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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
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richard, that episode of amazing stories is my favorite too, probably because It’s only one of a few I’ve seen. recently I found I have it on a tape with some old mst3k episodes. that’s now my favorite vhs I own.

Chestnuts roasted by brandon @ 05/12/2004 2:21 PM

Our scientists have determined this to be: Turkey.
Can you send more?

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 05/12/2004 2:29 PM

Forgot to mention Toon Judge Doom at the end of Roger Rabbit. ACK.

Oh, and I found this short film in a link. Do NOT watch it in a desolate area and/or in the dark:

http://zed.cbc.ca/go.ZeD?CONTENT_ID=9176&FILTER_KEY=477094&page=content

Chestnuts roasted by Behonkiss @ 05/12/2004 2:50 PM

Pet Cemetery is great.

Chestnuts roasted by shuffleboarderhere @ 05/12/2004 3:10 PM

Scariest movie evar:

Faces of Death!

And they’re all real!

/snopes lies!

Chestnuts roasted by Waitin' for the Olsen Twins @ 05/12/2004 3:14 PM

At the time that I saw the movie, Evil Dead was the scariest, bar none.

When Evil Dead came out on HBO, I was like 3 or 4. At that time I was pretty confident that I could watch it, heck, I had seen quite a few horror movies and had no problems. But when I watched that one, holy crap! I couldn’t even finish it, I had to turn it off. Just too much for my little mind.

Honerable Mentions:

Pet Cemetary on acid – Still to this day this movie gives me the creeps. I just don’t like Pascow -HE FREAKS ME OUT!! The part where they zoom into the pet cemetary the first time in the day time…hehe I was so high my brain told me I was actually being sucked into the pet cemetary, complete with weather and lighting effects (all inside my friends house)…Weirdest part is we left this movie running over and over while we did other things as well, and the movie (we swear to God on this one) never showed the part where Gage is run over. We watched it like 4 times in a row. Of course it was the drugs, but it’s a nice story.

The ankle slashing scene – eep! I actually watched this movie in the theater when I was 5 – I closed my eyes during this scene. For being such a big time horror fan, I conceded alot with that gesture.

IT – The scene where they look at the book got to me for some reason.

Jacob’s Ladder

Watcher in the Woods

Chestnuts roasted by eyeless @ 05/12/2004 3:55 PM

*ahem*
Candyass
Candyass
Candyass
Huh, nothing happ…
Whoops!

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 05/12/2004 4:05 PM

Yeah that sounds like it must have been it Hellpop!. I just remember all the screaming kids in there and all the moms yelling at the manager. >:D

Haha I saw the ring last year. I thought it was funny. That guy that electricutes himself in the tub, that was just a bit overkill. All those appliances and cords. all it takes is one cord to do it, but i guess he wanted to go with a bang.

Chestnuts roasted by heeloyd @ 05/12/2004 4:33 PM

When it was released, the ending of Time Bandits totally freaked me out. Also, the "V" miniseries gave me nightmares as a child…

Chestnuts roasted by spectre @ 05/12/2004 4:41 PM

Watcher in the Woods is sooooooo scary. Especially the funhouse scene where she can’t escape the ghost in the maze of mirrors. That scene still gives me the creeps to think about.

As a little kid I was absolutely terrified of the Garfield Halloween special. The part where garfield and odie hide from the ghost pirates freaked me out as a kid!

I love to watch other people play Silent Hill but I totally can’t play them myself…it makes me too nervous.

Chestnuts roasted by lain @ 05/12/2004 4:48 PM

Oh man… i wish i hadn’t watched "the cat with hands". Damn you Behonkiss!

Scariest movie evar? Well, most recent one is The Ring, cuz it was just me and one of my friends in the WHOLE THEATER. we were just running up and down the aisles when i hear a weird noise from the screen and BAM, dead girl in the closet! We decided to sit down.

