Threads, Plague Dogs and films that fucked you up as a kid
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kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
Yeah, I think we must have seen the same films.
Most memorable scenes for me are the one where the kid gets squished under a giant m-way earth scraping lorry and slips off a muddy pipe, catcing his head on a bit of steel and leaving a substantial chunk of skull and brain-goo which the director lovingly lingers on for about 10 seconds just to get the message home...
Most memorable scenes for me are the one where the kid gets squished under a giant m-way earth scraping lorry and slips off a muddy pipe, catcing his head on a bit of steel and leaving a substantial chunk of skull and brain-goo which the director lovingly lingers on for about 10 seconds just to get the message home...
Thinking about I remember some pretty scary films on road safety. I remember the entire class being shown a film about mopeds by some road safety bod. It basically consisted of loads of accident scene photographs. One of the photographs was a lorry with it's load of steaming slag tipped all over the road and just the hint of a mopeds handlebars sticking out from undeneath.
The obvious subtext was "buy yourself a moped, this is what's going to happen to you."
I think some of the railway safety films deserve another thread on their own.
The obvious subtext was "buy yourself a moped, this is what's going to happen to you."
I think some of the railway safety films deserve another thread on their own.
PacificOcean
Unhinged User
kyser_soze said:
How many grain silos/grain silo accidents are there about to necessitate making a safety film for schools?
Also, having checked the BBFC website - Plauge Dogs is only a PG. It can't be that bad
Shippou-Sensei
4:1:2.5
animal farm is also PG
no swearing
no sex
practacly no violence
technically there is nothing wrong with it ....
but it'll fuck you up
no swearing
no sex
practacly no violence
technically there is nothing wrong with it ....
but it'll fuck you up
fishfingerer
sultan of cringe
Theatre Of Blood, cos of the winos.
Anything by Luis Bunuel.
BBC2 mostly.
Anything by Luis Bunuel.
BBC2 mostly.
Firky said:
I read Watership Down ... reaction there (
at Disney I'm talking book here). Then Girl On A Swing ... ooooh, uncomfortable but compulsive, yech all the insects with the flowers in the bath. Then Plague Dogs ... I don't think I finished it - I was younger and it got ver dark and sinister, didn't see the fillum but I reckoned it would have fucked me up bigtime.
Derian said:I read Watership Down ... reaction there (
I`ll bung you the DVD if you pwomise to return it?
lighterthief
Well-Known Member
Shippou-Sensei
4:1:2.5
Firky said:pml! so true
can i quote you?
oh gwan then ....
redsnapper
Vintage Urban
I thought some of the Hammer House of Horror films were scary. I remember one in particular that freaked me out about a family who's house somehow got wired up to the electricity pylon outside so they couldn't get out or they'd get electrocuted...so they starved to death or summat like that 
Can't remember what the story line was exactly but I found it really sinister and unsettling 
Can't remember what the story line was exactly but I found it really sinister and unsettling kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
PacificOcean said:
Well when you live in a farming area with - get this - grain silos that kids persist in playing near/around (and we did
) it's probably quite relevant...I remember watching some ITV drama about rabid dogs, can't remember what it was called but that upset me...probably more on simple 'Aww look at the doggy' lines than anything else.
Louloubelle
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The Plague Dogs is an incredible film
It's really not a film for kids and I'm surprised by the PG rating
It's very dark, very deep and although adams meant it as a film about animal suffering I experienced it more as a metaphor larger issues relating to human rights abuses, discrimination, loneliness, trust, our needs for safety in contrast to our needs for relationships.
Rowf and Snitter are complex and very human characters, I'd recommend the film to anyone, even though it is ultimately quite depressing.
It's really not a film for kids and I'm surprised by the PG rating
It's very dark, very deep and although adams meant it as a film about animal suffering I experienced it more as a metaphor larger issues relating to human rights abuses, discrimination, loneliness, trust, our needs for safety in contrast to our needs for relationships.
Rowf and Snitter are complex and very human characters, I'd recommend the film to anyone, even though it is ultimately quite depressing.
