I have this thing I do and I feel retarded enough to confess. On Halloween last year I was staying at a hotel, what better way to spend an evening alone in a new city than to watch Psycho? My suggestion for my sister-in-laws baby shower was to watch "Alien" when it was re-released. I like to mark occasiosn with movies, and I do it often and most inappropriately.
So i'm in a new apt and in these strange surroundings I decided to watch "silence of the lambs"...mostly because I'm trying to build up confidence to watch "Poltergeist". Not that this movie is particularly scary but you see...I have this tree right outside my balcony and something about the idea of it eating me is somehow more frightening than watching a serial killer movie.
Now I don't particularly like birds, it's a mutual thing. But damn if I saw the prettiest fattest blue jay the other day sitting in that tree with a dead baby bird in it's mouth. The following day I saw it in the tree again, eating something, to which I realized it was pulling fleshy parts from yet another dead bird! I named him Hannibal, hence the choice of film.
Perhaps Alfred Hitchcocks "The Birds" may be in order this weekend....
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Was wondering why we hadn't seen you around in a while. Congrats on the new apartment!
P.S. - I would go with Poltergeist.
Yeah I was out awhile as things were gettng hectic. I decided to move a little closer to work but still stay in the suburb area since where i work is very congested. So far i don't see any crackheads in my complex but i think there's a hoochie mama next door ;-)
I dunno, I may have to go for some kind of thriller this weekend, know any movies where someone gets thrown down a flight of stairs? lol I took a tumble down the second flight of stairs going to work this morning. Dammit I'm not used to living on the 2nd floor. Guess my neighbors will have to get used to my new exit style. Hey, maybe i need one of those seated stair-elevators like the old lady in gremlins. ;-)
Catching up on all the msg's is hard to do, nice to be back in familiar stomping grounds
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Jays are some of the most violent and downright mean birds I have ever run into. Pretty blue feathers hiding a black heart is more like it.
"Poltergeist" is a good one. I would also vote for "The Manitou" since it has an old lady levitating down the hall, then tumbling down a flight of stars. You could also go for "The Haunting" (the original).
Wait to watch "Joe's Apartment" though - that would be best when someone like Mom or Dad comes to visit.
>So i'm in a new apt and in these strange surroundings I decided to
>watch "silence of the lambs"...
Damn! When I saw the title of the thread and who posted it, I was imagining you and Mullet Man "christening" the apartment together...
>know any movies where someone gets thrown down a flight of stairs?
Showgirls?
>nice to be back in familiar stomping grounds
Nice to have you back. :)
JohnL wrote:
> Damn! When I saw the title of the thread and who posted it, I
> was imagining you and Mullet Man "christening" the apartment
> together...
JohnL,
you stole my thought. (figured ( wasn't going to bring up MM to Susan again).
What's the movie where Peter Lorre pushes someone (his mom?) down the stairs?
Susan---if you have a roommate, go with "Single White Female" or maybe even "Pacific Heights". If not. possibly the "Trilogy of Terror" with the little zulu guy....yikes!!
Enjoy
Can't forget Psycho when the detective falls down the stairs in Norman's house.
Andrew wrote:
Pretty blue feathers hiding a black heart
> is more like it.
No kidding, i thought grackles were the spawn of satan but the blue jay wins. As for Joes Apt, well that would downright be wrong since we have a huge waterbug problem in dallas and I have a low tolerance for those nasty things..lol. There's an apt near me that is on the news because of one of the deadlist cobras is on the loose somewhere under the building and the snake wrangler can't get to it - it's one of those cobras that spits poison at your eyes. imagine the horror!
And John you have no shame! Plus if it was mullet man i'd be certain the home would have wheels. No roomate, nobody needs to see single white female to realize roomates come with "some assembly required". I just always get kinda creeped out in new places, it takes awhile to begin feeling like home
Poltergeist it is, a good storm is brewing this evening and nothing is on the rabbit ear tv. the shower curtain has mysteriously fallen down twice, a ghost or cheap rod? you decide ;-)
As far as someone getting thrown down a flight of stairs, there's always the scene in "Murder in the First" where Kevin Bacon takes a header down a flight of iron stairs (ouch!) or "Die Hard" when Bruce Willis kills the first terrorist in the stairwell.
