The Hush Experience

[horrorshock666]

This is probably quite a weird discussion point... but here goes!

Okay... whats your story with Hush.

What i mean is do you have a story that may be interesting or funny or something?

So for me it was late at night... the first time i watched it was after i bought the box set, and so because my mum doesn't like Buffy (i know...) i had to wait until she went to bed to watch it. So it was about 1am or something and i put it on. I did not expect it to be so freaky! I mean the Window scene, my gosh! So anyway... im watching, nicely drinking my cup of coffee when the window bit happens... i jump about a mile high spilling the coffee all over me and scolding my lap, also i screamed (not a mans scream either... it was all high pitched and loud and banshee like) (or what i imagine a banshee to scream like... ive never experienced one before). So my mum woke up, came downstairs... im on the floor burning from the coffee and looking like i've had an accident and shes all startled and stuff.
Looking back i guess its quite funny... and some people might think i'm a wimp or whatever (which i am i will gladly admit), but thats my Hush Experience!

Anyone else got an interesting one?

Edit:

Oh and also i was afraid to look out of the window at night for about a week after. I think its the smiles and the eerie floatyness of them... Urgh! makes me shiver thinking about it!

[MozYa]

Hush was Season 4.

Thread will be moved so I'll post mine.

My babysitter when I was about 14 brought the Buffy Season 4 set over and we watched Hush.

I was so scared that the next time I lost my voice I just thought about this and was terrified.

[Aethra]

I don't have much of a story, but when I first watched it it was nighttime, after school one day, and I had no clue what was coming. About halfway through the episode, my friend, the one who got me into Buffy in the first place, IMed me saying "Hey, what's up?" So when I noticed the IM, I responded "The creepy floaty bad men are stealing everyone's voices!" She said "HUSH." and then stopped talking to let me devote myself entirely to it. But, at that point, I'd just been sorta selecting the episodes and such, so I'd forgotten what the title was... so for the rest of the episode, I thought she was telling me to be quiet and watch. Then I got it :lmao:

[Fake Shemp]

me and lizzierainbow scared a girl at a sleepover by singing it in the middle of the night really quietly before making some stuff in the room move that we had pre-planned.

[Dlou444]

Watching Hush for the first time was an experience I will NEVER forget.
The whole thing gives me the creeps.
Probably because the Gentlemen were creepy, but mostly because of the no talking.
It's not something I handled well.
I'm sure it has something to do with my need to always have the TV on for the "background noise" and having just the music, plus the creepy guys was very unnerving.

But, I remember it was early morning and I'd usually watch the first Angel on TNT and then switch over to Buffy at 7 am. I'd try and watch it, but I'd also be taping it so the plan was always to kind of doze off and rewatch it later.
This did NOT work with Hush.
I remember being VERY tired, but by the end of the episode being quite jumpy and ready to crawl out of my skin!

I know I got up to go to the bathroom a LOT, which I think was more nervous energy from being uncomfortable with the no talking than anything else.

I gotta give it to Joss, if he wanted it to be creepy, he did a good job. I don't think I EVER dozed back off that day.

And I know it's one of those episodes I dread coming up. Right along with The Body and Seeing Red!

[scobro]

I'm sure it has something to do with my need to always have the TV on for the "background noise"
Exactly! I often work (or sleep) while 'watching,' that episode makes that task difficult. Silence scares me. I cannot work in silence!

But it was one of the funniest episodes ever.

[InsaneMystic]

Yep, they really have a talent for combining scary and funny. Just think of "Smile Time" with its flurry of major unease/horror moments right next to absolute laughing cramps!

[scobro]

Just think of "Smile Time" with its flurry of major unease/horror moments
I can really only think of one uneasy scene in Smile Time, that being the image of the cat with the towel over his head looking like he was sitting in a sauna with a big smiley face behind him. To me, that scene gave me the creeps. I do not like smiley faces! they are so unnaturally bulbous and bloated.

[InsaneMystic]

Ah come on, I was scared of having nightmares over the photo of the little girl in the grinning coma!

And the first time the Evil Puppet talks to that kid in the teaser, as well as the sequence with Angel penetrating that studio pre-puppetization got to me, too. Ah well. I guess I'm just neurotically vulnerable to toys-turned-horror (I can't EVER watch that scene in Poltergeist I again. You know which one I mean *shudders*).

[scobro]

Ah come on, I was scared of having nightmares over the photo of the little girl in the grinning coma!

And the first time the Evil Puppet talks to that kid in the teaser, as well as the sequence with Angel penetrating that studio pre-puppetization got to me, too. Ah well. I guess I'm just neurotically vulnerable to toys-turned-horror (I can't EVER watch that scene in Poltergeist I again. You know which one I mean *shudders*).

I take it your not a fan of
http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:I_mNF0Juvp1THM:http://www.starstore.com/acatalog/chucky-life-h.jpg
I suppose my problem is I watch horror movies to SOOTH me and put me to sleep! kinda makes it hard to get rattled.

Even though you appear to be a wuss, and may or may not be sacred of your own shadow, I must give you kudos for saying "pre-puppetization"

[SC7 Fan]

The Gentlemen actually kinda reminded me of Mr. Burns from The Simpsons.

[InsaneMystic]

I take it your not a fan of
http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:I_mNF0Juvp1THM:http://www.starstore.com/acatalog/chucky-life-h.jpg
I suppose my problem is I watch horror movies to SOOTH me and put me to sleep! kinda makes it hard to get rattled.

Even though you appear to be a wuss, and may or may not be sacred of your own shadow, I must give you kudos for saying "pre-puppetization"
You're right about Chucky, lol.

