scariest moments
Oct. 23rd, 2005 01:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethjust finished watching a thing on E4 about the 100 scariest moments
BtVS Hush was at #25
I've seen more of the list than I thought I would have, but still not very many.
I'm trying to figure out which is scarier, Ghostwatch or Daleks.
Ghostwatch cheated. I'm sure the newspaper didn't say it was a drama. They pretended it was live TV with known faces. And then things went Horribly Wrong. Cheating.
I haven't seen it since it was first shown. Obviously at the time it scared me to bitses. I had nightmares. And then when I woke up and turned the bedside lamp on the bulb went, with a really bright flash that I could have sworn illuminated a big scary dark guy in my room. I managed to jump out of bed and put the main lights on, but that still ranks up there as one of the scarier moments of my life, and possibly the scariest that wasn't chemically enhanced.
Prescription meds not always of the good. I had some to help with my sleeping. They didn't make me sleep. They made me unable to wake up. Very Important Difference. I managed to get my eyes open at one point which just meant the nightmares were ALL over the WALLS. That was a Very Bad Thing. As soon as my helpful person visited I took the whole bottle back to the pharmacy. Very bad pills those ones. Bad.
Then there was the time I was watching Hellraiser, and the walls started creaking...
The people upstairs were running a bath I think, but I call that unfair.
And there was the trippy time when the walls turned into code like in the Matrix, only in shades of blue on blue, not boring green and black. That was one of my half asleep moments. I used to regularly get those, like I'd half wake up and there would be an axe murderer in the doorway. But then one time I dreamed there was a brick wall in the doorway, and then the bricks went away but the axeman didn't come back. Hope it stays that way. Emphatically not a nice way to wake up.
ANYways, Daleks are much more... Like, they shouldn't give me nightmares. They are in no way shape or form real. Or realistic even. And yet, every bloody time I watch a Dalek episode, Dalek nightmares. Some of it has to be early imprinting. But some of it is that Daleks really are just that good. They're tanks, when the good guys don't have any tankbusting weapons. They are tanks that can roll right into your house. They float. Everyone mocks Daleks for not being able to go up stairs, but they obviously haven't seen all the episodes, because they've been able to fly since way back. Float right up and down stairs they do. They can come right out of the water. Or fly around through empty space. There is nowhere, absolutely nowhere, you are safe from them. Plus they've got the totalitarian dictator thing going on. But with the final solution covering the whole human race, and everything else that isn't Dalek. They can think, but not reason. They can think well enough to catch you, but you can't talk them out of killing you. They have that whole zombie implacability thing going on but with a very vampires among us conspiracy creepy bit going on as well. And, okay, the Doctor and his companions regularly blow them up, or make them blow themselves up, but there's the other thing - there are always more. There will always be more. Individually, they might be stoppable, but they aren't really individuals. Daleks are unstoppable, because there will always be more Daleks.
Sink plungers, whisks and pepperpots they may be, but Daleks are really bloody scary.
Ghostwatch has the edge because it messes with the this can't be real factor, but Daleks have more all round cool and I've been scared of them longer. So, still not sure which is scarier.
Of course I won't voluntarily watch serial killer movies, so they logically are scarier than any of the others. But I have much less to say about them.
BtVS Hush was at #25
I've seen more of the list than I thought I would have, but still not very many.
I'm trying to figure out which is scarier, Ghostwatch or Daleks.
Ghostwatch cheated. I'm sure the newspaper didn't say it was a drama. They pretended it was live TV with known faces. And then things went Horribly Wrong. Cheating.
I haven't seen it since it was first shown. Obviously at the time it scared me to bitses. I had nightmares. And then when I woke up and turned the bedside lamp on the bulb went, with a really bright flash that I could have sworn illuminated a big scary dark guy in my room. I managed to jump out of bed and put the main lights on, but that still ranks up there as one of the scarier moments of my life, and possibly the scariest that wasn't chemically enhanced.
Prescription meds not always of the good. I had some to help with my sleeping. They didn't make me sleep. They made me unable to wake up. Very Important Difference. I managed to get my eyes open at one point which just meant the nightmares were ALL over the WALLS. That was a Very Bad Thing. As soon as my helpful person visited I took the whole bottle back to the pharmacy. Very bad pills those ones. Bad.
Then there was the time I was watching Hellraiser, and the walls started creaking...
The people upstairs were running a bath I think, but I call that unfair.
And there was the trippy time when the walls turned into code like in the Matrix, only in shades of blue on blue, not boring green and black. That was one of my half asleep moments. I used to regularly get those, like I'd half wake up and there would be an axe murderer in the doorway. But then one time I dreamed there was a brick wall in the doorway, and then the bricks went away but the axeman didn't come back. Hope it stays that way. Emphatically not a nice way to wake up.
ANYways, Daleks are much more... Like, they shouldn't give me nightmares. They are in no way shape or form real. Or realistic even. And yet, every bloody time I watch a Dalek episode, Dalek nightmares. Some of it has to be early imprinting. But some of it is that Daleks really are just that good. They're tanks, when the good guys don't have any tankbusting weapons. They are tanks that can roll right into your house. They float. Everyone mocks Daleks for not being able to go up stairs, but they obviously haven't seen all the episodes, because they've been able to fly since way back. Float right up and down stairs they do. They can come right out of the water. Or fly around through empty space. There is nowhere, absolutely nowhere, you are safe from them. Plus they've got the totalitarian dictator thing going on. But with the final solution covering the whole human race, and everything else that isn't Dalek. They can think, but not reason. They can think well enough to catch you, but you can't talk them out of killing you. They have that whole zombie implacability thing going on but with a very vampires among us conspiracy creepy bit going on as well. And, okay, the Doctor and his companions regularly blow them up, or make them blow themselves up, but there's the other thing - there are always more. There will always be more. Individually, they might be stoppable, but they aren't really individuals. Daleks are unstoppable, because there will always be more Daleks.
Sink plungers, whisks and pepperpots they may be, but Daleks are really bloody scary.
Ghostwatch has the edge because it messes with the this can't be real factor, but Daleks have more all round cool and I've been scared of them longer. So, still not sure which is scarier.
Of course I won't voluntarily watch serial killer movies, so they logically are scarier than any of the others. But I have much less to say about them.
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Date: 2005-10-23 12:50 pm (UTC)Dalek = pedal bin with attitude... and a sink plunger...
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Date: 2005-10-23 09:21 pm (UTC)and because they look silly but then they KILL YOU DEAD!!!1!!