55 ilxors went into the woods, and this thread is all that remains...
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 26 May 2012 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
someone said two people actually died on set while they were making it
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 26 May 2012 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
Somewhere between science and superstition, there is another world. The world of this thread.
― clemenza, Saturday, 26 May 2012 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
Wasn't Ilxor the name of that tentacled God conjured by Lovecraft?
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 26 May 2012 17:39 (twelve years ago) link
ilx is built on an indian burial ground
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 26 May 2012 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
The real reason ILX is scared to take showers has never been told.
― Trey Imaginary Songz (WmC), Saturday, 26 May 2012 18:05 (twelve years ago) link
whatever you do, don't go in the basement
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 26 May 2012 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
built from the code of an indian message board
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Saturday, 26 May 2012 18:25 (twelve years ago) link
the phone call is coming from inside the thread
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 26 May 2012 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
wow, i hadn't even thought about mike diana in many years
― sarahell, Saturday, 26 May 2012 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
haha mike diana was one of the worst free speech poster boys ever
― me so fat (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Saturday, 26 May 2012 19:10 (twelve years ago) link
Don't enter Sub-Board 1408, "Ask A Serial Killer."
― Trey Imaginary Songz (WmC), Saturday, 26 May 2012 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
a.k.a. ask chaki
― me so fat (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Saturday, 26 May 2012 20:18 (twelve years ago) link
timely
http://thefilmstage.com/features/cannes-interview-rodney-ascher-on-stanley-kubrick-the-shining-and-his-documentary-room-237%E2%80%99/
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Saturday, 26 May 2012 21:49 (twelve years ago) link
The Landmark theater a block from my place is showing The Shining for free at midnight. Sort of strange - I don't remember them doing that sort of thing before. Obviously this thread influenced them.
I am going to see The Exorcist on the big screen June 6 - pretty excited!
― Pita Malört (Je55e), Sunday, 27 May 2012 00:47 (twelve years ago) link
Me too! :D
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 27 May 2012 00:49 (twelve years ago) link
it's the 32nd anniversary of the shining's release this weekend, and it came out on may 23 - 32/23 is the kind of mirroring its fans love
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Sunday, 27 May 2012 01:25 (twelve years ago) link
About to watch Pulse. If I don't make it back, tell the world my story.
― clemenza, Sunday, 27 May 2012 02:27 (twelve years ago) link
copy that
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 27 May 2012 02:45 (twelve years ago) link
them (ils) is really awesome and one of the most effective scary movies I've seen. but my advice would be not to watch it if you live alone!! caught it when I still did and found it tough to shake all kinds of nasty home invasion thoughts. :-/
40-odd minutes in, I'm thinking maybe Them might be scarier than I want at moment.... I like being scared but I don't love getting freaked out going to the bathroom.
Feeling very glad not to live in a freestanding home or even on a low floor or to have a yard. Those places are teeming with terrifying shit. And for sure fuck the woods.
― Pita Malört (Je55e), Monday, 28 May 2012 04:55 (twelve years ago) link
Hell my room is full of insects tonight and they are scaring me, they aren't even radioactive and huge.
― "Holy crap," I mutter, as he gently taps my area (silby), Monday, 28 May 2012 05:27 (twelve years ago) link
Can't tell you how many times I've calmed myself by repeating, "Younlive in an apartment in the city. It's not haunted. You don't even have a basement. You can hear the neighbors pee, and they'll hear you screaming for help."
― carl agatha, Monday, 28 May 2012 13:11 (twelve years ago) link
Check out The Seventh Victim and get back to me.
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Monday, 28 May 2012 13:12 (twelve years ago) link
it came out on may 23 - 32/23 is the kind of mirroring its fans love
adult numerologists: SCARY!
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 28 May 2012 13:16 (twelve years ago) link
You're going to take your sunburn crabbiness out on ILX today, eh?
― Trey Imaginary Songz (WmC), Monday, 28 May 2012 13:22 (twelve years ago) link
pointing out sad crap is not crabbiness
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 28 May 2012 13:24 (twelve years ago) link
Numerology hate = the lord's work.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 28 May 2012 13:38 (twelve years ago) link
"Adult numerologists: SCARY!" said the sabermetrician.
