...like when Regan spins her head....

Should that read "Megan"?

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Of course it's Regan, you silly goose:

REGAN MACNEIL THE HEAD SPINNER

I almost posted a link to a YouTube video, showing Regan spinning her head and doing the creepy crawl down the stairs, but it was too scary to watch.

That means OMG that sniffles and I were wrong!!!!!
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This was a late-50's Japanese horror sci-fi movie. It was by far the creepiest sci-fi movie I ever saw. At that point in time, the Japanese were extremely anti-nuclear-weapon, for obvious reasons. In the movie, a Japanese fishing boat was near the Bikini atoll during one of the tests, and the radiation turned the crew into blobs of sludge that could flow like amoebas, and anyone they touched got dissolved into a new blob of sludge. (somewhat like the later movie "The Thing" with Kirk Russell.) In one nightmarish scene, a detective goes into a darkened room with a flashlight and his gun drawn, and he sees the blobs on the walls and ceiling, but not in time. One blob drops down on him from the ceiling and slowly dissolves him, with his bloodcurdling screams echoing through the darkened building. I had nightmares about that movie for years. I haven't seen that movie since I was a teenager, but it would still scare the hell out of me.

You got me on the The H Man. I don't believe I've seen that one. I do remember the original "The Thing"; now that was a good flick. The "Blob" was a Steve McQueen flick which was filmed in the '50s.
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The original version of the Invasion of the Body Snatchers from the early '50's. Saw that when I was young, and will not watch it now under any circumstances.

The difference with "H-Man" was that each individual was a separate blob, and once you were dissolved, you became a new blob. Somehow, that was creepier than just getting eaten by the blob.

What was the movie with the seed pods that became copies of people? That was pretty creepy as well, but I can't remember the name of it.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

Filmed in good ole Los Angeles.

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Nope, Cyclist, the person possessed by the Devil was named Regan, presaging the more well known Reagan (the demon-possessed American president) by a good 7 years....a case of life imitating art!

BTW, the first horror movie I remember seeing was "It came from beneath the sea", a radioactive octopus destroying San Francisco. Scary as hell when I was 5 or so, much less scary when I saw it on TCM last fall!

I was wondering when you were coming out of hiding. You must have been gone for the holiday weekend.
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Now that says it all!!!

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Here's Johnny

I thought he said "honey I'm home". Oh well, it has been a while since I seen the movie.
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Now I won't sleep tonight after clicking on your link. Needless to say, I didn't watch it. I got out of there pretty quick.

Nickolson did say, "Honey, I'm home," but that was a different scene.

A vampire movie without any blood?!

Both times they made a movie out of this it was Made for TV - it is an injustice to Stephen King's fine novel.

more sickening, but scary. Kevin Spacey said everyone of the the men portrayed was interviewed and that it was very factual. Really scary to think Bush's guys did so much to stop the election vote being counted accurately. I was for Gore. We came so close. The better man did not win. How different things would be today if he had.

The part about the 20,000 people, mostly blacks, who had names similar to convicted felons, being denied the right to vote was awful. That was something I had never heard till the movie.

That's right, base everything you believe on Hollywood. That makes about as much sense as the Right basing everything they believe on Fox and Hannity.

Funny how the courts upheld it though. If you think the movie is a fact based documentary with no bias, then go ahead. You have that right.

By the way, just how much differently would things be? What would the response to 9/11 have been and how would it have be carried out? How would he have responded to the rising oil prices? How would he have avoided the real estate collapse? How would he have avoided the blame for Katrina?

No matter what you may think of the president, he is not all powerful and can magically make everything perfect. If Gore had been in the White House, don't you think he would have been blamed for these issues too?

or maybe, we wouldn't have had 9/11 with him in charge? I doubt we would be in Iraq or wherever still looking for Osama. He's probably in Boston having a cool one in a pub about now.

Katrina was a natural disaster, but Bush's appointed buddy,'Brownie' was a fool. I think Gore would have had better people. Everyone questioned Bush's IQ to handle the job and it was pointed out that he would surround himself with the top experts so it was fail proof. It wasn't fail proof, or fool/Bush proof!

