demagogue on 21/9/2010 at 13:37
Reminds me of a scene in The Hot Zone (non-fiction) where these guys in full-body helmeted suits are walking through an evacuated research facility in Virginia where they know an airborne monkey ebola virus is swirling around. They don't know yet if it's transmissible to humans. They turn a corner and there's a janitor just standing there without any protection, who turns to look at these three guys in obvious contamination suits coming, looking at him in horror. I imagine the feeling that janitor must have had and the look on his face would have been pretty close to pure fear as it dawned on him what was going on.
ZymeAddict on 22/9/2010 at 02:35
Quote Posted by nicked
Although the scariest X-Files episode, that I truly can never watch again cos it freaked me out so much, is this one: (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folie_a_Deux_%28The_X-Files%29) Folie a Deux. It's about this guy who may actually be a horrible insect monster who turns people into zombies but is using pheremones to make himself and his zombies appear like normal people. Alright, the premise sounds a bit silly, but it's skillfully done and absolutely bloody terrifying.
Hell yeah! I love that episode!
Interesting side note about "Home" was that it was apparently quite controversial at the time. It even received an "MA" rating when broadcast, which was pretty much unheard of for network television.
Agree about Kim Manners. The guy was obviously very talented.
Something I always thought was funny about
The X-Files, though, was how all the episodes written by famous authors (such as Stephen King and William Gibson) were absolutely god awful. :erg:
Gibson's stories were especially laughable as they attempted to awkwardly shoehorn futuristic cyberpunk themes and tech into a mid-nineties setting.
reizak on 22/9/2010 at 15:41
That place actually seems kinda awesome. I don't mind being a bit scared as long as I can rationally convince myself that there's no actual danger, but the glass-bottom boats might be pushing it.
Bluegrime on 23/9/2010 at 15:53
Quote Posted by demagogue
Reminds me of a scene in The Hot Zone (non-fiction) where these guys in full-body helmeted suits are walking through an evacuated research facility in Virginia where they know an airborne monkey ebola virus is swirling around. They don't know yet if it's transmissible to humans. They turn a corner and there's a janitor just standing there without any protection, who turns to look at these three guys in obvious contamination suits coming, looking at him in horror. I imagine the feeling that janitor must have had and the look on his face would have been pretty close to pure fear as it dawned on him what was going on.
I remember that book. I think the first guy who dies in it, the one on the plane, has it the worst though. Imagine one day you wake up with a fever, your eyes are bloodshot, and you feel sick. Probably Malaria, no? Then when your flying to the nearest medical facility, you vomit up two airline bags worth of blood + your stomach lining + sloughing (their word in the book) off the skin of your tongue before almost literally dissolving on an operating table.
Scary stuff to me.
Kuuso on 25/9/2010 at 22:15
Dunno, nothing scared me more as a child than seeing X-Files Season 5, Episode 10: Chinga, which is written by Stephen King. I didn't sleep well for ages.
I dont want to watch it again, because its prolly gonna look goofy.
nicked on 26/9/2010 at 09:50
Is that the one with the possessed doll and eeevil little girl? I remember it being pretty cheesy and not especially scary. Depends how scared one is of murderous dolls I guess...
jivemuffin on 26/9/2010 at 19:35
What really scares me? This really scares me:
(
http://www.foxnewscomments.com) Fox News Comments.
Alternates between hilarious and deeply disturbing.
Scots Taffer on 27/9/2010 at 04:02
Extend that to almost any comments area on a massively browsed site. Even the ones I laugh at, I'm pretty sure I shouldn't because they're actually being serious.
nicked on 27/9/2010 at 05:52
That site makes me kinda depressed about the human race in general. I would say Americans, but I guarantee they ain't any cleverer this side of the pond.
Tocky on 27/9/2010 at 16:29
The one where the guy said he wished he was a rich black athelete so he could afford a white woman was funny in a nail ringing way. As far as scary goes they were on a par with black muslims who have already drawn off the parts of the US they will have after the race war and not as much as Islamic radicals who blow shit up. I just hope the tea party doesn't incite some "they're gonna take muh gun" assassin. What's scary is they will vote in a republican senate who will finish handing the country to megabucks corporations.
