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100 things learned watching 'Haunting' Spoilers

posted 14 years ago by keith-659
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1. Mediums can see the car down the road, but police can't.
2. UPS delivery persons still tie a pen to the clipboard.
3. Fireplace pokers will just antagonize ghosts, but will really hurt Drake.
4. The family moves to the house via the DMV. ( License plate changes from 5ZAA342 to 3BDY842)
5. Mediums help in any way they can, except tell a. You're dead b. Call the police because there are dead bodies in your car.
6. Children are never found in the attic.
7. In this movie, Deaf also means stupid.

Feel free to add

[–] XResidentXEvilX 14 years ago

8. That one dumb bitch can't act aka the mother

[–] Cowboy5995 14 years ago

9. After you stop a car the interior will keep moving like you are driving and you get to call someone a red neck ass hole.

[–] finniksawot 14 years ago

10. There's no limit to how many times you can have a "creepy" ball rolling across the floor in a movie.
11. There's no possible way in the WORLD that someone could close a cellar door from the inside.
12. If a teen sees a creepy ghost girl wandering around in their bedroom, they'd rather play with crayons like a 4 year old than tell anyone.
13. Good actors aren't needed to make a movie.
14. You don't need a good script either.

[–] daijahv 14 years ago

15. It's better to ask a dying person if they have seen your missing kid rather than offer them help to save their life.

16. Cops who watch their partners fly off a banister are more prone to stand there and wait their turn.

17. Boxes that take little to no effort to move are too heavy to push off the top of a trunk if you are trapped inside.

18. Fireplace pokers automatically place themselves back near the fireplace after being dropped outside.

19. Keeping a lock of hair inside of a keychain will not prevent your death.

20. Throwing your body to the opposite side of your car will help to keep you on the road when confronted with another vehicle moving towards you. (only works if all three people in your car move with you...this includes the driver, yes he must take his eyes off the road....exactly!)

21. Haley Joel Osment is not the only person who sees dead people.

[–] panatale1 14 years ago

22) A historically large house will appear smaller than it actually is

23) Daughters always disappear in closets

24) Psychics are only good for exposition

25) Psychics can produce a blessed pendulum at will from nowhere

26) Blood wipes away cleanly without leaving a streak on flesh at the slightest touch

27) Cops refuse to stay dead

28) The psychic will get killed right before completing the protection spell, leaving the people who need him to fend for themselves

29) Not even psychics are immune from the "black guy dies first" rule of horror movies

30) When confronted by ghosts, your living room often looks like a bad green screen effect

31) When in a hurry, wood breaks at the lightest touch

32) A corpse's rotting remains don't emit a nauseating smell that will fill an entire house

33) A cop's dead body will remain mutilated on the lawn, but a psychic's will disappear instantly

34) Even ghosts can have luggage

[–] Pegasus7 14 years ago

35. It takes much longer than you would think to complete a chalk circle.
36. A (clearly) teenage daughter still speaks like a 4 year old in a nauseating high voice.
37. When you are a ghost you MUST walk much slower than you would have done in life and point/beckon in sloooooooooooooooow moooooooooootttiiiiooonnnnnn!
38. Teenage girls are appalingly bad at art and can only draw stick figures. Why not just write "the body is in the trunk in the attic".

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge - Bertrand Russell

[–] LovinMoviesMakinGames 14 years ago

" "black guy dies first" rule of horror movies "
I just pissed myself laughing.

[–] syaeger14218 13 years ago

39. If you stand still, the ghost that is after you cant see you.
40. When you move into a new place, there is supposed to be groceries in the fridge when you get there.

Have you accepted Jason Isaacs as your personal Saviour?

[–] craigballantyne2006 14 years ago

the black psychic died last. the family died in the car crash before they even reached the house, it tells you that at the end. the two white cops were killed before the psychic was. and also it was a wee bit like the others and the sixth sense even with the mothers realization at the end. ok yes that was ripped off from the end of the sixth sense. it's an asylum film, they ripp everything off. they were once featured in either total film or empire in an interview about their films and their company.

