tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706937351903658758.post1041930877065946986..comments2024-01-09T06:37:41.791-05:00Comments on The Horror Digest: What's In the Tub?!?!?!Andre Dumashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07170879111034420803noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706937351903658758.post-41981813880577362972017-05-04T20:04:20.384-04:002017-05-04T20:04:20.384-04:00I have not read the book so I don't know if th...I have not read the book so I don't know if this theory can be debunked quickly or not, but I watched the movie again just now:D And my first thought after I heard Buffalo Bill say to Clarice that Mrs Lippman has a son, is that in a kind of Psycho-esque way, secretly HE was in fact her son, perhaps she was responsible for his abuse as a child, which is why he carelessly kept her in the tub and possibly killed her. Other than learning on his own in a non-related way to her death after taking over her house, it can also explain why he is very talented at sewing. Feels kind of strange responding to a 6 year old post, but then again that is the love of the internet. The movie is great, the bathtub shot is brutal, and that goggle/darkness scene at the end gets me every time. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15163997484126918561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706937351903658758.post-27109795238799438222013-05-14T08:30:07.025-04:002013-05-14T08:30:07.025-04:00Patrick Bateman: "I killed Paul Allen with an...Patrick Bateman: "I killed Paul Allen with an axe in the face, his body is dissolving in a bathtub in Hell's Kitchen." (American Psycho...just like Mrs Lippman in SOTL)<br /><br />Oh and guess who else gets mentioned in that film (Am Psycho)...yes Ed Gein, who Buffalo Bill (SOTL) was mainly based on!<br /><br /><br />Bateman: Do you know what Ed Gein said about women?<br /><br />Van Patten: Ed Gein? Maitre d' at Canal Bar?<br /><br />Bateman: No, serial killer Wisconsin in the fifties.<br /><br />McDermott: So what did Ed say?<br /><br />Bateman: When I see a pretty girl walking down the street I think two things. One part of me wants to take her out and talk to her and be real nice and sweet and treat her right.<br /><br />McDermott: And what did the other part think?<br /><br />Bateman: What her head would look like on a stick. [chuckles] <br /><br />Gein didn't actually say that quote in real life, Kemper did...but they still managed to shoe-horn Gein into the picture anyways)Horselover Phathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05166435780296983828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706937351903658758.post-26653785866933540742011-09-17T16:05:50.805-04:002011-09-17T16:05:50.805-04:00I love this post.
The Corpse In The Tub has haun...I love this post. <br /><br />The Corpse In The Tub has haunted me for years. I agree that it's one of the scariest parts of the film, if not THE scariest. It's strange but I'm endlessly fascinated with that one scene...phr775https://www.blogger.com/profile/02673190497136820492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706937351903658758.post-43756069939554902152011-06-07T20:03:29.996-04:002011-06-07T20:03:29.996-04:00It's more along the lines that he hates himsel...It's more along the lines that he hates himself, owing to having been abused as a child, like most actual serial killers. He "tries on" different identities, which Lecter alludes to (in the movie) when he says he expects Bill failed at a lot of things. That's why the surgeons wouldn't accept him for surgery, because he wasn't actually a transsexual.matangonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706937351903658758.post-64861744127246501442011-06-07T16:56:02.760-04:002011-06-07T16:56:02.760-04:00That's what I thought as well Doug, but appare...That's what I thought as well Doug, but apparently the book is claiming low self esteem! I do believe the book changed that though because Lecter most certainly identifies him as wanting to be a female, hence the rejected sex change operation thingy. An interesting and complex character indeed!Andre Dumashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07170879111034420803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706937351903658758.post-70882206852150245852011-06-07T16:32:23.003-04:002011-06-07T16:32:23.003-04:00And good call on the tub. I have been strangely fa...And good call on the tub. I have been strangely fascinated by that scene as well. What the hell was that and what happened?Hallospaceboyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05534924690870137340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706937351903658758.post-55579062157737690192011-06-07T16:30:47.032-04:002011-06-07T16:30:47.032-04:00Buffalo Bill was a gay man who wanted to dress (or...Buffalo Bill was a gay man who wanted to dress (or live) as a woman. I think he wanted to have a sex change (but couldn't? ) and chose the skin suit as his way of doing that.<br /><br /> In fact the director Jonathan Demme ( a noted liberal guy) was so upset because at the time the film was released it was criticized by gay rights advocates for continuing to foster he idea that gay people are all wackos and psychopaths. <br /><br />He made the movie PHILADELPHIA with Tom Hanks as a sort of apology to the gay community. <br /><br />Silence of the Lambs is one of the best movies in the last 50 years.Hallospaceboyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05534924690870137340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706937351903658758.post-58460822503414273152011-06-06T23:09:54.445-04:002011-06-06T23:09:54.445-04:00This is a "watch whenever I come across it on...This is a "watch whenever I come across it on tv" movie for me too.<br /><br />I feel like I've seen other movies with gross tubs in them too.<br /><br />I remember thinking that the tub was one of the grossest things I'd ever seen when I first saw this movie. I feel sorry for the FBI forensics person who has to sort out Mrs. Lipman into a few five gallon buckets. Yuck.<br /><br />As I recall, in the book, they say that Bill is almost certainly not a transsexual. He just has really low self esteem or something.matangonoreply@blogger.com