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Every Halloween every major website, magazine, newspaper, and entertainment-related television show makes up a list of the '...
Perhaps I'm hoping for a radical change, or maybe I'm hoping this will be the year that Halloween will finally usurp The Exorcist as number one. Then again, maybe I like basking in the warm glow of the familiar Top 10 list; perhaps I find comfort in the monotony. It seems that the top ten scariest movies have been preordained, written in ancient times and buried for generations, like the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Even if there were a change in roster, I probably wouldn't be satisfied with it deep down in my movie loving soul. Factually I find myself agreeing with most of these lists. The Exorcist is one of the scariest horror movies I've ever seen. And what kind of movie-hating Nazi doesn't like Halloween?
Rather than quietly scoffing at these lists (while still adoring them), I've decided to write up one of my own. I'm going to do my best to avoid all the old clichés though, and try to do something a little different. Therefore, you will not find The Exorcist, Halloween, Psycho, nor The Texas Chainsaw Massacre here, no matter how scary they are. I'm going to recount some of the movies that scare and disturb someone like me, a horror movie fanatic, someone numb to the attacks of the jump-scare and desensitised to the shock of even the goriest special effect. These are movies that rely less on the easy 'boo', and more on crawling under the viewer's skin, making their spine shiver, their stomach knot, and their general well being falter.
This list follows each film with a brief listing of the fears it creates in the viewer, and the fears experienced by the characters.
10. Taxi Driver
Martin Scorsese's masterpiece in New York Gothic is often listed as one of the best movies of all time, but for all of its technical mastery and acting savvy, its horror is often overlooked. This is the tale of the loneliest man in New York City. A man so lonely that it seems the only way to fill his void is through buying up a lot of guns and killing somebody.
Taxi Driver is a two-hour campout in a real life psychopath's mind, not one of your average hatchet-happy, hockey-mask wearing, mother-obsessed movie psychos. Robert DeNiro represents Travis Bickle. Travis represents that guy on the corner you pretend not to see because he's yelling obscenities at his imaginary friend, or that woman on the bus tracing the lines of her face with her crucifix while moaning religious hymns. In other words, crazy people; sad, dehumaized little monsters.
First time viewers will often try to identify with Travis, assuming he is the protagonist, as he is the center of their focus. This is an unhealthy assumption to make. He is not the protagonist nor hero of this story. He is the antagonist, the bad guy, the villain, and we don't get a break from him for nearly two hours. There aren't but 10 minutes of the movie that he isn't on the screen, staring, scheming, and resenting. We fester with him in his mental and physical cesspool. Yes, the outside world may be filthy, but at least it offers an escape from Travis' demented reality.
Taxi Driver is probably one of the more popular and well received films on this list, so I'll assuming that most readers have a pretty solid basic knowledge of its plot. Because of its general popularity, I've found it can be hard to convince some that it is truly, on most genre levels, a horror film. It has its share of funny and dramatic moments, even some skewed romantic sentiment, but these mostly act as a release from the off-putting intensity of the story. Without these semblances of normality, Taxi Driver wouldn't be a popular movie at all. It would be an art house curiosity, segregated to the grimmest of the grim film lovers. Next time you watch Taxi Driver, don't let yourself be sucked in by the beautiful cinematography and DeNiro's bravado performance. Instead pretend you're watching the slowest moving slasher film ever made.
Taxi Driver was the first DVD I ever owned. The Region 1 disc contains a spectacular making-of documentary, which covers every aspect of the filmmaking process in a relatively short time, from the writing and selling of the script to the improvised dialogue to the spectacular camera work. The doc could have easily been another hour longer. Other extras include picture galleries, trailers and the entire original script. The only real minus is the non-anamorphic 1:85.1 transfer, which is more than a little dirty. It would have been nice to see the bloody finale lightened up a bit too (it was originally darkened to ensure an R-rating, but I think that today's MPAA wouldn't have a problem with the blood being a little bit brighter today). The soundtrack could also use a little 5.1 sprucing. Here's hoping for and two-disc set sometime in the near future.
Fear List: Taxi Driver
- Agateophobia: Fear of insanity.
- Amaxophobia: Fear of riding in a car.
- Anthropophobia: Fear of people or society.
- Monophobia: Fear of solitude or being alone.
- Hedonophobia: Fear of feeling pleasure.
- Hemophobia: Fear of blood.
9. Capturing the Friedmans
I could very easily have filled this list with documentaries, but have decided to settle on one of the genre's more recent entries. From the Italian Mondo Cane inspired shockumentaries of the '60s, through the ever flowing cornucopia of made for television murderer's exposes, documentaries have shown us the real horrors of the world around us. One constant you may notice in my list is the presence of films based on and immulating real life. Movie horrors, like movie romance and movie drama, are at their base, escapes from reality. When the film is over, the viewer can go back to the mundanity of reality, knowing that tomorrow zombies won't be eating their flesh, nor will pale-faced ghost girls be crawling out of their TV sets.
Capturing the Friedmans is mortifying for several reasons beyond the fact that it started as a short subject about party clowns. In the beginning we discover that this small town family is harboring two or more pedophiles in their midst. Pedophilia, in its own right, is an especially frightening subject, specifically for anyone with children in their care. As of late American culture has become unhealthily preoccupied with the dealings of these deviants, bringing the national amber-alert level to a lid-kissing boil of fear.
As the film progresses we are privy to sexual abuse charges pressed against the father and youngest son of the family. The charges are gruesome and revolting. While the father's affinity to looking at child pornography is never in question, these accusations become more and more unbelievable. Then, like the most tantalizing of dramas, the police department's questionable tactics are revealed and the family begins receiving death threats from their seemingly normal, church-going neighbors. Are the cops pressuring children into false claims of abuse? Is this tight knit community really so homicidal? These are questions that no one should ever have to ask in a perfect world, but the revelation that this world is real and not perfect sinks in like a duck tied to an anvil.
Then come the home movies. The internal turmoil of a family falling apart under the strain of molestation charges is all there on video. The fighting hurts to watch, but is far too fascinating to turn away from. The viewer's lurid curiosity will get the better of them, which may be the scariest thing of all. In this, the age of reality TV on every channel, at every minute of the day, stories like that of the Friedmans are a counteragent to total public apathy.
The two disc, R1 DVD release is accompanied with equally fascinating special features, most of which expand upon the progress of this ongoing story. The highlight is an ill-conceived screening for the remaining family members and authorities involved in the case. The screening breaks out into a near brawl during a question and answer session with the filmmakers. Also included is an especially damning piece of secretly recorded audio evidence. In it, police officers can be heard belligerently questioning a young 'victim' without a parental presence. Shocking, fascinating, and of course, horrifying.
Fear List: Capturing the Friedmans
- Paraphobia: Fear of sexual perversion.
- Syngenesophobia: Fear of relatives.
- Agraphobia: Fear of sexual abuse.
- Mastigophobia: Fear of punishment.
- Acusophobia: Fear of accusations.
8. Brazil
I know, I know, it's a comedy, but anyone who doesn't feel an onslaught of anxiety while watching Terry Gilliam's Brazil probably isn't paying close enough attention. The movie takes place in one of the grimmest non-post-apocalyptic future ever filmed. Homes are filled with space-age technology that doesn't work. The skies are perpetually gray with industrial pollution that no one asks questions about. The government and workplace are filled with so much unnecessary bureaucracy that nothing ever gets done. And there is a constant threat of bloody terrorist bombings.
OK, that sounds a lot like the world we live in now, but really, the movie makes it seem much worse. Personally I find little more frightening than unnecessary bureaucracy, especially when presented as a futile loop. Your house is on fire? Well just fill out this form, we'll get back to you in a week. Who hasn't had that dream where you or someone you love is dying and the authorities won't do anything about it.
There's also the original ending, the one that leaves attentive viewers with that freshly-kicked-in-the-teeth feeling. Madness, as an individual's only possibility of freedom from torturous physical and mental pain, is a grim prospect indeed. Distributor Universal didn't like that ending and ordered a new one, along with a shorter, friendlier version of the film (these guys thought they were getting the next Time Bandits). This studio cut of the film was protested by Gilliam, and led to one of the most famous movie custody battles in history.
The plot, like most good politically motivated Sci-Fi stories, liberally lifts several of it's best ideas from Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and Orwell's 1984. It plays exceptionally well in today's political climate. Really too well actually, if you ask me. I'm just happy my mother isn't spending her free time having her face rearranged by a psychopathic plastic surgeon every day of the week.
