I love this movie.From Time to Time,
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I love this movie.From Time to Time,
...leave words out much?.....Hunter's Blood (1986)
Actually has some pretty well known and actresses in it. It's the first movie I can remember seeing Billy Bob Thornton, I think it was his first movie if I remember correctly. Not great by any means, but a good B movie.
Hunter's Blood (1986) - IMDb
Very nice to hear you mention the Green Knowe books, CoriSCapnSkip! I loved them as a child, and they are in a beautiful little area just outside of horror, where ghosts mingle with magic and the eternal fears of children (the deaths of parents, being sent away, etc)... I haven't seen From Time to Time, but the BBC produced a TV series of The Children on Green Knowe when I was little, and it was lovely! Here it is -
Wait Till Helen Comes sounds like the type of thing I would enjoy too, judging by your description. ("A lot of people's favourite scary kids' book..." Superb!) Thank you for letting me know about it! I'll watch it and make a full report.
The public’s response was enormous, primarily outrage. People just did not expect tricks of this kind from the TV in those days, which was largely responsible for the incredible shock and fear which it caused. Programmes had to be broadcast quickly in which BBC executives apologised indirect by explaining the artistic effect they had been aiming for. The newspapers spoke of nothing else, and one poor, intellectually disabled young man actually committed suicide, unable to quite believe that it had been fake.
At school on Monday morning, my friends were all saying that they had “known it was fake all along” and “hadn’t been scared at all.” I said so too, which was the biggest lie I had ever told! At the time, I thought I was the only one of my friends who had been fooled. Now, older and wiser, I look back and realise that most, and probably all, of them had been lying too. It is tempting to say that this was my generation’s equivalent of the notorious War of the Worlds radio broadcast, except that nowadays we are told that stories of people’s reactions to The War of the Worlds were exaggerated, created by journalists after the event, and that most people at the time knew they were listening to a play. How much truth there is in this, I couldn’t possibly begin to say. What is certain is that Ghostwatch fooled millions, and gave them the type of fright known only to the victims of the most horrendous crimes. Which is really what I look for in a good film, you know?
....hell yes!....scared the crap outta me to!.....Just tossing this out there, but has anybody seen Trilogy of Terror from 1975?
...leave words out much?.....
...know....All time...lol
....hell yes!....scared the crap outta me to!.....
DAMN YOU!!! I'd gotten that fricking doll out of my head!! My Mom and I watched that and skirted the couch when we walked by for a month!
I remember seeing that years ago, and that it was creepyHas anyone seen Lady in White starring Lukas Haas?
I remember seeing that years ago, and that it was creepy
Thanks, I learned about the Green Knowe series through the PBS educational series Cover to Cover, where I discovered many lifelong favorites. I did not know of any filmed versions besides From Time to Time. If you like, I can make a thread in the books section about scary children's literature with descriptions and recommendations.
A movie Picnic at Hanging Rock was done as if presenting actual events surrounding the disappearances of a teacher and several students in rural Australia in the early 1900s. When a title at the end stated it was fictional, my parents were so mad they screamed! My mom watched it again not long ago--I wouldn't, considering it a waste of time--but she said it was pretty good. "Hanging Rock" is apt as the story leaves the viewer, and, in the book's original edition, the reader, hanging! Basically, it concerns a region where the land itself is such a powerful force the puny trappings of civilization cannot stand against it. The final chapter was rejected, but the rest of the book published without the ending, and the movie also filmed without the ending. Years later, it turned out the explanation was of a paranormal or fantastic nature and the book was reprinted including the final chapter.
In recent years, the trend has been for fake documentaries. My mom and her brother were totally taken in by Mermaids: The Body Found--in fact, my uncle even yelled at me when I told him it was fake. The same people did a ridiculous program on Megalodons, extinct for well over a million years, having resurfaced, and one about "Vile Vortices" which led some viewers to believe a normally docile pet dog went berserk and killed a child on camera, and that the program was tasteless enough to air his actual death, including repeatedly playing heart-wrenching screams appealing to his daddy for help. When my dad was old and had lost a few marbles following several strokes, he was quite taken in by a fake documentary made to accompany The Blair Witch Project. It was hard to convince him it was not for real. Little wonder nowadays fake news is such a problem.
Love this movie. Such a weird plot and weird music...This was a nasty little flick..not great,but okay..