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I must admit I LMAO at this

Oh God....embarassing.

Indeed. There would have been more subtle ways to refuse.

What would a "Futurama"/"The Simpsons" Halloween crossover be like?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S43LWRGJ … re=related

He, he....

Yikes! Awkward.

Even funnier that 'Steve' (or 'stiv') in Norwegian means 'stiff'.

Okay, so here this is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=931Kth4qhp8

I don't think I would have fallen for it... unless it was that woman from The grudge, then I would definitely have been traumatized for life.

Anyway, that video has the most artificial laugh track I've ever heard. Just the same strange sounding recording playing again and again and again.

Peter

true, they better would have used a girl ala The Grudge, perhaps even so that the hair was covering the face (plus the fake baby was a bit stupid), but still I think I would have been starlted

and yes, that video is now going around the world

Maybe it's just instinct kicking in, freezing your brain (in fact, I'm pretty sure it is), but I can't help wondering (from the safety of my comfortable chair) why no one being pranked realised that the SOLE reason a little girl is "scary"...IS BECAUSE MOVIES TOLD US SO!

The whole eery young girl is a gimmick of the last ten years or so.
No one would have found these pranks even in the least bit disturbing back in, say, the eighties.

Interesting.
I'm not sure though. I don't think it's scary at all (aside from a possible certain uneasiness not being able to see someone's face...but then it's just a little girl!), and couldn't think of a single reason why it should be.
I think it's exactly the other way around: I think it's become scary due to the context in and of the film.
Not the other way around.

I still maintain this stunt would never have worked before The Grudge!

Guys, you're looking far too recently. The creepy girl child thing goes way back to Stanley Kubrick's the shining. Asians just perfected it with older age (now they're teenagers) and longer black straight hair with very white skin.

I like your points and agree with them.

Just wondering, have you seen The Shining remake, the TV version? ( for the record, I haven't )

I seem to remember the TV version was "sanctioned" by Stephen King, who it has been well documented hated Kubrick's film.

From Wiki...

Response by Stephen King

Stephen King has been quoted as saying that although Kubrick made a film with memorable imagery, it was not a good adaptation of his novel[36] and is the only adaptation of his novels that he could "remember hating".[37] Notably, before this King often said he did not care about the film adaptations of his novels.[38]

King thought that his novel's important themes, such as the disintegration of the family and the dangers of alcoholism, were ignored. King has admitted he was suffering from alcoholism at the time he wrote the novel, and as such there was an element of autobiography in the story. King especially viewed the casting of Nicholson as a mistake and as being too early a tip-off to the audience that the character Jack would eventually go mad (due to Nicholson's identification with the character of McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest). King had suggested that a more “everyman”-like actor such as Jon Voight or Michael Moriarty play the role, so that Jack's subsequent descent into madness would be more unnerving.[38]

At other times, King suggested that he disliked the downplaying of the supernatural element of the film, which he felt took the "bite" out of the story and made Jack a less sympathetic character. According to King, he viewed Jack as being victimized by the genuinely external supernatural forces haunting the hotel, whereas Kubrick's take viewed the haunting and its resulting malignancy as coming from within Jack himself.[39]

King's oft-cited remark about Kubrick being a man who “thinks too much and feels too little” has frequently been quoted as disparaging Kubrick's overly clinical and detached approach to directing actors, but in context it is really a reference to Kubrick's ambivalent skepticism about the reality of the supernatural which emerged in pre-production conversations between King and Kubrick. The full context of King's well-known quote is


Parts of the film are chilling, charged with a relentlessly claustrophobic terror, but others fall flat. Not that religion has to be involved in horror, but a visceral skeptic such as Kubrick just couldn't grasp the sheer inhuman evil of The Overlook Hotel. So he looked, instead, for evil in the characters and made the film into a domestic tragedy with only vaguely supernatural overtones. That was the basic flaw: because he couldn't believe, he couldn't make the film believable to others. What's basically wrong with Kubrick's version of The Shining is that it's a film by a man who thinks too much and feels too little; and that's why, for all its virtuoso effects, it never gets you by the throat and hangs on the way real horror should.[40]

Mark Browning, a critic of King's work, observed that King's novels frequently contain a narrative closure that completes the story, which Kubrick's film lacks.[41] Browning has in fact argued that King has exactly the opposite problem of which he accused Kubrick. King, he believes, "feels too much and thinks too little."

King was disappointed by Kubrick's decision not to film at The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, which inspired the story (a decision Kubrick made because the hotel did not have sufficient snow or electric power). However, King's animosity toward Kubrick's adaptation has dulled over time. During an interview segment on the Bravo channel, King stated that the first time he watched Kubrick's adaptation, he found it to be "dreadfully unsettling". King supervised a television adaptation of his original novel in 1997, filmed at The Stanley Hotel in Colorado.

However, in King's 1981 nonfiction book Danse Macabre, he listed Kubrick's film among those he considered to have "contributed something of value to the [horror] genre" and mentioned it as one of his "personal favorites".