Public information HORROR film.

I'll repeat my request for info/confirmation on the PSA I mentioned above.

This was always a fave - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmImMil6r3k

re: The Finishing Line (ps no fucking way I'm watching this tonight)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slJyhOEo-SY

The David Lynch anti-littering PSA is a thing of beauty, not least for the bikers' revel at 0:42...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSWv90msTUc

on a marginally less bleak note: anyone remember "play it safe" with jimmy savile, a series of jolly little five-minute PIFs where the bejewelled funster pointed out how your house/garden/bike/etc was trying to kill you?

― grimly fiendish, Saturday, March 29, 2008 1:11 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I love DL's anti-littering PSA. They need to start airing it again because I bet it's pretty effective.

They fuck you up, your mum and dad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfyfY7PI3pg

I never saw this one, despite growing up in a semi rural environment. Jill saw it when she was seven(!!!! WTF) and recalls it vividly. We watched it last night, and it is the most grim, macabre shit I think I have ever seen. We were both really upset and depressed after watching it. Unbelievable that this was shown to young children:

What was this? Such a tantalising description for a bunch of dead links!

I assume it's Apaches, which sees kids die in a variety of farmyard accidents over the course of a week - the one everyone remembers is drowning in a slurry pit, but also crushed by a gate, run over by a tractor trailer, drank poison and crashes a tractor after accidentally letting the hand brake off. Ends with a list of children that died in farm accidents that year.

That's the way to do it, scare the living shit out of the little baskets.

Grown Ups and Road Sense (it was dad in our new car, above) is one of my favourites and that I remember best*. "You'll ruin your eyes!"

* This is not true, I can still recite all of the Joe & Petunia films, remember Mike who swims like a fish (but looks like a monkey) and "excuse me sir, if I inquire, but isn't that your house on fire?" - as it turns out I said on here 15 years ago.

I notice some querying of SPLINK! earlier, I once offered a ton of bonus points in a pub quiz (enough to win) to anyone who could come up with any of the rules of the acronym.