When Universal originally released Brazil on DVD, it was, thankfully presented uncut, unfortunately there were no meaty special features. Then along came The Criterion Collection with their biggest DVD release of the time (still pretty big in today's world of Super-Extreme-Collector's Editions). Criterion's Edition is three discs in length, which was all but unheard of at the time of release. The first disc contains the original directors cut and Gilliam commentary, the second contains a plethora of documentaries, trailers, and text essays, and the third contains the ill-conceived studio cut with commentary from the author of The Battle For Brazil book. This collection may be 5 years old, but it still holds together as one of the best DVD sets ever conceived. Other regions aren't entirely left out; they get the director's cut, the great 'What is Brazil?' featurette and some trailers. On the big plus side, the Region 2 release is listed as being anamorpically enhanced, Criterion's is not.
Fear List: Brazil
- Prosophobia: Fear of progress.
- Technophobia: Fear of technology.
- Sociophobia: Fear of society or people in general.
- Decidophobia: Fear of making decisions.
- Coprophobia: Fear of feces.
- Achiphobia: Fear of government.
7. City of God
I hesitate to put this on my list because I'm afraid it will deter the less adventuress readers from seeing it. However, I feel pretty strongly that everyone, old or young, liberal or conservative, male or female, should probably see this film. City of God is the true story of three generations worth of gangster children growing up in a Brazilian slum during one of the largest gang wars in the nation's history.
The film leaves the viewer with a general feeling of hope in the end, but along the way, we are forced into a world where any moment can lead to tragedy. There isn't any celebration without death in this Rio De Janeiro. To impress the girl of his dreams the hero must call upon his loose drug connections, which leads to an inevitable, near death experience. Again, the violent reality of our world is the most disturbing horror around.
The most frightening aspect is that almost every character is a child, some of them already merciless killers at an age of less than ten. Nothing puts your own childhood in perspective like watching one kid forced to murder another.
The City of God Region 1 DVD contains a chilling documentary on the subject matter. This actual documentary, complete with some of the original news footage, was made well before the dramatic account. It also features a beautiful widescreen transfer, which does great justice to the sun-bleached cinematography, and an aggressive 5.1 Dolby Digital surround mix.
Also available is a Region 2 PAL collection of the TV spin-off, City of Men, which ran nine episodes long in Brazil. Another interesting (and equally horrifying) companion piece to is Bus 174, a (Oscar nominated) documentary about the most watched television broadcast in Brazilian history, a 2000 Rio de Janeiro bus-jacking. It discloses a more contemporary time period, delves into the reasons for such violence in Rio's impoverished, and goes behind the scenes of the Brazilian jail system. Better off dead than in here seems to be the film's general message.
Fear List: City of God
- Pedophobia: Fear of children.
- Peniaphobia: Fear of poverty.
- Panthophobia: Fear of suffering and disease.
- Amissiophobia: Fear of loss.
- Sociophobia: Fear of society or people in general.
6. Barefoot Gen
From the horrors of poverty, I direct your attention to the horrors of war. There are a lot of Japanese films about the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings at the end of WWII, and several of these films are animated. One could argue that pretty much every Anime (series or movie) ever has some semblance of allegory alluding to the destruction caused by these massive bombs, whether it be in visual cues or just context. Barefoot Gen makes my list as a representaion of all these films, and all depressing, adult animation in general. It also epitomizes an alarming series of anti-bomb films produced in the 1980s, mostly for television.
When referring to films in these genres, most viewers will cite the animated masterpiece Grave of the Fireflies, which concerns two young orphans fighting to survive in late-WWII ravaged Japan, and the live action, made for TV depress-fest The Day After, about the days leading up to and following a massive nuclear attack on the US. Barefoot Gen, while not exactly dwarfing these grim efforts stands atop my list of post-nuke animated and made for TV flicks (both surprisingly lucrative sub-genres) as the gold standard of true, hand-drawn, melting flesh horror.
Barefoot Gen is based on Manga writer Keiji Nakazawa's real-life childhood adventures following the bombing of Hiroshima city. Gen, through blind luck, avoids the brunt of the bomb's explosion while walking to school. He runs home to find his father, sister, and brother burning to death in the ravaged remains of his home. He and his pregnant mother look on as their family screams in agony and begs for help they cannot give. Then things get worse, and worse, and worse. Gen and his mother attempt to pick things up where they left off, but all's obviously easier said than done when most of the city lies in ruins. Radioactive ruins.
Together, the pseudo family bears witness to babies suckling their dead mothers, hoards of skinless travelers journeying to over-booked infirmaries, and public food riots in the streets. And these atrocities are only the beginning, as the story follows our hero through the months following the impact, the anarchy, and the sense of loss.
Perhaps the roughest aspect of the film is the extremely stylized drawing style utilized for the child characters. They all have that Astro-Boy look, which lulls the viewer into a false sense of security early on in the film. These adorable faces make the gut-punch violence that much crueler. When the bomb drops everyone, including the angelic children, start melting, burning, or exploding. The unlucky ones end up dying slowly of debilitating radiation poisoning. Barefoot Gen was so fascinatingly mortifying that when it was over, I watched it immediately again, something I've never done before or since. Those who 'enjoyed' The Day After and its UK counterpart Threads will recognize the value of anti-bomb films like this one, which burn their all-too-real imagery into our minds.
The All Region, NTSC DVD release of Barefoot Gen leaves a lot to be desired. It contains a full-frame transfer and a semi-effective stereo sound mix. Movies like these speak for themselves, but I think a director commentary could be quite interesting, assuming we could get some subtitles. I'm very curious as to what really happened and what was simply good story telling. Also available in Manga form (Japanese comic), and a new R2 PAL SE, which I've not had the liberty of viewing.
Fear List: Barefoot Gen
- Nucleomituphobia: Fear of nuclear weapons.
- Carcinophobia: Fear of cancer.
- Dysmorphophobia: Fear of deformity.
- Panthophobia: Fear of suffering and disease.
- Radiophobia: Fear of radiation
5. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
Formally a mainstay of the 'scariest ever' list, it seems the general public has all but forgotten Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer. How anyone could forget this film is beyond me, though I suppose I do understand that the controversy surrounding it is now old news. Usually old news doesn't make the lists, especially when the movie is of the mega-low-budget variety, and as despondent as this one.
The film concerns a serial killer named Henry who has just been released from prison, having served time for offing his own elderly mother. Upon entering a new town (he leaves the old ones behind because, well, the serial killing), he is greeted by his bygone friend Otis and Otis's young sister, who take Henry into their unhappy little household. What follows is a gritty wallow in a week in the life of a monster and his despicable sidekick. Like Taxi Driver and City of God, most of the film's terror is found in its realism and unrelentingly grim life outlook. Original intended as a sort of anti-slasher, slasher movie, and based loosely on the real life exploits of mass murderer Henry Lee Lucas, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer circumvents all the fun of watching a man in a mask cut promiscuous teenagers to ribbons, and focuses instead on the true horror of real murder.
The most long lingering of the film's horror isn't found in Henry, but Otis, who is eventually invited along on a few of Henry's soulless slaughters. Otis, an already rather contemptible character when first introduced, tumbles so quickly, and so easily into the abyss that the audience finds itself affiliated with the lesser of two evils. Henry may be a psychopath, but at least he has some standards, and we've come to accept this kind of behavior from him. The villain becomes the hero when a greater evil than himself is revealed, but unlike most anti-heroes, Henry is an unredeemable beast. Through this association, the audience finds itself aligned uncomfortably with a dark soul it should naturally despise.
The original All Region, NTSC DVD release of Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer was a mess. It was presented in a serviceable 1.33:1 transfer (the film's intended ratio), but the 2.0 Dolby soundtrack had several sync problems. The audio problems were so bad that when I, personally first bought it I promptly returned it, thinking it was defective. Suspension of disbelief is a little tricky when the actors' voices and mouths don't match up. This sync problem was carried into the only real special feature on the disc, a recollection interview with director John McNaughton. On Tuesday, September 27th of 2005 (just in time for this article), a true special edition, anniversary DVD was released. It features a much cleaned transfer, still in the original 1.33:1 ratio, a cleaner, properly synced soundtrack, and an entire second disc of extras. Included is a documentary regarding the real Henry Lee Lucas, who's life story makes the film seem like Mary Poppins in comparison.
Fear List: Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
- Virginitiphobia- Fear of rape.
- Sociophobia: Fear of society or people in general
- Agateophobia: Fear of insanity.
