Movies that messed up your piece of mind.
Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2008 10:39 pm
I was talking with one of my best friends yesterday about going to see the movie Event Horizon. We saw this movie in a pretty much abandoned movie theater slated to be demolished with about three others. We didn't get out till midnight and to be honest we all ended up at a Denny's just talking till sunrise. My friend's girlfriend was shaking over the "message scene" from the previous crew of the Event Horizon. I gotta tell you even I was slightly disturbed by that one.
I have a couple picks that are my top 10. What are yours?
10. Audition. This Japanese pycho movie had the same effect on me as Fatal Attraction.WHAT I GOT FROM IT: Screwing around with hormonal women is a no, no. EFFECT: I never trusted any smiling girl for about two months.
11. Night of the Living Dead. Zombies man. I remember when Dawn of the Dead came out and I was just a kid trying to get a peek while my mom dad were watching another movie. Yeah, I learned my lesson quick. I saw the original when I was seventeen and after that well I started looking at home defense a little more differently. WHAT I GOT FROM It: Installing a deep rooted chain fence around the house for the dog might have some extra benefits. EFFECT: I'm always looking for escape routes just in case...
9. The Thing 1982 I saw this movie on HBO and it scared the hell out of me for a night and a half. I felt perverse and wanted a shower just to get the doomsday feel from my skin; it was watching a butterfly getting eaten alive by a spider after you threw it into the web. WHAT I GOT FROM IT: A big healthy dose of fear of syringes. EFFECT: I can never own or go by a Husky or Malamute without being suspicious.
8. Alien I caught the chestburster scene as a young child at five in the morning when I was trying to watch Saturday morning cartoons. Apparently my parents had left the channel on HBO the previous night and when I turned on the TV, I was scarred for life. I would only catch parts of this movie until I turned eighteen, never seeing it all the way through from start to finish, till then. At twelve I must have jumped three feet at the mall when they were showing the Air Vent Scene in the store's window for everyone's amusement.
WHAT I GOT FROM IT: Being able to draw, next to dinosaurs and Godzilla this movie monster inspired me to pick up a pencil to try and capture the horror I had only glimpses of. EFFECT: Internet geekdom as a fanboy.
7. Event Horizion. Never go into space without a Denny's close by. I've seen Galaxy of Terror, Creature, and Ice Pirates. All classics for space and what a shit hole it is. But nothing could have prepared me for Event Horizon. It is as if Clive Barker's Hellraiser would meet Disney's Black Hole movie and they had a psychotic child. Its evil at it worst and it has no barriers between skinning you alive while gouging out your eyes and raping your soul over and over till time ends... and even then its an iffy if it will stop. WHAT I GOT FROM IT: Deep discussion into the nature of Hell and some pancakes and eggs. EFFECT: We're all screwed if the Hadron Super Collider opens a stable Black Hole on Earth and never ever divide by zero...oh shi....
6. REC. You'll know this movie as Quarantine by the end of fall this year. Quarantine is a remake of a very horrific movie out of Spain from last year called REC. ( record, pretty much what you see in your camera when filming ) REC is 28 days later meets Blair Witch. Filmed similarly as hand held footage like Cloverfield, only your stuck in an apartment complex under siege by the police trying to keep a contagion at bay. Most of the movie is not that scary beyond 28 days later, but the last seven minutes of this bastard will have you holding your breath; it is a must see if you have a girlfriend and you want her to maul your leg off. WHAT I GOT FROM IT: My leg mauled off. EFFECT: My wife will never live in a low rent apartment building evar!
5. Seven. I watched this movie with a now ex-girlfriend years back and It wasn't scary like the others. Most of the carnage was already finished and we were carried along into its aftermath with Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt. It was how gruesome your mind can work that made this movie a real hard choking swallow. When I saw the strap-on weapon used for Lust I was pretty much ready to walk out on this movie. I mean Sloth by itself was pretty horrific but Lust and how she died... urrg. WHAT I GOT FROM IT: An Ex-girlfriend. EFFECT: I never accept UPS ground delivery without a... pause.
4. Prophecy. This isn't the flick about the Angels. This one is about a twelve foot tall mutated grizzly bear from mercury poisoning. The Bear monster was actually portrayed by Kevin Peter Hall who would go onto star as the Predator and the Bigfoot from Harry and the Hendersons. Needless to say that Momma Bear was pretty ticked off and was good at killing everyone for its mutated cub. Watching the flashlight jiggle around at the base of cliff as one of the two man hunting crew and their dogs gets mulched was a chilling opening scene. WHAT I GOT FROM IT: Only you can prevent forest fires, mercury poisoning and giant Trout. EFFECT: I will never zip up a sleeping bag all the way because of this movie.
