Re: [Videolib] Friday fun question, early...

Night of the Living Dead is a classic and of course Evil Dead great, they both started a series, and have set the bar for horrorŠ. "Hail to the King" -David Folmar From: "Ball, James (jmb4aw)" Reply-To: Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 20:13:28 + To: "videolib@lists.berkeley.edu" Subject: [Vide

Re: [Videolib] Friday fun question, early...

I have odd tastes and I think you are far more susceptible when you are young and the one move that scared the crap out of me was the original Kolchak- The Night Stalker a made for TV masterpiece ( remember when they had those) that became a great show. On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 6:24 AM, Folmar Davi

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I hear that. I watched Barbarella on TV when I was about 4 years old and I'm still freaked out about it to this day. Bitey dollies, ugh! * * * * * * Erika Peterson Director of Media Resources Carrier Library, James Madison University (540) 568-6770 http://www.lib.jm

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The Shining with Jack Nicholson—I watched it with my then 16 year old daughter on a small black and white TV. By the middle of the movie we were practically sitting in each other’s lap. Pat Patricia b. McGee Coordinator of Media Services Volpe Library and Media Center Tennessee Technolog

Re: [Videolib] Who do you report to?

I have the final say in selecting and purchasing multimedia materials, but my chain of command is to report to the Head of the Reference Department, and indirectly to the Director of Collection Development. Monique Threatt Indiana University -Original Message- From: videolib-boun...@lis

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Michael, I'm still scared of Bigfoot all because of The Legend of Boggy Creek. Well, and because when I was a kid I watched every Bigfoot movie and read every Bigfoot book I could find. But The Legend of Boggy Creek was the scariest. I also noticed this on Amazon the other day: http://www.ama

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Two films in particular gave me nightmares when I was a kid, and continued to haunt me well after seeing them. Saw them in black and white on TV. "Forbidden Planet," with the Id monster melting through the metal doors. Nothing can stop it! The electronic music made it much scarier. "Invaders fro

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Oh I remember Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" in black and white was not color back then... But even today when I see a lot of birds perched up on electric wires it all comes back to me. Oh the heebee geebee's just shock me - got goose bumbs. Patricia Stockwell Head of Technical Servic

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me, toostill freaked out And I literally screamed at the Barbarella "bitey dollies", "Talking Tina" the doll that killed Telly Savalas on the Twilight Zone, and that fetish doll with Karen Black in "Trilogy", which my college roommate thought was fun to re-enact in our dark apartment wea

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Another movie I cannot watch - never have, never will, and I am so phobic about birds. Ugh! Becky Tatar Periodicals/Audiovisuals Aurora Public Library 1 E. Benton Street Aurora, IL 60505 Phone: 630-264-4100 FAX: 630-896-3209 blt...@aurora.lib.il.us www.aurorapubliclibrary.org -Original M

[Videolib] Boo

Greetings: I enjoy atmospheric spookiness: Is there anyone else who loves Something Wicked this Way Comes? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086336/ (my favorite) The Others (wherein Nichole Kidman earned my respect): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0230600/ and The Changeling: http://www.imdb.com/t

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For me it's definitely Carnival of Souls. I still don't like to view it alone. >And the elusive Killdozer Not only a scary movie, but an enjoyable band. Also enjoyably creepy if not exactly scary: Bad Ronald. I watched it when it first came out while living in a house full of students in Iowa

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Carnival of Souls ROCKS! One of the oddest films in B film history. Directed and shot on a shoestring by a bunch of industrial film makers during a down period on a job assignment near Salt Lake. (Herk Harvey, the director...very strange guy) The ballroom scene is one of the creepiest in movie hi

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All these movies bring back memories of my babysitting days. Growing up in Chicago, it was Svengoolie for me. Sometimes I remember his parodies more than the movies. He did make me a fan of the cheesy 50's horror movies. Giant Gila Monster anybody. Ray Kellogg seemed to be trying to throw

Re: [Videolib] Friday fun question, early...

Beginning of the End > From: kars...@mx.lakeforest.edu > To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu > Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:14:32 + > Subject: Re: [Videolib] Friday fun question, early... > > All these movies bring back memories of my babysitting days. Growing up in > Chicago, it was Svengoolie f

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The shining is my family’s Christmas movie. We know every line by heart, laugh our heads off. I even did a documentary in Film School based on my family, the Shining and the ghosts we had in our house. Lorraine From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkele

Re: [Videolib] For those of you who have open stacks (apologies for cross posting)

We have open stacks for both sound and video recordings, but only put the cases on those shelves. The actual discs are kept behind the Circ Desk. So we do not use security labels for these formats at all. There is no reason to steal just a case, so we haven't had a theft problem. Gail Gawli

