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Dark nostalgia

Slugjc said:
Lets get this topic going again.

I saw this in the local second hand gaming store (not CEX but a independent version.)

It's hard to believe something so badly acted could have scared little me. Christ it did. Come to think of it, I did get a little spooked if a VHS/DVD addressed the owner directly like a game.


From: https://youtu.be/uchUe52-j74?si=bBZ3bfhqWnx4pJJz
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I had a version of this! Don't remember it being too scary though, more creepy.
 
I was reminded of this fairly recently. I first viewed it when I started enjoying horror content, so I was probably 9 or 10. At that time, I was very sensitive to jumpscares, so this clip definitely scared me.
The jumpscare is 14 seconds in.

From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz1W_omigwg
 
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Zeock said:
I was reminded of this fairly recently. I first viewed it when I starting enjoying horror content, so I was probably 9 or 10. At that time, I was very sensitive to jumpscares, so this clip definitely scared me.
The jumpscare is 14 seconds in.

From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz1W_omigwg
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When it became possible to send shirt videos to each other (via Bluetooth) this did the rounds along with angry kid.
Alix said:
I had a version of this! Don't remember it being too scary though, more creepy.
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I doubt they are scary. But to 8/9 year old slugjc it was a little off putting.
 
I meant more there were different versions - there was the horror one, but I think ours was futuristic or medieval or something like that - however a quick Google does not agree with me
 
Slugjc said:
Lets get this topic going again.

I saw this in the local second hand gaming store (not CEX but a independent version.)

It's hard to believe something so badly acted could have scared little me. Christ it did. Come to think of it, I did get a little spooked if a VHS/DVD addressed the owner directly like a game.


From: https://youtu.be/uchUe52-j74?si=bBZ3bfhqWnx4pJJz
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Ah, a classic!

Many years ago, I ran a halloween special Pathfinder game, and encouraged my players to dress up on webcam for bonus XP. I spent the whole game dressed as the Gatekeeper, in character, addressing them as "maggots", and yelling at them to "rrrrroll de dice!".

Every time we took a drink / loo break, I'd quickly draw more craggy lines on my face. Under the coloured lighting it worked far better than it had any right to.

(Sadly only a very low res screenshot exists, as far as I know).

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On the subject of “odd things I used to find scary”, I always used to be absolutely terrified in the cinema as a child when they used to blast this out at the start of a screening:

Even though it wasn’t even intended to be scary, this always used to scare me as a child because of how sudden and loud the noises were!

The newer ones weren’t quite as bad, for some reason… it was this particular one that always used to petrify me!

For some reason, I also only remember it being played when we went to the Vue in Bristol or the Cineworld in Newport… it never played in the smaller local cinema!
 
To be fair, it is a little unnerving. The audio is weird. Especially in a cinema.

A thought today. Would Thirteen's theming be improved if the bloke from the atmosphere video was part of it.
 
Matt N said:
For some reason, I also only remember it being played when we went to the Vue in Bristol or the Cineworld in Newport… it never played in the smaller local cinema!
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I think (most) all UK cinemas use either DCM or Pearl & Dean for their screen advertising. The general rule is DCM do the big chains and Pearl & Dean do the smaller chains + independents.
 
My dad always used to sing the old Pearl and Dean jingle whenever we went to the cinema. I had no idea what he was on about for years. Then, at some point in the 90's, they brought it back.
... Thankfully long after I was old enough to go to the cinema with friends, rather than an embarrassing parent.
 
Matt N's post has sparked a couple from my memory, both DLP related.

The first is the Space Mountain ad which I think may have been on the Lion King VHS? From the Youtube comments, it looks like I wasn't alone!


From: https://youtu.be/xlKKTSVETt0?si=d_7m6zc8Zv7q_l6-


The second is way more obscure and I definitely was alone for this.
It was an advert for the night parade (most likely for DLP... did we get US Disney ads in the 90s?). So obscure that I can't find a clip of it, but I remember seeing it several times and hated it.
My first ever trip to London when I was... maybe 6... I would not go on the tube because for some unknown-to-me-now-reason I thought it was going to be like the parade.

This is similar to what the advert looked like.

From: https://youtu.be/k-RVJSl009Y?si=TINPFBDnUsfQLcAi
 
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who was mildly traumatised by supposedly non-scary adverts as a child!

On the subject of “dark nostalgia”, has anyone ever watched Bridge to Terabithia? I remember me, my sister and my dad watching it on BBC One one Christmas, as a bit of light, cheery family viewing…

A film about a boy and a girl exploring a fantasy world hidden in the woods sounds like a lovely family film, doesn’t it? But it took a shockingly dark turn midway through which took us all by surprise! The bit where
the girl drowns in the river and dies when the boy isn’t with her
was absolutely shocking when you’re a child!

And this is a Disney film as well… I didn’t think Disney films had that sort of trauma in them!
 
Matt N said:
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who was mildly traumatised by supposedly non-scary adverts as a child!

On the subject of “dark nostalgia”, has anyone ever watched Bridge to Terabithia? I remember me, my sister and my dad watching it on BBC One one Christmas, as a bit of light, cheery family viewing…

A film about a boy and a girl exploring a fantasy world hidden in the woods sounds like a lovely family film, doesn’t it? But it took a shockingly dark turn midway through which took us all by surprise! The bit where
the girl drowns in the river and dies when the boy isn’t with her
was absolutely shocking when you’re a child!

And this is a Disney film as well… I didn’t think Disney films had that sort of trauma in them!
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I mean, we clearly have a lot trauma in Disney.

Pinocchio and the whale scene.

Lets not forget a certain young deers mother being shot. Not to mention snow white.

If we have scary adverts to show.


From: https://youtu.be/BKAjgqqS74s?si=5OXg0YyJlOBsXDXF
 
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