BS: Terror At Thirty Thousand Feet (horror)

Subject: BS: Terror At Thirty Thousand Feet (horror)
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 08 Oct 02 - 11:04 PM

I just saw a new commercial for some credit card company and practically jumped out of my seat! It features a bunch of white "monsters" attacking some people (I wasn't paying attention really) and I suddenly realized that they were the spitting image of the creature in the most frightening bit of horror fantasy that I was ever exposed to.

T'was (I believe) one of the original "Twilight Zone" shows, probably from the sixties, and once again I THINK it was titled "Terror at 30,000 Feet". It starred the ubiquitous William Shatner, of Mudcat fame and tedium, and was an absolute corker of a show.

Shatner is flyin' along during some bad (snowy?) weather, and decides to lift the little window shade and peer outside. Through the wind and snow he sees this furry creature ON THE WING trying to rip a piece off the plane! He freaks, and tells the Stewardess (this is back before they were called "Stewpeople") and the pilot etc. They think he's nuts, and of course the creature disappears every time someone ELSE looks out the window.

This doesn't sound that scary, does it? But HOLY COW, You had to be there! I'm NEVER scared at movies.....I laughed through 'the Excorcist', and even 'Psycho' didn't come close to this TV half hour. I've seen at least two re-runs, and they are just as frightening. I'm not kidding...A couple of times I was a tad nervous about looking out the window at night IN A REAL PLANE, ha ha!

Anyway.....anyone else seen the commercial....the original TV show...any thoughts on what you find REALLY scary?

Cheers

Rick

Subject: RE: BS: Terror At Thirty Thousand Feet (horror)
From: Genie
Date: 08 Oct 02 - 11:08 PM

The resolution that Congress is about to pass authorizing Dubya to use military force against Iraq whenever he feels it is needed.

Subject: RE: BS: Terror At Thirty Thousand Feet (horror)
From: khandu
Date: 08 Oct 02 - 11:11 PM

I loved that episode! It scared the dookey outta me back then!

I have not been frightened by movies since I was ten. Even "horror" books do not get to me...except one. Peter Straub's "Ghost Story" (the movie sucked...booooring!). I read the book and for weeks after, I was afraid to enter a darkened room. I re-read it years later, and experienced the same fear. It was a great, but hard-to-read, book. I recommend it to No one!!!

k

Subject: RE: BS: Terror At Thirty Thousand Feet (horror)
From: catspaw49
Date: 08 Oct 02 - 11:39 PM

I think they also used that episode in a movie version of "Twilight Zone." The one that got me most as a kid had Ed wynn in it and was about a house that disappeared.........Had me completely freaked out.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Terror At Thirty Thousand Feet (horror)
From: khandu
Date: 08 Oct 02 - 11:42 PM

I never saw that one, Spaw. And I thought I had seen them all!

One episode that I hated then and now is the one with Billy Mumy (I detest that kid!) who controlled everyone with fear. That bored the hockey outta me.

k

Subject: RE: BS: Terror At Thirty Thousand Feet (horror)
From: Jeri
Date: 08 Oct 02 - 11:51 PM

Khandu, I lived near the house owned by a lawyer/doctor where they filmed Ghost Story (or at least part of the movie.) My mom drove me past it one night. Hadn't seen the movie yet, though.

The Exorcist scared me but mainly because of the projectile pea-soup puking. I just never knew when to expect it after the first time. It's the suspenseful build-up and big 'boo' that gets me. Fake blood and guts isn't scary. I was also in the right mood to be scared. I remember watching Night of the Living Dead in a movie theater. My friend was getting sick and couldn't eat her popcorn, so she gave it to me. At the time, there was this hit song. I sat there singing "Yummy, yummy, yummy, I've got mom in my tummy..."