I saw The Gate when i was about 7…. we had just moved into a new house, and it looked almost identical to the one in the movie. Couldn’t sleep for a week.

Haven’t seen The Exorcist… haven’t really had a chance. the Silent hill games are my favorite games of all time. Pyramid head (from the second one) creeped the hell out of me. I used to think he just popped up in random places, which really freaked me out, but now i know he only comes in certain places to make you piss yourself.

Chestnuts roasted by Gooble74 @ 05/12/2004 4:59 PM

I don’t like scary movies. I have a very overactive imagination. So I generally stay away from that genre. But I have been exposed to two movies that scared the skittles out of me when I was kid.

"The Gate" somewhat obscure 80′s flick where this kid accidently digs up the door to Hell in his backyard.

All sorts of disturbing stuff happens, dead dog, satanic lyrics. There are these little demons that bite this kid, freaky freaky shit, and then this part where these arms are reaching out from under the bed and this kid has an eyeball in his hand and he stabs it with a shard of glass.

Anyway I was like really young when I saw this. I rewatched it a few months ago, it was tame, but man did it screw with me when I was kid.

Chestnuts roasted by Don't Touch, Willy. @ 05/12/2004 5:45 PM

They – That was soooo creepy, and despite my better judgement had me on edge far more than any film i have ever seen except…

Arachiphobia: Im shit scared of spiders,and when i was a kid and saw this the mere fact that spiders touched actors made me creeped out sooo much. I still look in lamp shades before i turn the lights off.

Chestnuts roasted by Vyle @ 05/12/2004 5:50 PM

Second movie. So this one my mom brought home, slipped threw the cracks as a kid movie. Howie Mandel in "Little Monsters."

Ok some of you are laughing at this one. But it was really disturbing as a kid. Fred Savage and some kids go to the world of monsters under there bed. There are evil ones too.

The part that really disturbed me was this kid was walking along. And then this monster ripped her head off and put it on a boys body. The monster said that boys were better.

I dont know man. It was just totally disturbing, my mind was wrapped around the idea of switching bodies, and decapitation. To me decapitation is one of the scariest things I can think of. To this day still wont watch that damn movie.

Fuck you Mandel, I even liked "Bobby’s World" but no you have to go and make a sick movie and pass it off for kids.

Chestnuts roasted by Don't Touch, Willy. @ 05/12/2004 5:51 PM

Richard, BBC has a couple of video clips and cool stories of how people were affected by Ghostwatch.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/ilove/tv//ghostwatch/index.shtml

Chestnuts roasted by The Other Hand @ 05/12/2004 5:51 PM

What movie was this – a bunch of kids get kidnapped by guys wearing Halloween masks or something like that. Would have been in the early-mid 80s. There was a horrible scene were the kids had to swim through a flooded cave and it was a long distance with no place to come up for air. Thinking about it still freaks me out. *shudders*

Chestnuts roasted by yuki @ 05/12/2004 6:11 PM

Oh, I have to say that The Ring was bad too, despite me being "too old to be scared by movies." I just couldn’t shake the creepy, on-edge feeling. It didn’t help that I have the exact same TV as the old one they found in the barn (the one the girl used to develop her powers or whatever). One person I saw it with said the scene with the horse on the boat was the most disturbing thing she’d ever seen.

Chestnuts roasted by yuki @ 05/12/2004 6:18 PM

When the horse jumps off the boat, Yuki? Me and my friends couldnt stop laughing at that in the cinema, although the girls with us didnt find it amusing at all.

Chestnuts roasted by Gorm @ 05/12/2004 6:55 PM

When I was really little Time Life books had some commercials for a series on the parenormal – it had fairly regular looking women claiming to be Actual Witches. My family was pretty hardcore christian and my mom was a big fan of Mike Warnke (sp?) a christian speaker who claimed to have once been a high priest of satan or something. (it turned out to be all lies. surprise surprise.) Anyway, between the time life commercials and Mr. Warnke’s stories about tables walking around on thier own and such, I was terrified of witchcraft as a kid.

