Christmas with in the Dead Zone!

[thehefner]

I just saw a commercial for a very special Holiday episode... of The Dead Zone.

Yeah, I... I got nuthin'. Except this sudden visual of Jimmy Stewart smashing a vase with a cane and screaming, "Well golly, th-the ice! It's, uh, well, it's gonna BREAK!"

So I go to the fridge to discover the egg nod I bought yesterday is gone. I had one half-glass of it, but that was it. Now today, the carton's empty. So my grandmother comes into the kitchen and I ask her, "Did you drink all the egg nog?"

She replied, "Well, I contribute money for the groceries..."

"Uh, that was my egg nog. I bought it with my own money."

"Oh. Well, I didn't see your name on it."

"Oh! I didn't realize we had to label our food now!"

Jesus fuck. Coincidentally, the remake of The Blob is on TV now. A movie I thank god I won't be around much longer to see, because it so fucking freaks me out. This movie makes simple pleasures like taking a shower or going to second base really horrifying.

Comments

[2sick2pray.livejournal.com]

Damn her! Eggnog is really good! I would be PISSED.

[kmousie.livejournal.com]

"Oh! I didn't realize we had to label our food now!"

Yeah...grr. Sorry about that. *hugs*

I'd send Eowyn, as I normally do when people are being annoying, but I draw the line at beating up grandmas. ;-)

[jellied.livejournal.com]

What's so scary about the Blob?

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

There's something about a totally faceless entity that can slip through any crevice, like through shower drains for instance (similarly- GHOSTBUSTERS 2 freaked me out as a kid for the bathtub scene). If it even touches you once, that's it, you're screwed; it feeds and grows as it feeds on you, and being enveloped by the blob is an agonizing mixture of drowning and being dissolved, the flesh peeling off your body and melting as you scream and feel everything.

"Flesh horror" disturbs the hell out of me, I should probably mention that. Movies like, THE FLY and THE THING (the latter being the scariest movie I've ever seen and a personal favorite) and pretty much most of Cronenberg's stuff. SOCIETY is also in that category, and I do need to see it. In fact, there's a new "flesh horror" movie coming out pretty soon, SLITHER, starring Firefly's Nathan Fillon and HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER'S Michael Rooker. It looks like sticky gooey unsettling fun, but it may be too much for me. But probably not.

Does that make sense, or am I really just a big pussy after all? Seeing THE BLOB today didn't scare me as much as it did when I saw it on TV way back thirteen or so years ago (the little kid melting, holy shit, they melted the kid, they broke a cardinal horror rule and melted the kid), but even still, I'm still a little hesitant around my kitchen sink than I was yesterday, and if you've seen the film, you'll know why.

[jellied.livejournal.com]

I have an irrational fear of garbage disposals, so I'm feeling you on the sink comment.

I can possibly see what the "fear" of "flesh horror" is. But honestly-- doesn't do a damn thing for me.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

I can totally get that garbage disposal fear.

Yeah, it's one of the very few things to really deeply unsettle me for some reason. Meh, just chalk it up to me being a weirdo.

I also have an irrational fear of my reflection coming to life and doing something other than what it's supposed to be reflecting. Combine that with a touch of actorly vanity, and I have a real love-hate relationship with mirrors.

[frumple.livejournal.com]

I read somewhere they are making another remake of The Blob. Should be out next year...

Given that it is a cheesy horror movie, I thought the 1980s Blob was interesting in that it was really about 2 main characters... The "jock" and the "rebel." Of coure the jock guy got muched about 1/4 of the way through the movie. That was nice in that it was unexpected.