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Mar. 17th, 2004 10:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wickedfleaYikes, I have to make out my bracket for the basketball pool. Anyone got any hot tips?
I got a spam this morning with the subject line of "encephalitis curd." I'm not squeamish, but that just about made me ralph.
The other day I was thinking about things I'd seen in movies that really made me uncomfortable. I can watch Dead Alive and Re-Animator with no problem, but some stuff gets to me. Like if someone gets his throat slashed? YUCK. I can't handle that. Knives bother me, I guess. Like I remember this TV movie that really got up next to me. It was called White Mama and featured Bette Davis as an elderly white lady (imagine that) who took in a troubled young street tough (i.e., black kid) to live with her. Heartwarming and all that, I suppose. Anyway, there's this one scene where she and the kid are in a grocery store and he runs into a badass he owes money to. And who do ya think the badass is but ANNE FUCKING RAMSEY. You probably know her as Momma from Throw Momma from the Train, but some of you might remember her as the mean neighbor woman who got her head splattered to pieces by a basketball heaved by Kristy Swanson in Deadly Friend. Anyway, the scene features ol' Anne getting quite annoyed with the kid, flashing her fearsome scowl, and stabbing him in the belly. For some reason that scared the shit out of me. I quickly turned the TV off and got my eight-year-old ass to bed, but it was too late--I still had nightmares about that freakish woman slicing dude up.
The other thing that jumps to mind is that Alien scene with the eel-like monster coming out of that guy's stomach. Again, I was about eight when I saw that movie for the first time, and I still can't bring myself to watch that flick again.
In case y'all didn't see Deadly Friend or just want another glimpse of Anne Ramsey's head exploding, here ya go. I should lj-cut this, but I ain't gonna. I just embarrassed the shit out of myself hunting this down, so youse guys gotta suffer too. Lauren from acquisitions has a knack for catching me with the worst images on my screen. This time she walked by and said, "So, watcha working on there?" And I had to look her right in the eye and say, "Um . . . it's . . . well . . . dammit, it's Anne Ramsey getting her head blown apart by a basketball." Last time was a couple of years ago when I was sending someone the box cover for White Trash Explosion. She must think I'm some kinda sicko or something. *mind boggles*
I got a spam this morning with the subject line of "encephalitis curd." I'm not squeamish, but that just about made me ralph.
The other day I was thinking about things I'd seen in movies that really made me uncomfortable. I can watch Dead Alive and Re-Animator with no problem, but some stuff gets to me. Like if someone gets his throat slashed? YUCK. I can't handle that. Knives bother me, I guess. Like I remember this TV movie that really got up next to me. It was called White Mama and featured Bette Davis as an elderly white lady (imagine that) who took in a troubled young street tough (i.e., black kid) to live with her. Heartwarming and all that, I suppose. Anyway, there's this one scene where she and the kid are in a grocery store and he runs into a badass he owes money to. And who do ya think the badass is but ANNE FUCKING RAMSEY. You probably know her as Momma from Throw Momma from the Train, but some of you might remember her as the mean neighbor woman who got her head splattered to pieces by a basketball heaved by Kristy Swanson in Deadly Friend. Anyway, the scene features ol' Anne getting quite annoyed with the kid, flashing her fearsome scowl, and stabbing him in the belly. For some reason that scared the shit out of me. I quickly turned the TV off and got my eight-year-old ass to bed, but it was too late--I still had nightmares about that freakish woman slicing dude up.
The other thing that jumps to mind is that Alien scene with the eel-like monster coming out of that guy's stomach. Again, I was about eight when I saw that movie for the first time, and I still can't bring myself to watch that flick again.
In case y'all didn't see Deadly Friend or just want another glimpse of Anne Ramsey's head exploding, here ya go. I should lj-cut this, but I ain't gonna. I just embarrassed the shit out of myself hunting this down, so youse guys gotta suffer too. Lauren from acquisitions has a knack for catching me with the worst images on my screen. This time she walked by and said, "So, watcha working on there?" And I had to look her right in the eye and say, "Um . . . it's . . . well . . . dammit, it's Anne Ramsey getting her head blown apart by a basketball." Last time was a couple of years ago when I was sending someone the box cover for White Trash Explosion. She must think I'm some kinda sicko or something. *mind boggles*
