Flavorwire's Ten Creepiest "Family" movies of all time.
I thought it was going to creepy movies *about families, like Texas Chainsaw Massacre or something. I have to admit I was disappointed.
River: 1001. 1002. Simon: River... River: Shh. I'm counting between the lightning and the thunder to see if the storm is coming or going. .1005
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Amy - Oct 19, 2011 2:10:28 pm PDT #16399 of 30000
Because books.
Scrappy - Oct 24, 2011 10:47:58 am PDT #16400 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
We saw Take Shelter yesterday. Mike Shannon (who I know very slightly) was excellent, as was Jessica "I'm In Everything" Chastain, but I just didn't like the film much. It seemed, I dunno, to think it had a lot more meaning than it actually did. Anyone else see it?
§ ita § - Oct 24, 2011 3:04:05 pm PDT #16401 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Angsty take on Species, starring ScarJo. I dunno, the premise makes me all eye-rolly, but much of that might be my lack of respect for the lead actress and her reputed sexpottiness.
sumi - Oct 25, 2011 6:56:12 am PDT #16402 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!
Icelandic Horses to be important in The Hobbit.
DavidS - Oct 25, 2011 1:27:01 pm PDT #16403 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Every year, the AV Club invites a famous horror aficionado to set up a 24 horror movie marathon.
This year they chose Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Spaced etc.)
His taste in horror is a lot closer to mine than Eli Roth's was. I've actually seen almost half of this list.
The rule of thumb is you need about 15 movies over twenty four hours.
I'm going to go mull it over and try to come up with a list, but I'd be curious to see anybody else's picks.
DavidS - Oct 25, 2011 1:29:45 pm PDT #16404 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
The comments section at AV Club is usually worth reading and there's a good conversation there, where some folks are pimping "Hush" from BtVS and "Blink" from Dr. Who.
Also naming specific episodes of New Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, TV movies and Tales From the Crypt. See now, that's an online conversation becomes a useful resources.
A marathon of TV horror could be pretty cool.
Definitely need some Twin Peaks in there...
DavidS - Oct 25, 2011 1:39:19 pm PDT #16405 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Some of the TV recs I've ganked from the conversation:
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Other TV episodes/shorts I'd add if the marathon was longer:
The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror episode with The Shinning segment
Tales From the Darkside episodes: Inside the Closet, The Last Car
The Twilight Zone episodes: Nightmare at 20,000 ft., Twenty-Two, The Hitch-Hiker
Alfred Hitchcock Presents episodes: One More Mile to Go, Breakdown
Fear Itself episodes: The Eater, Skin and Bones
The 1953 James Mason-narrated Tell-Tale Heart animated short
Tim Burton's Vincent
A Bit of Fry and Laurie Gellian Gutfright skits
X-Files, maybe "Home"? And the pilot of "The Walking Dead" was a pretty darn solid zombie movie, really.
The Tales From The Crypt episode about the lunatic who escapes from the mental asylum and dresses like Santa Claus.
That's And All Through the House, and it is the best episode of the show as far as I'm concerned.
Anyone remember the (Monsters? Darkside? Tales from the Crypt?) episode about the underground tunnels/Vietnam war?
Nightcrawlers from The New Twilight Zone!
New Twilight Zone, "Gramma"
Night Gallery, "The Doll"
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I'd add the original Alfred Hitchcock adaptation of Roald Dahl's "The Man From the South" - super creepy.
I'm pretty sure that Karen Black horror movie with the African Fetish doll was on TV originally.
I know Dana would have a good succinct list of creepiest X-Files. Flukeman?
And the Twin Peaks episode where Bob comes over the couch....
Dana - Oct 25, 2011 2:19:57 pm PDT #16406 of 30000
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
I know Dana would have a good succinct list of creepiest X-Files. Flukeman?
"Home."
le nubian - Oct 25, 2011 2:25:45 pm PDT #16407 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
OMG.
not watching that again.
Jesse - Oct 25, 2011 3:29:19 pm PDT #16408 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
They just talked about "Home" on this week's Extra Hot Great podcast, and then they did a thing with all horror movie music, and I was fully creeped out.... by the time I got to work at 9 this morning!