- Syngenesophobia: Fear of relatives.
- Thanatophobia: Fear of death or dying.
4. Cannibal Holocaust
Very few movies live up to the hype or stigma that surrounds them. Remember The Phantom Menace or Matrix: Reloaded? There was no way those movies were going to live up to audience expectations. Frankly, their true judgement should probably wait another ten years or so, when their achievements can be viewed with a truly subjective eye.
Scary movies come with a whole different set expectations. I am personally fascinated by the 'Video Nasties' controversy that overtook the UK in the 1980s, and have made it my ambition to see every film on the BBFC's banned list. Living in the States has made this persuit a whole lot easier. Usually these films don't live up to their infamy. Most 'Video Nasties' are so inept, featherbrained, and, worst of all, boring that their ban becomes down right obtuse. This includes most of the blacklisted films of the Italian cannibal cycle of the 70s and 80s.
Those who've yet to see an Italian cannibal film aren't missing much, I'm afraid to say. They are mostly just flimsy, racist plots veiled in cut-rate gore effects (come on guys, we all know that's not that man's real penis), with the false promise of some kind of political or moral message. The only real objectionable material to be found in most of them is the real, onscreen killing of wild animals, and total exploitation of the natives of whatever jungle nation the movie is being filmed in. Making the viewer angry and actually disturbing them are usually two different things, cementing the failure of the lot of these films.
All that said, however, I can say Cannibal Holocaust lives up its infamy in spades. This is mostly because the film is expertly crafted, rather than slapped together for a quick exploitation buck. The people who made this film cared about it, as scary as that may be. The story concerns the disappearance of a film crew who journeyed into the Amazon to document the antics of 'real cannibals'. The crew's footage is found about 40 minutes into the movie, but their bodies are not (look to the film's title for a clue on their whereabouts). The rest of the movie is made up of this 'found' footage.
Sound familiar? The parallels between The Blair Witch Project (one of those movies that use to make Halloween season top ten lists before its garbage sequel made it officially 'un-cool') and Cannibal Holocaust have been explored before, in detail, much more than I'll go into here. Blair Witch didn't involve quite as much torture, rape, impalement, or cannibalism, nor did it feature the onscreen killing and eating of any endangered species, but the premise remains quite similar. The funny thing that makes Cannibal Holocaust ultimately more successful is the average Italian cannibal film that makes up the film's first half. When an audience is left expecting very little at the half-way point, it is very easy to sweep the perverbial carpet from under their feet.
When it comes to a legitimate American, British, or Aussie release of Cannibal Holocaust, I'm afraid we're all fresh out of luck, for now. As previously eluded to, the film is outright banned or heavily cut in several territories including Norway, Finland, Australia, Austria, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Iceland. For your notes, the original and uncut running time is 98 minutes. The film's absence on US DVD is also with good reason: its chief in charge of remastering, and the DVD's producer has been busy editing Sam Raimi's Spider Man films. In the next few months however, Grindhouse will be releasing this 'much anticipated' special edition DVD.
In the UK, one could purchase a heavily edited Vipco release, and suffer though a horrible transfer (so I hear, friends, I've not watched every version available). If someone were truly interested in an uncut version, their best bet would be one of the several Italian releases, including the newest of which utilizes a Ultra-Bit transfer, and has an entire second disc of special features. Or they could all just wait for the R1 version. Be warned though, if you buy this film, you will be labeled a deranged monster by most of your friends and loved ones.
Fear List: Cannibal Holocaust
- Seplophobia: Fear of decaying matter.
- Thanatophobia: Fear of death or dying.
- Xenophobia: Fear of strangers or foreigners.
- Agrizoophobia: Fear of wild animals.
- Phagophobia: Fear of swallowing or of eating or of being eaten.
- Virginitiphobia: Fear of rape.
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3. Begotten
Anyone here think that The Passion of the Christ is the most disturbing and violent biblical account they've ever seen? I was certainly disturbed by it, but not nearly to the degree that I was disturbed by E. Elias Merhige's Begotten. Those left unfazed by Mel Gibson's ostentatious excersise in Biblical sadism might want to check it out.
I purchased Begotten blindly simply based on various dares I'd read on the Internet. In the days before this purchase, I'd always take people up on these types of dares, but now I think twice. Begotten is only 78 minutes long, but it took me 3 sittings to get through it. The plot you ask? Well, I guess you got me there.
Basically, Begotten is a series reenactments based on various Bible tales (mainly Genesis and the Crucifixion), filmed in stark black and white, with almost no screen related sound. Most of the soundtrack comprises of birds chirping and violent, heavy breathing. And when I say black and white, I mean black and white, period. There are barely any halftones here to speak of. According to the DVD insert, this disturbing photography took approximately eight to ten hours of optical work - re-photographing, visual treatments, and filtering – per minute of film. All this meticulous work evokes more of a Rorschach test than a real work of motion picture entertainment. The viewer has to focus very hard on any image to see what it is, which creates an uneasy sense of participation with the film.
For instance: that shaky man-like shape at the beginning, that's God, and he's cutting himself up with a strait razor. That woman-like shape moving around in that black pile of goo God dropped, that's the Virgin Mary rising from his intestines. This website is intended for family viewing, so I don't think I should go into any further detail. Once you've figured out what you're actually seeing, Begotten is deeply mortifying religious iconography. There is no artistic compromise here.
Begotten is available in several regions and every DVD, according to the specs, is identical. The transfer I viewed is presented in 1.33:1 standard, as it was filmed. The picture is grainy, fuzzy, dirty, artefact filled, and nasty. There isn't anything more to say than it is what it is, and we'll all just have to assume, after all Merhige's work, that this is the way the film was meant to look. For all I know, this is the best film to DVD transfer of all time. The sound is the same, pretty much critique-proof. The sounds coming out of my speakers seem to go with the movie playing on my screen so I guess there you have it.
As far as extras, the disc itself is pretty bare, featuring only trailers. Fortunatly, an indespesable booklet is also included. Without this, no one but the film's creators would have the foggiest idea as to what was really happening on screen and what every frame represents. If you find this used and the booklet is missing, don't bother with the purchase, unless you like spending you 78 minutes in the dark (maybe that's the way you like it). A special note: the feature is split into more than 40 chapters, for those of us with itchy remote control trigger fingers.
Fear List: Begotten
- Ouranophobia: Fear of heaven.
- Peccatophobia: Fear of sinning or imaginary crimes.
- Sciophobia: Fear of shadows.
- Stigiophobia: Fear of hell.
- Theophobia: Fear of gods or religion.
- Acousticophobia: Fear of noise.
2. Audition
Audition freaked me out so much I almost couldn't finish it. I ended up conjuring a phantom bowel problem so I could continue stopping the DVD without raising suspicions among my friends as to how mortified I was. Me, the horror movie guy, the one who always told my buddies to quit being sissies (not the actual word I used) when they squirmed, cried, and covered their eyes during whatever Italian splatterfest we happened to be watching that night. Like Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Audition is one of the few titles on my list found in the local video stores horror section, but Audition is something far beyond simple genre titling, which is what makes it such a harrowing film to watch.
This film drove me to lies about my intestinal health because director Takashi Miike ( Ichi: The Killer, Happiness of the Katakuris, Dead or Alive) made the first half so slow and so tedious that my feeble brain turned itself off. Due to this temporary retardation, even though I knew before watching the film where the story was heading, I was still caught off guard by the utter horror of the final half. Audition is comperable to Psycho in its rug-pulling sneakiness. Master director Alfred Hitchcock has been quoted as stating that successful on-screen terror is often attributed to the proper misdirection, but even Hitchcock couldn't have conceived of something as brutally volatile as this.
It's hard to describe the film in too much detail without giving too much away. After losing his wife, an aging widower is talked into holding a phony audition by a friend in show business. This critical investigation of local women is actually an underhanded tryout for a future releationship. He finds one girl he likes, and the two begin dating. She is shy, and he is still unsure of himself as well, creating a barrage of adorably awkward new couple moments. Kind of sounds like a sappy romantic comedy staring Jennifer Lopez or Ashley Judd doesn't it? Just keep telling yourself that when you first see that lumpy potato sack the girl keeps in her home. Oh, I've said too much. The rest is better left to your imagination.
