By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Seriously Random Lists | Comments (52)
(This post is dedicated to the lovely Figgy)
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Posted by: Reba at August 17, 2011 12:06 AM
Dustin, I love you but you're a sick fuck. Meanwhile I'm watching A League of Their Own on AMC. I love that movie. Pickle tickle.
Posted by: Amberlark at August 17, 2011 12:15 AM
I'll never forgive you.
Posted by: Malky at August 17, 2011 12:30 AM
Well, I should have seen that coming. What's the third one from? Looks oddly familiar.
Posted by: Delilah at August 17, 2011 12:35 AM
You're a jerk!
(not really)
Posted by: Angeleno Ewok at August 17, 2011 12:41 AM
Hey, remember when you had the one piece where everyone entered their favorite (i.e., worst) nightmares? My god, that was good stuff. How 'bout an encore.
Posted by: Johnnyboy at August 17, 2011 12:42 AM
Ahhh! Fucking clowns!
The third one is from some Stephen King adaptation - The Thing maybe.
Posted by: mattie at August 17, 2011 12:43 AM
No, it was It. That book scared the crap out of me. Evil clowns AND giant killer spider like things.
Posted by: mattie at August 17, 2011 12:45 AM
Is this because Figgy dissed Almost Famous in the comments section of that post earlier today, Rowles?
Posted by: vic at August 17, 2011 12:51 AM
Buttmunch.
Posted by: VK at August 17, 2011 1:07 AM
I think we just got TKed
Posted by: Even Stevens at August 17, 2011 1:10 AM
Also, job well done because I literally went "What. the. FUCK." when I saw the first image. Did you really have to use so many from IT? REALLY???
Posted by: Even Stevens at August 17, 2011 1:12 AM
vic: STOP GIVING HIM MORE IDEAS.
As it is, I'm already headed to his house with so many knives.
Posted by: figgy at August 17, 2011 1:24 AM
On the other hand, I'm amazed at just how quickly I can close a window nowadays. In fact, I closed the tab so fast I closed like three others on the way. Fuckers.
Posted by: figgy at August 17, 2011 1:25 AM
I dig it!
Posted by: DarthCorleone at August 17, 2011 1:26 AM
Does that clown thing really scare anyone? It's literally the dumbest, not-scariest image ever. I guess I had to see the movie?
Posted by: Protoguy at August 17, 2011 1:35 AM
I like the bunny.
Posted by: fracas at August 17, 2011 2:04 AM
That totally fucking got me!
Now I have to sleep with the TV on. Just kidding....kinda.
Posted by: junierizzle at August 17, 2011 2:14 AM
Thank you, and a goodnight to you too.
Posted by: io at August 17, 2011 2:41 AM
Okay, I don't know what the bunny-girl or the crawling hospital gown thing are from. Can anyone fill in the blanks?
Posted by: Craig at August 17, 2011 3:04 AM
Well played sir, well played. It's 8:30 am in the UK and that cracked my shit up. Who IS that freaky bunny?
Protoguy, I totally agree about the clowns not being remotely scary, they are just goofy. Maybe I need to re-watch "It"?
Posted by: Cara at August 17, 2011 3:30 AM
I'm pretty sure the third one is from The Unborn (aka That Movie With The Poster That Has Odette Yustman's Ass On It).
Posted by: Thijs at August 17, 2011 3:58 AM
Bunny girl? If you mean the first picture after the header, I'm pretty sure that's Frank, the 6' rabbit from Donnie Darko. No?
Posted by: Uriah Creep at August 17, 2011 5:41 AM
Isn't the bunny a manipulated image of one of the girls in House of a 1000 Corpses? The psycho family dresses the two girls up as animals before hunting them down in he house and woods.
And protoguy, all you need to know about the clown is that it was played by Tim Curry, lives in the sewers, and specifically stalks and kills children in unimaginable ways. Blame Stephen King.
Posted by: Robert at August 17, 2011 6:57 AM
What, is that all you got, Dustin? I thought you were going to drag out the big guns.
Besides, after the real-life horrors brought up in the documentary threads, I find these choices to be surprisingly pedestrian. By comparison these GIFs are nothing but children mugging it up in cheap rubber masks and ketchup.
For example, Pennywise is nothing compared to a court judge who rips the hearts out of a grieving elderly couple by enthusiastically letting the deranged murderer of their only child out prison, just to watch them do it all over again to their grandchild. The worse thought would be a GIF of same said judge still serving on the bench. THAT'S an image that would haunt my sleep.
Real horror monsters don't wear creepy outfits and talk in scarey voices, they look like us and do very real and irreversible things that tear our souls to shreds...and they are very real. The real horror TV channel doesn't show slasher films- they show 24 hour "news".
You really want to scare me? Show me some of the fools running for public office. Better still show me the even bigger fools who vote them into power. Show me CEOs getting million dollar bonuses after letting thousands of employees get fired. Show me a bank auctioning off someone's home multiplied by a thousand. Show me a hospital ejecting someone needs care because hey don't have proper insurance. Show me a disfigured military veteran who at the age of 23 is now blind and has no legs. Show me a GIF of the tsunami in Japan destroying the nuclear reactors yet again. Show me the riots of "protestors" looting stores, gleefully destroying their cities and beating helpless people.
That will keep me up at night because I can't make those monsters go away by turning off the TV or closing a book. They will always be there, and there isn't a damn thing I can do about it. Sweet dreams kiddies.
