Mea culpa! It’s the two-parter “Sylvia” episode for LHotP, and you’re right–it’s the mother in the statue. It’s been a loooong while since I watched that episode. :o
And it’s really silly of me, I know, but those ‘haunted house’ shows that pop up on the W network always send shivers through me. Some of the footage…
How about this very early Ernie & Bert sketch from Sesame Street’s first season. Beautiful Day Monster was creepy enough normally (which is why they ditched him after the first season) but here, Eeeek! The ominous piano notes makes it worse…
The Different Strokes episode with the child molester.
The Day After made-for-TV movie about the day after a nuclear war.
I won’t even get into X-Files, there are so many.
Anything with Richard Simmons
I came in to mention the X-Files and American Gothic, guess I was too slow.
Most recently I’d say the last episode of Prison Break creeped me out. It was creepy in and of itself, but they made me feel sorry for Bellick which did creep me out.
It wasn’t creep in and of itself…
Well, if you’re going to make me choose, I have to sit down and think about it. Sylvia was raped twice and got pregnant, and her father didn’t believe her that she got raped, and was planning to move somewhere where no one knew them and claim she was a widow. It appears that girl had trauma everywhere she turned around. So I don’t know what is more horrifying, getting physically raped by the blacksmith or being emotionally raped by your father, when he doesn’t believe and support you and go gunning for the guy. Instead he assumes she’s a slut. They’re both bastards in their own, very special way.
IIRC, it was based on the Stephen King story by the same name. I can’t remember the episode, but I’ll spoil the story:
[spoiler] A little boy is left to take care of his grandmother while his mother goes out for an errand. Whie she’s gone grandma begins to die. She’s a witch, and somehow either tries to take the boy with her, or tries to take his life for her own. (Sorry I can’t remember any better-- it’s been a while and it was never one of my favorites.)
The story ends with the litle boy defeating the evil grandmother. He calls his mother to tell her grandma died, and she comes home to console him. But the little boy doesn’t need to be consoled-- he memorized the spells grandma was chanting and now he’s a witch.[/spoiler]
No,
[spoiler]He doesn’t defeat her. And when his mother comes home, he tells her that Gramma died. And when she hugs him, she says soothingly “It’s all right, Gramma will always be with us now” and you see this weird glow in his eyes
That was the TV show, but the written story ended substantially the same.[/spoiler]
Ah, that’s right! Thanks for the info.
HELLO, thank you for bringing that up. That is one fucked up episode of television. First, we have Dawn’s “conversation” with Joyce/The First Evil, and THEN, because that alone wasn’t creepy enough, there’s Willow’s conversation with Cassie/TFE. When Cassie tells her that Tara’s in pain, and Willow starts crying…ugh. Horrible. Especially in comparison to Buffy’s hilarious conversation with the vampire guy she went to high school with.
IMO, “Conversations with Dead People” is scarier than “Hush”. The Gentlemen are creepy as hell, but CWDP is seriously disturbing.
just 22 more months without my Buffy DVDs
This is one seriously odd statement. Why on Earth would you allow yourself to be unBuffed?
Yep. I had to force myself to watch it through, and since I don’t watch t.v. as a matter of course, if David was “scheduled” to die that week, I’d have no clue at all. I thought the odds were better than even that he would not make it alive.
It was as much the inhumane humiliation as it was the abject violence.
The first episode of Lost, where Jack wakes up in the bamboo and walks out onto the pristine, beautiful beach, which is then revealed to be the site of the plane crash. Very surreal, and the contrast between the beautiful blue water and the burning wreckage is very startling.
A lot of the things that happen on Lost are pretty creepy.
The actor who plays (the fake) Henry Gale is brilliantly creepy. That last smile at the end of one of the episodes, as Locke is pounding on the door, sent chills down my spine.
Did anyone here watch Are You Afraid of the Dark? as a kid? There was this one particular episode (Google came up with “The Tale of the Crimson Clown”) about a kid who wanted to be a comic book artist and one of his creepy clown drawings came to life. The clown would chase him and his friend, and would pop out of nowhere with blue ooze coming out of his mouth.
I remember being unusually creeped out by it (I’d never really been afraid of clowns) and noticed that there was almost a comedic/crazy element (also creepy) to the episode, which was not characteristic of other episodes in the series. It’s like they hired a temp writer for that one episode.
I just found out someone uploaded the episode on to YouTube. Just search “crimson clown”.
My bad. It was “The Tale of the Ghastly Grinner”. I suppose all the clown episodes I remember were pretty scary though. I don’t remember ever being afraid of clowns in any other situation, ever.
I don’t know if it was a show or just a one time thing. I think it was called Terror Stories or some such, but David Johansen is lying on the floor and a black cat goes completely into his mouth. :eek:
V the first mini-series, when the female alien dislocates her jaw and eats a whole freakin hamster.
Cause I’m in the Peace Corps and since I don’t have a laptop, I left my beloved DVD collection with my parents. Who are probably watching my DVDs RIGHT NOW AS I TYPE. (Not really. Because it’s 4.30 am in California at the moment.)
That was the middle segment of the “Tales from the Darkside” movie, The Cat From Hell.