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Aims - Oct 24, 2005 11:26:51 am PDT #8194 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Frankenbuddha - Oct 24, 2005 11:28:00 am PDT #8195 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I'm trying to think of my favorite horror films. I liked Ravenous, but I don't think it's a horror movie (although it's filed with horror on the shelf).
RAVENOUS is way too funny to be considered a straightforward horror movie, but I do love it.
Oh, and there was a bulldog with the head of a human.
Oh man, even when you know it's coming it's freaky.
It was scary and all, with many shit-freaking moments
Heh, one of the few times they let you off the hook in that movie is the end of the (deeply fucked up)
defribulator scene and "You've gotta be fucking kidding me!"
Actually, that one's got a few good tension break lines:
"I don't know what's down here but it's pissed off and weird!" and "Yeah, well FUCK YOU, TOO!"
Tom Scola - Oct 24, 2005 11:37:45 am PDT #8196 of 10002
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
In somewhat less scary news, Where the Wild Things Are and The Life of Pi have both been greenlighted: [link]
askye - Oct 24, 2005 11:42:11 am PDT #8197 of 10002
Thrive to spite them
The Cell wasn't a good movie, but it creeped me out.
I liked The Others, the ending was slightly marred for me by the woman sitting next to me who said very loudly "I don't get it!" right after the big reveal but while the characters were still reacting to the reveal.
Someone made a really good vid to The Others, I don't remember the vidder but the song is called Forget Me Not.
Sean K - Oct 24, 2005 11:45:05 am PDT #8198 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
AIMEE!
Nevermind. I figured it out.
P.M. Marc - Oct 24, 2005 12:08:16 pm PDT #8199 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I still think The Others has the weirdest happy ending ever. I found it more uplifting than scary on the whole.
The Changling is still the scariest movie I've ever seen, but I can't pin down one scene that made it so.
Nutty - Oct 24, 2005 12:12:00 pm PDT #8200 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I did not see The Thing till I was much too old to be affected the way Sean was. Mostly, I thought the movie was hilarious. (In a certain creepifying way, especially the dog, but I cannot but laugh at Wilford Brimley going bananas.)
I liked The Others, but was never frightened in it, only sad.
Sean K - Oct 24, 2005 12:18:48 pm PDT #8201 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Mostly, I thought the movie was hilarious. (In a certain creepifying way, especially the dog, but I cannot but laugh at Wilford Brimley going bananas.)
Yeah, I laugh my fool head off when watch it now. It's cheesetastic fun.
Kathy A - Oct 24, 2005 1:31:58 pm PDT #8202 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Oh, another truly creepifying moment is the end of The Haunting of Julia with Mia Farrow.
Is that the one where Mia's blind, and she fills up the tub, not knowing there's a dead body in it? That freaked me out when I saw it on TV as a kid.
Oh, I also remember some color version of Frankenstein (I'm guessing a Hammer version?) that had a pretty woman in Regency garb with her head sewed back on, and a very gross scar hidden under her velvet choker. Seeing that before age 10 left a mark on my brain, even though I have no clue what the name of the movie was.
askye - Oct 24, 2005 2:04:41 pm PDT #8203 of 10002
Thrive to spite them
I saw parts of Psycho when I was really young. I think I was at a church thing where we were being "babysat" by older kids and it came on. Not all of it, not the stabbing scene, the one where "mother" turns around. I had nightmares about that for years, decades even. I've never seen Psycho, I know it's not as scary as what I built up in my mind, but I still don't want to see it.