Saturday, October 29, 2005

You're Ash, baby.
Gimme some sugar baby.


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Posted by chrishaley at 5:30 PM

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

i was seth gecko. i love killin' vampires, so it kinda fits.

11:05 PM
Anonymous said...

found this online. didn't know if you knew about it. i need to track down this episode.

"Best Short Horror Films (That Probably Wouldn't Be Recognized as Horror or Films) by Kza

1. The Smurfs, "The Purple Smurfs" (1981, TV Show)
A fly bites one of the Smurfs on his tail, turning his skin purple and causing him to bounce around mindlessly and angrily, yell "G'nap!" and bite other Smurfs on the tail, spreading the virus. Clearly an homage to Night of the Living Dead, this episode, which couldn't be more than eight minutes long, has more action and plot twists than most full-length horror movies. And then there's the ending: Papa Smurf, last of the non-infected Smurfs, is barricaded inside his lab, trying to mix one last batch of the magic powder that can reverse the virus. But the Purple Smurfs break in and bite Papa Smurf on the tail, turning him into a Purple Smurf. Fortunately, he proceeds to smash the lab, which causes a fire, which in turn makes the magic powder explode over the village and reverse the process. But the damage to fragile 9 year old minds has been done, because for a brief moment, the Smurfs are extinct, completely wiped out, replaced by, for all intents and purposes, zombies. That they are restored to normal by pure chance makes the inevitable happy ending seem less reassuring and more like a brief glimpse into a random, unknowable universe. Changed my life, it did."

11:50 PM

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