Incredible Fear
Sep. 14th, 2010 02:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
davidnIs 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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Date: 2010-09-17 02:32 am (UTC)You have an outstanding repertoire of old-school British TV shows which I think would be an absolute gas to watch. Maybe one episode or two per series, so I don't get overwhelmed with new shows to watch. :)
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Date: 2010-09-20 01:31 am (UTC)And as you've already seen from these things that I post, they weren't gentle with their contestants in their live action programmes, either, with every one of them giving them a very reasonable chance of being killed.