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     Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.150.18.247 |
Been trying to remember the name of a film - it's from the 80's maybe early 90s, where a cop's son is kidnapped and due to be sacrificed by a cult. It starts where the cop's wife is electrocuted by the toaster... It's really bugging me | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
THE BELIEVERS (1987) starring Martin Sheen. Bam!  | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.4.19.77 |
The novel, 'The Religion' by Nicholas Conde, has long been one of my Top 20 horror novels of all time. It was a one hit wonder of the early 80s that is as fine an achievement in the annals of weird fiction as anything written by any of the greats recently listed elsewhere. A brilliant, slow burning, literate and quite terrifying book that gains immensely from the author's in-depth knowledge of Santeria... and its darker off-shoots. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.156.210.82 |
Stevie, your top 20 horror novels of all time must contain at least a hundred titles.  Weber, The Believers is a decent little flick. Underrated by most. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
I was disappointed in it as the book is much more powerful and frightening. They shoe-horned in a voodoo witchdoctor, who wasn't in the book, just to have a scary villain to sell the picture. The book is one of those great paranoid "faceless cult" stories that creates an overpowering sense of something vast and evil hiding behind the everyday facade of New York streetlife. It's up there with 'Rosemary's Baby', 'Harvest Home' or 'The Ceremonies', imo. The film was merely routine when it could have been so much more in the hands of a Polanski or Kubrick. Unfortunately John Schlesinger was in an irreversible decline as a filmmaker by that stage. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 89.19.81.238 |
Leave it mate, he's not worth it. Mate? Mate. Mate. Mate He's not-- Mate. Mate. Leave-- Mate. Mate. Mate. He's not wort-- Mate. Mate, he's not worth it, mate. Leave it. Are you gonna let him talk to you like that? Go'wan, I'll hold your glass. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
Hmm. So far, it seems to be true what they say, that it's best to be drinking when everyone else is drinking.... | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 89.19.81.238 |
Jese, if you're going to be catty, you could at least use a proper ellipsis... | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 89.19.81.238 |
I'm going to bed, you can have the Sun over where you are. We're finished with it here for now. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
It was proper. The sentence was complete, though the thought, fragmented.... Btw, thanks a lot, you got the Sun all vomity. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.79.103.61 |
Here's how ellipses work: . Something else .. The Dracula ... The Classic .... The Amazon Review ..... The Pinter | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
Proto: poop. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellipsis And from the article, specifically: "There are two commonly used methods of using ellipses: one uses three dots for any omission, while the second one makes a distinction between omissions within a sentence (using three dots: . . .) and omissions between sentences (using a period and a space followed by three dots: . ...). An ellipsis at the end of a sentence with no sentence following should be followed by a period (for a total of four dots)." [emphasis mine] And now to quote you in another thread: "I won that one. Waaaay!"  | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.79.173.204 |
I helped an alcoholic with a crutch trying to get to his feet from the pavement today. But yes, your thing - congratulations. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
I don't like to kick others when they're down. So I'll tell you what: I'll just lie right here beside you and jab your kidneys repeatedly. ... er. You know what I mean. It's a joke about ego-maniacal violence, though I sense some wanker turning it into another kind of joke altogether. The good thing is, we don't have to worry about bringing this thread down, since it basically ended in post #2. |