Mal ,'Ariel'
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Scariest movie experience: seeing SUSPIRIA at 13 years old in a theater. First 15 minutes scared the carp (I meant to type crap, but the typo is making me laugh, so I'ma gonna leave it) out of me. Nothing quite as bad happens in the rest of the movie, but everytime that music started kicking in I'd dive under the seat.
Pretty much jaded me for life. Some movies since have disturbed me more, but nothing full-on put me under my seat like that movie.
For some reason, zombies, vampires, Frankenstein's Monster, mummies, and most other monsters don't scare me. But werewolves freak my shit right out.
Company of Wolves. When they're coming thru the window? Holy hell.
My scare-o-meter standard will always be Carnival of Souls. The grinning white face of the ghoul floating by the window never fails to scare the living daylight out of me. Oh, and that carnival dance of the dead and the creeeeepy organ music! Brrrrr.
Aliens are what freak me out the most. There's a family story where I woke my parents up at three in the morning convinced I was going to be abducted and experimented on. I was seven.
Hence my thinking Signs was terrifying, even if they were the stupidest aliens of all time.
Quick! Name all the movies where some character gets partiall frozen with some cryogenic liquid (liquid nitrogen, helium, etc), and then that frozen part of their body gets shattered. I'm thinking Alien: Resurrection, and I think some Bond movie, but that's all I can think of. Terminator 2 doesn't count, as it's not a human who gets frozen.)
Quick! Name all the movies where some character gets partiall frozen with some cryogenic liquid (liquid nitrogen, helium, etc), and then that frozen part of their body gets shattered. I'm thinking Alien: Resurrection, and I think some Bond movie, but that's all I can think of. Terminator 2 doesn't count, as it's not a human who gets frozen.)
Does Carl on Aqua Teen Hunger Force count?
Hot Shots, Part Deux
Does Carl on Aqua Teen Hunger Force count?
Heh. Sorta.
My computer desktop is a picture of a rose that's been dipped in liquid nitrogen and then shot with a bullet. It's making me obsessed with... more evil applications of cryogenics. I'm wondering if any movie has portrayed the partial freezing of humans realistically.
then that frozen part of their body gets shattered.
This very plot-cliche was the source of the Funniest Chalk Outline EVAR on The X-Files once. There was a tiny mark to denote where each piece fell on the lab floor. (Yes, that was the beginning of an episode, which ended in near-death by wind tunnel.) (This is what happens when sicentists can't handle other people playing with their toys.)
There was a tiny mark to denote where each piece fell on the lab floor.
Oh yeah, I remember that. That was damn funny.
My brain must be stuck on "evil" today. Now I'm wondering if any film, etc has shown someone falling into a vat of mercury. Because you'd pretty much just float on top of the mercury (very little of your body would be submerged) because mercury is so dense. Like, even steel will float halfway out of mercury. So putting a human in mercury would just look damn weird. Plus, you know, somewhat toxic to the human.