Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Cranial Nest

It takes a lot to move me when it comes to horror movies, but the following scene from Case 39 had me squirming all over the couch yesterday.  The film overall leaves a lot to be desired, but this particular clip is utterly horrifying.  It taps into the primal fear of swarms, not to mention the dread of bodily penetration.  And having been traumatized as a child by my discovery of a hornet's nest inside my bedroom window (the top half of the window had slipped down an inch, enabling the hornets to enter and build their nest in the corner behind the blind), I couldn't help but sense a terrible stirring within me as I watched Bradley Cooper's plight: 


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