I want to see the movie that this still/pattern image was taken from. Three college friends go to a dinner party thrown by some creepy old dude in a creepy old mansion on the edge of town (on a dare, of course, because in the movies just saying "I dare you!" makes people do all kinds of dumb things). Inevitably, they get separated and have to deal with scary stuff jumping out at them from dark corners. (Anything with that weird chandelier/sconce/creepy mirror in it has to be a horror movie, right?)
In the end, the blonde one dies (she's a bit of a ditz, and the ditz always gets it), the yellow-dress escapes (she looks too sensible to do anything but escape), and the one in the black dress, vacant-eyed, stays with the creepy old dude in the creepy old house (despite the tearful protests of Yellow Dress). Flash forward twenty-five years, and it's a group of male college friends going to a dinner party thrown by creepy old lady … dum dum dum dum … STILL wearing that beehive hairdo and the same Dior dress!
I'm assuming the weird necklace exerts a certain level of mind control. It's the only explanation for it. Bonus points if it's a scarab!
My question: who plays creepy old dude?
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Hilarious post, Erin! Maybe your next project should be pattern-envelope-based Hollywood screenplays. (Hollywood Patterns…Hollywood Screenplays!) Seriously, your creations would be a lot more original and exciting than the junk we see in theatres nowadays.
Creepy old dude to be played by Robert Duvall. William H. Macy could play his creepy not-quite-as-old son.
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If it was made in the sixties then it has to be Vincent Price, but if it’s now then I’d go with Jeffrey Rush – He seemed to be having so much fun in the remake of “House on Haunted Hill”
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1960’s creapy old guy?
Vincent Price, of course!
Jean Shrimpton in one of my all time favorite dresses. Notice how small bustlines were actually fashionable back then–plastic cleavage would ruin this look!
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I have been looking for this patter in the old size 8…or possibly 10…for quite a while! Anyone? Thanks,
b
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It’s got to be Christopher Lee, right?
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Creepy old dude – that would be Hefner, but 25 years on – HE IS STILL THERE!!!
Scary scary indeed!
Love the story – is that Jean Shrimpton in the photo?
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I feel like Michael Caine or Stephen Fry could do a creditable job of it.
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Jack Nicholson. No question about it – with those creepy eyebrows & plastic mouth.
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Basil Rathbone – am I dating myself by mentioning him LOL?
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I second Vincent Price!
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I vote for George Sanders, he’s so sarcastic.
Remember “Quiet Please, Murder!” ?
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Mel Gibson?
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Oooooo la la, I love this pattern and as always, love the story. You have a great imagination!
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Oh…how I loved the 60’s. What was that they said, if you remember them you really weren’t there? Hogwash! Not for us clearheaded folk. I remember them like it was yesterday. Jean Shrimpton was fab. Amen to the small breast comment by Jen O. Think Audrey Hepburn. I want this pattern by the way!!!!
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Jim Carey.
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Christopher Walken! Bonus points if he gets a dance scene. His talents are seriously underused.
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I own that pattern. I’ve had it for years and have always been meaning to make it…
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I agree Vincent Prince, or more modern, Gary Oldman.
Do love the pattern and I want black dress and or yellow dresses hair do
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Donald Sutherland! I like Vincent Price, too, but he’s a bit too obvious.
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Anthony Hopkins. Fava beans and a nice chianti, anyone?
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Christopher Walken for sure.
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Deadpans, with vacant eyes ‘No Veronica I must stay…………’. Love your pattern stories! LOL
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I say Vincent Price too, for sure.
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Boris Karloff, of course. I love that pattern. Must be my age…
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Christian Dior! his name is on the pattern and everything.. j/k XD
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I hope that the yellow dress’s escape is easy because I don’t want that thing to be filthy when she sells it to me at her rummage sale. (I’m sure she’s not going to want that old dress hanging around to remind her of her harrowing near death experience.) I’ll figure out how to get the black & white version from the dead girl when I have more time to think about that.
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Christopher Walken!
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I’d say go with the 60s counterpart to “the Shrimp” – David Hemmings! He was a lovely looking young man when he played the photographer in the Antonioni film “Blow Up”. If you check out his appearance now with sort of a Vincent Price mustache version of eyebrows (bushy, waxed and curled at the ends) and then imagine him spouting the sexy 60s photographer dialog, it’s truly alarming! Besides….. he’s a great character actor.
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I know this is totally off the subject, but are there plans yet for IWADD this year? In 2008, the original plan was for Labor Day if I remember correctly. That’s in a month–plenty of time to sew something fabulous!
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Ray Milland. The creepy guy would definitely have been played by Ray Milland.
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BTW-This was designed during the Marc Bohan years at Dior–a rather unsung fashion hero, I think.
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Bela Lugosi could do it and in a shocking twist, it comes out that Black Dress was in on it all along (or maybe is the daughter of creepy guy) and always wanted to off Ditzy.
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Terence Stamp would be wonderful – you’d know why Black Dress appears transfixed! Also I’m really hoping that the blonde’s dress wasn’t harmed by the manner of her demise – or at least that it was dry cleaned before any stains set. Now, what could those college boys be wearing…?
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Christopher Plummer. And they’d have seven children …
For the next storyline I’d suggest this
http://www.flickr.com/photos/45657582@N08/4851111461/in/pool-689013@N24
still from ‘Young Stepford Wives’
(or was it ‘Stepford Girls’?)
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Jean Shrimpton makes everything looks good.
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very cute!
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i’m seconding mel gibson. it may revive his career to boot.
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Must… have… pattern!
– Anyone?
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Have no a lot of money to buy a house? Worry no more, just because that is possible to get the personal loans to work out all the problems. Thence get a collateral loan to buy everything you require.
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