up in a building.

Steph L. - Oct 31, 2011 11:02:29 am PDT #16566 of 30000

this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

The scariest thing I remember seeing recently was the Torchwood episode where Gwen finds out that sometimes the Rift takes people.

"Countrycide" freaked me out, mostly because I seriously didn't realize the MotW weren't aliens/monsters/etc., but just fucked-up humans, until maybe the last 5 minutes of the episode. (In retrospect, I realize it's obvious earlier, but I thought they were monsters disguised as really ugly humans. No, seriously.)

Anyway, it's a particularly freaky episode in a show that lets it freak flag fly.

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