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Post by asmodeus on Oct 31, 2009 0:30:02 GMT
wasn't there also a quite terrifying episode of thriller that featured diana dors as a demonic nurse or something? i have a box set that features some thriller episodes but its not on that
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Post by ripper on Oct 31, 2009 9:17:59 GMT
The Diana Dors Thriller episode was called "Nurse will make it Better." I remember the Thriller episodes being shown on Bravo around 1996 but I am not sure if they have been screened since then.
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Post by dem bones on Oct 31, 2009 16:29:34 GMT
Dem, I think the "Quiet as a Nun" episode was from Armchair Thriller. I don't remember too much about the series apart from that one famous scene in "Quiet as a Nun." Thanks Rip. I think i've sussed why i can only remember the famous scene - it's probably because it's the only bit i've seen. Wasn't it shown on that C4 100 Greatest Scary Moments programme a few years back?
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Post by ripper on Oct 31, 2009 19:40:08 GMT
That scene from "Quiet as a Nun" was no. 63 on C4's scariest moments list, Dem.
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Post by dem bones on Nov 1, 2009 11:56:53 GMT
That 100 Greatest Scary Moments From Film, TV, Advertising & Pop was shown four halloween's ago, Rip. i just found a thread about it on the old board, Dead Scary TV. Reading through it now, the saddest thing is how many brilliant sites like Supernatural TV, Thriller and Black Nun have disappeared in the meantime, but the 100 Greatest Scary Moments listing is still available here. It's clear some thought went into compiling it, with The Singing Ringing Tree, the notorious Ghostwatch fake haunting (should have its own thread!), the creepy, pointy-nosed ballet dancer from the Metz ad mixed in among the usual suspects.
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Post by ripper on Nov 1, 2009 13:22:10 GMT
Looking through that list, Dem, the one that really jumped out at me was the information advert warning children about the dangers of playing in old canals, pools and other bodies of water. I had completely forgotten about it but as soon as I saw it on the list then it all came back to me. It must have kept quite a few kids awake at night...and hopefully well away from dangerous stretches of water. The list also mentioned (in the same entry) 2 other films, one warning about playing near electricity pylons and the other about glass on beaches. I remember the former but the latter I don't recall at all. I also seem to have a recollection of one warning about the dangers of being trapped in old fridges. I wonder what would be the reaction today if these films were screened in the middle of kids programmes like they were back in the 1970s?
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Post by ripper on Nov 1, 2009 13:36:50 GMT
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Post by killercrab on Nov 1, 2009 16:37:14 GMT
The list also mentioned (in the same entry) 2 other films, one warning about playing near electricity pylons and the other about glass on beaches. I remember the former but the latter I don't recall at all. >.
It ended with a close up freeze frame of a kid's foot about to step on a jagged piece of glass.
KC
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Post by H_P_Saucecraft on Nov 1, 2009 17:25:03 GMT
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Post by ripper on Nov 2, 2009 8:21:22 GMT
Thanks, KC, that did jog my memory and I think I did see that one sometime in the dim and murky past.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Nov 2, 2009 11:26:23 GMT
Far scarier than many horror films. One additional scary bit was the crossing advert using the word 'slink' as a mnemonic for things like 'safe, 'pavement' and...I lost it halfway through. i wonder if kids had Einsteinian minds then that grasped abstracts better?
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Post by dem bones on Nov 2, 2009 13:00:49 GMT
One of the recent road safety efforts is a crushingly grim horror story in miniature. Man at home in his flat, on the floor, a dead child. Man takes walk in the park, scattered here and there on the grass, dead children .....
There was another incredibly creepy affair not so long ago showing the effects of a car-child collision at different speeds. Hit at over the limit, the kid is a corpse. Then they reduce it to 30 mph and the corpse starts coming back to life. It's the twig-like 'snap' as the broken limbs knit together that does it.
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Post by ripper on Nov 2, 2009 14:40:12 GMT
I typed "public information film" into Wikipedia and there was a page with lots of information on classic PIFs of the past and also those of a more recent vintage, including the ones Dem and Craig were talking about earlier in the thread.
A close relative of the PIF was the industrial safety film. Anyone studying engineering in the 70s and 80s will remember all those shorts warning of the dangers of machinery of all kinds. I vividly recall sitting in a darkened classroom on a friday afternoon being shown industrial safety films on an old 16mm projector (no VCRs then). What made them so much fun was that they were often pretty graphic. One showed a chap having his fingers lopped off in an industrial guillotine. Another one showed a guy working on a lathe and his loose necktie being caught in the spinning chuck with lots of spraying blood. I think there was also one in which someone walks into the raised forks of a forklift truck. There were so many of these films...does anyone else remember them?
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Post by allthingshorror on Nov 2, 2009 14:53:38 GMT
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Post by mattofthespurs on Nov 2, 2009 18:05:40 GMT
I typed "public information film" into Wikipedia and there was a page with lots of information on classic PIFs of the past and also those of a more recent vintage, including the ones Dem and Craig were talking about earlier in the thread. A close relative of the PIF was the industrial safety film. Anyone studying engineering in the 70s and 80s will remember all those shorts warning of the dangers of machinery of all kinds. I vividly recall sitting in a darkened classroom on a friday afternoon being shown industrial safety films on an old 16mm projector (no VCRs then). What made them so much fun was that they were often pretty graphic. One showed a chap having his fingers lopped off in an industrial guillotine. Another one showed a guy working on a lathe and his loose necktie being caught in the spinning chuck with lots of spraying blood. I think there was also one in which someone walks into the raised forks of a forklift truck. There were so many of these films...does anyone else remember them? There is this dvd which has over 300 public information films on them www.amazon.co.uk/Charley-Says-Public-Information-Films/dp/B0001HK0JI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1257185065&sr=8-1I have it and it is hilarious and frightening at the same time.
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