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Ever been unsettled by an advert ?
Posted by Janice on 2 May 2011 - 7:16pm.
I find the Bird's Eye TV ads with the creepy polar bear deeply unsettling. It was bad enough when it used to just lurk in a fridge, but now it's creeping up on a poor woman on her holidays with the greeting 'buona sera Janice'. EEEeek ! Now the thing is talkng to me ! It's using my name and it's starting to freak me out. Husband finds it deeply amusing but I'm wishing it would go away.
Anyone else been freaked out by an advert - addressing them directly or otherwise ?
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Ever been scared by an advert?
Oh yes, cant remember the exact product, but it was for some alco pop thingy, the advert was made in black & white, & it had the "judderman" in it.
I was well into my 40s when this came out, but it scared the shit out of me.
You mean *this* Judderman?! (shudders)
Still scary as fuck!
Judderman
take it away, take it away!
The 'Charlie says' public information films
Not so much the consequences of ignoring what 'Charlie says' - but more the other-worldly strangulated noises of the cat, and the odd way in which the boy's mouth moved.
And that shite Prodigy single
for two bonus points, those other worldy strangulated noises were made by....? (insert Bob Dylan joke here)
Kenny Everett was Charley
My irrationably scary TV ad was the 1970s Castrol GTX campaign.
The stream of piss yellow, viscous oil symmetrically glooping down the can to that solemn menacing music seem to regularly stream into my childhood nightmares
new
That bear sounds like Willem Defoe to me.
Does anybody know who it is?
Correct
its William Defoe.
Though he's replaced a creepy man with a beard who rounds up all the local children for rides on his boat and a Jolly Rodger. Stranger danger
Chris Cunningham made me scared of my PS2
Two words
Go Compare. I feel genuinely uneasy watching it and the most unsettling part is how long the f***ing tune stays in my head. *Shudders*
Volkswagon Lupo
This one still makes me a little queasy.
Tough little baby
That advert, in parts, is like a remake of "Eraserhead"
- scary as fuck!
The cult of the Strawberry Cow
Apparently inspired by J.G. Ballard's obsession with the apocalypse on your doorstep, an early advert for Cravendale Filtered Milk featured a man walking through a desolate urban landscape of multi-storey car parks, road bridges and high-rises while being silently stalked by a small herd of Friesian cows.
The tagline - "So good the cows want it back," painted a terrifying portrait of bovine insanity. Were they going to drink it or attempt to stuff it back inside their udders?
Incredibly the campaign for Cravendale with a hint of Strawberry was even more terrifying, this time starring a family being stalked by a herd of dyed-red "Strawberry Cows." The penultimate scene in which a small boy is confronted herd of these monsters cuts away at the crucial moment, with a triumphant mooing indicating that the identity of the victor.
Watch out
There's a Humphrey about!
This one still gives me the willies
I remember changing channels when this came on. Still, it did stop me from swimming in pits if death was standing nearby so it was effective.
The whole idea
of the Michelin man freaked me out as a kid,much the same as that horror film I saw around the same time where a man was uncovered to be half pig with much squelching and vibrating.Most disturbing.Do you know it? It was British.1970's.That is all.
There's a
scene similar to that in Lindsay Anderson's "O Lucky Man!", though from memory it was a man revealed to be half sheep.
Edit: Here's a clip:
That's exactly it!
Thanks KDH
Still in therapy...
Usually....
.... When someone posts a clip of something in a post, I will watch the clip before commenting.
I remember this from my younger days, scared the shit out of me then, cant watch it now.
Aaargh!
Makes my Biffin Bridge go funny...
the recent
monkey's wearing biscuits as ruffs trying to hawk Jammy dodgers are some sort of freudian hell made real. I had nothing but positive vibes for this redoubtably biscuit until this nightmare, why didn't they just give them wings and have them steal Toto for good measure.
The recent Windows ad
where a lady doctors the snaps she's taken of her family and cheerfully trills "Windows gives me the family nature couldn't" makes me want to cry.
That f**king Halifax ad
well, there's more than one for a start. But its the 'ice, ice baby' one that really pisses me off. It drives me so mad I have to rush to change the channel as soon as I see that 'X' sign on top of the building at the start. One day I'm going to kick the TV in!
The Paul Whitehouse Aviva ad....
where the family are going on holiday and you realise the Dad is dead and only there in spirit. For some reason the room gets a little dusty at that point. Just watched it again with the same result....
The Evian babies
I can't bear CGI. It makes me feel pretty queasy, in the way that auto-tune does.
The rollerskating Evian babies, therefore, completely do my nut in and make me gibber with terror.
The kid with the bog-roll
Y'know - the tot in the executive suit.
*shudders*
Oh, and the new real-puppy free Andrex ads.
And those ones for toilet cleaning products, where the loos are really, vilely filthy to begin with. I mean, who on earth lets it get that bad?
Coulrophobia
is the fear of clowns and I have to say that I found the incarnation of Ronald McDonald in the 80s TV ads a bit of a queazeburger deluxe