Enjoying college kid roadtrip horror movies and gun ownership, impossible combo?

[VirgilCaine]

Re horror flix, we rented and watched "The Birds" a month ago. I kept saying to the family "Nothing here a good 12 gauge pump wouldn't take care of."

Maybe 12 good pumps filled with birdshot...but one? Not really. Waaaay too many birds.

PS. Man, I think THRers would hate some of LoveCraft's works, most times, firearms are totally useless against the aberrations oft-encountered in that whackjob's nighmare-inducing writing. Never let a THR-er play Call of Cthulhu, either; I mean, what's the point if you can't even take down Cthulhu with an M134?

Most of the time the protagonists just drop them as they run away. A lot of the other Mythos authors have more fighting back by mortals.

But, IMO, you are able to banish with magic (or make something vulnerable by magic, c.f. Powder of Ibn Ghazi) or kill with heavy weapons (RPGs, explosives, mortars, whatnot) or ingenuity (collapse a building on it, run into it with a combine harvester, squish the shoggoth with a steamroller, drown it by blowing up a dam, etc.) anything short of one of the Big Names...

Everyone focuses on the unkillableness of Cthulhu and other Great Old Ones...and not on the vulnerability of their lesser servants.

 

[eastwood44mag]

I've been able to enjoy some horror movies after becoming a gun owner, but the 'College kids in trouble on roadtrip' genre is not one of them.

Movies such as Wrong Turn (inbred WV hillbillies attack), Texas Chainsaw Massacre (need I explain?), Jeepers Creepers (demonic thing attacks) and Joy Ride (college kids messing around with a CB get into trouble) leave me yelling things such as 'where is your truck gun?!', 'Did you leave the house without your pistol?!', 'Dont you know how to get a car off a rock?' and 'Grab his weapon! Dont just run, grab his weapon!' until I'm banished to finish the movie on my own.

I swear, if I ever go on a roadtrip without my 590A1 and/or a pistol (especially if a member of the fairer sex is accompanying me), I deserve to be stalked or chased through five counties by inbred, demonic, West Virginian, chainsaw wielding hillbillies driving 18-wheelers trying to run me off the road in Texas so they can steal my Twinkies and drink my beer.

Does anyone else have this same problem?

Kharn

[this post should not be construed as bias against inbred, demonic, West Virginian, chainsaw wielding hillbillies driving 18-wheelers in Texas with a liking for Twinkies and beer, some things are just a coincidence]

You just described my family reunion.

 

[Strings]

>Everyone focuses on the unkillableness of Cthulhu and other Great Old Ones...and not on the vulnerability of their lesser servants.<

Yes,but it doesn't matter how many minions you kill: the Great One will rise again from his slumber to devour you! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!


What... but I don't need meds... I'm fine, really...

 

[MatthewVanitas]

Just saw "Last House on the Left"

Which was the first film by Wes Craven (who later did Scream), back in 1972.

Horrible film, both in terms of excessive gore and sexual violence, as well as having a really dumb plot, bizarre segues to slapstick humor, etc. I have a pretty high tolerance for morbid humor, but the totally schizo mood-changes of the film were quite unpleasant.

One scene made me laugh out loud at the stupidity: a male character realizes that the "stranded motorists" staying in the guest bedroom are psychopaths. So he goes down into the basment to find a weapon. I emphasize, this is _his_ house, _his_ stuff.

He hefts the weight of a crescent-wrench, takes a few practice swings. Is about to go upstairs, then decides to put down the wrench and picks up his double-barrel shotgun hanging on the wall right next to him. Personally, if I had murderers in the house, the shotgun would come to mind pretty quickly.

"Well, this wrench is a pretty good weapon, but maybe the shotgun would work in a pinch"

Horrible film, not reccommended.

 

[CWatson]

Not horror but sci-fi. During ET when the kids hear the noise in the backyard they grab kitchen knives and run out and see what is going on. Now that was realistic! First time my family saw it we started busting up because it something we had done ourselves.

CW

 

[Justin]

And we finally get to the crux of why zombie movies stand head and shoulders above all other horror subgenres.

Generally speaking, in zombie movies the protagonists are smart enough to grab a boomstick as quickly as possible.

I'm willing to give 28 Days Later a pass because it takes place in Great Britain. I think Agricola pointed out on some long ago thread that a Briton certainly wouldn't pick up a firearm he had no inkling of how to operate. But in America? Well, there's just no excuse.

Also, at this point, I will give a recomendation for the 2003 Australian flick Undead. The gun handling is deliberately beyond preposterous, but it works well within the overall framework of the goofiness of the movie.