English People are Terrifying

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in Sam Peckinpah's "Straw Dogs". Are you really such frighteners?

― fritz, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

all rural people are pretty scary. they might be doing rituals at night that we don't know about, just waiting for city folk to run out of gas.

― fritz, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

who here lives in the country & are you evil?

― fritz, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I be a country lad comin round your house to look at eee all pretty.

― DV, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

it's quiet

too quiet

― fritz, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

haha this film is BANNED in the UK: *that's* how scary we are...

― mark s, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

you're not serious, are you?

― fritz, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Deliverance (1971) - UK film director makes alarmist flick abt weird and scary US rural rapists.

Straw Dogs (1971) - US film director makes alarmist flick abt weird and scary UK rural rapists.

― Andrew L, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

yes but The Wicker Man (1973)conclusively proves that country folk of the british isles do weird creepy secret sex rituals.

― fritz, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

City Folk are scary! They are always hanging out at food courts and can smell if you're a country bumpkin and they growl at you.

― Evangeline, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

food courts are creepy but corn fields are creepier, especially those populated by "children of the" or patrolled by killer cropdusters a la NxNE.

― fritz, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

though "the children of the food court" are as creepy as their cornfield equivs

― fritz, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

oh, they are in Southampton, believe me.

― owen hatherley, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I live in thee country, but I am not evil, i'm afraid. "weird creepy secret sex rituals" sounds lie a lot ov phun to me, but sad to say the only thig we do get 'ere is watching TWOCed cars hurtling past @ illegal speeds. Oh well, perhaps we shd move to suburbia (drone drone drone)

― Norman Phay, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Corn circles!

― jel --, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Wicker Man (1973)conclusively proves that country folk of the british isles do weird creepy secret sex rituals.

The message I got from this wonderful film was quite different. Chrisianity destroyed 'the old religion' of animism and made every Briton a creey, twisted puritan like the policeman from the mainland. The folk rituals of May Day represent a return to sanity. From Leviticus back to Levity, you might say. The ending, in which the policeman is offered to the sun god as a sacrificial victim, might seem to cast our animist friends as creepy killers, but in fact everyone gets what they desire: the policeman gets to be a Christian martyr and the islanders get to be left alone, and get (we assume) a rich harvest the following year.

I would point out that the characters in 'The Wicker Man' are meant to be Hebridean Celts (like my own ancestors) -- not English.

― Momus, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

woodward: 'this won't make your crops grow!' lord summerisle: 'I BELIEVE IT WILL!!!!' sorry. that IS scary

― owen hatherley, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It would have been good if after they revealed that HE was the sacrificial victim, suddenly tons of police appeared and they were like " AHA ! NOW IT IS YE WHO ARE THE SACRIFICIAL VICTIMS!" and then shot them all , and then behind them tons of Taliban appeared and were like " HAHAH! IT IS WE WHO HAD PLANNED ON SACRIFICING YE!!!" and threw bombs at them and thean suddenly tons of unikorns appeared and were lie " UHDIUAHSIUHADIH!!!! IT IS YE WHO ARE THE VISCTIMS! " and showved their horns in the Taliban corns!

― mike hanle y, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mike, you must feel very much at home in the modern world.

― Momus, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

in the world, not of the world...

― mike hanle y, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Wicker Man (1973)conclusively proves that country folk of the british isles do weird creepy secret sex rituals.

wasn't that the bloody awful withnail and I?

― Queen G, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

He wanted to be a missionary, not a martyr. Or at any rate he didn't look like he was going happily to God once the chicken flesh started burning around him...

So actual Wicker Man message? All religion is flawed, veering between extreme puritanism and prejudice and extreme ritualistic violence?

― Archel, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

And don't get put in the belly of a great big wicker man.

― Jonnie, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Indeed. One of the classic cinema no-nos.

― Archel, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

momus is sort of right: except of course xtianity FAILED TO TAKE in the UK (except at official level) => hence everyone is ACTUALLY like the ppl of summer-isle except when "being official and public"... proof: no one watching this film EVAH roots for woodward, hence this is a film which secretly conforms w. deep brit sensibilities => also this is why we are the world cap of brilliant pop music

― mark s, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i dunno about you but i am bloody terrifying. ROOOAARRRRRRRR PH34R M3 *gurns menacingly*

― katie, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Not as scary as New Zealanders!

http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/142/disasteradio.html

― mike hanle y, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You're my wife now.

― DAVE, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Are you local?

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hey! Hanle y, how do you know (of) Disasteradio? Once again the internet proves to be a small world. (oh yeah, if he reads this, I'm silentkid, hello, I miss you guys... sigh.)

― Rebecca, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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