Taking Sides: The Exorcist Vs The Omen Vs The Amityville Horror

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nah, im sure there are others. and what if the people who praise those directors only do it because they want to be on the side of majority?

― bass braille (....), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 13:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Ally, the house is still standing with residents.

Calum, IIRC from my childhood, the house was torn down by a suburban real estate developer and built into a new house on the lot, because no one wanted a house that dorky asswads like my ex-roommate kept coming to harrass. I could very well be wrong about this, but if I'm wrong, the entirety of Long Island is wrong too.

― Allyzay Dallas Multi-Pass (allyzay), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 15:42 (nineteen years ago) link

I have no idea. I thought it was the same one still standing (and just watched two docs on the new special ed DVD which indicates as much and shows pics).

I'd definately seek it out.

― C-Man (C-Man), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 15:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Could the pics be old, though? Like might it be late 80s/early 90s, because that's when I recall this rumor/not rumor coming into being, that the house was torn down due to unsellability issues.

The other issue being that there's about 10 houses on that block that look quite similar to it so really I have no idea how anyone would find it anyway.

― Allyzay Dallas Multi-Pass (allyzay), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 15:56 (nineteen years ago) link

wasn't the amityville episode shown to be a hoax? or at least a good case made that it was? not that it really matters, lol.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 16:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Can I just cut & paste this?

I've covinced no one The Shining is dull huh? How about Mick Garris and Stephen King who remade it as a telly movie in order to try and put right what Kubrick did wrong?

WTF?? You've got to be kidding, right? Steven King as film-maker?? ROFFLE, man. You've seen maximum overdrive?

Dude, bass braille just fuckin' j-pwned you.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 16:17 (nineteen years ago) link

Stephen King just hates people messing with his novels.

The TV movie version of the Shing=teh suck.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 16:19 (nineteen years ago) link

I never said King could direct, and Maximum Overdrive is terrible, so how was I owned?

I simply pointed out that King and Garris thought so little of the Kubrick movie they went and did it themselves. The TV version is definitely more entertaining than the Kubrick film, but I really like Garris as a director.

― C-Man (C-Man), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 17:12 (nineteen years ago) link

Didn't King make room for both of the Frank Darabont-cum-Norman Rockwell wankfests on his list of his ten favorite film adaptations of his own work as printed in the pages of Entertainment Weekly?

It's sort of sad to reconcile his totally pedestrian taste as of late with the list of great horror films as listed in the back of Danse Macabre.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 17:34 (nineteen years ago) link

The Shawshank Redemption remains one of the best adaptations without any doubt.

― C-Man (C-Man), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 18:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Every once in a great, great while, C-man says something that actually makes sense. this is one of those times. Savor it, as there won't be another one for a long time.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 18:06 (nineteen years ago) link

haha hes so mor you cant run him over anymore.

― bass braille (....), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 18:14 (nineteen years ago) link

You're a twat laddy.

― C-Man (C-Man), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 18:33 (nineteen years ago) link

no YOU are a twat. and your mum stinks.

― bass braille (....), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 18:40 (nineteen years ago) link

C-Man: "The Shawshank Redemption remains one of the best adaptations without any doubt."

Alex in NYC: "Every once in a great, great while, C-man says something that actually makes sense. this is one of those times."

Eric H.: *begins packing his bags and hightailing it right the fuck out of this demented thread.*

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 18:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Argento's daughter Asia is hot as all hell.

― shookout (shookout), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 20:19 (nineteen years ago) link

six years pass...

the omen ain't no exorcist, but it's still completely awesome. and the decapitation scene is funnier than anything i've ever seen in any charlie chaplin film.

― KARLOR CAN FUCK ANYTHING! AND HE WILL AND HAS!!! (Eisbaer), Sunday, 3 July 2011 11:50 (twelve years ago) link

In what kind of bizarre world is Cruising or Dressed to Kill even fit to lick the shoes of Raging Bull? Have you seen Argento's Bird With the Crystal Plumage or Deep Red? Dressed to Kill aint even fit to lick the boots of that let alone Raging flipping Bull.

And Cruising is merely an okay film.

― C-Man (C-Man), Tuesday, February 8, 2005 5:22 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark

c-man was mostly a twat, but here he speaks the Gospel truth.

― KARLOR CAN FUCK ANYTHING! AND HE WILL AND HAS!!! (Eisbaer), Sunday, 3 July 2011 11:52 (twelve years ago) link

i'm with TV Cream http://www.tvcream.co.uk/?p=12585

― piscesx, Sunday, 3 July 2011 12:17 (twelve years ago) link

six years pass...

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― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 05:17 (six years ago) link

I need to know what wins in the end! Is it the hardcore fucking that takes place in the next panel?

― The Wetting Planner (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 12:27 (six years ago) link

Man, I hated Calum in this thread.

― Anne of the Thousand Gays (Eric H.), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 12:45 (six years ago) link

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