More Teasers for Night Terrors

SFX have released some teasers for the upcoming episode Night Terrors, by Mark Gatiss.

1 It’s 99.9% arc plot free

2 It’s a small-scale, intimate, claustrophobic episode. The main stars are the shadows

3 It’s a very simple tale. Perhaps too simple for some tastes. There’s little in the actual plot that hasn’t been done in telefantasy before a number of times before

4 On the other hand it’s rich in atmosphere, and the monsters are freaky

5 It has the best use of sound design in the show since “Midnight”

6 The direction and lighting make even the most mundane settings look eerie and otherworldly

7 The Doctor does something he hasn’t done in a while

8 There’s a twin dilemma

9 Amy’s hair makes her easy to spot

10 If you listen carefully to the soundtrack, you’ll discover that the episode isn’t quite as contemporary as it may seem 

11 Somebody doesn’t want to be Sherpa Tenzing

12 “Maybe it was junk mail?’

13 The Doctor has a post-modern rebuttal for his real world critics

14 Daniel Mays is excellent – he forms a very watchable partnership with Matt Smith and delivers one of the best, “Eh!?”s in the show’s history

15 The biscuit agenda is back!

16 Somebody gets floored

17 There’s a genuinely creepy transformation

18 Somebody can’t plump for Brian like he normally does

19 The show does something it was criticised for back in 1964… and does it big time

20 Listen carefully at the end

TV Trailer for Night Terrors

The TV Trailer for Night Terrors, written by Mark Gatiss.

Teasers for Night Terrors

Some teasers for Night Terrors by Mark Gatiss have been released by CultBox.

- ‘Fear Her’, ‘The Eleventh Hour’, ‘The Beast Below’ and ‘Amy's Choice’ are all evoked here.
- Seriously? Did Rory just do that thing he does, again?
- Gatiss returns to a film reference he used in The League of Gentlemen.
- The Doctor loves a Sontaran story.
- A scene from ‘Rose’ is almost repeated.
- Rory thinks that The Doctor is in a long-running UK soap.
- A non-television Doctor Who story is directly referenced.
- Something that happened to Amy and Rory in ‘Let's Kill Hitler’ happens to them again.
- A flaw in the Sonic Screwdriver appears again.
- Is The Doctor thinking about ‘The Greatest Show In The Galaxy’?

And some quotes:

- "Please save me from the monsters."
- "Planets, history and stuff - that's what we do!"
- "Maybe we should let the monsters gobble him up?"
- "The TARDIS has gone funny again, some time-slippy thing."
- "When I was your age - ooh, about 1,000 years ago - I loved a bedtime story."
- "I'm not as daft as I look. In fact, I'm not daft at all."
- "Off the scale... off the scale... off the scale..."
- "Bergerac? God help us!"
- "You see these eyes, they're old eyes."
- "What is it with these photos?" 

Source

Summary for Night Terrors

The BBC press office has released a summary for episode 9, Night Terrors. The episode is written by Mark Gatiss.

The Doctor receives a distress call from the scariest place in the Universe: a child's bedroom, as the time-travelling drama continues.  

Every night George lies awake, terrorised by every fear you can possibly imagine – fears that live in his bedroom cupboard. His parents are getting desperate – George needs a doctor.  

Fortunately for George, his desperate pleas for help break through the barriers of all time and space and the Doctor makes a house call. But allaying his fears won't be easy; because George's monsters are real.

The Radio Times on what to expect:

A little boy called George is terrified of something lurking in his bedroom cupboard…

The Doctor receives a strange letter, begging "Help me"…

And so begins Night Terrors, episode nine of the current Doctor Who series (which returns from hiatus on Saturday 27 August with episode eight, Let’s Kill Hitler)

Written by Mark Gatiss, it sounds like being an eerie, scary tale and (as you might expect from the man who presented BBC4 documentary series A History of Horror) it employs a reliable staple of supernatural movies - toys coming to life.

The creepy Peg Dolls – until now, heralded only by a brief appearance in the series six trailer (below) - are dead-eyed, implacable and relentless.

But what do they want with young George?

Daniel Mays (last seen in Outcasts and Ashes to Ashes) plays worried dad Alex, who teams up with the Doctor to help battle his son George's demons. But not before Rory and Amy find themselves miniaturised and sucked into the strange doll's house in George's cupboard.

What else can the Doctor and Alex do but follow them inside...?

 Thanks to The Whoniverse Blog for the heads up.