charliepops
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Post by charliepops on Sept 13, 2007 22:19:22 GMT
Does anyone else remember being terrified senseless by this one off BBC drama from 1992?
It was a play filmed as if it was a live investigation into a haunting on a North London council estate and for the first half or so nothing happens, but when it does it really hits the fan and goes bonkers scary. While we never see the ghost properly, getting little glimpses of him here and there was enough to scare me silly. I had sleepless nights for weeks.
I bought it on DVD about two years ago and while the acting in it is a bit atrocious, it's still incredibly menacing and unsettling. Apparently after a slew of complaints (only Jerry Springer the Opera and this years Celeb BB have ever received more) it was decided that it would never be shown again. Which is a real shame as it ones of those rare fright fests that deserves a second look.
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Sarah
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Post by Sarah on Sept 13, 2007 23:34:25 GMT
I was 12. My parents had gone the pub. I was very scared.
I got that it was fake when it started getting really ridiculous but still…yikes. I didn’t know you could get it on DVD. Although, I'm not sure that I want to see it again because just thinking about it makes me a little nervous.
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richdidnt
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Post by richdidnt on Sept 13, 2007 23:37:22 GMT
I didnt know this was fake until about 4 years ago. I remember screaming crying when I watched this, what was that ghost called Pipes? I couldn't watch Going Live for a couple of weeks because Sarah Green kept bringing back memories of this show. I felt like a right prat when I found out it was in fact a hoax. I think its far more believable when your 12 and under.
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Post by David Hunter on Sept 19, 2007 9:21:56 GMT
I'm sure we have a whole thread about this somewhere. One of those where we're discussing a topic and it becomes about something totally unrelated.
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Post by David Hunter on Sept 19, 2007 9:26:59 GMT
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skillex
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Post by skillex on Sept 19, 2007 19:32:54 GMT
I think Ghost Watch probably deserves a thread all of its own as it was so ace.
I remember it really clearly and found my memories of it pretty accuaret when I got it on Lovefilm recently. I was 12 when it was on and even though by the end it was blatantly fiction it was still scary. I do recall one of my dimwitted sunbed-addicted cousins who must have been in her 20s at this time saying the next weekend "and you didn't know until the next day if it was real or not". Hmmm.
Anyway, although nowadays I think it looks a bit stagey and obvious, it probably looked far more convincing at the time. My boyfriend still scares me by pretending he's Mr Pipes standing at the curtains!
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Post by raspberry on Sept 19, 2007 20:07:57 GMT
I knew it was fake as it was advertised as part of a thread of dramas in the time slot. I loved it even more when I heard about all the complaints, made me realise how stupid grown ups could be.
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Post by pauliepoos on Sept 19, 2007 20:14:23 GMT
I knew it was fake as it was advertised as part of a thread of dramas in the time slot. I loved it even more when I heard about all the complaints, made me realise how stupid grown ups could be. That the cast was listed in the Radio Times made me think people should have realised it was acted. But then I came to the conclusion that stupid people don't buy the Radio Times.
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Ben
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Post by Ben on Sept 20, 2007 18:31:00 GMT
Fe Fi Fo Fum....
I was watching this on DVD the other week.
Great stuff - every detail is just right. Craig Charles mugging to the camera, Sarah Greene being calm and unflappable (until the climax).
Love the fireplace in the Ghostwatch studio. Nicely kitsch.
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Post by El Capitan on Oct 2, 2007 22:21:46 GMT
This still scares me now. I flat out refuse to watch it alone. Has anybody managed to find Pipes in all of his little hiding places? I think he has eight in total, the shit-scariest being him just stood nonchalantly behind a woman in the crowd just after Craig Charles talks to some working class women about an eviscerated dog. I actually shrieked when I realised he was there. (Pipes I mean, I'd made my peace already with Craig Charles' presence.)
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Post by audrey notwhatsheusedtobe on Oct 3, 2007 11:52:32 GMT
Wasn't there a story that a guy hung himself due to extreme terror after watching the show? Bit of an over-reaction really.
I only kind of half-watched it so don't having any shitting-myself stories I'm afraid. I don't think anyone would fall for it now in the post-Acorah era.
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jerriblank
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Post by jerriblank on Oct 3, 2007 12:43:46 GMT
I think Pipes appears here:
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Post by audrey notwhatsheusedtobe on Oct 4, 2007 14:21:53 GMT
I think Pipes appears here: OK that is actually very scary. I want to see it all now.
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skillex
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Post by skillex on Oct 4, 2007 19:11:03 GMT
Even looking at the Wikipedia page and sitting thinking about it has me shit scared.
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Post by Joel on Oct 4, 2007 19:38:52 GMT
I'm all backwards. I watched this when I was about 11 and it didn't scare me at all, and I thought most of my friends were r-tards for being scared by it.
Watching it now, I'm bejeesus scared.
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Post by El Capitan on Oct 8, 2007 15:21:01 GMT
Wow, I totally forgot about that bit with him under the stairs. Its broad daylight right now and I sharted just a little bit.
And there's that bit when they're listening to the ghost voice in the studio and he's just stood there behind them. How the fuck I sat through this all those years ago I'll never know.
"You didn't believe the stories about Mother Seddons, did you?" Gaah!!
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