Movies You Shouldn’t Watch at 2am
I usually watch movies late at night.
Its one of the few times I’m not bothered by my roommates and I can truly enjoy my flicks.
That being said, some movies require your full caffeinated attention or you risk your dreams being really messed up.
The following is one of my patent pending top tenish lists of movies you should never watch before you go to bed.
- The Exorcist - that spider crawl down the stairs? Yeech!!
- 2001 - HAL scares me
- 2010 - HAL still scary
- Earnest Goes to Camp
- Ringu - the scary one, not that Hollywood piece of crap!
- Pi (can’t do the symbol - sorry)
- Godzilla, All Monsters Attack - a talking Godzilla Jr. with the voice of Goofy!
- A Clockwork Orange - one of the best but not before sleepy time
- Brazil
- Signs - I don’t care what people say - its scary!!
- Seven - Sloth - nuff said!
- M
- The Dark Crystal - Muppets on crack!!
- The Silence of the Lambs - yep
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - the original one of course!
- Any film by Ingmar Bergman
I’m sure there is more… but I’m really tired and I feel like watching Pee Wee Herman’s Big Adventure.
Any you would add to this list?
Let me add the earlier, weirder Thomas Harris movie Manhunter (directed psychedelically by Michael Mann) to the list. I caught it accidentally in the middle of the night on cable many years ago, pre-Lambs, and I was riveted… and apoplectic with terror. I couldn’t go to bed. Family woke up to me, trembling, surfing infomercials to clear my head. This was pre-IMDB so I had no idea what I’d seen. I just knew that I’d never be able to wash off the yuck.
Flaming. Guy. In. Wheelchair. Zooming. Down. Parking. Ramp.
[shudder]
Jane
↓ Quote | Posted August 27, 2008, 11:03 amStemming from my younger days, I would have to add Return to OZ. The whole “pick a head” scene alwayz creeped me out. I would dream that someone was running after me with a guillotine to harvest my head.
↓ Quote | Posted August 27, 2008, 8:41 pm@Jane Brooks
How old where you when you saw it? I don’t remember much about that movie - how scary it was or who was in it. But I know many consider it superior to Lambs.
I need to give that movie another look. Thanks!
@Bree
You’re right - Return to OZ deserves some street credit. Anything OZ is probably best viewed during safe daylight hours.
Thanks for reading!
↓ Quote | Posted September 1, 2008, 12:13 am@S.Trout I was in college, home for the summer, so it would have been 1988 or so, and I would have been 22. You should see it. Mann’s films are very visual and stylish, so the look he carefully crafted might look a little dated - but you should endeavor to get past that. The deceptive bright, pretty-ness of the film works in its favor, as the ugliness is that much more stark in contrast.
Its major weakness (IMO) is that he removed a lot of the William Blake imagery that was in the book. I understand Red Dragon used a lot of it, but I haven’t been able to make myself watch a Thomas Harris movie since Hannibal so thoroughly broke my heart. :)
@Bree I haven’t seen Return to Oz - must see it now - but I have seen Zardoz… which is scary in its own right. Saw that one at a drive-in with my dad and it haunted me. Big floating head. Distopian half-naked women. CONNERY.
:)
↓ Quote | Posted September 1, 2008, 12:25 amJ