3. The Exorcist 3. I've seen the original and it is scary. Not many movies make my own father say he'll pass on seeing that one again, which astounded me since he fought in some pretty bad places in Vietnam. I didn't think anything could scare this man, but the Exorcist did mostly because I believe that it was due to the fact he was raised a Catholic and steeped in church doctrine when he was young. Plus demon possession is just damn frightening because it is like leprosy or cancer. That you never know if can truly avoid it because it out there somewhere waiting to be stepped on or breathed in like asbestos. The whole nurses station scene in the Exorcist 3 had me jump right out my seat and it is considered one of the top most terrifying scenes in the genera for good reason. It just comes out of left field out of nowhere. Your mind reels as you ask yourself what the hell did I just see!
WHAT I GOT FROM IT: Always check both ways before making a turn. EFFECT: A healthy respect for Spiderman at age eighty.
2. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The bastard son of Hitchcock's Psycho and the Vietnam war has no mercy or understanding of its own cannibalistic inherit insanity. Leatherface and the family became the welcome matt for Texas in the 70's. Like in Jaws you were treading in black waters bartering with your life along those abandoned roads to nowhere in the southernly western regions of the United States.
Where Norman Bates is the Grandfather to all movie mass murderers, Leatherface is the father of such silver screen icons of violence like Jason, Michael Myers ( Halloween) and Freddy Krueger. Leatherface is one of those contraptions that Jigsaw from the Saw series would invent only this puzzle is alive and moving to its own accord under a simpleton mind of carnage. You... your trapped in the farm with a muscled 300 pound insane man wearing the skin of the dead and he has a chainsaw and the mind to eat you alive and you got... nothing. That in a nutshell is one of those definition for things worse than death. WHAT I GOT FROM IT: Traveling through Texas can be dangerous to your health. This might explain the drive through liquor stores through out this state. EFFECT: I found myself wondering if LeatherFace could take out Jeepers Creepers.
1. Invasion of the Body Snatchers 70's. You're going what? Yeah this movie had me worked up for years as a kid. Whenever it would rain. I was on sleep deprivation watch. The movie itself is a nice cheap shot at communism or socialism from the 50's. The 70's version is just downright terror for me. It's the smart Zombie plague but you can't see the zombies forming around you everyday as you head off to work. Hell you don't even know your one of them when it happens. You just don't like emotions anymore and anybody showing any gets the hive mind blare of "get the hummanoids!" The worst part is sleep is your enemy. One of the most basic tenants of being alive and in this movie it will announce your pending doom. WHAT I GOT FROM IT: Rain is bad! EFFECT: lots of sleepless nights because of an over active imagination.
I have a couple picks that are my top 10. What are yours?
10. Audition. This Japanese pycho movie had the same effect on me as Fatal Attraction.WHAT I GOT FROM IT: Screwing around with hormonal women is a no, no. EFFECT: I never trusted any smiling girl for about two months.
11. Night of the Living Dead. Zombies man. I remember when Dawn of the Dead came out and I was just a kid trying to get a peek while my mom dad were watching another movie. Yeah, I learned my lesson quick. I saw the original when I was seventeen and after that well I started looking at home defense a little more differently. WHAT I GOT FROM It: Installing a deep rooted chain fence around the house for the dog might have some extra benefits. EFFECT: I'm always looking for escape routes just in case...
9. The Thing 1982 I saw this movie on HBO and it scared the hell out of me for a night and a half. I felt perverse and wanted a shower just to get the doomsday feel from my skin; it was watching a butterfly getting eaten alive by a spider after you threw it into the web. WHAT I GOT FROM IT: A big healthy dose of fear of syringes. EFFECT: I can never own or go by a Husky or Malamute without being suspicious.
8. Alien I caught the chestburster scene as a young child at five in the morning when I was trying to watch Saturday morning cartoons. Apparently my parents had left the channel on HBO the previous night and when I turned on the TV, I was scarred for life. I would only catch parts of this movie until I turned eighteen, never seeing it all the way through from start to finish, till then. At twelve I must have jumped three feet at the mall when they were showing the Air Vent Scene in the store's window for everyone's amusement.
WHAT I GOT FROM IT: Being able to draw, next to dinosaurs and Godzilla this movie monster inspired me to pick up a pencil to try and capture the horror I had only glimpses of. EFFECT: Internet geekdom as a fanboy.
7. Event Horizion. Never go into space without a Denny's close by. I've seen Galaxy of Terror, Creature, and Ice Pirates. All classics for space and what a shit hole it is. But nothing could have prepared me for Event Horizon. It is as if Clive Barker's Hellraiser would meet Disney's Black Hole movie and they had a psychotic child. Its evil at it worst and it has no barriers between skinning you alive while gouging out your eyes and raping your soul over and over till time ends... and even then its an iffy if it will stop. WHAT I GOT FROM IT: Deep discussion into the nature of Hell and some pancakes and eggs. EFFECT: We're all screwed if the Hadron Super Collider opens a stable Black Hole on Earth and never ever divide by zero...oh shi....
