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!
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There are a few things that stuck with me.
When I was 5 or 6, I saw Watcher in the Woods and was creeped out by the blindfolded girl Karen whispering and reaching out in that house of mirrors!
I saw the part where the Alien bursts out of the chest of that guy in Alien when I was 7. the first time I saw such a sickening bloody scene. I couldn’t eat dinner after that. I was most disturbed by the guy moaning, screaming and writhing in pain and the first blood exploding from his chest, more then the actual bursting part.
at age 9 in 1985, my friends rented Ghostbusters and right after the Librarian showed her ugly side, I stayed in the kitchen!
The movie that gave me the creeps as an adult was Sixth Sense, in particular the boy shot in his head and the moment the women ghost in the housecoat passes by the door. It makes me feel as though I could look into my dark hallway and see someone not normal standing there!