If anyone's really bothered by scary scenes from recent horror movies, I recommend watching the appropriate Scary Movie spoof which will puncture the tension of aforementioned scenes like a needle through a balloon. The most recent one skewered Signs, The Ring, The Others, The Matrix and 8 Mile.
It's called a blaster, Will, a word that tends to discourage experimentation. Now, if it were called the Orgasmater, I'd be the first to try your basic button press approach.
Xander ,'Get It Done'
Buffista Movies 4: Straight to Video
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Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 26, 2005 9:45:52 am PDT #8271 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
Volans - Oct 26, 2005 10:57:00 am PDT #8272 of 10002
move out and draw fire
Matt speaks the truth. GC mentioned the bathroom scene and all I could picture was the parallel from Scary Movie.
Just watched Finding Neverland. Beautiful movie.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 26, 2005 12:36:45 pm PDT #8273 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
GC mentioned the bathroom scene and all I could picture was the parallel from Scary Movie.
Yeah, the terror pretty much dissipates when you've seen it re-enacted with Shawn Wayans and really tasteless penis sight gags added.
Glamcookie - Oct 26, 2005 1:23:36 pm PDT #8274 of 10002
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
I need to watch it then cause when I'm alone in the bathroom at work, I hurry through my hand washing so the scary mask dude won't get me.
Alicia K - Oct 26, 2005 1:28:51 pm PDT #8275 of 10002
Uncertainty could be our guiding light.
It's been ages since I've seen Se7en. Can someone please whitefont for me how the hooker dies?
Jars - Oct 26, 2005 1:31:42 pm PDT #8276 of 10002
Se7en hooker death - Kevin Spacey dude forces a guy to rape her with a dildo fashioned into a knife.
IIRC. Haven't seen it in a while.
§ ita § - Oct 26, 2005 1:56:06 pm PDT #8277 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Paramount is in final negotiations with Layer Cake director Matthew Vaughn to direct and produce a screen version of Neil Gaiman’s Stardust, about “a young man who promises his beloved that he'll retrieve a fallen star by venturing into the magical realm, where he has to contend with witches, goblins, gnomes, talking animals and evil trees.” One Ring nerds everywhere go on a cloak dry-cleaning frenzy.
Variety article -- to which I can't get, but there you go.
Gris - Oct 26, 2005 3:31:51 pm PDT #8278 of 10002
Hey. New board.
IIRC. Haven't seen it in a while.
You RC. But it's more than that, it's this beatifully wrought leather device thing... SO fucked up.
Yeah, the Scary Movies are good at the tension reduction. They're also much funnier high, like most such movies. Not Another Teen Movie also comes to mind.
Anne W. - Oct 26, 2005 3:36:48 pm PDT #8279 of 10002
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
negotiations with Layer Cake director Matthew Vaughn to direct and produce a screen version of Neil Gaiman’s Stardust
Wow. Layer Cake and Stardust seem very unalike on the surface of things, but I can see this combo working.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 26, 2005 4:48:25 pm PDT #8280 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 need to watch it then cause when I'm alone in the bathroom at work, I hurry through my hand washing so the scary mask dude won't get me.
Just don't EVER go see Ju-on. That had me looking around nervously in a restaurant men's room afterwards, and it's very rare for me to be sufficiently creeped by a movie to get jittery outside the theater.