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Post by elkawho on Oct 3, 2020 14:16:48 GMT
My viewing group is looking for a scary story to watch at our next viewing, so this had me thinking it might me a good topic for the forum. What do you think are the scariest, stories? Here are my choices:
Classic: The Ark in Space, State of Decay
Modern: Midnight, Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead, Blink
BF: Night Thoughts, Project: Twilight, Static
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2020 15:30:06 GMT
My viewing group is looking for a scary story to watch at our next viewing, so this had me thinking it might me a good topic for the forum. What do you think are the scariest, stories? Here are my choices: Classic: The Ark in Space, State of Decay Modern: Midnight, Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead, Blink BF: Night Thoughts, Project: Twilight, Static I'd go along with all of those choices. From the classic series, I'd add The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, because clowns are always frightening - and the werewolf transformation scene scared my friend when she watched it! Also, Revelation of the Daleks is about as dark as it gets, with the disembodied head of Arthur Stengos ranting about taking over the universe a definite favourite.
From the modern show, definitely Midnight. Also The Crimson Horror I found to be pretty unnerving with its surplus of strange aliens - in fact, Jenny was the only relatable human character in it.
From BF's output, I'd add Enemy of the Daleks: pure destruction and terror for 100 minutes.
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Post by doctorkernow on Oct 7, 2020 18:35:33 GMT
Hello again.
I don't like scary stories... but the Big Finish ones that really freaked me out: Red, Night Thoughts, The Silver Turk and the Natural History of Fear.
As for the tv series, Classic Who never really scared me. I watched from the age of about 5. Season 17 was my first full season. The one exception? City of Death, the spaghetti monster, scared me so much that I only watched the repeat through a crack in the door. Oh, it didn't scare me but I loved the gothic horror of Pyramids of Mars and Gabriel Woolf's creepy voice as Sutekh which a friend brought round for me to watch.
Modern Who: The Impossible Planet/Satan Pit was a truly horrid base under seige story. It really made me jump. Again, Gabriel Woolf's creepy voice was used to great effect. The calm but sinister Ood also added to the atmosphere.
I found Midnight and The Empty Child were also scary. "Are you my mummy?"...brr...
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Post by polly on Oct 7, 2020 19:16:02 GMT
I've never found the classic series particularly scary, it's mostly fun in an old monster movie kind of way. But I'd say Daemons, Ark in Space, or Horror of Fang Rock?
Everyone else has already said Midnight for the new series, which I agree with. So I'll nominate Mummy on the Orient Express as a second choice.
Son of the Dragon for Big Finish. It's Dracula, after all. Things like Jubilee might be disturbing, but they're not really Halloween material. I have yet to hear the commonly mentioned Seven tales like Night Thoughts, Live 34, and Red.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2020 19:20:04 GMT
Just audio-
Night Thoughts
Iterations of I
Darkness Of Glass
Static
Night Of The Stormcrow
Seizure
DEEPTIME Frontier
least they are in my imagination lol
but that is off the head ....bet I remember more later
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Post by grinch on Oct 7, 2020 19:42:52 GMT
Even though it does have its issues and you can tell it was originally written for a more visual medium, I think for sheer atmosphere you can’t beat Night Thoughts.
Perfect listening for the Halloween season.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2020 19:45:30 GMT
Even though it does have its issues and you can tell it was originally written for a more visual medium, I think for sheer atmosphere you can’t beat Night Thoughts. Perfect listening for the Halloween season. My first ever BF listen...so creepy I just had to continue buying more lol |
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Post by elkawho on Oct 8, 2020 1:22:01 GMT
I agree with you guys about Red. It's so scary! And Iterations of I is fantastically creepy.
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Post by constonks on Oct 8, 2020 3:13:43 GMT
My Halloween choices this year:
AUDIO:
- Ghost Walk
- Project: Twilight
- Project: Lazarus
- Nevermore
- The Scent of Blood (which will be a first listen)
TV:
- Midnight
- Hide
- Knock Knock
- Can You Hear Me?
(Night Thoughts was originally on the list but got pushed in favour of our forum relisten of Terror of the Sontarans! Next year, I suppose?)
