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Adonis
 Post subject: How to Survive...
PostPosted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 6:40 pm 
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A Space-Based horror movie.

So I just picked up a great book, "How to Survive a Horror Movie". Laughed until I cried. So in once chapter they give us suggestions next time we go into deep space...

1 - Never Answer a Distress signal
2 - Never investigate a failure to respond
3 - Never explore an unexplored planet
4 - Never go through a wormhole
5 - Turn on the Lights
6 - Know when to abandon ship (reason #1 is if "Anything pops out of anybody's chest. Whether it's an alien or the Tootsie Roll Owl")
7 - Nuke anything that even remotely creeps you out.

Sounds like words of wisdom to me.

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Forget chestbursting. If the Tootsie Roll Owl shows up by any means at all... get the hell out of his way!
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How many licks does it take to get to your juicy brains... let's find out!

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I'm not lettin' that s.o.b. count past 3. I know what happens after 3.
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Some good advice if I ever heard it.

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8. Don't go in to a room full of clinky chains.

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There wasn't any mention of clinky chains in the whole book. That works for all horror movies.

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Hahahaha, clinky chains! How could they miss that one. Please tell me fog in it's many, many uses was mentioned.
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Only low lying fog in a graveyard situation.

I'm thinking of using the book as a guide how to write a horror movie that doesn't have the cliches in it...

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Never be the 'new guy' on the away team... ;)

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And don't wear red regardless.
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Tell it to poor Ensign Darren Stevens. :lol:
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Never go looking for the cat......

Don't split up in to small groups and go wandering off down darkly light corridors.....
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"Hey, I'm just going to look for it...

... in the liferaft!" :lol:

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"You go ahead and look around, I'm just going to stay in operations...door locked...all the lights on..."

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Don't stop, stare & play with the slime you just found on the floor.

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When someone instructs you to "run", "move", or "get out of there", whichever direction your instinct immediately tells you to go...

Go the opposite way. :wink:

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Oh and...

It's in the ceiling.

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Or the vent system!

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Save your ammo. You are about to get on an elevator!!

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Never:

A) Wear only underwear. Wear clothes. LOTs of them.
B) Have sex.
C) Wonder 'What's taking him/her so long to get back from the bathroom/latrine/head.'

A sure fire death sentence if ever there was one. :)

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Have sex? :?

As in Dizzy and Rico?

How about never be Michael Ironside- he always ends up dead (usually losing several body parts in the process). :lol:

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I think you missed the "Never:" at the top of my post. ;)

Never be M.Ironside. Good call on that one. :)

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No no, I understood the "never" part- just trying to recall two sci fi characters that did that and ended up toast. Dizzy was the first to come to mind.

Well... the only one actually. :lol:

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