| THG: Come on, get your pat on the head |
| THG: I't's a deal |
| 6ixStringJack: You do you, Ted. |
| THG: |
| THG: Everywhere I've posted you responded with something like this "
Nobody cares. Grow up, faggot." I will now disrupt this conversations daily. Fair is fair |
| 6ixStringJack: I don't think the scene wouldn't have been scary if that movie wasn't so low-key paranoia leading up to the chaos at the end. But it came in at just the right time, and at that point of the movie you're locked into the "The Bodysnatchers / The Thing" style paranoia of who is even real anymore at that point. |
6ixStringJack: I was probably close to 30 years old and it still scared me.  |
| 6ixStringJack: Last time I can say that a movie or a particular part of a movie geniunely scared me was the first time I watched the 70's version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers and that gorram dog with the human face came up to him. Everything about that whole scene was perfect and I get chills to this day just thinking about it. |
| Brenda: Outside of the Thing, I know I have seen at least one other of his movies and I can't remember the blasted title. Just my rotten memory. |
| Brenda: Don't think I've ever heard the phrase but that doesn't mean much. |
| Brenda: Huh. That shows how old "Merlin" and is way better I am sure than the junk they churn out now. I hate rom coms and I don't care what season they are in. Just no. |
| Brenda: May have seen one slasher movie over the years but yeah, they aren't my cup of tea. I'm not going to sit through an hour and a half to watch someone slice and dice a bunch of people. |
| Brenda: No, I don't really get scared either. The one time I can remember getting scared about a movie was probably 4 or 5 years old. My parents were watching "Robinson Crosue on Mars". Don't remember the exact scene but I do remember climbing on the couch and hiding behind my dad until the scene was over. |
| 6ixStringJack: I've never seen Prince of Darkness though. I probably should, but that one just never really interested me beyond being considered part of this "Trilogy" that really has nothing to do with each other. |
| 6ixStringJack: People online started calling those part of "John Carpenter's Apocalypse Trilogy". I thought the Internet made that up, but it looks like he said it himself at some point: John Carpenter's "Apocalypse Trilogy" is not a planned trilogy but a retrospective grouping of three thematically connected films: The Thing (1982), Prince of Darkness (1987), and In the Mouth of Madness (1994). Carpenter himself later identified these films as such due to their shared exploration of themes related to the end of humanity, loss of self, and bleak, open-ended resolutions. |
| Brenda: It could have been called "Merlin." I just remember Sam Neill in it mostly. And that Merlin at the end sounded sad when he said, "No more magic." Like the world was moving beyond the age of Camelot. |
6ixStringJack: The Thing was John Carpenter.  Same guy who made In the Mouth of Madness. |
| Brenda: Sounds like it could be an interesting movie. Will see if my local library has a copy of it. |
| 6ixStringJack: Heh! It was a "Hallmark" movie. Probably came out before they made the "Hallmark" channel that churns out a dozen low-budget Christmas rom coms every year. |
| Brenda: I saw the Thing with Kurt Russel because I love Kurt Russel. But I wasn't keen on it. |