Nightmares

[dglenn]

Something somebody else wrote in a locked entry, about really Not Wanting To Know About It if any of their friends thought a certain act was acceptable, reminded me of something I know I've mentioned in several places in the past but don't recall whether I've written about in a blog entry here:

As far as I can remember, only one movie has ever

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movie nightmare

[anthro_geek]

Yeah, the the real world, I find the idea of books being wasted frightening.

From a strict movie p.o.v., when Jim and I were in England for our honeymoon (many years ago), we saw the U.K. release of "Brazil".

I had such a bad nightmare that night. Yikes, it was bad.

The U.K. had some additional frightening scenes towards the end of the movie.

[nancylebov]

Skip The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover.

[madkingludwig]

I once had a GF who had a chum. She had been reading a book that I wanted to borrow. The three of us went out to a movie at some point after I had expressed an interest in reading it. Clive Barker's "Books of Blood," as I recall. I asked her if she was done with it while walking out to the parking lot after the film was over.
"I burnt it," she replied.
"Why?" I asked in hostile reply.
"I was bored."
I bounced my lit cigarette off her cleavage and walked away.
That's pretty much my attitude toward book burning. Sort of like you take tattered American flags to the fire station for proper and reverential disposal, you take old books and donate them to the library. If it is to be disposed of, I will let the priests of literacy do it. I am not qualified to determine which books should live and which should be recycled.

[starmalachite]

I didn't see Fahrenheit 451 until I was in college, so no nightmares. Feeling physically ill, yes.

I can't think of any movie, ever, that gave me one. The only book that ever has is Ammie, Come Home, a ghost story set in Georgetown by Barbara Michaels (Elizabeth Peters' other pen name pre-Amelia Peabody).

ANTI-NIGHTMARE SPOILER SPACE

The ghost of a murderer who died in a fire manifests as a pillar of greasy black smoke that radiates intense cold. That alone would probably have not done it for me, but when it *moved* and chased the heroes clean out of the house...

[twistedchick]

Barbara Mertz (aka Barbara Michaels) has said in intereviews that writing that scene in Ammie, Come Home, was scary enough that she sat in her kitchen until daylight with all her cats and dogs in the room, and all the lights on in the house.

[juuro]

The concept of "altered books" that seems to have some popularity in arts and crafts circles, I'm afraid, strikes me as vandalism.