Hands of the Ripper
it was at a New Years Eve party, I must have been about 7 or 8 years old. Because it was New Years Eve, all of the kids were allowed to stay up late and we were basically left semi-supervised and given the run of what was quite a large house. Some time during the evening, I started to develop a temperature, so me and a couple of the other kids went to watch TV in one of the side rooms. One of the kids, who was slightly older than the rest of us, told us that there was a Hammer House of Horror movie coming on later. Unlike (or so it appeared) most of my class mates, I had never seen a horror movie before - so I was keen to break this particular duck. The Horror flick in question was this little gem:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jMuLKvXzzk

Called the "The Hands of the Ripper", it was basically about a girl who was Jack the Rippers daughter. This young wench would go a tad wobbly whenever she saw anything sparkly or somebody gave her kiss on the cheek. Unfortunately said dizzy spell would result in some poor unfortunate getting a red hot poker through the eyeball or a paper knife in the jugular.

If I was to watch it now, I would probably laugh at all the ketchup and the ham acting, at the time however it left something of an impression - you'll not be surprised to learn, that I had nightmares for weeks afterwards.

Funny, thing is though, I don't really get scared by horror movies anymore. Real life is far more terrifying!

So...Real life is more frightening than a horror movie. Discuss.
(Nitrous Nitrous, Fri 6 Apr 2012, 23:09, Reply)