Creeped myself out:

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The phrase "snubbed by his own puppet" in a Bush/Maliki GD thread made me think of this:


I never made it through that movie when I was a teen. Not sure if I could do it now.
:scared:

[crim son]

1. I never saw the film, but I recognize Mr. Hopkins.

I dislike puppets the same way I dislike clowns: powerfully.

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3. Whatever the puppet's name was, Chucky had nothing on him.

I think my particular trauma came from how fond I was of my Charlie McCarthy doll as a kid.

"You mean they sometimes kill you?"

[BarenakedLady]

11. OMG...you said the "C" word.

I'm not going to be able to sleep tonight. :scared:

[crim son]

12. Poor baby. I didn't mean to scare you...

Have you got someone cuddly to take to bed tonight?

[Avalux]

2. YIKES!!!! I remember that movie -

scared the crap outta me when I was a kid. :scared: :scared:

Abracadabra, I sit on his knee.
Presto, change-o, and now he's me!
Hocus Pocus, we take her to bed,
Magic is fun... we're dead.

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4. Ahh! You know the poem!

Away from me! (runs to bedroom, jumps from doorway to bed without touching the ground, shutting off lightswitch in mid-flight)

[Avalux]

5. ROFL!!!

I didn't KNOW it - remembered there was one and googled for it. Sorry I scared you! ;-) Now I'm trying to decide if I should add it to my Netflix queue and watch it as an adult, or just allow the memory of it to terrify me. :D

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7. Seeing it again might be a kick.

As I recall, it had that very powerful '70s filmmaking vibe to it -- spare but heavy music, foreboding exterior shots, claustrophobic interiors. Same thing I recall when I think of the Omen or French Connection.

BTW, tell me about the picture in your avatar. It's so tiny, but I can see how cool it might be as a desktop image or little framed print? Where did you get it?

[Avalux]

9. I think I'll have to see it again then.

Here's the link to the bigger pic of my avatar. It's two hands painted as the world. I thought it was really cool so I "borrowed" it to use as an avatar. :hi:

http://www.globalprocessinstitute.org/GPI/Thank_You.htm

[blogslut]

6. great flick

I saw it when it came out in 1978. I thought at the time "This Hopkins guy is amazing!"

EDIT: Poor Burgess Meredith :(

[Kceres]

10. Hopkins should have been nominated for an Oscar.

That movie scared me to death and Hopkins was terrific. If I recall though, he was snubbed by the Academy that year. Right? :wtf:

[blogslut]

13. Don't know about snubbed

Below the radar is probably more like it. He wasn't a big name then.

EDIT: Correction. Hopkins wan't a big American name then.

He was nominated for a Bafta and a Golden Globe for that film.

[deucemagnet]

8. I haven't seen that movie in years,

but I just read the book about a year ago. Now I have to see it again to see how well it follows the novel.