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Post by Phalon on Oct 12, 2011 4:38:32 GMT -6
Isabella Thorpe - from Jane Austen's novel of gothic horror, Northanger Abbey. Not really scary either, as it is a parody of the gothic novels of the time, but something other than Icabod Crane, who was the only other "I" I could thing of, and (HA!) he's been done to death.
(that is one danged long run-on sentence)
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Post by quettalee on Oct 12, 2011 9:33:48 GMT -6
Dr. Jekyll
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Post by stepper on Oct 12, 2011 19:02:19 GMT -6
Kevin - the deceptively normal acting character in Sin City who was a bit of a cannibalistic sprite. (Played by Elijah Wood AKA Frodo.)
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Post by quettalee on Oct 12, 2011 22:31:09 GMT -6
Leatherface ~ of "Texas Chainsaw Massacre"
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Post by stepper on Oct 13, 2011 17:33:25 GMT -6
Mad Monster Party - a Movie of Marionettes where Dr Frankenstein retires from his Monster Making business and looks for a successor among the world's Monsters. And one of the characters (voiced by Phyllis Diller) is only called The Monster's Mate.
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Post by Siren on Oct 13, 2011 23:06:02 GMT -6
Nicely done, Step!
N is for Nessie, the affectionate nickname for the mysterious Loch Ness Monster
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Post by quettalee on Oct 14, 2011 0:41:55 GMT -6
Ofelia ~ from "Pan's Labyrinth"
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Post by Phalon on Oct 14, 2011 4:43:47 GMT -6
Pinhead from the Hellraiser movies
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Post by stepper on Oct 14, 2011 17:43:31 GMT -6
Queen Grimhilde - the evil queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
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Post by Mini Mia on Oct 14, 2011 18:08:04 GMT -6
Rumpelstiltskin
That name deserves a 2-minute drill for the calendar or Halloween thread.
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Post by stepper on Oct 14, 2011 18:13:32 GMT -6
Skeletor
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Post by Siren on Oct 15, 2011 22:47:33 GMT -6
T is for Tommy, the ill-fated prom king (played by blond, tousle-haired William Katt) in "Carrie"
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Post by Phalon on Oct 16, 2011 6:36:20 GMT -6
What a pretty smile William Katt had; I just watched "Carrie" the other night on the Family Channel's Stephen King marathon.
U is for The Undertaker - from the very low budget movie of the same name about a mortician who kills beautiful women to keep as "friends" in his funeral home.
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Post by stepper on Oct 16, 2011 9:56:52 GMT -6
Rather than an evil fictional character – let’s go with Vincent Price who played many evil characters in movies, TV, and who’s voice and laugh added immeasurably to Michael Jackson’s Thriller
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Post by Siren on Oct 16, 2011 21:53:42 GMT -6
Good one, Step. Mr. Price was one of a kind. W is for Wednesday, the only daughter in "The Addams Family". The character didn't have a name until illustrator Charles Addams' drawings became a tv series. In naming the character, Charles Addams remembered the old nursery rhyme that said, "Wednesday's child is full of woe." X is for Xena, of course. In honor of the season, it's the scary Xena from "Paradise Found":
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Post by Phalon on Oct 17, 2011 5:13:12 GMT -6
Love Vincent Price! A man who truly had fun with his roles, often attending showings of his movies dressed in costume, and playing pranks on the audience.
Cool trivia about the Addams family's Wednesday, Siren....and a very scary-looking Xena!
Yellow Wallpaper - not a character actually, but it does play the major role in the creepy short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The unnamed and mentally unstable woman in the story describes the paper in her journal:
"It is the strangest yellow, that wall-paper! It makes me think of all the yellow things I ever saw — not beautiful ones like buttercups, but old foul, bad yellow things."
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Post by stepper on Oct 17, 2011 20:22:36 GMT -6
Zorg - one of the bad guys in The Fifth Element
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Post by Siren on Oct 17, 2011 22:32:40 GMT -6
Oh my gosh, Gams - "The Yellow Wallpaper". I had totally forgotten about that! I just re-read it, and, holy cow, is that unsettling!! Thank you so much for reminding me of that. Good gravy, that spooked me! It helps that I was half-watching "The Legend Of Hell House" while I was reading the story. "Hell House" is a good, scary film, with, I think, a rather disappointing ending. Still, that movie's soundtrack, with its malignant silences, and unholy moaning, groaning, and screams, combined with that poor, slowly unhinging woman in "The Yellow Wallpaper", is enough to have me turning on all the lights, and closing the door to the dark extra bedroom. *shiver*
By the way, Gams, if my description of that movie tempts you to seek out the book, I would reconsider. My very well-read oldest sis says "The Legend of Hell House" by Richard Matheson was so disturbing, and not in a fun-scary way, she tore the book to pieces after she finished it and threw it away. She said she wished she had never read it. (BTW, she feels almost compelled to finish a book once she starts it. She did not finish that book out of enjoyment.)
On the other hand, she ADORED Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting Of Hill House", and says that though it was decades ago that she first read it, that it remains the most frightening thing she's ever read.
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A is for dear, dead "Annabel Lee", from the poem by Edgar Allan Poe. As a teen, I thought that poem was so romantic, the way he pined for her. Now, I find it creepy, especially the part about him spending his nights lying next to her in her tomb.
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Post by quettalee on Oct 17, 2011 23:45:11 GMT -6
Boogeyman ~ movie staring (briefly) Lucy Lawless and later Renee (with a much bigger part) in Boogeyman II
...or...
bogeyman ~ an imaginary monster created by adults to scare children into behaving.
I love that poem, Siren.
