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List the five scariest scenes ever.

no way I'm keeping it to five

book/short story:
- The Haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson
When everything goes dark in Theo and Eleanor's room.
I can post a ton of Shirley Jackson moments, but this one sticks with me the most.
- "War Games" by Philip K. Dick
The implications of the ending are frightening.
- "Pickman's Model" - H.P. Lovecraft
The ending.
- there's a Thomas Ligotti story with a weird carnival in a darkness-filled dimension and everything is askew and I can't remember if there's a clown or a fortune-teller machine inside the ticket booth and ack
- King Rat, by China Miéville
The rat battle scene at the rave. It's better than that description sounds.

television
- "Hush," Buffy the Vampire Slayer
when the Gentlemen pull out their tiny knives.
- the opening credits of The Outer Limits
- Doctor Who: either "Blink" -the angels have the phone box- or various parts of "Midnight"
- "It's a Good Life" - The Twilight Zone
the jack-in-the-box shadow.
- "The Midnight Sun" - The Twilight Zone
when everything is melting.
lol I haven't even included Talky Tina and other Twilight Zone creations in this
I still haven't caught up with Supernatural yet, but, remember when it used to be scary? Really horror scary? I was so glad that we had a horror television show that wasn't serialized stories (Buffy took horror elements but was rarely horror) but the whole apocalypse drama takes away from horror-ness. And it's not like demons and angels never inspired horror scares in other things, so it's not entirely the fault of the angels and apocalypse turn. /rant
I haven't watched The X-Files and I was very young when my parents had Twin Peaks on the TV so I'm obviously lacking those.

film
haha so many I have to divide these

CLIMAXES AND ENDINGS
Carrie
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Psycho
Wait Until Dark
Audition

MID-MOVIE GROSS OUT
- Eyes Without a Face (Les yeux sans visage
the face transplant scene
- Hara-Kiri (Seppuku)
the titular scene
- The Hitcher
dog in the police station, or the car draw-and-quarter
- A Tale of Two Sisters (Janghwa hongreyon)
the hanged ghost
- Martyrs. Just Martyrs.

EARLIER SCENES THAT ARE CREEPY WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THEM
- M, the opening and any scenes where the killer could be anywhere
- The Trap (Wana) (the third film in the Maiku Hama trilogy)
so many scenes; seriously one of the most underrated psycho killers ever on screen
- Suicide Club (Jisatsu sakuru)
the school mass suicide. There are moments when I'm hanging around high school kids and when I hear them talking, this scene becomes much more realistic than it might seem upon viewing. That's what freaks me out.
- Carnival of Souls
I know it's a B-movie, but that carousel dance scene...
- Intacto
the forest scene, and the whole system of stealing luck

MISCELLANEOUS



The end of the "Thriller" music video, and the final sequence in Fantasia.

It's time for...

Solstice Special #6! Part 1.
Two days late, but I managed to get all of the reviews down! That's why everything ended up too big for one post.

( Part 1 of reviews of the printed and filmed works I've consumed since the start of Summer 2009 )

Part 2 is here.

sorry for spamming your flists so much today

lol I posted this on tumblr too

SELECTIONS FROM H.P. LOVECRAFT'S BRIEF TENURE AS A WHITMAN'S SAMPLER COPYWRITER.

oh yes I am going to post nearly every thing on that page here

Strange congeries of almonds, walnuts, and pistachios dance hypnotically within, promising to reveal their eldritch secrets to anyone foolish enough to take a bite of these ancient nut clusters!

Thus was forged the satanic pact between peanut butter and chocolate that resulted in the mutant offspring you see before you!

What deranged architect could have engineered this non-Euclidean aberration? I dare not speculate.
YES THE NON-EUCLIDEAN ASPECT

It is said that there are gateways in our world that lead to this caramel hell-planet.

Few men dare ask the question "What is toffee, exactly?" All those who have investigated this substance are now either dead or insane.

Wild turkeys are weird.


thanks to geekfreak03, I spent all Saturday morning looking at Creepypasta and other freaky websites.

my favorite pasta so far.

Also found the short short "true" story site Gideon's Key.
This one about the alphabet really freaks me out for some reason. I'VE READ TOO MUCH LOVECRAFT
I'm way too scared to watch number 14 on Gideon's, although I know what will happen

Also, I'm wayyyy too scared to go past the intro page on Ted the Caver. I want someone next to me.


So of course I come up with a story that, when two people see something scary on the computer, one of them will turn into a monster.
Also came up with a story about the carwash.




I am sooo angry with myself for missing the Arsenal game.


Here, have kittens on a treadmill.


rorschachsdiary is still FTW. check the comments for added Veidt and The Comedian.



Lastly, via The Vault of Horror:

Lovecraftian School Board Member Wants Madness Added To Curriculum/
"Fools!" said West, his clenched fist striking the lectern before him. "We must prepare today's youth for a world whose terrors are etched upon ancient clay tablets recounting the fever-dreams of the other gods—not fill their heads with such trivia as math and English. Our graduates need to know about those who lie beneath the earth, waiting until the stars align so they can return to their rightful place as our masters and wage war against the Elder Things and the shoggoths!"
Beware the power of non-Euclidean geometry.

