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Topic: HAPPY HALLOWEEN
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silverstone
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posted October 29, 2006 06:48 PM
 
HAPPY HALLOWEEN 
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lotusheartone
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posted October 30, 2006 08:51 PM
SilverStone..you weirdo!, hehe
Happy Birthday to you! and Happy Halloween to you and ALL!. ... IP: Logged |
silverstone
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posted October 31, 2006 04:19 AM
Thanks, Lotus 
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The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep. ~Robert Frost IP: Logged |
breezey93
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posted October 31, 2006 08:50 PM
Silverstone...I saw the steps leading to her room in Georgetown where they filmed that movie at night...CrEEpy..remember those steps??...yikes !  ------------------
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silverstone
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posted November 01, 2006 01:24 AM
That's creepy...Geez! Happy Halloween!------------------
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake. The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep. ~Robert Frost IP: Logged |
Mirandee
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posted November 03, 2006 10:53 AM
Thanks, Silverstone for the wishes. Had a fun filled Halloween here and hope you all did too. We have a lifetime supply of candy.  Ugh, the image that burns into people's brains. Had a hard time shaking that image when I saw that movie. In an article in the Detroit Free Press " The Exorcist" was rated the #1 scariest movie of all time. IP: Logged |
sue g
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posted November 03, 2006 11:59 AM
I never saw that movie...I read the book, then it disappeared from under my bed...I found out years later that my mother burned it...At the time I was angry...being a teenager then, but now I understand why. I think that image looks evil tbh...hope children dont visit LL......not a good thing for them to see hey? love
Sue
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Lialei
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posted November 03, 2006 06:01 PM
Silverstone,
Aw, I missed your birthday? What day was it?
I've been sick with the flu.Happy Belated Birthday, Silver 
Hope you had a wonderful day as you deserve.  Here's a song for you. A beautiful song to hear, I think, no matter the occasion.
http://play.rhapsody.com/vanmorrison/moondance/intothemystic
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Lialei
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posted November 03, 2006 06:33 PM
btw...I saw the Exorcist when I was about 8 years old at the drive in with my parents.
Thanks Mom and Dad for traumatizing my fragile mind!!  Just kidding...it's really wasn't that big of a deal. Sure I was a bit scared for a while, but in the end I knew it was only a movie. I really think we should have more faith in our children's abilities to discern things for themselves. IP: Logged |
sue g
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posted November 03, 2006 07:56 PM
HahaEdit
I remember in UK people were doing all sorts of weird things after watching that movie...I agree with Mirandee, it was probably one of the scariest movies of all time from what people say and after reading the book...
I think maybe I will continue to encourage him to keep on watching little bear... XXX IP: Logged |
Bluemoon
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posted November 03, 2006 07:59 PM
 I have seen that stair way in person. IP: Logged |
sue g
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posted November 03, 2006 08:04 PM
Oooh BlueI have seen lots of horror movies in my time, but something always kept me away from that one....something very sinister to it..... That pic you post looks very very spooky! Uuugghhh!!! xx IP: Logged |
Bluemoon
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posted November 03, 2006 08:20 PM
I saw the movie when I was 16. It scared me terribly. I had nightmares for months. I dont even like to think about it now.IP: Logged |
breezey93
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posted November 03, 2006 09:40 PM
Yes...Bluemoon thanks for that pic. I actually saw it when I was seeing an anniversary showing of Citizen Kane in Georgetown years ago.
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silverstone
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posted November 04, 2006 03:25 AM
Greetings--Thanks, Lia I had a wonderful time! I am glad you are feeling better, I was wondering where you went... you Saggi you  My birthday is October 30, 1979; still consider a Halloween Baby on Halloween eve...hee hee! When is yours Lia? Sue Thanks for the thread in Free For All Big hug, and I am sorry if the picture of the Excorcist is disturbing I did not intend to post it to have a negative impact.