You know what I've found very scary in recent years? (Probably not.) Anybody seen (Oh jeez - I forgot the name of the movie. It stars Tim Robbins, and he keeps seeing things and is convinced somebody's out to get him and his chiropractor is, like, talking like a supernatural guide and at the end we find he really never came home from Viet Nam and he's been having an "Owl Creek" moment is hallucinating all this as he's dying in a military field hospital. Anyway, one of the things he sees is people with heads bouncing around really fast. Easy to film, but it's scary, and I don't quite know why.

The Twilight Zone episode Rick talks about was re-made for The Movie. I wasn't all that impressed. I used to watch TZ when it was new, but I don't remember seeing that particular episode. I've seen it since, though. I don't think it's particularly scary, but these days I usually try to figure out how they did the special effects or predict things. I think I saw the commercial quite a while ago...maybe.

Subject: RE: BS: Terror At Thirty Thousand Feet (horror)
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 08 Oct 02 - 11:57 PM

When they made "Twilight Zone: The Movie" back in the '80s it was a series of, I believe, four roughly thirty minute segments each done by a different director. At least two of the segments were remakes of the old television shows, and "Terror at 30,000 Feet" was one of them. John Lithgow played the passenger instead of Shat. It just wasn't as convincing, though. Maybe because the old prop-driven planes flew slow enough that you could almost believe it was possible for a gremlin to be on the wing. It's a little harder to believe anything could hang onto the wing of a 737 cruising at 700 mph. But it was kinda cool when they strapped Lithgow into the ambulance to take him off to the nut-house at the end of the segment, the attendant (Dan Akroyd) turned on the radio and it was playing "Midnight Special". Unfortunately, Credence Clearwater Revival's version, not Huddie's. See, it's a music thread after all.

Bruce

Subject: RE: BS: Terror At Thirty Thousand Feet (horror)
From: Peg
Date: 09 Oct 02 - 12:01 AM

I agree that remake with Lithgow was well done.

The Tim Robbins film is called Jacob's Ladder.

I loved the old Twilight Zone. The scariest one to me was called either Night Caller or Night Call.

I also loved The Night Stalker, especially that one where the mannequins come to life...

Subject: RE: BS: Terror At Thirty Thousand Feet (horror)
From: The Pooka
Date: 09 Oct 02 - 12:09 AM

I saw it Back Then; & again a few months ago (the TZ episode). It was, I think, based on -- or took off (you should pardon the expression) from -- the notion of airplane "gremlins" (WWII). Probably scared me when I first saw it. Watching the recent re-run, *influenced by the Shatner threads here*, I couldn't stop laughing! Such ACTING, oy! (And the actress playing his wife, too. Astonishing.) What I liked the best was that at the end, having *shot* the gremlin (!), Cap'n Kirk falls out of the plane --- and LIVES!

OK, confession: "Pet Sematary", the book, frightened me. (Stephen King said it's one of his few that have frightened *him*. Said while writing it, it "scared the shit out of me".) When I'm out fishing & hear odd noises in the woods, I still think it's the fookin' Wendigo...

Um but also, I did *not* laugh at The Exorcist. / Wot can I tell ya: "I'm Cattlik, Fadduh. I'm Cattlik." ( -The Divil, in the guise of a street person, to Father Damien Karras in his dream.) / Well now looky here, I identified with the book & film, see; because I went to Georgetown U. in the '60s. As had author Bill Blatty, earlier. I've been down those long stone steps, many times. On foot, you undertsand, not airborne. / In those days the Dixie Liquor Store was at the bottom of 'em, on M Street. Coincidentally, you understand.

--Pazuzu

Subject: RE: BS: Terror At Thirty Thousand Feet (horror)
From: katlaughing
Date: 09 Oct 02 - 12:12 AM

I loved Night Stalker, too!

Wasn't the one you're talking about Rick, a gargoyle (seriously!) or something because the guy had taken apart an old castle and was bringing it cross the pond and it was haunted or taboo to move it or something? I know I've seen the one you are talking about and, yes, it scared the bejeepers outta me!

