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Incredible Fear
Is it just me, or is this scene from Incredible Games like something out of a nightmare? I'm serious - it might be clearly meant to be fun there and the pursuer has a more pink, blobby visage than most extradimensional serial killers, but particularly when he appears the second time... when I think about it, there's something quite genuinely frightening about the idea of this horrific creature who isn't bound by any physical considerations and can appear at any time, even seventy floors up after getting away from him. It's like Jason Voorhees with googly eyes.
And his appearance isn't exactly nightmare retardant if you grew up with this ghastly apparition - indeed, the murderous grin and harsh distorted electronic voice might make it all the worse. The thing that most people say they were scared of from this programme was the Dark Knight (shown here just missing a golden opportunity to vaporize Keith Chegwin), but I know which is the clear winner.
I seem to have been developing a large surplus of nostalgia for a lot of different things recently (some of which you might think as better left in the past), so I'll post about those over the next while, unless I forget to.
And his appearance isn't exactly nightmare retardant if you grew up with this ghastly apparition - indeed, the murderous grin and harsh distorted electronic voice might make it all the worse. The thing that most people say they were scared of from this programme was the Dark Knight (shown here just missing a golden opportunity to vaporize Keith Chegwin), but I know which is the clear winner.
I seem to have been developing a large surplus of nostalgia for a lot of different things recently (some of which you might think as better left in the past), so I'll post about those over the next while, unless I forget to.
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Nice to hear it referred to as a "lift", though.
I also can't recall any specific examples to mention, apart from The Terminator, who cannot teleport, but the idea of being chased by such a relentless foe is indeed frightening.
But as far as horror movies go, I can't really take the slowly-walking GASP NOW THEY'RE RIGHT THERE slashers seriously anymore. It's been done to death, for one thing, and how threatening is a slowly walking guy anyway, unless you're in a dead end or just so stupid/uncoordinated that you constantly trip over your own feet? I suppose the idea is that the doomed protagonists are just so terribly frightened that they lose all common sense, but it still is painful to watch.
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And we did! I rather miss them. You said much earlier on that the British seemed to love to fictionalize them, and indeed, this is yet another of the shows in which you could "die" (in this case, to be resurrected a few minutes later by having the others visit an ethereal smoke-filled floor to rescue you).
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. . .Also, I so wanted to see that kid get cut in half. Getting eaten by a wall is pretty good, but I wonder how they would have rendered getting sawed in half.
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The deaths were usually very "clean", with the player vanishing and being replaced with the death icon (as modelled in my icon), and you can see that about 20 seconds through this collection - but they did try a splash of red in later series.
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Rather wish I had gotten to see this show while growing up. Though I imagine what the player experiences is not as thrilling as what we see on screen.