Family TV Viewing

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Anyone remember this TVM called 'Don't Go to Sleep'? Fucking awesome horror flick! This teenage girl is killed in a car accident and she comes back from the grave to 'reunite' the family in various clever ways. Gran gets a lizard-induced coronary, Junior gets pushed off the roof and his head splits open (tastefully juxtaposed with Mom slicing open a watermelon), Dad gets electrocuted in the bath and everyone goes berserk with pizza cutters at the end. To add to the creepy atmosphere there's a lot of scenes of the subsequent funerals and the family members boo-hooing and drinking themselves silly after all these accidents. Anyway - the fucked-up thing is, this came out when I was about 12 and our WHOLE family watched it and loved it! Then when they re-ran it six months later we all watched it again! The only other films we all had multiple family viewings of were 'Scarface' (Dad even went out and bought the video because 'it's the uncut version!'), which my then-10-yr-old sister particularly loved, and 'In Bed With Madonna' (everybody has at least one copy that somebody else gave them at Xmas!) Is this normal or were we a really fucked-up bunch? (Oh yeah, Dad also hassled me for three weeks to rent out another big favorite of his, 'Hardware'. "Don't worry, nobody IDs you in the video shop up the road, just get it!!!")

dave q, Tuesday, 10 December 2002 09:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Worst ever experience was watching the 'no-let's-try-it-THIS-way!' scene in 'Quest for Fire' with the folks, nobody wanted to turn it off because that would've been an acknowledgement of what was going on onscreen, but it was "Fuck, can't they go back to killing dinosaurs, this is embarrassing"

dave q, Tuesday, 10 December 2002 10:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Dave I think I'd rather read yr description of 'Don't Go to Sleep' than actually have to watch it, tho it does sound like the best movie ever

geeta (geeta), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 10:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Hardware is an excellent film. Nothing brings the family together more than vicious horror movies after all. The family the fears together stays together (or one of them moves to England but you know what I mean).

Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 10:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Valerie Walkerdine, one of my teachers at college, once wrote an essay called 'Family Viewing' which was all abt the horror/unease she felt when observing an 'average' family sit down and watch - and re-watch, on slow mo/rewind - a fight scene from a Rocky flick. Even at the time, I think most of her students felt she was being a little oversensitive - she would've had a field day w/ the Q clan!

Andrew L (Andrew L), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 10:44 (twenty-three years ago)

I feel as if I understand Dave Q just a little bit better after this thread.

Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 14:18 (twenty-three years ago)

hey Hardware is the film that was ripped from a 2000AD future shock and they ended up having to pay them a ton of cash for the rights in retrospect. or something.

can we have a sick "funniest death in a horror movie" thread. sam raimi films diqualified. as is Omen 2.

Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 14:23 (twenty-three years ago)

all future shocks = "BUT WHAT IF YOU CD GO BACK IN TIME AND KILL YR OWN GRANDFATHER!!"

hence 2000AD had a big cheek taking anyone to court

mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 14:32 (twenty-three years ago)

that was all time twisters. this future shock was just a robot coming back to life and going mad. also it was obv the cursed earth in the movie = it was the first (and better) judge dredd movie. though ISTR it looking like a Fields of the Nephilim video right at the start

Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 14:56 (twenty-three years ago)

the imdb entry gives shawn mcmanus and kevin o'neill writing credits. which is nice. about as nice as seeing carlos esquerra on the big breakfast one morning around the time of the dredd movie.

koogs, Tuesday, 10 December 2002 15:26 (twenty-three years ago)

http://alantrewartha.tripod.com/2000AD/large/ezquerra.jpg

Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 15:39 (twenty-three years ago)


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