tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902725340164986341.post7570338771332581055..comments2024-03-29T01:16:36.641+00:00Comments on Daddy Grognard: Fear on Friday - Televisual TerrorsDaddy Grognardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05559857164172090739noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902725340164986341.post-80143829155663234632010-10-13T15:44:17.177+01:002010-10-13T15:44:17.177+01:00@ Biopunk: Yeah I think it was he who made me shit...@ Biopunk: Yeah I think it was he who made me shit a brick. At the time I was just a kid, and production quality was what it was, it was scary enough.Fran Terminiellohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02506269178716477521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902725340164986341.post-86419348423139937712010-10-12T12:40:42.973+01:002010-10-12T12:40:42.973+01:00Malcolm Tucker is the Angel!?! Woohoo! Sold.Malcolm Tucker is the Angel!?! Woohoo! Sold.biopunkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11614894519622906554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902725340164986341.post-40312960334988595882010-10-12T09:50:03.092+01:002010-10-12T09:50:03.092+01:00@Biopunk - you can find short bits on youtube and ...@Biopunk - you can find short bits on youtube and maybe follow the links from there to other excerpts to get a feel for the production values. I found I just couldn't warm to it. YMMV.Daddy Grognardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05559857164172090739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902725340164986341.post-83101584914045784822010-10-12T00:50:56.537+01:002010-10-12T00:50:56.537+01:00Lenny Henry? I'm even more interested.
And a...Lenny Henry? I'm even more interested.<br /><br />And as to being filmed in video, it couldn't be worse than some of the mid 80's Doctor Who episodes, could it?biopunkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11614894519622906554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902725340164986341.post-32541578090271158812010-10-11T09:38:20.894+01:002010-10-11T09:38:20.894+01:00@Biopunk - yeah, 1996, apparently. I watched the f...@Biopunk - yeah, 1996, apparently. I watched the first episode, didn't think much to it. It was developed by Gaiman and Lenny Henry, then novelised by Gaiman which is probably the book you read. It suffered from being filmed on video, which gave it a rather studio feel, as opposed to the filmic realism we're used to today. <br /><br />I dimly remembered Roofworld - never read it but I'Daddy Grognardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05559857164172090739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902725340164986341.post-78385855927409355322010-10-11T00:08:48.841+01:002010-10-11T00:08:48.841+01:00Neverwhere was on TV? This is news to me! I like...Neverwhere was on TV? This is news to me! I liked that book (not quite as much as Roofworld, by Christopher Fowler), but it was a good tale.<br /><br />Thanks for the info.biopunkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11614894519622906554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902725340164986341.post-28098456915525545782010-10-10T20:45:27.561+01:002010-10-10T20:45:27.561+01:00Tales from the crypt, a brief series called 's...Tales from the crypt, a brief series called 'short and curlies' in the early nineties, xfiles and neverwhere by neil gaiman creeped me out quite a bit.Fran Terminiellohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02506269178716477521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902725340164986341.post-24014345988301173502010-10-10T09:45:57.828+01:002010-10-10T09:45:57.828+01:00@Biopunk - totally agree, especially about the one...@Biopunk - totally agree, especially about the one with the taxidermist landlady. The TV episode went that little bit further than the short story on which it was based and totally spooked me out.Daddy Grognardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05559857164172090739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902725340164986341.post-11839013610381837792010-10-10T00:21:37.457+01:002010-10-10T00:21:37.457+01:00'Tales of the Unexpected' definitely had i...'Tales of the Unexpected' definitely had it's disturbing moments, too.biopunkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11614894519622906554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902725340164986341.post-19468480206273655012010-10-09T20:33:02.003+01:002010-10-09T20:33:02.003+01:00Nigel Kneale's The Stone Tape from your side o...Nigel Kneale's <i>The Stone Tape</i> from your side of the Atlantic is great if you haven't seen it.<br /><br /><i>Don't Be Afraid of the Dark</i> doesn't nothing to promote the suggestion of its title with its tiny, whispering demons. Guillermo Del Toro is producing a bigscreen adaption.<br /><br />Some episodes of <i>The X-Files</i> were very atmospheric, though others much Treyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04647628467658839351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902725340164986341.post-10168858889234201972010-10-09T14:22:24.119+01:002010-10-09T14:22:24.119+01:00I grew up in America during the late 60s and early...I grew up in America during the late 60s and early 70s, and one of my earliest memories is watching the 1960s ABC TV soap opera Dark Shadows with my grandmother. It was much scarier when I was a five year old than it was many years later when I watched the reruns on the SciFi (now SyFy) Channel as an adult. Prior to that, I remember while reading the classic module I6 Ravenloft and later its not Joe Bardaleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00242764968237965401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902725340164986341.post-4052891918730564242010-10-09T12:04:32.731+01:002010-10-09T12:04:32.731+01:00Sapphire & Steel was magnificent stuff, the fa...Sapphire & Steel was magnificent stuff, the faceless man episode was pure nightmare fuel for the wife.<br /><br />Slightly more contemporary and obscure that I've looted for games includes American Gothic and Strange - both have that normal on the surface, really wrong underneath feel...satyrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08479802116614818015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902725340164986341.post-62059868298833567542010-10-09T09:27:02.152+01:002010-10-09T09:27:02.152+01:00Unsolved Mysteries! You have the creepy theme musi...Unsolved Mysteries! You have the creepy theme music, Robert Stack's narration, and true stories about ghosts, monsters, and mysterious murders and disappearances.Will Mistrettahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18403399118961902073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902725340164986341.post-47397005012469689562010-10-09T00:57:32.954+01:002010-10-09T00:57:32.954+01:00The Auton stories were the ones that I found reall...The Auton stories were the ones that I found really creepy. And the culty ones like The Dæmons or the one with the Ogri. <br /><br />Over here, Friday the 13th: The Series, was kind of good: really mundane items, like quilts(!!!), killing people.biopunkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11614894519622906554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902725340164986341.post-15192842032209568382010-10-09T00:04:37.352+01:002010-10-09T00:04:37.352+01:00Sapphire and Steel - the one with the biotech crea...Sapphire and Steel - the one with the biotech creature controlling a flat, ugh -something about that chilled me.<br /><br />Crooked House - Good shout !Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com