I promise to return it, never hang on to other folk's stuff
Shippou-Sensei
4:1:2.5
yeah guidance ratings are based on a sorta check box system ... and if you don't actually swear, show gore or show sex you can get away with a hell of a lot
also it depends on what is deamed unapropreate
(looks up the current guide lines)
yeah as a PG as long as these guide lines are met then it's PG
i think with a U you need to have tighter controles on whats disturbing but with a PG you just can't glorafy it
also it depends on what is deamed unapropreate
(looks up the current guide lines)
yeah as a PG as long as these guide lines are met then it's PG
bbfc said:
i think with a U you need to have tighter controles on whats disturbing but with a PG you just can't glorafy it
Nepenthe Productions
Watership down isn't Disney, it was produced by Nepenthe Productions, the same animation company that did Plague Dogs.Derian said:I read Watership Down ... reaction there (
Alan Hunt said:
This is bit bullshit, the film has nothing to do with testing on animals, that is very much kept in the background - it is just a vehicle, a platform for the story.
Very powerful film ( i reckon anyway)
" The problems with the film's commerciality actually continued to resurface on
later video releases. Indeed a key American video edition features numerous
edits excising some of the harder language and much of the threatening,
or violent behaviour in a crude effort to make the film more "child-friendly" -
completely at odds with the film's ideals. Animal testing is a nasty business
which simply can not, and in the fim maker's eyes, should not be watered
down for safe consumer consumption "
Louloubelle
Well-Known Member
My sis and I used to stay up late and watch hammer house of horror while my parents were out drinking.
All the dracula films were quite scary but one film scared me for years
It was an anthology, 3 perhaps 4 films.
In one a man buys a wooden african doll, with a hinged jaw and jointed arms and legs. It is bound together with a heavy chain and hte shopkeeper tells him never to remove the chain. Big surprise, he does, and the doll grabs a big carving knife and hunts him around the house. At one point he manages to trap it in a suitcase and locks it in. You think he's safe but then, in the backgrond you see the knife sawing up and down as the doll cuts its way out of the suitcase. aaaarrghgh!
then in another one, a variation of the monkey's paw story, a woman uses necromancy to raise her dead son back to life. He turns up covered in rain and mud, fresh from the grave and she lets him in. Turns out he didn't really rate her as a mum and he starts to act very badly, just like the toddler in pet semetary. ends in a very scary way
has anyone else seen this? I'd love to know what this film is called, it was just sooo scary, and hardly anyone else has seen it
All the dracula films were quite scary but one film scared me for years
It was an anthology, 3 perhaps 4 films.
In one a man buys a wooden african doll, with a hinged jaw and jointed arms and legs. It is bound together with a heavy chain and hte shopkeeper tells him never to remove the chain. Big surprise, he does, and the doll grabs a big carving knife and hunts him around the house. At one point he manages to trap it in a suitcase and locks it in. You think he's safe but then, in the backgrond you see the knife sawing up and down as the doll cuts its way out of the suitcase. aaaarrghgh!
then in another one, a variation of the monkey's paw story, a woman uses necromancy to raise her dead son back to life. He turns up covered in rain and mud, fresh from the grave and she lets him in. Turns out he didn't really rate her as a mum and he starts to act very badly, just like the toddler in pet semetary. ends in a very scary way
has anyone else seen this? I'd love to know what this film is called, it was just sooo scary, and hardly anyone else has seen it
Silva Halo
things fall apart
Hammer House of Horror's 'The House That Bled to Death'-scared the pants off me when I was about 11 or 12.
Also, 'Curse Of The Werewolf' around the same age...my mother tells me that I used to inform her that I was going to turn into a werewolf...Apparently I was dead serious about it too. Sadly, still waiting.
Also, some advert/news thing I vaguely remember being shown many years ago..must have been in the 70's, that had something to do with what happened when someone got rabies.Does anyone remember this at all? I think it was one of those public warning things they used to broadcast sometimes. I had nightmares about that for years.
And the credits to the BBC series 'The Mad Death', also about a rabies outbreak,which featured the face of a dog being warped and twisted.
Also, 'Curse Of The Werewolf' around the same age...my mother tells me that I used to inform her that I was going to turn into a werewolf...Apparently I was dead serious about it too. Sadly, still waiting.
Also, some advert/news thing I vaguely remember being shown many years ago..must have been in the 70's, that had something to do with what happened when someone got rabies.Does anyone remember this at all? I think it was one of those public warning things they used to broadcast sometimes. I had nightmares about that for years.
And the credits to the BBC series 'The Mad Death', also about a rabies outbreak,which featured the face of a dog being warped and twisted.
