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Lavender Brown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 02:59 PM
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Suggest a rainy night movie rental (please)
It's been raining on and off all day, and it's supposed to continue into the evening. It's getting really dark out too. Isn't this supposed to be the second day of summer? :(

I wanted to go jogging, but it looks like I'll be staying in to stay dry. What should I watch? I was thinking something scary (besides the news, which is always scary of course). :shrug:
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 03:02 PM
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1. the ring
scared me but you could go classic and pick The exorcist.
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sus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 03:04 PM
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8. oh yes. That movie haunted me for days. SEVEN to be exact..
(shudder)
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flamingyouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 11:28 PM
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52. Perfect, especially on a rainy day
And if the phone rings during it .... auuuuuggghhh!
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AbbeyRoad Donating Member (848 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 11:39 PM
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54. The original Japanese "Ringu" is very good also
It's pretty much the same as "The Ring" but with a few slight differences. I think the back story is explored a bit more in the Japanese version, and Sadako frightened me more than Samara.
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King Of Paperboys Donating Member (958 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 03:03 PM
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2. Alone? Or with somebody?
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Lavender Brown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 03:04 PM
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7. Probably with my roommate.
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King Of Paperboys Donating Member (958 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 03:05 PM
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12. Ummmm... that doesn't really clarify.
I mean WITH somebody, with somebody.
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Lavender Brown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 03:07 PM
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13. No, not WITH somebody.
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King Of Paperboys Donating Member (958 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 03:11 PM
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16. Oh. Then maybe some porn.
But check with your roommate to see if that's OK first.
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Lavender Brown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 03:15 PM
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21. Yeah... it's not that kind of night.
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Zolok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 03:03 PM
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3. "Carnival of Souls" that is pretty scary...
or go scary-sad with "Son of Kong"
or go real scary sad with "Day of the Locust"...
Got a good video store nearby...check out "The Sadist" starring Arch Hall Jr. That one was really scary and ahead of it's time...
Howzabout "Targets" (1968) Karloff's last decent film...not a horror flick per se but scary nonetheless.


www.chimesatmidnight.blogspot.com
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Kid_A Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 03:03 PM
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4. The 1963 version of "The Haunting" is good and creepy...
So is "Wait Until Dark". Then there's classics like "Rosemary's Baby" and "The Exorcist". But the best recent horror movie I've seen is "28 Days Later" which is definitely worth a rental...
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ThreeCatNight Donating Member (930 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 03:19 PM
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23. Oh please.....
I got my money back from the rental place on this one.
The script was weak, plot was right out of every cheap 60's-70's zombie movie ever made, the acting was juvinile.
I only wish I could get a refund on the 2 hours of my life I wasted.

Nothing personal though. :)
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Speck Tater Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 03:26 PM
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28. 28 Days Later = Stink Bomb! (IMHO)(nt)
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Dookus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 03:04 PM
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5. rent
Magnolia
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BigMcLargehuge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 03:04 PM
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6. Bubba Ho-Tep
or perhaps

Onmyoji

or even

The Hypnotist
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WI_DEM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 03:05 PM
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11. Singin' in the Rain
But if you want a fun horror type film rent "The Bat" with Vincent Price and Agnes Moorehead and pop plenty of corn.
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Zolok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 03:48 PM
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45. The collapse of civilization is always creepy...
Dawn of the Dead being the best of Romero's "zombie" movies...the undead are scary enough but the TV broadcasts that underscore the collapse of society...YIPES!
The Crazies is also good...not Romero's best but pretty scary all told.
Go for a classic I say "The Omega Man"...Charlton Heston is the loudest, self pitying-est, and lastest man on earth...til Rosalind Cash shows up to show him sunday from monday!
:)
www.chimesatmidnight.blogspot.com
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Az Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 03:53 PM
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47. There is now a Onmyoji II
We bought the first one. Can't wait for the second one.
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BigMcLargehuge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 11:28 PM
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51. I am anticipating a review copy any week now
assuming Geneon carries it

Wasn't the first one AWESOME!!!!!!!

I think that was my favorite release last year, which is saying something when a whole shit load of Godzilla titles appear on DVD, and I CHOOSE Onmyoji even over them.
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Sabriel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 03:05 PM
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9. Amiee and Jaguar n/t
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 03:05 PM
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10. Bob Roberts
That's the scariest movie out there!
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Az Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 03:09 PM
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14. Dead Alive
The funniest slash and gore zombie flick ever made. Evil Dead pales in comparison.

