Are you looking for the best horror movie or the scariest, V?
For the best, I’d pick Evil Dead 2. Brilliantly directed, relentlessly scary and claustrophobic, and full of delightful one-liners. But also alot of fun, mainly due to the breakneck pace and Bruce Campbell’s hilarious Three Stooges-style physical comedy.
For the scariest, I’d have to go with Kubrick’s version of The Shining. Not alot of “boo!” moments per se, but its eerie atmosphere and underlying creepiness is genuinely unnerving from start to finish. I don’t think any other movie has come close to getting under my skin the way it did.
I love Halloween! I’ll be enjoying watching the Little Fireflies trick or treat and tally their candy, watching the bigger Little Fireflies hang-out with their friends and I’ll be drinking heavily with Mrs. Firefly and a few other adults.
Mrs. Trzupr can pull of a very credible Jackie O. with a 60′s era suit and pillbox hat. I’ve been trying to convince her to dress up like Jackie and I, in turn, would don a single breasted blue suit, white shirt and tie – AND we would decorate my forehead with a single red spot (about .30 caliber in diameter). For some reason, she thinks this would be in bad taste.
Mind if I complain a little? The number of people who need the stupid smacked out of them over at that OurGOP forums (I happen to be a moderator over there) is astounding. I was hoping some of the Threedonia crew might register for OurGOP and give the forums an intellectual boost. I don’t like staring at stupid for hours on end and I wouldn’t mind seeing a few familiar avatars in elephant country.
I did a fly-by of the health care thread at OurGOP. Are you sure this is really a Republican forum? Ye Gods! Most of the commenters seem to get it, but some of those posts read like they could have been written by BHO speechwriters. Yuck.
You know what movie scared me the most? Event Horizon. Now I have a natural fear of Sam Neil (sp?) anyway but that movie is seriously messed up. Now all around best horror movie I have to go with The Descent. The movie had everything including hot chicks kicking ass.
David I’ll swing by and take a peep at OurGOP…not sure how much I raise the level of intellect though.
To entice Threedonians, there are plenty of opportunities for troll stomping. We have cases of such epic stupid floating around that you’ll be itching to go after them.
Evil Dead 2 is indeed a damn fine movie. A damn fine movie, indeed.
Erin Grey. It’s weird, I never had a crush on her like I did on Maren Jensen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maren_Jensen or Lois Chiles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois_Chiles but I fully got that she was madly attractive, and I liked looking at her, even if she didn’t really have the strange effect on my 12-year-old-self that Yvonne Craig had, for instance.
So I met her a few years ago, and she was tiny. It’s weird because when you see someone on TV when you’re a kid, and they’re an adult, they’re just bigger than you, you know? And you assume – because they’re logged in your memory in that fashion – that they always will be. Meeting her that once, I was stunned by how tiny and doll-like she was, such frail little old-lady hands. She still looked like herself, though. Gil Gerrard looked – wow – he looked completely unrecognizable. He looked like the Comic Book Guy from the simpsons would look if he killed, cooked, and ate Gil Gerard.
They had something on Gerard on TV about how he lost all that weight, and he looked almost like his old self again. They showed Grey’s surprise at his transformation after, when they met up at a convention.
I have no personal experience of it, but from what I’ve read it’s common for actors to be very small people. Mel Gibson, Tom Cruise and Robert Redford are short, I know. Alan Ladd had to stand on boxes for his love scenes. And on and on.
I think a lot of guys get into acting as a way to meet girls when they’re not physically impressive. I remember an interview with Michael Caine, where he talked about acting classes in school–”All the other guys were calling me a fairy and taking showers together, while I was up on stage, kissing girls.”
Same thing with male cheerleaders. Two words put that to rest: cheerleading camp. Twenty to one ratio of girls to guys and they have to share many of the same facilities.