Pretty much anyone, in any region can get a hold of Audition on DVD. The special features seem to all come from similar sources, and include the usual featurettes, trailers and interviews with the director. As far as transfer comparisons, I'd advise against the original Tartan release in the UK. It is anamorphically enhanced (apparently), but is pretty dismal, especially during darker scenes. A remastered R1version was made available in August, but I haven't actually seen it. The new edition is also labeled as being an uncut version, which I'm guessing is in reference to the flimsy American 'R' rated cut that was put into mainstream video chains like Blockbuster. The special features seem plentiful enough, including Audition's segment from Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments feature aired last Halloween, where even genre afficianados Rob Zombie, Eli Roth, and John Landis admit their fear of Miike's vicious masterpiece.
Fear List: Audition
- Odynophobia: Fear of pain.
- Oneirogmophobia: Fear of wet dreams.
- Philophobia: Fear of falling in love or being in love.
- Aichmophobia: Fear of needles or pointed objects.
- Apotemnophobia: Fear of persons with amputations.
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1. Requiem for a Dream
There are very few movies that make me want to look away from the screen. There are even fewer movies that make me want to leave the theater. Requiem for a Dream almost made me leave the theater. By the end credits my palms were literally bloody from making fists. The experience was so intense I thought I was going to throw up, and not because it was gory or icky like Cannibal Holocaust, but because it felt so real and so intense.
Requiem for a Dream is, at its base a story about the horrible things drug addition will make human beings feel and do. Sure, most people will say that Trainspotting and Basketball Diaries already floated that boat years before, but both ended with a general feeling of release and hope (and lets face it people, Trainspotting was funny stuff). At the end of Requiem for a Dream there is no release, just a knot of fear in the viewer's stomach, and there most definitely is no hope for these addicts.
The characters are morally good enough people that most viewers, while probably wanting them to learn a lesson, don't really want them to suffer such pain, as they suffer in some the worst ways imaginable outside of open warfare. The emotional and psychological violence on display become nearly unbearable. The dramatic tension rises out of the simple plot and the superb performances (Julia Roberts robbed Ellen Burstyn at the 2000 Oscars), but most of the horror comes out of director Darren Aronofsky's super-stylized filmmaking and bravado editing. Nary a single tool in the history of film isn't used at some point, from split screen techniques and time lapses, to special rigs and lenses. The last count stated that there are more cuts in this movie than any other in history, at least of comparable length. Aronofsky is a talent to be reckoned with.
It was not Jared Leto's rancid needle hole, Jennifer Connely's self deprecating sexual acts, or Marlon Wayans' grueling prison sentence that caused me sleepless nights, but the sad and lonely plight of Ellen Burstyn's character. She's so desperate for love and attention in her waining years, that she allows herself to believe everything she's told. This blind faith leads her, the most innocent of the four main characters, into the deepest chasm of hopelessness. Her life truly is over by the end of the film, whereas we viewers can at least dream of a better life for the younger protagonsists. The reality of human frailty again rears its ugly head.
The DVD release of Requiem for a Dream is something to pay attention to. In the US it was released in theaters Unrated, as to avoid the dreaded NC-17, due mostly to its sexual content. When it was released on video, chain stores like Blockbuster Video demanded a truncated R-rated cut. Do not see the R-rated cut. It hurts the film. The DVD's were otherwise identical with really spectacular surround sound effects and clever menu designs. There is an excellent commentary track with director Aronofsky, but listening to it does tend to dehumanize the film as he revels mostly in the technical achievements, which through impressive, are better left unnoticed in favour of allowing the film to flow effortlessly into the psyche.
According to most accounts, the UK R2 release runs only 97 minutes. This leads me to the conclusion that this version has been cut by even more than the US R-rated cut - the full, uncut version runs 102 minutes. This is a depressing thought. This is a spectacular film that needs to be seen as originally intended, and very loud. Viewers should really do themselves a favour and try to see it in its totally uncut form.
Edit: Thanks to readers like Kim Noxon for reminding me about PAL speed-up. It appears that Requiem for a Dream is available uncut on R2 DVD. According to the BBFC home page the film passed with no cuts. My apologies.
Fear List: Requiem for a Dream
- Opiophobia: Fear of medical doctors.
- Pharmacophobia: Fear of taking medicine.
- Panthophobia: Fear of suffering and disease.
- Pharmacophobia: Fear of drugs.
- Soteriophobia: Fear of dependence on others.
- Athazagoraphobia: Fear of being forgotton or ignored
- Tomophobia: Fear of surgical operations.
- Toxiphobia: Fear of poison or of being accidently poisoned.
As a personal psychological profile, the listing of entertainment, art, and/or literature that frighten and disturb is actually sort of cleansing. Figuring out why one is made to feel this way is even more insightful. This list is very personal, and though I'm sure several readers will agree with me, I'm also positive that no two Movie Fear Lists will ever look entirely alike.
So the question is:
What scares you?
Editorial by Gabriel Powers
Filmophobia Great job with the article Gabe.
Nqnpipnr Nqnpipnr Senior Member Join Date: September 2004 Location: United States Posts: 765
Excellent Nice work, Gabe. And I strongly agree. Requiem is the scariest film ever made.
My parents saw Requiem in theaters and they never said one word about it since.
Brazil is one of my fav films ever.
I need to see dream.
i just saw halloween and it is NOT scary at all
I need to see dream.
i just saw halloween and it is NOT scary at all
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i just saw halloween and it is NOT scary at allI can't wait to see how bad the remake is in a few more years.
i just saw halloween and it is NOT scary at allI can't wait to see how bad the remake is in a few more years.
I think Halloween is a "time and place" scary movie. In the right time and place it is scary. On TV, 30 years after the fact and after scores of immatations, is not the right time or place.
I watched it at midnight
At midnight in the year 2005. It's still a technically inspired film, regaurdless of one's opinion about the scariness.
But this is off the point of my article, which was meant to avoid conversations like this, as Halloween doesn't really scare me either, these movies do.
But this is off the point of my article, which was meant to avoid conversations like this, as Halloween doesn't really scare me either, these movies do.
I love Brazil
and badly need to see
Reqieum For A dream
and badly need to see
Reqieum For A dream
That's better
Is Requiem really that scary for a drama?
Je Ff Member Join Date: February 2005 Location: United States Posts: 438
It's not jump out of your seat because the killer is at the door scary. It's just unbelievably intense.
Jonny "Me You" Senior Member Join Date: March 2004 Location: Canada Posts: 2,863
No Showgirls or How Freddy Got Fingered? Those movies were pretty damn scary.
Taylor Member Join Date: October 2004 Location: Canada Posts: 548
Ginger Snaps OWNS.
Hamish Towgood Member Join Date: July 2003 Location: New Zealand Posts: 90
cannibal holocaust man i so wish Cannibal Holocaust gets the deluxe dvd treatment for region 4 or even region 1. uncut, remastered.
or even just add subs to the making of!
or even just add subs to the making of!
Mike Dunn Member Join Date: June 2005 Location: United States Posts: 90
You forgot to put Eraserhead on the list. No Halloween is complete without it.
Krug Krug Member Join Date: June 2005 Location: New Zealand Posts: 32
Requiem is quite simply one of the most harrowing and intense films ever made. Its such a moving film experience that I havent been able to once forget it.
Im glad that you added Capturing the Friedmans to the list as its one of the most unforgettable films (not just doco) that I have ever seen. I never felt so sad, sick, angry or terrible in my 'movie viewing' life while watching the film. I have had SO many debates with friends regarding the film, I just cant get over how effecting this doco was.
And im totally with you there Hamish, we need Cannibal Holocaust badly on R4. Ferox has just been released and the DVD is really quite terrible...not even one doco.
Great List Gab...bravo, I couldn't have agreed with you more.
Im glad that you added Capturing the Friedmans to the list as its one of the most unforgettable films (not just doco) that I have ever seen. I never felt so sad, sick, angry or terrible in my 'movie viewing' life while watching the film. I have had SO many debates with friends regarding the film, I just cant get over how effecting this doco was.
And im totally with you there Hamish, we need Cannibal Holocaust badly on R4. Ferox has just been released and the DVD is really quite terrible...not even one doco.
Great List Gab...bravo, I couldn't have agreed with you more.
Rebecca Taylor Reviewer Join Date: August 2005 Location: Australia Posts: 45
Great Article Gabe! Very interesting selection.
The 1980s "video nasties" controversy is really interesting. Although many of the notorious titles singled out in the '80s are now available on R1 or other various regions, there are still some titles that will be confiscated by customs if you try to import them into Australia. Most of them have Cannibal in the title.
The 1980s "video nasties" controversy is really interesting. Although many of the notorious titles singled out in the '80s are now available on R1 or other various regions, there are still some titles that will be confiscated by customs if you try to import them into Australia. Most of them have Cannibal in the title.
