I have 3 that I'm trying to figure out the names of:
1. I think it was an episode of RAY BRADBURY THEATER. There was a man and a woman trying to scare each other. The man was lying on the bed, and nothing overtly scary happened, but the sounds were terrifying (fan, clock, etc.) It was all about the suspense
2. There was another T.V. episode (probably on USA SATURDAY NIGHTMARES as well) with a killer puppet. At one point it made a high pitched "whizz" noise like those little round noisemakers with the fans in them that you blow through
3. There was some (possibly British) movie with a creature living in the sewers that fed on spinal fluid.
Any of these ringing a bell with anyone?
The spinal fluid creature is from 1980's "Scared to Death" –
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00147F904?tag=feoamantshorr-20&camp=14573&creative=327641&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=B00147F904&adid=1WFA48PS8F9PF4682YW3&
The Ray Bradbury Theater episode is called Gotcha! ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0683192/ ). The imdb summary doesn't do much justice to it, though.
I think the one with the whirring head puppet was Puppet Master (1989). There was a mean little bastard with a drill head on top of his noggin that he would do all sorts of nasties with.
I think #2 is the video below. It was on USA Night Flight Saturday Nightmares. Hope this helps!
I hope that's it, incognitovixen, cause that's awesome work. That sound effect was hanging me up, but sure enough, it's there at 3:11.
@incognitovoxen: The comment system turns HTML into straight text, which is annoying, so I fixed your video embed and got rid of the link.
Here's a YouTube link for the relevant part of Gotcha!:
@aunt john: Thanks for fixing that. I couldn't figure out what I was doing wrong. At least I know it wasn't me now! @senski: I'm glad I could help. This video has haunted me for probably 20 years so I've remembered every horrible little thing about it.
brilliant!
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thank you all!!! yes, "scared to death" does look like the movie i was thinking of.
and yes,the tv episodes were "the dummy" and "gothcha!"