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To: SunkenCiv

I hate screaming mummies.


2 posted on 08/03/2024 10:04:19 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: DannyTN

It's hard to sleep when they're around.

7 posted on 08/03/2024 10:08:43 PM PDT by Songcraft
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To: DannyTN

Hey, cut her some slack, maybe she was buried alive. ;^)


12 posted on 08/03/2024 10:21:31 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: DannyTN

I hate clowns. I dislike screaming mummies. :-)


20 posted on 08/03/2024 11:02:38 PM PDT by Equine1952
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To: DannyTN

Great classic Roger Corman directed horror movie The Pit and the Pendulum with Vincent Price had a similar ending. He was deranged and believed he was a relative from the Inquisition but in real life his evil wife Barbara Steele had cheated on him. In the end she was put in the iron maiden with spikes in her as she screamed, buried alive. Her wide eyes were the last things seen in the fade to end credits.

From Filmfredonia:
The ending is technically happy as the good guys stumble away unharmed, and yet Corman saves up one of the most coldly ironic final shots in horror film history, as Catherine, Francis, and Maximillian leave the dungeon. “No-one shall enter this room again,” Catherine vows, only for Corman to veer his camera back to the iron maiden from which the gagged Elizabeth stares in silent mortification, doomed to the nastiest possible punishment for her crime. The ritualistic final quote direct from Poe that ends the film ironically fills in a description of the very sound Elizabeth can’t make: the primal scream of purgative fear.


21 posted on 08/03/2024 11:17:09 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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