RS_Matt

Jamie

Well that lasted 11 seconds still alive.

dpb

They didn't know how lucky they were, look at the ****e we get now for 150 quid a year,

Serious suicide material

gc8-r

iTrader: (21)

Can't watch it....!!!!!!
Tell me what happens
I DONT WANT TO DIE..........

RS_Matt

Pregnant women watching went into labour.

SJ_Skyline

Thankfully that idiot Kinnock didn't win the election...

Jamie

Wrong coffee.

RS_Matt

It evoked 1,000's of complaints and an estimated 30,000 calls to the BBC switchboard in a single hour. David Hodges, who at the time was a BBC information duty officer and therefore one of the sole points of contact for viewers, recalls the reaction:

“It was a nightmare. The call counter used to go up to 20 and basically it was stuck on that level for five days after transmission.

Ghostwatch was so controversially scary and disturbing it saw a live debate:

RS_Matt

Simons and Silveira published a report in the British Medical Journal in February 1994, describing two cases of Ghostwatch-induced post-traumatic stress disorder in children, both ten-year-old boys. They stated that these were the first reported cases of PTSD caused by a television programme. Responses to the article described a further four cases in children aged between 11 and 14.

RS_Matt

BANNED.

The reaction to the programme led the BBC to place a decade-long ban on the programme being repeated after its initial broadcast and, although this has now been lifted, it remains unlikely that it will ever be shown again on British television. The British Film Institute controversially released it on Region 2 DVD in November 2002, 20 years after it's first showing

Turbohot

I'll watch it in the morning. I don't want to be freaked out before going to bed.

RS_Matt

I'd be utterly shocked if anyone on here could watch this from like 11pm onwards on their own.

Lights off, sound well up.

Lisawrx

iTrader: (1)

Is it really that bad?

I sort of want to watch it now, just to prove I can do it.

f1_fan

iTrader: (9)

No it's not that bad, but I wouldn't watch it anyway if I were you as you'll be expecting so much more now it's been hyped up and it's really very average. Shows like that are on all the time on Sky Living these days only they actually try and pretend they're real!

Turbohot

Jeez! I won't do it. Not even with my cats.

I dislike horror films. I liked them as a child, but now I'm too old for thus sh4t.

Lisawrx

iTrader: (1)

Is it just like that 'Most Haunted' type thing?

If it is, I'll not waste my time.

Turbohot

Shows of these days are more real looking for sure; thanks to technology. Never mind a horror film, you laugh your head off when you see old times King Kong, even. You could easily work out that there's someone taking a p4ss in a large monkey costume.

f1_fan

iTrader: (9)

Exactly like that

f1_fan

iTrader: (9)

Yes, but the best horror films are still the ones where it's all in the mind and not showing wall to wall gore!

JC-R

Turbohot you have over 43k posts ! So umm, do you have any hobbies ? That is a lot of posts dude

Lisawrx

iTrader: (1)

I like a good thriller. Something with suspense, that keeps you on the edge of your seat, or guessing. Gore just leaves nothing to the imagination.

It's quite a while since I've watched something genuinely 'scary'.

Lisawrx

iTrader: (1)

Load of sh1te then.

Turbohot

Number 1- I'm not a dude. I'm a dudess, actually.

Number 2- I'm not the post king or a queen here. We've had a geezer called Telboy and another geezer called Bubba Po who're professional postwhore champions. I'm just an amateur.

How we managed that many is down to a place called Muppet Show here.

Number 3- One of my hobbies is posting here. Hope this answers your query.

Turbohot

Very true. People get desensitised with wall-to-wall gore after a while. But when the mind generates its own imagery as a result of the response to an abstract trigger for fear, the string of very psyche is twanged in a negative way, and it keeps twanging for a while.

I better go to sleep before my mind starts generating dreadful imagery with all this horror talk. I have a busy day tomorrow.

ditchmyster

iTrader: (7)

I can't watch horror movies, films like the first Evil Dead, Exorcist and Nightmare on elm street really freaked me out for months after and gave me nightmares, why on earth people want to wander around with that stuff bouncing around in their heads is beyond me.

I can't even watch an operation on some doctor type program, strangely though if someone has a serious injury in front of me I can deal with it better than most, first aid training kicks in and I get on with it, the mind is a funny thing.

andylinney

I remember watching it when it was broadcast and being genuinely scared. I could only have been 11 or 12 years old at the time and I think what did it was the fact that they used very credible presenters and approached it on a factual basis.

Actually the whole thing is quite daft and having watched it back last year I could see the funny side to it.

Why was it so controversial? It seemed to be a big departure from the type of programmes that the BBC screened and so no one felt the need to doubt that it was real, this wasn't some camp scouser going cross eyed and talking to his imaginary friend Sam, it was people the British public saw on a daily basis dealing only in fact being hurt by a poltergeist on camera and for a few hours on Halloween in 1992 it all seemed quite real.

An absolutely brilliant trick at the time and it's fair to say that I was sh!tting myself that night - well played BBC!

dpb

IV been more terrified discovering iv run out of loo paper mid sh*t. ...


And I do believe in spirits, kind of


Salems lot was quite good though, ( when I was 10/11 )

dazdavies

iTrader: (22)

Complete Ballix Dr Emilio Sylvestre??? Knew I recognised him...

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0830479/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t16

Rescue Dude

iTrader: (11)

I remember watching that live back in the day.

Was really creepy and unnerving. No idea how anyone could have thought that it was for real but good tv nonetheless.

JDM_Stig

iTrader: (3)

you mean that crap with David Soul ? lol