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very realistic + very scary!


i thought i was looking at a REAL giant buzzard. truly terrifying!

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I rather like the special effects in this move - but I cannot say I found it in the least scary; I award it five marks out of ten - the late Jeff Morrow appeared in a number of sci-fi movies - not a bad actor.

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Nah, it's a real turkey.....

"People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul" - C.G.Jung

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no, it's not a real turkey. it's a fake giant buzzard. (ha ha.)

Jonathan Becker

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To me it looked like an ostrich with a mohawk.

Nullus Anxietas

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It's an extraterestrial bird. Of course it will look unfamiliar.

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More like a moHAWK with an ostrich attached to it! %-(

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have you heard of sarcasm?

"I'm gonna give you a little somethin' you can't take off. "

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I thought the giant buzzard looked like a bad Halloween costume. The prop buzzard they used for this film was laughable.

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Yes, yes, it was very scary, but not because it was a giant buzzard, but rather, because it was a giant deformed, gnarly buzzard. I mean, even fellow giant buzzards would shun this guy.

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i'm ashamed to admit that i actually defecated in my pants out of sheer terror. i'm now unable to look up into the sky. i have to stare at the sidewalk whenever i'm outdoors...it's a living hell...thanks to "the giant claw".

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I remember seeing this movie as a young boy. I also recall having to be in therapy for a month afterwards. Now that I am older and a little more thick-skinned, I decided to fire up this extremely scary movie and thought all would be good. I thought Id turn a bad memory into a good one, right? wrong! Upon seeing the bird make his chilling entrance, I too filled my pants. I feel your pain. This is a movie not for the faint of heart. Watch at your own risk.

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The worst part about defecating in my pants at the sight of the horrifying giant claw was that I was also frozen in fear....meaning that I sat there while the chocolate pudding went from hot to cold. This movie cost me a couch...and my soul.

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I was recently kicked out of my apartment for the mess i made. All from watching this film. I heard George Lucas is seeking out this special effects studio for the making of his next feature. I swore that the 'effects' in this movie weren't even effects, they were real. Some day I will be able to leave my house again.. some day

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two words....colostomy bag. that's how violently my bowels unleashed when i saw that monstrosity in the skies. total f'ing blow-out. i'm forced to live in shame thanks to my newfound fear of giant antimatter buzzards from outer space. just thinking about that abhorrent creature makes me......oh.....uh oh.....i've gotta go change my bag!!!!!!!!

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Just heard Micheal Bay is doing a remake of this film for the summer of 09. Very excited to see this as the original will be so hard to beat. If I do go see it, I will most likely be wearing about 10 diapers.

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You people are all idiots.

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LMAO





When there's no more room in hell, The dead will walk the earth...

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Wow. I don't think I've ever seen a conversation about sh!tting yourself last that long.

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What an idiot I am!!! With my surgically repaired rectum, I tried watching this flick again...thinking that, after the horrors this movie caused me, seeing the giant space buzzard would be a walk in the park. Well, it was not pretty. I'll just say this...upon being released from the hospital, I had to drop $8000 on a new couch, rug, coffee table AND a complete replacement of my hardwood floor. The EMT later told me that it looked like I was staging mud wrestling matches in my living room. Beware the Giant Claw...unless you want a brutal bowel emancipation and like the idea of wearing Depends for life.

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Well, almost 2 years have past since I tried watching this movie all the way through. Taking your post as inspiration I attempted another viewing the other day. I told myself its only a movie. Well.. that didn't seem to matter... to my bowels. 3 words: Absolute.. colonic.. detonation.. The aftermath would have had the Jackass crew puking their innards out. Since I've been the cause of so much cleanup in my apartment complex I am now being evicted. All because of a lousy terrifying buzzard. I am declaring war on all buzzards from here on after. Today Im going to walmart to get a cork and a 12 gauge!

