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davidn ([personal profile] davidn) wrote2010-09-14 02:48 pm
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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.

[identity profile] crassadon.livejournal.com 2010-09-15 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
This was seriously a game show in Britian? Wow, I really missed out by being on this continent.

. . .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.

[identity profile] crassadon.livejournal.com 2010-09-15 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, so that's where your skull icon comes from. I have often wondered about that.

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.