Khandu, ditto on Ghost Story! And, the movie didn't even come close.

Almost anything by Hammer Films and anything with Vincent Price, the first viewing, always scared me.

Subject: RE: BS: Terror At Thirty Thousand Feet (horror)
From: GUEST,Taliesn
Date: 09 Oct 02 - 12:16 AM

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" I just saw a new commercial for some credit card company and practically jumped out of my seat! It features a bunch of white "monsters" attacking some people ......."

Yeah it's for Bank One which has been running this theme of having some horde of nasties acting as the bane's of other credit card services; the best of which was perhaps the first one which showed a medieval Northenr Euro-horde, reminiscient of "Braveheart", surrounding a presumably doomed victim until he reveal's his Bank One card and every last one of this maruanding horde just heaves a chorus of disappointed moans and groans for being cheated of their conquest with the recurrent punchline of a loan barbarian looking directly at you demanding "And what's in your wallet". It's a screamer right out of Monty Python.

But this new one , with the marauding flock of Yeti , has one delivering that last punchline in a particularly jarring manor as it dog-sleds for a close-up. Reminded me more of Himalayan Moorlocks from that early 1960's version of H.G.Wells "The Time Machine".

I guess Madison Ave. is geting closer to the Halloween marketing season. I mean it must be Halloween because the stores are beginning to display the Christmas decorations.

Subject: RE: BS: Terror At Thirty Thousand Feet (horror)
From: The Pooka
Date: 09 Oct 02 - 12:19 AM

Ah, the Night Stalker! Yes!! Super!! / Yknow, The X-Files "stand-alone episodes", the ones disconnected from the Alien-Human Conspiracy, consciously drew upon it. Every week, without fail, Darin McGavin (sp?) as Carl Kolschak (sp??) encountered impossible inconceivable inexplicable monsters of one sort or another; and, bumblingly, defeated them! While Chicago placidly went about its business! or immediately recovered from the Horror, anyway. Until next week. / Exactly like Mulder & Scully in the stand-alone episodes. / Now I grant you, Kolschak was no Scully, Senator. No comparison. Eyes, hair...ahem but I digress. (Hmph? Nyaah to hell with Mulder, the nerd.) But Darin McGavin did appear in a couple X-Files episodes, as a retired FBI paranormal-investigator. It was an acknowledgment & tribute. / Geez aren'y you glad you asked? :)

Subject: RE: BS: Terror At Thirty Thousand Feet (horror)
From: Jeri
Date: 09 Oct 02 - 12:21 AM

Thanks Peg, that was it!

Kat, I don't remember any reason why the thing was out there or why it was taking the plane apart. (Might have been in the show, but I don't remember.)

Subject: RE: BS: Terror At Thirty Thousand Feet (horror)
From: Nerd
Date: 09 Oct 02 - 12:25 AM

I hate to admit I knew this off the top of my head, but the episode was called "Nightmare at 30,000 feet," and indeed Shatner was good. He was also good in "Nick of Time," where he plays a man who lets himself be controlled by a devil-headed fortune-telling machine.

No, Kat, it was a gremlin, not a Gargoyle. Gremlins traditionally meddle with plane engines.

Night Stalker was great, and a big influence on the X Files. As a nod to NS, the X Files featured Darren McGavin as Mulder's predecessor at the FBI: the one who named the X-Files "the X-Files." It was pretty cool!

Subject: RE: BS: Terror At Thirty Thousand Feet (horror)
From: Chip2447
Date: 09 Oct 02 - 12:30 AM

UMMMMM, do I get laffed at if I say that the evil queen in Disneys "Sleeping Beauty" caused me enormous grief as a child. Her and the Flying monkeys from "The Wizard of OZ" scared the BEJEEZUS OUTTA me. Even after all of these years I still get the hhebie jeebies during that scene in WIZARD...

