Subj : Re: What you can do with a movie trailer
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : RR
Date : Wed Oct 05 2005 01:36:37

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.
>
>
> No, I haven't seen it.
> And I intend to keep it that way.

What if I designed and put together a "happy" trailer for it?

-- 
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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