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Shrek Loves Stamps & The Scary Movie Poll.

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.

Posted by Matt on 05/10/2004. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 267 comments

Pet Cemetary…

I snuck back out of bed to watch it on HBO with the sound really low in the middle of the night. It is really the only movie that made me afraid….ever.

I was into horror and rented horror exclusivly at the time.

The Serpent and the Rainbow freaked me out a little too the first time I saw it. ZOMBIES and it was a true story.

Chestnuts roasted by blucadet3 @ 05/11/2004 5:30 PM

Oh and I forgot about the GATE!

That movie was the bomb and made me afraid of geodes

Chestnuts roasted by blucadet3 @ 05/11/2004 5:31 PM

i remeber when i was like 5 or 6 my dad made me watch child’s play and that movie freaked me out so bad that my mom had to get rid of my dolls and stuffed animals. i’m still afraid of dolls. i refuse to have them near me. also any alien movie freaks me out. and clowns because of IT. when the remake of texas chainsaw massacre came out i had to stop watching it because the sound of chainsaws scare the crap out of me.

Chestnuts roasted by redslurpee @ 05/11/2004 5:38 PM

Glitter scared me
The Witches scared me when I was younger, the scene where Angelica Houston pulled off her mask

Chestnuts roasted by ali @ 05/11/2004 5:57 PM

Funny, so many people are scared of Tim Curry as Pennywise in IT, but his performance as Darkness in Legend scared me as kid and still spooks me a little now. http://www.heycomputer.com/ref/legend/dark2.jpg My elementary school made the mistake of showing us Legend after it came out on video. The teachers got some nightmare complaints the following day from parents.

Chestnuts roasted by Richard @ 05/11/2004 5:59 PM

You think that was scary? Watch me now….
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YOU WILL NOW HAVE IN YOUR HEAD THE FUSED IMAGE OF TIM CURRY AS BOTH DARKNESS AND DR. FRANK N. FURTER PRANCING AROUND IN YOUR HEAD. AND HE WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY A MINI-ME OF PENNYWISE THAT LAUGHS AT YOU WHENEVER YOUR BACK IS TURNED. DREAM, IF YOU CAN.
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Let me know how it turns out.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 05/11/2004 6:10 PM

I can’t believe no one has said "Session 9" yet. I saw that on the big screen in a theatre that was empty except for myself and my brother, which definitely helped the atmo, but still.

Maybe i’m just super puss.

Chestnuts roasted by Serena @ 05/11/2004 6:16 PM

Hmm. I would have to say that Ghostbusters 2 scared the crap out of me. I was too young when the first movie came out to see it (I was only 2 cuz I was out in 84) but then they made the Real Ghostbusters cartoon which my brother and I LOVED. So we begged our parents to take us to GB2. Holy crap, I was convinced that pink ooze was going to come out of the faucet whenever I took a bath. I had to have my mom turn on the tap and stay in the bathroom until the tub was full. More recently, that Nostradamus documentary King was talking about (or one similar to it) scared the shit out of me. I saw it before the turn of the century (haha that makes me sound like some kind of old person) and it was predicting the end of the world in either 2000 or 2001. And some weird date in like 2012 or something like that… cue ominous music…

Chestnuts roasted by Gabbylicious @ 05/11/2004 6:22 PM

"You forgot to mention the Child Catcher’s long, stringy hair, and weird stovepipe hat. And the fact that he can "smell" children."

Argggghhhhh!! Did you have to bring all that up, Kingklash?? I had successfully repressed the worst of him, but now, thanks to you, I don’t expect to sleep well tonight.

Find a happy place, find a happy place…

Chestnuts roasted by Suelo @ 05/11/2004 6:37 PM

kingklash! You forgot the one other deeply disturbing Tim Curry role!! Tim Curry as the Grand Wizard in The Worst Witch!!! Insert that into the mix, and … nighty-night!

Chestnuts roasted by Nachokhaki @ 05/11/2004 7:14 PM

‘The Career of Tim Curry: Uncovering The Curse’
http://www.x-entertainment.com/messages/477.html

Chestnuts roasted by Richard @ 05/11/2004 7:46 PM

Another movie that left me shit-scared was Cat’s Eye. Damn that little goblin trying to steal that kid’s breath! (not to mention, I’m not fond of cats either)

Chestnuts roasted by Mugzy. . . @ 05/11/2004 7:58 PM

about a year ago i was on a school trip to marmot for a school ski trip and on the way there some kid brought IT along with them to watch, i swear this is the fuckin scariest movie ive ever seen mainly cause i cant stand clowns at all

Chestnuts roasted by Ryder @ 05/11/2004 8:24 PM

My dad took me to see Ghosbusters when i was 3. The librarian sceene scared the shit out of me and i didn’t stay for the rest of the movie.

Recently, the ring scared me. While watching the movie i wasn’t that scared. But right after the movie my friends cell phone rang so that freaked us out. And i also have a tv in my bedrom, right next to my bed.

