wie der gewoehnlich gut informierte spiegel aktuell berichtet , ist von einem englischen forscherteam des King's college London eine formel fuer die guete und gruseligkeit von horrofilmen entwickelt worden.

(es+u+cs+t)² + s + (tl+f)/2 + (a+dr+fs)/n + sin x - 1

wobei

es = Furcht erregende Musik
u = das Unbekannte
cs = Verfolgungsjagden
t = das Gefühl, in der Falle zu sitzen
s = Schock
tl = wirkliches Leben
f = fantastische Elemente
a = Protagonist ist allein
dr = Dunkelheit
fs = Film-Setting
n = Anzahl von Menschen
sin x = Blut-und-Beuschel-Szenen (anhand einer Sinus-Funktion errechnet)
1 = Stereotype

diese formel hat in der ganzen welt fuer aufsehen gesorgt.

ganz nebenbei, die englischen forscher behaupten, "the shining" waere der gruseligste film ever... ich hatte bei "ring" mehr angst...

naja...

Verdammt, schon wieder ein Tag auf Arbeit vergangen ohne dass ich nennenswert was gemacht hätte.
Das hat den Grund dass ich über Vanillacoce auf diesen Blog gestossen bin, das Tagebuch eines Punks in der US-Armee im Irak. Spannende sache!
We were now in the same area where a couple months ago we had a mounted patrol through here, and we were driving around slowly, and we were the trail vehicle, and my AG and I were sticking out of the back air guard hatches. And we were being followed by literally 100's of little kids, they were hooting and hollering, clapping and saying stuff in Arabic. So my AG looks over at me and with a mischievous smile says, "Watch this!" and then he starts chanting: "U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!" over and over again, next thing you know all these little kids, 100's of them, started chanting U-S-A!! Over and over again, each time a little loader. We were both laughing and thought this was all funny until I saw the reaction on the older people faces on the side of the road. They didn't look too thrilled about that, once I immediately noticed that, I said, "Dude, that's not cool! Make them stop yelling that shit!" But it was too late, these kids were having too much fun chanting U-S-A! Next thing you know I saw an older middle eastern lady wearing all black pick up a rock and throw it at us, which of course started a huge chain reaction of rock throwing at us. We got out of that neighborhood in a hurry after that. Lesson learned.