Chip2447(locking the windows, and making sure his flying monkey hunting permit is up to date)

Subject: RE: BS: Terror At Thirty Thousand Feet (horror)
From: Nerd
Date: 09 Oct 02 - 12:32 AM

Wow! While I was typing my post, Pooka typed one in which not only was some of the same information presented, but there's even a mention of "nerd." Mere coincidence? Or something


SPOOKY???

Subject: RE: BS: Terror At Thirty Thousand Feet (horror)
From: Marion
Date: 09 Oct 02 - 01:41 AM

Rick, the Simpsons did a parody of that episode on one of their Halloween specials.

"But Sir, there's a monster on the side of the bus!"

"Bart, the only monster on this bus is the monster called Lack of Respect for the Rules."

What I found surprisingly scary was reading the original Dracula novel.

Marion

Subject: RE: BS: Terror At Thirty Thousand Feet (horror)
From: katlaughing
Date: 09 Oct 02 - 02:43 AM

Me, too, Marion. I had a cross hanging on my bedstead every night as I read it! It was summertime and I had all of my windows open to a gentle breeze one night. The kids were asleep, my husband working out of town and I heard something skitter across the roof of our mobile home. I was terrified, sure that Dracula had somehow come to life and found me! Finally working up the courage to get out of bed and take a look, with my dog by my side, I found my black cat waltzing around up there trying to find a way down! I almost throttled him!

Subject: RE: BS: Terror At Thirty Thousand Feet (horror)
From: catspaw49
Date: 09 Oct 02 - 08:46 AM

THAT'S IT!! Marion ...THANK YOU!! I had completely forgotten about the Simpsons episode and it was HILARIOUS!!!!

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Terror At Thirty Thousand Feet (horror)
From: Amos
Date: 09 Oct 02 - 09:41 AM

Well, I recently went to see Red Dragon, towed along by friends, and the whole Hannibal Lecter shtick scares the shit out of me -- not the plot, not the gore, not the cold psychotic looks -- the audience!


A

Subject: RE: BS: Terror At Thirty Thousand Feet (horror)
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 09 Oct 02 - 10:37 AM

IT WAS A PROP PLANE! Of course....that's why it was more believable! Thanks Bee Dubya, I think you're right. Oh, man just thinkin' about that gives me the creeps.......never saw the Lithgow one. Thanks Marion for that Simpsons bit. I remember it.

Wish they'd show it again (the Shatner vs. Gremlin thing). Funny, but we LOVE to scare ourselves, don't we?

Rick

Subject: RE: BS: Terror At Thirty Thousand Feet (horror)
From: Little Hawk
Date: 09 Oct 02 - 11:25 AM

Yeah, that show was a good one...very creepy. One of the Shat-man's finest moments. I also found the remake with Lithgow less effective. Too much hi-tech is not necessarily a good thing when doing horror films.

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Terror At Thirty Thousand Feet (horror)
From: GUEST,Taliesn
Date: 09 Oct 02 - 11:54 AM


Ahhh, you want genuine creeps. read H.P.Lovecraft and discover where a lot of the truly dark visions of Swiss artist H.R.Giger were inspired by...with a hefty does of uniquely Euroccult twist.

BTW: You *really* want the creeps. H.R.Giger, whose coinage and visualization of *biomechannics* in the 1970's single-handedly altered the "look" of science fiction cinema for generations to come .has a private gallery/museum in Chur,Switzerland of all of his important works
including a shrine to his famous "Alien".
There is also a private Giger Room gallery of a sort in Manhattan
at the Limelight.

However the *Real Horrowshow* is not so much the works themselves "by themselves" but the creepshow of *afficianadoes* and sophistos de Macabre that ador his work.

That's a creepshow i make no bones about that i just assume steer clear of.

Subject: RE: BS: Terror At Thirty Thousand Feet (horror)
From: Little Hawk
Date: 09 Oct 02 - 12:07 PM

As far as I'm concerned H.P.Lovecraft was one of the great unsung humourists of all time. Absolutely side-splitting stuff! What a talent!

