Mind you, head-in-a-box would have been somewhat anticlimactic, gore-wise, in Se7en. I still have spontaneous shudders based on bits from that film.
Hey, don't worry about it. Nest full of vampires, you come get me, okay. Box full of puppies, that's more of a judgement call.
Jonathan ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
The Minearverse 3: The Network Is a Harsh Mistress
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Emily - Jun 16, 2005 9:47:20 am PDT #9271 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Frankenbuddha - Jun 16, 2005 9:53:40 am PDT #9272 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Mind you, head-in-a-box would have been somewhat anticlimactic, gore-wise, in Se7en. I still have spontaneous shudders based on bits from that film.
The amazing thing about Se7en is that the only on-screen violence is comitted by Brad Pitt - everything else is after the fact. It's the imagining of how the victims got that way that brings the creepieness.
The all-time king of essentially non-violent, shudder-inducing movies is the original Dutch VANISHING. I've seldom been so creeped out as I was by the final shot of that film (it was a literal flesh-crawling moment for me).
Nutty - Jun 16, 2005 10:01:00 am PDT #9273 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
everything else is after the fact. It's the imagining of how the victims got that way that brings the creepieness.
Beg to differ. That movie blew its creepiness budget in the first 20 minutes, and started borrowing from the Grand Guignol budget.
Matt's ponit remains true, i.e. being primed to imagine awfulness is more emotionally arresting than if you'd seen the explicit awfulness. I think it goes double whenever severed heads are involved, because of how fake severed heads tend to look.
Elais - Jun 16, 2005 10:03:36 am PDT #9274 of 10001
making her home at bronzebeta.com since 2001
major understatement. I took a glance over there and the vitriol is spewing rather heavily. Even the people who don't hate it aren't showing a lot of enthusiasm for it. I don't get it.
I think it's more like THEY don't get it. I think they are just seeing surface stuff and not actually thinking much about what they saw. Maybe they are so used to shows doing the work for them, that they resent making the effort themselves?
TWOP tends to go in waves, everyone trashes something for a while, then someone pipes up and gives praise, which brings out more people who say positive things about it.
Allyson - Jun 16, 2005 10:04:45 am PDT #9275 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Yes. When sloth coughed, I jumped out of my seat so fast I left my skin behind.
I'm still broken about numbers and can't even start discussing the episode.
jengod - Jun 16, 2005 10:05:06 am PDT #9276 of 10001
Let the record show I went to bed last night kind of messed up by the man-rape. It was one of those things where, you know, what they don't show you is scarier than what they do?
[Shudder.]
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 16, 2005 10:08:45 am PDT #9277 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Yes. When sloth coughed, I jumped out of my seat so fast I left my skin behind.
You and me both. I have never been so glad to have a mostly undrunk-as-yet soda in my chair's armrest/cupholder.
jengod - Jun 16, 2005 10:10:40 am PDT #9278 of 10001
herd group-think...TWOP is the herdiest.
Kristen - Jun 16, 2005 10:10:58 am PDT #9279 of 10001
I'm still broken about numbers
I'm going to Office Depot to try and cheer myself up. You want some colorful gel pens?
Allyson - Jun 16, 2005 10:14:22 am PDT #9280 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
You want some colorful gel pens?
Yes please.