Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by halfnote (A) on September 10, 2005 at 20:51:23

In Reply to: The Thing posted by LWR on September 1, 2005 at 18:52:41:

I first saw this film as a small child in the late fifties, a much more innocent and unworldly-wise era for children, in my opinion. "The Thing" was a whole new dark and frightening world to me, from those stark black and white images of the polar ice caps to those corrugated metal shelters -- far from the safe little home world I lived in. I think the fear of the crew, all adults, was the most troublesome and unfamiliar thing to me, re-seeing the film through those eyes. But the Thing itself was, a nightmare worse than any I had had to that time, peering in from behind the veil of darkness, posing the primal threat. I had trouble sleeping many nights after seeing that film, keeping an eye open for the hand that would reach through the door of my bedroom, the way the Thing's did in that film.

The Alien and the Exorcist are also excellent choices for scariest film. DePalma's Scarface, also, but in an entirely different way.