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Post by Phalon on Oct 18, 2011 6:36:40 GMT -6
Siren, while other 10th grade English classes in our school were reading Shakespeare and the like, the class I was in was assigned one of those books - either "The Haunting of Hill House" or "Hell House" to read. I honestly don't remember which because the plots are so similar - I'm leaning toward the later though, because I seem to remember one kid's parent objected because of the word "hell" in the title, (eye-roll). I'm not sure if either appears on any assigned reading list, but Ms. Brown was a kind of off-the-wall teacher.
It wasn't until last year that I read both "The Yellow Wallpaper" and "Annabel Lee" - both assignments in LX's English class.
I feel the same way about The Exorcist - there is only a handful of books I started and never finished, and The Exorcist is one of them (I've never watched the entire movie either). Of course, I read it when I was about 12 at my girlfriend's house, and stayed up into the wee hours of the night reading. I only had a few chapters left before I finally quit, scared senseless, and even to this day don't know how the story ended.
Here's a character from a book I read (and finished), and a movie (that I've seen)...
Christine....the car with a mind (an evil mind) of its own.
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Post by stepper on Oct 18, 2011 18:38:21 GMT -6
Dr. Demento - who plays scarily bad and strange "music".
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Post by quettalee on Oct 18, 2011 21:59:07 GMT -6
Edward Nygma ~ Jim Carrey's weird character that transforms into The Riddler in Batman Forever
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Post by Siren on Oct 19, 2011 21:21:20 GMT -6
F is for Frau Blucher in "Young Frankenstein"
*distant sound of a horse whinnying, terrified*
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Post by Phalon on Oct 20, 2011 3:28:31 GMT -6
Dorian Gray - from The Picture of Dorian Gray, a classic tale that never grows old.
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Post by quettalee on Oct 21, 2011 0:36:06 GMT -6
Hecate ~ goddess of witchcraft in Macbeth
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Post by Mini Mia on Oct 21, 2011 0:43:51 GMT -6
Igor - Dr. Frankenstein's assistant.
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Post by Phalon on Oct 21, 2011 4:41:44 GMT -6
I just stumbled across a site dedicated to Hecate a week or so ago. She was a very powerful goddess in many cultures. Here's a bit of trivia.....her Roman counterpart was Trivia.
Here's a ghost for a different season...
Jacob Marley - from A Christmas Carol
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Post by Siren on Oct 21, 2011 7:00:35 GMT -6
K is for Karl Kolchak, the fearful but determined reporter who regularly battled malevolent creatures of every description on one of my all-time favorite series, "The Night Stalker".
Funny how one thought will trigger another, Gams. Your reference to Hecate reminded me of an episode of "The Night Stalker" in which Kolchak discovered that a series of murders was made in tribute to Hecate so that an old lady could temporarily restore her youthful beauty. And after I thought of "The Night Stalker", it occurred to me that Kolchak was the K name I needed for this game. So, thanks!
Years ago, at a celebrity rodeo here in OK, I met Cathy Lee Crosby, the actress who played the Hecate worshipper in that episode of "The Night Stalker". I mentioned to her how much I loved that series, and how memorable her appearance was. She said she remembered it well, too, because she got to wear a graceful toga through most of the shoot, and because Darrin McGavin, who played Kolchak, was fun and easy to work with. She was still uniquely beautiful, decades after that tv appearance, and was lovely to chat with.
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BTW, Gams, I mentioned this thread and conversation to my sis, and she said to warn those that might be intrigued by "The Legend Of Hell House" that it contains graphic, and in her opinion, perverse, violence toward women. That was what she found so disturbing about that book, and why she wished she hadn't read it. She was surprised that it was written by Richard Matheson, who also wrote "Bid Time Return", the basis for the romantic film, "Somewhere In Time". She said she, like you with "The Exorcist", was too young to have read that book, but did not feel, in retrospect, that her youth made it seem worse than it was.
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Gams said "Dorian Gray, a classic tale that never grows old". Took me awhile to catch the joke. Boll!
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Post by quettalee on Oct 21, 2011 10:13:28 GMT -6
Dr. Sam Loomis ~ the archenemy to Michael Myers in my favorite "Halloween" movies...played by Donald Pleasence (and once by Malcolm McDowell). Also the name of Janet Leigh's boyfriend in Hitchcock's "Psycho"
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Post by Phalon on Oct 22, 2011 5:57:01 GMT -6
Very cool, Siren, that you got the chance to talk with her.
I've been thinking about whether it was "The Haunting of Hill House", or "Hell House" that was assigned in my high-school English class; it's one of those stupid things that bug you until you can figure out the answer. I keep getting the stories mixed up, but I specifically remember the kid who couldn't read the book because his mother objected. Despite the possible objection of "Hell" in the title, I've decided I'm pretty sure it was "Hill House" in school. The name "Eleanor" triggered a memory of reading a haunted house book, so I'm sure I read it at one time, and a quick drill finds the book listed on a couple of high school reading lists. I probably saw The Legend of Hell House in movie form.
M is for Nicholas Medina from Edgar Allen Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum", and played by Vincent Price in the 1961 movie.
I will never forget "Don" (the Spanish term for a nobleman) Medina.
Ever play "Bob"? We were all sitting around one night way, way, way back in the day, and someone decided we should play Bob, a drinking game based on the old Bob Newhart show. The idea is every time one of the characters says "Bob", which occurs probably every 5 seconds, everyone downs a shot.
Well, Bob Newhart (in reruns at the time) was not on television that night. But "The Pit and the Pendulum" with Vincent Price was. "Bob" was replaced by "Don Medina", and I have never been able to stomach the smell of dark rum since.
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