No actor, not even DeNiro or Pacino, could be smaller than Seth Green. Funny, funny guy, but seeing him and Bill “Dauber” Fagerbakke in the same
I’m noticing taller actors more in the last 15-20 years, though, at least more than in the 70s heyday of the likes of Stallone and Henry Winkler wearing lifts: Vince Vaughn, Will Ferrell, Will Smith, John Cusack, Jim Carrey, etc. Ben Stiller on the other hand…
I’ve got a newspaper reporter, a swordsman (from some video game), a pirate, Darth Vader, a ninja (not a terrorist), a green frog, a pink bunny, and a Holly Hobby doll who are anxious to hassle people for candy. We’ll go over to my dads and cruise his neighborhood with our cousins. I’m actually looking forward to it, I used to hate Halloween as a kid, but I love hanging with my sister and her kids and think my kids are pretty darn near the cutest things I’ve ever seen. I’ll post a pic of their amazing cuteness next week sometime on my blog.
After we get home from that, the grownups will steal candy and drink until the kids fall into a sugar induced coma and dr zoon will drive us all home. He doesn’t drink, much.
This is similar to the phenomenon with male cheerleaders. I was a football player and as such had a great deal of fun at their expense but one day it occurred to me that while I was laying under 1,500 pounds of offensive linemen and assorted other players that the guys I had been making fun had hot girls legs wrapped around their heads. I instantly felt dirty. Though as one of my teammates pointed out the male cheerleaders only got to have their hands on them during routines, we got to do a lot more than that at the after game parties. Ah, the after game parties.
I think it depends on the genre, frankly. Sitcoms tended to star rather short guys – Don Adams, John Astin, etc – and westerns and such tended to star tall people – Rock Hudson, John Wayne, Jimmie Stewart, Clint Eastwood, etc. There’s no particular reason that westerns have to star tall, lanky types, but they just tend to gravitate towards that. No particular reason that sitcoms tend towards short, frenetic people with odd deliveries, but they do.
Though most of the 60s and 70s, most shows prefered their male cast to be around 5’10″, whcih is average height-ish, and they liked their leads to be about 6’00″ if at all possible, to make them stand out a bit, but not so they’d be distracting. Not a deal-breaker if they weren’t, but it was the prefered thing. This is why Shatner wore lifts, and poor 5’8″ Richard Basehart insisted he was 5’11″ until his dying day.
Halloween I will be handing out candy to neighborhood urchins. Tonight, carving four or five pumpkins. Just normal carving. I don’t feel like getting down and funky with the faces. Then I have to clean the house tomorrow. FUN! not.
Oh and watching scary movies. I got the Dracula from the BBC finally last year. Louis Jordan. Its kind of good. I don’t have the Exorcist but I wish I did. I will also watch the Exorcism of Emily Rose. Maybe Bram Stokers Dracula to. I never found the Halloweens, Nightmare on Elmstreet stuff scary. Gross but not scary.
“I never found the Halloweens, Nightmare on Elmstreet stuff scary. Gross but not scary.”
Steph, I wanted to be a makeup artist when I was a kid because I was fascinated with monster fx in movies from the Universal monsters, Planet of the Apes, Rick Baker’s werewolf and apes, to present day traditional stuff. The paranormal stuff never scared me in film (except The Exorcist), because it didn’t seem like real life. But when the slasher stuff started with Halloween and devolved to today’s sadistic gory crap .. these slasher movies scare me more because this happens in real life, and could happen to any of us. A flick like Hostel scares me more because it plays on a realistic fear that we have to be aware of today. I wish I was a kid in the 50s and my worst fear was still vampires and werewolves, and not my fellow man. To me, that’s why Halloween, Friday the 13th, and Hostel are so much scarier than the legendary monsters.
You mean the time when there was a real threat of nuclear war and things like the Cuban missile crisis and Soviet invasions of the Solvkian states and other nasty things took place, yeah those were sweet times.
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So what is everyone’s Halloween plans? Mine are non-existent so I’m hoping to live vicariously through others.
Ooh. New topic. What is the best horror movie?
Are you looking for the best horror movie or the scariest, V?
For the best, I’d pick Evil Dead 2. Brilliantly directed, relentlessly scary and claustrophobic, and full of delightful one-liners. But also alot of fun, mainly due to the breakneck pace and Bruce Campbell’s hilarious Three Stooges-style physical comedy.
