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...again, he hits upon the movie and delivers a perfect imitation of his developmentally delayed character's laugh. Only it isn't an imitation. "That's actually my laugh. It's really me. I swear to God, I had no thought of that character just now." This is the scariest thing I have learned thus...
...Scariest millenium moment: Your most prized piece of electronic equipment reads 11:59. You realize that you have listened to almost twelve minutes of the Backstreet Boys' "Millenium" album and are starting to like it. Nothing several gallons of bottled waterand three weeks in isolation couldn't cure...
...network--Clark won't say which one, but other sources identify it as nbc--was turned down. But the Clark team's one-page proposal quickly appealed to Fox executive vice president Mike Darnell, who oversees the network's successful reality-based programming, such as World's Scariest Police Chases and When Good Pets Go Bad. In the market for a quiz show to pep up Fox's increasingly anemic-looking fall lineup, Darnell thought Clark's idea would work if it employed an edgier title and execution--contestants not only cooperating but also competing with one another. Thus while...
...clear the memory, I went to see The Sixth Sense again--surprise, surprise, it was sold out--so I settled for tickets to the Kevin Bacon scream-fest Stir of Echoes. I have no idea how this one slipped through the cracks. Without a doubt, it's the scariest thing I've seen since the old-time psycho-horror flicks (Exorcist, Psycho, Rosemary's Baby, etc.). Bacon plays a working stiff who dares one of his wife's friends to hypnotize him. It turns out to be a costly move--he finds himself hallucinating 24/7, besieged by images of ghosts...
Sure, Hollywood can occasionally throw a scare into an audience. The ravenous extraterrestrial in Alien. Jack Nicholson going bonkers in The Shining. The thought of a sequel to Big Daddy. But the scariest cinematic moments, for the most part, have come courtesy of low-budget independent films that, like The Blair Witch Project, arrive unheralded from outside the Hollywood mainstream to chill us with their grungy lack of artistry. These films disorient moviegoers by removing the usual Hollywood guideposts that subtly reassure us it's only a movie: recognizable stars, slick production values and a respect for ordinary dramatic conventions...