Comments on: Things That Go Bump In The Night

By: Jennifer C

Jennifer C — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 14:08:35 +0000

Leslie, I couldn’t agree with you more. I love scary movies and books, but only to a point. If there is anyway at all that this could possibly happen in reality then I don’t want to see it. I don’t need that going through my head. I tend to over analize things and I will keep running it through my head over and over. So when my husband wants to watch Saw I send him downstairs to watch it while I sit with a nice book and go to my happy place.

By: Walt

Walt — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 03:56:38 +0000

I ususally trash the hell out of cheesy ass movies like “SoaP”, but I had to go see this with an audience. I enjoyed almost every second of it.

The movie just opens to the inciting incident. You have the opening sequence, and then you expect the credits to start rolling for the title. And they do. With the backdrop of one of the Hawaiian islands, there the first star of the movie is

Samuel L. Jackson

And then the next thing you see is the word.

SNAKES

Like the snakes were the second billed star! And they were! Nice touch, but the SNAKES stays on the screen and below it is the rest of the title.

ON A
PLANE

You go for the viceral thrill of this one.

There’s one moment where the snakes charge the front of the plane on top of a rolling drink cart, (Like a “Let’s Roll” kind of horrible opposite take on the heroes of Flight 93) so the movie does not spare you from all sorts of cringingly bad moments.

Watching it in an empty theater at this point will defeat half the fun. The theater where I went, some in the audience waved fake snakes or long balloons in the air when the snakes attacked. (I know, I was one of them!)

So, this was an audience participation kind of film, and for that, it worked.

Back in a previous time, when dinosaurs ruled the earth, I roomed with four other guys in a house off of the University we all attended, and one of the roomates kept snakes. A LOT of snakes. This was back in the days when the trading of poisonous snakes wasn’t as illegal in populated areas as it is now. He had about 15 non poisonous snakes, and about 12 poisonous ones. Our utility room was filled with the 10 gallon aquariums that was home to them. For a while, we had a managerie of live animals used to feed the snakes. Apparently, egg snakes like the smell of the chicken still on the egg. and the rattlers he kept… ah, there’s a story or two…

By: jeanne

jeanne — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 01:00:50 +0000

The scariest movie for me is Fire in the Sky - it’s about alien abduction and IT’S BASED ON REAL FACT.

I also heard on the news that someone let two rattlesnakes loose in a theater where Snakes on a Plane was playing.

By: Jodie

Jodie — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 18:21:08 +0000

My teenage son (19) has always loved scary movies. Scary, gory, gross, believable or not, he loves them. In fact, he would probably be a great horror movie critic because I’m pretty sure he has seen every horror movie ever made. He will even go onto e-bay to find old ones that he can’t rent anymore.

Give me the funny, loveable, “ahhhh isn’t that sweet” movies. Since I’ve had kids I can’t stand anything that makes me scared or freaked-out. I guess that gene ran out of my body straight into my son.

By: Vicki

Vicki — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 18:19:17 +0000

snakes…it doesn’t matter how big or how small. I hate them and am scared to death of them. Spiders run a close second though.

By: Yolanda

Yolanda — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:39:18 +0000

I think I can handle snakes (not that I’m a big fan) rather than rodents. The rat in Harry Potter had me covering my eyes. (I’m a wuss I know).

By: kim H

kim H — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:08:40 +0000

i watch it sometimes. i can’t until your next blaze!!!

By: Janelle

Janelle — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 15:27:39 +0000

I don’t like scary movies because, well, they SCARE me! However, my husband and kids like to watch them, which they do together. And usually, afterward, we have every light on in the house at night until the kids forget about whatever it was that scared them. Or they’ll come and wake us up with every little noise they hear. Geez.

By: Gigi

Gigi — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 14:49:43 +0000

I found as I get older that I can’t take getting scared at the theatre anyone.
Well, I’m not going to pay to be scared.
My hubby and daughter went to see Snakes on a Plane the weekend it came out. My daughter loved it. My hubby thought it was like some of the things he watches on the SciFi channel.
The last really disturbing movie I saw in a theatre was Ransom. I thought I would have a heart attack. My heart was pounding so much.
Like Leslie I like my scary movies to be about Vampires and things that don’t really exists outside the movies.
I’m going to stick to good looking Pirates, Superheros and things like that.
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By: katie

katie — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 14:38:19 +0000

I am with ev…I don’t really like that stuff. Give me a good fun, light romance anyday….My 4 year old screams at bugs, too….we make my hubby kill them.