The Syndicate

thellama73 wrote:Ahhh, you are making me feel like such a n00b. I haven't seen any of the movies you list (but I know lots more music than you!) True! But you've always been the music person and I've always been the cinema person. Did I tell you that Berklee has a class or two on Coursera?

I don't know, I am just fascinated by the angel/demon mythology in Christianity. Religious horror is my favorite because you're dealing with the very essence of evil itself, not just some guy with a knife. I really wish they would make a movie about the War in Heaven. We have the technology now to make it look awesome.

thellama73 wrote:I love that you mention obscure movies like Darkness Falls on that blog. You need to add genre tags to your posts so I can just click "horror" and see all your horror movie reviews.

I forgot to mention another favorite of mine, Fallen, in which Denzel Washington goes up against the demon Azazel with a little help from John Goodman.

thellama73 wrote:

Mongoose wrote:Ooooh what kind of horror films are you onto lately? Did you see Insidious? Did I already ask you that? I really super duper liked it although I realize it's quite polarizing. A Tale of Two Sisters is ridonk creepy. I like the cinema verite subgenre, but it's very very hit or miss. I think [REC] is the best one (not counting older ones like Blair Witch) and I think the first Paranormal Activity is pretty scary. Not cinema verite/found footage, but the first Saw was great. I saw that in the theatre and remember thinking I was so smart for figuring everything out, and then the guy on the floor MOVED and I was OMGWTFBBQBYOB wow.

I liked but didn't love Sinister. One of my favorites is Aja's The Others. I don't know if I've ever told you this anecdote, but when I was at UF, I was in seeing The Others in the theatre. At a pivotal scene (the wardrobe), a frat bro runs out the emergency exit. It was very scary so hardly anyone laughed.

I find movies that play upon lack of light very scary because I am very slightly afraid of the dark. Darkness could have been so much better. Evil Dead 1+2 scared me when I was little. Why does anyone ever read things in Latin?

One of my pieces sent to Vompers for Nervous Horse was on the New Rules of Horror, so I hope you will all enjoy it.

I haven't seen any of the newer ones you mention, but the Others was really good. I tend to like psychological thriller variety horror, but I am also drawn to anything involving the Devil. The Oman is one of my all time favs. I watched the Exorcist when I was a teenager and thought it was totally boring and overrated, but I saw it again recently and loved it.

I have kind of been going through all the ones that are on Netflix instant play, since that is the only access to movies I really have these days. This resulted in my watching all four Scream movies, which was fun. Then I saw The Good Son with Elijah Wood and Macauley Culkin and really liked that. Most recently I saw The LIttle Girl Who Lives Down The Lane with a very young Jodie Foster. Not strictly horror, but it scared me. Recommendations are always welcome.

I get what you are saying about darkness. I have extremely terrible night vision, so I basically turn blind in the dark, even when everyone around me can see. I hate going to haunted houses because they always involve me bumping into things. It tends to be more frustrating than scary though.

I never saw Saw because I tend to dislike gorefest horror in favor of more subtle psychological stuff. Blair Witch was absolutely terrifying when it first came out, but I feel like now that the gimmick has been done I wouldn't really enjoy it again.

Linki: Haven't seen the Japanese version but the American Ring is really scary. Plus I love Naomi Watts, so that makes it fun to watch.

A Person wrote:As far as horror goes I am somewhat picky. Watching Three Extremes a while back made me really want to check out more asian horror films, but I'm not sure where to start.

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Mongoose wrote:Yay, now I know a lot more about you! Are there like 3 more things about yourself that you think I/everyone should know?

I've been trying to think of things I think people should know about me and can't think of anything

Here are some things:
1. Despite not being able to take classes currently, I'm studying computer programming in college.
2. I have over sixty thousand posts on ProgArchives.
3. I watch too much anime.

thellama73 wrote:Got my new passport today! Now I am ready to go to Finland and visit Vomps and sit on his chair.

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Vompatti wrote:Oh . . . well, I don't wear a cloak. That's a good start, right?

I have an amazing cloak that it is currently too hot to wear

I seriously doubt you look like Pyramid Head in your cloak. Where does one procure a cloak these days?

So glad you asked!

One of my very favorite online haberdasheries: http://www.gentlemansemporium.com/gentlemans.php

thellama73 wrote:

Vompatti wrote:Oh . . . well, I don't wear a cloak. That's a good start, right?

