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Post by Happy Chappy on Nov 15, 2004 19:59:02 GMT
I might just have to get it on DVD and watch it from behind the sofa (like I used to do with Dr. Who). Davros was a scary bugger wasn't hye?? LOL! Stewy, this is like a little self-help group and we all know we are not alone... In more ways than one!! LOL!
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Post by Bayne on Nov 17, 2004 3:09:12 GMT
[glow=red,2,300]I once heard of a New Zealand (IIRC) woman who developed a massive dalek phobia, she was overjoyed when Dr Who got cancelled but one day when taking some children to the mall...
Apparently one of the locals had built their own dalek and were using it for charity purposes. Years of freedom only to walk around the corner and come face-to-face with your worst fear! [/glow]
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Post by Happy Chappy on Nov 17, 2004 7:59:49 GMT
Would love to see CCTV footage of that!! (I'm a cruel bastard, aren't I? ;D)
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Post by Danny87 on Nov 17, 2004 14:21:56 GMT
I've been making myself listen to the album on my MP3 player at work every day for the last 2 weeks and everyone keeps asking why I'm so jumpy! I just say "you wouldn't understand!" When the film comes out, I'm sure I will watch it with a squint and my fingers in my ears and make a complete fool of myself! Some of us are really scarred for life yet we come back for more!
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Post by Happy Chappy on Nov 17, 2004 19:32:10 GMT
It's a kind of morbid fascination, isn't it, Danny? ;D
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Post by Stewymartian on Nov 17, 2004 20:23:06 GMT
It might be an adrenaline junky thing, like going on a rollercoaster even though you're scared poo-less of what it's going to be like.
Nothing has ever scared me as much as JW's WOTW album, and yet I remain utterly compelled and facinated by it. Even my fear of the dark (which I still occasionally succumb to at the age of 31), can be directly related back to WOTW.
This board seems to be helping though, the fighting machine silhouette on the message board banner no longer freaks me when I'm on the boards late at night.
I've been listening to the album on my laptop at work during lunch breaks (It's a lot better than watching neighbours). I think the volume on my earphones may be a bit high, people keep giving me odd looks when they walk past to get to the coffee machine.
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Post by Danny87 on Nov 19, 2004 23:00:00 GMT
It's like you know you're going to regret listening to it at night but you still do it, so it is like a morbid fascination. My wife thinks I'm a complete nutter for being scared of it, but she weren't there in 1978 when I first heard it!
A perfect example, I did that drawing last week of the fighting machine, all the time thinking " You're going to regret this at night, you're alright now but just wait until everyone's in bed..." Since I did it, it's been put safely away in a folder!!
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Post by jo73 on Jan 20, 2005 20:51:21 GMT
OK...so I'm a newbie, and the first thing I do is bring an old thread back to life...sorry about that..but you all seem a welcoming bunch, so I shouldn't get flamed too bad I had to reply to this though, as after reading it I, for once, felt a little more 'normal' hahaha...I thought it was only I that still held fears over the fighting machines peeking through my window... My story echoes many others in here...I can't remember how old I was when I first heard the album (probably around 5 or 6), but I can remember the day as clearly as it was yesterday. I too, was the victim of an evil uncle, who came round our house with the album, and put it on for us to hear. I remember looking at the artwork and being totally horrified...and when the 'ULLA!' came..that was it..i was outta there...upstairs, under the covers in a few seconds flat. I shared a bedroom with my older brother, and my uncle sent him the poster mag...i believe it opened out to a poster showing the fighting machines in a clearing...putting humans in baskets? Yeah...that was good for my night's sleep... In the end I had to beg my Mum to take it down, so she did, and put it in the wardrobe. But that wasn't enough for me. I wanted it gone. So I took it out of the wardrobe (being careful not to look at it) and put it in my school bag...got to school and threw it in the bin there. So..fast forward to 1996, when the New Files come out..I get it for my Dad for his birthday...thinking 'you were young...it'll be OK this time'. hahaha. What a fool. Dad puts the CD on, and I, stupidly, leaf through the booklet. I don't think I made it to the end of the first disc before I made my excuses and left...slightly pale. I want to listen to the album again...I truly appreciate it for the work of genius it is...I just don't know if I can afford the years of therapy it may entail Again, I have to say..I was amazed to see how many people's experiences reflected my own... Sorry for the long post! Great site! Great board! Keep up the good work!!!!