But if you want something to really creep you out... Audition. Japanese psycho horror flick. You will never be able to hear here kitty kitty kitty the same way again.
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Speck Tater Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 03:27 PM
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31. Ooo. Audition WAS creepy! (nt)
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Az Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 03:33 PM
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37. There is this scene in Audition (spoiler)
That for my money is a master piece shot. Its when the guy has been struggling with whether he should call her and finally does. The shot is of her in the empty apartment with her hunched over like some discarded thing. Hair hanging down in her face. The phone visible in the back ground as well as some sort of sack. The phone rings and you can see her face begin to smile. That smile is perhaps the most evil thing I have even scene on the screen.
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nothingshocksmeanymore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 03:10 PM
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15. Have you seen Big Fish yet? Great script and storyline and cast
Edited on Tue Jun-22-04 03:11 PM by nothingshocksmeanymo
Relatively new..but not really scary (sorry missed that part)
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Lavender Brown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 03:12 PM
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18. I saw it in the theater
It was really good. I love Albert Finney. :thumbsup:
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nothingshocksmeanymore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 03:55 PM
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49. wasn't he fabulous in that role? Probably my favorite character by him
yet...but Jessica Lange is still drop dead gorgeous too
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Speck Tater Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 03:12 PM
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17. Darkness Falls. A good scary flick (nt)
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Loonman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 03:12 PM
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19. That scared the crap out of me
It was only a movie.....only a movie...only a movie....
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HornBuckler Donating Member (978 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 03:14 PM
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20. Only The Lonely
With John Candy, Why Not? It's Good For A Rainy Night, Or Maybe Rainman?

:)
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EstimatedProphet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 03:15 PM
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22. Prince of Darkness
It did scare me, for one reason or another.
Or, They Live, if you want a scary documentary.
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Az Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 03:27 PM
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32. Out of the Mouth of Madness
As long as we are on a Carpenter angle. I love the way Carpenter draws us into a seemingly normal world and then quickly shifts the tables on us. A great independent director.
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EstimatedProphet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 03:32 PM
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35. I want to see that
It was on Starz the other night and I watched about half of it...now I need to see the rest!
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HornBuckler Donating Member (978 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 03:54 PM
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48. I Believe You Mean "In The Mouth Of Madness"
You Read Sutter Cane?
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TrustingDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 03:21 PM
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24. Warlock, the first one...
scared the caca outta me.
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seventhson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 03:22 PM
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25. Identity is pretty good -- also dirty pretty things (British) is damn good
and not what you'd expect at all (the title seems commercial and there is no sex in it really at all)

it is a knuckle biter


I just watched "Stone Reader" which is a great film for book lovers and I am now watching In America which is bittersweet and a wonderful NY story for immigrant irish artist/writer family struggling in modern day NYC.

lotsa good stuff out there.

for creepy O realy love Jacob's ladder (Tim Robbins creepy Vietnam PTSD thriller)
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Lavender Brown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 03:25 PM
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27. Is Identity the one with John Cusack?
I had been meaning to see that actually and kept forgetting the name.
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seventhson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 03:38 PM
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41. yes and a good ensemble cast
fun thriller with tricky plot
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Blue-Jay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 03:23 PM
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26. Donnie Darko
Not really scary per se, but it's dark and creepy. Go watch it!
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Lavender Brown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 03:27 PM
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29. Saw it - it was good.
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jus_the_facts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 03:27 PM
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30. MIRACLE.....
....about the 1980 Olympic Hockey Team winnin' the GOLD!! :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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Speck Tater Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 03:30 PM
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33. First season DVD of Buffy the Vampire Slayer for FUN horror :)
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No Mandate Here. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 03:31 PM
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34. Harold and Maude <nt>
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Burma Jones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 03:32 PM
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36. Night of the Hunter n/t
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Az Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 03:34 PM
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38. This is concrete
Best line from the movie. We still crack jokes about it.
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AbbeyRoad Donating Member (848 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 11:31 PM
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53. Brilliant movie n/t
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Lavender Brown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 03:34 PM
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39. Thanks all
for enabling my couch-potatoism tonight. I'm jotting these down. :)
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TrustingDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 03:37 PM
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40. Jacobs Ladder...
now that one freaked me right out. tim robbins from way back. excellent for nightmare sweats.
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seventhson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 03:43 PM
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42. No shit - creEpy deepy. The subwaY scenes with the slimey....
Edited on Tue Jun-22-04 03:46 PM by seventhson
and the dance and party freak show???

sOME OF THE CREEPIEST SHIT i HAVE EVER SEEN IN A FILM.

reminds me that FLATLINERS is a GREAT film.

I watched Jacob's Ladder (and I knew his girlfriend Jezebal in the film liz pena from the theater I worked at in the early '90's) the night beforte I took my kids to see Embedded in NYC (Robbins play)

We talked about it briefly afterward when he came out to meet the audience and took pictures with my kids. I think it is his best role - but Bob Roberts is awesome too.
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seventhson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 03:44 PM
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43. SPEAKING OF TIM ROBBINS - MYSTIC RIVER IS AMAZING
Edited on Tue Jun-22-04 03:45 PM by seventhson
AND JUST SOOOO CREEPY TOO.
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TrustingDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 03:52 PM
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46. most disturbing movie ever for me.
That drug they used on soldiers, forget the name - BzSomething - oiy veh bet Wolfie and gang have a fridge full of it.
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Az Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 03:45 PM
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44. You have to see Happiness of the Katakuras
Edited on Tue Jun-22-04 03:45 PM by Az
One of the oddest Japanese films ever made. Lets just say dancing zombie pedophiliac sumo wrestler.

My uvula!
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nothingshocksmeanymore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-04 03:56 PM
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50. Nother fun flick if you've never seen it but I think it's only available
on video is Pow Wow Highway..again not scary..produced by George Harrison...
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