The Bad Seed remake, with one of the Carridine brothers as the creepy handymanperson, scared the crap out of me when I was little. I am not sure it would scare me now. I realize that I just don't watch scary things. Or I am not scared by them. Or something, because I can think of no other movie that really scared me, although both Grover on Sesame Street and Puff the Magic Dragon scared me as a child. (I would run screaming from the TV)
This is a time of celebration, so sit still and be quiet.
Snyder ,'Chosen'
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Sophia Brooks - Oct 25, 2005 4:04:09 am PDT #8217 of 10002
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Cashmere - Oct 25, 2005 4:04:40 am PDT #8218 of 10002
Now tagless for your comfort.
Plus the cop-out ending.
I hated that ending. But I guess back then they couldn't let people walk out of the theatre thinking an 8 year old girl was a murderer.
Sophia Brooks - Oct 25, 2005 4:25:24 am PDT #8219 of 10002
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I don't think the play has a cop out ending. My recollection of the play is that the mom killed "The Bad Seed" to keep her from murdering more people.
tommyrot - Oct 25, 2005 4:33:47 am PDT #8220 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I don't think the play has a cop out ending. My recollection of the play is that the mom killed "The Bad Seed" to keep her from murdering more people.
Yeah, the play had a different ending. I thought I'd heard somewhere that the movie ended that way because of the Code. 'Course, it's been a while since I saw it. Didn't God (or, you know, lightning) smite the little girl at the end?
Polter-Cow - Oct 25, 2005 4:37:27 am PDT #8221 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
My recollection of the play is that the mom killed "The Bad Seed" to keep her from murdering more people.
Like in The Good Son, which I think is an underrated movie.
tommyrot - Oct 25, 2005 4:40:30 am PDT #8222 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Didn't Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds have an album called The Good Son ?
Fred Pete - Oct 25, 2005 4:55:10 am PDT #8223 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
Didn't God (or, you know, lightning) smite the little girl at the end?
Lightning. In the novel, she survives to continue her murdering ways.
bon bon - Oct 25, 2005 5:34:26 am PDT #8224 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
I hate to bring this discussion lowbrow with a slasher movie (but it's John Carpenter, so stop judging me) but Halloween-- oh, that movie fucked my shit up. What scared me: every single time Myers would be in a shot, then the shot would cut away, then cut back, and he would be vanished. Second, of course, is him rising behind Jamie Lee Curtis.
Is Bravo going to rerun that scariest moments special? I watched that all the way through and I usually do all I can to avoid horror.
§ ita § - Oct 25, 2005 5:41:33 am PDT #8225 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I want to rewatch that now that I've seen Audition. Because I didn't watch the moments from that, because it seemed like a movie I'd want to see and be surprised by. Now I want their PoV.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 25, 2005 6:42:08 am PDT #8226 of 10002
"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
I've not seen the film, but just the clips they showed were enough to freak me out. Not at all implausible the way unkillable camp counselors or dream-haunting burn victims are.