Posted by: bleujayone at August 17, 2011 7:16 AM
Alright what the FUCK, WHY SO MANY CLOWNS? Coulda just had a gif of a spider running and I'd have cried myself to sleep quite happily but NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO gotta be clowns is it? Well fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck yoooooooooooouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
Posted by: Nadine at August 17, 2011 7:19 AM
I count myself as one of the lucky individuals who never suffered through IT as a child and therefore I do not find clowns scary at all.
My first encounter with clowns was in the '50s classic, The Greatest Show on Earth. Jimmy Stewart was an awesome clown!
Posted by: grace b at August 17, 2011 8:25 AM
Well. I'm just glad Rowles doesn't know what I fear most. Yeeesh.
Posted by: MelBivDevoe at August 17, 2011 8:36 AM
Even Stevens is right. Dustin's totally channeling TK on this one.
The thing with It is I think think it's one of those things you might find terrifying as a child, but when you grow up you realize you were really dumb as a child. Though I'd imagine some people's coulrophobia lives on to this day. Now I see It and I think Mr. Jelly.
Posted by: Socrates_Johnson at August 17, 2011 8:54 AM
Craig, the crawling hospital gown thing is The Ring.
Posted by: CL at August 17, 2011 9:01 AM
Dick move Rowles.
You have exacerbated my fear of clowns.
Posted by: westcott at August 17, 2011 9:04 AM
Does that clown thing really scare anyone? It's literally the dumbest, not-scariest image ever. I guess I had to see the movie?
Good lord no. After the movie you'll suffer only from fits of giggles.
Posted by: aptrapani at August 17, 2011 9:41 AM
Looks like SOMEbody has a new toy.
Posted by: , at August 17, 2011 9:41 AM
I'm just glad you missed the creepy ceiling baby from Trainspotting. That thing gives me nightmares.
Posted by: Siege at August 17, 2011 10:20 AM
You're a dick and I hate you.
Posted by: E the B at August 17, 2011 10:54 AM
And I hope figgy stabs you right in the neck. And I hope it doesn't kill you but does enough damage to where you have to get one of those trachea attachments that make you talk like a robot.
Posted by: E the B at August 17, 2011 10:58 AM
Ass.
Posted by: E the B at August 17, 2011 10:59 AM
He was an awesome clown grace b, other than the murderer part. Heston was the real *sshole.
Many people find clowns freaky, present company included. Not sharks in the abyss freaky, but freaky nonetheless.
Posted by: Mrs. Julien at August 17, 2011 10:59 AM
No Pale Man from Pan's Labyrinth? Nightmare attempt fail.
Posted by: Ban the Tiger Punch at August 17, 2011 11:01 AM
I am standing by my opinion that E the B is "delightful" and herewith supplementing it with an "absolutely".
Posted by: Mrs. Julien at August 17, 2011 11:02 AM
I may be heterosexual and spoken for, but to hell with it. Mrs. J, let's marry! You just keep the whiskey flowing and I will do likewise with the razor-sharp wit!
Posted by: E the B at August 17, 2011 11:18 AM
Why would you be so mean to me? Butthole.
Posted by: Austin at August 17, 2011 11:49 AM
Looks like the video dream-log of a slow night.
I have issues.
Posted by: BierceAmbrose at August 17, 2011 12:27 PM
Stephen King's It was, if you had the privilege to see it as a child, the scariest shit imaginable. However, if you're an adult and have read the book, you'll know that it's The Goonies Meet a Clown.
Posted by: duckandcover at August 17, 2011 2:54 PM
OK, but is the Death swinging a scythe (in b&w) from Metropolis?
As for the rest, YEE HAW! Bring it on. Although why sooooo many Pennywises, yet not even one clown from Poltergeist? That clown is equally scary. (Maybe just because I saw it when I was younger.)
Posted by: MM at August 17, 2011 5:49 PM
The bunny girl is most decidedly NOT Frank from Donnie Darko.
Posted by: Craig at August 17, 2011 9:15 PM
Nice try, after I looked at the rest I looked at the banner pic and slept peacefully all night.
Posted by: clancys_daddy at August 17, 2011 9:55 PM
The bunny girl is most decidedly NOT Frank from Donnie Darko.
Posted by: Craig at August 17, 2011 9:15 PM
I realized that soon after I posted, Craig. Any idea where that bunny does come from?
Posted by: Uriah Creep at August 17, 2011 10:39 PM
My mom made me watch "It" at age 7: It scared me shitless. I hated horror movies for goddamn years after that, and to this day, I cannot be around clowns, at all.
Posted by: Batkinson at August 18, 2011 12:09 AM
At least some people have finally come clean about how old they were when these supposedly "terrifying" movies impacted them.
Personally, I want to smack your parents for letting you see that crap when you were that young. That said, there have been plenty of supposedly acceptable kid's fare that traumatized us all. The "I smell children" guy from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang really messed me up for a while.
Posted by: Protoguy at August 18, 2011 12:34 AM
Pfffffffft.
I live MY life.
That shit is child's play.
Posted by: Maryscott O'Connor at August 19, 2011 3:14 AM
These seem like addiction facilitating behavior by requiring the immediacy of 'winning' for a bit, just like eBay
Posted by: Penny Auctions at August 31, 2011 12:20 AM
The beautiful thing about not watching (or reading) much horror, is that I have little context for these images. My nightmares are already worse than anything Stephen King or Rob Zombie can imagine, so I tend not to feed them.
On the other hand, I rather like the freaky bunny-girl. What's that from?