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Terror At Thirty Thousand Feet (horror)
From: GUEST,wuss
Date: 09 Oct 02 - 01:03 PM

I was afraid of the Michelin man when I was a kid. I, um, still kinda worry about him. Not all that much. Just a little.

Subject: RE: BS: Terror At Thirty Thousand Feet (horror)
From: GUEST,Taliesn
Date: 09 Oct 02 - 01:07 PM

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"I was afraid of the Michelin man when I was a kid. I, um, still kinda worry about him. Not all that much. Just a little. "

Well you must;ve just freaked when you first saw the attack of the 60 ft "StayPuff" Marshmallow Man in "Ghostbusters".


favorite line:
" The next time some being from another dimension asks you if you're a god you say ....YES!!!"

Subject: RE: BS: Terror At Thirty Thousand Feet (horror)
From: Kim C
Date: 09 Oct 02 - 01:38 PM

I loved the old Twilight Zone. Are any of them on video now? I remember the one where (oh crap! what was her name? she played Endora on Bewitched)... anyway, she's in a tussle with these tiny creatures that turn out to be US astronauts. And Talky Tina. And the Empty Town. Twilight Zone is fun to watch because you see a lot of young actors before they got famous.

I liked the creepiness of Twin Peaks. Didn't miss a single episode.

I am a huge Stephen King fan. I have read 25 of his books, although not any recently. I really like his short story collections - not all of them are scary. He's just a good writer. Salem's Lot is probably my favorite vampire story, and the TV miniseries was awesome, even if it did star David Soul. Scared the daylights out of me.

We rented The Others a couple weeks ago. I absolutely loved it. It's a really good old-fashioned ghost story with a pretty incredible twist. It even made Mister jump, and he's pretty unjumpable.

We also rented the Bela Lugosi Dracula one night, and laughed our asses off.

Subject: RE: BS: Terror At Thirty Thousand Feet (horror)
From: NightWing
Date: 09 Oct 02 - 02:06 PM

I have a rather overly active imagination and horror movies and stories generally get to me.

My family lived on a property that had a small farm pond; all the kids in the neighborhood swam in the pond until the development built a pool a few years later. The year that Jaws came out I had spent the whole summer swimming in that tiny pond (at its deepest point about 5 or 6 feet deep). A few days after having seen Jaws I went swimming and kept imagining the Great White coming up from under me. *shiver* Still gives me the chills a little.

As for Stephen King, I simply can't read his stuff. "The Stand" is the only novel of his I've ever been able to finish and that's because it's not so much "horror" as "suspense". The Walking Man doesn't scare me at all. I think I've started reading three or four of his other novels and been unable to finish them for continuing nightmares.

But his shorts are the worst. Anybody read the short story collection of his titled "Night Shift"? The title story lifts prickles on my scalp. And for some reason the dry-cleaning machine that gets demon-possessed -- as utterly unbelievable as that sounds -- scares the living daylights outta me.

Finally, a movie that gave me recurring nightmares. Though I've seen the movie exactly once, and that probably twenty years ago, I still have this nightmare occasionally. The scene from "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" where the guy gets hung up on a meat hook ... still alive.

BB,

NightWing

P.S. It's the middle of the day and I'm getting chills just thinking of these to write them down. *brrr*

Subject: RE: BS: Terror At Thirty Thousand Feet (horror)
From: Nerd
Date: 09 Oct 02 - 02:20 PM

The Twilight Zone is available on DVD; each disc has about three episodes. If there's a good rental place nearby, you could be watching Shatner tonight!

Stephen King did a short story where a guy goes to meet his wife and her "therapist" (a shill for her lawyer) in preparation for divorce, and the Maitre D at the cafe where they meet goes haywire and kills the therapist with butcher knives and stuff. He keeps saying "eeeeeeee!" For weeks after I read it, I kept hearing that "eeeeeeee! eeeeeee!   eeeeee!"

