Gooood eeeeeeeeeeevening. - by Tocky
Tocky on 22/10/2012 at 04:43
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http://imageshack.us/a/img11/5913/sivadsloveandcurses.jpg"I am Sivad, your monster of ceramonies. Tonight on Fantastic Features...."
So began the Sci Fi/horror movie every Saturday night if I could stay up past all the boring late night news and Dick Cavet or whatever other droning adult show that came on channel 13 when I was seven. "It will give you nightmares", was the parental warning. "No it won't, I promise, please?" I would plead. It would too but I never got out of bed to tell because I might not get to see The Blob or I Was a Teenage Frankenstein, The Fly or Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Tarantula or Them! I would enlist my brother in the pleading. I would also get him to go out and turn the antenna while I shouted directions "go back" and "a little more" and finally "that's as good as it's going to get". Memphis often came in snowy way out in podunk Mississippi so there was some squinting and staring harder when he rode up in the horse drawn hearse, something like this-
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http://imageshack.us/a/img856/1976/hauntedhouse2012013.jpgThat's the one at Arx Mortis haunted house where my horror corrupted daughter took me this year. Sivads (his real name was Davis) was an actual antique and quite ornate. He would climb down, throw out his chest and affect his own brand of southern Transylvania accent. He made childhood a bit more exciting when he did that. He had his own fan club of mostly boys my age and attracted more to his appearences at the Orpheum than even Elvis. I know he was a big reason I collected every horror model Revelle made. Some people just make life more interesting and as a template for horror hosts he was a damn good one.
Yes, this is my Halloween thread. Participate if you want. I don't think we have any here who are as warped for horror as I but nobody has thrown rocks at me for my annual contribution to the season either so... my personal never told true story I tell this time of year is about an odd recurring nightmare I had from about seven to ten. I would awake outside. That's it. That's all. Just outside at night. Sometimes I would be as close as ten feet from my bedroom and sometimes as far as a hundred yards. If it was a cold night I could see frost on the grass. If the moon was out I could see a breeze on the pasture grass. Where I was I could see clouds in the sky or stars or the gravel of the drive beneath me and the dark windows of a sleeping house with a lonely porch light left to throw shadows. What I could not see was any part of me and I would know that the whole world slept at three in the morn including my body in my room and I had no idea how to get back to it. It felt creepy as hell. I would of course awake in my bed breathing hard. I would enjoy the feel of being in my own skin and warm and safe in a house surrounded by loved ones and pray I never had that feeling of complete separation from all the world again. My horror wasn't of ghosts. It was of being the ghost.
Happy Halloween y'all.
demagogue on 22/10/2012 at 07:01
I'm not feeling the Halloween spirit much over here. When I lived in Japan we'd always organize a lot of Halloween stuff for our students -- costumes, making paper jack-o-lanterns, lots of candy, a haunted house... I'm not exactly in a position here to do something like that. But I'll have to think of something to do to get into the spirit, watch Shaun of the Dead and play a survival horror video game or something.
Renault on 22/10/2012 at 17:05
I love Halloween. Started a Scary Movie fest last Friday as a two week build up to the day, plan on watching at least one appropriate flick a night (on average) until then. There are so many horror movies in my queue, I thought this would be a good way to start getting through it. The damage so far:
[REC] - Heard such good things about this, so I had to watch it. I have not seen Quarantine (the American version). I thought it was pretty good, entertaining at the very least, but the dubbed English was at times hard to get used to and take seriously. There are some really good, messed up, "holy shit" scenes in this movie and ending, although contrived, was just freaky.
Silent House - Had some scary moments, and the whole "filmed in one shot" thing was interesting (although it didn't really get filmed that way I found out), but the ending and subsequent resolution seemed to come out of nowhere and really was sort of cliched. Also, although I am a admirer of nice boobies, I can't understand why in a movie like this that's trying to be taken seriously (it's not some cheap slasher/gorefest flick) feels the need to got extremely far out of their way to accentuate them to the point of being distracting. You know what I mean if you've seen it.
Night of the Living Dead - I was convinced I had never seen this, but after watching it, parts seemed really familiar, so I might have long ago. A classic for sure, with a brutal ending. Some of the graphic stuff in the middle was fairly disgusting, I can't even imagine how it was viewed back in 1968 (the year I was born, hard to believe).
Upcoming possibilities for the week:
The Hills Have Eyes
The Last Man on Earth
The Mothman Prophecies
The Ring
The Haunting
Ju-On
The People Under The Stairs
Session 9
The Orphanage
Suspiria
The Wicker Man
28 Days Later
The Changeling
Vasquez on 23/10/2012 at 03:30
Aaa I want Predator pumpkin! :D
Stitch on 1/11/2012 at 20:50
Okay gang, let's start showing Tocky and his phenomenal thread some love.
Any good costumes out there?
SubJeff on 2/11/2012 at 12:29
Quote Posted by Brethren
[REC] - Heard such good things about this, so I had to watch it. I have not seen Quarantine (the American version). I thought it was pretty good, entertaining at the very least, but the dubbed English was at times hard to get used to and take seriously.
I heard this wine was good but it tastes horrible drinking out of this shoe.
june gloom on 3/11/2012 at 11:06
Yeah seriously, I don't watch anything dubbed. Subtitles all the way, even -- especially -- if they're speaking English.
ZylonBane on 4/11/2012 at 20:09
dethtoll even watches the Airbender cartoons subbed.
SubJeff on 4/11/2012 at 20:10
Given he has hearing difficulties I'd say that's not unreasonable.
