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Buffista Movies 5: Development Hell  

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Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 18, 2006 8:37:40 am PDT #1377 of 10001
"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

The director's cut of The Exorcist that was re-released a few years ago watered most of the scares down by having those CGI demon face flashes everywhere just as the slow quiet tension was ratcheting up. It was like playing a 2 hour game of "Where's Waldo" with Pazuzu.

Regan's spider crawl down the stairs remains one of the freakiest things I've ever seen, though.


beekaytee - Apr 18, 2006 11:10:46 am PDT #1378 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant

I haven't seen a single movie on that list...shows ya how much I avoid the scary-for-its-own-sake flicks.

But In Dreams, A Stir of Echoes and Jacob's Ladder freaked me all the way out.


Cashmere - Apr 18, 2006 2:26:18 pm PDT #1379 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.

LOVELOVELOVE The Univited. Creepy and lovely.


DavidS - Apr 18, 2006 5:31:12 pm PDT #1380 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I love In Dreams. Both creepy and dark and vengeful. Plus Neil Jordan does great with fairy tale dreaminess (in this instance gone horribly awry).

Halloween scared me more than any other horror movie. But I saw it on its first run and before its impact had been watered down by endless slasher rehashes.

Don't Look Now is just a great movie. And, like In Dreams plays on parental loss.

I love The Haunting but generally didn't find it that scary - excepting the aforementioned scene.


Jessica - Apr 18, 2006 5:47:24 pm PDT #1381 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I just saw An Inconvenient Truth (Al Gore's documentary about the environment), and I am so incredibly depressed.

It's an excellent movie -- basically just a concert film of one of his lectures, which some random biographical stuff thrown in to break up the pacing -- but...we're not going to have a planet in 50 years. And I don't think we're far enough along in our space program to do without one.

So yeah. Everyone should see this.


tommyrot - Apr 18, 2006 6:26:19 pm PDT #1382 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

we're not going to have a planet in 50 years.

Will nuking Iran speed things up?

Anyway, yeah, I really want to see AIT....


JohnSweden - Apr 18, 2006 7:42:01 pm PDT #1383 of 10001
I can't even.

we're not going to have a planet in 50 years

I'll be dead in 50 years. That's mighty convenient.

::starts living it up like the fundi-Rapturists::

Bring on the Apocalypso!


Gudanov - Apr 19, 2006 7:16:48 am PDT #1384 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping

The only film on that list I've seen is The Shining, but I had already seen the Simpsons parody so the scary was pretty much ruined.

I scariest one for me was probably Aliens. I don't know if scary is right word though, more like intense. I have to see more movies.


beekaytee - Apr 19, 2006 7:21:51 am PDT #1385 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant

Bring on the Apocalypso!

Everybody limbo.


Frankenbuddha - Apr 19, 2006 7:39:29 am PDT #1386 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

::starts living it up like the fundi-Rapturists::

Bring on the Apocalypso!

Everybody limbo.

Wrong Christians...