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     John_l_probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.203.130.234 |
This is it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apaches_%28Public_Information_Film%29 Does anyone else remember it? I actually got shown it in school. It scared my class so much some of them had to be counselled. In 1978. I'm writing a story about it now. The memory of it still disturbs me a lot. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.163.48.60 |
Blimey - never heard of it but it sounds like the sort of thing to deform young minds, in a good way, of course! | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.249.146 |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omdCXEdVCT0 | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.92.216.182 |
Never seen this one before. I bet. You could also do found footage film re-edits with this. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.163.48.60 |
Cheers for that link, Zed - brilliant stuff - I'd have been scarred for life if I'd seen this as a kid! | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.226.77 |
Hollywood needs to remake this... I see a TWITCH OF THE DEATH NERVE flavor to it.... The escalator film on the youtube link to the right, now... that one needs a Hollywood remake too.... | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.226.245 |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0xmSV6aq0g&feature=related The first episode is straight out of a Pan Horror stories book. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.24.122.40 |
That Apaches film is quite funny in a grostesque way. Death by drowning in cowshit. :<) It has the structure of a slasher film, tho, and its rough filming adds a kind of realistic nastiness. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 61.216.37.237 |
I haven't seen Apaches, but I remember seeing various other public info films in the '70s, some of which had a macabre feel. There's a collection of them available on DVD, actually, called Charley Says, which includes a creepy one about the dangers of playing near pools (it's narrated by Donald Pleasance). | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
The Charley Says films saved my friend and me. A small green dusty works van approached us on a country lane not far from my house. The lane was next to two viaducts in quite a creepy area. It was the site of several suicides and murders; it seemed to draw children. The man leaned across, opened a window and showed us a picture of a Labrador dog with bright coloured string around its neck. "Have you seen this dog?" We'd seen the dog near my friend’s house. It was hard to miss with the colours around its neck. When we first saw it I was suspicious why anyone one put them around their pet’s neck. We’d found it near a cottage that had started to be renovated, but never saw the workmen. We said we had seen the dog and he asked us to show him where. When we refused he said it was his son’s dog and he was upset it was lost. That’s when Charlie Says really kicked in, and I firmly refused. He drove off and I never saw him again. There were houses nearby and he obviously didn’t want a struggle. That dirty green van with no windows in the back. Not a big van but the ones like a normal car with extra room in the back and no windows. |