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7 doomed horror flicks you'll (probably) never see before you die. Hollywood's creative cemeteries are filled with the coffins of dead horror deals from A-List directors like Peter Jackson, Steven Spielberg and Alfred Hitchcock. These lost jewels live on to haunt us with painful memories of what should (or shouldn't) have been. Many inspired scream-plays bloomed for a brief moment then died a prolonged death in development hell, the cold dirt of despair shoveled atop them. Who can solve the many mysteries of their premature burial? For the 6th of our 31 posts for the 31 days of Halloween, we've dug up a few notorious examples of frightening films that never made it to the silver screen. So light a candle and pay your respects to these seven gone but not forgotten projects of the past ... Try not to snicker at the thought of this trio going at it full throttle.

The script's idea was hatched after 2003's Freddy vs. This strange project disappeared not long after Alfred Hitchcock died in 1980. Now close the lid and say a kind prayer. Tags. THEY'RE HERE! 2010 DARWIN AWARDS - You've been waiting for them with bated breath, so without further ado, here are the 2010 Darwin Awards. Eighth Place In Detroit, a 41-year-old man got stuck and drowned in two feet of water after squeezing head first through an 18-inch-wide sewer grate to retrieve his car keys. Seventh Place A 49-year-old San Francisco stockbroker, who "totally zoned when he ran", accidentally jogged off a 100-foot high cliff on his daily run. Sixth Place While at the beach, Daniel Jones, 21, dug an 8 foot hole for protection from the wind and had been sitting in a beach chair at the bottom, when it collapsed, burying him beneath 5 feet of sand.

People on the beach used their hands and shovels trying to get him out but could not reach him. It took rescue workers using heavy equipment almost an hour to free him. Fifth Place Santiago Alvarado, 24, was killed as he fell through the ceiling of a bicycle shop he was burglarizing. Fourth Place Sylvester Briddell, Jr., 26, was killed as he won a bet with friends who said he would not put a revolver loaded with four bullets into his mouth and pull the trigger.

Nerf Gun Battle Proposal is the Most Romantic Start of the Year. Captured: Great Depression Photos: America in Color 1939-1943. Posted Jul 26, 2010 Share This Gallery inShare324 These images, by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information, are some of the only color photographs taken of the effects of the Depression on America’s rural and small town populations. The photographs and captions are the property of the Library of Congress and were included in a 2006 exhibit Bound for Glory: America in Color. Faro and Doris Caudill, homesteaders. Pie Town, New Mexico, October 1940. Reproduction from color slide. Connecticut town on the sea. Farm auction. Children gathering potatoes on a large farm. Trucks outside of a starch factory. Headlines posted in street-corner window of newspaper office (Brockton Enterprise). Children in the tenement district. Going to town on Saturday afternoon.

Chopping cotton on rented land near White Plains. Barker at the grounds at the state fair. Backstage at the "girlie" show at the state fair. At the Vermont state fair. Couples at square dance. House. 5 Scientific Reasons Your Idea of Happiness Is Wrong. Our two favorite subjects at Cracked are the elusive concept of human happiness and Batman. This article is about the first one. If you're looking for an answer to "How can I be happy? " then the response from the experts is, "You're asking the wrong question. " The better question is why our idea of happiness is so screwed up that most of us wouldn't recognize the real thing if we saw it. Well ... #5. What We're Calling Happiness is a Recent Invention Getty This should blow your mind: The entire concept that you can become happy via some action you can take is a relatively recent invention. Getty"I'd define happiness as less than four types of lice on my body.

" Now, before everyone digs out their old goth clothes and screams, "Aha! See, the thing is that humans have never actually settled on what "happiness" is. Getty"I'd say I define happiness as less than three types of lice on my body. " Go back to ancient Greece and it's very simple: Happiness = Luck. Not according to science, anyway. . #4.