El Mariachi Member Join Date: September 2004 Location: Canada Posts: 460
Cannibal Holocaust on DVD in R1 Link-it comes out on Oct 25 just in time for Halloween.
Ilias Mastrogeorgiou Member Join Date: July 2005 Location: Greece Posts: 4
Yes, "Requiem for a dream" is one of the most disturbing films ever made, and "Audition" also, because they make you feel for their characters, what they are going through, and when everything falls apart you feel devastated too. I would also like to add "A tale of two sisters" and "Mullholand Drive" here.
Robin Abrahamsson Member Join Date: August 2004 Location: Sweden Posts: 38
Agree with you there Llias, Mulholland Drive, that's a scary film. Favorite of the ones chosen has to be Requiem though.
Krug Krug Member Join Date: June 2005 Location: New Zealand Posts: 32
Quote: Originally posted by Ilias Mastrogeorgiou
Yes, "Requiem for a dream" is one of the most disturbing films ever made, and "Audition" also, because they make you feel for their characters, what they are going through, and when everything falls apart you feel devastated too. I would also like to add "A tale of two sisters" and "Mullholand Drive" here.
A Tale of Two Sisters is a very interesting and somewhat unsettling film. Im surprised that someone has mentioned it Mullholland Dr, was a great little flick, however I think one or two of the other Lynch films would go onto this list before Mullholand Dr.
Just like the author of the article im glad I sat through the entire audition as the beginning was SO slow and pacing so tedious that I was about to turn it off. But than all of a sudden I was thrown off my couch.
Yes, "Requiem for a dream" is one of the most disturbing films ever made, and "Audition" also, because they make you feel for their characters, what they are going through, and when everything falls apart you feel devastated too. I would also like to add "A tale of two sisters" and "Mullholand Drive" here.
A Tale of Two Sisters is a very interesting and somewhat unsettling film. Im surprised that someone has mentioned it Mullholland Dr, was a great little flick, however I think one or two of the other Lynch films would go onto this list before Mullholand Dr.
Just like the author of the article im glad I sat through the entire audition as the beginning was SO slow and pacing so tedious that I was about to turn it off. But than all of a sudden I was thrown off my couch.
Worst Nightmare Senior Member Join Date: July 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 6,716
Ah Brazil - classic!
Some how you forgot to include Bambi....
Some how you forgot to include Bambi....
modium Member Join Date: April 2005 Location: United States Posts: 16
What a great article! I've been discussing things like this with my friends for a while, whenever the subject of the horror genre comes up. Truth be told, some films like Taxi Driver or Brazil are more frightening than all the slashers combined, simply because the scares come from a deep, psychological place. It's not a barrage of horrific images, it's a disturbing, unsettling experience that gets under your skin.
I wholeheartedly agree with you on Taxi Driver, Requiem and Brazil. I definitely will have to check out Capturing the Friedmans and Begotten, as they both sound great. The rest I'll check out eventually too, but those two sound great.
I wholeheartedly agree with you on Taxi Driver, Requiem and Brazil. I definitely will have to check out Capturing the Friedmans and Begotten, as they both sound great. The rest I'll check out eventually too, but those two sound great.
I also find the last 10 minutes of Dead ringers really scary
andy zipper Member Join Date: April 2005 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 160
Ah 'Requiem for a dream' was one of my favourite films as a kid.I'd love to see the uncut version.I must get round to watching 'Audition' too !!
I've only see 2 of that Top 10
Steven Carrier Senior Member Join Date: November 2004 Location: United States Posts: 1,575
REQUIEM FOR A DREAM is one seriously fucked up film, you just feel so bad for those charectres...
Kim Noxon Member Join Date: October 2005 Location: Norway Posts: 1
Your thought that Requiem having to be cut in UK is not taking into account the PAL speedup. If the original running time is 102 minutes, you have to *0.96 to get the PAL time (in this case, 97.92 minutes).
The UK version of requiem is uncut, according to several online sources.
The UK version of requiem is uncut, according to several online sources.
Crispin Burnham Member Join Date: September 2003 Location: United States Posts: 26
Good list Alas, I've only seen three of the films TAXI DRIVER, BRAZIL and HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER.
Definitely need to see BEGOTTEN.
Definitely need to see BEGOTTEN.
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Now that summer is gone, let us turn back the clock one hundred Septembers to the fall of 1910. There wasn't much in the news in those days. But, that wasn't a bad thing. Life in seventh month was a little less frenzied. Now you say, September, the seventh month? Yes, under the original Roman calendar, September, the seventh month, didn't become the 9th month until the year 153 A.D..
Thomas Haskins was interested in banks. In fact, Haskins was the vice president and director of the Bank of Dudley. He owned quite a bit of the capital stock of that bank, as well as an interest in one of the banks in Dublin. Trouble was, Haskins didn't trust banks, not at all. In fact, when he died, Haskins didn't have a lone Indian Head, V nickel, or silver coin in the Bank of Dudley or any other bank for that matter.
The old man thought his cash would be safer in his tin box, which he kept in an old desk. On the day after his funeral, his family opened the box and found $11,400.00 in cash along with $18,000.00 in notes and mortgages. His widow was afraid to open the cache. She asked some friends to count the money. During the previous year, Haskins invested a great deal of his currency in promissory notes. It wasn't all paper money, Haskins had a considerable amount of gold and silver coins stashed away.
Just a few months before his demise, Haskins sold his plantation to an Atlanta man, who paid him half in cash and half in gold and silver. He put the coins in one pocket and the currency in the other pocket. Just for one day, he let the bank hold his silver coins. Though some doubted his distrust of banks, the reason most often given for Haskins' refusal to use deposit slips was that he wanted to keep his wealth a secret. On the other hand, word of a treasure chest was never made public as to not entice burglars and robbers to take their wrongful share of his wealth. After the money and notes were properly counted and documented, Mrs. Haskins did the right thing and put it all back in the bank to earn some interest.
Speaking of banks, the folks in Rockledge were right proud of their new bank, which was formed on the last day of summer. C.R. Williams was made the president. The bank would not be fully organized until April 1912. The list of incorporators read like a "who's who" of the Rockledge area. They included C.R. Williams*, J.S. Drew, Jr.*, D.A. Autry, M. Thigpen*, B.F. Barfield*, William Thigpen, Sr.*, D.E. Walker*, J.R. Graham, Dr. W.E. Williams*, W.T. Lord*, T.A. Smith, L.J. Pope, C.J. Donaldson, J.H. Salters, J.M. Thigpen, G.M. Thigpen, William Thigpen, Jr., C.L. Thigpen, J.A. Salters, A.P. Odom, J.J. Green, J.F. Cobb, B.E. Barfield, C.W. Brantley, Fannie Thigpen, L.N. Foskey, John A. Johnson, Sr, J.I. Johnson, William Bales, J.M. Williams*, J.R. Hester*, J.I. Maddux*, J.R. Graham, Jr.*, R.V. Odom, Sherman Johnson, W.H. Toler, D.E. Walker, L.J. Flanders*, J.B. Thigpen, Richard Thigpen, E.L. Branch, W.H.H. McLendon, R.L. Odom, J.H. Drew, Jr.*, L.F. Pope*, and E.A. Wynn. (Those men whose names are marked with an asterisk were the initial members of the board of directors.) The Bank of Rockledge failed like all its sister small town banks.
But no one was more proud than the farmers of the county and stockholders of the Consolidated Phosphate Company. Located near the eastern banks of the Oconee River in Dublin, the five-story building towered above the landscape of Dublin in the years before the First National Bank scraped the sky even more. Izzie Bashinski was the chief executive and operating officer of the concern, which put out more than one hundred tons of acid phosphate per day. Bashinski hoped that the annual output would amount to two hundred million pounds. City fathers were happy. The plant used and paid $3600.00 annually for electricity to turn the plant's gigantic motors adding more money to the city's coffers for infra structural improvements. The plant used phosphate rock from Florida and sulphuric acid from Ducktown, Tennessee to produce their product for a single buyer.