6. REC. You'll know this movie as Quarantine by the end of fall this year. Quarantine is a remake of a very horrific movie out of Spain from last year called REC. ( record, pretty much what you see in your camera when filming ) REC is 28 days later meets Blair Witch. Filmed similarly as hand held footage like Cloverfield, only your stuck in an apartment complex under siege by the police trying to keep a contagion at bay. Most of the movie is not that scary beyond 28 days later, but the last seven minutes of this bastard will have you holding your breath; it is a must see if you have a girlfriend and you want her to maul your leg off. WHAT I GOT FROM IT: My leg mauled off. EFFECT: My wife will never live in a low rent apartment building evar!
5. Seven. I watched this movie with a now ex-girlfriend years back and It wasn't scary like the others. Most of the carnage was already finished and we were carried along into its aftermath with Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt. It was how gruesome your mind can work that made this movie a real hard choking swallow. When I saw the strap-on weapon used for Lust I was pretty much ready to walk out on this movie. I mean Sloth by itself was pretty horrific but Lust and how she died... urrg. WHAT I GOT FROM IT: An Ex-girlfriend. EFFECT: I never accept UPS ground delivery without a... pause.
4. Prophecy. This isn't the flick about the Angels. This one is about a twelve foot tall mutated grizzly bear from mercury poisoning. The Bear monster was actually portrayed by Kevin Peter Hall who would go onto star as the Predator and the Bigfoot from Harry and the Hendersons. Needless to say that Momma Bear was pretty ticked off and was good at killing everyone for its mutated cub. Watching the flashlight jiggle around at the base of cliff as one of the two man hunting crew and their dogs gets mulched was a chilling opening scene. WHAT I GOT FROM IT: Only you can prevent forest fires, mercury poisoning and giant Trout. EFFECT: I will never zip up a sleeping bag all the way because of this movie.
3. The Exorcist 3. I've seen the original and it is scary. Not many movies make my own father say he'll pass on seeing that one again, which astounded me since he fought in some pretty bad places in Vietnam. I didn't think anything could scare this man, but the Exorcist did mostly because I believe that it was due to the fact he was raised a Catholic and steeped in church doctrine when he was young. Plus demon possession is just damn frightening because it is like leprosy or cancer. That you never know if can truly avoid it because it out there somewhere waiting to be stepped on or breathed in like asbestos. The whole nurses station scene in the Exorcist 3 had me jump right out my seat and it is considered one of the top most terrifying scenes in the genera for good reason. It just comes out of left field out of nowhere. Your mind reels as you ask yourself what the hell did I just see!
WHAT I GOT FROM IT: Always check both ways before making a turn. EFFECT: A healthy respect for Spiderman at age eighty.
2. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The bastard son of Hitchcock's Psycho and the Vietnam war has no mercy or understanding of its own cannibalistic inherit insanity. Leatherface and the family became the welcome matt for Texas in the 70's. Like in Jaws you were treading in black waters bartering with your life along those abandoned roads to nowhere in the southernly western regions of the United States.
Where Norman Bates is the Grandfather to all movie mass murderers, Leatherface is the father of such silver screen icons of violence like Jason, Michael Myers ( Halloween) and Freddy Krueger. Leatherface is one of those contraptions that Jigsaw from the Saw series would invent only this puzzle is alive and moving to its own accord under a simpleton mind of carnage. You... your trapped in the farm with a muscled 300 pound insane man wearing the skin of the dead and he has a chainsaw and the mind to eat you alive and you got... nothing. That in a nutshell is one of those definition for things worse than death. WHAT I GOT FROM IT: Traveling through Texas can be dangerous to your health. This might explain the drive through liquor stores through out this state. EFFECT: I found myself wondering if LeatherFace could take out Jeepers Creepers.
1. Invasion of the Body Snatchers 70's. You're going what? Yeah this movie had me worked up for years as a kid. Whenever it would rain. I was on sleep deprivation watch. The movie itself is a nice cheap shot at communism or socialism from the 50's. The 70's version is just downright terror for me. It's the smart Zombie plague but you can't see the zombies forming around you everyday as you head off to work. Hell you don't even know your one of them when it happens. You just don't like emotions anymore and anybody showing any gets the hive mind blare of "get the hummanoids!" The worst part is sleep is your enemy. One of the most basic tenants of being alive and in this movie it will announce your pending doom. WHAT I GOT FROM IT: Rain is bad! EFFECT: lots of sleepless nights because of an over active imagination.
)
