i think of Morris dancers as being more dorky than creepy (much less dangerous). obviously, Morris dancing and spinning round the maypole would be REALLY weird anywhere in the USA but it's not as organic over here as in the UK.
― Boris Kutyurkokhov (Eisbaer), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:25 (twelve years ago) link
Her only act of autonomy is cutting her hair short.
yeah but she def looks better with the bob tho.
― second only to popcorn (or something), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:26 (twelve years ago) link
there's actually quite a bit of paganism in Catholic rituals, traditions, etc.
― Boris Kutyurkokhov (Eisbaer), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:27 (twelve years ago) link
Per my previous commentary, the scariest part of Rosemary's Baby is when she goes to see the regular OB/GYN and tells him her concerns, and you think that she's going to get some help... but nope. He calls the Demon Doctor and her dumb husband and it's back to Satan's High Rise with you. It's like the scene in TCM when the one woman almost gets away but gets pulled back into the house. Ugh.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:27 (twelve years ago) link
its late enough in the game now that even i think ive got this figured out but if i could design this ranking it would def be alien>the shining>the thing
im not forgetting anything right
― I want L'interieur chicken, not Hausu chicken (jjjusten), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
It's like the scene in TCM when the one woman almost gets away but gets pulled back into the house.
Oh yeah, at the roadside gas station/sausage market! Totally.
― The Thnig, Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
i remember never having heard of The Wicker Man before coming to ilx and seeing it just referenced constantly
― some dude, Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:29 (twelve years ago) link
by la lechera
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:29 (twelve years ago) link
by everyone!
― some dude, Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:30 (twelve years ago) link
hate to break it to you but we're all la lechera socks
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:30 (twelve years ago) link
i never watched the OG wicker man until after the Nicolas Cage lol-fest had come out.
― Boris Kutyurkokhov (Eisbaer), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:30 (twelve years ago) link
when she goes to see the regular OB/GYN and tells him her concerns, and you think that she's going to get some help... but nope. He calls the Demon Doctor and her dumb husband
ugh i remember first seeing this scene and feeling absolutely sickened by the betrayal
― judas, a homo (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:31 (twelve years ago) link
maybe Nicolas Cage should be involved in a Rosemary's Baby/Night of the Hunter remake!
― Boris Kutyurkokhov (Eisbaer), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:31 (twelve years ago) link
I was gonna say - Catholicism is totally pagan!
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:31 (twelve years ago) link
you eat jesus for fuck's sake!
i haven't seen the remake, but nicholas cage can pierce the actorly veil and be truly frightening in a way that nobody in the original wicker man could be (out of propriety? dignity?)
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:32 (twelve years ago) link
xp to elmo - God, me, too. Honestly writing about it makes my chest kind of ache.
And the birth - she's sedated during the birth of the baby that she was sedated during the conception of, and they take it away, and tell her it died. Oh, I guess her decision to be a mother to her baby is the other thing she does on her own, but then again, how much choice did she have.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:32 (twelve years ago) link
never have Charles Grodin as your OB/GYN
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:32 (twelve years ago) link
I think Nic Cage should remake every movie on this list
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:32 (twelve years ago) link
What's gonna be in the top 3? The Shining, The Thing, what else? Has The Exorcist placed?
― a parker full of poseys (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:33 (twelve years ago) link
Nic Cage IS... Carrie
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:33 (twelve years ago) link
hey guys, all of these movies are good
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:33 (twelve years ago) link
what nonsense, next thing you're gonna tell me xmas trees and presents are pagan
xp to shakey
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:33 (twelve years ago) link
love this
― The Thnig, Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:34 (twelve years ago) link
imagine Nic Cage scraping his face off in a remake of "Poltergeist"
MY FACE MY FACE MY FACE MY FACE MY FACE
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
― a parker full of poseys (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, May 24, 2012 8:33 PM (1 minute ago)
Alien. and hostel 2.
― I want L'interieur chicken, not Hausu chicken (jjjusten), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
sounds like it woulda been a cool snappy comeback in grade school
oh yeah? well you eat JESUS
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
well in the original you can be sacrificed by pagan partiers for being a pious dude, in the remake you can be sacrificed by a man-hating cult led by Ellen Burstyn just for being a nice guy trying to help out an ex. So I guess it's scarier since so many of us are nice guys who just want to know how it got burned, how it got burned, how it got burned.
― da croupier, Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:36 (twelve years ago) link
Maybe this poll will surprise all of us and Return of the Living Dead will be #1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS23CWl4lUE
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:36 (twelve years ago) link
also rosemary's baby has one of those scenes where the protagonist plays with scrabble tiles to glimpse the horrible truth -- via anagrams! i know it's a played out trope by now but here, it really gets across the pitch of paranoia and grasping helplessness
― judas, a homo (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:37 (twelve years ago) link
More scared by the notion that there are people who refuse themselves pleasure their whole lives. And then they die.
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:37 (twelve years ago) link
And I'm one of them.
i think of rosemary's baby as being, thematically, less about the helplessness of a woman to determine her fate, as by the inability of the present to escape the past. the threat is the old world, old people, "expert wisdom" and secretive tradition. the building symbolizes this as much as its residents. it's ultimately about corrupt age consuming naive youth.
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
"...as about the inability of the present to escape the past."
dangit
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:39 (twelve years ago) link
this may be because you are a dude
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:39 (twelve years ago) link
hahahahahaha!hate to break it to you but we're all la lechera socks
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Thursday, May 24, 2012 3:30 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark
Seriously though, emil.y TOTALLY 100% OTM -- she said everything I would have said if I hadn't been riding my bike home from work (only she said it much better and with fewer irritating exclamation points than I would have)
― game of crones (La Lechera), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:39 (twelve years ago) link
Hellraiser and Wicker Man are like the far ends of the pleasure spectrum.
― The Thnig, Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:39 (twelve years ago) link
omg lol Eric I misread that as 'people who refuse to pleasure themselves their whole lives'
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:39 (twelve years ago) link
xp to contenderizer - Maybe, but it speaks to me way more specifically on the level of "nobody believes something horrible is happening to you, little lady, let me call an abusive dude to come pick you up." I'm not even trying to argue that this is the theme of the movie (I don't think it's purposeful at all, actually) but that for me, that's where the horror originates.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:41 (twelve years ago) link
I have similar things to say about The Shining.
carl agatha otm
― judas, a homo (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, lol, that's a good point. carl agatha otm, too. i do relate to the film that way, the frustration of the protagonist in not being taken seriously, and i suppose that it doesn't have to be one theme or the other. they reinforce each other, really.
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
The title even hints at how Rosemary is just a nice, warm, but ultimately unimportant vessel in the eyes of the Satanists. It ain't called Rosemary.
― The Thnig, Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
age, expertise and the old world = ways in which authority is claimed by someone other than rosemary
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
Poll too fast!!
- Happy with today's results.
- Love Rosemary and even her babby, too
- I wish I had time to participate in fussing about TWM, but: LL OTM and Thnig, too.
- Eric, Pillbox, you guys rock. <3 the gifs! <3 U guys
― Pita Malört (Je55e), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:48 (twelve years ago) link
I LOVE YOU AND GIFS AND GUYS AND BABBY
3-minute gap
in this thread i think that means I killed the thread
― Pita Malört (Je55e), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:52 (twelve years ago) link
oh, the suspense! ...HAS VANISHED
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
Was sort of hoping the idea of me pleasing myself would've sustained the thread while I'm on my train ride home.
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:54 (twelve years ago) link
Ya it's been like 50m since last post wtf I'm outta here
― a parker full of poseys (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:54 (twelve years ago) link