For the scariest, I’d have to go with Kubrick’s version of The Shining. Not alot of “boo!” moments per se, but its eerie atmosphere and underlying creepiness is genuinely unnerving from start to finish. I don’t think any other movie has come close to getting under my skin the way it did.
I’m a crabby old guy who stays in and leaves his porch light off on Halloween.
But I’d open the door for Erin Gray.
I love Halloween! I’ll be enjoying watching the Little Fireflies trick or treat and tally their candy, watching the bigger Little Fireflies hang-out with their friends and I’ll be drinking heavily with Mrs. Firefly and a few other adults.
I remember Buck Rodgers – never liked the heavy duty 70′s “disco” influence in the series.
Let’s see… best horror – “Exorcist,” “The Shining,” “The Exorcism of Emily Rose.” Pretty much in that order.
Maybe an honorable mention for “An Inconvenient Truth” Mainly due to its’”star.”
I used to love Buck Rogers. Fun show.
Beedi, Beedi, Beedi, what a body!
I for one am glad disco is dead. This video is part of what killed it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQm8MxgCGws&feature=related
Buck Rogers gets down.
Best horror movie? “Milk”.
Scariest movie? Straw Dogs
Realistic killers scarier than supernatural ones.
That is a f**cked up movie.
Mrs. Trzupr can pull of a very credible Jackie O. with a 60′s era suit and pillbox hat. I’ve been trying to convince her to dress up like Jackie and I, in turn, would don a single breasted blue suit, white shirt and tie – AND we would decorate my forehead with a single red spot (about .30 caliber in diameter). For some reason, she thinks this would be in bad taste.
Women!
Yes Rich that would be in bad taste. Ick.
Mind if I complain a little? The number of people who need the stupid smacked out of them over at that OurGOP forums (I happen to be a moderator over there) is astounding. I was hoping some of the Threedonia crew might register for OurGOP and give the forums an intellectual boost. I don’t like staring at stupid for hours on end and I wouldn’t mind seeing a few familiar avatars in elephant country.
David,
I did a fly-by of the health care thread at OurGOP. Are you sure this is really a Republican forum? Ye Gods! Most of the commenters seem to get it, but some of those posts read like they could have been written by BHO speechwriters. Yuck.
We have our resident trolls and our nutballs. There are some decent commenters. But we need more.
You know what movie scared me the most? Event Horizon. Now I have a natural fear of Sam Neil (sp?) anyway but that movie is seriously messed up. Now all around best horror movie I have to go with The Descent. The movie had everything including hot chicks kicking ass.
David I’ll swing by and take a peep at OurGOP…not sure how much I raise the level of intellect though.
To entice Threedonians, there are plenty of opportunities for troll stomping. We have cases of such epic stupid floating around that you’ll be itching to go after them.
Evil Dead 2 is indeed a damn fine movie. A damn fine movie, indeed.
Erin Grey. It’s weird, I never had a crush on her like I did on Maren Jensen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maren_Jensen or Lois Chiles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois_Chiles but I fully got that she was madly attractive, and I liked looking at her, even if she didn’t really have the strange effect on my 12-year-old-self that Yvonne Craig had, for instance.
So I met her a few years ago, and she was tiny. It’s weird because when you see someone on TV when you’re a kid, and they’re an adult, they’re just bigger than you, you know? And you assume – because they’re logged in your memory in that fashion – that they always will be. Meeting her that once, I was stunned by how tiny and doll-like she was, such frail little old-lady hands. She still looked like herself, though. Gil Gerrard looked – wow – he looked completely unrecognizable. He looked like the Comic Book Guy from the simpsons would look if he killed, cooked, and ate Gil Gerard.
They had something on Gerard on TV about how he lost all that weight, and he looked almost like his old self again. They showed Grey’s surprise at his transformation after, when they met up at a convention.
I have no personal experience of it, but from what I’ve read it’s common for actors to be very small people. Mel Gibson, Tom Cruise and Robert Redford are short, I know. Alan Ladd had to stand on boxes for his love scenes. And on and on.
I think a lot of guys get into acting as a way to meet girls when they’re not physically impressive. I remember an interview with Michael Caine, where he talked about acting classes in school–”All the other guys were calling me a fairy and taking showers together, while I was up on stage, kissing girls.”