Times were good in Dublin. Money meant jobs and jobs meant there was money to throw around. And, too many people liked to throw their money into the hands of the owners and operators of illegal liquor establishments, known as "blind tigers." City Recorder Judge A.W. Sturgis was bound and determined to put an end to the proliferation of demon rum throughout the city. So, when nine defendants appeared in his court, he meted out punishment swiftly and harshly. Mason Walker, a repeat offender, was given the maximum fine, ninety days in jail and a $150.00 fine. Love Watts was sentenced to go with him, but escaped the fine. William Morris, Mose Jones, and Elsie McDonald were invited to go along too, but were given the chance to get a "get of jail card" by paying the maximum fine, an amount they didn't have after spending their profits. Vashti Brooks and Dallas Coffey were acquitted and got out of jail. Frank Rozier did go, when he perjured himself in an effort to exonerate Brooks.
Mrs. N.H. Marshall had a September she would just soon forget. The wife of one of Dublin's premier car dealers and an enthusiastic automobilist in her own right, was attempting to crank her car when the crank shaft broke striking her in her right wrist, breaking several small bones and badly tearing her ligaments. Her physician banned her from driving for at least a few weeks or until she could get a kind gentleman to crank her car for her.
Winnie Crosby, on the other hand, had a September to remember. At the age of seventy-six, Mrs. Crosby boarded a train for the first time in her life. Although the ride to Rentz along the Southwestern Division of the Wrightsville and Tennille Railroad was her first, she described her experience as a pleasurable one.
Fifty aging veterans of the War Between the States gathered in Dublin for a grand reunion. Out of six companies from Laurens County, only half a hundred veterans were able to participate. One hundred and two men from other counties joined their comrades under the command of Judge John H. Martin of Hawkinsville, who was elected Colonel of the brigade. Dublin attorney W.C. Davis was elected to serve as Col. Martin's Chief of Staff. Capt. Hardy Smith commanded the soldiers of the Laurens County companies while railroad executive L. A. Matthews commanded the out of county company. The Dublin Band led a parade down Jackson Street to Church Street and then to the pavilion in Stubbs Park. Speeches were given by C.A. Weddington, Mayor L.Q. Stubbs, Judge Martin, and Col. G.N. Saussy of Hawkinsville. A big barbecue dinner was served at the pits on Calhoun Street under the supervision of Major T.D. Smith, known far and wide for his culinary skills.
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Oct. 12, 2012
CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. (seminoles.com) – The 12th-rated Florida State indoor volleyball team clamped down on Boston College's potent offense and emerged with a key 3-0 (25-20, 25-15, 25-19) victory on Friday evening at Power Gym in Chestnut Hill, Mass.
The Seminoles (15-2, 7-1) stretched their win streak to nine matches, including seven straight in conference play. Florida State has also won nine straight against the Eagles (12-12, 4-4) and leads the all-time series 14-1.
The upstart BC squad came into the match having been very competitive through the first half of the season and fresh off a pair of road victories over Wake Forest and Duke. Carrying the conference's top outside hitter in freshman Katty Workman, BC used its No. 1 attacker continuously and Florida State was able to force the California native into 13 errors and a .078 hitting percentage.
Workman finished the match with 17 kills on 51 swings, the most attempts by an opposing player in a three-set match since head coach Chris Poole began coaching at Florida State in 2008. The Eagles were held to a .094 hitting percentage, making them the first ACC opponent to hit below .100 against Florida State this year and the third overall.
"The defense did a really nice job picking up several of their attacks," Poole said. "They were throwing a lot of things at us. Katie (Mosher) had a good day defensively, Oli played very well. They tried to go at Duygu (Duzceler) a lot and she did a good job of digging and starting our transition. Overall, I'm pleased with the effort and how hard they worked tonight."
Powering the Seminole attack was senior outside hitter Fatma Yildirim, who posted 13 kills and a .312 hitting percentage. The Istanbul, Turkey native added nine digs and one block, falling just shy of her third double-double this season.
Contributing defensively was junior outside hitter Olivera Medic, who picked up 17 digs in just three sets of action as she played a large role in containing the Eagles' hitting. The Subotica, Serbia native added seven kills and committed just two errors in 19 attacks.
Senior setter Duygu Duzceler had another good performance, recording her 16th career double-double with 18 assists and 13 digs. Duzceler combined with fellow setter Sarah Wickstrom (15 assists) to help Florida State to a .265 team hitting percentage.
Redshirt freshman libero Katie Mosher rounded out the three double-digit dig totals by getting under 12 attacks, as Florida State's 57 total digs were its second-most in a three-set match this year.
"For the most part we played pretty well," Poole added. "We'll always take a 3-gamer on the road. We got good production out of our middles and our passing and defense was good too."
Senior middle blocker Sareea Freeman, the reigning conference co-player of the week, added to Florida State's offense with nine kills and a .429 hitting percentage. Over her last six matches, Freeman has recorded 61 kills in 94 attacks and has registered a .553 attack percentage.
Junior middle blocker Ashley Neff led Florida State with five blocks and added six kills. The Seminoles out-blocked BC by a 6-5 margin.
The Noles took control of the match in the opening set, hitting .295 while siding out 75 percent of the time. Neff got the Seminoles off to a good start with four blocks in the frame, and Florida State went on a 4-0 run late to extend its lead to 21-15 on a Workman error. Yildirim recorded the last three points for the Seminoles on kills to end the set.
Set two saw Florida State sprint to a 10-3 lead on a BC attack error, and later the lead swelled to double digits at 21-11 on a kill by Yildirim. BC was held to a .026 clip in the frame as an attack error by Kameron Mclain put Florida State on top 2-0.
The third set proved to be a challenge but the Seminoles slowly began to pull away. The Seminoles were forced to take a timeout when BC won three consecutive rallies and cut its deficit to 22-18, but responded by winning the next two points on a kill by Freeman and an ace by Duzceler. Neff recorded a kill to end the match.
Florida State finishes its road trip with a match at Maryland on Sunday, Oct. 14 at 1 p.m. in College Park, Md. The Seminoles remain tied for first place in the ACC after Miami (15-3, 7-1) defeated the Terrapins on Friday night in three sets.


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Dunkin' Donuts has Rachael Ray, T.G.I. Fridays has Guy Fieri, and Applebee's has Tyler Florence, so it's only natural for Welch's to want their very own Food Network spokesperson. They've found the perfect match in food scientist Alton Brown. Brown will appear in the new 100 percent grape juice from Concord grapes campaign. He'll appear in television, print, and online advertising. Chris Heye, vice president of marketing for Welch's, explains why Alton is the perfect fit for grape juice:
People have a growing interest in foods and beverages that deliver health benefits. Alton is the perfect partner to help us explain the science behind our Concord grapes and the health benefits they deliver to moms and their families. He has a knack for conveying these messages in a way that is both engaging and credible.
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HUNTINGDON, Pa. – Washington and Lee recorded its first 8-win season since 1981 with a 45-3 victory over Juniata College on Saturday afternoon at Knox Stadium.
The Generals (8-2) amassed 482 yards of total offense (378 rushing) and intercepted five Eagle passes in winning their seventh-straight game.
W&L opened a 14-0 lead just 4:55 into the game following a pair of 3-yard touchdown runs by junior running back Harrison Hudson (Salem, Va./Salem) and sophomore running back Luke Heinsohn (Charlottesville, Va./Covenant). Heinsohn jump-started the Generals' offense with a 63-yard run on W&L's first offensive play of the game.
A 7-yard touchdown run by junior quarterback Charlie Westfal (New Canaan, Conn./New Canaan) gave the Generals a 21-0 lead and the Eagles (0-10) capped the first half scoring on a 29-yard field goal by sophomore Scott Andrews with 1:20 left in the half.
Westfal hooked up with Hudson on a 79-yard touchdown pass to make it 28-3 with 6:19 left in the third quarter and another Westfal touchdown pass, this time a 10-yarder to junior wide receiver Tate Davis (Charlotte, N.C./Charlotte Country Day), made it 35-3 with 3:16 left in the third period. A 35-yard field goal by junior placekicker Peter Alston (Norfolk, Va./Norfolk Academy) and a 15-yard touchdown run by sophomore running back Sasha Vandalov (Vienna, Va./James Madison) ended the scoring.
W&L was led by Heinsohn, who rushed 15 times for 145 yards and one touchdown. Sophomore running back Brett Murray (Lookout Mountain, Tenn./Baylor) carried 12 times for 77 yards, while Hudson amassed 20 yards and one touchdown rushing, along with his one catch for 79 yards. Vandalov rushed six times for 46 yards and one score and Westfal rushed for 28 yards and one touchdown and completed 4-of-9 passes for 104 yards and two touchdowns. Sophomore linebacker Zach Zoller (Salem, Va./Roanoke Catholic) had a team-best seven tackles, while junior defensive back John Kavanagh (Cos Cob, Conn./Greenwich) had two tackles and two interceptions.
