Many, many years later, it was this one: Silence Of The Lambs
Posted on 10/28/2011 6:27:39 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
Okay, we are coming into Halloween Weekend leading into Monday. I expect a whole bunch of horror movies on the tube during the next few days. So my question to you is what is the SCARIEST movie you ever saw and why?
I'll lead off by telling you the scariest movie I've seen in the past few years. I found it to be even scarier than "The Exorcist." In this case it was a movie I saw on the tube about a week ago called "The Last Exorcist." It was filmed as if it were a documentary following a Louisiana Preacher by the name of Cotton Marcus who is something of a con artist. He doesn't really believe in possession by the Devil but he will perform exorcisms because he claims the fraud will actually make people feel better. Of course, he also collects money for his phony exorcisms.
The documentary style film starts off low key but ends up with a truly frightening ending that I won't spoil by giving it away. However, the thing that scared me the most is that the 14 year-old girl, Nell Sweetzer, who was supposedly possessed by the Devil draws a picture of the cameraman getting his head chopped off. The cameraman tells the preacher that he doesn't feel comfortable being around a girl who drew such a picture of him but the preacher tries to sooth the camera guy by playing down the idea that a mere girl could harm him. From that point on, you just KNOW that the cameraman had better SPLIT that scene immediately. What really made it scary is the way the girl when demonically possessed kept focusing in her eyes on the cameraman...sometimes with a wicked smile. That really creeped me out. I have to admit that I had a hard time getting to sleep after watching this flick.
Scariest dream I ever had was Obama being elected president... Oh, wait.
Come to think of it, “No Way to Treat a Lady” was pretty scary too.
The Exorcist
(I shouldn't have seen an R-rated movie at that age; shame on me.)
For me, it was either “The Body Snatchers” or “The Day the Earth Stood Still.” Probably just my age at the time, 9 or 10.
(If I survived those, I can survive this world series.)
The House of Dark Shadows
Many, many years later, it was this one: Silence Of The Lambs
As a kid, the original “House on Haunted Hill” scared the crap out of me. So much so that I really haven’t watched any other horror movies since.
(SPOILER)
Race to set the cornfield on fire via molotov cocktail, cutting off the devil from this world.
Bambi. I saw the film makers using entertainment to twist children into unthinking zombies to be used by the left.
Try “The Grudge”, a Japanese horror movie with Sarah Michele Gellar in it.
Don’t look in the mirror!
The second scariest movie I’ve ever seen was anything with Joe Biden in it. Makes Stephen King sound sane.
Try “The Grudge”, a Japanese horror movie with Sarah Michele Gellar in it.
Don’t look in the mirror!
The second scariest movie I’ve ever seen was anything with Joe Biden in it. Makes Stephen King sound sane.
Um...Bambi was produced by Walt Disney. Hardly a leftist.
Salem’s Lot
Gargoyles (1972)
The Howling (1981)
Still the champion: “Night of the Living Dead”
Some contenders:
— “Burnt Offerings” (creepy chauffer guy)
— “Psycho”
— “Dead of Night” (1945) — last scene
— “Poltergeist” (guy tearing his face off in the sink)
— “It Came From Within”
— “The Thing” (1982)
— “Carnival of Souls”
— More recently: “Insideous”
— Honorable mention: “Twilight Zone - The Movie” (’83), just the opening sequence with Dan Ackroyd and Albert Brooks
Still the champion: “Night of the Living Dead”
Some contenders:
— “Burnt Offerings” (creepy chauffer guy)
— “Psycho”
— “Dead of Night” (1945) — last scene
— “Poltergeist” (guy tearing his face off in the sink)
— “It Came From Within”
— “The Thing” (1982)
— “Carnival of Souls”
— More recently: “Insideous”
— Honorable mention: “Twilight Zone - The Movie” (’83), just the opening sequence with Dan Ackroyd and Albert Brooks
I don't know if the movie is based on them, but there really
have been some psychopaths similar to the ones portrayed in
the movie.
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