The War Game
from the dvd cover:
"Few films have caused such controversy as Peter Watkins' The War Game, a drama documentary made for BBC TV in 1965 about a "limited" nuclear attack on Kent, England. Blending fiction and fact to create a moving and startling vision of the personal as well as the public consequences of such an attack, Watkins exposes the inadequacy of the nation's Civil Defence programme and questions the philosophy of the nuclear deterrent. Conspicuously absent from TV screens until 1985, it was mainly through cinema release in 1966 - and its Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 1967 - that it gained a loyal and vociferous following, providing a sharp focus for CND and other peace movements."
did we get to 4 pages of posts before mentioning this film - or did i miss a previous post. watch it for the casualty triage - the stuff about police shooting the unsaveable might no longer be policy but the rest is - working in the NHS i suppose i don't really need to get my doom-kicks from the telly.
from the dvd cover:
"Few films have caused such controversy as Peter Watkins' The War Game, a drama documentary made for BBC TV in 1965 about a "limited" nuclear attack on Kent, England. Blending fiction and fact to create a moving and startling vision of the personal as well as the public consequences of such an attack, Watkins exposes the inadequacy of the nation's Civil Defence programme and questions the philosophy of the nuclear deterrent. Conspicuously absent from TV screens until 1985, it was mainly through cinema release in 1966 - and its Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 1967 - that it gained a loyal and vociferous following, providing a sharp focus for CND and other peace movements."
did we get to 4 pages of posts before mentioning this film - or did i miss a previous post. watch it for the casualty triage - the stuff about police shooting the unsaveable might no longer be policy but the rest is - working in the NHS i suppose i don't really need to get my doom-kicks from the telly.
I just downloaded and watched Threads, never seen it before.
It's 11.30pm, and I should be going to bed. Not fucking likely at the moment. I think i'm gonna have to look at baby ducks or something for the next hour.
That film is the most literal definition of bleak in existence I imagine.
It's 11.30pm, and I should be going to bed. Not fucking likely at the moment. I think i'm gonna have to look at baby ducks or something for the next hour.
That film is the most literal definition of bleak in existence I imagine.
Structaural
in Chatsubo
American Werewolf in London at 9 years old - especially the bit where the weird soldiers keep coming in the window and he keeps waking up.
chieftain
Mega Gammon
kage said:I just downloaded and watched Threads, never seen it before.
It's 11.30pm, and I should be going to bed. Not fucking likely at the moment. I think i'm gonna have to look at baby ducks or something for the next hour.
That film is the most literal definition of bleak in existence I imagine.
where'd you download it from please?
you can download it from most bit torrent sites eg www isohunt com
or eDonkey.
I only watched threads recently too, found it to be probably the most disturbing horrific thing I've ever seen. Can't even imagine what I would felt if I'd seen it as a child at school, like alot of my friends did, especially during the height of the coldwar.
or eDonkey.
I only watched threads recently too, found it to be probably the most disturbing horrific thing I've ever seen. Can't even imagine what I would felt if I'd seen it as a child at school, like alot of my friends did, especially during the height of the coldwar.
brahaminda
...of the Mind
I couldn't help but read that to myself with the voice of Simon Bates
[SHUDDER]
Now theres an 18 Cert film
Being Simon Bates....
northernprole
a girl
Plague Dogs did fuck me up. I read it and watched the film. I must have been 11ish. Even to this day i can't go walking on the fells without thinking about snitter and rowf.the book had illustrations of the routes the dog took across the fells - little Wainwright drawings - I liked that.
Do you think Snitter and Rowf made it in the end? I like to think they swam to the island ( I guess it would have been the Isle of Man ) and survived ..
just recently bought the dvd. just so I could fuck myself up some more in adulthood.
Do you think Snitter and Rowf made it in the end? I like to think they swam to the island ( I guess it would have been the Isle of Man ) and survived ..
just recently bought the dvd. just so I could fuck myself up some more in adulthood.
redsnapper said:I thought some of the Hammer House of Horror films were scary. I remember one in particular that freaked me out about a family who's house somehow got wired up to the electricity pylon outside so they couldn't get out or they'd get electrocuted...so they starved to death or summat like that
"The Silent Scream"... have a look here . I have the DVD box-set, most of them are still jolly good, a few are wank.
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