Subject: RE: BS: Terror At Thirty Thousand Feet (horror)
From: Kim C
Date: 09 Oct 02 - 03:43 PM

Twilight Zone on DVD!!! Yeeeehaw!!!!

Night Shift is the BEST collection of Stephen King short stories! I want to say that's where Salem's Lot came from, but it's been so many years since I read it, I don't really remember.

I don't remember the one about the maitre'd. I remember one from a later book about the possessed toy monkey - you know, the creepy little things that play the cymbals?

And all this from someone who, well into her teens, made a flying leap from the bedroom door to the bed, so the monsters couldn't reach out and grab her ankles. (No kidding.)

Subject: RE: BS: Terror At Thirty Thousand Feet (horror)
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 09 Oct 02 - 04:13 PM

Yeah....what about videos! Can you get that show at some specialty movie store do ya think?

Rick

Subject: RE: BS: Terror At Thirty Thousand Feet (horror)
From: Coyote Breath
Date: 10 Oct 02 - 01:54 AM

Oh yeah! Twin Peaks was fantastic! I liked the movie Fire Walk with Me too! That scene at the intersection when the psychological tensions between father and daughter explodes! Scared me!

I had taped Twin Peaks to steal some footage for a company Christmas party video(really!) and was using "professional" editing decks. I was rewinding slowly through the opening scenes and was stunned to find that the theme (which is laid down behind the opening shots of the falls and the wind blowing trees) plays exactly the same forward OR backward!

The ORIGINAL film of The Haunting was and still is scary. Everything is understated and NO horror film of THAT nature should be in anything but black and white. Night of the Living Dead is a terrific example. Color doesn't work. The 1922 version of Nosferatu is very good. Carl Theodore Dryer's "Vampyre" is a scary, fevered, drug driven nightmare.

But my all time favorite is "The Zaragosa Manuscript". Jerry Garcia and Francis Ford Coppola secured the rights to the film back about four or five years before Garcia's death. They restored the director's cut and rumours were it was going to be re-released but so far it has only been shown in one or two places and I believe it now resides at the Pacifi Film Archive in Berkeley, California.

CB

Subject: RE: BS: Terror At Thirty Thousand Feet (horror)
From: Peter T.
Date: 10 Oct 02 - 11:19 AM

I remember all the Twilight Zone episodes. The Twilight Zone episode, or was it The Outer Limits, that scared the hell out of me was the one about the two people caught in the Sargasso Sea, and they are so long becalmed that they start getting mold on their bodies, and eventually are turned into big blobs. The best thing about it was that you never got to see them -- it was all reported by the captain of another ship who met them at sea (they stayed just out of sight since they now looked so horrible). I couldn't sleep for weeks -- I think it was an adaptation of an earlier short story. Brrrr.




The Sixth Sense was easily the recent movie that frightened me the most, for some reason it really got to me, even the cheesy makeup on the dead people and the rest. I got caught by every single dopey trap in it.

yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: BS: Terror At Thirty Thousand Feet (horror)
From: GUEST,Fibula Mattock (cookieless in Orlando)
Date: 10 Oct 02 - 01:53 PM

Jeri - I agree about Jacob's Ladder - that film haunted me for years.

For me, one of the scariest movie moments ever was in The Shining - the bit where the little girls appear without warning in the looooong, deserted hotel corridor. It's the whole build up as well - the brilliantly directed sounds - tricycle over wood, then silence when it crosses the carpet, then wheels on wood, then silence again - arrrgh! I watched it one night on my own and went upstairs half way through and made my boyfriend get out of bed and watch it with me.

Peter T - that Sargasso Sea scenario reminds me of a tale that freaked me out as a child. Someone told me a story about someone who got a barnacle on their foot at the beach, and it started spreading, and barnacles were quickly growing up their leg, and then as the person tried to run for help the weight of the barnacles weighed them down, and they fell, and still the barnacles spread, and lastly they opened their mouth to scream and the barnacles got inside them... ugh.

