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I vote for "The Exorcist".The polls are open. And please, no votes for "Primary Colors" or "Wag The Dog".
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I always thought that the von Trapp family was in league with Satan, the father and children luring a naive nun-to-be away from a monogamous love for God!
If you dont know what's coming, Wait Until Dark can scare the
bejesus out of you. It did me, 35 years ago. Great flick.
but the exorcist? - I saw it once and will never watch it again. If you liked that film, then read "Hostage to the Devil" by Father Malachi Martin. Hell, read the reader comments on Amazon.com about that book. One woman claims to have heard growling coming from her child's room after bringing the book into her house. fascinating and very spooky stuff.
of...the...Liv..iv..iv..ing...De...Dead! Wow, I was so scared, I could hardly type it!!
"The Birds" sure stopped me from shooting at them with my BB gun when I was a kid.
"Horror Express" 1972, "Fright Night" 1985, "The Haunting (of Hill House)" 1963.
I must have been 6 when I first saw this film back in the 50's. It was the moment when I became aware that the world was unsafe--a terrifying place where evil lurks behind every rock and tree. I'm still not over it. Why do they let kids watch these things? Here's a film where the virgin is seduced by three men posing as "cartoon characters", lead to a field of opium poppies, and then awakened by the "good" witch with the cocaine "snow", which was actually asbestos flakes. Jed Clampett was supposted to play the Tin Woodman, but nearly died from weeks of inhaling the metal powder make-up he wore. He had to quit and they switched the make-up to a paste. Too bad they cut the jitterbug scene.What? You're telling me the flying monkeys don't scare you? Bullshit! When they fell on the beloved scarecrow and ripped him to pieces? Is there anything in film before or since more graphically violent than that?
I saw "Invaders From Mars" as a young child and was traumatized by the thought that my parents could be turned into alien enemies and betray me. I finally got over this when I saw "Manchurian Candidate". As for the flying monkeys in "WoOz", I think Mike Myers (as "Wayne" from SNL) coined the phrase: "yeah, when monkeys fly out of my butt".
Exorcist, even today, it gives me the creeps. As a matter of fact the last time I was watching it on CBS, I was shaving and when the head started to turn, the shaving became easier because the hair were standing on its ends.. My next vote would be 'The Omen'..
Saw "Exorcist" on initial release; must say it was not that scarey to
me, but I was an adult, if i were a child, would have probably been scared
witless. I cracked up laughing when Reagan's head did a 360; don't
know if it had anything to do with me being stoned or not. Believe
the film was voted as scariest of all time on the Internet Movie Database site. - AH
That's the first one that came to my mind as well. I remember seeing the Exorcist when it first came out at a theater in Westweird. To this day, I can't say why it's so creepy, but I vividly recall the chills that ran down my spine as we contemplated taking a short cut down a dark alley to the car, no way, I'm staying in the light!
By coincidence, my brother-in-law and sister took me (age 13) and my cousins (similar ages) to see it on opening day in Westwood. I think we were all permanently traumatized by the experience, but I did buy Oldfield's "Tubular Bells" album at the corner Wherehouse store. Took me a month before I'd play it, though.Trauma II: A few years later at my aunt's wedding, the best man was actor Tom Skeritt. I asked him about his experience stuck with Racquel Welch in a sleeping bag in the film "Fuzz". He gave me the impression that he had better chemistry with a two by four, but he also told me that he just finished a role on a fun sci-fi film called "Alien". So I went to see this "fun" film on opening night and nearly had a heart attack from the suspense.
Interesting coincedence. I'll bet that was a quiet ride home.Alien is up there, certainly for suspense, but I always tend to laugh at monster flicks. OTOH, sharing a sleeping bag with Sigourney Weaver sounds like more fun to me.
"From Beyond." I rented it years ago to watch that night and wasn't able to when something else came up. So it watched it the following afternoon and it STILL gave me the creeps. Close runner up: "Night of the Living Dead."
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