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goryhorroor · 18 days

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horror sub-genres: found footage

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classichorrorblog · 7 months

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10 Ghost Movies To Consider For October/Halloween

#Horror #Filmedit #Horroredit #The Changeling #The Frighteners #Ghostwatch #The Haunting #The Innkeepers #The Innocents #Lake Mungo #The Shining #The Sixth Sense #Thirteen Ghosts #CHB #10 Movies To Consider #I am not saying that these are the best or that they are my favorites.#Just 10 movies that I think are worth watching for the season.#Flashing Gif

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peggybrandt · 1 year

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"Do you think Mr. Pipes has come to hurt you?"

Ghostwatch (1992) dir. Lesley Manning

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haveyouseenthismovie-poll · 2 months

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#movies #polls #ghostwatch #ghostwatch movie #ghostwatch 1992 #90s movies #lesley manning #michael parkinson #sarah greene #requested #have you seen this movie poll

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npddraw · 6 months

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Ghostwatch

#ghostwatch #bbc #horror #procreate #movie poster

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addictivecontradiction · 6 months

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Ghostwatch, 1992

#drama #horror #mystery #ghostwatch #lesley manning #stephen volk #michael parkinson #gillian bevan #enigma #halloween

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zodgory · 2 years

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It is here, in the bedroom, that we are at our most vulnerable. Each night we shed our senses, trusting in the house to keep us safe until next we wake. In this state of extreme vulnerability we will spend up to 20% of our lives. Watch us. Keep us company until dawn. And we would never perceive it, we can only pray that the house will not let such things carry on as we sleep. In this way, during these hours, the bedroom seems less like a mind and more like a mouth. For it is here that the house is most likely to betray us. It is here that we place ourselves most at the house’s mercy and spend each night hoping that it will not bite down.

#horroredit #the haunting of hill house #amityville horror #paranoia activity #ghostwatch #poltergeist #the innocents #the others #the exorcist #the babadook #ju on the grudge #hereditary #smile 2022 #my compilations

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joezworld · 7 months

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Traintober-lite

Hi guys, just dropping in to say that , no I'm not dead or anything. I've merely caught a major case of capitalism with a side of adult, so I've been working a lot.

With that in mind, let's get into why I am here:

As you might have seen @theflyingkipper has taken on this year's Traintober duties, and I imagine it's going to be a blast. However if you're like me and have (checks watch) negative time to devote to a month of train content, then I have the solution for you! Just one Halloween themed TTTE prompt/challenge, which you can devote as much, or as little, time to as you want.

And that prompt is:

Sodor's Ghostwatch

To explain what this is, we have to go down a bit of a British TV history rabbit hole:

On Halloween night, 1992, the BBC aired Ghostwatch , an hour and a half long programme that purported itself to be a live TV investigation into a haunted house in London. The poltergeist, named "Mr. Pipes", or just "Pipes", is tormenting a family by possessing their daughter on a regular basis. I'll spare the specifics for brevity's sake, but while the broadcast starts off normal, it gradually becomes clear that Pipes is using the broadcast as a way to transmit himself across the TV airwaves, eventually kidnapping the presenter in the house, and jumping into the broadcast studio to possess Michael Parkinson as the broadcast ends.

Now, if that name rung a bell with you, well done. Michael Parkinson was a very famous BBC talk show host... as was every other on-screen personality on the show. That was on purpose, because while the show was actually scripted, it was intended to give the appearance of being a live broadcast, using real TV personalities, real TV facilities, and during a real timeslot on BBC 1, the flagship TV station for the country, at a time when satellite TV and alternative cable channels numbered in the low double digits.

Let me rephrase this: The BBC, an organization that does not joke around, created their own version of the War of the Worlds broadcast, except that instead of aliens invading, they told the entire country that they were doing a live show about a real haunting... and then the ghost escaped and attacked the presenters.

The BBC got over thirty thousand phone calls before the end of the night. Michael Parkinson's mother was one of the callers. Numerous people who believed that the show was legit had actual problems afterwards, ranging from the absurd (a woman called the BBC demanding they pay her husband's laundry bill after he soiled himself while watching) to the more upsetting. (lots of children got nightmares)

To this day the special has never aired again on British TV, regardless of network, and it likely never will again. It predated, and inspired, films like Derren Brown's Séance, The Blair Witch Project, and Host (2020).

It is one of the greatest TV events of its time. It scared the shit out of a lot of people.

So... with that in mind,

What do we think happened on Sodor?

That's what this challenge is:

By 9:00 PM GMT on 31 October, 2023 (5:00 PM US EST), produce some content about Ghostwatch and its effect on Sodor and its residents. It can be art, a story, an audio file, whatever. This is a very freeform challenge. You can make one thing or you can make twenty, just make sure that they're good. Nothing else really matters. Tag it with #Sodor's Ghostwatch and see what everyone else has made!

#sodor #ttte #ttte headcanon #this is ttte #Sodor's Ghostwatch #ghostwatch #traintober #traintober 2023 #traintober2023

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connecticut-turnpike · 1 month

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if you wanna watch a movie similar to late night with the devil but without shitty ai go watch ghostwatch (1992)!!!!!

#one of my favs of all time #watched it stoned once and thought pipes was gonna Get Me #ghostwatch #90s #late night with the devil

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jennifersbod · 1 month

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did not expect ghostwatch 1992 to hit as hard as it did

#they went there #that was horrifying #fully understand the hype #ghostwatch #movies #personal

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goryhorroor · 11 months

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horror sub-genres • analog horror

analog horror is commonly characterized by low-fidelity graphics, cryptic messages, and visual styles reminiscent of late 20th-century television and analog recordings. it is named "analog horror" because of its aesthetic incorporation of elements related to analog electronics, such as analog television and VHS, the latter being an analog method of recording video. analog horror could be regarded as a type of creepypasta.

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oh-good · 25 days

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Film and TV need to start lying for fun more often and here's why.

I think it's a moral obligation that people make things like the War of The Worlds radio play and Ghostwatch bbc that were scary stories framed in a believable way at first.

They made a LOT of people mad for "lying" to the audience and scaring people but all it did was show that people will just blindly believe what they're told if it's presented as "news" .

People need to be more critical of their news sources and an occasional fake report saying there's an alien invasion in the US or a super haunting taking over the UK is a really funny way to achieve that.

#war of the worlds #ghostwatch

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mad-prophet-of-the-airwaves · 8 months

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"Round and round the garden...like a teddy bear? Didn't believe that story about Mother Seddons, did you? Fee...fie...foe...fum"

-The late Michael Parkinson (1935-2023) in "Ghostwatch" (1992).

#ghostwatch #michael parkinson #rest in peace

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acapelladitty · 10 months

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Philomena Cunk should be the host of Ghostwatch 2 🤔🔎👻

#philomena cunk #cunk on earth #netflix #bbc #ghostwatch

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dorawinifredread · 11 months

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#Ghostwatch #Horror movies

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harompe · 5 months

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The main family in ghostwatch is a single, divorced mum and her two young daughters, and the presenters just said the the older daughter is a perfect target for a malicious entity, bc she's introverted, around puberty and she's from a broken family

#ghostwatch #kind of forgot how nakedly judgmental they used to be abt single parents and esp single mums

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