I have an amazing cloak that it is currently too hot to wear

A Person wrote:^I wanted to choose the whole canine family for the animal question but it seemed like cheating.

Mongoose wrote:Yay, now I know a lot more about you! Are there like 3 more things about yourself that you think I/everyone should know?

I'll probably have to answer that tomorrow because I'm far too tired to think of that tonight. (me being tired isn't one of those 3 things.

thellama73 wrote:

Mongoose wrote: What is:

* Your Favorite Color?
Red.
* Your Favorite Animal?
The Fox. I bet you were expecting a llama, weren't you?
* Your Favorite Food?
That monstrosity of unhealthiness, the Monte Cristo Sandwich, all but extinct in our modern nutrition-centric world.
* Your Opinion on Pizza?
Awesome, but especially with anchovies, which are objectively the best topping.
* Your Favorite Book?
Anything by Victor Hugo. If I had to pick one, probably the Hunchback of Notre Dame, but they are all amazing.

A Person wrote:

Mongoose wrote: What is:

* Your Favorite Color?

* Your Favorite Animal?

* Your Favorite Food?

* Your Opinion on Pizza?

* Your Favorite Book?

If i had to pick a single color it would be black

I guess my favorite animals are dogs

To answer two questions at once, pizza may be my favorite food, I'm sure there are others I like more, but I could probably eat pizza once a day and never get tired of it.

Favorite book is hard, I've not read nearly enough to have a favorite. I like different books for different reasons, and I can't decide which reasons are better than other ones. Years ago it probably would've been LotR.

A Person wrote: I'd start carrying something that I could use as a weapon.

Mongoose wrote:Awww. Some of the shyest people are the most interesting. I think it's quite the folly for people to overlook getting to know wallflowers; they are quite intriguing!

ture, but some of us have practiced a lot to avoid attention and deflect all interest so that people leave us alone, i probably do that too much for people to find out much about me.

A Person wrote:i don't get silly

nutella wrote:I got the second drunkest ive'v ever been the most was two weks ago

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bea wrote:I'm voting "goosey is a ghost" It's the most interesting of the options tbh.

plus I refuse to believe any of you are not figments of my imagination till I can see you in person. Even then I will likely have my doubts.

I'm a scary, scary ghost! Haunting you when you're sleeping! Standing by your bed and vaguely rocking back and forth for hours and hours while you sleep! Crawling under your bed and tap tap tapping on the bed undercarriage while you wonder what pale spectre child is underneath there looking for his lost mam!

That's a shame, because I kinda pictured you as the pleasant sort of ghost who would offer me a nice cup of tea and a good vegetarian dinner. Kinda like a female version of the Ghost from "The Ghost and Mrs. Muier."

bea wrote:I'm voting "goosey is a ghost" It's the most interesting of the options tbh.

plus I refuse to believe any of you are not figments of my imagination till I can see you in person. Even then I will likely have my doubts.

thellama73 wrote:The Washington Monument has been in renovations since the earthquake and you can't really get near it, so that sucks. The Jefferson Memorial is very well done. It's right on the river and surrounded by cherry trees, so it is very pretty.

thellama73 wrote:That is crazy weird. I wonder if he was intentionally trying to ditch his daughter, knowing that you would then have to care for her as your own (that's a law in Florida, right?)

Probably! Also, I'm glad you did not become roadkill! No one likes a flattened llama.

What did you think of the monuments?

thellama73 wrote:This thread is awesome, but most people don't have nearly as many strange things happen to them in the course of the day as Mongoose does.

I love that Vomps listens to Merzbow. I thought I was the only one!

I also like black coffee, and lots of it.

I ran into some Mormons the other day when I was on the way to the park to practice juggling and they gave me a free book of Mormon! I plan on reading it, but haven't yet. I think they were surprised when I told them I had read the entire Bible from cover to cover. I bet they rarely see that.

Vompatti wrote:Two Jehovah's witnesses rang the doorbell today and I'm sure they could hear I was at home because I was listening to Merzbow at a relatively high volume and I turned it down when they rang the doorbell because they rang it several times and when I looked through the little window on the door I could clearly see they were Jehovah's witnesses because they were female and one of them was holding some papers in her hands and for a brief moment I considered letting them in but then I realized it wouldn't have been appropriate because there were two of them and I only had one chair so it would have been impossible to ask them to sit down so I've been slightly sad all day thinking about how disappointed they must have been because I didn't let them in.