[kj] OT - The Exorcist

[Leigh Newton]

Some good ones in there. Session 9! Great, great movie. Very creepy. Very weird to see David Caruso putting in some decent acting, yeah. Martin, another great movie. Very weird and melancholy. 

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From: Darren A. Peace <dpeace at bigfoot.com>
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I didn't mean that the Wicker Man was scary (although the final 5 minutes or
so, once you realise what's been going on, were terrifying to me).

Regarding "scary" films (great list, TB! I'll second Seven, Jacob's Ladder,
Henry & Witchfinder General and would raise you):

Alice, Sweet Alice
Polanski's Repulsion & (particularly) The Tenant
Blue Velvet over Eraserhead
My Little Eye
The Descent
Night Of The Demon
The Haunting of Hill House
Romero's Martin over NOTLD
The Hole
Blair Witch 2 (only joking)
Peeping Tom
Lumet's The Offence
Session 9 (David Caruso in good film shock!)
10 Rillington Place

And to broaden the international feel:

Anatomy
The first Japanese Ringu
Audition (devastating final act)
Santa Sangre
Les Diaboliques (original)
Funny Games (original)
Eyes Without A Face
Das Experiment
Kwaidan
Onibaba
Dark Water

And as a coup de grace:

Suspiria (Argento was a bona fide film-making genius in the Seventies)

And to my mind the most terrifying film I've seen,

The Dutch Vanishing (Spoorlos)

Darren
Hungerford, UK

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Sent: 08 September 2008 04:16
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Subject: Re: [kj] OT - The Exorcist

"Alexander Smith" wrote:

Don't get me wrong -- I love "The Wicker Man" (Edward Woodward
original, not that Nic Cage bullshit),  but it's about as scary as an
episode of "Matlock".

++++++++++

I really like the original Wicker Man and like Darren mentioned, checked it 
our because of the Chris Lee/Hammer connection.  But I also agree it's far 
from being a truly scary flick.  I also agree that The Exorcist *is* a 
genuinely creepy film, at least in it's original incarnation and stands the 
test of any really solid horror film in that it stays with you in a 
fundamental way long after the first viewing.  I noticed someone mentioned 
Exocist 3, while not a great movie, it too has some extraordinary scares and

disturbing imagery in it (the old woman crawling like a bug on the ceiling 
almost out of frame, the final near-decapitation).

Other movies off the top of my head that have some creepy and/or scary 
moments that don't neccesarily rely on gore include:

The Hitcher (original with Rutgar Hauer)
Seven
Jacobs Ladder
Freaks
The Machinist
Eraserhead
Open Water

Then there's some that have gore but are profoundly scary almost in spite of

the gore content:

Alien
Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer
Witchfinder General
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Night of the Living Dead (original)

Probably the most disturbing single scene in a movie  for me was the fight 
between the Nazi and the American soldier in "Saving Private Ryan' which 
culiminated in the German slowing pushing his knife into the American's 
heart.

T.B. 

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