Today, we go back about 13 years or so, to the early/mid 90's. A novel by Stephen King had been made into a miniseries for TV. The novel was "The Stand" . I had read the novel twice before (and it's a doozie of a novel, something like 600 or more pages).
It deals with a virus that's unleashed and it kills most of the people and how the survivors deal with the aftermath. And then it swerves into Biblical things with Satan on earth, and crucifixtions in Las Vegas (although the miniseries showed them on horseshoes, not crosses, so as to not offend).
At any rate, the first night shows the releases of the virus from an underground army facility, and how it spread and kills most people.
The second night opens by showing hte same underground army facility. The camera pans over several different scenes where the whoel facility was locked down upon the virus' release and all the sceintists and soldiers and staff inside were locked in and condemned to be killed by the virus. And I remember one scene, where they're panning across the cafeteria, and showing all the empty tables with food and plates and stuff still sitting on the tables. And then, at the exit doors, all these bodies are piled up there, one atop the others as the people therein tried to get out but couldn't. ANd of course they're all dead. And during the whole scene, the jukebox is playing in the background. And the song it's playing, to a dead audience and empty room is Blue Oyster Cult's "Don't Fear The Reaper."
Man, that scene gave me goosebumps. Not cause it was scary, but just for the horror it showed. And even now, when I hear "Don't Fear The Reaper" my mind goes right back to that scene, and I get goosebumps all over again.
The rest of the mini-series was pertty good too. And it revived the career of Rob Lowe, or so I'm told. Is that a good thing or bad thing, though?
POLT = listening to "Time Warp" from the Rocky Horror Picture Show soundtrack
This isn't gonna have a happy ending, ya know? It's not possible. - Somerset, Se7en
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