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     Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.23.22 |
This was in my local paper; http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/features/columnists/chrislloyd/4855243.The_spoo ky_turn_of_the_doorknob___/ It's actually scary. | ||
| Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 88.202.206.180 |
"Can you see the faces in the wall?" **shudder** | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.106 |
We used to have a Ghost Wall in our old house - when my son, Charlie, was an infant he'd stare at it for hours, grinning and even chatting. I became very scared of that wall at one point. He's six now, and has suddenly decided that his real name is John - which was my dead bastard of a father's name. Children can be very scary... | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
>>"Can you see the faces in the wall?" **shudder**<< That bit particularly made me shudder too. It brought back memories which I can't quite place. I've no idea if it was a nightmare I had when I was very young, or a TV programme, or something I read (again, probably, when I was very young), but I have this recollection of a wall with screaming faces appearing behind the wallpaper. I was terrified they'd break through the wallpaper and get into the room. Does anyone else remember something like this from a story, film or TV thing, or is it one of my old nightmares? I probably read too many Pan Horrors when I was little.  | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.23.22 |
The Haunting? | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
Ah! Is there a scene like that in The Haunting? If so, that might well be it. I had a feeling it was something in a TV anthology though, but I'd have been watching The Haunting on TV too (no 9pm watershed back then) so that could be it. And then it probably gave me nightmares too! | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.23.22 |
It's the bit where the woman hears a creepy row through the wall. The camera closes in on it and we see a face in the flowers. A scene very like it in a Bergman film I found out last year. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
No, I don't think it is that then, Tony. In my case, there are lots of faces all appearing as if they're pressing the wallpaper from behind, trying to break through. Each one appears momentarily and then disappears, as another one appears somewhere else. It's freaking me out just thinking about it now!  | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.23.22 |
Hmm...I dunno! | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
It's probably one of my nightmares, Tony - you won't have been in any of them!  Now there's an interesting concept - sharing other people's nightmares. It's probably been done before though (wasn't there a short-lived TV series where these investigators went into people's nightmares to try to sort their heads out?). | ||
| Darren O. Godfrey (Darren_o_godfrey) Username: Darren_o_godfrey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 207.200.116.133 |
"Now there's an interesting concept - sharing other people's nightmares. It's probably been done before though (wasn't there a short-lived TV series where these investigators went into people's nightmares to try to sort their heads out?)." That was a key aspect of "A Nightmare on Elm Street 3". Rubbish film, though. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.79.91.212 |
"It's probably one of my nightmares, Tony - you won't have been in any of them!" I have all your nightmares on DVD. | ||
| Di (Di) Username: Di Registered: 10-2009 Posted From: 86.148.133.32 |
Caroline - are those faces trying to break out of the wall from The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman? | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
Might be, Di. It rings a bell from somewhere. If it was in an early Pan, or Fontana, or similar, it could well be. I'll have a look into that .. thanks. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.12.129.14 |
"Now there's an interesting concept - sharing other people's nightmares. It's probably been done before though (wasn't there a short-lived TV series where these investigators went into people's nightmares to try to sort their heads out?)." Also Graham Masterton's Night Warriors series of books... They were up to his usual standards. Good for a laugh if nothing else. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.47.10.77 |
Here you go Caroline. Wonderful Writer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Perkins_Gilman | ||
| Di (Di) Username: Di Registered: 10-2009 Posted From: 86.148.133.32 |
And the story is in Fontana Horror 9. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
That's it, I'm sure it is! I've found my nightmare, at last! Thanks, folks.  |