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Did this movie freak you out as a kid?


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YES!

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I was freaked out by the girl's weird eyes and when Justin had those things in his eyes while Hizzoner was brainwashing him.

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I remember seeing this when I was really young 5-6. When the priest is brainwashing the boy I asked my dad what he was doing to the kid. He said brainwashing, at that moment the boy is getting a bucket of water thrown on his head. Being a child I thought getting brainwashed involved large amounts of water to actually wash the brain. I was a stupid little kid.

P.S. that girl's smile is the creepiest thing in the movie.

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shmabadu wrote:
"P.S. that girl's smile is the creepiest thing in the movie."
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That girl was hot!

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"P.S. that girl's smile is the creepiest thing in the movie."

Yeah, that was pretty freaky, especially when you consider how she hadn't been born with the pirates but abducted and forced to join them, probably via brainwashing (whether that involves buckets of water being thrown on her to wash her brain, LOL :D ), and was so intergrated with the people who had murdered her parents that she was now helping them set up more murders...yeah, creepy.

Especially followed by the scene right afterwards, with the coast guard guys being graphically knifed to death...this movie is 50 percent absurd, 50 percent unnerving.

When darkness overcomes the heart, Lil' Slugger appears...

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That cute, nice little girl could look so devilish.

I got to play one of the Coast Guard shore party killed in the village. (I had the big backpack radio - which went out decades before the movie was made in the real military).

We filmed the walk in and her smiling to us seven or eight times. All while the camera was on us. She did the smile perfectly for every take.

I walked up right to her, and she brings a hatched out from her lap and plants it in my chest over my heart. I guess they decided her killing someone wouldn't be acceptable.

They did her close-up later that day.

And they have fun killing us. We had to go back a month later and redo the killings because the director and producers didn't like the 'realism' of the first group.

Learned a lot at the time about how the movie people 'kill' folks.

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Oooh boy, do I have some decent childhood memories of this. The overall skuzziness of the pirates; the kid turning against his father; the man-o-war stinging the sh*t out of Michael Caine and the woman.

But the scene that ALWAYS sticks with me (and I will always love the movie for it) is when Michael Caine gets behind that 50 calibur machine gun and wipes out the entire pirate clan. There have been few action scenes I have seen (John McClane jumping off the Nakatomi rooftop; HARD BOILED and A BETTER TOMORROW 2; the last RAMBO finale) that give me that same sense of adrenaline, awe and horror. Just the sheer carnage of it... I don't know if it's art, but I like it!

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What really scared me was Beth's tan-lines around her breasts. I mean, how could she have tan-lines? Except for when she was covered in mud or shtupping Michael Caine, she had that awful hair-shirt covering her chest.

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I remember first seeing this late one night as a fifteen year old shortly before taking my o levels in the summer of 1984 and finding it quite disturbing!

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Yes it did

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