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Post by mars2005 on Jan 20, 2005 22:50:00 GMT
i was about 7 when i listen to it the bit that scares me was when the lid was falling off the cylinder. it makes you feel as if you were there. the worst picture is that bloody panic in the street, it's that face of that women as if she's staring at you, it's a spooky face! the other pictures didn't bother me.
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Post by EvilNerfherder on Jan 21, 2005 1:05:20 GMT
Welcome to the site, Jo73! You threw away the poster! Oh no! There's people here who'd sell their Grandmother for one of those!
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Post by epicdream on Jan 23, 2005 15:43:17 GMT
Jo73, I know exactly where you are coming from! I bought my Dad a copy of the 2 CD album of Ebay a year ago. The reason I got it off ebay? There was no booklet, so I didnt have to look at the pictures!!! Anyhow I manged to pluck the courage up and listen to it late last year, midday, lights on etc. I sat through it all and come out the other side a little jaded but I am doing fine! Still, those bloody pictures scare me!!! I know that the big boxset with all the horrible pictures is sitting in the loft, many times had I want to throw it away but thanks to my rehab on this forum, I might be able to see it again, one day... I think us "traumatics" will have to intensify the rehab as it all begins again this year, going through to 2007 where we had better be ready!!!!!!! Neill
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Post by Chris on Jan 24, 2005 0:45:22 GMT
Friday night I came home totally wasted. I staggered into my room and knocked over some CD cases and my copy of the WOTW game fell out...
I thought ***k it, I'm gonna listen to some of this and get over this stupid fear. I'm almost 21 ffs! So I put in the Martian CD and listen to some of the remix tunes that are on it. I actually found myself really enjoying the tunes, even the remix of The Fighting Machine which starts off with a very loud ULLA! (a sound which would reduce to me tears and soiled underwear as a child).
So I eventually pass out and wake up the next morning, totally forgetting that I had left the CD in the drive. So when I put my headphones in and turn on my media device, I get a nice loud ULLA!!!!!!. Now I am totally scared poopless again. =/
SO basically my advice is that if you're ever going to listen to anything from Jeff Waynes TWOTW, make sure you're totally hammered first.
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Post by malfunkshun on Jan 24, 2005 1:32:11 GMT
wow. based on stewy's first post, i gotta say... thats frikkin wierd. i've never been scared sh*tless by the album. sure, its got its own scary vibe to it, but it was always a lot more entertaining to me than scary. i started listening to it when i was 8, maybe there's a big difference between what will scare the pants off of you between ages 8 and 5...
i'm glad i'm not afflicted with this strange psychosis
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Post by martiangirl73 on Jan 30, 2005 23:42:41 GMT
I can't believe how much you all sound like me. I thought I was the only one with this bizarre relationship with WofW.
They would play it during our afternoon rest break at summercamp. I was 6 and it scared me so bad that I once sat in the director's office while it was playing.
I tried to over come my fear when I was twelve by buying it on cassette. It still made me uneasy (good word!) every time I listened to it so I sold it to a used bookstore.
I love the music but I can't shake the weird feeling I get when I listen to it.
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Post by Poderis on Feb 7, 2005 6:15:00 GMT
I remember when my father borrowed the records from a friend and played I though this was cool, just listening but when it ended and was time for bed it was a different story of course being 7 probably didnt help, but to this day if you start humming the opening in front of my sister she will cry so I torment her sometimes. I know its mean but hey she will be hearing a lot more now that we have our copy coming soon courtesy of ebay . Cant wait for that. Oh by the way hello everyone im new here and drooling for the new films cant wait.
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Post by HTT on Feb 7, 2005 12:33:24 GMT
I was 8 when I first heard the album, and my two scariest bits are the unscrewing cylinder music (which always gets your heart going), and the groping claw ("...and then it touched my boot!"). I still have the image of it feeling about then *SNICK!*, slowly dragging the body away....
The best bit about WOTW for me though, is the Next-door-neighbor volume wars we had. Our neighbor always played loud (tasteless!) music, so my dad would put on louder music. The neighbour turned his up, so did my dad, and on & on. However, when next door played WOTW, we listened to it. Once it had finished, my dad would then put it on again.