Scorpio-sun 06 Scorpio
Ascendant is in 26 Pisces
Moon is in 08 Pisces
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Jupiter is in 05 Virgo
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Neptune in 18 Sagittarius
Pluto is in 19 Libra
Chiron is in 11 Taurus Retrograde
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The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake. The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep. ~Robert Frost IP: Logged |
sue g
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posted November 04, 2006 03:41 AM
Hope you had a great day Silverstone...our birthdays are only a day apart, and we have some similar placements!Thanks for the apology about that image, its just that I am yet to meet anyone that wasnt very scared or disturbed by that film...there was something very sinister about it and every time I see that pic, the effect isnt good on me. Like I said I would be very concerned if a child saw it!! I am very careful what our son watches on tv....kids can be affected by images, especially the sensitive ones!! We as parents have a responsibility for their welfare dont we....love and all that...God bless em Do you have any children Silver? Good luck and hugs back Silverstone xx IP: Logged |
Mirandee
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posted November 04, 2006 11:25 AM
Wishing you a happy birthday too, Silverstone. I am lousy about remembering even the birthdays that I know so forgive me. Also a happy birthday to all the Scorps here at LL. There are waaaay too many of you to wish on an individual basis.  And happy birthday to my youngest son who is celebrating his birthday today. Love you darling. Just also would like to add that when it comes to any horror film what scares one person doesn't necessarily scare another person. What frightens us is subjective. Some people were more terrified over the movie "Jaws" than they were over " The Exorcist." I think that how terrified we were over "The Exorcist" depends a lot on our psyches. The " sinister" feeling about " The Exorcist" may come from the fact that it is loosely based on a true story and my knowledge of that is what terrified me when I saw the movie. I didn't even want to see the movie at the time knowing about the real event but my sister begged me to go see it with her and her husband so I caved in to my regret. Oddly enough the movie had a more severe fright impact on my sister who is not a religious person than it did on me. She was afraid to be alone for a while after the movie and would call me daily for consolation. I kept telling her that possession is a rare event and that to keep in mind that she was not ever possessed before seeing the movie and won't be possessed just because she saw it. Her whole thing was " can this really happen?" And there was not the trust in God with her that lessened the fright. It was based on a true story but that happened to a 14 year old boy and he did not attack his mother or anyone else. He mutilated himself. After all other tests were run on him, just like in the book and the movie, the RC Church did perform the exorcism rite on him. The only thing that he remembered after the event was a vision of Michael the Archangel. I read about this event in a RC publication years before the movie or the book. The article did not use the real name of the man who grew up to marry and have a very productive life. And he had no memory of the possession itself, only the vision. It was after he saw the vision of the Archangel Michael that he was cured of the possession. The rite of exorcism is rarely used in the RC Church and just as the movie and book depicted only a few priests are trained in the rite and capable of performing the rite of exorcism. That part of the book and movie was very realistic. What scared me about the movie was, as I stated, my knowledge that it was based on a true event and my doubt in an entity we call Satan and demons as a whole. I doubt their existance though I know there is evil in the world. If such an entity does exist in my mind the powers of Satan and demons is limited in comparison to God and for a person to be possessed by demons God would have to allow it to happen which is why true possession is so very rare. And when it does happen it is for a reason that only God knows and there is good that comes from it in the end. Just my thoughts on the movie and even though I don't like looking at the make-up on the actress that you posted, Silverstone, I don't find it offensive as I know it is only make-up. They did a real good job with that make-up too. lol IP: Logged |
sue g
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posted November 05, 2006 05:34 AM
""Released on Boxing Day 1973, The Exorcist generated a wave of audience hysteria the likes of which had not been seen since the opening of the 1931 Frankenstein, from which patrons ran screaming, causing cinema managers to lay on smelling salts and ambulance crews for the adversely affected. Within weeks of the first public screening of the exorcist, reports were flowing in of fainting, vomiting, heart attacks, and at least one mis-carriage. In Berkeley, a male patron received injuries when he threw himself at the screen to 'get the demon'. Later, the Toronto Medical Post reported that four women had been confined to psychiatric care after seeing the film. 'There is no way you can sit through that film without receiving some lasting negative or disturbing effects,' announced Chicago psychiatrist Dr Loyis Schlan, whilst Oakbrook theatre manager Frank Kveton was somewhat more down to earth in his assessment: ' My janitors are going crazy wiping up the vomit!' he opined ruefully.
More seriously, European press reports in the months following the movie's world-wide release concentrated upon a number of cases of criminal and suicidal behaviour for which The Exorcist was squarely blamed. In West Germany the death of 19 year old Rainer Hertrampf, who shot himself with an automatic rifle some time after seeing The Exorcist, led to calls for the film to be banned. In England, a much publicised inquest concerning the death of 16 year old John Power, who had seen The Exorcist the day before he died, revealed that the teenager had suffered a totally unrelated epileptic attack, but public fears of the film's harmful potential were aroused nonetheless. In October 1974, The Exorcist was cited as responsible for the murder of nine year old Sandra Simpson by teenager Nicholas Bell who told a York crown court: 'It was not really me that did it. There was something inside me. It is ever since I saw that film The Exorcist. I felt something take possession of me. It has been in me ever since.'
Adding to the fervent zeal with which some condemned The Exorcist was the increasing worry voiced in certain quarters that both the English and American censors had been too lenient with the movie. The American ratings board, the MPAA, rated The Exorcist 'R' which allowed children to view the film with parental approval. MPAA President Jack Valenti stressed that the picture contained 'no overt sex' and 'no excessive violence', but community pressure in Washington and Boston forced the DA's office to overturn the 'R' rating and slap a 17 age restriction on the movie. In Britain, The Exorcist ws passed uncut for an 'X' certificate ( the equivalent of the modern '18' rating), but found itself under attack from the Christian lobby, The Festival of Light, who picketed performances of the film, handing out leaflets to potential viewers warning them of the 'dangers of opening themselves up to the forces of darkness.' Claiming (without evidence) that two people had already died as a result of watching The Exorcist, Festival Chairman Peter Thompson demanded that the Home Secretary Roy Jenkins conduct a public inquiry into the regulation of admission to 'X' films. In a wave of media prompted hysteria worryingly similar to the current panic surrounding 'horror videos', The Exorcist was promptly blamed for all manner of social ills ranging from a series of sexual assaults to the theft of a jacket and trousers by a woman who hadn't actually seen the movie, but whose eighteen year old daughter had become disturbed after a viewing. Ironically, on February 24th 1975, the Government censorship board of Tunis banned the movie outright on the grounds that it presented 'unjustified' propaganda in favour of Christianity""!
