Wait, Tarzan is a car now?

It's a Hindi movie. A guy designs a car, and some evil car company guys kill him (to steal his design) and toss his old car into a lake. Years later, his son finds the car and restores it. Then God infuses the car with his dad's soul, and the car goes and kills the evil car company people. Also, there's a Tarzan figurine hanging from the rearview mirror. Plus, a love story and much singing and dancing in between the vicious murder. I think it's supposed to be a kid's movie.

I feel like there have been American movies like it, but I can't think of one exactly like it.

Christine, from the Stephen King novel. But no singing and dancing.

Also, there was some movie I saw on late-night USA years ago about a comet that caused a bunch of trucks at a rest stop to become sapient and they started killing their drivers. Still no singing and dancing.

But, I think even Bollywood would have trouble fitting singing and dancing into a horror movie. Actually, maybe they wouldn't. But I would like to see it!

Christine, from the Stephen King novel.

I have to read that. I did think of that, but I wasn't sure what the origin of the murderous rage was. I felt like there were stories specifically about a father being killed and possessing a car found by his son. I know there's one with Alan Thicke where he comes back as a vacuum cleaner or something.

But, I think even Bollywood would have trouble fitting singing and dancing into a horror movie. Actually, maybe they wouldn't. But I would like to see it!

Um, no. Horror movies still have singing and dancing. In recent years, there have been more movies without songs, but regardless of what kind of movie it is, there's a love story thrown in there so the lovers can have daydreams in song form.

Whup, hold up. The two horror movies I've seen in recent years did not have songs (or love stories!). But there was one pretty damn creepy one I saw years ago that probably had songs for sure because it was old school. I think I remember one about Kali, at least.

I loved the Abyss. It solidified my huge crush on Ed Harris. It has the fabulous scene in the pod with one wetsuit and two people, and the CPR scene, and Bud fishing his wedding ring out of the toilet and going around the rest of the movie with a blue hand, and Michael Biehn going bugfuck crazy. And Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio as a smart, very tough cookie. (Even if she does end up the Angsty Woman at the end.)

(And yes, Farscape stole liberally from this for The Flax, but I don't care. Besides, they swapped the roles, which made it cooler.)

I usually try to forget the last twenty minutes of the movie ever happened. Except for Bud going down, down, down... that's pretty cool.

I saw some movies on the plane. I,Robot wasn't too bad. About what you'd expect.

Catwoman was terribly awful, as you'd expect.

The airline trapped you in an enclosed space with no exit and made you watch Catwoman?!? Dude, I'd be hiring a lawyer, that HAS to violate something in the Geneva Convention.

Plus, the sex scene between Igrayne and Uther is kind of hot.

Two words: Plate. Mail.

Also? Ouchy.

Snerk! Betsy, that's all I kept saying during the scene -- "Ow, ow, ow."

Man, you think beard abrasions are bad...

so what were the filmmakers supposed to do?

Exactly. The fact that the movie got made at all amazes me (Don Cheadle on the Daily Show talked about how he probably wasn't going to get the role and Will Smith was because the director had been trying to get it made for 10 years and was going to do anything to get it made.)

that the actress who played Igrayne was the director John Boorman's daughter

His wife, so still a little on the creepy side, but a little less parentally so.

For true bug fuck creepiness, you need to see the movies that Dario Argento did with Asia. Yikes. Stendahl Syndrome is the only good one of the three, but also the most skeevy to watch. Actually now that I think about it, she was in four, but in PHENOMENA (aka CREEPERS) she was in mutant child makeup so I'm not sure it counts, although it is creepy (and what happens to his other daughter Fiore, and Daria Nioclodi, the mother of Asia, in that movie is pretty nasty too).

Am watching Stargate (the original movie). How much was the series based on the movie?