#81

It was apparently made very clear to the tenants of the flats above that, should the worst happen and the bunker be called into use, they wouldn’t be welcome in it

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#82

them specifically or just anyone who rocks up to it?

#83

I was going to say that everyone with even a passing interest in stone circles and the oddness of the British ritual landscape needs to have a copy of Julian Cope’s Modern Antiquarian to hand, but I’ve just seen how much it goes for second hand these days! I’m glad I bought mine all those years ago.

https://www.themodernantiquarian.com/the_books/

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#84

‘Bet you regret putting your bins out beside our bunker door the night before now, eh?’

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#85

Sapphire and Steel- 70s tv show where Joanna Lumley and David play paranormal investigators who are somewhat paranormal themselves. The first story was pretty standard 70s kids drama, and then from the second story on, they’re just like “fuck it, let’s just make it terrifying”

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#86

I liked finding out from the Wikipedia article that they attempted to make a computer game version that was really really shit, because computers of the time weren’t capable of the kind of graphics needed

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#87

Beat me to it! I used to love Sapphire and Steel

#88

I’ve got a dvd box set I got years ago that was inexplicably £5

#89

I used to watch that at home during the day when I was pretending to be ill.

#90

Does it still stand up? I’ve always been cautious of re-watching in case it’s dated to fuck!

#91

Nigel Kneale was another master of this kind of stuff. Quatermass And The Pit, with it’s evocation of race memory and the folklore of the Devil had a tremendous effect on the young mlh, and The Stone Tape is basically hauntology in a nutshell - ancient ghosts! made in the seventies! on television at Christmas!

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#92

I went to a halloween archaeology conference at UCL a while back entitled Archaeology and the Uncanny, and there were loads of talks that mentioned the Stone Tapes (along with MR James).

The conclusion was that fictional archaeologists are usually doomed.

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#93

Hahaha look what I just found!!!

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I have written my name in it and it has our school stamp :rofl::rofl::rofl:

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#94

Dated and slow-paced, but still terrifying.

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#95

OMG my parents house is just a sea of gems

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#96

I visited one in Essex the other year-

Was a really peculiar place. There was hardly anyone around and they had these chunky 1970s radio handsets that you carried around for the audio-tour. On the way in you went past a blast door and down this really long corridor. There was a gun locker at the end apparently to fight off gangs of post-apocalyptic marauders :open_mouth:

In the gift shop there was a photo gallery of the owner with loads of TV celebrities which was weird. Not sure if they just want to be pally with a guy who owns a nuclear bunker. Also the place can be hired for children’s birthday parties which is kind of weird.

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#97

That sounds great! I love MR James, which probably isn’t surprising given all the other things I’ve said I love in this thread already.

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#98

Another one for Cold War nightmares

#99

sounds very like the one in Fife - massive entry corridor gently sloping downhill, blast doors at the end, pretty sure there’s a gun post there too! It’s also for hire as a venue, and I went to many a D’n’B night there as a student at St Andrews. Underground raving in a nuclear shelter FTW

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#100

We used to watch Threads about once a year at school. My gf had never seen it so a couple of years ago when she was recovering in hospital and bored she watched it. She also watched the American equivalent with Steve Gutenberg in.

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