Same thing with male cheerleaders. Two words put that to rest: cheerleading camp. Twenty to one ratio of girls to guys and they have to share many of the same facilities.
No actor, not even DeNiro or Pacino, could be smaller than Seth Green. Funny, funny guy, but seeing him and Bill “Dauber” Fagerbakke in the same
I’m noticing taller actors more in the last 15-20 years, though, at least more than in the 70s heyday of the likes of Stallone and Henry Winkler wearing lifts: Vince Vaughn, Will Ferrell, Will Smith, John Cusack, Jim Carrey, etc. Ben Stiller on the other hand…
I’ve got a newspaper reporter, a swordsman (from some video game), a pirate, Darth Vader, a ninja (not a terrorist), a green frog, a pink bunny, and a Holly Hobby doll who are anxious to hassle people for candy. We’ll go over to my dads and cruise his neighborhood with our cousins. I’m actually looking forward to it, I used to hate Halloween as a kid, but I love hanging with my sister and her kids and think my kids are pretty darn near the cutest things I’ve ever seen. I’ll post a pic of their amazing cuteness next week sometime on my blog.
After we get home from that, the grownups will steal candy and drink until the kids fall into a sugar induced coma and dr zoon will drive us all home. He doesn’t drink, much.
Lars,
This is similar to the phenomenon with male cheerleaders. I was a football player and as such had a great deal of fun at their expense but one day it occurred to me that while I was laying under 1,500 pounds of offensive linemen and assorted other players that the guys I had been making fun had hot girls legs wrapped around their heads. I instantly felt dirty. Though as one of my teammates pointed out the male cheerleaders only got to have their hands on them during routines, we got to do a lot more than that at the after game parties. Ah, the after game parties.
I think it depends on the genre, frankly. Sitcoms tended to star rather short guys – Don Adams, John Astin, etc – and westerns and such tended to star tall people – Rock Hudson, John Wayne, Jimmie Stewart, Clint Eastwood, etc. There’s no particular reason that westerns have to star tall, lanky types, but they just tend to gravitate towards that. No particular reason that sitcoms tend towards short, frenetic people with odd deliveries, but they do.
Though most of the 60s and 70s, most shows prefered their male cast to be around 5’10″, whcih is average height-ish, and they liked their leads to be about 6’00″ if at all possible, to make them stand out a bit, but not so they’d be distracting. Not a deal-breaker if they weren’t, but it was the prefered thing. This is why Shatner wore lifts, and poor 5’8″ Richard Basehart insisted he was 5’11″ until his dying day.
Halloween I will be handing out candy to neighborhood urchins. Tonight, carving four or five pumpkins. Just normal carving. I don’t feel like getting down and funky with the faces. Then I have to clean the house tomorrow. FUN! not.
Oh and watching scary movies. I got the Dracula from the BBC finally last year. Louis Jordan. Its kind of good. I don’t have the Exorcist but I wish I did. I will also watch the Exorcism of Emily Rose. Maybe Bram Stokers Dracula to. I never found the Halloweens, Nightmare on Elmstreet stuff scary. Gross but not scary.
“I never found the Halloweens, Nightmare on Elmstreet stuff scary. Gross but not scary.”
Steph, I wanted to be a makeup artist when I was a kid because I was fascinated with monster fx in movies from the Universal monsters, Planet of the Apes, Rick Baker’s werewolf and apes, to present day traditional stuff. The paranormal stuff never scared me in film (except The Exorcist), because it didn’t seem like real life. But when the slasher stuff started with Halloween and devolved to today’s sadistic gory crap .. these slasher movies scare me more because this happens in real life, and could happen to any of us. A flick like Hostel scares me more because it plays on a realistic fear that we have to be aware of today. I wish I was a kid in the 50s and my worst fear was still vampires and werewolves, and not my fellow man. To me, that’s why Halloween, Friday the 13th, and Hostel are so much scarier than the legendary monsters.
You mean the time when there was a real threat of nuclear war and things like the Cuban missile crisis and Soviet invasions of the Solvkian states and other nasty things took place, yeah those were sweet times.
Halloween? Bah, humbug.
(Oops, wrong holiday…)