Comments | calanor: Well it's true..

calanor

Well it's true..

Jul 20, 2007 03:17

The old version of Salem's Lot scared the piss out of me as a kid...

watching the new one... equally.. OR MORE.. has done the same thing..

Glad there is no windows in the bathroom.. or I would have been fucked..

And this one is more intense than the one from the early 80's...

I'll stick to my version of vampires.. Sexy.. suave.. and Slashy

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beren_writes July 20 2007, 08:39:51 UTC

I love Salem's Lot, and yeah - scared me too (both versions). I prefered Rob Lowe to David Soul :).

I remember the first time I saw the original - we were staying with my Uncle and Soph and I were sleeping on the floor in a room with huge windows and curtains that wouldn't draw properly; we were scared shitless :).

calanor July 20 2007, 08:53:18 UTC

Rob Lowe is DEFINITELY better..

When I watched it as a kid.. I had to sit in the kitchen.. cause I couldn't get near the TV.

Sitting here yelling at the TV.. you know.. get the fuck OUT OF TOWN!!! Are you people crazy!!!!

yes.. I will be sleeping with the light on..

I'm such a chicken!!!

beren_writes July 20 2007, 09:13:10 UTC

I did like the way they humanised some of the vamps in the new version - the old version was very much - all evil, no humaity left at all, but there was very much humainty left in the modern ones (some of it all the bad stuff, but it made them more real to me).

calanor July 20 2007, 10:15:58 UTC

I think that's what made this one so much more intense.. and scarier..

they were more real..

dixiebell12 July 20 2007, 08:48:34 UTC

What got me was "IT". I still don't like clowns. I wish they would remake that. I just love Stephen King and he's a HP fan as well.

Dixiebell

calanor July 20 2007, 08:55:05 UTC

the book was better.. Rose Red.. now that one.. right up there with Salem's Lot..

beren_writes July 20 2007, 09:11:25 UTC

Oh Rose Red - such a fantastic mini series. Not so taken with the Diary of Ellen Rimbauer though.

calanor July 20 2007, 09:49:08 UTC

and this is of course is the opposite.. where the movie is better...

Maxium Overdrive was corny.. but good..:D

dixiebell12 July 20 2007, 09:59:30 UTC

Have you seen 1408 based off one of his short stories. It was good.

You right the book "It" was so much better. Look at HP, all books are better

Dixiebell

calanor July 20 2007, 10:15:12 UTC

no never seen 1408 .. whats it about???

dixiebell12 July 20 2007, 10:41:28 UTC

Go to apple.com and watch the trailer. It's about a ghost hunter and he goes to this hotel that over 50 people have died in. All hell breaks loose.

I enjoyed it
Dixiebell

bonfoi July 26 2007, 11:03:36 UTC

Just stopped by as I'm avoiding "HP and the DH" spoilers and whatnot. It's fun to check out friends' journals and see that they too get creeped-out by some things.

Just the other day, I was wondering if I had it in me to rent "Ghost Story", that scary movie from the Eighties. I just don't know.

calanor July 26 2007, 20:37:17 UTC

Ghost Story.. damn I can't remember that one..

but remember Prince of Darkness??? that scared me the first time I saw it.. it was on the other night.. now I can't remember why it did.. well.. maybe because it was intense..

bonfoi July 26 2007, 23:28:44 UTC

The end of "Prince of Darkness" kind of jumped out at you, and in the dark open space of a movie theatre with everything so BIG in front of you...yeah, well, I twisted two of my left-hand fingers so badly that I gave myself screw-fractures of the upper bones in them. Count yourself lucky that you never had to tell your mother you almost unscrewed your fingers over a damned movie!

Mama laughed and forbid me--from a few thousand miles away--to see anything other than Disney for a few years! *lol*

My fingers always twinge when I see scary movies now, and I love the original "Hellraiser", too!

FYI: Ghost Story (1981) starred Fred Astaire, Melvyn Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and John Houseman ( ... )