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I hope this isn't delving too far off topic, but I have to give a shout-out to Cleveland's Ghoulardi (Ernie Anderson). A classic Friday-night TV movie host! Which brings to mind the inimitable Count Floyd (Joe Flaherty). of SCTV. Who could forget "3-D House of Pancakes"? Karen G. Ketchaver Acqu

Re: [Videolib] Boo

Catherine, I love those movies too. The Orphanage is good. Also check out The Devil's Backbone. M- __ Matt Ball Media Services Librarian University of Virginia mattb...@virginia.edu

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Young Frankenstein -- I love it because if does such a great job referring to those older Frankenstein movies! And it's so funny. Gail Gawlik Head of Tech Services Brown Library University of St. Francis Joliet, Il >>> "Ball, James (jmb4aw)" 10/13/2011 3:13 PM >>> Hi All, Here’s a Friday fu

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Hi, Matt. I love love love "The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane" (1976; stars Jodie Foster). It's just the right amount of creepy. And Jodie's always fun to watch. Terri Beth Ledbetter Hartford Public Library 500 Main Street Hartford, CT 06103 860-695-6370 860-722-6870 (fax) Message: 2 Date

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Oh, and can I add a couple more? My favorite sci fi scarey movie is Signs. I still get the chills going by tall corn fields. And then there is the classic The Sixth Sense. Luckily, I didn't know about the plot twist and it is filmed EXACTLY like the nightmares I used to have as a kid. I rememb

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Oh, all right. I have been holding out. It's more a psychological thriller that flat out horror film (I just watched it for the first time in how many years, last week), but it is horrifying: Has anyone out there seen "SSS"? Makes "Snakes on a Plane" look like a pre-school romper room. Strot

Re: [Videolib] For those of you who have open stacks (apologies for cross posting)

We moved all of our media out from the behind the Circulation Desk when we renovated 10 years ago. We have used Demco's SecureCase(tm) System on the DVDs.For Music CDs we use the 3M Tattletape CD overlays. For VHS, we did nothing...since we expected demand would be diminishing for VHS. We

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Speaking of "Barbarella": when I was 12, my mother took me and my best friend to the Compton, CA, drive-in to see "The Green Berets" (the John Wayne propaganda turkey). The irony-in-hindsight second feature was "Barbarella." (My mother wanted to leave after the infamous opening Jane Fonda strip

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Related to Eileen's post, a recent doc on the horror hosts like Svengoolie and Elvira and the rest of them can be seen for free on SnagFilm, called "American Scary": http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/american_scary A nice 90-minute diversion for those of us who remember wasting our Saturday n

[Videolib] Talking Tina

One of the things that made Talking Tina so scary The doll was voiced by the same actress who provided the voice for Chatty Cathy Another creepy doll: Baby Secret. Whispered everything, such as "I know a secret, do you?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G6-NI8SQzM -deg -- deg farrelly Ar

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I LOVE SSSs. I bought a copy not too long ago. For myself, not the library. Although... __ Matt Ball Media Services Librarian University of Virginia mattb...@virginia.edu

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Deg, this is sooo creepy!!! I totally heard "I want to kill you someday." Did someone already mention that one with the little blond girl with pig-tails who creepily strokes her mother's cheeks while saying, "You're the most beautiful mother in the world." Or something like that. It's a clas

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I'm with you on "The Blair Witch" project, I found it terrifying and really unnerving. But then I'm not a very confident camper to begin with, always figuring I'll be the first camper dragged out of the tent to be devoured by beasts or hacked to bits by hillbillies. Also agree that "The Birds" and

Re: [Videolib] Talking Tina

"The Bad Seed" Brigid Duffy Academic Technology San Francisco State University San Francisco, CA 94132-4200 E-mail: bdu...@sfsu.edu On Oct 14, 2011, at 9:53 AM, Ball, James (jmb4aw) wrote: > Deg, this is sooo creepy!!! I totally heard "I want to kill you > someday." > > Did someone alread

Re: [Videolib] Talking Tina

Are you thinking of The Bad Seed? Another movie that scared me. Eileen Karsten Head of Technical Services Donnelley & Lee Library Lake Forest College 555 N. Sheridan Road Lake Forest, IL 60045 kars...@mx.lakeforest.edu 847-735-5066 -Original Message- From: videolib-boun...@lists.

