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>Was the werewolf one the one with the strange >monkeylike thing (least, that's how I remember >it) that leapt up at someone's bedroom window >fairly early on?

That's the beast- hence never flinging open curtains again- except for the aforementioned cat incident.

I don't even do it now!!!

And I know your "Snow Beast" pain as well.  Especially the bit where it clamped it's meaty paw down onto that guy's head right after he screamed (obviously knowing that he was about to bite the dust)...

>Some of the Hammer House of Horror episode were >rubbish but some were totally evil. The one I >particularly remember (apart from the werewolf >one) about a village full of Dopplegangers >started with this family picking up a hitch->hiker in a long yellow hooded coat

God!  This freaked me out for years- and I never even watched it!!!  The bit you just described was for the trailer- that was enough for me.  Years later, I actually DID pass a man in a yellow mac, in the middle of nowhere and in the rain no less, thumbing a lift.  Needless to say I drove right by him.

Let me make a guess about the werewolf one- you NEVER flung your curtains open EVER again...  I only did it once after that and the bloody cat was waiting at the window to "meooow" at me, thus undoing years of therapy...

Evil indeed.

Ooooh!  Channel Four shorts...  Saw one once where a guy in a secluded country road gets his foot trapped in a rabbit hole or something.  His whole day gets worse and worse as he attempts to get out of the hole (the worst bit being when some people turn up and you think that they're going to help- only to find that they mug him instead).  Eventually, when he's in the absolute depths of despair and you expect something good to happen to him- the ground opens up and swallows him whole instead.  Nice

Yeah- that sounds pretty scary.  It wasn't called "The Georgian House" was it?  Or something like that?  I seem to remember a bunch of kids standing around an urn or something and it was spinning around and you could hear jungle drums- the word "boy" being chanted over and over.  Freaked me right out at the time, whatever it was.

And what about "Children of the Stones"?  It had Gareth Thomas out of Blake's Seven in it and was out at about the same time as whatever nightmare I was just describing.  Basically, a father and son end up in this creepy village that's surrounded by standing stones.  I don't really remember it now because I'd only have been six or seven at the time- but the stones used to come alive and move about.  Not good...

It's no wonder I have to go out and kill women...

Hahahaha!  I'd have paid good money to see that!


Actually, I'd probably have just shat myself and run away...

I think it was the family cat that was scared to death in "The Monster of Boggy Creek".  They found it on the front porch in the morning looking like it'd been stuffed and mounted.  Which I kind of guess was the case, come to think of it.  It's face was drawn back in that way that cats do when they're hissing/spitting at you- all flat ears and wot-not.

Bad luck on the cemetary gig- that's the kind of thing that can really fuck you up for years- good old George Romero!

Oh my sweet bejaysus!  Right after I watched that film (The Monster of Boggy Creek), I went out to play on the green (alone- can't let your kids do that shit anymore!).  It was snowing and I was busy making giant snowballs and stuff just as it was starting to get dark. I remember turning around and there- maybe thirty feet away was.... The monster of Boggy Creek!!  I tried to scream but only managed this pathetic little squeek before my voice box totally closed up- which was a good thing as it turned out.

I'd been terrified of a medium sized conifer.  I was only ten though.  In fact I might only have been nine...

I was right crap at that!  3950 was my best score- useless!!!

What about "pure unadulterated child's piss"?

Cheggers plays pot (belly).  What WAS this man thinking...

He's got a nice pair of man breeests as well.

Cool- never had five in a row before.

Sorry to waste your time.

I guess if I popped my cloggs tomorrow, there'd be a wealth of untold tales to tell (none of it very interesting I'm afraid)- so as long as we never get to meet Johnny Alpha, octogenarian S.D. Agent, there shouldn't really be a problem- right?

Failing that, if somebody wants to go back in time and resurrect the bugger by rescuing him before he died- I'm cool with that too.  It's as least as believable as a man who emits alpha radiation from his eyes after all!

Yeah- I know what you mean- it did come a little bit out of nowhere didn't it?  Plus I'm always amazed at how well a thumb fits an eye socket...

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Now call me pedantic- but why didn't the infected just turn on each other?  I thought the whole point was that they were just totally consumed with rage, but I couldn't help but notice that they seemed a lot less angry around each other (to the point of actually getting it together enough to attack in groups) than they were with with the regular dudes.  And surely twenty eight days is long enough to starve yourself into inactivity?!?

That cab did indeed seem to defy all known laws of physics and sanity- but I still thought it was a good film overall.  Bit disturbing actually!

Matt

Yeah- but I hated Dredd's old Lawgiver- it looked like it was made on Blue Peter- especially the way Ron Smith used to draw it...

Let's face it- it was about the only good thing to come out of that dire Dredd movie!

What?!?  Nobody thinks that my version of Zenith looks like a camp old man?!?

Was expecting a right slating there...