Its funny. It was my responding to your very humorous post about waiting in line on Christmas (and mentioning 'The Happening') that triggered me to write this
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I dragged all my friends to see that movie with me. I don't think they were very happy.
I liked it as much as I hated it, and I got shivers when all the construction workers started jumping off the building. It felt quite boring and underdeveloped as a movie, and the characters were pretty flat. There were some good bits, but it isn't a movie I would go see again.
And fuck that old lady and her freaky eyeless doll. I almost started crying in the theatre, I had to cover my eyes until it was off screen. Autonomatonophobia, I has it. I fail at acting normal when shopping with my friends because there's mannequins absolutely everywhere.
I was massively disappointed. I just couldn't imagine how someone as talented as him watched the movie as it was being finished and thought: "Yeah, this is really coming along great!"
Wow, I had never heard of Autonomatonophobia until you mentioned it: 'the fear of ventriloquist's dummies, animatronic creatures, wax statues'. Isn't that positively creepy (from a writing standpoint, that is)? Makes for good inspiration for a horror film. Ooo.
I just had an idea for a something, but then realized that describing it would probably be a really crappy thing to do, since you actually suffer from it. Sorry!
Autonomatonophobia is like, basically just a fear of 'anything that falsely represents a sentient being'. So anything that looks like it could come to life and murder me when I turn my back.
My friend tried to get me to watch Dr Who, but I refused to after learning that the very first episode centered around mannequins coming to life.
Do it! Start describing. I don't have it that bad, it's just like a really bad feeling of the creeps whenever I'm around anything that fits the profile. I have Arachnophobia about 100 times worse.
I still remember the first time I got the scared around one of the figures, it was an excursion to an Air Force base or something during year ten, and in the museum part they had some wax statues. One of them looked to so real, right down to the cigarette in his hand that looked like it was actually alight, I felt like at any second it was going to burst through the glass and kill me. And there it began.
That's really wild. Okay, the scenario I thought of is a girl who has Autonomatonophobia and has to go home to clear out her mother's house and take care of her affairs now that she passed away.
And her mother was a dressmaker. And she kept all of her mannequins in the attic. And the girl has to stay in the house while she sorts out her mothers affairs-and all those mannequins are in the attic.
(Shiver) Wouldn't that be creepy as hell? And she would hear things moving, shifting around upstairs at night.
And LESLIE BIBB could play the girl! No, you know what: Carly needs a good role here and there. Its just that Leslie plays that person who's keeping a calm face but is totally losing it underneath so well. She would be perfect for the part.
Ppl on another board were talking about the movie back in June and my only comment was:
"The last words spoken in the movie are 'Mon Dieu' - which is pretty much the only possible comment one can make about this whole big nothing of a movie."
I'm not mad about the two-hours of my life I lost, but I don't have to watch it ever again ;)
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I liked it as much as I hated it, and I got shivers when all the construction workers started jumping off the building. It felt quite boring and underdeveloped as a movie, and the characters were pretty flat. There were some good bits, but it isn't a movie I would go see again.
And fuck that old lady and her freaky eyeless doll. I almost started crying in the theatre, I had to cover my eyes until it was off screen. Autonomatonophobia, I has it. I fail at acting normal when shopping with my friends because there's mannequins absolutely everywhere.
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Wow, I had never heard of Autonomatonophobia until you mentioned it: 'the fear of ventriloquist's dummies, animatronic creatures, wax statues'. Isn't that positively creepy (from a writing standpoint, that is)? Makes for good inspiration for a horror film. Ooo.
I just had an idea for a something, but then realized that describing it would probably be a really crappy thing to do, since you actually suffer from it. Sorry!
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My friend tried to get me to watch Dr Who, but I refused to after learning that the very first episode centered around mannequins coming to life.
Do it! Start describing. I don't have it that bad, it's just like a really bad feeling of the creeps whenever I'm around anything that fits the profile. I have Arachnophobia about 100 times worse.
I still remember the first time I got the scared around one of the figures, it was an excursion to an Air Force base or something during year ten, and in the museum part they had some wax statues. One of them looked to so real, right down to the cigarette in his hand that looked like it was actually alight, I felt like at any second it was going to burst through the glass and kill me. And there it began.
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And her mother was a dressmaker. And she kept all of her mannequins in the attic. And the girl has to stay in the house while she sorts out her mothers affairs-and all those mannequins are in the attic.
(Shiver) Wouldn't that be creepy as hell? And she would hear things moving, shifting around upstairs at night.
And LESLIE BIBB could play the girl! No, you know what: Carly needs a good role here and there. Its just that Leslie plays that person who's keeping a calm face but is totally losing it underneath so well. She would be perfect for the part.
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"The last words spoken in the movie are 'Mon Dieu' - which is pretty much the only possible comment one can make about this whole big nothing of a movie."
I'm not mad about the two-hours of my life I lost, but I don't have to watch it ever again ;)
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