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cleolindaThe Omen's on AMC at 7 pm tonight--man, I will never forget the first time I saw that movie. I think it had just been put out on DVD or remastered or something, because it was a fairly new edition, and we all piled into someone's tiny dorm room to watch it. And tinier than usual, y'all--the TV was on one side of a bed against a wall, and for various reasons, we didn't all feel comfortable sitting on the bed. In fact, I think I was the only girl there at the time, with three or four guys, and while we were all friends... well, I didn't know some of they guys as well as I knew others. And you can imagine that the guys didn't want squish up all close on a bed [cooties! GAY COOTIES!]. So we ended up crunching up in a six-feet-long by three-feet-deep space between the wall and the bed. I'm talking, like, Indian-style and knees up to our chests and God forbid your leg fell asleep. And all of this in a hushed dark, with a fairly large TV--it was like having the movie on the inside of your eyelids. And for this particular movie, it was extremely effective.
And then, after we finished the movie, we watched the extras. If you're the least bit superstitious, y'all, or sitting in a tiny pitch-black dorm room after midnight, don't watch these. The stories the producer or director or whoever told about the "curse" on the movie were FREAKISH. I'm having to dip into the IMDB trivia because I don't remember them all, but it was shit like, "The writer's plane was struck by lighting and my hotel was bombed and then this plane Gregory Peck ended up not taking crashed and everyone was killed and then there was this plane? That crashed into this car? And the woman and children in the car? WERE THE PILOT'S WIFE AND KIDS OMFG." Like, it's one thing to be like, "Hee hee, Jim Caviezel was struck by lightning while they were making The Passion! Guess we know what God thought about THAT movie!" It's another for six different people to be sitting there on the DVD extras like, "And then after the sixteenth car crash that week alone, the moon turned red and the seas were filled with blood. Kinda made it hard to film that scene right there. Car rentals were a bitch, too."
(I won't even tell you about the time when I was a freshman and didn't yet have my own computer so I was in the computer center and, while I would later live in the building right next door, I was then living in the freshman dorms on top of the hill, so it wasn't an inconvenient walk exactly, but it was a long enough walk that you would get a little freaked out really late at night, and I'd spent the whole evening at snopes.com wasting time and reading up on freaky urban legends, particularly the creepy old shit like the one about THE GIRL WHO DOESN'T TURN ON THE LIGHT AND HER ROOMMATE IS REALLY DEAD AHHH, and then I had to walk back to my room, WHICH I SHARED WITH VALERIE, sometime after ten that night AHHHHHHH. Man. Good times. I miss college.)
(P.S. Of course I ended up checking out what was new while I was at Snopes. Holy hell, I'd never seen this one before. If you're scared of clowns... don't read this.)
And then, after we finished the movie, we watched the extras. If you're the least bit superstitious, y'all, or sitting in a tiny pitch-black dorm room after midnight, don't watch these. The stories the producer or director or whoever told about the "curse" on the movie were FREAKISH. I'm having to dip into the IMDB trivia because I don't remember them all, but it was shit like, "The writer's plane was struck by lighting and my hotel was bombed and then this plane Gregory Peck ended up not taking crashed and everyone was killed and then there was this plane? That crashed into this car? And the woman and children in the car? WERE THE PILOT'S WIFE AND KIDS OMFG." Like, it's one thing to be like, "Hee hee, Jim Caviezel was struck by lightning while they were making The Passion! Guess we know what God thought about THAT movie!" It's another for six different people to be sitting there on the DVD extras like, "And then after the sixteenth car crash that week alone, the moon turned red and the seas were filled with blood. Kinda made it hard to film that scene right there. Car rentals were a bitch, too."
(I won't even tell you about the time when I was a freshman and didn't yet have my own computer so I was in the computer center and, while I would later live in the building right next door, I was then living in the freshman dorms on top of the hill, so it wasn't an inconvenient walk exactly, but it was a long enough walk that you would get a little freaked out really late at night, and I'd spent the whole evening at snopes.com wasting time and reading up on freaky urban legends, particularly the creepy old shit like the one about THE GIRL WHO DOESN'T TURN ON THE LIGHT AND HER ROOMMATE IS REALLY DEAD AHHH, and then I had to walk back to my room, WHICH I SHARED WITH VALERIE, sometime after ten that night AHHHHHHH. Man. Good times. I miss college.)