Juniata totaled just 160 yards of total offense led by first-year running back Zach McCaulley, who rushed 10 times for 41 yards. First-year quarterback Gino Ramires completed 8-of-15 passes for 79 yards and two interceptions, while junior wide receiver Abe Mellinger caught five passes for 45 yards. First-year linebacker Chris Beall notched a team-high 10 tackles.
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April 30th, 2012
Can a Formula Company Really Promote Breast-Feeding and Fight Child Obesity?
By Bonnie Rochman
Newarks Corey Booker is a darling among U.S. mayors. He made headlines in 2010 when Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg pledged $100 million to his New Jersey citys struggling school system because Booker had impressed him. Earlier this month, Booker dashed into a burning building to save a neighbor. But the mayors on the outs now with breast-feeding advocates, who are none too pleased with a recently announced partnership between Newark and the Nestle Corporation to tackle childhood obesity.
On its face, the project sounds great: a global food powerhouse giving a struggling citys grassroots municipal group, Newark Now, $100,000 to decrease the communitys outsize rate of childhood obesity 27% among children ages 3 to 5, compared to 10% nationally.
I am so excited to announce that Nestle is becoming our newest supporter of Lets Move! Newark, Booker said in a press release announcing the partnership, which is a pilot program for Nestle. Through this new initiative, Nestle and Newark Now will empower our citys grandparents, parents and caregivers on how they can improve the nutrition of their young children by promoting small dietary changes and healthy activity.
But lactation experts are calling foul, concerned that Nestle a major manufacturer of Gerber-brand infant formula will surreptitiously promote its own product rather than championing breast-feeding, which is recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the U.S. Surgeon General for all babies.
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Nashville, Tenn. – The Tennessee State volleyball team hung on after winning the first two sets to defeat Eastern Kentucky, 3-2 (25-13, 25-23, 22-25, 22-25, 15-6) on senior day.
Seniors Britani Hathorn and Calasia Williams came out strong for TSU (16-12, 9-5 OVC), each recording double-digit digs in the five set thriller. Hathorn finished the match with a team-high 18 digs while Williams was third on the club with 11.
Offensively, four different Tigers had at least 10 kills and sophomores Naomi Wells and Rachel Ambroch led the way with 21 and 15, respectively.
Wells and Ambroch also each had double-doubles as Wells had 15 digs and Ambroch added 11 to go along with their kills.
Setter Erika Moss played a big part in the Tigers having four attackers in double-figures as the junior tallied 56 assists. That output was Moss' highest since recording 57 in the win at Southeast Missouri on Oct. 13.
Ambroch started the match with an error, but then redeemed herself with a kill to tie the score at one. The set was still tied when TSU went on a 5-0 run that was highlighted by a service ace from freshman Jamie Cooper and a smash by fellow freshman Emilie Sandve Aase.
The Tigers continued their assault later in the first period, going up by six when Aase recorded her second kill of the match. The attack made the score 15-9, and a net violation on EKU (9-17, 5-9 OVC) during the next few points caused the Colonels to use their first timeout of the match.
The timeout couldn't stop the Tigers as they raised their lead to as many as 12.
TSU was up by eleven late in the first period when a kill from Ambroch sealed the set for the Tigers.
TSU had four attackers record at least three kills during the opening frame, and Tennessee State finished the set with five service aces.
Wells got the Tigers started in the second period with a pair of smashes that were assisted by Moss. The attacks were part of a 6-2 start for the home team.
EKU went on an 8-3 run from there to take the lead, but a kill from Ambroch and an error on the Colonels gave TSU the lead again, 13-12.
The Tigers heeded head coach Kathy Rouhlac's advice during a lat timeout and went on a 5-1 run to make the score 23-21 in their favor.
The Colonels came right back to tie the set at 23, but consecutive attacks that fell wide of the mark put TSU up 2-0.
The Tigers hit .222 in the second period, which was only half of their total during the previous set. However, the club benefitted from 4.5 blocks in period two.
TSU recorded only one block in set three and the team's hitting percentage dipped again to .158.
The poor numbers from Tennessee State coupled with three 4-0 runs by EKU allowed the Colonels to take the third set 25-22.
The Tigers came out much better in the fourth set, and led 4-1 when EKU committed an error.
However, the Colonels eventually tied the score at 14 and then took the lead with a goof by sophomore Sherryce Butler.
TSU could not recover, and EKU tied the score at two sets apiece with a kill.
In the fifth and final set, the Tigers roared to six straight points before EKU finally got on the scoreboard.
TSU led 8-1 when the teams traded sides, and went on to clinch the match with an error by the Colonels.
Hear the 2012 TSU seniors' thoughts on the match, below:
The Tigers will next play on Nov. 6 when they play hosts to Belmont for the final home match of the season. The action is scheduled to start at 7 p.m. in Kean Hall.
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Distcc is a program designed to distribute compiling tasks across a network to participating hosts. It is comprised of a server,
Distcc-2.11 and on require >=sys-apps/portage-2.0.49-r6>=sys-devel/gcc-config-1.3.1 sys-apps/shadow (As of version 2.8 and up until 2.11) And the following optional dependencies when you have gtk in your USE flags>=x11-libs/gtk+-2.2.1
>=sys-apps/portage-2.0.49-r6 >=sys-devel/gcc-config-1.3.1 sys-apps/shadow
In this revision you may chose between a Gnome and GTK GUI monitor, they have the following added dependencies For GTK:>=x11-libs/gtk+-2.0.0 >=gnome-base/libglade-2.0.0 x11-libs/pango For Gnome:>=x11-libs/gtk+-2.0.0 >=gnome-base/libglade-2.0.0 x11-libs/pango >=gnome-base/libgnomeui-184.108.40.206 >=gnome-base/libgnome-2.0.0
Installing Distcc is very easy. Simply set your USE flags and emerge distcc. But, there's a couple of options you should know about.
Distcc ships with a graphical monitor to monitor tasks that your computer is sending away for compilation. If you use Gnome then put 'gnome' in your USE flags. However, if you don't use Gnome and would still like to have the monitor then you should put 'gtk' in your USE flags.
Setting up distcc is very easy to do with Portage. Follow these simple steps on each computer you want to use distcc on:
# emerge distcc # nano -w /etc/make.conf
Next you have to specify what hosts you want to use. To do this you can use the
192.168.0.1 192.168.0.2 192.168.0.3 192.168.0.1/2 192.168.0.2 192.168.0.3/10 192.168.0.1:4000/2 192.168.0.2/1 192.168.0.3:3632/4 @192.168.0.1 @192.168.0.2:/usr/bin/distccd 192.168.0.3
It may all look complicated, but in most cases a variant of line 1 or 2 will work. An explanation of each line is: Line 1 is just a space-delimited list of hosts that will use default everything. Line 2 is a list of hosts that specifies the maximum number of jobs (by use of the /N) to send that host at any given time (specified with the
A sample command to set the hosts (for line 1) is:
# /usr/bin/distcc-config --set-hosts "192.168.0.1 192.168.0.2 192.168.0.3"
The final step to integrating distcc into Portage is to re-open your
# nano -w /etc/make.conf MAKEOPTS=-jN
This is in some cases easier than the Portage setup. What you have to do is update your
# export PATH="/usr/lib/ccache/bin:/usr/lib/distcc/bin:${PATH}"
Then, as you would normally type
Cross-compiling is using one architecture to build programs for another architecture. This can be as simple as using an Athlon (i686) to build a program for a K6-2 (i586), or using a Sparc to build a program for a ppc.
I'd love to be able to help out on the Gentoo Cross-compiling effort, but I don't have any non-x86 machines. I can create things that work
In the near future I hope to acquire a Sparc of some type to put Gentoo on so I can play around in-house.
Next, you have to boot your new box with a Gentoo Linux LiveCD and follow all of the steps up until the bootstrapping. Then proceed with a little preliminary setup on the new box.
Here we add distcc to FEATURES# nano -w /etc/make.conf Add "distcc" to FEATURES Modify MAKEOPTS in /etc/make.conf to include -jN (as described above)
Then add the distcc user to your
# echo "distcc:x:240:2:distccd:/dev/null:/bin/false" >>/etc/passwd
Do not forget the `>>'
Next you will want to issue the following command inside the chroot on the new box.
# emerge --nodeps distcc
Now set up distcc itself...