I was also really terrified of an episode of Little House on the Prairy where Laura sees-or-thinks-she-sees a head roll down the stairs. I don’t remember *anything* else about it. Maybe it was a Halloween episode? All I remember is watching a bag that supposably contained a head roll down the stairs. Nightmares for *years*.

And, Yay! Happiness. I always thought I was the only person in the universe who was actually frightened of Alien Autopsy. Hmmm… maybe I was the only *adult* in the universe who was scared of it.

Chestnuts roasted by elfstar6X18 @ 05/12/2004 7:28 PM

It was the last movie that scared me. after that i havent seen a movie that really scared me in a good while. i saw it when i was 12 i think

Chestnuts roasted by troy smoe @ 05/12/2004 9:14 PM

The Sound of Music. That’s a fucking scary movie. On a serious note I’m not a big "Scary" movie fan, I pretty much have seen the screams and I know what you did last summers, completely ignoring movies such as Nightmare on elm street, halloween, you name it. In theatres, The Ring, scared the buhjesus out of me. But I was most scared of "Christina’s House" Just cause it was my first actually leaning on the scary side movie, I had seen, without the thrown in teen humor and commercialism. Now i just laugh at that movie for how terribly written it was.

Chestnuts roasted by Ally @ 05/12/2004 9:36 PM

The bunny from Donnie Darko. You could never get a really clear shot of his face, but you could see his teeth. Far-eaky.

Anything that has strobe filming (or whatever it’s called), like the NIN video Closer. The video feedof the ghost doctor from House on Haunted Hill did that, and to this day, just thinking about it gives me the heebie jeebies.

For some reason, the sound that they play on The Price is Right when the contestant spinning the wheel goes over – BBRRRRZZZZTT!! I can’t stand that sound.

yuki I know what movie you’re talking about, but I can’t remember the name. It was a teacher and her students, all trapped in an undergound well/hole by guys in Santa Claus masks and whatnot. It was Australian, I think.

Chestnuts roasted by trajeal @ 05/12/2004 9:41 PM

I watched Alien when I was four years old…

Let me repeat that. I watched Alien when I was four years old…

Chestnuts roasted by Mr. Mr. Mr. @ 05/12/2004 10:52 PM

I can’t ever remember really being scared by a movie.. though I remember the game Silent Hill.. scared the crap out of me.. only while playing though, no lingering fears..

Chestnuts roasted by Toxicitiy- @ 05/12/2004 11:35 PM

as a small kid, the scene in Sleeping Beauty where the bad fairy turns into a dragon. i literally refused to watch this movie until it came out on DVD this year, whereupon i watched it and was not very scared.

i remember the scene where the sneaker gets melted in Roger Rabbit really scared me, but nothing else about the movie. i know Cocoon scared me but i don’t remember why. and that Disney movie about the tiny robot UFOs. ET too.

i still won’t watch Close Encounters of the Third Kind. i had nightmares about everything in my house shaking and the lights in the windows… in elementary school i read a bunch of those ‘true’ books about aliens and alien abduction and it just scared me shitless.

in recent years, Seven really bugged me. and Perfect Blue, the first time i saw it.

the scene in The Sixth Sense where the boy’s at his friend’s party and there’s a voice whispering behind a door and urging him to come in… it’s making me sick to my stomach just thinking about it.

and actually, some one in my Humanities course last year showed a clip of Nightmare on Elm Street. i’ve never seen it– i was prohibited from watching scary movies as a kid. anyway, the part where the girl whose friend just got killed falls asleep and starts dreaming about seeing the trail of blood and seeing her friend squirming around in a body bag and following a trail of blood down the hall, that was all very scary. once Freddie showed up, though, i wasn’t scared at all.

the two things i would say scare me the most in movies are aliens and anything you can’t see but can hear.

Chestnuts roasted by the gender deity @ 05/13/2004 1:22 AM

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