Well I’ll be! Thanks to those who posted about Shrek’s biggest victory of all: a partnership with the United States Postal Service. It’s nuts and I still couldn’t give less of a shit about the movie, but jeez, archiving the insanity sure is a lot of fun. Speaking of which, I picked up two larger Shrek items for review, but that’ll have to wait for the weekend.
In fact, everything else will basically have to wait till the weekend, too. Got some schtuff to do this week, I’ll tell ya about it later. I wonder if I’m having surgery? Anyway, this’ll be a cold week in terms of the full length articles, but I’m going into the trenches prepared with enough materials to keep the blog rolling. On deck for tomorrow night right here is a small tribute to something cold, sweet and somehow Mexican.
Meantime, let’s get another survey going. What’s the scariest movie you’ve ever seen? I’m not talking so much about retrospect: what’s the most you’ve ever been scared by a movie, even if later viewings didn’t pack the same kinda punch? For various reasons, some illegal, my pick is always gonna be Jacob’s Ladder. Not joking when I say that the film fucked me up for months, with brought-on complexes ranging from fears of mirrors, trains, passing cars and generally any open empty space. You need the right environment to really collect the feelings this one is capable of throwing at you, but when the mood’s right, it’s just damned disturbing and relentless. Your turn, in the comments.
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Ahhh… I absolutely abhor Shrek, considering that it was a bunch of bad animation with the same joke played over and over again, but maybe I was just to old for such mindless crap when it came out (although I thought I was a college freshman at the time). Irregardless, I must admit that when I first saw The Ring late at night for the first time, this time when I was a sophomore at college, I had to run out to the car and speed home. It really scared me, although I can’t really say why. I think it may just have been the flash of the girl’s corpse and the fact that they made the beginning seem like it was going to be a stupid, teeny, slasher-type movie really got me off guard.
As for when I was little, I have to agree that Ghostbusters gave me many nightmares, although I loved Stay Puft to death. I still do.