The director's cut of The Exorcist that was re-released a few years ago watered most of the scares down by having those CGI demon face flashes everywhere just as the slow quiet tension was ratcheting up. It was like playing a 2 hour game of "Where's Waldo" with Pazuzu.
Regan's spider crawl down the stairs remains one of the freakiest things I've ever seen, though.
I haven't seen a single movie on that list...shows ya how much I avoid the scary-for-its-own-sake flicks.
But In Dreams, A Stir of Echoes and Jacob's Ladder freaked me all the way out.
LOVELOVELOVE The Univited. Creepy and lovely.
I love
In Dreams.
Both creepy and dark and vengeful. Plus Neil Jordan does great with fairy tale dreaminess (in this instance gone horribly awry).
Halloween
scared me more than any other horror movie. But I saw it on its first run and before its impact had been watered down by endless slasher rehashes.
Don't Look Now
is just a great movie. And, like
In Dreams
plays on
parental loss.
I love
The Haunting
but generally didn't find it that scary - excepting the aforementioned scene.
I just saw An Inconvenient Truth (Al Gore's documentary about the environment), and I am so incredibly depressed.
It's an excellent movie -- basically just a concert film of one of his lectures, which some random biographical stuff thrown in to break up the pacing -- but...we're not going to have a planet in 50 years. And I don't think we're far enough along in our space program to do without one.
So yeah. Everyone should see this.
we're not going to have a planet in 50 years.
Will nuking Iran speed things up?
Anyway, yeah, I really want to see AIT....
we're not going to have a planet in 50 years
I'll be dead in 50 years. That's mighty convenient.
::starts living it up like the fundi-Rapturists::
Bring on the Apocalypso!
The only film on that list I've seen is The Shining, but I had already seen the Simpsons parody so the scary was pretty much ruined.
I scariest one for me was probably Aliens. I don't know if scary is right word though, more like intense. I have to see more movies.
::starts living it up like the fundi-Rapturists::
Bring on the Apocalypso!
Everybody limbo.
Wrong Christians...