What have you found frightening on TV?

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Defo quarter mass and the pit!!
There was a drama recently about a bereavement counsellor who stalked and killed attractive young women. That scared me,having two thirty something daughters. Was it called fallen?

Sorry Quatermass.

Atqui; a lot of us were watching that on here and checking our doors were locked etc [although the ending was a disappointment, wasn't it]. I found it really terrifying.

Was it called The Fall?

Watching the film Night of the Hunter, starring Robert Mitchum, it was years ago, but it really gave me the willy creeps!

I was at school with Jo Brand - she tends to gloss over the fact that she went to a grammar school in Tunbridge Wells - far too middle-class! I didn't know her all that well, but she was always on the side of the underdog. She was very forceful, and very brave at standing up for a friend who was being bullied. I can easily see how she became a nurse. She left when she was 16 because her parents wanted to move to Hastings, which was dreadful for her education apparently. So although I'm not all that keen on her comedy and swearing, I do like her in other programmes where her kindness shines through.

Now you've started something FlicketyB I read lots of John Buchan in my youth but I don't remember Witchwood. I'll have to hunt down a copy now! I remember reading The Dancing Floor, but my favourite was Sick Heart River.
I loved Quatermass and The Pit and I've got a DVD of it now which I watch occasionally. I've always thought that the old film of The Night of The Demon was pretty scary even the appearance of the demon itself didn't disappoint.

The Fall was very scary, Atqui and Tegan. I think even more so as the nutter just drove off to a new life at the end - heading for Scotland, wasn't he? I was expecting another series by now.

Dr Who's Weeping Angels terrify me. And those evacuees with the gas masks, even while I felt sorry for them.

The price of most of the toys advertised !

I like watching horror films but the one film that did make me hold my breath was 'The Exorcist'.

'The Human Jungle' with Herbert Lom and 'Tales of the Unexpected' get my vote. I don't know how scary they actually were, but my brother was always terrified so I had to squish down my own scared feelings in order to reassure him. This is the same brother who once crept behind the sofa and started really, really sobbing with fear and when I finally got him to tell me what was wrong it was because he'd 'got a skeleton inside' him!

Nothing has ever scared me as much as The Exorcist. Has anyone ever seen The Descent? I had to stop watching it part way through then turned it on just before it ended and, blow me, it got worse.

I saw The Descent, Tegan, but although it started off very scary, I found that when we found out what we were supposed to be scared of, it wasn't, somehow!

The first film which really made me nearly jump out of my seat with fright was 'Carrie', but that was in the cinema and nearly 40 years ago!

I'm on my own tonight and have just heard a 'bang' downstairs..thought it was the dog but she's fast asleep in her basket . Now going to turn all the lights in the house on for a while...cerumbs....

Some episodes of Whitechapel (hide behind pillow) especially when the creepy man thing was scrabbling about in the walls. eeeek!

Can we assume you're still there, Tegan?

Yes; I've just been studying tomorrows racing then logged off but logged back on again to see whats on at the cinema tomorrow/tonight. Put some loud music on so I can't hear any bumps and bangs. Last time I heard a sudden bang like that water started pouring through the ceiling [not going in the loft to check, though; the loft really scares me at night]. I always used to dream of living in an old cottage in the middle of nowhere but on nights like this I'm glad I live in a newish box of a house surrounded by neighbours! Ana; I get really claustrophobic so the Descent scared me right from the start. I still haven't seen the middle bit, even though someone offered to lend it to me.

There was a character in the x files called Tombes I think who could squeeze through small spaces and pipes to stalk his victims. he was v scary.
Salem's Lot a Stephen King story was made into a mini series and that was scary too.

That's the only X Files I can remember [it was soo creepy]. Why did she always end up on her own [and without a torch?].

The news!

The adverts - most of them. Do they really think it is OK to bash our ears and eyes with such puerile rubbish, in order to sell us things we don't need, with money we don't have? Junk food, luxury cars, investments, more insurance, even more junk food. Sometimes I think that any single batch of adverts between programs could be used as the opening chapter of a futuristic dystopian horror novel.

The film, The Wicker Man horrified me, as did my favourite Doctor Who scary enemy, the weeping angels. Who can look at a statue in the same way ever again??

Yes, the news!

The stone 'Angels' in Dr Who. They were horrible and creepy.

and The Fall, its sure to return

I stopped finding The Fall scary when I realised there was going to be another series. But it was a few weeks before that happened.