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minervasoloBeen watching this '100 greatest scary momens' thing. Interesting how many public broadcasts have made it in. Ignoring the woefully useess aotmic attack ones, there's one about 'lonely waters' which would scare the shit out of anyone, not just kids. Loads of different clips of kids playing near ponds and river with their friends, and falling in and drowning. That's a bit unnerving for a kids thing on it's own, but all the time they are playing there's this hooded figure behind them, and a really freaky voice over. When the kids are finally sensible, the hooded figure just collapses into a robe in the water, but this voice over mutters (with reverb) "I'll be back". So that's where Arnie got his catchphrase...
One film way up in the 90s got my attention though. "Whistle and I'll come to you". They showed a clip of the ending. Guy in bed watching a sheet jerk about, and cutting back and forth betwee guy having screaming hab-dabs and this sheet. And it's honestly chilling. Why? There's no sound, apart form these grunts of terror. One of my other favourite most frightening film moments comes form anohter ancient black and white film, "The day the Earth caught fire", which is also chilling because there's no music. Music ruins so many scary flms. You know something bad is going to happen, so you're prepared. There's no shock value. And creepy music isn't, well, creeepy any more. Silence is creepy.
No aurora. Too rainy. I keep going out to check, and down at he bottom of the garden there's this pulsing, flashing light. It's a sort of yellowy-green, and it's comging from the junior school which backs onto all the houses down my road. Saw it at 8, dismissed it as someone watching tv in the house. Saw it at 11:00, freaked out, and not just from watching all these freaky scary movie clips. Especially unnerved when sister reminded me that it's a school, not a house, so there shouldn't be anyone there. It's utterly irregular, really weird colour, and you can see it at various levels of brightness in most of the windows.
Turns out it's one of those long tubular bulbs, the neon-esque ones, that's been left on and is flickering itself to death. But seriously, most creepy.
I want to film it. In the rain. no sound but te rain, and this flickering light that you cant work out what it is. Because right now I want to make a scary movie.
One film way up in the 90s got my attention though. "Whistle and I'll come to you". They showed a clip of the ending. Guy in bed watching a sheet jerk about, and cutting back and forth betwee guy having screaming hab-dabs and this sheet. And it's honestly chilling. Why? There's no sound, apart form these grunts of terror. One of my other favourite most frightening film moments comes form anohter ancient black and white film, "The day the Earth caught fire", which is also chilling because there's no music. Music ruins so many scary flms. You know something bad is going to happen, so you're prepared. There's no shock value. And creepy music isn't, well, creeepy any more. Silence is creepy.
No aurora. Too rainy. I keep going out to check, and down at he bottom of the garden there's this pulsing, flashing light. It's a sort of yellowy-green, and it's comging from the junior school which backs onto all the houses down my road. Saw it at 8, dismissed it as someone watching tv in the house. Saw it at 11:00, freaked out, and not just from watching all these freaky scary movie clips. Especially unnerved when sister reminded me that it's a school, not a house, so there shouldn't be anyone there. It's utterly irregular, really weird colour, and you can see it at various levels of brightness in most of the windows.
Turns out it's one of those long tubular bulbs, the neon-esque ones, that's been left on and is flickering itself to death. But seriously, most creepy.
I want to film it. In the rain. no sound but te rain, and this flickering light that you cant work out what it is. Because right now I want to make a scary movie.