I didn't get to watch internationals today, but...

HAT TRICK FOR KLOSE
FINALLY
I ALWAYS BELIEVED
GOOD THING I DIDN'T SEE IT
OR I MIGHT HAVE CRIED

German NT tied 3 - 3 with Finland. Oh well. At least it wasn't a loss. AND KLOSE FINALLY SCORED AGAIN

AND OOH OOH
THEO HAT TRICK FOR ENGLAND

France won their game. phew. But with England getting better, I'm becoming scared that the thing I said about "France being the new England" might be coming true

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via lost_tv:
Lost S4 bloopers!
I think these are just promo ones, because it promotes the DVD and Blu-ray sets at the end.

and fans of Team Awesome (Desmond and Sayid), there's one clip you should not miss
Lol Captain Gault is funny

speaking of that captain:
Ex-Lost thesp Grant Bowler -- he played the swarthy freighter captain who was shot and killed in last May's finale -- is dropping anchor at Ugly Betty.
source

are y'all okay with casting spoilers? I won't say what the characters do, just who's playing them. Nothing plot-wise has come out about them yet, so as long as you just scan and not click on the link, you should be fine.

And, the two new people joining the cast of Lost are...
Zuleikha Robinson
(Rome, The Lone Gunmen, New Amsterdam)
she was also the awesome princess in Hidalgo who got to ride off into the desert sun yay

the second person, along with some Freighter Four stuff, and help with name pronunciation
Saïd Taghmaoui! That's an odd pic of him in that EW link.

he was Saïd in La Haine! (THE WORLD IS OURS!)
he was also The Iraqi torturer in Three Kings. The one who asked why America messed up Michael Jackson.
he was also in Vantage Point with Matthew Fox. My mom just saw the ad in a DVD and I pointed him out.
It'd be cool if he kept his French accent for this role.
More and more movies with two Lost people in them. Like, I knew Michael Emerson was in Saw, but I forgot that Ken Leung played the detective there

lol both of the new people were in Hidalgo.
I was really iffy about these characters when their descriptions came out, but the casting looks awesome, so now I'm kind of excited whee

La Haine -related sidenote: the director went on to a disappointing career, making Gothika and currently complaining about what Fox did to his newest, Babylon A.D. He's not the only director complaining about Fox.

seriously, if I could, I would give him my imaginary dream pet project Battle Royale miniseries to direct. La Haine impressed me that much, with how he handled teenage/twenty-something characters and created a very kinetic movie.

Back to Lost:
via gossy16: Ana-Lucia to return for one episode
as long as it's a useful appearance, I'm okay.

Dan Faraday fans might want to check out this filming report

ooh look at this casting call:
There's Solanga, a Filipino male in his 50s, who's the village doctor in a small rural community. He has some vices, but also has some medical skills. And he speaks "relatively good English with an accent."
yay a Filipino character! They didn't do too well with the half-Puerto Rican (well actresses. Ana and Nikki. Not sure about the characters' ethnicities, though Ana-Lucia was probably either Mexican or Salvadoran.)
Come on, one of my ethnic halves has got to have some good rep on this show

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very interesting thoughts about film noir.
Starts back in the Renaissance, with chiaroscuro, and traces influences through German Expressionism and pulp fiction.

And Peter Lorre is in two of the pictures used yay
those "French guys" the article mentioned coined the term "film noir" in the 1960s, just in case you're confused.

I found out that the site Movie Zeal recently finished its film noir month. I really like their choices.

from the article for Rififi, directed by Jules Dassin (my fave film from him is Night and the City though)
"In any language, Dassin seemed to have a knack for directing actors playing bad people so that you could sympathize with them."
-Without compromising their badness.

found this via linkage: Jean-Luc Godard said, "At the time, Rififi fooled some people. Today, it can’t hold a candle to [Jacques Becker’s 1954] Touchez pas au Grisbi, which paved the way for it, let alone [Jean-Pierre Melville’s 1956] Bob le Flambeur, which it paved the way for.”
psh I was so bored with Touchez pas au Grisbi I stopped watching after 20 minutes. I haven't gotten to Bob le Flambeur yet, though, and I do like Melville, and I know that it's because of Rififi that he had to delay making Le Cercle Rouge until 1970.

okay I'll stop rambling.

finally, via cleolinda: Guillermo del Toro to probably direct every other horror movie in the next ten years.
I can't wait to see what he does with At the Mountains of Madness. We need a good, big Lovecraft movie.

A day late, again.

( Solstice Special #3: Reviews of movies watched and books read between December 22, 2007 and June 20, 2008 )

also, I'm currently addicted to this mashup: San Francisco DJ Amplive adds some Bay Area rap flair to the indie electro glam rock of MGMT.
Amplive vs. MGMT - Of Moons Birds and Monsters (edit feat. mistah fab). It's crazy and sci-fi-ish and cool.