# /usr/bin/distcc-config --install # /usr/bin/distcc-config --set-hosts "localhost host1 host2 host3 ..."
distcc should be set up now to bootstrap! Continue the official install guide, and don't forget to re-emerge distcc after
As you emerge various packages, you'll notice that they aren't being distributed (and indeed aren't being built in parallel). This is because the developers of Mozilla and Xfree .ebuilds disabled parallel building because it is known to cause problems. This isn't necessarily a distcc problem.
That isn't to say that sometimes distcc will cause a package to fail to compile.
With such a long title any explanation here is almost irrelevent. However, if you plan to use distcc across hosts that have the
The solution requires a little foresight on your part; you have to run
If you have differing versions of GCC on your hosts, there will likely be very weird problems. The solution is to make certain all hosts have the same GCC version.
Distcc ships with two monitors. The text-based one is always built, it is called
The other monitor is only turned on if you enabled
There is a caveat to using these programs. If you want to monitor any emerge, you have to start the monitor like so:
# DISTCC_DIR=/path/to/distccdir distccmon-text N
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It's been nearly a month since T-Mobile and LG announced the G-Slate Honycomb tablet. The only problem? They really didn't give us any details about the device. Fortunately, T-Mobile has finally decided to pull back the curtain and reveal the tablet's specifications.
As expected, the LG G-Slate will be powered by a dual-core 1GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor. Other specifications include a 5 MP camera with LED flash, stereoscopic rear-facing video camera capable of recording 1080p 3D video, a front-facing 2 MP camera for video chat, support for T-Mobile HSPA+ 4G network, and a 8.9-inch capacitive display capable of playing back your 3D videos. Keep in mind, you'll need to wear a pair of 3D glasses in order to enjoy any 3D content on the LG G-Slate. To top things off, LG has equipped the G-Slate with an astounding 32 GB of internal storage.
T-Mobile's announcement made a vague reference to a spring launch, though they did not have any details to share on the tablet's price. Fortunately, LG has has revealed that they expect the LG G-Slate to launch in the U.S. this March.
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The 4G Android 3.0 Tablet Enables 3D and HD Capture, Viewing and Sharing
BELLEVUE, Wash., and SAN DIEGO – Feb. 2, 2011 – T-Mobile USA, Inc. and LG Mobile Phones today unveiled their AndroidTM 3.0 (Honeycomb)-powered tablet, the T-Mobile® G-SlateTM with GoogleTM by LG. With a brilliant, high-definition (HD) 8.9-inch, 3D-capable multi-touch display, the T-Mobile G-Slate delivers a groundbreaking mobile entertainment experience, including the ability to record 3D and full HD video.
Expected to be available this spring, G-Slate is built for speed on America's Largest 4G NetworkTM and is the first tablet in T-Mobile's pioneering G-series of devices, which began with the world's first Android-powered smartphone just over two years ago. The first 4G tablet from T-Mobile and LG, the G-Slate is powered by Android 3.0 (Honeycomb), the latest version of Google's Android platform, which is optimized for tablets. In addition, the G-Slate will be among the first tablets to feature 3D capabilities including built-in support for 3D graphics, enabling consumers to capture and share their own 3D videos and experience 3D HD content right on the device with the aid of 3D glasses.
The G-Slate represents the next chapter in T-Mobile's rich history of Android innovation,‖ said Brad Duea, senior vice president, marketing, T-Mobile USA. ―Tablets enable users to take with them the rich Web and entertainment experiences they have at home, and this will radically shift the way people interact with and consume content while mobile. The G-Slate delivers a powerful combination of premium mobile HD entertainment and T-Mobile's lightning-fast 4G mobile broadband network.
We are excited to introduce the T-Mobile G-Slate by LG, which offers consumers an engaging new way to communicate, entertain and stay connected,‖ said Tim O'Brien, vice president of marketing for LG Mobile Phones.
Bringing consumers the latest in revolutionary HD tablet technology and an Android platform perfectly optimized for tablet use, G-Slate provides a unique multimedia experience.
The sleek, lightweight G-Slate can easily be held upright in one hand for reading an eBook or magazine, watching streaming TV or browsing the Web while on the go. Featuring a rear-facing stereoscopic video recorder with 1080p for HD video capture and a 5 megapixel camera with LED flash, the G-Slate makes it easy to capture moments on video or with a photo. With the front-facing camera, customers can video chat with friends and family over T-Mobile's network or Wi-Fi with Google TalkTM. The G-Slate also supports 720p HD on-device video playback and HDMI output to show 1080p content on 3-D and HD displays. With a NVIDIA Tegra 2 mobile processor with dual- core CPU and full Adobe® Flash® Player support, the G-Slate enables quick and seamless browsing of rich Web content, multitasking and gaming. The G-Slate will also provide a superior entertainment experience when streaming live TV or downloading music and videos with lightning-fast speed over T-Mobile's 4G network.In addition, the G-Slate includes 32 GB of internal memory and features a built-in gyroscope, accelerometer and adaptive lighting for the latest applications and the ultimate gaming experience.
T-Mobile's 4G network, America's largest 4G network, has expanded into more than 100 major metropolitan areas, reaching more than 200 million people nationwide. Beginning today, T-Mobile's network is also delivering 4G speeds to Albany, Augusta, Columbus and Macon, Ga., and Chattanooga, Tenn., in the South region as well as in Champaign, Ill.; Lansing, Mich.; and Rochester, Minn., in the Midwest. In addition to the expanding its 4G footprint, T-Mobile has aggressive plans to double the speed of its 4G network in 2011. T-Mobile expects that 140 million Americans in 25 major metropolitan areas will have access to these increased 4G speeds by midyear.
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"It's always going to be tough, but it's like Coach says, 'You get the mental reps. You do what you have to do, you do what you can do,' and that's my goal, to do what I can do. You always want people holding you back. You don't ever want to have people pushing you forward, and that's what they're doing right now. They're holding me back from doing certain things because I feel like I'm ready, my body might look like I'm ready, but according to the time table, I'm not ready. So, I just keep pushing forward, keep pushing forward in what I can do, while at the same time, allow them to make me be patient."
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I think this is very interesting and scary that we can now potentially get viruses through just looking at a website. The site where I got this article is http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/...061302X,00.asp and I will copy the whole thing and paste it below if you do not want to visit the page. Please express what you think about this, but this opens up so many more doors for malicious people out there to ruin computers.
First JPEG Virus Identified
McAfee studies lab virus that could change the way digital infections spread--and are contained.
Sam Costello, IDG News Service
Thursday, June 13, 2002
A new virus can--for the first time--infect image files, says an antivirus vendor. This means the virus could spread through Web site graphics and force antivirus companies to re-engineer their products, McAfee officials say.
The virus is not yet in the wild, meaning it is not spreading on the Internet; it was sent by its author to antivirus vendor McAfee Security, a division of Network Associates. McAfee calls the virus W32/Perrun, says Vincent Gullotto, senior director for the McAfee Anti-Virus Emergency Response Team, which received the virus Thursday morning.
The virus is built to spread first as an executable, or .exe, file and then in JPEG image files, Gullotto says. Were it to spread in the wild, W32/Perrun would appear as an executable that would infect JPEGs when it was run, he says. The executable can be transmitted in standard ways, such as by download and via e-mail. The first JPEG viewed after the executable is run will have the virus code appended to it, Gullotto says. The virus will then seek out other JPEG files in the same directory and try to infect them, he says.
W32/Perrun is the first virus to infect JPEGs, according to McAfee.
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Only machines that already have the executable file on them could be infected, because of the way the virus is written, Gullotto says. It's possible, though, that future derivatives of this virus could do away with the executable as a prerequisite for infection, he adds.
Because JPEGs are a common image format on the Web, the virus poses a risk of infecting any user who views an infected file on a Web site, Gullotto says. Users would have to have the executable on their systems to become infected in this way, he notes.
The initial version of W32/Perrun that McAfee has examined does nothing more than try to infect other JPEG files, but future versions could be modified to include all manner of code. Gullotto cites potential infection through Trojan horses and other programs that could potentially leave PCs open to attackers. Future versions of the virus could also be modified to attack other file types, including text files, MP3s, and others, he says.
"This may begin to change the face of what files virus writers start to pay attention to," Gullotto says. "While these files have been safe, we may see a time in the future when these files are not safe."
Such a circumstance could also force antivirus companies to re-engineer their products, he says. Current antivirus software would experience serious performance degradation if it had to scan image files and others for viruses, he says. If this type of virus attack becomes more prevalent, antivirus software will have to be modified to handle it, he says.