Subj : Re: What you can do with a movie trailer
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : RR
Date : Wed Oct 05 2005 01:29:58

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Nick wrote:

>>>>>> D'oh!  I posted this a few days ago.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Slacker...
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> That's where he got the idea.
>>>>
>>>> In all fairness to Nick, it's *still* really, really amusing.
>>>
>>>
>>> I am a confessed chicken when it comes to scary movies.  However,
>>> I didn't find this one to be all that scary and I was kind of
>>> hoping to get the Mrs to watch The Shining after seeing the
>>> trailer.  It doesn't seem to be working.
>>
>> I don't know if I'd say it's the "scariest" horror film ever, but
>> it is deeply disturbing and wonderfullu executed.
>>
>> If I had to pick one horror flick that scares the bejeezus out of
>> me more than any other, it would be "Rosemary's Baby". Anytime I
>> watch it, I start jumping around and talking to the movie and
>> freaking out.
>>
>> I love that film. Like a real close film.
>
>
> Ok, possessed movies are number one on my scary meter, followed
> closely by monster movies.  I figure I can shoot psychopaths since
> they don't have supernatural/superhuman powers, except for John.

Have you seen RB? It involves none of the above. I think it's worse, which
is odd, because it involves theologies to which I don't subscribe.

Nevertheless, there's something about the way Polanski shot it, the
conviction of the actors and the script, and to an external degree, the fact
that it was the film Polanski made shortly before the Sharon Tate was
murdered by the Manson family. There are eerie similarities involving hive
mentality and the ability for people to control other's minds.

Freaky shit, man.

-- 
RR

"It's been my experience that every
  time I think I know 'where it's at,'
      it's really somewhere else."
      - William Holden - S.O.B.

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