Chestnuts roasted by Bright Noah @ 05/11/2004 9:08 PM

Scariest movie? No contest – "The Others." I saw it in a cramped, older theater with my boyfriend and shook for an hour after we left, I was so frightened. I’ll clutched his arm the entire 90 minutes or so and I’ll bet I left bruises. It’s amazing how the little things that go bump and thump and whirr can scare more of the crap out of you than a thousand gallons of blood and gore. It took a while for me to see the trick ending coming, too…and I was still scared after I figured it out.

I haven’t been able to bring myself to watch it since. I don’t know if it’s as scary when you’re sitting in your living room and you already know the end, but I’m shivering just thinking about that evening, and it’s at least 65 in my apartment.

Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 05/11/2004 10:08 PM

Hmmm, scariest movie….this is difficult, me being as much of a horror freak as I am. I’d say its a tie between the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre and the first Hellraiser.

However, every movie ever made could never beat System Shock 2 for being scary. That game is quite possibly the most freaky, frightening thing ever made.

Chestnuts roasted by Evil Urchin @ 05/11/2004 10:22 PM

It’s a tough call as to what movie I found the scariest, but I’m going to give that title to Die Hard, which I tried to watch on TV when I was about 10. It was just so intense, especially in the parts when they shooted out entire office floors with automatic weapons. Oddly enough, I was more scared by things in general when I was 9 or 10 than when I was 3 or 4 (with one exception, see below)…from dogs barking to anything involving a large amount of breaking glass, etc. Maybe it was because I watched the evening news every day when I was 9 or 10…now THAT was scary! Fortunately, I’ve outgrown most of these fears in the years since.

Oddly, the scariest thing I recall from my early childhood was not a movie so much as a Tums antacid TV commercial from the late ’80s or early ’90s. At the end, a voiceover sang "tum-tum-tum-tum-TUMS" in a very imposing voice, accompanied by a picture of a bottle of Tums on-screen on a black background that abruptly got bigger and bigger with every successive utterance of "tum!" THAT SCARED THE CRAP OUT OF ME! In fact, whenever that commercial came on the air I’d leave the room and wouldn’t come back until it was over.

Chestnuts roasted by Andrew T. @ 05/11/2004 10:57 PM

Damn, forgot how that Notradamus documentary scared the holy hell out of me as a kid, thanks for dredging up old memories! I would love to see that now to see if any of it came true :D

Chestnuts roasted by Bizzar @ 05/11/2004 11:00 PM

My List:

IT
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Pee Wee Herman’s Adventures
E.T. (I still can’t stomach this film, yet it’s a classic?)
The Ring (you’d be scared too if you had to drive home in super thick fog after seeing this -although the horse seen made me bust out laughing, it was the *thunk sound the horse made falling off the boat)

And to add the commment about "House of Leaves" that book messed with my head too…I was tempted to start measuring the wall every evening to make sure they remained the same.

Chestnuts roasted by two_peep_army @ 05/11/2004 11:26 PM

Well, for me, and most probably consider it pretty tame, would have to be Creepshow. I was way too young to see that one. The cockroaches covering that dude, the meteorite turning Steven King (I realize now) into a plant, the…what was it a werewolf in some box? I hid under my blanket for most of that part.

Chestnuts roasted by jhnnywalkr @ 05/12/2004 12:32 PM

Why has no one mentioned the [The?] Sixth Sense? I saw it when it was on the big screen, and to this day I still refuse to let my feet dangle close to under the bed. :/

Chestnuts roasted by pacotaco @ 05/12/2004 12:45 PM

Arachniphobia. I’m not sure why, but this movie scared the crap outta me when I first saw it. That and when "Thriller" was first aired on TV (as the show, not just a video). It was Michael as the wolfman that scared me – dancing zombies are just fun.

Chestnuts roasted by James F.W. @ 05/12/2004 12:59 PM

When I was pretty young, I saw a very brief clip from a Freddy movie on some kind of MTV hilights show about horror or the movie itself I was watching. Freddie comes in to some shower and surprises some guy and of course slashes the crap out of him. This scared the shit out of me and for a year or two afterward, at least, I had to shower with someone in the next room to make sure that Freddie wouldn’t sneak up on me in the shower. Pretty lame.

The movie that has spooked me the most as an adult is the old B&W version of The Haunting. Creepy. I would love to see it on the big screen.

Chestnuts roasted by Kit @ 05/12/2004 1:35 AM

AH! Arachnaphobia.. I still can’t watch that movie. I am deathly afraid of spiders and like a fool I watched it, I still can’t take a shower without thinking those damn things are gonna come crawling out. I thought I was getting better with the fear and then I watched 8 Legged Freaks.. it’s not the movies that get me.. it’s those damned spiders.

Chestnuts roasted by hugsnstuff @ 05/12/2004 1:48 AM

it’s a toss up between Funny Girl and Showgirls.

Chestnuts roasted by Mighty Bob @ 05/12/2004 1:55 AM

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