(P.S. Of course I ended up checking out what was new while I was at Snopes. Holy hell, I'd never seen this one before. If you're scared of clowns... don't read this.)
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Date: 2004-10-29 04:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-29 04:14 pm (UTC)I totally sympathise with the 'scary movie' thing. The first time I ever watched 'Friday the 13th' was when I was 7. At 1am. On Halloween. With one friend. My brother first saw 'Psycho' when he was 6, and wouldn't go near the shower for a while. Soooo... any problems I develop, I shall blame on my parents. Yea.
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Date: 2004-10-29 04:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-29 04:23 pm (UTC)*goes and huddles under a blanket with her puppy*
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Date: 2004-10-29 04:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-29 05:15 pm (UTC)Nope. Definitely my puppy... unless a psycho has dressed up like a tiny dog...
*runs off to check again*
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Date: 2004-10-29 04:45 pm (UTC)Yo, what is it with Americans and being scared of clowns?!? I don't get that.
I ain't never been scared of clowns when I was a kid, never ever ever!
And now that I've grown up to be a giant, I fear them even less. Bwahahahaha!
Zrath (who dressed as Hagrid last Halloween, and only needed a fake beard to do it!)
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Date: 2004-10-29 04:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-29 09:01 pm (UTC)pedorifficillegal in a lot of countries. :Dno subject
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Date: 2004-10-30 12:55 pm (UTC)Shhhh.
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Date: 2004-10-29 08:58 pm (UTC). . .I feel envious for some reason. :(
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Date: 2004-10-29 04:52 pm (UTC)Heard the clown one at school and was forced to do research. Snope is my friend. ^^
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Date: 2004-11-02 06:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-29 05:11 pm (UTC)I started reading It - couldn't get past the 3rd chapter, and I can barely look at the dvd cover.
*hides*
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Date: 2004-10-29 07:24 pm (UTC)Just went to a haunted corn feild thing where I was chased by evil clowns with chainsaws. I hate clowns.
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Date: 2004-10-31 05:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-29 07:39 pm (UTC)I watched "The Omen" a couple of years ago and was surprised at how badly it freaked me out. I found it odd that most of the 70s were spent in total and utter fascination with the occult. You had "The Exorcist" and "The Omen" at the box office; the ouija board in your closet; you always had your friendly neighborhood haunted house. Creepy stuff.
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Date: 2004-10-29 08:01 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-10-29 09:04 pm (UTC)If you thought that was freakish, you should check out the Poltergeist curse. Same deal as the Omen thing, except it occurred throughout the production of all three films. Even though it's an E! True Hollywood Story, the E! True Hollywood Story about the Poltergeist trilogy is pretty darn cool. I mean, they did ghost removing rituals all over the place and still freaky things happened!
And that clown urban legend was pretty terrifying, until I got to this line, which made me laugh out loud:
Needless to say, homicidal maniacs and pedophiles have not taken to donning clown costumes and passing themselves off as items of home decor.
Although clown lamps and paintings are pretty scary.
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Date: 2004-10-30 07:10 am (UTC)resembleresent that remark!How's the new job going?
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Date: 2004-10-30 08:18 am (UTC)Oh, and to your credit, the walk at night from Olin to the dorm was freaky for some reason.
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Date: 2004-10-29 09:04 pm (UTC)*gets an axe*
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Date: 2004-10-29 09:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-29 10:22 pm (UTC)*charges up taser for Bozo invasion after lights go out*
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Date: 2004-10-30 12:23 am (UTC)werd.
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Date: 2004-10-30 07:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-29 11:20 pm (UTC).....
(*clicks another one*)
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Date: 2004-10-30 04:54 am (UTC)Creepy creepy! (http://www.dionaea-house.com/)
I've never seen the Omen, and I refuse to watch scary movies as a rule because I know that I'll freak out. My house is 100 years old and right across the road from a loony bin, and the top floor is SPOOKY. I watched It a year or so ago (and I'm nearly 20) and I had to leave the light on in the hall so I could get to sleep. Just because consciously I know it's nonsense, doesn't mean I don't get scared.
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Date: 2004-10-30 07:53 am (UTC)That was my bed...
Date: 2004-10-31 10:08 am (UTC)Re: That was my bed...
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Date: 2004-11-02 06:18 pm (UTC)Guys are so weird, yo. (I have no clue where that yo came from.)