>And John you have no shame!
Thanks! :)
>Plus if it was mullet man i'd be certain the home would have wheels.
Complete with a sign saying "If the trailer's a'rockin', don't come knockin'"?
JohnL wrote:
> Complete with a sign saying "If the trailer's a'rockin', don't
> come knockin'"?
Cut him a break, somewhere out there he's making a toothless ex prostitute who has a job as the wal-mart dressing attendant a very happy..uh...lady..
god bless america..lol
The last time I lived in an apartment, I lived next to...THE STEREO!!! These knuckle heads would always turn on their crap bass music when I was trying to sleep and had to be up for a shift. And I worked rotating shifts so I seriously think they had a copy of my schedule...'cause they just always KNEW!!! Never happened on a day off! This was the only time in 10 years as a police officer that I considered fabricating evidence or using a drop gun!!
Anyways, for good "new apartment" viewing, The Neighbors is cool, though not set in an apartment building. For "Old lady tumbling down stairs" enjoyment, watch the original Kiss Of Death, in which Richard Widmark pushes a wheelchair bound old broad down the stairs...while giggling like a girl!!!
I can't remember the title or the author, but I read a book once about the residents of an apartment house going to war among themselves. They kill each other in cool ways, and towards the end there is some dog eating. Good book!
Hope you are happy with your new place, great to have you back!!!
Deej wrote:
> The last time I lived in an apartment, I lived next to...THE
> STEREO!!! These knuckle heads would always turn on their crap
> bass music when I was trying to sleep and had to be up for a
> shift.
Did you ever complain to the manager? I guess some places don't care, maybe most. Overall it's quiet, except when some of the kids are chasing down helpless bunny rabbits and trying to pummel them with a basketball
You'd think there would be more apt movies..ok one comes to mind, let me think. Juliet lewis moves in and from what i remember a tenant beneath her or above her or something is trying to run her out by putting bugs in there and moving her furniture. Turns out he's some wacko who has drawings all on his ceiling of her apt and furniture and has killed past residents who weren't quiet enough for him. That sounds like it should have been YOUR viewing...lol
Apartments can be creepy. My cousin was going to move into a place and i guess they ahve to disclose certain information, basically she was told that the previous occupant was murdered in a "beheading" in the apt. Needless to say she kept up the search. It's like hotel rooms, even just a few years old they could have had several occupants. You coulda had drug rings, porn rings, crimes committed inside, murders, natural deaths, suicide, it would be interesting to be able to peek at the lives of previous tenants.
>>original Kiss Of Death, in which Richard Widmark pushes a wheelchair bound old broad down the stairs...while giggling like a girl!!! <<
yes ! lol I think even one of the pyscho movies had someone, i think that blonde woman falling down the stairs but it was some weird camera effect (like when the mother fell from the banister in The Omen). I wanna think it was the third.
Susan wrote:
> Did you ever complain to the manager? I guess some places don't
> care, maybe most. Overall it's quiet, except when some of the
> kids are chasing down helpless bunny rabbits and trying to
> pummel them with a basketball
I eventually paid them a visit and asked them to turn the bass down a bit. They begrudgingly did so, possibly out of courtesy or maybe because I was wearing my barney suit. They moved out soon after, and were replaced by a nice older couple who once asked me to turn down my stereo....karma?
A friend of my father's once told us an amusing story; Someone new moved in next door and was always throwing loud parties at night. Finally the guy couldn't take it any longer and went next door to have a talk with him. After that, he didn't have any more problems from them. I'm not sure if it was his persuasive personality or the fact that when the guy answered the door our friend was holding his .44 magnum...
Susan wrote:
"Juliet lewis moves in and from what i remember a tenant beneath her or above her or something is trying to run her out by putting bugs in there and moving her furniture. Turns out he's some wacko who has drawings all on his ceiling of her apt and furniture and has killed past residents who weren't quiet enough for him."
That movie is called "The 4th Floor" and it is quite good!
Very creepy.
Here's the IMDB listing for it:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0167752/
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