They never spoke, my parents & my neighbors, but the only peace between them was when WOTW was being played...
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Post by Stuuullaaa on Feb 7, 2005 16:56:43 GMT
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Post by SudsoneUK on Feb 10, 2005 23:10:39 GMT
Hey folks... newbie here, been reading a while and thought I'd register and join in the fun.
My experience with WOTW started when I was about 7 or 8 when an Uncle (yes them evil uncles again...) took me out with his family for a trip to a power station (boring I know...) on the way he put a tape into his tape player in the car, and it was WOTW... I'd never heard it before, and was immediately transfixed by it. For some reason when we got to the power station, with it's massive pylons and huge cooling chimneys, I became very nervous... perhaps their sheer size overwhelmed me, but I do think it had something to do with the descriptions of the Martian FM. We finished listening to it on the way back... but that night at home was a sleepless one, and was the beginning of a long series of nightmare's about giant mechanical machines roaming the country and killing people... and yes I too could not look out of a window at night after hearing it... for me the worst time of day was always Dusk, especially during the summer. There was one night during a hot summer, it would have been around 82 or 83 I think... when there was a massive storm, possibly the biggest I can remember, and the sky turned a lurid green... I swear to god I have never seen anything like it since. It seemed unnatural and the whole experience was very eerie indeed. I was in my parents bedroom watching it through the window, as lightning flashed and the thunder boomed and cracked... and I started to imagine a Martian FM sillouhetted against the horizon, very scary experience, needless to say I didn't sleep for weeks. How surprised I was though that when the first teaser trailer comes out for Spielbergs remake, the one with the family stood in the street looking up at the maelstrom behind the sillouhetted hill... it's like he's tapped into my mind, or he has a deep understanding of the overwhelming power of imagination. Just seeing that trailer took me back to that night and reminded me how scared I was... My fascination with WOTW has continued ever since. I read the book when I was around 12 and my dad bought the LP around the same time... I enjoyed daring myself to look at the artwork, but I haven't seen it for years. I have asked for the Album on CD as a birthday present next month and I am enjoying listening to it again after such a long time. My wife has never heard it!!! So I am looking forward to scaring the crap out of her when she hears it... one thing sticks in my mind as being the most terrifying aspect of the album... and that is the Martian's cry..ULLA! If I was ever walking somewhere at dusk alone and heard that awful deafening soul destroying howl, I would probably prolapse on the spot...
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Post by notobfukwiv on Mar 1, 2005 15:33:56 GMT
I was first introduced to TWOTW when I was about 11 years old. It was at my neighbours house next door. There was my friend, his older brother and I. His brother was explaining it's content and what was happening. As the evening unfolded my friend and I were clearly uncomfortable by the whole experience, in short, we were shi**ing ourselves.
I went into the kitchen to make coffee, the night was dark with the lights shining brightly in the kitchen so I couldn't see outside. I turned to the sink facing the window, WOTW playing in the background, and there all of a sudden was this head ( my friends brother with a big afro! ) that literally popped out of nowhere, the cup and its contents splashed all over the floor. It is an experience I would not wish to relive although by a miracle I realised I had escaped!
Nightmares would follow, my imagination would go into overdrive. I would shield under the blankets and dared not to surface, sweat would pour off me and I would shiver with fear. I went to the library and read passages from the book but I eventually put it down and would not read on.
The album is truly a fantastic work of art in every regard and has stood the test of time which is underlined from the many posts as well as many many more besides I'm sure.
Regards
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Post by Slick2097 on Mar 2, 2005 16:16:20 GMT
While I have never been scared by WOTW (having only got my first listen when I was about 11 / 12). One thing that did scare me a lot was the Tripods TV series on BBC1 .. I couldn't go to bed without standing at the windows for 5 minutes before I was sure there wasn't a tripod storming over the field behind our house to whisk me away, I had frequent nightmares about them. I've not seen the series since then ... I often wonder what would happen if I saw it again today? My friend has the first series of "The Tripods" on dvd ... i'm still waiting to borrow it.
I think thats why when I heard WOTW it had such an immediate impression on me, the fighting machines, the artwork ... it was like "The Tripods" but it was different enough not to worry me so much, I listen to the album probably 5 times a week on average, it still remains one of my favourite albums of all time.
Slick2097.
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