The 100 Best Horror Films (Time Out London)

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My favorite thing about Alien, which I quite liked, was the portrayal of space travel as mind-numbingly boring.  Yafat Koto and Harry Dean Stanton (Is that right?) in the belly of this rusting tub of a space craft, bored shitless.



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From: kelber <kelber at mindspring.com>
To: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wed, Oct 30, 2013 2:54 pm
Subject: Re: The 100 Best Horror Films (Time Out London)


Hey, has anyone ever successfully unsubscribed from the p-list (and returned 
from the dead to tell the tale)? I've tried unsuccessfully three times, so I'm 
reduced to deleting, lurking, and occasionally being moved to post, even though 
I said I wouldn't. Maybe not the worst approach to the list.

Two movies I'm happy to see on the horror list:

Don't Look Now. More artsy-pretentious than classic horror, but extremely eerie. 
I've had some horror buffs laugh in my face when I mentioned that this movie 
scared the shit out of me. Now I'm vindicated.

Dead of Night. Don't know if this one's even available any more, but it's The 
Source for all the ventriloquist's dummy riffs that followed. Great movie!

Also, I didn't notice it on the first pass through, but if it's not here, it 
should be: The Uninvited. The classic ghost movie, with lots of fun 
psychological subtext.

And a shout-out to The Omen. That scene that starts out with a close-up of a 
cawing crow (or raven?) and ends with the characters racing along the ice, 
trying to save someone who's fallen under, still gives me chills.

Laura


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>From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
>Sent: Oct 29, 2013 12:48 PM
>To: Tom Beshear <tbeshear at att.net>
>Cc: Charles Albert <cfalbert at gmail.com>, pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: The 100 Best Horror Films (Time Out London)
>
>On 10/29/13, Tom Beshear <tbeshear at att.net> wrote:
>
>> I saw The Thing when it came out and I remember some of the critics'
>> reaction -- it was absurd.
>
>http://www.reddit.com/r/scifi/comments/18qqna/watching_john_carpenters_the_thing_from_1982/c8h78jy
>
>http://io9.com/5985319/could-this-be-the-official-ending-to-john-carpenters-the-thing
>
>http://filmstore.bfi.org.uk/acatalog/info_7710.html
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>Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l

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