Friday, October 2, 2009

Thoughts

Thought #1: All this time I've thought Night of the Hunter was going to be a terrifying movie. For years I've thought, "I should see this, but not tonight - I'm just not up to being that scared." And then it was the WIMPIEST SCARY MOVIE EVER. I mean, sure. The concept of a crazy scary preacher who thinks God is telling him to murder widows and chase small children is pretty scary, but we just never got to a climax. Every time it could have been scary it fell flat in a big way. I'll admit that they did some coolish things with the cinematography, and the cast was good, but overall it was a big meh.



Thought #2: You know who was a much scarier evil preacher? Nathan Fillion as Caleb in Buffy. SO. SCARY. I really wanted to find a video, but alas, I could find none. You'll just have to believe me in spite of this somewhat dorky picture.



Thought #3: You should go and watch the short film I posted over on the blogject. It will make your day.

Thought #4: Do you like how I'm going forward with this whole pretending "blogject" is a word now? And speaking of the blogject, I have awesome sisters-in-law. Julie totally wrote us a guest post, and Linda is going to help us with some design/coding things we don't know how to do. I will be sure to alert you when those things are live, because they will be awesome.

Thought #5: I love Conference Weekend. I'm excited to watch the broadcast at the Institute and then go to Indy during Priesthood session (since our plans for tonight fell through. Stupid weird historical society planning).

3 comments:

mkgs said...

Oh, I'm so sad that the trip fell through. Bummer.

grburbank said...

Last night I watched The Innocents with Deborah Kerr by myself. Yes it's old and B&W (right up your alley), but it's one of the scariest ghost movies I've seen (in my limited experience). And the children were super creepy! My two other favorite ghost movies are The Orphanage--also scary--and The Others which I'm sure you've seen and is not scary but chilling. And if The Shining counts as a ghost movie--and why wouldn't it?--that one's amazing too.

grburbank said...

P.S. "All Souls" by Edith Wharton is a fabulous ghost story well worth reading on Halloween. The Innocents is based on Henry James's novella The Turn of the Screw and adapted by Truman Capote (and someone else). Also, The Orphanage is in Spanish and by the same guy who made Pan's Labyrinth.