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WARNING: People have died while watching this movie.

posted 15 years ago by croutonsofdeath
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Beware 'The Giant Claw,' because this movie is so insane that hundreds have died watching it. Died laughing that is. Seriously, I nearly choked to death because I wasn't getting an air in the time I was laughing. Every time the buzzard showed up I would burst out. The scene where it attacks the train is one of the most frighteningly funny scenes ever. This played at the local midnight movie theater where I run the projector, and people heard me laughing up in the projection booth in anticipation of the monster. Once they saw the monster for themselves they were laughing as hard as I was. Too bad half the theater left in body bags. Watch this at your own risk.

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[–] JurijFedorov 15 years ago

I just watched it! Every single time I saw the bird I started laughing really laud. This movie din't make any sense at all. I love it! I think many people are trying too take it serious when really it's a parody of monster movies and therefor a comedy, and one of the best ever made.

[–] flyer333555 15 years ago

This movie was never, ever, intended as a comedy.

Maybe you and the others on this thread are teenagers, reared up on computers and the latest graphic makers.

If you had seen this movie before you were teens, you would have crap!ed.

I first saw it in the '60s, and I would be terrified for some time of the bird appearing nearby. I am 55 now.

[–] Strazdamonas 14 years ago

although i was not alive in the 60s, i got nothing against the older movies, infact there arent that many good new movies to compare anyway. but this wasnt one either, the logic behind it was awful and the bird was far from scary. i understand that in the 60s people werent used to horror and fiction as much as we are nowadays, and this may have been a factor that attributed to your experience, but this bird is anything but terrifying.

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[–] Costumer (1825) 6 years ago

>>>>i understand that in the 60s people werent used to horror and fiction as much as we are nowadays,<<<<

A very typical comment from someone growing up in the modern age. While gratuitous bloodletting was not common then we had plenty of horror and fiction. The claim that we didn't is simply ludicrous. Ghost stories, stories of vampires, werewolves and other creatures had been around for centuries. Horror in film had a grand tradition stretching back to beginning of the 20th century: Nosferatu, Dracula, the Wolfman, the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, the Phantom Carriage and so forth.

It is a conceit common to youths (and this applies throughout history) that they are more sophisticated, worldly and knowledgeable than parents were. And parents suffer the conceit that youth are violent, ungrateful and ignorant. Neither is true, but we all suffer from it.

[–] G_Runciter 8 years ago

that train scene is like it is steeling some sausage...