possible missing word: “… and I don’t want in front of her, …” perhaps should be “and I don’t want to in front of her”. However, the text is kinda tight, and it might not be possible to fit that in easily. Good luck.
Hurt? That looks like it would carry significant collateral damage. Hope Phix’s rare books are on a high shelf. A some point Phix’s is going to need a tire billy to realine the weeds rant.
That’s for sure… that was back in the day when that’s all it really took to get some chills n’ thrills from an audience, not like today where you have to have gory decapitations and other crap like that to even ATTEMPT to get somebody scared now days… even though I wasn’t around back then and only saw the movies mentioned on re-runs and vcr/dvd. kinda like when i’m looking thru all my early-years of Dr. Who shows, I’m still in amused that somebody could consider Dr. Who TOO scary, when they and their families were watching it live…
Eh, the GOOD horror movies know that gore and jump-scares are cheap and hollow, even nowadays. They know that shouting “Boo!” at you every five minutes quickly desensitizes you to it, and the same for gore, with the added note that it’s much less of an impact if you don’t connect with the characters first. The only reason stuff like Paranormal Activity and Saw can do so well, and keep going so long, is because it’s stupidly cheap to make. They can have an opening weekend that any other series would consider a flop, and still make enough to fund the next three movies. Well, maybe not Saw, they seemed to be upping production values with each movie.
The really GOOD horror movies use music to amp the tension: the music slowly builds and builds and builds and then… stops, you go “phew” thinking it’s over and then the scary happens 😀
I agree with Marika, to a point. Gore became it’s own genre and you ended up with things like Peter Jackson’s Braindead (and Meet the Feebles!), and the epicness that is Troma.
They may have been horrible, but they know they weren’t horror.
Tension Breaker, had to be done.
Chainsaw? Is that you??
Hah! That was exactly what I was going to post.
I thought I was the only one who remembered that movie.
That might be enough to creep Phix out.
Attack of the Triffid.
I’d be curious what you think a triffid is. As far as I know, “triffid” means “divided in three parts.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triffid?wprov=sfla1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_of_the_Triffids_(film)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=or3ygBd56gg
watch the whole thing!
@BareMender – That would be trifid, not triffid.
Warhorse – Watch all of the whole things. there are two miniseries versions as well (1981 and 2009)
I was particularly amused by the musing at the end of the 1981 version that blamed it all on military satellites.
How about that. I never heard of it. That would explain why the English fantasy author I’m reading mentioned triffids.
“…and I really got hot, when I saw Janette Scott, fight a triffid that spits poison and kills!”
Rocky Horror Picture Show “Science Fiction Double Feature”
I knew I was old when I realized I was probably the only person in the entire theater who’d SEEN every film mentioned in that song. *cy*
Now there’s a movie I’d love to see a remake of.
It was called “Signs”. The ending in the 1962 version whas cheap and nasty.
IIRC, both of the miniseries were quite reasonable, although, the ’82 one has dated somewhat.
Oh, right. “Trifid.”
Looks more like a Shut Down/Restart to me.
Maybe she’ll get real looking eyes now.
Or a more human figure.
Ouch!
That… is actually terrifying….
Read ‘Day of the Triffids’.
possible missing word: “… and I don’t want in front of her, …” perhaps should be “and I don’t want to in front of her”. However, the text is kinda tight, and it might not be possible to fit that in easily. Good luck.
I imagine that was left out intentionally to fit the balloon.
Actually — Pablo *did* move the words around to just fit in the bubble, and the word To is now where I suggested. Good effort.
Hurt? That looks like it would carry significant collateral damage. Hope Phix’s rare books are on a high shelf. A some point Phix’s is going to need a tire billy to realine the weeds rant.
Books aren’t particularly crystalline, so I wouldn’t have expected a sonic blast like that to do too much damage.
Of course, the Lantian crystal memory caches…
The books in the Library reconstitute themselves if they’re damaged.
That may just shatter Phix’s glasses
I am loving this “growing pains” arc.
Castela sure knows how to vent…most people just throw up…
“The Day of the Triffids” scared the crap out of me when I was a kid. I was about 5 when that movie came out and the commercials terrified me….
Well it WAS a horror movie…
It was? Don’t remember it being classed as a horror
That’s for sure… that was back in the day when that’s all it really took to get some chills n’ thrills from an audience, not like today where you have to have gory decapitations and other crap like that to even ATTEMPT to get somebody scared now days… even though I wasn’t around back then and only saw the movies mentioned on re-runs and vcr/dvd. kinda like when i’m looking thru all my early-years of Dr. Who shows, I’m still in amused that somebody could consider Dr. Who TOO scary, when they and their families were watching it live…
Eh, the GOOD horror movies know that gore and jump-scares are cheap and hollow, even nowadays. They know that shouting “Boo!” at you every five minutes quickly desensitizes you to it, and the same for gore, with the added note that it’s much less of an impact if you don’t connect with the characters first. The only reason stuff like Paranormal Activity and Saw can do so well, and keep going so long, is because it’s stupidly cheap to make. They can have an opening weekend that any other series would consider a flop, and still make enough to fund the next three movies. Well, maybe not Saw, they seemed to be upping production values with each movie.
The really GOOD horror movies use music to amp the tension: the music slowly builds and builds and builds and then… stops, you go “phew” thinking it’s over and then the scary happens 😀
I agree with Marika, to a point. Gore became it’s own genre and you ended up with things like Peter Jackson’s Braindead (and Meet the Feebles!), and the epicness that is Troma.
They may have been horrible, but they know they weren’t horror.
For shame, your runes are showing….
Runes?
If you’re talking about the inside of the rabid kale, I’m pretty sure those are teeth.
if that wasn’t lil’ Castie I was looking at…I’D BE RUNNING LIKE HELL!!!
Yeah, that’s why she didn’t want to do it at home
heh… “Face-plant” ^_^
PfffHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!