Uuughh!!!
I knew of a priest in UK who went to see the film....afterwards he threw himself off the top of a building and died... So glad I didnt get to see it....my intuition, even as a 15 year old, served me well.....
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Lialei
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posted November 05, 2006 09:20 AM
You are aware this is a movie we're talking about, right Sue?  I don't quite understand your extreme reaction to what I said. Maybe I didn't explain myself well, since I was somewhat feverish, but I was discussing the picture here mainly. It didn't set well with me that Silverstone be made to feel he did something shameful, just by posting a scary picture for Halloween in the spirit of Halloween and fun. No, of course I wouldn't let my kids watch the Exorcist. I do monitor the things they watch and protecting their innocence is important to me. When they're at an older age, though, I definately will have more faith in them then to burn their books or think that they are so fearful and misguided in moral character that a single movie or book would unravel their sense of integrity and good. Both of my daughters (age 8 and 9) saw the picture here and their reaction was "oooh, freaky". The older one said, "is it supposed to be scary?" (she always tries to play it cool, haha). They know it's a costume and make-up. I think they saw scarier things trick-or-treating on Halloween (the teenager in the Jason mask reving a chainsaw and chasing little kids around the neighborhood). But now that you've mentioned masturbating with crosses, think I'll be keeping them away from this thread. 
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sue g
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posted November 05, 2006 09:38 AM
Yes indeed....I will edit my comment....maybe it would be good for Silver to delete the pics.....but then again, maybe I am wrong? Sorry you were feeling ill and maybe overreacted a tad.... But all the same I worried that you were allowed to watch the movie at aged 8...it turned my stomach thats all.... Okay off to edit that comment...sorry for offence..!! IP: Logged |
Lialei
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posted November 05, 2006 09:42 AM
Mirandee, I agree that I think a person's fear factor about the Exorcist is subjective. I wasn't raised to believe in the devil or to fear him, so when I saw the movie (turns out I was actually about 10, not 8 like I thought) I wasn't viewing it as something that I believed could actually happen to someone. But if on the other hand, someone was raised with a 'hellfire and damnation' fundamental religious upbringing....and were instilled that the devil was something powerful to fear,
than their experience of the movie would be entirely different, I think. The effects of burning a teenager's book, I believe is much more negative than any book could be in itself. If anything, all banning (movies, books, etc) does to a teenager is give the topic more power than it might have otherwise had.
It's basically saying to them, "I have no faith in you."
And also projecting your own fears upon them, so if anything the parent becomes the one who is corrupting their innocence, not the topic, which might have otherwise been viewed/read then shrugged off.
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sue g
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posted November 05, 2006 09:45 AM
And LiaJust a film? I dont really go with that comment.....I have found in the past both music and films have been somewhat life alterting....especially to the more sensitive of person... If it was just a film...we wouldnt have to monitor what our children watch really would we...? I could say that it would be okay for our 8 year old to watch the Exorcist and the Chainsaw Massacre, when we know it isnt! I do feel there is more of an effect from the silver screen, than we would have believe. When I was 18 or so, I saw a film called Black Christmas, it took years for me to get the image of one of the scenes out of my head....it felt very very real. Just a film seems to minimise somehow? Maybe that it just me....but then again I am sure there are hundreds out there with the same sensitivity... Just my feeling... IP: Logged |
Lialei
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posted November 05, 2006 09:52 AM
I don't think editing anything is necessary,Sue,
but thanks for your explaination.Well, as I said we were at the drive-in at the time...the movie was the second, cuz they had double features. We originally had only went to see the first movie, but then we talked our parents into letting us stay and watch the second movie. Turns out my mom was more terrified of the movie than any of us were. (She was raised southern Baptist ) IP: Logged |
sue g
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posted November 05, 2006 09:55 AM
""""Ugh, the image that burns into people's brains. Had a hard time shaking that image when I saw that movie. In an article in the Detroit Free Press " The Exorcist" was rated the #1 scariest movie of all time""". Yes Mirandee that is how Black Christmas left me..... Thank God I didnt watch the Exorcist....I was the tender age of 15 when it was released and was one of the few people that didnt see it.... You said it all there about having a hard time shaking that image.... Scary stuff!! IP: Logged |
Lialei
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posted November 05, 2006 09:58 AM
I have to run off to work. Sorry, don't have time to discuss this more. Will return later. Silverstone, thanks for posting your natal info. Very interesting. My Sun is 00 degree Sag, so you're Mercury is exactly conjunct my Sun.  My birthday is November 23rd.
I was a Thanksgiving baby. Have a good day, everyone. 
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