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Agree with Night of the demon.
But...i will raise you the childcatcher from chitty chitty bang bang.
I wish someone had told me he was a ballet dancer acting!!
Quite a few troughton pertwee dr whos.
I was older when i saw that Karen black thing and that was still disturbing.
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May 17, 2017 - 3:49 AM
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Metryq
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A 1971 TV movie named Paper Man was shown during prime time when I was a kid, and I was allowed to watch it. I've reviewed it since, and it's pretty darn creepy.
The story was somewhat prescient, considering when it was made. Some young people decide to make a "paper man" in order to get (and abuse) credit cards—something like identity theft, but with a virtual person. Murders ensue, and two of them kept coming back to me in the dark.
One young woman is working late in the computer lab. Suddenly the room lights begin to go out in sequence. She is terrorized and runs down the basement hallway to the elevator, lights continuing to switch off as she runs. She jumps into the elevator, whose controls do not respond. It runs up, stopping between floors. The door opens, and the woman attempts to climb out—and the elevator car suddenly descends, cutting her in two (not actually shown on camera).
Another victim is taken down by a surgical dummy—computer controlled to respond like a real person as a trainer for surgery students. The victim is drunk when he finds the dummy sitting upright in the dimly lit computer lab. The dummy has one hand elevated in front of it, spasmodically opening and closing, and the dummy's eyes are twitching about. The drunk man walks up to the dummy. And after a moment's consideration, he grips the dummy in what turns out to be a handshake of death as he is electrocuted.
Even non-technical people today might understand how these things could be done with automation controls, but back in '71 the murders would have more of a ghost-like feel to them. It's a bit like the nonsensical horror stories that were told about the Y2K bug making lawn sprinklers and toasters—non-computerized things—run amok on January 1, 2000.
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Yen Fai wrote:
One of the most frightening is one I would like to find the source of: There was a movie with an astronaut who might have been doing a space walk. His helmet is shattered by a piece of meteorite or something, and he turns into a skeleton. He floats right at the camera, which is the point where I hid behind the couch. (I'd like to revisit this movie if anyone knows what it is? It might have been black and white, but I saw it on a black and white TV, so...)
That was RIDERS TO THE STARS (color, 1954). I saw it on Turner Classic Movies once. The whole film is currently here, but it might come down due to rights issues:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-ny80GqYD0
There's a clip of the scary scene here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEdT1jfqp8A
Don't watch it alone. 
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The Fly! My dad used to scare the crap out of me in the '60s when I was little by mimicking the "help me!" cries from the end. And to this day there is nothing creepier to me than Hedison in his lab with his left hand exposed and the black cloth over his enormous head.
On the other hand, it includes my very favorite unintentionally funny line in the annals of 50's sci-fi horror:
"It would be funny if life wasn't so sacred."
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