Jayne ,'The Train Job'
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Instead, she hugs him.
When I saw that in the theater back in the day, this got almost as much of an audibly revolted response as some of the later, seriously gross stuff. Granted, the sounds of revulsion were pretty much nonstop for the last 10 minutes of the movie, so that had it beat for duration.
He was so freaked out and scared that all he could do was lay on the horn until his mother came out of the house and to rescue him.
This is adorable! I remember when I saw the Blair Witch Project with 2 friends (GF wasn't interested) and had to drive home alone, I had to stop for gas and was totally freaked out. It was late and no one was around. I iz a scaredy-kat!
I've told my mom's awesome moviegoing story here, I'm sure. (She and other student nurses were staying in a motel in Kalamazoo and decided to see the latest Hitchcock--yes, Psycho. Some refused to take a shower at all afterward, but she had her best friend stand guard at the closed door, just in case Norman Bates showed up.)
GC, that was me after the Exorcist. I went to a midnight showing with some friends. After I dropped them off I think I drove the rest of the way home with my head half turned around to watch the back of the car (it was a station wagon.) I remember reading the book, and it was a big fat one, in one night because it was so scary I wanted to finish it and just get it over with.
Mr & Mrs Smith is on TV. I love Brad Pitt's flailing skillz
Oddly, Sail, I just finished re-reading The Exorcist (though I've never seen the movie). It came across as more mournful than horrifying, maybe because I kept seeing Father Damien as the main character. Also, treating possession as analogous to puberty creates some new possible interpretations.
Also, treating possession as analogous to puberty creates some new possible interpretations.
I have to admit, at the time I read it, this thought didn't even occur to me despite puberty being something I was not much removed from, if out of it yet (I was 18 at the time.) The treatment isn't much different from BtVS and the "high school is hell" metaphor. Not surprising others might find teenagers freakish when that's how we felt ourselves at the time.
I also read it for the first time at 18. It was just this time that it hit me that Regan was around the age of puberty.
I think part of the reason the book isn't work as well as horror (at least for me) is that most of the horrifying events take place offstage. Leaving us emphasizing other people's reactions to events instead of the events themselves.
Kodi Smit-McPhee has been cast as the young Logan in the Wolverine movie AND as the son in the movie of The Road.
It was just this time that it hit me that Regan was around the age of puberty.
Yeah, when I read it (and saw the movie) as a teenager, I was all about how Regan was a pubescent girl, because most documented poltergeist cases involve an adolescent girl (I was a bit into parapsychology). But I TOTALLY MISSED the puberty = possession metaphor.
(Yes, I got the metaphor in Teen Wolf. )