Random Thought Thread

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MarbReds said:
My second car I ever owned was a 1997 Mercury Sable. It turned out to be one of the best, most reliable cars I have ever owned. The exhaust finally rusted completely off and I sold it for $500 to a young gal who never registered it, and then enrolled in my Alma Mater and collected so many campus parking tickets they put a hold on MY transcripts until I brought public safety a copy of the bill of sale.
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My kind of woman! Or, probably not.

When I was accepted to college, they made me pay off the campus parking tickets I had accumulated while still in high school.
 
Moorik said:
I love horror movies, and honestly I have a huge list of them.

But loving this genre is kind of a problem.

Because most of the time, you end up digging through a lot of crap, haha.

There are tons of movies that are sort of “horror-adjacent.”

But often, what I define as a horror movie is something pretty cliche and stereotypical.

Like, in general, realistic or documentary-style films can scare you much more, or make you actually think about something.

I’m talking specifically about horror movies as something stereotypical.


South Korean or Japanese horror films, like A Tale of Two Sisters (2003) or The Wailing (2016), are something that is genuinely really scary and unusual in the horror genre.

A lot of horror movies, even though they’re good, have a problem — they tend to feel very similar to each other.
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When I was younger, horror movies scared me and gave me nightmares.

Then my brother (2 years older) told me what one of his buddies did when he had the same issue.; he watched as many horror movies as he could, and not only became numb to them, he started seeing the similarities in many of them, and getting used to many of the gimmicks and jump scare timing etc.

So one summer, I did just that. Watched as many horror movies as I could. Yep. It works. Yep, it numbs you to them. Yep, you get to the point where even with a movie you’ve never seen before, you’re expecting “jump scare…. HERE”.
 
Don't watch a lot of horror movies, from what people have posted, The Shining and Wicker Man are good.

Growing up had four tv stations, two of which were PBS (antenna on the roof). Vincent Price Mystery Theatre (or whatever it was called on Friday or Saturday nights), gave some legit nightmares to a little me.
 
Moorik said:
In no order

  • The Story of Two Sisters (2003)
  • Bone Tomahawk (2015)
  • Grave Encounters (2011)
  • The Descent (2005)
  • The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007) (it might seem like a trashy film)

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Ill have to check those out.

The descent is pretty scary not gonna lie. I have terrible claustrophobia. The ending hurts.
 
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