She scared me so bad that when she later was on the coffee commercial as Cora, I would have to turn away from the T.V. I don't like to look at her even now when I watch it with my kids. I really hated when she rode by on the bike and then changed to being on the broom, when Dorothy was in the flying house!

about how much I hated the Wizard of Oz. Then one evening it came on and she wanted to watch it. When the Wicked Witch came on for the first time, she sat up and asked if I was alright. My heart was racing and I was sweating. My parents took me to see that movie when I was real young, and to this day, I cannot watch it without that reaction (I am actually getting it typing this). What you call your basic traumatic experience, I guess. Keep the faith

Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

It was those freaky flying monkeys that I didn't like.
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I still don't like those monkeys.

If you ever saw "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet", the episode of Twilight Zone with the Gremlin on the wing of an airliner, I think the gremlin was modeled somewhat after the flying monkeys, just without a tail.

Judy Garland was quite beautiful at that point in her life. It's a shame how sad her life turned out later on.

The tornado in that movie was very well done, considering the technical limitations of the time. It still looks pretty realistic. Also, it was one of the first color movies. The abrupt shift from black and white to color must have been quite startling at the time. Hey Sage, what was that like? (just kidding!!)

I knew actually that Italian lover (Valentino) of the silent movies. When he talked in public, he sounded like Barney Fife.
I never thought color movies were real for years! I had never seen such colors before in real life!

He was in the British army in WW-1, and had some great stories, like the one about how the Germans introduced the Zeppelins as a terror weapon. At first, none of the British airplanes could climb high enough to attack the Zeppelins, so they could roam at will over Britain, dropping random bombs here and there, terrorizing the population. Then, when the planes could get high enough, their bullets made little difference, since the Zeppelins were so huge. Finally, they developed incendiary rounds that would set the Zeppelins on fire. Soon, the Zeppelins were all gone. There were other stories too, but I won't bore you.

Got any grandkids? Tell them about Valentino!

Can you imagine life under the rule of such a witch? Thank goodness Obama has pretty much boxed her out.

And what would have become of Dorthy and her friends if not for that bucket of water. I remember several times as a kid playing outside with my friends. The time of the year would be about now and the 8:00 movie (Central Standard Time) would be getting ready to start. Mom would yell out the front door "The Wizard Of Oz Is About To Come On". Each of us kids would immediately halt our play time and make a mad dash to our respective homes to catch the beginning of the Wizard Of Oz. Thanks for the memories guys....

Those monkeys.... Yikes! And the Gremlin episode you speak of River. Was that creepy or what. The one that sticks in my mind was one from I think the very early 70's when the very attractive Linda Black was being attacked in her apartment by that 8" head huntin' voodo doll or whatever the heck that creepy little dude was. I love those oldies.

The girls have hit the showers after a busy Memorial Day and we're gettng ready to wind the day down by watching the Million Dollar Duck with Dean Jones and Sandy Duncan which was released in 1971.

Thanks to all who served in the past and in the present. Especially those who paid the ultimate price. My heart and thoughts are with you today BuZZard.

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how that creature was able to stay attached to that old Convair as it was traveling about 280 knots.

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Well, you see Cyclist, the creature didn't exist, really, except in the messed up guy's mind!
I know some people think everything they think they see and all they hear is gospel, but it ain't so!
Some people have even said Reagan was conservative with money! They finally explained to him what a "Veto" was, but it was 8 years too late.
And, Gorbby himself didn't tear down the wall---others did! They had to--they wanted us to feed the East Germans! Which we have.

If you have Netflix, you can rent that episode of Twilight Zone. It is in "The Twilight Zone: Vol. 2" (1963) which also contains "Time Enough at Last", the episode with Burgess Meredith as a bookworm who is the last man alive on earth, with all the time in the world to read his books, only to have his glasses break. (kind of ironic)

Anyway, if you watch "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet", the ending makes it clear that the creature was not just in his mind. The very last shot is of damage to the engine cowling where the creature was tugging at it.

I simply don't believe in such creatures tearing off cowlings while in mid-air! You must, or you would think the sane as I do: he imagined seeing it and the torn cowling!
I've had some bad dreams but that is just what they were!
Why would you want to say the creature really existed? The writer meant for you to believe it did, that's all.

I didn't really believe in flying monkeys either, but it's fun to suspend disbelief while you're watching a movie. Have a nice day!

sage.
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