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Does anyone recognise this film/TV programme?

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Cakewineorgin · 17/02/2020 12:21

I have just read a FB post about traumatic scenes in children’s films and remembered seeing something that haunted me for years. It would have probably been early 80’s and I woke up late one night and went downstairs. Dad was fast asleep in front of the TV and there was a fuzzy picture of a grey alien, similar to ET but with long tentacles. It was facing out of the TV and speaking directly to camera, but I couldn’t understand what was being said. The sound was very crackly and it didn’t seem to be in English. It terrified me and I was convinced it was a real alien broadcast I had seen! As an adult I know it was just a film/TV programme, but I can still feel the fear when I think about it, all these years later, and would love to know what it was I saw.

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Nonnymum · 17/02/2020 15:09

Was itbthw film Poltergeist? I seem to remember something in that when something appears to come out of the TV

Juliette20 · 17/02/2020 15:13

It wasn't V by any chance?

www.digitalspy.com/tv/ustv/a849489/cult-80s-series-v-big-budget-movie/

TheFastandTheCurious · 17/02/2020 15:27

The Thing?

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Greenteandchives · 17/02/2020 15:37

Better photo from Quatermass and the Pit. It terrified me, OP.

Does anyone recognise this film/TV programme?
Cakewineorgin · 17/02/2020 15:55

Definitely not V or The Thing. Quartermass isn’t like it either. The face was similar to ET with big eyes.

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poseysbobblehat · 17/02/2020 15:58

Was it Tripods ?

MrEzraGoldberg · 17/02/2020 16:35

PlatinumBrunette - I was traumatised by the exact same scene! Actually left my bedroom to go find my mum! Am still surprised by how scared I was. Do you remember how the brown paper went in and out as the head breathed?? (sorry...)

Yes, it was Asylum or something.

PlatinumBrunette · 20/02/2020 00:07

@MrEzraGoldberg YES! Shudder.
I also remember the thump thump as it came up (Or down?j the stairs!

HalfManHalfLabrador · 20/02/2020 01:37

War of the worlds?

Cakewineorgin · 20/02/2020 10:55

Thanks for the all suggestions, but none are what I saw. I think there is only one logical conclusion, and that’s I did actually see an alien broadcast! I wonder if that’s why I could never sleep with my window open? I mean, if aliens have the technology to fly millions of miles across space, a piece of glass will definitely stop them getting to me. 🤣

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