Oct 30, 2026 · 38 min · 9 segments
The Movies That Made Me... Season 2: Episode 9: Halloween Special As a child, the theme music alone to Dr Who could send one behind the sofa. But that was TV. What about the movies? The…
So I'm going to open with actually an interesting pick that is actually one of my favourite films.
from 1990 um and I kind of also tried to go through these films that film was incredibly haunting and I think when you're younger you uh witness like atmosphere and so maybe you don't really know what you're afraid of but there is something spooky um and I think that one really nails that but I think um I did choose one moment that I thought was the most scary in it which again is actually a sad moment, but also I found scary, is when Edward, before he's completed and he's about to have his hands put on replacing his scissors by his inventor dad, played by the wonderful Vincent Price.
And then originally I remembered this as Edward killing him by accident, but it's actually not that.
I've re-remembered that the inventor character has a heart attack But I think he kind of falls onto Edward and Edward kind of impales him on his scissors.
But basically, it's just really heartbreaking because then Edward is just alone.
I was quite like disturbed by that, the loss and then the abandonment, as well as the little jump scares.
There's obviously like little horror moments of him coming out of the dark and when the Avon lady comes, you know, there's all those moments, but really that was the bit that stayed with me.
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I've picked a film which, a bit like Edward Scissorhands, might be thought of as a children's film, which is The Wizard of Oz.
It's also the very first film that my family ever recorded on a video recorder on Christmas.
So I'm going to open with actually an interesting pick that is actually one of my favourite films.
from 1990 um and I kind of also tried to go through these films that film was incredibly haunting and I think when you're younger you uh witness like atmosphere and so maybe you don't really know what you're afraid of but there is something spooky um and I think that one really nails that but I think um I did choose one moment that I thought was the most scary in it which again is actually a sad moment, but also I found scary, is when Edward, before he's completed and he's about to have his hands put on replacing his scissors by his inventor dad, played by the wonderful Vincent Price.
And then originally I remembered this as Edward killing him by accident, but it's actually not that.
I've re-remembered that the inventor character has a heart attack But I think he kind of falls onto Edward and Edward kind of impales him on his scissors.
But basically, it's just really heartbreaking because then Edward is just alone.
I was quite like disturbed by that, the loss and then the abandonment, as well as the little jump scares.
There's obviously like little horror moments of him coming out of the dark and when the Avon lady comes, you know, there's all those moments, but really that was the bit that stayed with me.
time.
Up
I've picked a film which, a bit like Edward Scissorhands, might be thought of as a children's film, which is The Wizard of Oz.
It's also the very first film that my family ever recorded on a video recorder on Christmas.
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