Subject: RE: BS: Terror At Thirty Thousand Feet (horror)
From: Wesley S
Date: 10 Oct 02 - 02:02 PM

Rick - The first time I saw the episode you mentioned was in the early 70's. My girlfriend and I were sitting on her couch scared to death. When Shatner opened up the window to see the gremlin face pressed up against it her idiot brother came knocking at the front door { it was about midnight } and we just about lost it. It took about half an hour for my heart rate to return to normal.

Subject: RE: BS: Terror At Thirty Thousand Feet (horror)
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 10 Oct 02 - 02:26 PM

Mmmm... I LOVE a good scary movie...

The problem is, oh so very very few of them are scary (Totally a subjective thing)

For instance, I much preferred John Lithgow to Shatners portrayal of Terror at 30,00 Feet...

I have dug The Exorcist ever since I snuck out of bed to watch it on t.v. when I was a kid... (The line, "Your mother darns socks in Hell" still cracks me up to no end!) The book is a hell of a good read as well... I even enjoyed the majority of Part 3... (One of the LAST times I ever actually JUMPED in fear at a movie)

Stephen King bores me to tears... Ya wanna read good horror, read Clive Barker! That man is one sick f&ck! (Also one of the nicest guys you'd ever wanna meet!)

The 6th Sense unfortunately overshadowed a much better film out around the same time... "Stir Of Echoes" is a pretty damn good ghost story/murder mystery... And well, for the most part I'm a Kevin Bacon fan... It probably helps that I figured out the 'twist' in 6th Sense about 25 minutes into the film... That and I find M. Night to be one of the most BORING directors ever... His pacing is like a snail on morphine...

Anybody remember "Se7en"? O.k... forget that Brad Pitt was in it.. it also had Morgan Feeman and Keven Spacey... there was a movie that creeped me out... mostly because someone had to THINK of all that stuff to write it down! Made the Gemini Killer look like a tea-party...

I also really dug moments of "Prince OF Darkness"... Old John Carpenter, but that dream sequence still chills me a bit...

They just don't make 'em like they used to eh...

;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Terror At Thirty Thousand Feet (horror)
From: Kim C
Date: 10 Oct 02 - 02:37 PM

I've read some Clive Barker. He's a little more into the sci-fi side than I really prefer, but I loved The Human Condition. heeheehee It was creepy, but it was humorous too, in a very bizarre sort of way. The mental images it conjures up are just astounding. You'll never look at Thing on the Addams Family quite the same way again.

I saw part of Seven when it was on TV. I'd like to see the whole thing. I hate Brad Pitt but I thought it was a pretty well-done movie. I love Kevin Spacey and I don't like seeing him play the bad guy, but he was so good at it. And when Brad gets the box... well, you know what's in the box ohmagawd could it be no WAY ohmagawdIknowexactlywhat'sintheBOX!!!!!

I had forgot to say earlier, when I was a kid, I watched Salem's Lot on TV at my dad's house. When my stepsister and I were in the bathroom getting ready for bed, my dad came up and scratched on the door. (That's how the vampires got you to let them in, see.) Scared us to death. Of course he pled ignorance...

Subject: RE: BS: Terror At Thirty Thousand Feet (horror)
From: Nerd
Date: 10 Oct 02 - 04:01 PM

Rick, I got several T-Zone DVDs from dvdplanet.com . I know that VHS tapes were available of some episodes, because several video stores in Philadelphia rent them. But I don't know if all the episodes were made available.

Subject: RE: BS: Terror At Thirty Thousand Feet (horror)
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 10 Oct 02 - 04:06 PM

"I love Kevin Spacey and I don't like seeing him play the bad guy"

Isn't that mostly what he does though?