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Post by J.A. Prentice on Oct 8, 2020 3:24:18 GMT
The most I've ever felt disturbed by Doctor Who on TV is the dream sequences in Kinda. I'm not sure why, but something about the atmosphere of those scenes feels unsettling to me.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2020 11:13:09 GMT
The most I've ever felt disturbed by Doctor Who on TV is the dream sequences in Kinda. I'm not sure why, but something about the atmosphere of those scenes feels unsettling to me. The context for it is extremely eerie. It's Tegan's gnawing doubt about her own existence, supported only by something that wants to use her, and that slow loss of control. Freely given in the end in a sort of psychological shell game. The deal she makes is for more agency, more certainty, but it takes all of that away from her. Interestingly, the thing that always disturbed me about Kinda was Hindle because he's fundamentally... well, ordinary. There's nothing that screams megalomaniac, psychopath or wicked, he's just a normal man pushed to a complete mental breakdown by an unkindly superior officer. It's similar to Tegan's own situation. A false aura of control gained by real control completely lost. The bit that always gets me is: "You can't mend people..." he shakes, then shrieks, " You can't mend people!" Doctor Who's always been rather good at existential horror. The Wirrin from The Ark in Space might be the ur-example (Ian Marter's descriptions of them in the novelisation are vivid for their sound; the chittering of cicacas, the rearing of praying mantises), but I can still remember the Tenth Doctor's musings on "the urge to fall" from The Satan Pit. That was pretty spooky as well, the idea that your instinctive brain is tempted just to see what self-destructing feels like, so there's an endorphin response to danger. A rush. That impulse as a small child when hiding to cry out: " I'm here!" because it's thrilling. There's also an element of tragedy there. The Ood, for as much a threat they become, are ultimately benign. They've no control over what they do. They're simply... an extension of the thing in the Pit. Fingers wriggling from the hand on a mind's arm. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2020 12:02:46 GMT
The most I've ever felt disturbed by Doctor Who on TV is the dream sequences in Kinda. I'm not sure why, but something about the atmosphere of those scenes feels unsettling to me. yes totally agree very unnerving and menacing |
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Post by ljwilson on Oct 8, 2020 12:59:23 GMT
How about:
The Red Lady
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Post by martinw8686 on Mar 22, 2023 2:24:06 GMT
Kinda, Fury from the Deep, Seeds of Doom , State of Decay, Ghost light.
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Mar 22, 2023 3:12:04 GMT
1 of my earliest Who memories on tv is seeing "Meglos" and "catcus face 4th Doctor".. Was easily 1981 as we were behind the UK. That freaked me out !  |
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Post by Sir Wearer of Hats on Mar 26, 2023 0:07:18 GMT
I was a nipper when I first encountered Who.
And by THUNDER some of that was creepy/scary.
Seeds of Doom, Claws of Axos, Ark in Space, Image of the Fendahl, Horror of Fang Rock….
I was a member of the local Doctor Who Fan Club in the early 90s (BDWFC) and they used to use the QUT lecture hall in rotation with a QUT classroom for meetings and they saved the marque episodes for the lecture hall (dubbed “big screen days” by my brother and I, he only ever came for the big screen days). This is before DVDs, before a WHOLE TONNE of stories were out on VHS. So yes, it was “keep the tapes moving” era. It was dubbed “procured by parrot” apparently (as it “pirated”).
Anyhoo…
We had a big screen day coming up and they’d “procured by parrot” a copy of Claws of Axos.
I literally had to hit the toilets to get away from the unrelenting terror. I was about 10.
It was a long, empty corridor between the lecture hall and the VERY empty (and because… Queensland… equally run down) toilets and my imagination filled every room with Axons.
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Mar 26, 2023 0:11:31 GMT
I was a nipper when I first encountered Who. And by THUNDER some of that was creepy/scary. Seeds of Doom, Claws of Axos, Ark in Space, Image of the Fendahl, Horror of Fang Rock…. I was a member of the local Doctor Who Fan Club in the early 90s (BDWFC) and they used to use the QUT lecture hall in rotation with a QUT classroom for meetings and they saved the marque episodes for the lecture hall (dubbed “big screen days” by my brother and I, he only ever came for the big screen days). This is before DVDs, before a WHOLE TONNE of stories were out on VHS. So yes, it was “keep the tapes moving” era. It was dubbed “procured by parrot” apparently (as it “pirated”). Anyhoo… We had a big screen day coming up and they’d “procured by parrot” a copy of Claws of Axos. I literally had to hit the toilets to get away from the unrelenting terror. I was about 10. It was a long, empty corridor between the lecture hall and the VERY empty (and because… Queensland… equally run down) toilets and my imagination filled every room with Axons. ahh the good ol' days where you could buy VHS video tapes and blank cassette music tapes in every store in the early 80's. I remember the law at the time was you could record for personal usage and not distribute or show anyone..
Good times, waaay before DVD/Blu Rays
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