Ladies and gentlemen and sheep, in honor of film awards season, the Panopticon's resident cinema critic is pleased to give you a baker's dozen of...The Greatest Knitting Horror and Thriller Films of All Time
1. Night of the Living Moth
2. The Sweater from the Black Lagoon
3. I Spit Upon Ewe Grave
4. The Felting
5. The Shetland of Dr. Moreau
6. Knitsferatu
7. War of the Purls
8. Whatever Happened to Baby Ull?
9. Sorry, Wrong Dye Lot
10. It Came from Lily Chin
11. The Ply
12. The Stockinette of Dr. Caligari
13. I Know What You Crocheted Last Summer
- "The Lair of the White Worm"
ReplyDelete- "The Thing"
- "The Blob"
- "Nightmare on Frog Street"
"Threadbare to Eternity"
ReplyDeleteOh my glory did you ever give me the laugh of the day!!
ReplyDeleteYou've created a monster Franklin (or several)!
ReplyDeleteInvasion of the Sock Snatchers
The Invisble Cast On
Night of the Living Deadline
Resident Moth
The Gauge Zone
Knitted Cape Fear
(S)kill Level: Basic
The Frog
ROTFLMAO!
ReplyDeleteAnd also:
ReplyDelete"Silk Stockinette"
"The Bad Seed Stitches"
"Knitting Needle Park"
and lending new meaning to:
"Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep"
"The Cable Guy"
"Lilo and Stitch"
"Spin City"
"Attack of the Twenty foot frou-frou Scarf"
ReplyDelete"One Skein is Not Enough"
ReplyDelete"You Only Frog Once"
"Octoknitty"
You are all so very disturbing.
ReplyDeleteFor the space cadets out there...
ReplyDeleteYarn Wars episode IV A New Sheep
Yarn Wars episode V The Skein Strikes Back
Yarn Wars episode VI Return of the Cardi
Oh, thank you for the Monday laugh!!!
ReplyDeleteHa--these are great.
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Thank you for this much needed laugh in this otherwise slog-heavy day.
ReplyDeleteMy father is from the Carpathians, and Knitsferatu is really hitting my funny bone.
Oh, Franklin! I have been trying all day to think of even one to add to your list. I can't. You're inimitable -- and a brilliant photographer, too. In helpless admiration,
ReplyDeleteJean
But disturbing in a good way...
ReplyDeleteThe Incredible Tinking Man
Raised-Barfly
Alottaneps. Ow.
Endless Fluff
Ply Hard With A Vengeance
Hemp Friction
Who Shaved Angora Rabbit?
Texas Chain Stitch Massacre
Men in Bights
Oh, DPN, Where Art Thou?
Lunch, you will be thrilled to know, is now over :-)
I forgot one, myself.
ReplyDeleteCrouching Tiger, Hidden Mondragon
These are hysterical! I'd SO go the see most of these!
ReplyDeleteHey! Wait a minute! Crouching Tiger isn't a horror film...ooops, nevermind.
ReplyDeleteTerrifying.
(and keep your hands off Carol S., she's mine)
sweet lord.
ReplyDeleteyou are hysterical!
i've just disturbed the entire 5th floor of the library with my hysteria. . .
The Hills Have I-Cord
ReplyDeleteThe Blair Stitch Project
Scar(f)
The Bad Seed Stitch
I need some sleep. OKthanksbye.
OMG!!! Too much!!!
ReplyDelete"Dye, Dye, My Darling"
ReplyDeleteyou are too funny! thanks for your humour, artwork, and for brightening up my day!! by the way--would you consider putting the Marilyn/stitch pattern cartoon on a tee shirt or hoodie? please? purdy please???
ReplyDeleteThe tinking is coming from inside the house.
ReplyDeletebefore i read the comments; "the ragland that time forgot"
ReplyDeletei may be back after i read the commments...lol...
"the little purl who lived down the skein"
ReplyDelete"the woolman meets frankenskein"
"something knitted this way comes"
Women's Prison 6: Under the Ponchos
ReplyDelete(Sorry...but it would be a horror, no?)
"Something Knitted this way comes"
ReplyDeleteMothra
ReplyDeleteCocoon
Lambie Meets Godzilla
Joe's Apartment
Sheepless in Seattle
Pill Bill
Raiders of the Lost Stash
Romancing the Steek
October Skein
Wayne's Purls
Who Fairisled Roger Rabbit
The Seventh Stitch
Casabaanca
I love you, Franklin! You manage to brighten my every day!
ReplyDeleteBrave Redheart
ReplyDeleteWe of course forgot:
ReplyDeleteThe Texas Chainstitch Massacre
and
The Silence of the Lambswool
Although I see I managed to repeat the earlier suggestion of "The Bad Seed Stitch". My only excuse is that I'm in love with a sock and not thinking straight these days.
And from the most recent crop of horror movies:
ReplyDeleteThe Exorcism of Many Rows
The Hostile (Saga of SNB)
How about:
ReplyDeleteFriday the 24th
And in non-horror genres...
Comedy ~
Charlie and the Cotton Factory
Steeks and the City
Blazing Needles
Romance ~
While You Were Spinning
Stitching in Seattle
Must Love Yarn
It Had to be Ewe
Some other ideas:
ReplyDeleteThe Mothman Prophesies
The Purl Divers (a movie based on the opera)
Knitshift
When Harry Met A Knitter
The Far Purl-villions (okay, that's a SERIOUS stretch!)
Pretty in Tink
ReplyDeleteStrictly Ballwinder
anything starring Tom Hanks
Waiting for Bohus
Dial "M" for Mohair
The Birdcage full of yarn
The Scarlet Sweater
Gone with the Wind-er
The Shearing of the Lambs
Never on Sunray
Fleeced of Eden
The Andromeda Skein
1770-sticks
It Came from Lily Chin... I am dying! Too funny!
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, I am reading archives...
Do I feel another book coming on? :O)
ReplyDeleteSeriously, Franklin, Dolores' post was just what I needed.
Thanks for all the giggles.
Norma
scarf-face
ReplyDeleteThe complete "Intarsia Jones" series....
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