And I guess you're not too far off with calling me a wuss... I'm probably a "localized wuss", though - if you hit the right soft spots, you get a major reaction from me :hidesofa: while other stuff just makes me shrug. But my shadow ain't so scary, even though it's likely huge enough to blot out the sun over L.A. :happy06:

[scobro]

But my shadow ain't so scary, even though it's likely huge enough to blot out the sun over L.A. :happy06:
But only until some megalomaniac vampire stabs you in the back with a knife made from your own bones.

[Crazy Flakes]

Well, I got the box set and started watching fairly recently, so Hush had aired many years before. Being the spoiler addict I am, I had read spoilers for the rest of the show, so I had already read about the episode. I guess that sort of ruined the Hush "experience" for me because I pretty much knew what was coming; creepy bald demons, can't talk, blah, blah, blah. Luckily, I had no idea how much fun the episode would be before I started it, and a lot of it still made me jump out of my skin (especially the shot of the Gentlemen in the window! Yikes!)

[WhiteHat]

The first ep of Buffy I watched all the way through was Spiral. But I watched the show in re-runs and caught Hush. It was that single ep that hooked me and got me on the Buffy train!
Brilliant writing, great villains, superb dialogue...erm, superb gesturing, great epic ending. It will go down in US TV history as an all-time fave ep. Trust me. ;)

[pernilleborup]

Honest to God?

The gentlemen, and their minions scared the living poop out of me! It wa a brilliant episode, but scary as hell..mouth XD

[Buffy obsessed fan]

The first time I watched Hush properly, I was about 9 or 10. I didn't think it would be scary I only knew about there being hardly any speech, I knew nothing of the Gentlemen. I was so enticed by how good the episode was my eyes were glued to the screen and oh god I screamed so loudly when the Gentlemen came on screen. I didn't watch the episode for about a year after that because I was mentally scarred :p I love it now, though.

[Helga the Viking]

My memory of my "hush experience" is off it being the episode that hooked me. It was my freshman year in college and my roommate had her TV tuned to the WB pretty much 24/7. You might remember Dawson's and Felicity being all the rage at this time, and so i was forced to watch those. But as a result, I was also "forced" to watch Buffy and Angel on tuesdays. And "Hush" just really caught my attention and made me say... damn, this is actually good. Which is kind of odd since i typically dont do scary stuff. but from then on I was fan. I went back and watched all the previous seasons to catch myself up on the backstory.

[Xin Rong]

Unfortunately I saw hush in bits and bobs over like a year, so it didn't really have the same effect on me. However watching it since I loved it but obviously I knew what was coming...

also did anyone else see Hush on the Top 50 scariest moments on skyone, I was well impressed, it came 12th or round about that lol

[Airam]

Man I wish i could vividly recall my viewing of Hush on its first airing, i bet it was great... damn my memory sucks!

[BASBritt]

This is probably quite a weird discussion point... but here goes!

Okay... whats your story with Hush.

What i mean is do you have a story that may be interesting or funny or something?

So for me it was late at night... the first time i watched it was after i bought the box set, and so because my mum doesn't like Buffy (i know...) i had to wait until she went to bed to watch it. So it was about 1am or something and i put it on. I did not expect it to be so freaky! I mean the Window scene, my gosh! So anyway... im watching, nicely drinking my cup of coffee when the window bit happens... i jump about a mile high spilling the coffee all over me and scolding my lap, also i screamed (not a mans scream either... it was all high pitched and loud and banshee like) (or what i imagine a banshee to scream like... ive never experienced one before). So my mum woke up, came downstairs... im on the floor burning from the coffee and looking like i've had an accident and shes all startled and stuff.
Looking back i guess its quite funny... and some people might think i'm a wimp or whatever (which i am i will gladly admit), but thats my Hush Experience!

Anyone else got an interesting one?

Edit:

Oh and also i was afraid to look out of the window at night for about a week after. I think its the smiles and the eerie floatyness of them... Urgh! makes me shiver thinking about it!

I'm so sorry, but the mental image of that whole story made me giggle out loud! I hope you weren't burned too badly with the spillage, but LOL... ;)

In high school, my best guy friend and I were HUGE Buffy addicts and every Tuesday night we had viewing parties. In college, I completely got my roommate hooked, so she watched it with me and I nearly died laughing when she jumped and hit her head on the top bunk when she first saw the Gentlemen. ;) Her hair got stuck in the springs and she was laughing and crying at the same time 'cause I was too busy watching that first death scene to help her get it unstuck. ;)

[luckystar]

i think i remember rushing home after a dentists appointment and switching on and been instantly freaked out by the start with that little girl singing the gentlemen are coming by yikes, anything to do with kids or chants creeps me out, either way i loved it, then when it ended my friend rang and said " i think willows kinda gay" so i quickly rewatched thinking nahh shes wrong, but she was right dammit lol oh and i also remember been in school the next day and my friend and i cracking each other up by doing anyas lil naughty gesture to xander all day

[itsxpaperdoll]

I must say, watching Hush I could only think "Man, I have to read Alice in Wonderland again!" Couldn't help it but it reminded me so much of Lewis Carroll meets Dalí and maybe some Magritte (floating men anyone?) during a bad LSD-trip. But in a good way. It was a marvellous and freaky episode, but I don't find it very scary, just an artistic masterpiece.

I know it's not an experience but I just wanted to share. Maybe I'm gonna induce a hush experience soon, if I can get my hands on some illegal drugs ^^ (just kiddin :p)