― Brony! Broni! Broné! (Phil D.), Monday, 28 May 2012 13:54 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― Trey Imaginary Songz (WmC), Monday, 28 May 2012 14:03 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, superstition = statistical analysis. Recommending Phil for the Salem witch jury.
(I am not a sabermetrician)
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 28 May 2012 14:26 (twelve years ago) link
"Finding amusing/interesting connections" != "superstition"
― Brony! Broni! Broné! (Phil D.), Monday, 28 May 2012 14:48 (twelve years ago) link
let's just agree to be bored w/ topic
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 28 May 2012 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
btw Alien was shown in big-screen glory at Lincoln Center today, and in honor of this thread, I didn't go.
Met my friend at the bar and we talked about all the things wrong with The Shining.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 00:33 (twelve years ago) link
why u braek heart, morbs ;_;
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 00:42 (twelve years ago) link
watching Near Dark tonight
this better be good
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 00:43 (twelve years ago) link
http://content.internetvideoarchive.com/content/photos/147/006200_11.jpg
― Boris Kutyurkokhov (Eisbaer), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 00:49 (twelve years ago) link
my friend likes Carpenter's The Thing though
/fartineisbaersface
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 00:52 (twelve years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8b/StatlerAndWaldorf.jpg
― "Holy crap," I mutter, as he gently taps my area (silby), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 00:53 (twelve years ago) link
http://media.salon.com/2011/06/fathers_day_friday_night_seitz-slide-7.jpg
― Pita Malört (Je55e), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 02:08 (twelve years ago) link
Near Dark was v enjoyable thx for the heads up on that one, voters
dunno how it flew under my radar, esp since it features the evil kid from River's Edge! love that lil dude.
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 19:16 (twelve years ago) link
playing an evil kid, natch
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
have to ask tho: were you ok with the ending?
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
yeah sure, it fits with the whole familial theme of the movie in general - rejection of adolescent rebellion, Caleb returning to the family fold, May replacing the absent mother. kind of oddly conservative/traditional but it didn't strike me as inconsistent with what came before it.
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 19:35 (twelve years ago) link
basically my reading is teenage male protagonist flirts with alternative lifestyle, can't deal with it, returns to fold older and wiser (and with attendant sexual conquest in tow).
actually now that I write that out that seems really regressive but for some reason it didn't bother me while I was watching it.
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 19:38 (twelve years ago) link
it seems only nominally engaged with the tropes of the horror genre (which, imho, would have called for a more nihilistic "gotcha!" ending) but I respect how it was all put together. I wasn't bored or frustrated by it.
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 19:40 (twelve years ago) link
that's a good interpretation. there's tension in the film between the unknown and terrifying world of adulthood promised by mae and the safe comforts of home. i was disappointed by the retreat to the latter. the theme of seduction leading to loss of innocence is strongly present in both the lost boys and near dark*. both films allow their protagonists to linger on the precipice of fatal experience, but "rescue" them back to innocence at the last minute, sparing them the fall to adult corruption. this works in the lost boys because it's a childish pop adventure, but feels like a betrayal in near dark. you can't go back. we all have to bite the apple (neck, whatever).
* i compare them because they both came out in 1987, only a few months apart, near dark seeming in some ways like a rebuttal to the lost boys' cheerful pop appeal.
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 19:54 (twelve years ago) link
damn, so much subtext w/ vampire movies/lit/etc (i mean, horror in general, sure - but ESP vampires). that said, contenderizer otm on yr reading of Near Dark.
― Carnage of PJ Soles (Pillbox), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 20:04 (twelve years ago) link
was wondering about this. Lost Boys is way more ubiquitous and must have done better box office - I hadn't even heard of Near Dark until recently. Lost Boys annoys me much more than this did tho. I've sat through it many times and it's put me to sleep more than once, so much so that I can't even really remember its sequence of events at all beyond a few key setpieces. This seemed much more coherent and committed.
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 20:12 (twelve years ago) link
oh yeah, despite my caviling, near dark is at least 90% great, a much better movie than the lost boys
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 20:17 (twelve years ago) link
i mean, i considered voting for near dark in this poll, and kind of regret not having done so. at one time, it would have been guaranteed a spot in my top 10.
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 20:19 (twelve years ago) link