[–] mlauzon 14 years ago

Yeah, I'm breaking the chain. In regards to number 2, that wasn't a UPS employee, as UPS uniforms are dark brown with a yellow streak down the pant legs.

Michael
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[–] call_me_freckles 13 years ago

50. Everyone knows squirrels eat your nuts off

13.5.45
jade belinda <3

[–] wu-tang-1 13 years ago

WTF did i just watch. These may be repeats since i haven't gone through the thread yet.

51. Running to the car to go get help will never cross my mind when surrounded by ghouls.

52. If i see police officers i won't bother to scream for help.

53. Mediums can see ghost but not a parked police car.

54. Fire pokers pierce forearm flesh with no problem but won't even scratch a forehead when hit.

55. I will walk around with the medium and not bother to wonder where my husband is with a house full of dead people.

56. Blood wipes away cleanly with no soap or water.

57. A 5 second swinging pendulum will "calm your nerves"

58. Mediums are usually laid back call me when you need help matter-of-factly kind of guys.

59. Medium = Morgan Freeman and Buckwheat having kid.

60. Ghosts confirm that their voices sound like static or white noise on cue by making the exact sound after said statement is mentioned.

61. Mediums double as professional high speed thrown pot/pan catchers.

62. Swinging hair filled pendulums like wonder woman swings her lasso vanishes ghosts instantly.

63. Bad makeup jobs on police officers are cool...arghhh. FX = failed extremely.

64. If i'm dying please don't asked who killed me or go for help.

65. I should always double check my ghoul repelling circle chalk to make sure no one switched with a bar of dove soap.

66. If a ghosts rubs his nipples and stars at me intently im definitely going to follow him.

67. If i am deaf it makes me immune to vibrations as well.

68. I will carry my daughter even though she is capable of walking therefore slowing us both down in case of pending danger.

69. Not a bad ending.

[–] hockeydawg 13 years ago

70. A poorly rendered digital house is much scarier than a mansion that shares a parking lot with a movie theater (the real Winchester mansion)

[–] hannethereza 13 years ago

Oh.. Wish i didnt see this thread.. Now i actually have to watch the movie just for the fun of reading what you guys learned from it:)

Love this kind of threads!!!

[–] chunkfan07 13 years ago

71. Dove soap is magic it pisses off and repels ghosts at the same time
side note...
I bet Smith & Wesson never had to put up with crap like that

She's made of iron sir! I assure you she can & she will. It is a mathematical certainty

[–] Geechee 13 years ago

This is one of the most entertaining and creative threads about a movie-ever!

"If I don't suit chu, you kin cut mah thoat!"

[–] tozaiminka 13 years ago

72. Advertised 3-D effects are rendered 2-D in an Asylum ghost film.

73. Police HQ's do not respond with another squad when a patrol vanishes after being killed by a haunted house.

74. Mother ghosts don't "pass on" when finding she has been killed.

75. Psychics magically appear instantaneously when needed by a house full of ghosts.

76. Fathers & daughters don't question the mother having them returning to a haunted house after trying to escape from the place that tried to kill them.

"It's just television, get over it!" - David Letterman

[–] tamibell-bry 13 years ago

77. Driving bad spirits out of a home is always more effective if one does a bad impression of Morticia Addam's.

78. Redneck a$$holes do not call for medical assistance when an entire family drives off a cliff.

79. The audience will never figure out a famous home, seen and toured by millions, isn't the one where the movie is supposed to take place.

80. Paranormal investigators who write best selling books always rattle the titles off so a ghost can go buy one for their reading enjoyment.

81. You don't have to be a vegetarian in the afterlife!

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100 things learned watching 'Haunting' ***Spoilers***

100 things learned watching 'Haunting' Spoilers