Is it bad that when I read “Possible Tornado rips through Atlanta,” I thought “Possible Tomato?” And pictured it too. bad bad me.

logovo1 posted these links:
LJ Ad butler
how you can remove ads from LJ accounts

some of the best recent webcomics that weren't about the late Gary Gygax:
Horton hears Cthulhu
You’ve been Ringrolled.

Video time!
padfootie posted this video of Adrian Pasdar flying. In a plane, of course. Excellent choice of music.

Want something super bizarre: Watch World War II as reenacted by food
It kind of cracks me up that the assistant animator is named Adam Levine.

hannahstarr posted a cute vid of a dancing walrus.

cleolinda linked to two new "epilepsy-inducing" Speed Racer trailers.
ack they've been taken down. But I found this on Youtube, check it before that's gone too...

And two music videos.
One of them’s a pretty, mostly black-white animation vid for Shiina Ringo's "Karisome Otome (Tameikesannoh ver.)," one of the songs from the movie Sakuran. The song itself is a pretty, punchy little tango pop song.
The black cat is Shiina Ringo’s alter ego symbol thing.


I have been playing this next video over and over for the past three? four? days.
Buraka Som Sistema (feat. M.I.A., Puto Prata, DJ Znobia, Saborosa) - “Sound of Kuduro”
The sound is fast and furious, and should appeal to those who like their dance music grimy and baile funk-ish.


What is Kuduro?
Kuduro isn’t world music. Well, not the kind of world music that finds its way onto Later with Jools Holland or a Damon Albarn album. This is the raw, uncompromising sound of the streets of Luanda, Angola. Meaning ‘hard ass’ or ‘stiff bottom’, it combines traditional Angolan Kilapanga, Semba and Zouk with Western house and techno.
( related links here )

Finally...
the past Sunday, we were eating at Chevy's. They usually play a bunch of current Spanish language pop, but I was suprised to hear ABBA singing "Mamma Mia!" in Spanish. I heard another one of their Spanish songs on the radio a while ago, and it's kinda weird yo.
And then what played next at Chevy's? A 60’s folk pop-style version of “Float On.” In English, mind you. Interesting.

( in which I think too much about the most recent episode of Heroes )

okay, random word tangent off of Ade's post: the vial of vile viral villainy! haha!

So I’m not the only one wondering about those "New Orleans" accents...

and, via padfootie: The Peter/Sylar/Mohinder movie!

my current Lolthulhu faves:
vaguely Sylar-related: o hai i stole ur brain sry
my facebook let me show u it
I is can be Cthulu nao plz?

Every time I try and post a link about the Burma situation, something new happens. Usually, that something's not good. -shakes head-

something brighter in the news:
My Andean Archaeology class told us about Bolivian President Evo Morales' visit to The Daily Show. She also alerted us to his enviromental message to the UN.
Also from the region: Meteorite crash in Peru breeds mass hysteria. My professor was saying about how, for the people there, something from the sky ripping into Mother Earth is very serious. Then again, Lolthulu helps find the geeky humor in the event.

Guy tries to sell Belgium on Ebay. Bunny got on the case.

Star Wars Galaxies players help build real homes for Habitat for Humanity :D

I wasn't able to watch the World Cup games -beats up time zones-, but...we US women won 4-1!!! First the German men's team, now the US WMNT...I hope third place isn't a trend for the teams I like best in a tournament!
The German women beat Brazil to win first place. While I like Germany, a win for Brazil could have improved the sentiment towards femmes in footie there. Still, congrats to all for making it this far!
Are manager egos too big?
It has not been a good week for US goalkeepers.

A bit old, but...
Pete Doherty wants to manage a football team? He’s been on the pitch before.
Drogba did sing at Royal Albert Music Hall
but hey,
Íker sings too!
hee did you see the quick little wedgie fix there?
His Spanish accent is so cool, even if it takes me a while to figure out.
Translated from the vid:
Interviewer: Is this team better than the Korea Cup one?
Casilla: Different.
Hee his tongue action bad habit. My gosh, with the tongue and wedgie fix, he's reminding me of my bad habits...freaky...

digressing towards other favorite footballers of mine:
thanks so much to novafairy for posting about this:

Miro is on the cover of Germany's version of FIFA '08 and is in THIS MUST-SEE COMMERCIAL with YAY YAY Franck Ribéry!!! (less sharp Youtube version here

ohmygoshthatvideo Miro is so my football hero again and I am so glad that I am so over my MiroDrama so I could enjoy this and WHY AM I GETTING TEARY THIS IS RIDICULOUS and yay for Franck!
Here's all the FIFA '08 covers and soundtrack. Yay Guillermo Ochoa on the US one!

so, we're coming back to soccer-music crossovers:
Morrissey seen wearing Chivas USA shirt
In other Smiths news, check/download some tracks from the upcoming release Soundcheck Rarities. Includes a solid cover of Jimi Hendrix.

Finally, the story behind "Mack the Knife"