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prunesquallormd) wrote2011-10-31 09:15 pm
prunesquallormd) wrote2011-10-31 09:15 pm
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Happy Halloween :)
I've had the day off (well, the whole week, actually) and it's been less than productive but rather nice. Obviously I've got a whole load of things that I'd like to have got done by the end of the week, but we'll see, I guess.
I'm determined to actually get something written, even if it's only a thousand words or so (I never manage more than that, even on a good day :/) and maybe I'll even be able to post something, although that depends on it being betad (*cough*Anna*prodprod* ;P).
It's been mostly a weekend of spooky films and Halloweeny things, which I like. The lantern parade in the park last night was lovely, but so busy. It's only been going a few years but it's getting to close to the sort of numbers that Bonfire Night attracts (which is the busiest night of the year round here, except for New Year's Eve, which is hell on earth). Not a fan of crowds, so I prefer something much smaller, but whatever, it was very cute.
I took loads of photoS, and obviously virtually none of them came out very well. Hey ho.
I rewatched Session 9 on Friday night for the first time since I saw it first, about 6 years ago. I remember it as being absolutely terrifying and always recommend it as my favourite horror film ever, although I seem to be alone in that. Rewatching (and not stoned, as I almost certainly was the last time I saw it) I came to the conclusion that, while it's nowhere near as good as I remembered (oh, rose coloured spectacles :/) there were still parts of it that scared the bejesus out of me. Admittedly, if you can't make at least a vaguely spooky film with that building as the setting, you're doing something very wrong, but I do think that they did at least a few things right. David Carruso was nowhere near as annoying as he is as Horatio Caine in CSI:Miami, and Peter Mullan plays dour Scot perfectly :D.
The places that actually gave me the few genuine fear responses (you know, the whole adrenaline-rush, fight or flight thing) were mostly the pictures of the creepy dead woman (the one who's undergoing the psychiatric sessions of the title). There's one in particular that shows her at 90 degrees to the camera but looking towards it that absolutely terrified me. God, I'm such a complete wuss.(In my defence, I was alone in the house and it was dark. Also I scare easily. Whatevs). So, all in all, nowhere near as good as I remembered, unfortunately, but still a nicely creepy little film with a fabulous setting, which, criminally, was apparently mostly demolished a few years after the film was made.
Went back to Alderley Edge today, which is still one of my favourite places in the country, and it was as lovely as ever, and with far fewer people than there are in the summer. Yay \o/.
I got lost and with about 30 minutes of daylight left I was still wandering around in the woods trying to find way back to the road. Whoops. There's not much moon tonight, and anyway it's dead cloudy, so if I'd been there at night fall I'd probably have been stuck there all night, in the pitch black. That would have been fun XD
Right then, I can't think of any appropriately Halloweeny songs, so here, have The Specials!
Happy Halloween, all ♥ ♥ ♥
I'm determined to actually get something written, even if it's only a thousand words or so (I never manage more than that, even on a good day :/) and maybe I'll even be able to post something, although that depends on it being betad (*cough*Anna*prodprod* ;P).
It's been mostly a weekend of spooky films and Halloweeny things, which I like. The lantern parade in the park last night was lovely, but so busy. It's only been going a few years but it's getting to close to the sort of numbers that Bonfire Night attracts (which is the busiest night of the year round here, except for New Year's Eve, which is hell on earth). Not a fan of crowds, so I prefer something much smaller, but whatever, it was very cute.
I took loads of photoS, and obviously virtually none of them came out very well. Hey ho.
I rewatched Session 9 on Friday night for the first time since I saw it first, about 6 years ago. I remember it as being absolutely terrifying and always recommend it as my favourite horror film ever, although I seem to be alone in that. Rewatching (and not stoned, as I almost certainly was the last time I saw it) I came to the conclusion that, while it's nowhere near as good as I remembered (oh, rose coloured spectacles :/) there were still parts of it that scared the bejesus out of me. Admittedly, if you can't make at least a vaguely spooky film with that building as the setting, you're doing something very wrong, but I do think that they did at least a few things right. David Carruso was nowhere near as annoying as he is as Horatio Caine in CSI:Miami, and Peter Mullan plays dour Scot perfectly :D.
The places that actually gave me the few genuine fear responses (you know, the whole adrenaline-rush, fight or flight thing) were mostly the pictures of the creepy dead woman (the one who's undergoing the psychiatric sessions of the title). There's one in particular that shows her at 90 degrees to the camera but looking towards it that absolutely terrified me. God, I'm such a complete wuss.(In my defence, I was alone in the house and it was dark. Also I scare easily. Whatevs). So, all in all, nowhere near as good as I remembered, unfortunately, but still a nicely creepy little film with a fabulous setting, which, criminally, was apparently mostly demolished a few years after the film was made.
Went back to Alderley Edge today, which is still one of my favourite places in the country, and it was as lovely as ever, and with far fewer people than there are in the summer. Yay \o/.
I got lost and with about 30 minutes of daylight left I was still wandering around in the woods trying to find way back to the road. Whoops. There's not much moon tonight, and anyway it's dead cloudy, so if I'd been there at night fall I'd probably have been stuck there all night, in the pitch black. That would have been fun XD
Right then, I can't think of any appropriately Halloweeny songs, so here, have The Specials!
Happy Halloween, all ♥ ♥ ♥
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Sorry. I was feeling uninspired.
Hey ho :/