All Time Scaries

[davewitley]

June, her sperm count soaring, wrote:

> My two eeeeeek moments were:
> 
> 1.  Saturday - Lawrence Olivier about to get seriously mediaeval 
with 
> a dentists drill in Dustin Hoffman in Marathon Man
> 
> 2.  A bit from "The Thing" involving surgery and sudden teeth.  No 
I 
> won't go into any further detail, but eeeeeeeeeeew!  Had me 
running 
> for the bathroom.

I don't usually watch horror movies so most of them were new to me 
(why did I watch, then?  Beats me).

However, we did think that bit from "The Thing" was brilliant.  We 
both burst out laughing.  It just seemed so cartoonish and 
implausible.

We did turn over on Saturday night to 'Parkinson', where a horror 
story of its own was unfolding.  He was interviewing the infamous 
Trinny and Susannah from 'What not to Wear' (TV makeover people who 
spend £1000 helping you buy a new wardrobe, after first ruthlessly 
criticising your current appearance), and was clearly squicked when 
they tried to remove his tie.  He never recovered, and took out his 
anxiety on his next guest, Meg Ryan, who didn't know what had hit 
her but spiritedly defended the corner of her new film anyway.  I've 
never seen him so hostile to a guest, or so ill at ease.

David, who has seen "Marathon Man"