the village buzz

for the past few weeks, i have been really amped to see horror movies. i usually watch alot of them all year long, but the last few weeks have been a little more compressed. unfortunately, i have been stuck with alot of shite movies, including haunted boat. let me rephrase that. i liked haunted boat, sorta, kinda.. cuz i am weird like that. there was something about it that i liked, but i would never recommend it to anyone else, nor will i watch it again.

i have also put a few creepy movies into my netflix queue, but i would like to get some suggestions from some of the pros out there.

here are some that i have seen in the past few weeks:

• ginger snaps and ginger snaps 2 and i have the other ginger snaps movie coming in. this is a really good set of movies recommended to me by bob kurtzman. i only recently got around to watching them. if you are into teenage high school movies with werewolves, this one’s a go. just so you don’t get your hopes up, the clothes stay on the girls for the entire flick.

• ringu - i saw the ring and liked it enough. my only problem with the movie is that it should have ended WAY earlier. it went on and on when there was no more story to tell. ringu knew where to end, and knew how to keep from scary looking bitch overkill. no one gets nakie here either.

• Halloween 2007 - rob zombie flick. he remade the 70’s movie that we all love. i was SURE it was gonna lay an egg. i was wrong. it was a high tension ride with a great soundtrack. sure, it’s not the original, but if you want the original, watch the original.

• Hammer Horror: night creatures: - it’s hard for me to walk on by a hammer horror movie. i picked these up just for kicks.

a tale of two sisters - a south korean (i think) ghost movie. good-ish story, even though you figure it out during the opening credits.

on deck next:

• i spit on your grave

• Rosmary’s Baby

as you can see, i need some suggestions…

let me know!

i have always been a huge fan of the movie ‘the exorcist‘. i read all the books surrounding the case.. watched all the tv shows.. and really behaved like a good student on the subject. every halloween, i get all fruity on the excorcist (although i have been too chicken to watch it yet this year). i did some googling around to find out if there was more information on the subject, and i found:

this article

as i read it, i sorta got sadder and sadder.. as even though i know that this whole thing is hokum, i just never wanted to see definitive proof of such a fraud. i should go easier. i don’t think it was a fraud, i think it was just a big mixup in a trouble time in some kids life, taking place in a time when all this stuff wasn’t quite fleshed out yet.

although i guess i should drop the whole notion, and move on.. i still wish it was true, and regan macneil still scares the piss out of me.

please note! this is a scaled down version of the original photo… the original is about twice this size.. click on the photo to see it full size..

this is the a bridge somewhere on the backroads of where i live. i have heard from a bunch of folks that this bridge is haunted. altough i have heard several stories of how it works, the gist is:

1. pull up to the bridge at night.
2. turn your lights off
3. honk the horn three times

if you do it just right, and your mouth is pointed just right, the ghost of a woman will come to chase you off.

i have not tried it yet, just because everyone i have asked is too much of a chicken or a baby to go with me.. but if someone would go, i would definitely try it..

there is a series of books called “haunted ohio” that lists a bunch of places that are haunted and within reach of me in an afternoon.. my goal is to find as many of these places possible and photograph them..

come to think of it, i would do the horn at the bridge trick on my own, but if the ghostly lady DID come out and chase me off, i would have no proof..

a friend and i were looking at the entry for the amityville horror on wikipedia and i started to wonder if i could find it on mapquest.. lo and behold, you can! i would just give you the link, but there is a problem with it. for whatever reason, b2evolution hates the link, so go to:

maps.google.com

and put this address in:

112 ocean ave amityville ny

and you should find it..

anyway, i started to wonder how far away the house is from my house. hell, if i knew someone near the house, i would ride out there, and spend the night. for those curious types, it’s a little over 500 miles.. not too far..

then, i remembered that you can zoom in in satellite mode to get a better view.. lo and behold, i THINK i found the house!

is there someone out there that can verify that this is in fact the amityville horror house?