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Night of the Demon is awesome, even though the effects are a bit creaky these days, it's got a really great creepy atmosphere to it.
The 1980 film by the same name about a killer bigfoot is a hoot if you like badly acted gore films, it'll make you think twice about peeing in the woods.
On a bigfoot related note, seeing The Legend Of Boggy Creek on tv at the age of 5 has given me a life long interest in cryptozoology, it's fake documentary style completely sucked me in as a kid.
I saw a film on cable a few years ago called Urban Ghost story, which was about a poltergeist in a Glasgow council flat. It was great, it was really ambiguous about the whole supernatural aspect- would love to see it again
Urban Ghost Story (1998)
 
xLordSummerislex said:
Night of the Demon is awesome, even though the effects are a bit creaky these days, it's got a really great creepy atmosphere to it.
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A great film. It was released as Night of the Demon in the UK and Curse of the Demon in the US. The US version has the Demon edited out in spots if I'm not mistaken.
 
Aye, i think that's right (though I've never seen Curse...). Never twigged til recently that Sam Raimi's Drag Me To Hell riffs on Night Of The Demon, especially the ending. That's another entertaining movie, in an EC kind of way.
 
J.T. said:
One of the best paranormal tv shows I've seen is the obscure micro-budget miracle from 1970's: Sapphire and Steel. It creeped me out as a kid like nothing before and nothing since. It's kind of slow, nothing much happens in desolate sets shot on video camera (old Doctor Who style), but the floaty black splotches get under your skin, and I always liked both David McCallum and Joanna Lumley.
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If you remember Sapphire & Steel then do remember an Australian programme called Chocky? The weirded me out as a kid....

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I always have to defend Blair Witch Project - I really got into that but alot of people I talked to about it - my wife included - just couldn't get it. Also the Last broadcast, The 4th Kind (okay I know alot of people didn't like it - i enjoyed it and for some reason it unsettled my wife....)
 
I remember Chocky! I thought it was British, though? Haven't seen it since it was first on, but the appearance of the alien was pretty unsettling at the time. For for the uninitiated, it was a TV series based on a John Wyndham book about a kid whose imaginary friend is really a discarnate alien intelligence that had been projected across space to explore Earth. The alien was represented as a kind of smokey light tunnel (don't know the technical name for it, but you would recognise the effect when you see it) along with some creepy drones.
Some clips here: Is it just me or were kids TV programs definite scarier/odder in the 70 & 80s? Remember the Look and Read series The Boy From Space?
 
you're right - it was british.... for some reason i thought it australian.... if we're still on about kids programs, Rentaghost? Saw The Objective last night. I liked it and the wife found it creepy... what about Suspira? Or Hellboy?
 
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