Favorite Scene/Movie

I like the scene in Exorcist III where the nurse locks the room and a guy opens it directly after and comes out with a hacksaw.

The scene in Friday The 13:the Part 6: Jason Lives where Jason jumps down from a tree and decapitates three people at the same time. Thats great.

I like the scene in Halloween when Michael has killed the guy (i cant remember his name) by lifting him up by the throat with his hands and then puts the knife in his stomach and then he just stands there and watch him. Thats just an awesome scene

“It would probably be the second chat between posssessed Regan and Karras. I’m always quoting “In time”.”

Me too probably, or American History X…when the cops get Derek.. his face = awesome

Yeah! he is 😀

There are millions of them.

But one I like is the Cenobites first appearing before Kirsty in the original Hellraiser.
‘Explorers in the further regions of experience..demons to some..angels to others.’

Quote: Eros explaining how the idiots of Earth will stumble upon Solarinite and use it to destory everything in the universe! Classic stuff my friends!

Plan Nine From Outer Space
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Indeed, Wood’s anti-nuclear/Cold War message. The film is great absurdist fun, and that Solarinite does have some logic to it when you think of it in that atomic age period (where else do you go after the atomic bomb?) I don’t truly think Plan 9 is the worst film ever made. I think Edward D. Wood Jr. was just one of the most tortured filmmakers in Hollywood and couldn’t get anything done the way he really wanted to due to pressure and shoe-string budgets. Ever read his biography Hollywood Rat Race? Venomous stuff!

In that same vain, I’d say in Wood’s best film, the film noir Jail Bait, I love the scene when Don Gregor confesses to his father about how he killed a man for the first time. Very few films these days show the shock of someone killing a man for the first time. Murder in film has become so common that characters often shake it off like it didn’t matter (not everyone is like Hamlet!) Clancy Malone does a very good performance (he was primarily a stage actor and wanted to work with Wood when he finally got creative freedom again, which he never did. Thusly, their only callaboration) for that film.

It makes sense when you recall that Wood’s idol was the great innovative filmmaker, Orson Welles. In Burton’s parody of him (it’s obvious Wood inspired Burton though I think Wood is actually more novel than Burton), it would have been interesting if they met but they never did in real life. I think Wood’s main problem other than being a WWII hero who had lost his teeth in hand-to-hand combat with a Japanese soldier and had been machine gunned in the leg (this was never addressed in Burton’s parody) that all this caused Hollywood to not respect him much as a person. All of his ideas were to racy in the 50’s: story about a father and son where the father is a chauvinist surgeon and thus his neglect causes his son to turn to crime; only for his son to come back in a last desperate act of love (paralleling the apparent relationship he had with his father) to have him do surgery on him to change his appearance to help him get away, also in Plan 9 & Bride (though I think Bride was ruined by the producer adding that atomic explosion in the end) anti-nuclear/Cold War story, and eventually his last and only film in the 60’s about a rapist. H’wood thought this guy was totally nuts.

I did conclude with a friend of mine that if Wood worked in Europe it probably would have been a totally different story. 🙁