![]() ![]() There is a theory that the use of childhood imagery in horror appeals more to adults than children, playing, as it does, on the gap between innocence and experience, and, typically, on our fearful horror when innocence is corrupted. #3: ‘The Empty Child’ / ‘The Doctor Dances’ (11.5%) Then along came Russell T Davies and made the ultimate terror the hubristic grandstanding of the Time Lord Victorious, leading to an ending in which, for once in Doctor Who history, self-sacrifice is not glossed over as an expedient means to resolve the plot, but is seen, in human terms, for what it is: suicide.Īnd people still condemn Russell for farting Slitheen! The man has gazed upon horrors and boldly, carefully interpreted them for a teatime audience. ![]() Writer Phil Ford didn’t know what he’d embarked on when he started writing this 2009 special, did he? He’d imagined a Patrick Troughton story updated for a generation weaned on Serenity and Event Horizon: a base under siege a terror from within a horde of white-eyed, chapped-mouthed zombies. This is so compelling a story that not even an animated Graham Norton could ruin it. If we’re honest, the conceit starts to get a little fuddled when we’re given catchphrase-unfriendly lines such as ‘that which holds the image of an Angel becomes itself an Angel’, but let’s not quibble. So, ‘Flesh and Stone’ may have diluted the concept of the Weeping Angels, making them defeatable not by keeping your eyes open but by keeping them closed, but let’s not let that take away from the mounting catalogue of horrors that is Season 5’s ‘The Time of Angels’.Ĭlimaxing in the revelation that those twisted, misshapen statues are Angels – and they’re everywhere! – the story peaks before that in the scene where the monster of the week finally does what we always feared they could: reach out of the television and come to get us! #5: ‘The Time of Angels’ / ‘Flesh and Stone’ (6.8%) Here we count down the results of the poll… CultBox asked you to vote for the Doctor Who story that frightens you the most. ![]()
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