Celebrity cult of vampires can turn into real-life evil

The Observer ^ | Sunday October 26, 2003 | Stephen Khan

[.cnI redruM]

So what are you guys doing for Halloween?

[Spruce]

Nerds gone Wild!

[OPS4]

Pray to the lord for these evil spirits to be destroyed,
here and around the world.
Ops4 God BLess America!

[reed_inthe_wind]

sharpen your wooden stakes.

[TheBigB]

I'll be dressed up as a middle-class white guy with a job.

[patriota-ferus]

They may have outlawed guns in the Brittish Isles, but, wooden stakes are still up for grabs!

[Dead Corpse]

Here we go... I've been waiting for these types of threads to start up. Happens EVERY year around Halloween. Give a day or two and someone will start posting Chick Tracks.

[.cnI redruM]

BWAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!

[FeliciaCat]

"Forensic tests revealed that he had been stabbed 42 times and suffered 10 hammer blows to the head. Menzies ate part of his friend's head, before placing the lifeless body on its side so he could perform the blood-draining ritual.

A year earlier, the remains of a Welsh pensioner, Mabel Leyshon, were found mutilated at her home on Anglesey. She had been stabbed 22 times before her heart was removed and placed in a saucepan on a silver platter next to her body. Pokers were placed at her feet in the shape of a cross. Last week the killer, Matthew Hardman, was refused right to appeal his conviction. Aged just 17, he was obsessed with vampires and drank his victim's blood in a quest for immortality."


Beyond disgusting - why are these low-lifes still breathing? ..Oh thats right...because the UK doesnt have the death penalty anymore.

[TheBigB]

[I still care]

I just pulled out my favorite vampire flick from all time, and watched it last night.

The BBC version of Dracula with Louis Jourdan, and Frank Finlay.

It actually sticks to the book rigidly, presents vampires as evil, shows Christians as good, shows evil at true war with Christianity, and ends with a prayer. There's no other version like it.

The special effects are pure 70's but they actually use acting (amazing!) to build the horror and suspense.

It's hard to find but I recommend it highly.

[Dead Corpse]

Heard on the news last night that the local Humane Society has stopped allowing the adoption of black cats for the holiday. Once again, happens every year.

Where do all the sicko's go the other 364 days of the year?

[Xenalyte]

I'm still mulling. We can come to work as anything that would wear a suit. I'm torn between being a Man in Black (likely more Tommy Lee Jones than Will Smith), or John Travolta a la Pulp Fiction, but technically a vest and jacket is a suit, so I could be a vampire too. Hmmm.

[DoctorMichael]

Some people have waaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy too much time on their hands.

[FeliciaCat]

"Where do all the sicko's go the other 364 days of the year?"

Tower Records in NYC is a good bet, judging by the crowd I saw there last week....

[RiflemanSharpe]

Where do all the sicko's go the other 364 days of the year?


They go to the Democratic party

[Hacksaw]

Heard on the news last night that the local Humane Society has stopped allowing the adoption of black cats for the holiday. Once again, happens every year. Where do all the sicko's go the other 364 days of the year?

Yes, that is true. I keep my cats indoors until after halloween.

[.cnI redruM]

It seems John Carpenter took a few hundred liberties with that basic script. So does Stephen King in Salem's lot.

I guess The Exorcist may have been the last horror flick with a priest who was an unambiguously good holy warrior.

[theFIRMbss]

Seduction of the Innocent, thoroughly documented by facts and cases, gives the substance of Dr. Wertham's expert opinion on the effects that comic books have on the minds and behavior of children who come in contact with them. He has studied all the varieties of comic books. His findings are presented, therefore, against the background of all kinds of comic books. He has directed this book specifically as crime comic books, which he defines as those "comic books that depict crime, whether the setting is urban, Western, science-fiction, jungle, adventure or the realm of supermen, 'horror' or supernatural beings."

[FeliciaCat]

I'm going asthe sexiest witch ever, complete with black cocktail dress, black platform stilletto's and pointy hat...trying to stop the hatefull stereotyping ;)