long post.
Krokus said:
Finally, a scary movie that is worth seeing. I have not seen a good one since The Exorcist.
Krokus, I could kiss you
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Geez, I don't even know where to begin...
I first saw The Exorcist at the tender age of 7, being re-broadcast on City TV in Toronto. It was a bunch of us kids sequestered down in the basement so that we wouldn't get in the way of our parent's party. We missed the beginning, but saw all the pertinent scary scenes, so that by the time Father Karras went in to confront Pazuzu (inhabiting poor little Regan), we were truly scared out of our wits (Cheshire, you shrugged this movie off? - that actually gives me good confidence in your ability to gauge what is scary, and what is not...Cheers
😀 ). Anyhoo, as we were all singing with the commercials (to take the edge off), Nazi mom came down the stairs and off went the tube, but I have never forgotten that feeling of terror (*sniff* good times
😛 ), that that movie instilled in me, and I do believe it was the catalyst for my absolute adoration of the silver screen, esp. of the horror genre. Btw, I've read the book 4 times...surprise!!
Now, cut to present day and the lines under my eyes actually belie the frustration that I have towards the genre that I once held dear.
From the slasher films like "Friday 13th" to the somewhat promising "The Blair Bitch Project", I have been repeatedly teased to the brink of terror, w/out actually going over (yeah, I do read the Orgasm Denial board, from time to time). Soooo many pictures w/ so many promising premises have always petered out past the point of presentation (no sense, I know, but say it fast 5x). What I mean to say, is that the best suspense/horror/thiller movies were all made in the 70's, and not a single film since then has been able to pass muster, mustard, or even a viable gas for that matter.
Some peeps actually got scared by "Silence of the Lambs". Bah!
It still amazes me that many filmmakers today are more concerned about their marketing clout from a movie, rather than the movie itself. So many movies just dropped the ball when a twitch or a tweak in this or that direction would have made us all gasp in fright.
Anyhoo, now that I've ventilated that, and the lines around my eyes are slowly disappearing, I sincerely hope that "The Ring" will knock my socks off, and perhaps I won't be so embittered about the lapse in time b/w the one released in 1973, and the one released this week.
Some creepy movies from the 70's:
1) Exorcist
2) Changeling (may have been early 80's)
3) Marathon Man (was very creepy, actually)
4) Rosemary's Baby (too drawn out, thou)
5) don't even mention The Omen; I thought it was silly.
6) Suspiria
7) Halloween
8) Alien
9) Texas C.S.M.
10) The Possession of Joel Delaney
11) Jaws
12) That one with Donald Sutherland and what's her name?
Anyhoo (for the 3rd time now), Cheers.
b4 you watch ExII, b/c those are the only chills that you're gonna get. 
A star is born.............