Re: [Videolib] Talking Tina

I just thought of another one - The Bad Seed with Patty McCormick! Becky Tatar Periodicals/Audiovisuals Aurora Public Library 1 E. Benton Street Aurora, IL 60505 Phone: 630-264-4100 FAX: 630-896-3209 blt...@aurora.lib.il.us www.aurorapubliclibrary.org -Original Message- From: videolib-

Re: [Videolib] Talking Tina

"the little blond girl with pig-tails who creepily strokes her mother's cheeks while saying, "You're the most beautiful mother in the world." It was "The Bad Seed"! :) Love that one! Terri Beth Ledbetter Hartford Public Library 500 Main Street Hartford, CT 06103 860-695-6370 860-722-6870 (fax)

Re: [Videolib] Talking Tina

Yep, that's it. I knew it had "seed" in the title. M- __ Matt Ball Media Services Librarian University of Virginia mattb...@virginia.edu 434-924-3812 -Original Message- From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu

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I also agree about Blair Witch. And no one has mentioned this, I don't think… but… The Ring. Holy Smokes. I watched that at home alone and had to turn on every light in the house and go check the basement when it was over. Erika * * * * * * Erika Peterson Director of Media Resources Carrier L

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When that girl started crawling out of the TV...!?!?!?! **shivers at the memory** M- __ Matt Ball Media Services Librarian University of Virginia mattb...@virginia.edu

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The first time I saw Eraserhead, I stayed up WAY too late watching it on home video. The next morning, when I thought back about the movie, I thought I must have fallen asleep and dreamt parts of it, it was so strange. And creepy. And unsettling. The second time I saw it, I realized I hadn't dr

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I second Kolchak--both the original TV movies and the series. Scared me to death as a kid, but couldn't miss an episode. For me, the scariest episode of the show was "Horror in the Heights," written by the great Jimmy Sangster. A horrible flesh-eating monster entices you toward it by assuming th

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The Ring and Blair Witch are high on my list as well. Did anybody else enjoy 28 Days and even better, the sequel 28 Days Later? Best, Elizabeth Elizabeth Sheldon Vice President Kino Lorber, Inc. 333 W. 39th St., Suite 503 New York, NY 10018 (212) 629-6880 On Oct 14, 2011, at 1:49 PM, Logan, Mi

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Just the TV commercials for Boggy Creek would send me fleeing from the room. I didn't actually get around to seeing it until about five years ago, but now it's a favorite. A crude precursor to Blair Witch, really. I wish someone would clean it up and reissue it--there are quite a few PD editions

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Yes, the girl with the long hair over her face was a very creepy image. I had forgotten about The Ring--good call... Michael Logan Acquisitions and Technical Services Humboldt County Library (707) 269-1962 From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [videolib-boun

[Videolib] This is getting a bit too scarey

...perhaps we should move on to other topics? Gary Handman Director Media Resources Center Moffitt Library UC Berkeley 510-643-8566 ghand...@library.berkeley.edu http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC "I have always preferred the reflection of life to life itself." --Francois Truffaut VIDEOLIB is in

Re: [Videolib] This is getting a bit too scarey

Scary, not scarey...but you get what I mean. g > ...perhaps we should move on to other topics? > > > Gary Handman > Director > Media Resources Center > Moffitt Library > UC Berkeley > > 510-643-8566 > ghand...@library.berkeley.edu > http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC > > "I have always preferred t

[Videolib] Greek film Brides

Hi, Does anyone know if the Greek film Brides (Nyphes)/ Director Panteles Voulgares is available in US DVD version. Subject: Re: [Videolib] Friday fun question, early... Nightmare on Elm Street. I couldn't sleep for a week after watching it. Curleen Elliott Library As

Re: [Videolib] Who do you report to?

A late post, but, ditto here. I report to the Director of the Center for Educational Media in the College of Education. Here's how: We opened as part of a grand design in 1975 as the distribution component of a Learning Resources Center that also featured creation and production of academic

Re: [Videolib] This is getting a bit too scarey

I know this message will get bounced but I am hoping it will give me directions to change my email address. I realized that since I set up a cambridgedocumentaryfi...@gmail.com account it has become the default address taking over from marga...@cambridgedocumentaryfilms.org and m...@cambridgedocume

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O.K, like I just told Robin, who contacted me off list, there is the ONE film that made me decide that I wanted to be a film librarian, that I saw when I was 16. My girlfriend Val's super cool art school teacher mom Sylvia (we're fb friends; Val and I aren't, lol!!) took us to the University of

Re: [Videolib] Media with public performance rights owned or purchased--your method for keeping track?

> > I will create a digest of responses to share, upon request. yes, please! Lauren -- Lauren Corbett Director of Resource Services, Z. Smith Reynolds Library Wake Forest University Ph: 336-758-6136 On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Kathy Edwards wrote: > I’ve already addressed these question

[Videolib] PPR Question

Dear CW, Can people associated with a film waive paying PPR for a film for a public showing? The events are not charging admission. This question came up during a discussion with some other Librarians. Examples that were offered were: 1. A film producer brings his own DVD copy of a film tha

Re: [Videolib] This is getting a bit too scarey

hey margaret I'll change you over on Monday gary > I know this message will get bounced but I am hoping it will give me > directions to change my email address. I realized that since I set up a > cambridgedocumentaryfi...@gmail.com account it has become the default > address taking over from ma