Rented “The Exorcist” on DVD last night, hoping a little scare would take my mind off things. I actually had never seen it all the way through, so I thought it would be a good chance for me to get into the pop culture groove again. It wasn’t bad, exactly, but it wasn’t really scary, either. I am continually looking for a movie that will genuinely scare me, and I have yet to find it – even in the darkened theater. (Well, Troll 2 scared me, as Mike B. knows, but because of its scary badness.) If anyone can recommend a movie that really scared them, I’d like to hear about it.
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The 6th Sense has some very creepy moments, but overal I wouldn’t call the movie scary.
The one movie I can’t handle is Poltergeist. It scared the hell out of me when I was a kid, and it still does.
I need to check out Poltergeist. Missed that one. Other people say “Amityville Horror,” but I saw that when it first came out and I don’t remember being really scared.
I think that those movies were scary back in their day because they were at the top as far as special effects were concerned. I think our ability to see how things are done these days impacts how scary movies really are to us now.
Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, now that’s a scary movie. 😉
I second the Pee Wee’s Big Adventure – although I love it for it’s strangeness. “Tell’em Large Marge sent’chya…eyhhehehe!”
I didn’t even want to dangle my feet in a swimming pool after watching Jaws.
Poltergeist used to scare the crap out of me every time, but when I saw it recently I was shocked at how poor the screenplay (dialogue, characterization, etc.) was. That’s always the way, isn’t it?
How about Rosemary’s Baby?