Favorite Horror Shorts, page 2

At 20 minutes long, this isn't a real short. I'm posting it because It has a very interesting story.
A few years ago, as Halloween approached, Reddit (along with some other boards) posed the question:
"As a kid, what episode of a scary TV series frightened you the most?"

This one was the winner. It's from the TV series "Tales From The Darkside".

zosimov

posted on Oct, 29 2017 @ 01:23 PM

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a reply to: ColeYounger

That is so interesting because the not-so-short short I posted earlier has a similar story. Here's one of many similar reviews of the film on imdb:

I saw this film in the 1970s and even as a late teenager it gave me the creeps. For many years afterwards I kept my foot between the telephone box and the door. Silly I know but.. There are only a handful of films that have left their mark on me and this is one of them. Have been searching high and low to buy a copy for many years and often wonder how dated it would seem now. I know of only 2 other friends who have seen it and it has left a similar impact on them. The story is a simple one and you know that it seems silly and he will eventually get out and have the mickey taken out of him. I was certainly not prepared for the ending.

I used to think i was crazy.. whenever i mentioned this short film to anybody, nobody had ever heard of it so naturally they couldn't appreciate my enthusiasm for it. You know how it is - some jokes you just can't share, you really both had to have been there. And a very very black joke it is too!! (beleive me you will understand when you watch the film, if you can get hold of a copy. try ebay). Now i see there is a select band of us who saw it on one single broadcast sometime in the early 80s on BBC2, and remembered it vividly ever since. It's hard to see how such a simple but powerful plot could be handled any better: direction, cinematography, acting (low key but excellent cast), music (quirky, magnificent), locations (frighteningly ordinary), balance of drama and humour. You will never look at telephone boxes in the same way again.

Check out all the reviews on this one.. it's wild!
www.imdb.com...

edit on 29-10-2017 by zosimov because: (no reason given)

zosimov

posted on Oct, 29 2017 @ 01:53 PM

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a reply to: ColeYounger

Will have to wait until after work (and maybe dark lol) to watch this, but it looks very weird and creepy! Thanks for posting!

zosimov

posted on Oct, 31 2017 @ 01:15 PM

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This one is great! Very well done and imaginative.