Yeah, brilliant. Remember chatting on the landline (remember them?) To mates afterwards and we’d all loved it and spotted different things. Playground chatter for weeks as well.
Bought the DVD a few years back and got my daughter hooked too, comes out every year now!
Absolutely scared the shit out of me, to the point where my parents decided it wasn’t really suitable for me to finish watching and sent me to bed.
After about an hour of laying awake unable to sleep, my dad and older brother came in with a copy the telly page from the newspaper and showed me where it described the programme as a “spoof documentary”. They eventually managed to convince me that it wasn’t real – including getting The Big Dictionary^(TM) down from the bookshelf to prove what “spoof” meant.
Mr pipes terrified me.
Not me, because I know ghosts don’t exist.
I didn’t watch it when it came out, but it quickly became my favourite horror when I watched it back I 2019. I have it on DVD now.
I was 9 when this aired. Not joking when I say I didn’t sleep for weeks afterwards! I have it on DVD, it’s easy to see how we were all freaked out. The ending is a bit much though 😅
I was 14, mum & dad had gone out for the night. I was babysitting my younger sibs & had a friend staying over. Friend & I watched this once the sibs had gone to bed and were properly shitted up. How naive & trusting we were.
Absolute classic. The cats/banging door at the end always gets me. The wife has never seen it and hates horrors, I’m going to try and put it on this Halloween! 😂 RIP my marriage.
It got a mention in a documentary on Shudder about Found Footage films! I gave it a watch, thinking it might be a bit hokey, but it was really effective…there’s just something about peoples reactions to things that make it unsettling and creepy. I wish I’d watched it when it was on originally, but it stands up for sure.
Got this on DVD!
It terrified me as a kid, my dad had to hold me back from ringing the hotline.
No!
I had to watch Watership down to take my mind off it.
Me as well. Too young/gullible/stupid to catch on that it was fake
Sod the TV show, look at that Seddon Pennine 4!
It’s not the Albion that it replaced, but it’s still a lovely vehicle.
I went to school with one of the kids. I’ve forgotten her name…Harriet maybe lol. But it was very well done
I thought it was real until they interviewed some psychologist who I knew I’d seen as an actor in something before. It seems that was a common theme among people who watched at the time.
It was still a rip roaring ride even once I had it sussed.
Yep, in a big way. Missed the start and the end so it was just a gut wrenching terror. Sat with the bucket while insisting that I was ok and still wanted to stay up. Pipes man…jeez
1992? Fucking hell, I was only 10 and had started getting into the likes of “Point Horror” (Remember that was where R.L. Stine pumped out stories before he realised he was writing all the best ones and set up his own Goosebumps brand?) so I watched it excitedly after coming in from guising (Scottish) but it was so damn scary I gave up and I was glad I did because I remember a story (and I think it was legit) saying it spooked someone’s hair white.
It didn’t completely put me off still moving on to Clive Barker and X-Files but it definitely gave me the heebie jeebies
Are there any good modern British horror movies?
I was babysitting for my aunt and uncle at the time and started watching it with the lights off. Half way through the lights went on in every downstairs room lol
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I fucking *trusted* you, Craig Charles.
Couldn’t sleep without the light on for DAYS.
Ghost watch was so good.
Yeah, brilliant. Remember chatting on the landline (remember them?) To mates afterwards and we’d all loved it and spotted different things. Playground chatter for weeks as well.
Bought the DVD a few years back and got my daughter hooked too, comes out every year now!
PIPES!
https://archive.org/details/Ghostwatch
Absolutely scared the shit out of me, to the point where my parents decided it wasn’t really suitable for me to finish watching and sent me to bed.
After about an hour of laying awake unable to sleep, my dad and older brother came in with a copy the telly page from the newspaper and showed me where it described the programme as a “spoof documentary”. They eventually managed to convince me that it wasn’t real – including getting The Big Dictionary^(TM) down from the bookshelf to prove what “spoof” meant.
Mr pipes terrified me.
Not me, because I know ghosts don’t exist.
I didn’t watch it when it came out, but it quickly became my favourite horror when I watched it back I 2019. I have it on DVD now.
I was 9 when this aired. Not joking when I say I didn’t sleep for weeks afterwards! I have it on DVD, it’s easy to see how we were all freaked out. The ending is a bit much though 😅
I was 14, mum & dad had gone out for the night. I was babysitting my younger sibs & had a friend staying over. Friend & I watched this once the sibs had gone to bed and were properly shitted up. How naive & trusting we were.
Absolute classic. The cats/banging door at the end always gets me. The wife has never seen it and hates horrors, I’m going to try and put it on this Halloween! 😂 RIP my marriage.
It got a mention in a documentary on Shudder about Found Footage films! I gave it a watch, thinking it might be a bit hokey, but it was really effective…there’s just something about peoples reactions to things that make it unsettling and creepy. I wish I’d watched it when it was on originally, but it stands up for sure.
Got this on DVD!
It terrified me as a kid, my dad had to hold me back from ringing the hotline.
No!
I had to watch Watership down to take my mind off it.
Me as well. Too young/gullible/stupid to catch on that it was fake
Sod the TV show, look at that Seddon Pennine 4!
It’s not the Albion that it replaced, but it’s still a lovely vehicle.
I went to school with one of the kids. I’ve forgotten her name…Harriet maybe lol. But it was very well done
I thought it was real until they interviewed some psychologist who I knew I’d seen as an actor in something before. It seems that was a common theme among people who watched at the time.
It was still a rip roaring ride even once I had it sussed.
Yep, in a big way. Missed the start and the end so it was just a gut wrenching terror. Sat with the bucket while insisting that I was ok and still wanted to stay up. Pipes man…jeez
1992? Fucking hell, I was only 10 and had started getting into the likes of “Point Horror” (Remember that was where R.L. Stine pumped out stories before he realised he was writing all the best ones and set up his own Goosebumps brand?) so I watched it excitedly after coming in from guising (Scottish) but it was so damn scary I gave up and I was glad I did because I remember a story (and I think it was legit) saying it spooked someone’s hair white.
It didn’t completely put me off still moving on to Clive Barker and X-Files but it definitely gave me the heebie jeebies
Are there any good modern British horror movies?
I was babysitting for my aunt and uncle at the time and started watching it with the lights off. Half way through the lights went on in every downstairs room lol