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I went to lunch yesterday with my boss and two other co-workers. On the way back to the office, we passed a Dairy Queen and someone shouted "Blizzard!" I mistook this for "Buzzard!" and unleashed the most violent and uncontrollable fecal hemorrhaging yet. Besides ruining the entire interior, my eruption also found it's way into the engine block and the car seized up. It's looking like I'm going to have to pay my (now former) boss $75K that I don't have because insurance apparently doesn't cover "fecal annihilation". This movie is ruining my life!

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That must have been quite a runny mess to get into the engine compartment!
I have further embarrassed and alienated myself as well. Just the other day some friends and I were playing Battleship at his parent's house. I was doing quite well and sank one of his ships. He shouted: 'you sank my BATTLESHIP!!' As anyone has seen this film knows, the big buzzard is referred to as a Battleship many times. Anyway, this triggered an involuntary response of a complete and total excremental mudslide. I mean it was everywhere. Over the game, over my friends, over the basement! Those that didn't instantly vomit ran away screaming. I now have to pay for refinishing my friends basement along w a new tv and Battleship board game. The Humiliation continues.. I'm afraid to leave my house now. What on earth will be next?!

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This thread better than movie?!? Maybe...!!!

Fifties fun from TCM. It's gone classic, uncut, commercial free. Don't take your eyes off the screen or you'll miss all the spine tingling chills.

I won't ruin it by describing the ending. That would be SPOILERS.

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I remember seeing this on a late Saturday night "Sci-Fi Movie" circa 1967 and thinking it was the scariest movie I had ever seen. When discussing scary movies with friends I'd bring this one up and they'd all scoff. I saw it again in the early 90s and laughed all the way through it! Now I know what the scoffing was about - if nothing else viewers are in danger of death... as they may die laughing at the "monster" in this movie. I still love it though, great entertainment if you ask me.

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After 5 years of counseling, I decided to face my fears and rewatch this movie. With a trembling hand, I loaded the Giant Claw into the DVD player. Then I eased onto the sofa, took a deep breath and pushed the play button. My trepidation slowly waned as the film chugged along. I was doing it! I was conquering my fear of the Giant Claw!!!!

That was...until the 27:54 mark, when the Giant Claw was revealed in it's horrific entirety!

I woke up in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. The EMTs frantically worked on a nasty head wound that I'd suffered. Before getting to the ER, I drifted out of consciousness. Waking up from my coma three weeks later, I learned exactly what had happened...

Upon seeing the Giant Claw, my bowels spontaneously shot out feces with the force of a rocket. They told me the thrust was comparable to that of a Saturn V. In fact, the nurses and doctors all called me Wernher von BROWN! With my rectum turning into a booster, I would've needed a seatbelt to have remained prone. Thus, I shot up off the couch and my head plowed though the ceiling...penetrating my upstairs neighbor's floor, who managed to call 911 before fainting from the scent. It was another Giant Claw-induced nightmare!

Beware of this terrifying movie!!!

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I don't know about realistic, but this movie is one of my all-time guilty pleasures. I love the fact that this bird from outer space looks like it was designed by Jim Henson. And how did it fly through space with no air for its wings to push against? I would rather watch this movie a hundred times than something like LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD.......

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This is 2014 writing...will it still inspire profound bowel movement ? Will a J or 2 help ? ...no probably not a good idea to smoke weed and watch this...tried it with Avalanche Sharks and it was messy...

...bar is closed people stagger out
the pretty, the crippled, and the proud.

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You do not want to be on mind-expanders when you see 'a bird the size of a battleship' with a Woody Woodpecker coiffure and FANGS. Stick with harmless alcohol. In vast quantities.

"You may have come on no bicycle, but that does not say that you know everything."

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You mean the most damaging substance known to leisure...alcohol...where families are rendered asunder...penises hang flaccid...livers turn to stone...and Liquor manufacturers try to help the public by suggesting moderate consumption...

Sarcasm is lost on "Fire Water" connoisseurs...surely...now where's that Hash snack.

...bar is closed people stagger out
the pretty, the crippled, and the proud.

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