Scary Movies for Halloween? - Beyond Tiki

A aquarj Tiki Socialite SF bay area, CA Joined: Apr 02, 2002 Posts: 1125	A aquarj Posted posted on Wed, Oct 15, 2003 2:26 PM One night on cable a long time ago I watched Crumb (the documentary about cartoonist / illustrator R Crumb and his family), followed by the Blair Witch Project. The strange thing is that I ended up being more disturbed by Crumb than by BWP, which I thought was pretty dumb and didn't measure up to all the hype. The whole thing about Crumb's crazy misanthropic brother who never left his mother's house for years, and who killed himself after the movie was completed, and their sick sibling rivalry, and their other brother in SF who laughed as he told the story of assaulting a girl in a store. Quite a contrast - the real horror of a documentary, and the fluff horror of a contrived thriller. Course, to be on topic, the thrillers are much more fun on Halloween. -Randy

One night on cable a long time ago I watched Crumb (the documentary about cartoonist / illustrator R Crumb and his family), followed by the Blair Witch Project. The strange thing is that I ended up being more disturbed by Crumb than by BWP, which I thought was pretty dumb and didn't measure up to all the hype. The whole thing about Crumb's crazy misanthropic brother who never left his mother's house for years, and who killed himself after the movie was completed, and their sick sibling rivalry, and their other brother in SF who laughed as he told the story of assaulting a girl in a store. Quite a contrast - the real horror of a documentary, and the fluff horror of a contrived thriller. Course, to be on topic, the thrillers are much more fun on Halloween.

-Randy

Post #55251 by aquarj on Wed, Oct 15, 2003 2:26 PM