I think I had the same thing with The Excorcist as the Shining. I knew it too well before I ever saw it. (Also I saw the Excorcist at someone's house while I was staying in N. Ireland as a teenager. I couldn't concentrate on gettin' scared because I was mostly concerned with what cute Irish boy I'd be snogging that night. )
Hey, I've been in a firefight before! Well, I was in a fire. Actually, I was fired from a fry-cook opportunity. I can handle myself.
Wash ,'War Stories'
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lisah - Apr 18, 2006 7:34:53 am PDT #1366 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
Jessica - Apr 18, 2006 7:36:55 am PDT #1367 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Aims - Apr 18, 2006 7:39:49 am PDT #1368 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
That looks "OW OW OW!".
Vonnie K - Apr 18, 2006 7:42:40 am PDT #1369 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
I remember liking Carnival of Souls but not getting as creeped out by it as I thought I would. Does it have a happy ending?
Nope. The movie ends as the protagonist's corpse is being dragged out of the water, with the implication that she's been dead--or lingering in a limbo between the dead and the living--all along.
I have, like, deep psychological scarring from the vision of Herk Harvey's white ghoulish face grinning from the second story window. It's been a decade since I've seen the movie, and I still hesitate to look out the windows in the dark.
Aims - Apr 18, 2006 7:45:32 am PDT #1370 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
There was a freaky movie out awhile ago about a woman whose daughter gets yanked from a school play, I think, and a whole bit about an apple orchard and I think a cider mill.
Ring any bells for anyone?
ETA: In Dreams. That's it!
lisah - Apr 18, 2006 7:46:25 am PDT #1371 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
for some reason I don't remember Carnival of Souls AT ALL but I know I saw it. And now...
deep psychological scarring from the vision of Herk Harvey's white ghoulish face grinning from the second story window
I don't think I'll ever be able to rewatch it. Scary Faces + Windows = Major Wiggins!
Strega - Apr 18, 2006 7:49:55 am PDT #1372 of 10001
That sounds like In Dreams. Annette Benning, Robert Downey Jr., lots and lots of apples.
Aims - Apr 18, 2006 7:50:56 am PDT #1373 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Thanks, Strega.
Strega - Apr 18, 2006 7:56:38 am PDT #1374 of 10001
Heh. I saw you got it while I was posting -- now you're just humoring me!
Aims - Apr 18, 2006 8:10:31 am PDT #1375 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
You're right again! Thanks!
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