For anyone that missed it, Todd Holland (the director) recorded a commentary for Child's Play that can be downloaded here.
Holland also recorded two commentary tracks for Fright Night as well (my favorite vampire movie).

Great shirt for her, too...Oh and take it from someone who suffers stage fright and a number of other blockages...If you can do this in a crowded supermarket, you can do it nightly for a living!

Wait a sec....call me slow.
gwiz665 and Lann got together for a, "better or worse" fright-fest but ISSY and rottenssneddz??

Dude...Too much time on the internet has led to more failed unions than alcohol

@Lann: Just happy with my delusions, that a rest-well at night comes with the knowledge that you have that youngster under your command-thumb!!
For, :
In the game of metallurgy/blacksmith vs. code-monkey, rock smashes scissors effectively enough, EVERYTIME!
(S'pecially cause yer from the U.S. and he's a pasty snow-monkey form the land of hardly any sun....!)

When I was younger, I was a chronic masturbater. So much so that I started to become self-conscience of it, and I decided to do something about it. Every night when the feeling hit me, I would throw in my favorite movie at the time, The Lost Boys, and watch it from beginning to end in an effort to stem my problem. Sometimes twice in one night. I could quote you entire scenes, line by line, and tell you who the directory of photography was. Did you know there's a blooper when the vampires take off out of the cave? You can see the ocean waves running backwards! Hahahaha.

....I lasted two weeks.

Now I just whack off and watch Fright Night.

(from YouTube)

Movies in order of appearance:

Halloween
Freddy VS. Jason
Resident Evil
The Amityville Horror
Night of the Demons
Christine
Shocker
From Dusk Till Dawn
Planet Terror
Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
The Thing
Alice Sweet Alice
Don't Look Now
The Town That Dreaded Sundown
Madman
The Shining
The Exorcist
Poltergeist
Child's Play
28 Days Later
Psycho
Cemetery Man
Salem's Lot
Hellraiser II: Hellbound
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Jacob's Ladder
Suspiria
Slither
Trick R Treat
Re-Animator
Killer Klowns From Outer Space
Creepshow
American Psycho
Leprechaun
The Dark Half
The Hitcher
The Final Destination
Zombi 2
Audition
The Changeling
The Omen
Drag Me To Hell
The Crazies
The Ring
Jaws
The Descent
When a Stranger Calls
Dawn of the Dead
The Devil's Rejects
The Exorcist
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Near Dark
Motel Hell
Carrie
Spontaneous Combustion
An American Werewolf in London
The Blair Witch Project
[REC]
Paranormal Activity
Day of the Dead
Cube Zero
Ichi the Killer
Dead Snow
The Machine Girl
Wrong Turn 2
Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead
Black Sheep
Saw III
Freddy VS. Jason
Hatchet II
The Descent
Braindead (Dead Alive)
Day of the Dead
Troll 2
Shaun of the Dead
Phantasm
Profondo Rosso (Deep Red)
Return of the Living Dead
Evil Dead II: Dead by Dawn
C.H.U.D.
Baby Blood
Slugs
Tales From the Crypt: Demon Knight
Bride of Chucky
976-EVIL
Tremors
The Devil's Backbone
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
A Tale of Two Sisters
Jeepers Creepers II
Basket Case
Alien
Cujo
Rosemary's Baby
Interview with the Vampire
Let the Right One In
Halloween III: Season of the Witch
Scream
Chakushin Ari (One Missed Call)
Ju-On (The Grudge)
House on Haunted Hill
Hostel
Candyman
Insidious
The Orphanage
Black Christmas
Pet Semetary
Fright Night
The Exorcist
Mother's Day
Scanners
The Shining
The Evil Dead
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
Chopping Mall
Braindead (Dead Alive)

>> ^CreamK:

>> ^tymebendit:
i wish we can try the finnish system.
pick a state, or a city, and try it for 10-15 years.
everyone says out current system is terrible and not working.
how much worse could it be than our current one?
it will cost a bit more than our current system, but probably not that much more...

Actually, Finnish system is cheaper than US and by a large margin... Schools that don't have to make profit are much more cost efficient..


The opportunity cost to transform the US schooling system, covering a larger geographic area and far more students, would be frightful. Not to mention difficult to sell, particularly since Finland already has a developed social leaning.

I can imagine that there was some cost blowout at the time of transformation in Finland.

Ya I sorta wondered about the age of this clip as well but it still shows the TSA asserting their authority for no other reason than to make themselves look important. I mean really this kid was flagged as a threat? Seriously come on! He had an obvious broken leg and needed the wheelchair to move around.

What do they really suspect terrorist are using 5 year olds in bomb laden wheelchairs with fake broken legs to blow up planes it's just plain old abuse of power if you ask me.

>> ^njjh201:

So: the TSA security pantomime is tremendously silly, as Salon's Ask The Pilot and many others have pointed out.
But the toddler in this video is not terrified, he's hungry and slightly grouchy. Notice how when he appears upset, parent reassures him they'll be eating soon?
Notice also how the 'terrified' toddler doesn't scream with fright, cry, and utterly obstruct the TSA agent, as a genuinely terrified child would (ever watched a child of that age who has serious phobia of needles get a shot?)
Notice also how the TSA agent performs his (intrusive, pointless and yes maybe unconstitutional) task sensitively, in a calm and reassuring manner. He is gentle, he gets down to the child's level, he doesn't raise his voice or rush. (In particular I note that he doesn't fondle the child's genitals. I thought that was standard TSA practice?!)
Yes the TSA security pantomime is silly, but so is the right wing claim that investigations such as these amount to child-rape. They plainly don't.
Which leads me to my question: this happened almost two years ago. Why has it only just surfaced?

Turns out this all started with the kid. From YT:

I took the video. We were standing in line, and his mom was ready to leave because we didn't know what WE were going to say. When we turned to leave, Elijah grabbed her coat and pulled her back, telling her to stay cause he wanted to tell Michele something. If anything, it was the other way around. He just got stage fright—and his mom wasn't going to let him back down, because he was going to regret it.

I see what they are doing here - and nothing is taboo in comedy - but making light of a serious/frighting situation is strangely wrong. The feelings/understanding we go through as we watch this is foreign to our sensibilities making it hard to discern what to think.

It's jesting that we should feel bad for the pedophiles and the slant of the skit puts us on the side of pedophile, which is a side we would never take. That's where this goes wrong and creeps us out. It puts us in the shoes of the violator which for most of us, is against our programing.

LOL. No really I just don't like horror movies. I remember watching "Fright Night" when I was 15 on VHS. It was an ordeal.

I really love the Aliens movies, they're the exception.

1 more thing, I had so many nightmares after watching "True blood" i had to stop watching.

anyway.... I like Jeffery Combs just because I love Weyun from star trek, and I thought that video was really campy!

In reply to this comment by enoch:
ok,
so let me get this straight.
you dont like vampire flicks,especially child vampires...
but sucking and eyeball out to get to the delicious brains using your engorged third eye is somehow less creepy?

i sense a story there...

This seems frightfully relevant:

http://videosift.com/video/Why-Richard-Dawkins-Doesn-t-Debate-Creationists

This "debate" didn't do anything but solidify Atheists in the atheist camp and solidify Creationists in the creationist camp. If anything, Ray's status will go up...not down.

Again, I can't stress this enough. You're using logic and reason on people who don't use logic and reason! Laws affect only the law-abiding and logic and reason only work on people who listen to logic and reason.

You've got to drop this notion of false equivalency. Science and Creationism are not equal and opposite viewpoints...stop treating them like they are. If the guy wants to believe that bananas are proof of intelligent design, then let him, but this "debate" was nothing but a win for Comfort as it elevated him and lowered the Atheist Experience people.

>> ^NetRunner:

>> ^blankfist:
In the US, there's been a two party system since the beginning, right? Started as Federalist v. Nonfederalist.

Good point. Why do you think there were only two factions all the way back then, instead of 5 or 6?
Me, I think it's just that the US had a pretty tight-knit group of people who created the Federal government, and they split along a 1-dimensional ideological divide at an early date. So we started with two large factions, and the dynamic in the video kept 3rd parties from rising to dominance, save when we had a collapse in one of the major factions.


The great thing about history is it doesn't care what you think. It only cares about the facts. Even the first president warned against the politcal parties.

"I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the State, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally."

"The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissention, which in different ages & countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders & miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security & repose in the absolute power of an Individual: and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty."

— George Washington, farewell address, September 19, 1796

>> ^shagen454:

Man, I still remember it. Sept 11th happened and two weeks later I was on a plane from the East Coast to move to San Francisco. It was a frightful plane ride but once I got here I exhaled deeply. Little did I know that the next seven or eight years would be like the dark ages for America (not in San Francisco though -heh, heh, heh).
The media were the Bush Administrations little lap dogs for nearly the entire time. I remember all the huge protests that happened around the world in the build up to the War in Iraq and how the media treated them. They either did not report on them or made them all seem like a bunch of window smashing anarchists like the ones seem during the WTO protests in Seattle. I remember the day we dropped bombs in Iraq on March 21st 2002. I remember being let out of classes at college to help shut San Francisco down.
We shut it down for five days. Media did not report on it.


I was in San Francisco for that protest.

Man, I still remember it. Sept 11th happened and two weeks later I was on a plane from the East Coast to move to San Francisco. It was a frightful plane ride but once I got here I exhaled deeply. Little did I know that the next seven or eight years would be like the dark ages for America (not in San Francisco though -heh, heh, heh).

The media were the Bush Administration's little lap dogs for nearly the entire time. I remember all the huge protests that happened around the world in the build up to the War in Iraq and how the media treated them. They either did not report on them or made them all seem like a bunch of window smashing anarchists like the ones seen during the WTO protests in Seattle. I remember the day we dropped bombs in Iraq on March 21st 2002. I remember being let out of classes at college to help shut San Francisco down. Some group called ANSWER had organized an event a long time and coming that if we went to war in Iraq, San Francisco would not be "Business as Usual".

I was arrested with several hundred people, thousands had been illegally "detained" - we filed a Class Action Lawsuit with the International Lawyer's Guild against the SFPD and won our case to have charges of "inciting a riot" withdrawn. We won in the court aftermath but the cops still won; they took people out of it one by one and successfully defused the situation - we were peaceful protesters, no one had any sort of revolt on their mind, except for the anarchist kids and they definitely were there, they were a massive thorn for the entire situation.

We shut it down for five days with the help of thousands upon thousands of people and thousands of riot cops. Major media did not report on it. Maybe, it was cliche of San Francisco residents to force the city out of commission for several days but it was newsworthy.

This is a good interview. I appreciate how Rumsfeld is able to steer blame and corruption even in front of Stewart. He's truly a wicked and greedy man.

To be honest, I had no idea what I was witnessing and was completely oblivious that this was a potential stroke.

I had assumed it was simply a case of nerves or stage fright or something along those lines.