So I was bored and went through my old VHS collection and came across a copy of the Rankin Bass production of "Santa Claus is Coming to Town". I also came across a copy of "The Blair Witch Project". Watching these back to back is what I term "Genre Whiplash". If anyone has a better name for this I would like to hear it.

So now in my brain the two movies have merged and I have visions of a freakish stop motion Kris Kringle chasing children through the woods. Remember "Winter Warlock"? He is the Blair Witch. Instead of making toys the elves in the woods make creepy figures out of sticks and vines and hang them in trees.

I do this all the time when I purchase movies. I will buy a movie like "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" and "The Thing", or "Hellraiser" and "Finding Nemo". I often ask the clerk if they should be in different bags.

This can produce some very strange dreams.

-vern

To quote Sam Kinnison as professor Turguson "I like the way you think".

Every time I watch Wilford Brimley promoting Diabetic Medicine in commercials I think of the thing. I imagine some old lady (as he walks by her) starts moaning in some alien wail, it builds into a shriek and tentacles start popping out of her mouth as she convulses and her eyes pop out on stalks like a lobster and...well, you get the idea.

Other film combos:

Willie Wonka & the Chocolate Factory + Dawn of the Dead

Meet Joe Black + Silence of the lambs

Anyone else have some good combinations?

speaking of Wilford Brimley and "The Thing", I cracked up on the audio commentary when John Carpenter said he asked Wilford what he used as motivation during the autopsy scene after the dogs were "absorbed". Wilford said he just thought about his dirty laundry hamper.



-vern

I call it 'crossing the beams' in reference to Ghostbusters. I'll be drinking a beer, my wife will say 'do you want some ice cream?' and I'll say 'NO! That would be crossing the beams!"

I occasionally watch really offbeat films that give you "genre whiplash" or "crossed beams" wrapped up in one film like the Italian film "Santa versus the Martians". (Pia Zadora was one of the children in that one, BTW.)

It would be an interesting exercise to splice a pair like these examples, but in a clever way that appears to keep the continuity, so it's like taking a wrong turn in some parts of Boston, where you can go from ritz to rats in half a block.

Umm... actually that should be "crossing the streams" as in particle streams.

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Steve P.

So here's a spin off of "Crossing the streams" or "Genre Whiplash". A sort of "Six degrees of Kevin Bacon" but involving any element of the movie, like setting, weather etc. "D

As an example I will follow the stream of consciousness viewing based on my initial movie samples:

After watching the Blair Witch project I just had to pop in the classic episode of the Sopranos called "The Pine Barrens". That is my all time favorite episode. So get this... it just so happens that that episode of the Sopranos is ALSO a Christmas episode so it fits the theme.

So, that puts me in the mood for snowy cold movies and I pop in "The Day After Tomorrow", another favorite of mine... and this of course leads to the movie "Frequency" which also stars Dennis Quaid although there is no snow. Andre Braugher is one of my favorite actors so I decide to watch "Duets". Then I start thinking about "Six degrees of Kevin Bacon" and watch "Tremors". Big man-eating under ground worms reminds me that I have the Sci-Fi channel remake of "Dune" on DVD... I will watch that tonight I think...

So you see how this goes. I think I can connect every single movie in my collection in some way.

-vern

Thanks for the "heads up" my dreams are wierd/sick enough without provoking them any further, I don't want to end up going to prison put there by the dream police. Im on the verge as it stands now.... or so I feel. Just one neocon job to another......

lol thats happened to me too!

i ended up with a combo of metal gear solid, Cars, and Over the hedge!

what was going on was that snake, Mater, and LM were small and trying to break into a house (with the realestate lady inside)for food. some how her daughter got into the mix even though they never showed on in the movie...so i have no idea were that came from....oh yeah and snake through a grenade...it got pretty disturbing after that....

and i like the word you came up with, maybe you should contact webster!