'Dirty Girls'
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No, in this she's a bereaved mother who moves into a haunted house and is fixated on by the ghost of another kid who's basically the Bad Seed.
Oh, The Bad Seed is another one. Probably falls better into the "freaked people out in its day, but events have passed it by" category. Plus the cop-out ending.
The Bad Seed remake, with one of the Carridine brothers as the creepy handymanperson, scared the crap out of me when I was little. I am not sure it would scare me now. I realize that I just don't watch scary things. Or I am not scared by them. Or something, because I can think of no other movie that really scared me, although both Grover on Sesame Street and Puff the Magic Dragon scared me as a child. (I would run screaming from the TV)
Plus the cop-out ending.
I hated that ending. But I guess back then they couldn't let people walk out of the theatre thinking an 8 year old girl was a murderer.
I don't think the play has a cop out ending. My recollection of the play is that the mom killed "The Bad Seed" to keep her from murdering more people.
I don't think the play has a cop out ending. My recollection of the play is that the mom killed "The Bad Seed" to keep her from murdering more people.
Yeah, the play had a different ending. I thought I'd heard somewhere that the movie ended that way because of the Code. 'Course, it's been a while since I saw it. Didn't God (or, you know, lightning) smite the little girl at the end?
My recollection of the play is that the mom killed "The Bad Seed" to keep her from murdering more people.
Like in The Good Son, which I think is an underrated movie.
Didn't Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds have an album called The Good Son ?
Didn't God (or, you know, lightning) smite the little girl at the end?
Lightning. In the novel, she survives to continue her murdering ways.
I hate to bring this discussion lowbrow with a slasher movie (but it's John Carpenter, so stop judging me) but Halloween-- oh, that movie fucked my shit up. What scared me: every single time Myers would be in a shot, then the shot would cut away, then cut back, and he would be vanished. Second, of course, is him rising behind Jamie Lee Curtis.
Is Bravo going to rerun that scariest moments special? I watched that all the way through and I usually do all I can to avoid horror.
I want to rewatch that now that I've seen Audition. Because I didn't watch the moments from that, because it seemed like a movie I'd want to see and be surprised by. Now I want their PoV.