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https://i.imgur.com/76341wq.mp4 It's October. Already a nostalgic time of year for grown-ups, now intensified by the desperate pursuit of the smallest bit of serotonin as we sit bunkered up waiting out the biological and ideological hellscape raging outside. Perfect time to start talking about those fuzzy memories of technically kid-friendly yet still terrifying television events of your youth! One protip I'll give is that thanks to how connected the world is now if you can remember a weird show from childhood you can plug it into YouTube and probably find the whole series there because the rights holders don't give a poo poo. The inciting incident of creating this thread was remembering Bone Chillers, a show that in my youth I thought was just another Goosebumps knockoff but actually turned out to be way cooler and weirder and spookier than I remembered. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=criql2udHmQ Episode 1 sets the tone perfectly, the show is low budget but you can tell the people involved cared and were having fun because every inch of Edgar Allen Poe High School is draped is cobwebs and halloween store clutter. Even the scene transitions are spooky, like a zombie arm reaching from the top of the screen to pull the next scene up or chattering skull teeth devouring the current scene. The idea of a notebook that makes that the things you write/draw in it become reality is an incredibly well-worn trope so it wastes no time and effort in the setup, instead just getting it from a homeless man at the beginning so it can instead spend the majority of the episode having weird creatures and bizarre sight-gags occur thanks to the magic drawing pad. The climax being one of the monsters created from the drawing getting the book and using it to himself draw an army of underlings is genuinely surprising and also leads to a fun no-holds-barred foodfight in cafeteria and clever lines such as "I'm gonna die on my birthday!". I can definitely see why as a kid I found it terrifying since there are several scenes where the students are pinned down beneath monsters who have caught them and the only salvation from their peril is the monsters disappearing at the last moment when their drawings are torn up.       https://i.imgur.com/sV8ZvgF.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/UMr1a2R.mp4
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