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HELLS FUCKING ASSCUNTS YEAAAAAAAAAAAAH \(^w^)/
I had just come back from a two-month hiatus, too. actually I had totally forgotten I had submitted it at all BUT HEY TALK ABOUT GOOD TIMING.
It's nice to see a seven-year project come to fruition, even if the bits and pieces you actually spent working on it really add up to maybe four solid years, even if it is really stupid, even if the prize is worth 1/200000th what you spent on earning it. It's just...nice.
...now to start work on the Squishyfish Sanctuary :D
In other news, I just found another movie from my childhood on YouTube. I rented it ages ago, only remembering one non-creepy scene from when I watched it as a kid, and was surprised to find a sincerely bizarre and disturbing vignette near the middle of a movie otherwise about dopey, happy ants.
The sequence starts at 2:32 here, segueing into the two-headed worm scene which continues into the second part.
As jotted down at the time:
The protagonist ant is assigned the job of guarding the colony’s eggs, so when one rolls off down a hole, he follows. Once well inside, he finds a rock covered in dense crystal. This breaks off, and the rock shines bright enough to blind him, represented by the pupils disappearing from his eyes. As if the white, sightless orbs aren’t bad enough, he proceeds to stumble around in the dark, crying and singing—yes, singing—about how he’ll never see the light of day again. Makes the evil two-headed worm that wants to eat him and the egg after he’s regained his sight pretty mild by comparison, really. The failure to explain why the rock becomes sentient and starts following him around is notably confusing, as well.
In more recent terminology: It comes right the fuck outta nowhere, has no bearing on the plot to the point that it's since been cut by the (presumably less drugged-up) DVD release team, is way over the top in terms of ridiculousness PANTS-WETTING EXISTENTIAL TERROR (ESPECIALLY in the context of the movie), and once it's over, no one ever speaks of it again. I know the distinction may be overused on the whole, but the scene is truly and completely a mmmmmBIG-LIPPED ALLIGATOR MOMENT. And when that happens in a disturbing manner, it forms a brain splinter, since the kid can't link it to anything and thus can't figure out whether it was real or a dream. I am soooo glad this is one of the movies my mother watched beforehand and edited for us.
Oh, and you will never get that Vanterviper song out of your head. Never ever never. Enjoy.
ETA: aaaaugh oh God I forgot their noses moved like elephant trunks oh God oh God
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