A Few Interesting Links

[calliopes_pen]

Thanks to lannamichaels for mentioning this (and basically summing up exactly my thoughts on it) in her LJ, or I never would have known. A couple months back, I mentioned I heard about a new movie involving Methos, Amanda, and Joe called Highlander: Reunion? Where Methos is supposed to be getting married? Well, looks like it’s now up over at Hulu--it’s only 16 minutes long, and can be watched here. It doesn’t really seem like Amanda would be keeping a stripper pole in the bedroom, if we were going by the canon of the series...

Over at metaquotes, they’ve got an interesting discussion going about 80’s movies that scarred children for life. I agree with Return to Oz, but I’ve never seen The Neverending Story, Labyrinth, or The Dark Crystal before. And an interesting TV Tropes article found in all those comments: Nightmare Fuel.

I’ve also thought of something to add to my wish list, but I won’t, since I’ve already linked my list at wish_list and holiday_wishes. Basically, if anyone out there ever finds a bittorrent of House of Frankenstein 1997, I would love it if someone could let me know. I’ve looked, and have yet to find it anywhere--other than a burned to DVD copy somewhere at Ioffer, but I’ve been informed Ioffer isn’t reliable.

ETA: Just stumbled across this a few minutes ago, so I had to add it. The Top 11 Scariest Nostalgic Moments. Includes Ghostbusters, and Darby O’Gill And The Little People’s banshee. The rest are movies I’ve either never seen before (Willy Wonka, Poltergeist) or never seen more than a moment of. Or that I don’t remember at all—Big Bertha from Pee Wee Herman’s movie. I think I’ve seen it, but the only thing I remember is he rode a bicycle.

It's a funny review, but might not be safe for work because of some language used.

Comments

[senmut]

Return to Oz was frightening. I never managed to watch all of Neverending.

Labyrinth I did not see until I was a teenager, and I fell in love with it (who knew Bowie could look so hot?).

The Dark Crystal, however, I saw in first release (and the rereleases until such things stopped due to VCRs). It was frightening, and kind of blunt on the good versus evil and the way life must pass. I think I fell in love with it for all those reasons.

[calliopes_pen]

In 1990, I went to see the sequel to The Neverending Story--I never understood what was going on, other than a witch stole memories at some point and stuck them into some sort of orb.

And I never knew it was based on a book until less than a week ago, when I read about it at Wikipedia.

Oh, and I was wrong--I watched 15 minutes of Labyrinth in middle school, found it boring, and turned it off.

[jinxed-wood.livejournal.com]

I agree with Return to Oz, but I’ve never seen The Neverending Story, Labyrinth, or The Dark Crystal before.

I think I may have had the wrong reaction to labyrinth, I'm afraid. I had this humongous crush on David Bowie since I was very young, and I was just old enough to be a bit hormonal about it when the movie came out - I kept thinking Sarah was crazy not to let him keep Toby and then hang out with the Goblin King for eternity [Dum, Dum, DUM :-P]


(http://pics.livejournal.com/jinxed_wood/pic/0004scz7/)


Methinks, I may have been a rather 'dark' child!

[ilyena_sylph]

*Grins* I am right there with you. Jareth has owned massive bits of my hormones for ages.

[newnumber6.livejournal.com]

I loved Labyrinth as a kid, no scarring at all. I wanted my own Luto. Dark Crystal might have scared me a bit, but I don't think it scarred me, considering I can barely remember it. Neverending Story... no, as a kid I loved it, it was only as I got a little older I got a little disturbed by it.

Return to Oz? Maybe a couple parts of it bothered me, yeah.

[ilyena_sylph]

I have heard about that movie, I refuse to click.

Return to OZ terrified the living daylights out of me. Neverending Story I've never seen all of, though I did read it.

Labyrinth... I need my Jareth icons. That male... *SIGH* Sarah annoys me to bits, but oh, Jareth.... ((Why yes, I did think she was an idiot.))

And I adored Dark Crystal even though it scared me.

[calliopes_pen]

The main part of Return to Oz that messed with me was the beginning, when they were about to do the electroshock therapy on Dorothy. That, and Princess Mombi's severed heads screaming "Dorooothyyy Galllleeee!"

[ilyena_sylph]

Oooooooooooooh yeah.

Though the rolling wild creatures scared me almost as bad as the heads.

[calliopes_pen]

Ah, The Wheelers. Last year, I watched Return to Oz again--they weren't quite as bad, but one looked (if I'm remembering the right one) strangely like Max Headroom for a moment.

Not him, but it was strange for me.

[scotchsour.livejournal.com]

I heard about the Highlander piece a while ago and decided for my sanity and possibly my personal universe to leave that alone.

I sort of remember Return to Oz but I found it eh, probably since I wasn't a big fan of the first movie of happy ending and so this one was more palatable to me. Alice being crazy was much more interesting idea.

I love the Neverending Story and sequels, was that the one with the actor who eventually committed suicide?

It been a while since I seen it. Since I didn't discover the internet until I was older, I was into sci-fi/fantasy big time, books and movie.

You know I am kind of blaming the internet for. Reading books has drastically reduced since I went online.

I didn't look, but what was scary about Ghostbusters?

[calliopes_pen]

Return to Oz is probably scarier if you watch it for the first time, when you're 4. Then again, that's the same age I watched Mr. Boogedy and the four hour version of Alice In Wonderland, so that might have contributed to the trauma.

Yeah, I think Neverending Story was the one where the main actor committed suicide. I'll have to check Wikipedia, since I believe I did hear about it somewhere at some point.

Edit: Just checked, and he was only in the second movie--so it was the only one I've seen.

Pretty much the entirety of both movies, according to him. He narrowed it down to Dana being possessed by Zuul (when she's dragged into the kitchen while screaming) in the first one, and Dana's baby being taken by a ghostly Janosh (is that how you spell his name?) in the second movie.