Alex2kMommy
<font color=purple>I'm going a little nutso myself
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OMG I remember seeing that! Scared the C R A P outta me!
From Wikipedia "Trilogy of Terror":
Amelia was filmed with Karen Black as the only actor. It was also the only film of three to be adapted from the short story to the screen by its author Richard Matheson, who based Amelia on his short story, Prey [5].
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Amelia is living on her own in a high-rise apartment building. She arrives home after a shopping trip and unwraps her prize: a Zuni hunting fetish, equipped with razor sharp teeth and a spear. She's purchased the doll as a gift for her boyfriend, Arthur, an anthropologist. As Amelia makes a phone call to her mother, we learn that she is slightly neurotic, suffering from her mother's overbearing behavior. We only hear Amelia's side of the conversation, but it is clear that her mother does not approve of Amelia living in the apartment, which she reveals is only a temporary sublease. Amelia argues with her about the fact that she wants to be independent and, specifically, how she wants to cancel their plans for the evening because she has a date with Arthur. The argument begins to die down, but Amelia is clearly upset as she describes the doll she has purchased for Arthur, revealing that a scroll accompanies the fetish. The scroll claims that the doll contains the actual spirit of a Zuni hunter known as "He Who Kills", and that if the gold chain that adorns the doll should ever be removed, the spirit would bring the doll to life. She smiles disbelievingly.
Amelia's mother hangs up on her in mid conversation, and Amelia is despondent. She resolves to herself to not let her mother upset her, but slams the doll down on the coffee table in frustration. As she walks away, the gold chain around the doll clatters to the table.
Shortly later, in the now-dark apartment, Amelia is preparing to take a bath and is now dressed only in a large white robe. She calls Arthur and awkwardly cancels their date, feeling guilty about putting off her mother. She then prepares dinner for herself, using a carving knife to prepare a piece of meat for the broiler. As Amelia enters the darkened living room, she realizes the doll is not on the coffee table. Searching for it, she hears a clattering in the kitchen and investigates. The steak knife she was using is now missing. Lured back into the living room, she is suddenly attacked by the doll, which stabs at her ankles, now brandishing the knife instead of the small wooden spear it came with.
Bloodied and terrified, Amelia runs back to the door, but falls. The doll pounces on her. Amelia screams. She manages to get in her bedroom and calls the police, but the doll enters the room and Amelia dashes for the bathroom and shuts the door. She tries to realize that this is not happening, but it is. Sitting in the bathroom, the doorknob begins to turn and the doll runs in quickly. Amelia grabs a towel and grabs the doll inside it, and tries to drown it in the bath tub. This does not work, and Amelia makes a dash for the living room. The doll is already behind her. She again makes it to a closet and tries to hold the door shut unsuccessfully. She grabs a suitcase and lets the door open. The Zuni doll runs right into the suitcase and Amelia closes it shut. She runs to the kitchen for a screwdriver and tries to open the sealed door, but the doll is already using the knife to cut through the suitcase. Amelia realizes she is trapped and uses the screwdriver to stab the doll in the head. Amelia opens the suitcase only to be attacked again, the doll biting into her arm. She slams it into a lamp and breaks it. It falls as Amelia run to the kitchen and shuts the door. She sees that she has caught the arm of the doll in the door and kicks the knife away from its hand. It opens the door and dashes for the knife, which Amelia tries to grab again, but the doll leaps onto her shoulder and digs its teeth into her neck. Amelia screams in both pain and horror. She hurls it into the oven and listens as it catches fire, howling and screaming. As she listens, the screams die down and eventually stop. Wondering if her ordeal is over, she opens the oven and is suddenly overcome; fade briefly to black.
The next time we hear her (but do not see her face) she is placing another call to her mother, apologizing for "the way she acted" and inviting her over as planned. She then rips the bolt from her front door and crouches down low in an animalistic manner, hiding in the corner with a butcher knife. She stabs at the floor with the weapon, grinning ferally and revealing the horrific teeth of the Zuni doll.
I wasn't serious!!!
He doesn't really fit the truck driver mold I guess. Thank goodness. Some of them look pretty feece. That's Dutch for gross!! 
I dunno.. Is there something I was supposed to buy? Dh is getting a turkey from work, and I have no idea what to do with it. He says cook it, well DUH, But a big honking turkey for just the 4 of us? They are HUGE turkeys... I will just have to tell him to get the smallest one he can find. 
