Armchair Thriller, Quiet as a Nun

1970/80's ITV drama series,with a spooky touch.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Black
• Nun
• Armchair
• Thriller
• Tower

[leschampkinu2]

scariest moment of my life as a kid!!!! i remember it sooooooo clearly i am 40 now so must of only been 7 or 8 but that scene is still scary now !!LMAO what were my parents doing letting me watch that!!!!

[Mindfreak5150]

@blyid1 I'm a bit late to the party here but I'm exactly the same - this was on one schoolnight when I was about 8 & my brother 7. We had nightmares for ages and still remember this episode over 30 years later.

[SuzySuzySuzy999]

@MrBeenyboy it was so so creepy, my mum said we could watch it but go straight to bed after it was terrifying 

[56postoffice]

This is THE standout episode......still gives me the creeps over 30 years later :O

[youngian]

Masterclass in understated scariness, still gives me goose bumps

[MrBeenyboy]

This was probably the scariest thing I saw as a child (age 10 at the time) - with the possible exception of those 'Rabies' posters. There was another episode about a girl who put plasticene down a gun and when it backfired it blew the bad guy's eye out. Armchair Theatre was unbelievably frightening. Wasn't it on at about 7.30 in the evening too?

[roofgiant]

@GiantTalon3 - wierd how the mind plays tricks - I also thought it was called the black nun for some reason, I'm English and forty, my wife is Irish and 32 and we BOTH have the same memory of being scared witless by this thing when we were kids! we were talking about it today and am amazed that I can find it on here, amazed how many people felt like me about it and Amazed how bloody scary it still is! nightmares tonight!

[roofgiant]

@leschampkinu2 the same thing happened to me - my wife saw it too when she was a kid, we stillabout it!

[47heroes]

shouldn't have watched this... I've reverted back to being that terrified kid in the 70s. Leaving the light on lol

[nuuuurrr]

Agreed...saw this as a kid and it was terrifying that scene, seem to recall the story was not so eerie in the finish but that scene has stayed with me since and i am now 45, a friend had the paperback book with that image on the cover.

[GiantTalon3]

Wow, that scene has haunted me since I first saw it all those years ago. I thought it was called The Black Nun. It's the only TV show or movie that scared me as a child.

[fayandbrad]

I cannot believe that my Nan used to let me watch this when I was 7 years old!!! We were just discussing programmes that scared the s**t out of us when we were kids and the opening credits with the shadow sitting in the armchair scared me half to death and when I watched it on here it made me go goose pimply!! When I found this OMG, its the only part of the programme I can remember, I dont know the story, what happened at all other than the nun with no face. Still made me go cold lol