Halloween and Ghost Stories...

[kerryanne]

Just bare with me here and I will get to the point sooner or later...
In the spirit of fall and Halloween this weekend some of my family and friends got together for a hayrack ride and bon fire in the country... At about 11pm we sat around the fire and told ghost stories of course... I started thinking about it, and some of these old ghost stories, with the right direction and actors would probably make some pretty great horror movies... So my question to you is this... What ghost stories have you heard would you like to see on the silver screen. Think about it... Here are my two..

Bloody Mary... Anybody who has ever heard of this "Urban Legend" would have to agree with the right stuff this would make a great horror movie.

Where I live in Winterset Iowa, with all the covered bridges, it's kinda got a "Sleep Hollow" twist. A condemned murderer escaping his death rode his horse through the covered bridge with the posse on his trail,they had him trapped on each side so that the rider would have been seen trying to escape, the murderer rode into the bridge, never to appear on the other side. They rode into the bridge after him and found no trace of the horse or the rider. Now late at night it's said that you can sometimes here the horse's hooves going through the bridge, and the condemned man's manical laughter. I lived right next to the "haunted" bridge for about 3 years, and I never heard the ghost rider and his horse...( never really had the guts to try and listen for it late at night, the whole scene is about enough to creep you out.) But, I did have someone knocking on my door on more than one occassion and found nobody there. Ghost stories is what Hollywood needs for the new genre of horror. Think about it. Please feel free to respond!

[Brock Landers]

...how about razor blades in halloween treats?... they could call it "Razor Blade Smile"...of course there is already a film named that...

...or cremated remains in the haloween punch?...talk about being spiked...

...or the one about the girl who gets taken to the hospital because one day while going to the bathroom, little baby lobsters come out of her...turns out in the emergency room, she told them that she had masturbated with a lobster tail in a bath tub the preceding halloween...it was a pregnant lobster tail...

...or the guy that tried to screw the jack-o-lantern and lit his pubic hair on fire..

...those would be really scary Halloween tales...

[kerryanne]

Fine Brock, don't participate nicely....Here's another good story...

...or how about the smart ass who made fun of other peoples posts... he mysteriously disappeared... after many hours of questioning kerryanne finally breaks down with hysterical laughter, shows the police where she hid Brock's blugeoned body...and they sit around till sunrise eating donuts,and dancing and laughing about the man who thought he knew it all. LOL /ubb/smile.gif /ubb/smile.gif

Brock, I hope you realize I am joking...(I would never tell them where I hid the body..)

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[Brock Landers]

I didn't mean to make fun of your post little-miss-two-edits (affectionate term)...I was just adding some real life urban legends, similar to Bloody Mary or any that appeared in the original "Urban Legends", that might be fun to see on the big screen although admittedly they probably will never appear...I admit I am a cocky SOB though...

...by the way, did you ever see the film "Ghost Story" that was adapted from Peter Straub's book...it is great film...It has lots of old actors like John Houseman and Fred Astaire, or is it Gene Kelly...oh well...

(Brock sitting in car)
[tears streaming down cheeks]
Brock: (sniff) "nobody understand me..."

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[kerryanne]

Brock, I understand you...honestly...I think?...Ok maybe I don't really understand you, but that is what makes you Brock. I didn't say anything up there in anger, i said it because damn it I care.. ok I just thought it would be funny.

Ok... done there back- to the topic:

Ghost Story
Let me see if I have seen it.

There is a woman in the lake in a car...she comes back to haunt the men who killed her.
Is that the one?

Also have you ever seen the movie "The Hearst"? (I hope that was the name of it)

[The Troll Man]

Someone else has heard of Razor Blade Smile? At last! Watched it? Not great, but funny... Did you know the woman in that is the same women with the white eyes in the Redemption range video logo?

Got Ghost Story but not watched it yet, heard good things though...

Further on the urban mythology type side, you might want to check out Campfire Tales, the 1996/7 film - not the 1993 flick with the same title and with Gunnar Hansen. Was recommended to me by a guy doing a PhD in urban folklore (green with envy) and is pretty decent...

[ColonelColinCaine]

I saw Campfire Tales, Troll. I'm not saying it's a great movie, but it did provide quite a few scares. The twist at the end was kind of stupid though:
***SPOILER***
You and your drunk friends have just died in a horrible car wreck. However, before you ascend into heaven, or hell, you decide to piss around in the woods for a few hours telling scary stories, and somehow completely forget that you're dead.
Funny, that's how I always pictured the afterlife!
***END SPOILER***
Aside from that, the movie's actually pretty good, and the very last story is just FREAKY!
I'm kind of bummed out on it though, since Starz showed it several million times last year around Halloween.

[Brock Landers]

"Ghost Story" was about four young men who accidentally kill a girl, then sink her in a lake using a car...she comes back when they are old to haunt them...it has that guy who stars in Brian DePalma's film "Body Double"...and Kerryanne might enjoy it because "Ghost Story" has male full frontal nudity...Jami Gertz never had it so good...

I never saw a film called "The Hearst", but I do distinctly remember a horror film about death called "The Hearse"...I only remember it because it stars Joseph Cotton aka Holly Martins from Orson Welles "The 3rd Man" and "Touch Of Evil" two classic greats...

I only saw "Razor Blade Smile" because I was trying some films out from that distributor after watching the great Adrian Brody film "OXYGEN" on that label..."OXYGEN" was much better...

I have seen the "Campfire Tales" that has James Earl Jones as a tobacco-chewing scroungy-looking wierdo...I rather enjoyed it...

[kerryanne]

Full frontal nudity? I am sooo there! Help me here Brock... the main actress, was she in Stephen King's Sleepwalker? I'm thinking have seen this when I was younger. (That would explain why I don't remember the full frontal nudity, if I had it would have scarred me for life seein a scene like that at such a delicate age)It's gonna be a Blockbuster night friday I'm gonna have to find the Hearst and Ghost Story.

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[Brock Landers]

The main actress in "Ghost Story" was Alice Krige, who indeed played the incestuous mother Mary Brady opposite Brian Krause in Stephen King's "Sleepwalkers". She also appeared in lots of TV movies, "Chariots Of Fire" & "Barfly"...she does get nude in "Ghost Story"...

...Craig Wasson is the one who drops trou' and whips out his wang in "Ghost Story" for the full frontal shot. His most prominent performance as a leading man was in Brian DePalma's "Body Double". Wasson also starred in "A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors", "The Boys In Company C" and most recently in, an independent film I just watched two weeks ago as a new release video, "The Pornographer", an interesting look at a confused young man who while living vicariously through porn learns some hard lessons about life...not bad...I only rented it because the tagline said "starts off where "Boogie Nights" ended"...which made no sense after seeing it, the only thing in common was the porn world...

[psycho path]

I am currently working on a film without a proper title about fears....It has some legends like that in it,and a perfect auttumn setting. but my halloween inspired film will be named Slasher...gotta love spooky folklore...

[Donnie Darko]

"Ghost Story" was mostly filmed near my parents house. Used to take friends to show them the house all the time when I was a kid...

The house is less than dramatic in reality. {sigh}Let down again... looks like it's back to voodoo.