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Halloween Weekend: What is the SCARIEST Movie You Ever Saw?
Self | October 28, 2011 | PJ-Comix

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.


TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: horrormovies
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To: PJ-Comix

“The Undefeated”

Just kidding. Seeing if anyone is paying attention.


61 posted on 10/28/2011 7:49:24 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (I just don't like anything about the President. And I don't think he's a nice guy.)
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To: Disambiguator
Alien was the last horror movie I ever saw, almost thirty years ago. I am done with them.
62 posted on 10/28/2011 7:50:20 PM PDT by heartwood
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To: sheikdetailfeather

“Black Christmas” (1974)

I second that. Friggen scary.

Excorcist III has some definite jump-out-of-your-skin moments. Brad Doriff was amazingly out of his mind creepy in that.


63 posted on 10/28/2011 7:51:12 PM PDT by cld51860 (Oderint dum metuant)
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To: freedomfiter2

“The unrealistic and negative portrayal of hunters was clearly a leftist position.”

Can’t speak to Walt’s politics, but, “Bambi” closely followed a pretty good young adult book by the same name, written by Felix Salten.

The whole story is written from the deer’s point of view, so, of course the hunters are a negative.

Just FYI, Walt didn’t write the story. He merely made it into a movie.

The book was surprisingly good.


64 posted on 10/28/2011 7:54:54 PM PDT by Persevero (Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
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To: PJ-Comix

The Exorcist and I only saw the TV broadcast never the R rated original version. And did watch in its entirety but I saw start and finish. Seems to have been on CBS in 1980. Never wanna see it again.


65 posted on 10/28/2011 7:56:00 PM PDT by SMGFan
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To: PJ-Comix

While I don’t consider it that scary anymore, the first time I saw ‘Night of the Living Dead’ I was 9 or 10 and I couldn’t sleep, and neither could my dad, and we watched it late one night on local nyc tv.

The movie was absolutely terrifying to me, and as a young kid I enjoyed a steady diet of Universal Horror, Hammer Horror (which I would appreciate much more as I matured), and Toho monster movies throughout my childhood. I never was particularly delicate, but NOTLD got to me.


66 posted on 10/28/2011 8:00:15 PM PDT by Ted Grant
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To: PJ-Comix

Phantasm....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD7YBKd1dLw&feature=related


67 posted on 10/28/2011 8:01:14 PM PDT by astratt7 (obama,muslim,politics)
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To: PJ-Comix

The 1963 movie, “The Haunting” based on the Shirly Jackson novel, “The Haunting of Hill House”. Close second, “The Thing From Another World” in 1951.


68 posted on 10/28/2011 8:03:38 PM PDT by Panzerlied ("We shall never surrender!")
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To: SMGFan
The Exorcist and I only saw the TV broadcast never the R rated original version. And did watch in its entirety but I saw start and finish. Seems to have been on CBS in 1980. Never wanna see it again.

Speaking of broadcast television, I was never more terrified than I was as a 10-year old in 1979 watching Salem's Lot as a made-for-TV miniseries. I was terrified for months afterwards, especially if I went to bed and forgot to close my window shades.

Like many horror films, it dated poorly when I watched it again several years later as an adult.

69 posted on 10/28/2011 8:05:06 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: PJ-Comix

A documentary of the Manson family.


70 posted on 10/28/2011 8:07:06 PM PDT by armymarinemom (My sons freed Iraqi and Afghan Honor Roll students.)
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To: WackySam

As a kid, “House On Haunted Hill” scared the daylights out of me also. Another one that came out later that gave me nightmares for days was “Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte”.


71 posted on 10/28/2011 8:08:43 PM PDT by mtg
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To: Future Snake Eater; PJ-Comix
Event Horizon

I second that recommendation.

Superb sci-fi/horror flick, starring Sam Neill ("Reilly, Ace of Spies").

"Liberate tutame!"

72 posted on 10/28/2011 8:17:29 PM PDT by holymoly (WTF? Is this thing double posting again!?)
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To: SMGFan

LOL! I remember watching that too as a little boy in 1980. It really did scare me too.


73 posted on 10/28/2011 8:19:03 PM PDT by Sprite518
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To: rbg81

“Carnival of Souls”


74 posted on 10/28/2011 8:19:36 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Democrats are violent. Prisons are overflowing with democrats convicted of violent crimes.)
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To: PJ-Comix
Cloverfield. Not sure why but that movie gave me a whole series of chills.
75 posted on 10/28/2011 8:21:37 PM PDT by katana (Just my opinions)
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To: katana

Cloverfield?

I was rooting for the monster. Probably the least sympathetic protagonists in a monster-disaster movie in years.


76 posted on 10/28/2011 8:22:50 PM PDT by Ted Grant
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To: PJ-Comix

“Dark Night of the Scarecrow” really creeped me out as a kid.


77 posted on 10/28/2011 8:23:38 PM PDT by cutofyourjib
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To: PJ-Comix

The Exorcist and because of it I don’t watch scary movies anymore!


78 posted on 10/28/2011 8:24:02 PM PDT by My hearts in London - Everett (Still searching for the new tagline!)
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79 posted on 10/28/2011 8:24:11 PM PDT by RedMDer (Forward With Confidence!)
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To: Ted Grant

Agree. Like I said, I’m not sure why that film creeped me out. Could not have cared less about the protagonists. In fact, all of them would fit right in with the OWS crowd. Hmmmmm, intersplicing OWS and Cloverfield footage ... could be entertaining to portray the whole bunch in that park being devoured by a sky scraper sized monster.


80 posted on 10/28/2011 8:30:30 PM PDT by katana (Just my opinions)
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