Kaylee ,'Objects In Space'
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Audition is the Japanese one about the TV exec wanting to remarry? If so, I thought it was maybe more horrifying for men. I was unable to relate to the victims.
But I am like that about the Stupid Factor in horror movies. Blair Witch was just annoying because I could see cars going by in the background.
The TV exec was no hero. It was a weird film that took a left turn somewhere in the middle, but the beginning half was pretty...well, you're right, I didn't relate to the protagonist at all--I thought he was pretty horrible too, but that added rather than subtracted for me.
I think it played at the film festival here last fall. I heard good things.
I haven't seen Audition though. While I may be pretty hardcore about scary movies, I know my limits and something tells me a movie that freaked Rob Zombie out is going to be beyond them.
Yeah, I haven't seen it. I've seen clips, but not the entire movie.
Blair Witch terrified me. There were parts of that movie that come straight out of a recurring nightmare I have had for decades. I have never watched it again, and I don't feel the need to.
I haven't seen The Ring/Ringu. Enough people I know who have seen it have assured me that I should never, ever watch it, because it would freak me out too much, and that I wouldn't sleep for a very long time. When friends tell me that, I listen to them.
Mike Watt = shortlist for World's Most Awesome Human Being.
Really? He's on a mailing list I'm on. I mean, I know who he is, but I'm more of a Grant in Husker Du guy.
The Ring
For the most part it was just creepy, but the bits at the end made me jump ten feet out of my seat.
I looks like fun. Jack White makes everything subversive!
I got interrupted in the middle of writing this post. It's about It Might Get Loud.
Speaking of horror movies:
what are your most memorable (and early) horror movie experiences?
a) in 9th grade I saw "Omen" at a friend's birthday party. It was not as scary as I thought it would be, but apparently I was the only at the party not screaming;
b) in elementary school (or jr. high), I saw "Burnt Offerings" on tv and that fucked my shit up for a couple of weeks. It is not a particularly good movie, but I found it really scary as a kid.
c) in college, I screamed through about 1/3rd of "The Lost Boys" at a dorm video party. My roommate and I were hugging each other during the last 30 minutes. It helped us bond...
Alien and Halloween freaked my shit out when I was young. Was it spaghetti that they were eating in Alien around when the belly-ripping starts? Whatever it was was what was on the menu for lunch afterwards. My friend's leg brushed mine under the table and I about lost it.