Didn't Wonka say he might be able to fix miniaturized TV Boy? Or that he couldn't fix him? For some reason I remember being more freaked out about his fate than the others. Maybe I was wondering if he was supposed to be tiny for the rest of his life....
They were going to take him to the STRETCHING CHAMBER. So it was more like an "Uh, maaaaybe we can fix him. If we do it in the MOST PAINFUL WAY POSSIBLE."
At the end of the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie and Wonka look down from the elevator to see the other four kids lined up at the factory exit with their trucks of chocolate (even though they broke the rules, Wonka gave them their lifetime supplies). Veruca is covered in garbage (in the book, she went down the garbage chute, not to the boiler), Augustus is squeezed thinner, Violet is violet but no longer blueberry-shaped, and Mike Teevee is about seven feet tall (they stretched him too much).
Ooh, Kathy, thanks. I haven't read the book.
Kathy,
that seems consistent with the Johnny Depp version, without the trucks of chocolate. We saw all the kids at the end with one notably blueberry colored and one stretched quite a lot.
ION, The 25 Scariest Moments in Non-Horror Movies
We *just* did a poll about the scariest non-horror movie WW&tCF made it as did Requiem. Another one that we all wanted for the poll.
Time Bandits.
Here's the list
A Clockwork Orange
Basic Instinct
Blue Velvet
Dead Calm
Deliverance
Fatal Attraction
Heavenly Creatures
Jaws
Kalifornia
Misery
Mommie Dearest
Mulholland Dr.
No Country for Old Men
Requiem for a Dream
Time Bandits
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Oh,
Dead Calm, Jaws,
and
Misery
are all excellent calls.
No Country for Old Men
I thought this would be on that other list. That movie was scary as hell.
I thought
Jaws
and
Misery
were already horror movies.
I think
Jaws
is probably Action/Adventure, and
Misery
is probably categorized as Suspense or Thriller. Which is a fine line, it's true.
Clockwork Orange
is also freaky scary, I forgot to say. That's a movie I can't really watch.
I think Jaws is probably Action/Adventure, and Misery is probably categorized as Suspense or Thriller. Which is a fine line, it's true.
Yeah, I can see that. Though I think people think of them both as "scary movies." The question then becomes, what makes a horror movie a horror movie? Are all scary movies horror movies? Are all horror movies scary movies?
Ladies and Gentlemen - start your Venn diagrams!
One of the best "jump out of my skin" moments I've ever had watching a film was during the big finale of Wait Until Dark, when (whitefonted for those who haven't seen it yet)
Alan Arkin leaps out at Audrey Hepburn in the darkened apartment.
Every time I show that movie to someone who hasn't seen it before, I make sure we turn off the lights before starting it, and then watch them to see their reaction to that scene.
