'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
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!
OMG YES, Fred, When Michael Calls. Brrr.
The scariest thing I remember seeing recently was the Torchwood episode where Gwen finds out that sometimes the Rift takes people.
"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.
"Babylon" - Carnivale
Guh. Yes. Not just scary but completely gutting as well.
Guh. Yes. Not just scary but completely gutting as well.
Yeah, that last image stays with you in a horrible, horrible way.
OMG. yes. about the Carnivale. (shudder)
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.
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.
Oh, yeah, that's a good one too. In the sense of gross and terrifying.