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Name that trauma:: Dustin in Minnesota on a Chilling HBO Short

Posted on By unkle lancifer

Greetings! Discovered your site while looking up memories from my childhood and now have it bookmarked.

There is a short I remember airing on HBO in the early 1980s — it wasn't terrifying, but it was a little chilling. It involved a violinist who kept driving past a mansion that she couldn't get out of her mind. Eventually she noticed it was for sale and decided to check it out, and the butler told her the house was haunted. She said that that didn't bother her, and he said something to the effect of "Why should it? You're the one who haunts it." The violinist's jaw dropped and the film faded out.

I haven't been able to find this one anywhere, and like I said it wasn't terrifying, but it was chilling in the same way that childhood ghost stories were. Does anyone remember this film short, and more importantly, what it was called?

Thanks much!

Dustin in Minnesota

Texas Chainsaw 3-D (2013)

Posted on By unkle lancifer

Wow. Did I really just witness that? I don't know what to say. TEXAS CHAINSAW 3-D is dumber than a sack of hammers. It's so hilariously punch drunk that it left me giddy. I believe it's magically moronic and if you can add numbers together, you'll agree. I could go on and on with everything that's ridiculously wrong with this movie but I decree today that if paid screenwriters are allowed to slack off so brazenly then certainly unpaid me can too! O.K, you and I both know that I enjoyed every shoddy second of it. It made me giggle like vandalism and I can't help it if I have a chronic fetish for "research" scenes. The one in this movie is phenomenal in its redundancy. They cut back and forth to the final dolt reading the same information over and over again as giant random words appear on screen. It goes on forever and how am I supposed to resist that?

Sorry if that makes no sense, but I ‘m suffering from a contact high from over exposure to incomprehensibleness. Whatever. In the new world order this film is heralding, sense has no place. This movie is an insulting outrage and it's also probably the most endearingly daffy horror sequel since FRIDAY THE 13TH: PART 7: THE NEW BLOOD. Save your dignity and stay home or gather your worst friends and go observe what's destined to become a highly quotable ("Do your thing, cuz!", "Ladies make-up? What a fruitcake!") camp classic. I'll be over here cackling like a lunatic wondering if I dreamt the whole thing and counting the days until I can force poor long suffering Aunt John to watch this heap at home. Oh geez, now I know exactly how Sally felt at the end of the original film! It's all so horrible that I can't stop laughing. But at least I got away! Didn't I?

Traumafession:: Gary S. on Little Shop of Horrors

Posted on By unkle lancifer

First off, I love your site. It's strangely comforting knowing a lot of images that scared me as a kid scared so many others too. The Jumanji posting about the plant made me think of Little Shop of Horrors with Rick Moranis. The full-grown plant scared the crap out of me and to this day I don't like the shot when the camera seems to zoom all the way inside the plant's mouth. The little plants that seemed to grow off it just added to my fright. Getting eaten by a plant like that became my worst nightmare. Those puppets were masterfully crafted. My fear of this movie confused me for years because it's a musical and so light-hearted most of the time that I didn't perceive it as a horror. I think immersion therapy helped me get over this movie but I will still flinch a little if I put it on t.v.

Gary S.

Traumafession:: Reader Miss Julie on …And Then it Happened

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Your site had me laughing so hard I cried. I was just posting on a FB page (people who grew up in Rockland County NY in the 70's and 80's) and I posted a new topic–what class film terrorized you? I then described "And Then It Happened", how I was shown this in 3rd grade and it *still* gives me the willies 35 years later! My brother then posted a link to our blog and I practically wet my pants. Thank you oh thank you for keeping the terror alive! (you know, in that 'I want to watch but I know I'm gonna have bad dreams from it' way)

Traumafession:: Reader Dominick on the Giant Jumanji Plant

Posted on By unkle lancifer

Hello,

I like your page, I found it by searching for Bunyip, I was really scared by it.

One thing that most scared and affected me was the movie "Jumanji", which is actually a good movie and I liked it, but there is that scene where this gigantic plant grows and attacks people. I am still scared by it, so everytime I see that movie I start having nightmares about big human eating plants. That said, I still have problems looking at flesh eating plants or at unusually big plants, also afraid to touch them. When I am in the bathtub, I sometimes have got day nightmares, that out of the sink there might come a big plant and eat me…

That is still scaring me.

Faithfully yours,

Dominik

Traumafessions :: Reader Ben on NES' Friday the 13th Game

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Is it normal to base a huge part of your life around a box art cover? Probably not but I have an excuse: it was Friday the 13th on the NES. I couldn't play the game because I didn't have a Nintendo but every time I was in the video store, I would stare at the pixelated map on the back and dream about being able to explore the campgrounds in the films I'd watch every time they aired on the USA network. Friday the 13th was the scariest movie in the world (even when broken up by Rhonda Shear segments and the flood of 900 phone sex ads). So the game would have to be the scariest game in the world right? RIGHT? Well, I got the answer when I finally played it years later. But something stuck with me: there was an idea there somewhere. So I started working on the slasher game I had always dreamed of playing.