Scary tellies
Jun. 1st, 2006 09:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altarielI enjoyed The Idiot's Lantern very much, thought it did all that it should, and Maureen Lipman was perfect. We were spending the weekend near Alexandra Palace with very good friends (hereon the VGFs), which made it all a bit more fun.
After watching the episode, conversation naturally turned to other scary tellies: whenever we visit the VGFs we always watch Ghostwatch. You know, the pseudo-reality TV play hosted by Michael Parkinson where Sarah Greene gets stuck in a haunted house in Northolt. It is ABSOLUTELY FRICKIN' TERRIFYING, and even after multiple viewings, I am clawing at myself in shock by the end.
Other scary tellies: Poltergeist, that Japanese one I've never watched because just the image of the scary girl crawling out of the telly was enough to freak me out, er... I've forgotten what else we came up with. Nineteen Eighty-Four didn't count, that's just propaganda and not the tellybox tricking you by pretending to be your friend ("teacher, mother, secret lover...") and turning out to be the means of transmitting DEATH ON A LARGE AND HORRIFYING SCALE.
I am reading the Stephen King novel about cell phones at the moment, which is why I am using TYPOGRAPHIC TRICKS to COMMUNICATE EMOTION. It'll pass.
After watching the episode, conversation naturally turned to other scary tellies: whenever we visit the VGFs we always watch Ghostwatch. You know, the pseudo-reality TV play hosted by Michael Parkinson where Sarah Greene gets stuck in a haunted house in Northolt. It is ABSOLUTELY FRICKIN' TERRIFYING, and even after multiple viewings, I am clawing at myself in shock by the end.
Other scary tellies: Poltergeist, that Japanese one I've never watched because just the image of the scary girl crawling out of the telly was enough to freak me out, er... I've forgotten what else we came up with. Nineteen Eighty-Four didn't count, that's just propaganda and not the tellybox tricking you by pretending to be your friend ("teacher, mother, secret lover...") and turning out to be the means of transmitting DEATH ON A LARGE AND HORRIFYING SCALE.
I am reading the Stephen King novel about cell phones at the moment, which is why I am using TYPOGRAPHIC TRICKS to COMMUNICATE EMOTION. It'll pass.
