[Stingy Jack]

I agree. The Evil Dead is supposed to be funny. That's what makes it great! It would not have been the same if it didn't have Bruce Campbell. Same with Bubba Ho-Tep. What's your favorite line from that movie, anyway? I totally cracked up when Elvis was trying to explain to the doctor about the bug in his room, and couldn't do it ... so he ends up saying: "What do I care? I got a growth on my pecker."

I just want to say one more thing, sort of continuing with my last post. The only thing that can really creep me out nowadays is my own imagination ... a movie needs to leave plenty for my imagination to chew on if I am to get creeped. It was not knowing what happened to the characters in that movie that scared me. And this also why, I think, Lovecraft is so great a writer. He said (and I will probably misquote) "The oldest and strongest emotion in man is fear. And the oldest and strongest type of fear is fear of the unknown." I think this is true, and will always be true. And his writing really reflects this philosophy. If you've read him, you'll notice that he never really shows his reader the scary stuff. Even when his protagonists encounter something truly frightening, he always describes it as "too horrible to be described" or something similar. He's one of those authors who puts something really nasty behind the attic door, then gives us just a peek at it before he ends his story. This is more satisfying to me, both emotionally and mentally, than if he spelled out exactly what the bad thing was and what it looked like and what it did. If you leave us with something to think about, we can always imagine: "It could have been worse ... " and then our minds will make it worse.

Anybody follow me? :confused: