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charlie_boswell
14-05-2007, 15:19
For any fans of horror:eek: ..This is a must!! I went to the late show for this Last week, there were 5 people in the theater, 2 walked out within about 10 minutes...not a type of film to take the girlfriend to after a nice romantic meal ( he must have thought it was a sequel to 9 1/2 weeks:D )
On the drive home the Fota road was deserted..I locked my doors...IT WAS THAT GOOD!!!!
Charlie.:cool:
On the drive home the Fota road was deserted..I locked my doors...IT WAS THAT GOOD!!!!
thats cause you knew you'd be passing Russell Heights :D
If it was 'gone with the wind' you had watched, you'd still need to lock your doors on the fota road - the wheels and all. If it was the Heights you were passing as Mike said, there would be no point as there wouldnt be a door or seat left by the time you got to the other end!
On a serious note, We had a meeting with the new County Manager last night, and the news about the Fota Road wasnt very reassuring.
charlie_boswell
15-05-2007, 10:30
On a serious note, We had a meeting with the new County Manager last night, and the news about the Fota Road wasnt very reassuring.
Regardless of the party, Do you think a local TD would make any difference to this?
C
Ned Kelly
15-05-2007, 11:14
LMFAO MIKe!!!
Ned Kelly
15-05-2007, 11:16
Put a flyover the railway! that'll sort out the fota road!
The honest answer Colm, is we had a local TD and he did f-all but called the guards to the Irish Steel workers when they marched on his clinic for support! A peoples TD might make a difference though. Read todays 'Examiner' and you'll sse that Youghal is a carbon copy of Cobh in terms of political neglect. The way I see it, our candidate taking the seat, and she's looking good, will be as good as a Cobh TD as I'll have her about on the ground here on a weekly basis. I read thismorning in the Examiner that someone put €8000 on her in celtic bookmakers yesterday!
Ned Kelly
11-06-2007, 11:22
Never seen a poor bookmaker???
Ned Kelly
11-06-2007, 11:45
Charlie have you ever seen the *Exorcist* I saw it in in 1973 in the capitol cinema in Cork, meself and me brother, you could smoke in the gaffs in those days , anyway at a particular point in the film me brother offers me a ciggy and I practically crapped myself on the spot with the shock of him elbowing me in the ribs, i feckin roared and the rest of the cinema I think were ready to bolt for the exit, We were to say the least a little naive in those days but that film has stayed with me ever since *mentally*
We were walking down to the railway station later goin for the half ten train to Cobh, it was blowin a gale, just after we left mccurtain street, a tin roof blew off a shed and missed us by inches. I was 16 at the time and i tell you what I woulda beat roadrunner down to the station that night, The Feckin 100metres champion of the time woulda been eatin my dust! Of Course I've never been allowed to forget that lil episode, by my family, even 34 years later!
So in my opinion The Exorcist was the scariest movie of all time!
The exorcist probably was the scariest movie at that time, the chubular bells music and all, but i watched the remake a couple of years back and it looked like a comedy - nothing scary about it. I watched 'Cari' or Cary with sizy spaczak or whatever her name is at that Cinema outside Collins barracks in the mid 70's. i cant remember who was with me but during one tense build up piece, one of the lads left out a scream. A girl who was sitting in front of me with her boyfriend flew into the air with fright. It was like she was posessed like the exorcist. I got an even bigger fright from watching her and hearing her scream!
Ned Kelly
12-06-2007, 11:53
Yep Stephen Kings *Carrie* was a good scary fillum also, definitely a few change yer undies moments in it!
I can remember years ago when I was about 9, meself, Bertie o'Brien and his younger brother Alan went to the tower cinema to see a dracula movie within 5 minutes of the movie startin we legged it out of the cinema cos the feckin fillum was that scary! Bertie was a few years older than meself and alan but he was havin none of it and scarpered over with us to the arch cinema where another fillum was showin, obviously not a scary one since we watched it, Me Dad was on the door of the arch that night and after we told him the story he let us in for nothin!
I never got to see any films in the Arch myself, or atleast dont remember one, but i might have been dragged along there as a snapper with one of the older bros or sis. The tower itself was a frightening enough place even without a film. Oh where are they now?
Ned Kelly
13-06-2007, 09:55
U were never alone in da tower, the fleas would always keep ya company.
More on the tower later!
I remember HOB Henry O'Brien been bit on the paw by a rat when he reached down to pick up his brolly after the film ended. Dont know what film he had just watched, but it must have been a mild horror to the real one that caught a hold of his hand. For ages after that incident, John Kinna used to scream out "Theres a Moose on the Loose" around the tower. Everyone knew what he meant, including the staff!
Ned Kelly
13-06-2007, 11:24
Yep I remember that story now that you mentioned it, But ol Hob was never a one for embellishing the truth now was he?
The best ones at the tower tho were the sunday matinees, used to be sixpence to get in and then they raised it to a shilling, I had heaps of bother trying to get the shillin out me mam but if i whinged long and hard enough she coughed up just for some peace, sorry Mam.
Off we'd go, usually the crowd from the 52, meself, JH, MH, GC, COL,SD+ various others! work em out K Thought I/d get yer aul brain active.
Down the Burmas and call in at the seashell for sweets cos they were cheaper than the tower shop. then over to the beach and down the gravel to the tower when you could see a million* or so it seemed* comin down from harbour row, we'd leg it for the door when we saw that lot comin down just in case we could'nt get in, the ticket office was on the left and the sweet shop on the right as you went in. Then we'd all run down the few steps in to the cinema itself with mrs mac tearing yer tickets as you went in, she would pick out troublemakers from the past and either give them a warning or not leave them in! Which being honest was the majority of us!
The film would eventually start after a hell of a lot of feet stompin and screamin out wheres the feckin film!
First ya had a few trailers of upcomin movies and then the latest cartoon followed by ol mother reilly, usually after that 9 times out of ten it was a western, audie murphy or the lone ranger and sometimes hopalong cassidy. Nuff for now more later!
Lets see, Jh is Jimmy Halpin, Mh is Mick Hogan or Martin Hallahan, Col is Cristy O'Leary, SD was Seanie Dwyer, dont know who GC was. HOB was not exagerating on the Rat thing, his hand blew up like a baloon after it!
Ned Kelly
13-06-2007, 11:49
Damn close K. Mh was mick halpin and Gc was Gunner cunningham!
Ned Kelly
13-06-2007, 11:51
Just remembered Gunners first name, Albert!
Ned Kelly
13-06-2007, 11:52
Remember I said from the 52 not u foreigners from assumpta lol
charlie_boswell
13-06-2007, 13:17
Charlie have you ever seen the *Exorcist*....
So in my opinion The Exorcist was the scariest movie of all time!
Believe it or not I only saw this a couple of years ago in DVD...jezus lads i still have nightmares!!! LOL withoutout a doubt the scariest film every made.
I like all the apocalypse movies, i still watch Stephen Kings "The Stand" every now and then...M..O..O..N spells Moon!!
Colm
That sexcorcist film was meant to be based on an actual case that happened in Germany. I dont think it was half as dramatic as the movie made it out to be. Note at the begining, there was a guy exploring a sacred area somewhere in the middle east and accidently released some demon. Typical hollywood, all bad things must originate in the bad bad uncivilised middle east! Theres a big demon knocking around the west wing in Washington for a while now and he is convinced he is a god!
i dont think ive ever actually saw the whole of the Exorcist, only bits and pieces of it.
Has anyone seen the Exorisim of Emily Rose?? scary stuff....and the girl that played Emily (her name escapes me) was brilliant in it - her eyes *shiver* and the way she was able to twist and contort her body like that - freaky!!!
I often wondered about the people who made the original exorcist film in 1973. The girl was about 10 or 11 at the time and we were told the uncensored version of the film showed the child masterbating with a cruzifix (not for Irish eyes). about 10 years ago, that girl/lady was on the Late Late Show speaking about the film. Maybe I'm off the mark here, but how could they in 1973 justify putting a child in that role? Her parents must have wanted her to be a star at all costs!
Ned Kelly
14-06-2007, 11:56
Linda Blair was the actress in question. It followed the book almost to the detail, William Peter Blatty wrote it if my memory serves me right?
I think the whole film was a shocker in more ways than one.
As for her parents putting her in that role I think it reversed what they had in mind if they thought they were going to make a fortune out of her, cos she really has had no great success since that movie!
children in scary movies generally freak me out!! why would you do it to your child?
i have a daughter of 3 and at times she really sends shivers up my spine...im convinced she can she spirits or whatever. only the other day we were in the graveyard, she was cycling (or trying 2) up and down the main path while i sat and watched. halfway up the path she stopped, turned to her left and said "Oh hi, i didnt see you there." she continued to chat away...then she insisted on me saying hi to her new friends chloe and jimmy. it just was werid. now i know ppl will say shes using her imagination but normally when she does this she will call her imaginary friend by a name of someone she knows.........we dont know any chloes or jimmys :eek: and to top it all off, when i went back to where she first stopped to chat i found a headstone with the name Jim on it.....needless to say we made a sharp exit!!!!
Nothing to fear there Shello, those type of spirits are the harmless kind. They say all children have that gift to see beyond this world, or as they used say before, they can see angels. My own little one often smiles up at the ceiling at home, and I'd swear she sees folk from the other side. Incidently, how old was Jimmy when he died by his headstone? If he was a child himself, I would say their was no harm there. If he was an adult, it could be a different kettle of fish! I think Cloe is a modern name so she would definately be a child I'd Guess!
to be honest i was really looking at the date on the headstone...i was more concerned with getting outta there quick lol.
i def believe kids can see things, shes been doing it since she was very small. theres actually a lovely story in a book called "Chicken Soup for the Soul", dont know if uve heard of it, its part of a series of books with uplifting messages, stories, poems etc. i must root out my copy and post the story that i can remember
I think you might a gifted kid there. I'm no expert but I would nuture that if I were you Shell. I suppose all kids start out with it, and it depends on how comfortable they are with spirits and vice versa, whether it develops into adulthood. Sounds a bit freaky alright, but must be very natural for those that have the gift. I went through a period for a small while, where I dreamt of people I hadnt seen for ages, only to learn a few days later that they had died. It never frightened me, but I'm fecked if I know why I had those dreams and what they were meant to represent!
Ned Kelly
15-06-2007, 11:54
Out of the mouths of babes??
Does anyone know why children are suposedly more open to seeing spirits than adults? Is it because the spirits trust them more than adults, or because a childs mind is less contaminated and less closed than the rest of ours?
Ned Kelly
16-06-2007, 11:53
More than likely they don't have the cynicism of age!
Ned Kelly
16-06-2007, 11:59
Another one just vanished, post that is! hope the the demons ain't around!; Penny for an ol soldier faddah!, Why you do this to me Dimmy! Your mother is s...... c.... in hell, Exorcist dialogue still scare me!
Whats scary Ned, is that you can still remember the dialogue word for word, you sicko!
my daughter can DEFINATELY see things i cant....i was putting her to bed the other nite, read her a story etc when she suddenly disappeared underneath the bed covers and refused to come back out. i asked her what was wrong and she told me that there was a man in the corner of the room, asked more questions...she told me he was wearing blue and then there wasnt another word out of her and she fell asleep really quickly.
shes pointed to that corner before and sometimes i wonder if its my Dad, who died before she was born, becos he used to almost always wear blue.
very strange...but fasinating
Ned Kelly
19-06-2007, 11:24
Me thinks as usual councillor you missed the point completely, The film scared me that much that I still remembered the dialogue!!! If that makes me a sicko in your opinion! I think a little therapy would'nt go astray or maybe a good kick up the hole from yours truly!!!
Yours truly took the bait didnt ya! Believe it or not, I remember most of the dialogue for that same reason myself. But having said that, when I watched it again a couple of years back I dint see it as half as frightening as before. I guess its to do with all the movies that have since been made with superior special effects etc, etc.
I think you might be on to something there Shell, why dont you show your little one a picture of your dad and see her reaction. If she went to sleep that fast, it was obviously something she was comfortable with. Believe it or not, i can recall an incident when I was about 3 or 4. I was sick at the time, so my mother put me into her own bed. It was a sunday so the rest of the family went off to mass. I was knackered from the flu or whatever I had while me Ma was downstairs cooking dinner. I remember at one point waking up and staring at a wardrobe at the foot of the bed. The door opended and out walked a young woman dressed in all white and with blonde golden hair. She just stood there smiling at me for a minute and then turned and went back into the wardrobe. After a while, me Ma came up to check on me. When i told her what happened she laughed but opened the wardrobe door and checked it out to put my mind at rest. To this day, I dont know if I actually saw an angel or if i was halucinating through fever or what?
Ned Kelly
20-06-2007, 11:00
YEP K I took the bait hook , line and sinker! What comes around goes around ya fecker! I think back in 73 da exorcist was a hell of a lot scarier than it would be now!
As for the white lady in the wardrobe when u were 3 r 4?? Jasus lad u have some memory!
Believe it or not, i can go back further(nappies), but dont ask me what i did or said yesterday!
Ned Kelly
21-06-2007, 11:39
Yesterday U said you were gonna send me a thousand Euros K, Is it in da post?;)
Ned Kelly
22-06-2007, 11:41
Yer man ya promised the dosh to!!!!
:D :D :D Whatever you lot are drinking.....lol.........send some for your mates......and talking about spooky places......I read some place that the Pillars Bar is the best place to see Ghosts, in Cobh.......now what did they put in the Guinness.....lol........and sorry guys if I have asked this b4 but why is part of Cobh called the Holy Ground..........ahh!! and Ned ...cheese and onion Taytos in Cobh were mmmmmmmmm!!!!!!! nice one......cheers Katy;)
I spoke with MIchael Martin of the Titanic Trail and the Titanic Ghost Trail last week. He told me that a group of American sphyhics (ghosty folks) met him off one of the Liners recently to go on his trail walks. He never told them in advance where he was taking them but when they neared the 'Pillars' building from across the street, they all looked up and reported seeing a young girl looking out from one of the top windows. The building has been locked up shut sinced last summer. The holy ground got its name because it was regarded as one of the biggest places of sin (brothels) in europe in days gone by!
Ned Kelly
23-06-2007, 11:48
He should have brought the visitors to the ol boys club, their ghostometer would have exploded!
The old building is now gone but a new one is on the original site. I told you before that I often worked out in there for hours on my own and never saw or heard anything eccept rattling windows in the windy weather. It was the original town school, and an attempt to prevent the new building failed after a seach to find acient graves onsite never materialised. It belonged to a local builders at the turn of the last century and was used by IRA personell on the run, but theres no known record of anyone dying in the building? But it would be interesting to bring a spook finder into the place alright!
:) Cheers for the information Kieran......Cobh has a lot of little mystery stories and tales......last time I was in the Cobh Library the staff were brilliant....they sorted out info on Spike Island for me , truly it made interesting reading......ahh!! by the way whats the latest on the Marina......(fingers crossed) it has the go ahead.......cheers Katy:)
The decision is being stalled in the courts again which doesnt look good. There is some brilliant old photos of Spike under British Rule in a special section in Cobh Museum. It may not be on display when you call but ask for a look of it and you may get lucky Katy!
Hi Kieran, when you say Cobh Museum are you talking about the Scots Church up above the Heritage Centre.....
Margaret who works in the museum is great......we spent about two hours reading up on local history and the celebs of Cobh.....truly its a little gem....and I hope the local schools use it like the Heritage Centre......
I will be sending Margaret an email soon, need to check a few details....so I will ask about the Spike Photos.....
We took another trip out around the Harbour.....I nearly fell in trying to take my photos......last year we took around 400 pics.....and I am pleased as some will go with a few journals I have done.
I am still trying to find old maps of Cobh 1840s 1870s all I seem to find is ones of Cork...ahh!!.....to try and keep my brain working with being off work....I thought research into the changing faces of Cobh and if I do one or two journals , they would keep me out of mischief......cheers Katy:)
Ned Kelly
25-06-2007, 11:41
The Holy Ground Once more! Marina me arse!!
Try the 'Cork Constitution' newspaper in Cork City Library. It had a record of Queen Vics visit to Cove in 1849 so there must be maps and records for that period somewhere! As Mike our absentee Landlord says- All good things come to those who wait Katy!
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