" I can hold my breath for a looooonng time!!" That's my favorite!
" I can hold my breath for a looooonng time!!" That's my favorite!
This is a tough question. I have watched this movie at least a hundred times since I was like 4 years old when it was released.
When I was younger, I was all about Jordy Verrill and the BUGS. Then as I got older, I fell in love with Something to Tide You Over and The Crate. Fast forward to the teenage years and marijuana and booze, and I saw Father's Day and Jordy Verrill in a whole different light(creepy). I never laughed so hard watching Ed Harris' skull get crushed by that gravestone.
Anyway, after it is all said and done, I rate them.....
THE CRATE
TIDE
JORDY
FATHERS DAY
CREEPING ON YOU
Speaking of the Ed Harris scene, how exactly did Nathan Gratham pull it over on him? You see him there cackling at Harris, and then BAM! Was Nathan using some supernatural power that we didn't know about?
I think "Fathers' Day" is kinda lame, but all the others are good. I especially like "Tide." When Leslie Nielsen screams "I can hold my breath for a long, long time!," there's just something beautifully psychotic about that. Defiant to the end.
The Crate is classic. "Tell it to call you Billie!"
Something To Tide You Over & They're Creeping Up On You are probably my other favorites.
Tide
the crate
fathers day
jody
creeping on you
"I can hold my breath for a loooooooong time!!! HAHAHAHAHA!"
Then the water flows over his head. Karma can get you in weird ways.
I loved "The Crate", I remember being about 9 years old when Id first saw the movie. I was absolutely terrified, and my dad kept telling me the monster in the crate was "Donkey Kong" in an effort for me to not be as scared. To this day it still disturbs me.
Those precision BITE MARKS from The Crate really stand out in my mind's eye. I was packing up something recently using a industrial tape gun, and I screwed up and gouged my left hand...
A dozen sharp metal teeth peeled back my skin and left the shredded tendrils hanging, like a demented carrot peeler.
It was white inside. It was white. It was white. It hurt, but it was white?
And then it was very red all over the floor.
~BJS
this one is obvious:
'For god's sake Henry, whatdoya want now?!!'
BAM!
(Henry imagines he just shot Wilma)
'Nothing Wilma, everything is just fine!'
THE COOL, STRANGE, WARPED, ECHOED, GONG-SOUND EFFECT
Everyone surrounding the gruesome scene and begins to applaud...
'Great shot, Henry'
Henry has a shy, aw-shucks expression.
etc.
A great example of morbid humor
But it's that sound effect, you see. Something about that sound effect was perfect.
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