I hear ya man, its weird how some people act when a family member dies. When my grandpa died about 10 years ago, my dad's sister and her family swooped in like vultures to claim stuff from his house, even when my grandmother was alive and still living there. They still insisting on claiming precious family heirlooms or his very valuable stamp collection, etc. to "remember him by." Meanwhile all my dad cared about was grieving for his father. Your dad's buddy is a scumbag, what a complete low life. As for scary movies, Crown I think your daughter could handle the original poltergeist film. It might be scary for her, but its a scary movie. I think its okay for kids to see some R rated movies as long as they understand that its not real. Others like the Exorcist might be a bit much for her though. Then again I dont have kids so take that with a grain of salt.
I take it as a point of pride when one of my dad's coworkers called and asked if we still had my dad's huge box of porno tapes after he died. We've always assumed our bum majorly autistic Uncle would be the vulture around our grandfather's stuff. My grandpa was recently hospitalized and showed up at his house yelling about how his sister and us had thrown out all of our grandparent's stuff, singling out a Teddy Bear from the 70's he swears our grandma gave him. We don't have a clue what the fuck he is talking about. It is gross but we've taken to hiding house and car keys from him and holding onto the choicer guns since theyve disappeared before when there was supposedly break ins in the area (took my grand dad years to get them back).
Some people are fucking vultures. The day after my grandpa unexpectedly died relatives started asking my grandma about buying land, horses, etc. That was years ago, and to this day my mom & aunt still hold minor grudges over it. Can't say that I really blame them. My grandma went into a deep depression after his death, and people "casually" bringing up purchasing "the land" in conversation didn't fly very well with anyone.
Holy shit, is he dead? All I see is what looks like a screen cap of him slumped over but when you click the play button it says the streamer stopped streaming. Anybody see the end?
He turned off the stream. He was puking and it sounded like he shit himself a few times, but he was alive when he turned it off. From what I've been told he's actually Hungarian and does this every week.
When my maternal grandpa died, I was about three, but my mother was livid how all of her brothers and sisters began bickering over his jewelry, gems, gold, silver, guns, taxidermy mounts, etc. Grandma couldn't care, she was too busy grieving by gambling. Good on you for telling them to eat shit.
I dig that flick. The, ahem, "sequel" is pretty bad. You should show your kid The Exorcist; it took me 10 years to be cool with that one. What slaughtered my 8 year old mind was Child's Play. Not even the movie, just the fuckin' preview. I was scared shitless of this goddamn doll charging the screen with a knife. There are a ton of older flicks I want to revisit this season. 1970-1980, what a great time for creepy movies. A bunch of forgotten gems. Don't Look Now with Donald Sutherland, set in Venice, is a horror movie done as an art film. Changling with George C Scott is probably the best take on the haunted house. The Sentinel was a haunted apartment movie; nuts. Suspiria. The Shining; it was a 1980 release like Changling, but the vibe is consistent with the 70s. I know I'm forgetting several. Even Carrie was great. Hell, as for something modern, The Ring and The Grudge, saw them both in the theater, they were intense. I think both still hold up. Just re-watched the original Hellraiser. It was good in an almost bad way.
Nothing that made me cringe has stuck with me like Gage cutting ol' Herman Munster. And, I was in college when that came out. To this day, whenever I see someone kneel down, and I see their achilles area, my skin crawls a little.
Suspiria is is my favourite horror movie. Don't Look Now is a real artsy mind-fuck and both movies have a living-inside-a-nightmare feel. Suspiria has a dumb plot, is completely over the top and some rubber stamped dubbing but it's visuals and music drive the viewer up the wall, while Don't Look Now isn't so much supernatural as it just makes you always feel uncomftorable and uncertain with a completely out-of-left-field final twist. And yeah Hellraiser is another favourite of mine, it's ugly fun the entire time. The sequels suck, but I watch Barker's movies (Hellraiser, Night Breed, Lord of Illusions) at least once a year. I am guessing people are dreading the R-Rated remake of "It" that the director of sea. 1 of True Detective is directing. I think that movie which was a network TV mini-series scared the shit out of people like none other. It's never been much of a bother to me, but people don't like clowns.
For those that enjoy scary you should try Insidious and the sequel. Done on the cheap but they get a couple of good scares in there. Don't watch the 3rd one, it's horseshit.
For scary movies, I'll throw 'Stir of Echoes' out there. Really well done and doesn't rely on gore to scare you. Plus it's a good story.
Weird pick for a scary movie, but I'll first state off the bat: Deliverance. The people they cast as the inbred mountain folk, holy shit. It is a true and palpable horror, to me. For a more traditional choice, The Thing from 1982, now in song format:
That's a good one. It flew under the radar but it has some terrific chilling moments. One of the few (of many) ghost mystery flicks from that era worth watching. For some reason "Dark Water" with Jennifer Connelly terrified my wife to the bone. We were living in an our first place, an apartment, when we watched it and it was a decent flick but I didn't find it scary. On the other hand it scared the ever-living piss out of her. If I bring up that movie to this day she still shudders
Serpent and the Rainbow freaked the shit out of me years ago. Not sure how well it holds up now because I'm too freaked out by it to watch it again.
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