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     Niki Flynn (Niki) Username: Niki Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.32.69.29 |
...keeps a jar of acid in his office? I was up late the other night with a friend, listening to the soundtrack from THE HOWLING. We were quoting the whole film back and forth to each other (God, misspent youth!) and it suddenly occurred to us to wonder why there happened to be a jar of acid in Dr Waggner's office. It seems like a pretty bad idea to me. Unless it's for self-defence against violent patients. Werewolf patients. In which case - wouldn't silver bullets be a more sensible choice? | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.77.198 |
I saw that. And laughed at it. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
You were meant to laugh, Gary: it's a comedy! | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.77.198 |
Hence the title. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
Probably the same jar of acid that was left open on a shelf in a hospital ward for no apparent reason in THE BEYOND. It went on to have a writing credit for the Sisters of Mercy hit 'This Corrosion'. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.19.58 |
Watched a little (hate the cat at the end) and also Jeepers Creepers which I have seen before. | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.253.174.81 |
The kind of psychiatrist who would keep a jar of acid in his office is probably the same type who, wearing an off the peg brown polyester suit, would go chasing after a knife-wielding sister-murdering obsessed maniac who has somehow, despite having been banged up in the state mental hospital since he was five, learned how to drive a station wagon, screaming "He's gone from here! The evil is gone!" | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
A Jungian, then. | ||
| Niki Flynn (Niki) Username: Niki Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.32.69.29 |
"Your compassion is overwhelming, Doctor." | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.77.197 |
How many psychiatrists does it take to change a werewolf? One, but the werewolf has to want to... | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.253.174.81 |
"I watched him for fifteen years! Sitting on a chair, staring at a wall, staring past the wall. waiting for this night. Inhumanly patient" What's that Dr Loomis? - you spent 15 years staring at someone staring at a wall? And you say the Thorazine's for HIM? | ||
| Niki Flynn (Niki) Username: Niki Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.32.69.29 |
I tried to look up "evil" in the DSM and you know what? It's not in there. Weird. | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.253.174.81 |
Of course the other type of psychiatrist who might keep acid on his desk could be someone who, once he has been turned into a Cenobite after resurrecting the Queen of Hell from her bloodstained mattress, says 'And to think - I hesitated'. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.7.197 |
Well the most obvious type of psychiatrist who would keep acid on his desk, is one that might like serving liver with fava beans and chianti, when having someone over for dinner... sssththtsptththpt! | ||
| Niki Flynn (Niki) Username: Niki Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.32.69.29 |
Oddly enough, all four of these psychiatrists are Brits in America (Yeah, I know Dr Channard only half counts, since HELLRAISER can't decide which country it's set in), but still... there seems to be some sinister theme of kooky English shrinks corrupting/pursuing hapless Yanks. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.121.214.11 |
Wasn't Lektor a Russian by birth and just played by an Englishman? (Played much better by a Welshman in Manhunter though) | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.253.174.81 |
Lector has only been played by Welshmen, which is interesting. There must be something about our place of birth that confers upon us a beautiful speaking voice and the ability to convey an icily evil temperament. | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.253.174.81 |
Except of course I should check my facts rather than just believe Weber Gregston - Brian Cox is Scottish, not Welsh. Still the old Celtic connection, though. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.121.214.11 |
I keep forgetting that that hack Hopkins is Welsh | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.121.214.11 |
Whoops. Lektor was played best by the Scotsman. Sorry about that. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.12.194 |
Since you Brits speak with an accent (yes, you speak with the accent) that so easily drips with sarcasm and menace, it just makes so much more sense to cast you as crazed or insane....  | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 160.6.1.47 |
"there seems to be some sinister theme of kooky English shrinks corrupting/pursuing hapless Yanks." Good point. Maybe Americans don't trust anyone who wants to understand the brain. It would explain the last 8 years. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 160.6.1.47 |
Obama's just resigned. At he height of his popularity. Clever move. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 160.6.1.47 |
"Good point. Maybe Americans don't trust anyone who wants to understand the brain. It would explain the last 8 years." Interetsting point, there. Yeah, you could be right. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 160.6.1.47 |
He's started up his 2012. Presidental campaign already. He'd be good. Better than that last guy. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.16.76.154 |
I'm pretty sure Americans don't want to trust nutty British psychiatrists who eat other human beings, are afraid of werewolves, and spend all their time non-curing escaped psychopathic killers, no....  |