Scariest monstrously hellish moment on TV - ever.
By jazzsue58
@jazzsue58 (2666)
March 29, 2009 7:45pm CST
Have you ever been knocked backwards by something that is totally alien and terrifyingly surreal - simply because it's so damn ordinary? Well, maybe not that ordinary, come to think of it ...
I don't know if you're into 'cyber-steam punk' sci-fi the way I am, but I find it one of the most disquieting types of movie-making there is. There's something hellishly alien about enormous machines that spout flames and destruction, especially when there are no human beings around.
Anyway, I was just keeping half an eye on the Discovery Science channel while I was doing a jigsaw. It was one of those 'How do they make that' programs, which I rather like because they always feature at least one factory process making things I'm familiar with. It's kinda cosey, watching plastic drink bottles being filled.
Well, tonight they featured the making of cheap glass champagne flutes, and it was the most hellish, cyber-punky moment I've ever seen. If the Dr Who team are looking for some new 'behind the sofa' footage I suggest they come here. The narrator said "... enormous carousel spouting steam and flame", I looked up - and there was this damn MONSTER, all huge pulsing pistons and molten glass pouring into cylinders ... I mean, this machine was ENORMOUS! And it seemed to have no rhyme or reason to the way it was moving - there were all these various carousels rotating and pumping and spewing white heat and steam everywhere. I know it sounds stupid, but I honestly felt I was watching a vision of hell.
This has GOT to be the scariest factory machine ever. I know glass has to be poured molten, so it's bound to be hot and steamy, but there was something curiously 'organic' about the entire scene. It was like watching some monstrous metallic tentacled beast from Dante's Inferno. I now know where Stephen King gets his best ideas from. He visits a glass-making factory.
Why is it that scenes like this are so disturbingly terrifying? Well, to me they are, anyway. I just know I'm gonna have nightmares tonight.
From now on, I'm sticking to plastic when I want a drink - bubbles or no.
2 responses
@Darkwing (21583)
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30 Mar 09
Lol... you have a great imagination, Sue. You put me in mind of the days when the "Glass Animal Man" had his shop and workshop in Brighton. I lived there at the time and was fascinated with his work. I used to go and watch him making his wares, and was enthralled. It was nothing like this of course, but the way you describe the heated glass, made me think about him. He's long gone now... he moved away and I don't even know whether he's still living, but I used to spend hours down there.
I'm not really into "monsters" and that kind of sci-fi stuff, but I can see how you'd get the image of some "being" from that sort of picture. Brightest Blessings my friend.
@jazzsue58 (2666)
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31 Mar 09
It's funny how disquieting man made objects can be. The only other time I feel like that, is when I'm driving past the Mormon Temple at Burgess Hill. Dracula's castle isn't in it.
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@kipluck (143)
• United States
7 Jun 09
I would LOVE to see that. First of all, those sorts of things are fascinating to me. At work (Thanksgiving Point) there is an art studio where one of the main things they do is blow glass. It is AMAZING. I love to watch, but it it is REALLY hot there. 2nd of all, I am MAJORLY into steampunk. Hee hee!
