> Sapphire and Steel enchanted me then. I've never come across any
> mention of the series since. Does anyone know whether it is
> available on the net?
Don
> Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 11:54:17 +1000
> From: Clare O'Farrell <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Horror Question
>
> Hi Herbert
>
> Sorry for this late contribution - just catching up on my email
> backlog.
>
>> Thanks for this suggestion. Horror and television is another
>> interesting topic. feel alone watching it - I wonder if we ever
>> really feel alone in tv-series?
>
> I'd like to mention the 1980 British science fiction series Sapphire
> and Steel with Joanna Lumley and David McCallum playing the main
> characters - I found this generated some really bleak moments of
> aloneness - particularly the end of the series which personally gave
> me a very real moment of horror (not terror).
>
> You also mention in an earlier post: 'horror at the edge of
> perception'. There is plenty of this in S&S as well.
>
> This series also played with notions of representation in extremely
> creative ways.
>
> The sf series The Invaders with Roy Thinnes also has a main character
> who is very much on his own in the world - but I find that this
> series doesn't generate the same sense of horror as Sapphire and
> Steel - although the clear intention of the series is horror.
>
> The Chris Carter series Millenium also has some moments of horror in
> these terms.
>
> On the film front two film endings I experienced as horrific were the
> ending of Terry Gilliam's Brazil (that song still sends shivers down
> my spine whenever I hear it) and the end of The Human Condition. What
> can be more alone than complete removal from the world and shared
> social meaning via descent into madness?
> --
> regards
> Clare
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