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Real Horror

posted 21 years ago by malakili
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Almost no blood or gore.No nudity or sex scenes. No bad language.
How many horror films can make these claims.
This pisses all over any horror movie I can think of as far as pure terror goes. This film carries a 12 certificate. I was a little older than that when I first saw this but my nephew and his friends are a little younger but fancy themselves as horror film fans. Parents these days seem very relaxed about letting kids as young as nine watch movies such as Halloween,Jason x,Resident Evil,Nightmare on Elmstreet,Blade and just about any other cheesy gore fest that doesn't have too much sex in it. So none of the parents objected to their kids watching this at their Halloween party on Friday night. I presented this as a true documentary that was shown when I was a Kid(why not? thats how I saw it first time round) and warned them that it may be a little slow. Only one of them lasted past the first ten minutes without being scared off too bed. I am proud to say the one left up was my nephew but he had his eyes shut and ears covered while curled up on his mothers lap for most of the last half hour.
This is just incredibly well done and the best thing for scaring, and probably scarring children, that you will ever see. I must admit even at twenty five I felt my heart racing at some bits. I reccommend this to every horror fan. Just don't expect any gore,sex or cursing.

Jusqu'ici tout va bien, Jusqu'ici tout va bien, Jusqu'ici tout va bien.......

[–] wierzbowskisteedman 21 years ago

I would also recommend this to any horror fan.
Having Michael Parkinson as the 'presenter', and Craig Charles, Sarah Green and Mike Smith just makes it seem worringly real, even if you watched the opening credits and know it is staged.
This is one of the best things ever seen on British TV.

Thought you might try escaping...so I just took the liberty of removing your horse's brain

[–] Ashles 21 years ago

I was 19 and at university when I saw it. My girlfriend at the time forced herself to go to sleep when watching it because it was too scary.
I missed the opening that said it was fiction, but I guessed quite early that it wasn't real (I think mainly due to the really bad performance of the sceptic in the studio - couldn't they have hired a slightly better actress) but that didn't stop it scaring me hugely. The did-I-just-see-that moments were terrifying.
I bought the DVD a couple of months ago, and it's still scary.
Pipes - it just sounds like a scary name.

Round and round the garden, like a teddy bear...

[–] JoshAcid 21 years ago

Can I just say that outside of unexpected Pipes appearances (the split-second glimpse as they're opening the glory hole door just before one of the daughters screams and the camera swings away is priceless), I felt that the creepiest part of this was the call from the woman who says that their glass coffee table exploded. She says they just took her husband away in an ambulance, there's blood all over the walls, but that her kids won't tear their eyes away from the show -- and that's what really scared her. There was something deeply chilling about that, like her kids were possessed...

[–] andyjohns 20 years ago

I've got to agree to some extent...Saw this when I was 12...didn't see the start so missed the credits, and I was promptly sent to bed by my mum (who was more scared than I was, I guess) after the girl started talking in voice of pipes.

I Waited a long time to see it again, and finally got it on DVD last year. Watching it now, I can see the acting is wooden from the mother and daughters, but everything else is still pretty creepy...the fleeting sightings of "Pipes" and the noises.

In fact, I'd say that seeing this so young has made me find all normal "horror" films rather less scary than people have made out, which is annoying, because I love being scared, but they seem to have a lot to live up to after watching this at a young age.

This is definitely up there as one of the top 5 scariest things I've ever seen, along with:

The Exorcist
The Omen
Bhoot

[–] OzarkSavage 19 years ago

When it was originally broadcast I don't think it had a disclaimer at the start saying that it was fiction.. I think that was added to the DVD. At least I never remember seeing it.. in fact I could swear that in the TV guide in the paper it had the show scheduled for a certain time and then something else was coming on and then every 30 minutes or so throughout the late evening it was going to be on every now and then.. am i wrong on this?

Anyway i rememeber it scaring the hell out of me.. and watching it a second time on DVD with my wife it was pretty much just as scary.

[–] poofta1970 19 years ago

It was part of a season of one off plays and the series title link was played at the beginning but alot of people missed it, weren't paying attention or were channel surfing and plain believed what they saw.