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!
Sometimes when I'm sitting in class... You know, I'm not thinking about class, 'cause that would never happen. I think about kissing you. And it's like everything stops. It's like, it's like freeze frame. Willow kissage.
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Jesse - Oct 25, 2011 3:29:19 pm PDT #16408 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
DavidS - Oct 25, 2011 3:36:53 pm PDT #16409 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
What are the scariest episodes of Supernatural, or Angel?
For Angel I'd plump for "Are You Now or Have You Ever Been." It's dark and lingers in that horrible way.
Dollhouse had some super creepy episodes in the backstretch of its last season.
billytea - Oct 25, 2011 3:53:04 pm PDT #16410 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Hec, of those horror movies, is Asylum one that you've watched? I'm now curious as to how it ends, and can't find the identity of the former asylum chief and what happens to the new candidate.
DavidS - Oct 25, 2011 3:57:31 pm PDT #16411 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I haven't seen Asylum, billytea. But I bet they have it at my ultra-well-stocked vid store, and now I'm intrigued.
Seriously, you can't get a spoiler for it on Wikipedia? Lame, Wikipedia!
I've got a long fascination with horror anthology movies.
Dead of Night - Michael Redgraves and the world's scariest ventriloquist dummy.
Black Sabbath - Boris Karloff's sole portrayal of a vampire is one of the best ever.
Spirits of the Dead - Fellini's "Toby Dammit" is uber-cool.
Trilogy of Terror - Karen Black vs. the Zuni doll.
smonster - Oct 25, 2011 4:07:18 pm PDT #16412 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
And the Twin Peaks episode where Bob comes over the couch....
Man, I was babysitting by myself watching that episode, and there was this thumping noise I couldn't identify, and I tried to get my mom to come across the street and watch it with me but she wouldn't b/c she was watching it at home and was too scared. (The thumping was bass from a party down the street).
From early SPN, I would say the one with the shadow beasts where Daddy Winchester finally shows up. And maybe the hellhounds, and I should just stop because I can't remember any episode names. "Hookman" scared the crap out of me, but I'm susceptible to that kind of stuff.
Scary Angel episodes... "Habeas Corpses?" Or was it "Corpus?" You know, the zombie lawyer one.
On a semi-related note, I sold my Buffy s2 and s4 DVDs and now can't do my annual rewatch of "Halloween," "Fear Itself," and "Hush." Hrmph.
Jessica - Oct 25, 2011 4:33:25 pm PDT #16413 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
For horror TV, the original Lars Von Trier Kingdom would be my top pick.
DavidS - Oct 25, 2011 4:36:54 pm PDT #16414 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
For horror TV, the original Lars Von Trier Kingdom would be my top pick.
I almost bought that today! Only $4.95 for two volumes on VHS.
But, I decided I could probably get the DVD for something close to as cheap.
Still - it's awesome!
Amy - Oct 25, 2011 4:47:33 pm PDT #16415 of 30000
Because books.
For horror TV, the original Lars Von Trier Kingdom would be my top pick.
I wanted to like the American remake, but it was just confusing and sort of blandly disturbing. Not sure I can sit through subtitles, though.
DavidS - Oct 25, 2011 5:01:06 pm PDT #16416 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Speaking of scary TV, I dare you to watch this British PSA from the 70s. Damn! That would've scarred me good.
The original Kingdom is the only thing I've seen close in tone and effect to Twin Peaks.
Strega - Oct 25, 2011 7:04:56 pm PDT #16417 of 30000
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.
Well, that kept me out of trouble this evening. I started just listing things, and then a theme started to appear, so I went with it. And then I had about 50 hours worth and had to make a few cuts, ahem.
- Sapphire & Steel: Assignment 2 (The Railway Station)
- 28 Days Later
- Masters of Horror: Homecoming
- High Plains Drifter
- Alien
- The House of the Devil
- The Thing
- The Fly
- Cat People
- The Shining
- Fire Walk With Me
- Angel Heart
- Drag Me to Hell
- Tucker & Dale vs. Evil
The theme is, trust no one. Including yourself. I wanted Tucker & Dale at the end as a palette-cleanser, since you actually can trust someone in it. Plus it's funny.
Hec, for spooky TV, have you seen Sapphire & Steel? When it works, it's a wonderful demonstration of how to be scary with absolutely nothing. (And sometimes it fails and is just goofy, but so it goes.) The story I listed is the most creeptastic, I think, and plus it has a pretty bleak ending which I can shoehorn into my theme if I try hard enough, so there.