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Dillon Pentz

@hatetosayit.com

I still, to this day, am vaguely uncomfortable around mirrors because of the short this is from.

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In honor of scary media month: what is the first piece of media you remember truly frightening you as a child?

Dillon Pentz

@hatetosayit.com

This is a short simply called "Mirror" from NZ children's horror anthology series "Freaky". As an adult it's incredibly crude and cheap. It's very fairy tale in structure and consequences, but as a kid, the visual of being trapped with only an endless void waiting... 🫣 archive.org/details/frea...

archive.orgFreaky (2003 New Zealand Television Series)Freaky (2003) is a horror/science-fiction children's anthology series originally produced by Avalon Productions for TVNZ, which aired on TV2 (now TVNZ 2). It also aired on the ABC and ABC3 in Australi...

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Dillon Pentz

@hatetosayit.com

I need more people to watch this show, if for no other reason than to experience the tonal dissonance of a kid-friendly anthology show, starring mainly kids, but where most of the endings are usually a divine punishment or death.

Sam

@korvys.info

Looks like I would have been a little old for it, otherwise I think I would have been right into it. It reminds me a bit of Australia's Round the Twist (which I never actually saw much (not sure if it aired in NZ?), but I read several of the books it was based on).