Horror Movies On A Plane ... and a Toon

[kybearfuzz]

I took the day off from work today. After a haircut and a Thai food lunch, I came home and took a nap. Yeah, not an exciting day, but I'll take it.

Tonight, while doing some drawing and a bit of writing for the next issue of my comic, I turned on the Apple TV and watching a couple of movies on YouTube. I am actually surprised how many full movies are on the website, some of them are fun TV movies that have never been released on DVD. The theme for the evening seemed to be "Horror Movies on a Plane."

I rewatched "7500", a 2012 film about a ghostly force that gets turned loose on a Transpacific flight. It has only had a very limited release in the US after being shelved by CBS Films for years. It's not a bad movie by any stretch, but for some reason it hasn't been released on DVD here yet. The full flick on YouTube is in English, but has Spanish subtitles.

The second movie was one that scared the crap out of me as a kid. I rewatched "The Ghost of Flight 401", a 1978 TV movie about the real-life crash of Flight 401 in the Everglades back in the early 1970s, and the supposed hauntings of various flights where salvaged parts from the crashed plane had been used. It starred Ernest Borgnine as the ghost along with a long list of 1970s popular actors.

While the movies were playing, I drew the following cartoon. I have seen so many horror movies in my lifetime, that I can honestly say a large number of them from the 1980s to present usually has a variation of this character in them.

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[sunbeam-bears.livejournal.com]

A friend of mine was a stewardess on the planes built from the wreckage of flight 401, and knew many of the flight attendants that were on that plane that crashed. She regularly flew the Boston to Florida, and Puerto Rico routes, and told us about the ghost stories she was hearing from the other girls in flight, and at the airports. It was a fairly tight knit group, and was very real to all of them. She never saw anything, but was on one flight when another girl saw something, and I seem to remember it was a pilot deadheading back to Boston, and she put a blanket on his lap before takeoff, and later he was no where to be seen, and was not on the flight manifest. The other girls assumed he had deplaned before they had closed the doors. Creepy stuff, and I whole heartedly believe every detail, as I heard it first hand.

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

Oh, now I find that incredibly creepy. Apparently, the pilot/engineer was seen on a lot of flights, but the airline tried their best to keep it under wraps.