,-)

Subject: RE: BS: Terror At Thirty Thousand Feet (horror)
From: GUEST,Fibula Mattock (cookieless in Orlando)
Date: 11 Oct 02 - 10:47 AM

Now, what's REALLY scary is that Clinton has the same taste in fear as I do.
Yeah, Clinton, Clive Barker is an amazing writer. I love his stuff. I especially like the fact that it's not just horror, it's also fantasy, with real life mixed in. It's the right combination of fanciful and realistic, and despite incredibly ludicrous plotlines, it all seems rather plausible when you're immersed in the book.

I heartily agree with Stir of Echoes being better than Sitxth Sense (I inadvertently spoiled the latter by leaning over to the person I was with and saying "d'you think he's dead?" within the first 15 minutes). As for Prince of Darkness - how could I have forgotten that one! I couldn't even watch it in one go the first time I saw it; it was so damn creepy.

Subject: RE: BS: Terror At Thirty Thousand Feet (horror)
From: GUEST,The House of Windsor
Date: 11 Oct 02 - 09:05 PM

"Now, what's REALLY scary is that Clinton has the same taste in fear as I do."

I know exactly what you mean Fibula. But John Lithgow having a nervous breakdown, or William Shatner? It HAS to be Shatner!

Subject: RE: BS: Terror At Thirty Thousand Feet (horror)
From: Jeri
Date: 11 Oct 02 - 09:28 PM

Dear GUEST, House - John Lithgow wasn't bad, but he doesn't overact as well as Shatner. Maybe to do a convincing breakdown, you HAVE to overact!

Subject: RE: BS: Terror At Thirty Thousand Feet (horror)
From: Celtic Soul
Date: 11 Oct 02 - 09:39 PM

I saw the episode, and the remake of it in "Twilight Zone, The Movie". The remake starred John Lithgow, and he did a wondrous job of being the fly-a-phobe that William initially created.

That being the reason that no one takes him seriously...he's afraid to fly, and they think him having a nervous break down.

In the remake, there is one part that was really cool to still frame and single frame advance. John Lithgow was *really* losing it, and they used some special effects to have his eyes pop put...literally. Obviously, a prosthetic thing. The kicker is, though, when it's at full speed, it's a subliminal thing. You just get this weird prickle on the back of your neck, and you *know* this man is terrified. It's a very effective effect.

Subject: RE: BS: Terror At Thirty Thousand Feet (horror)
From: DonMeixner
Date: 11 Oct 02 - 09:39 PM

I thought this was to be a thread about commercial air transport. Terror at any feet is how I am from the second I hit the concourse to the second I hit the landing apron.

Don

Subject: RE: BS: Terror At Thirty Thousand Feet (horror)
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 11 Oct 02 - 09:40 PM

Peter T. mentioned "The Outer Limits" above. That program scared the shit out of me. I guess it's just the fact that it originally came out when I was at exactly the right age (eleven or so) to be allowed to watch the scary stuff, but not yet old enough to be a jaded little smart-ass teenager. The episode about the guy who, I guess, used a time machine to see what people would evolve into in the future and grew a big ole bubbly head and extra fingers caused nightmares for weeks. I don't really remember seeing any episodes of "The Twilight Zone" until it hit syndication. By then I was too cool to be scared by 'em.

Subject: RE: BS: Terror At Thirty Thousand Feet (horror)
From: The Pooka
Date: 11 Oct 02 - 10:13 PM

Nerd - 2 days late & manymore dollars short here, but: there ARE no coincidences. mmmWAAA-hah-haaaa.... :) /
- Spooka

ps H.P. Lovecraft! Yes!!
pps I had a recurring adolescent summer nightmare about the damn Giant Squid after seeing Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (yah we in luck here, down in the muck here...nowait, that's a different one). It's true. This huge tentacle would uncoil & rise up from behind the mountain across the lake from our rented summer cottage. Night after night. Terrible. / Hmmph? Oh, about 11 or 12 years old. / Hah?? Shaddup. :)