Overall just a very creepy, sadly beautiful movie. Lack of dialog combined with the music/sound really did it for me.
Though that movie definitely highlights the benefits of a good foley artist. Holy crap could her footsteps have sounded more club-footed?
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 26 May 2012 06:54 (fourteen years ago)
*** just wanna make clear that my long post up there is in no way an endorsement of where the dead go to die. i watched it cuz, i dunno, it sounded unusual (and it was). i took about 100 screecaps while watching it, cuz i love that kind of exaggerated, camp-surrealist horror imagery, but the movie itself is a turd. boring, ugly, dumb, obvious and whiny, with terrible performances and depressingly lazy animation/design. it flaunts a high school shooter's "satanic" nihilism and despair, but even the angst seems second-hand. avoid.
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Saturday, 26 May 2012 07:19 (fourteen years ago)
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, May 26, 2012 6:54 AM (1 hour ago)
I saw a "live" performance of Carnival of Souls where they had musicians, voice actors and a foley artist on stage below the projection, replacing all the sound. A vast improvement tbh!
― etc, Thursday, April 5, 2012 3:05 PM (1 month ago)
― etc, Saturday, 26 May 2012 08:11 (fourteen years ago)
It took me four hours to read this thread and it was the most informative four hours in recent memory.
― poxen, Saturday, 26 May 2012 09:31 (fourteen years ago)
be sure to catch the 2 prequels
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Saturday, 26 May 2012 16:49 (fourteen years ago)
There's a 3D remake coming out in August.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 26 May 2012 17:02 (fourteen years ago)
There will be a "Coward's Corner" accessible to those too faint-of-heart to brave all 8,000 posts.
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Saturday, 26 May 2012 17:13 (fourteen years ago)
When I was a kid, we used to pass around a VHS tape with only the best bits of this thread, edited down.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 26 May 2012 17:16 (fourteen years ago)
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 (fourteen years ago)
someone said two people actually died on set while they were making it
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 26 May 2012 17:29 (fourteen years ago)
Somewhere between science and superstition, there is another world. The world of this thread.
― clemenza, Saturday, 26 May 2012 17:34 (fourteen years ago)
Wasn't Ilxor the name of that tentacled God conjured by Lovecraft?
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 26 May 2012 17:39 (fourteen years ago)
ilx is built on an indian burial ground
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 26 May 2012 18:03 (fourteen years ago)
The real reason ILX is scared to take showers has never been told.
― Trey Imaginary Songz (WmC), Saturday, 26 May 2012 18:05 (fourteen years ago)
whatever you do, don't go in the basement
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 26 May 2012 18:22 (fourteen years ago)
built from the code of an indian message board
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Saturday, 26 May 2012 18:25 (fourteen years ago)
the phone call is coming from inside the thread
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 26 May 2012 18:48 (fourteen years ago)
wow, i hadn't even thought about mike diana in many years
― sarahell, Saturday, 26 May 2012 19:08 (fourteen years ago)
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 (fourteen years ago)
Don't enter Sub-Board 1408, "Ask A Serial Killer."
― Trey Imaginary Songz (WmC), Saturday, 26 May 2012 19:15 (fourteen years ago)
a.k.a. ask chaki
― me so fat (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Saturday, 26 May 2012 20:18 (fourteen years ago)
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 (fourteen years ago)
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 (fourteen years ago)
Me too! :D
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 27 May 2012 00:49 (fourteen years ago)
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 (fourteen years ago)
About to watch Pulse. If I don't make it back, tell the world my story.
― clemenza, Sunday, 27 May 2012 02:27 (fourteen years ago)
copy that
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 27 May 2012 02:45 (fourteen years ago)
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 (fourteen years ago)
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 (fourteen years ago)
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 (fourteen years ago)
Check out The Seventh Victim and get back to me.
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Monday, 28 May 2012 13:12 (fourteen years ago)
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 (fourteen years ago)
You're going to take your sunburn crabbiness out on ILX today, eh?
― Trey Imaginary Songz (WmC), Monday, 28 May 2012 13:22 (fourteen years ago)
pointing out sad crap is not crabbiness
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 28 May 2012 13:24 (fourteen years ago)
Numerology hate = the lord's work.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 28 May 2012 13:38 (fourteen years ago)
"Adult numerologists: SCARY!" said the sabermetrician.
― Brony! Broni! Broné! (Phil D.), Monday, 28 May 2012 13:54 (fourteen years ago)
lol
― Trey Imaginary Songz (WmC), Monday, 28 May 2012 14:03 (fourteen years ago)
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 (fourteen years ago)
"Finding amusing/interesting connections" != "superstition"
― Brony! Broni! Broné! (Phil D.), Monday, 28 May 2012 14:48 (fourteen years ago)
let's just agree to be bored w/ topic
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 28 May 2012 15:14 (fourteen years ago)
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 (fourteen years ago)
why u braek heart, morbs ;_;
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 00:42 (fourteen years ago)
watching Near Dark tonight
this better be good
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 00:43 (fourteen years ago)
http://content.internetvideoarchive.com/content/photos/147/006200_11.jpg
― Boris Kutyurkokhov (Eisbaer), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 00:49 (fourteen years ago)
my friend likes Carpenter's The Thing though
/fartineisbaersface
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 00:52 (fourteen years ago)
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 (fourteen years ago)
http://media.salon.com/2011/06/fathers_day_friday_night_seitz-slide-7.jpg
― Pita Malört (Je55e), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 02:08 (fourteen years ago)
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 (fourteen years ago)
playing an evil kid, natch
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 19:23 (fourteen years ago)
have to ask tho: were you ok with the ending?
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 19:24 (fourteen years ago)