Okay, you may have read that “The Exorcist” has been voted the scariest movie of all time in a Halloween poll published today.
That’s probably a good choice. Certainly it’s the scariest film ever shot in Washington DC’s posh Georgetown neighborhood.
Following that 1973 movie are 1980’s The Shining, and John Carpenter’s 1978 Halloween. Let’s see, then A Nightmare on Elm Street, from 1984, and then… Hey, wait a minute! It’s 2007 - doesn’t anybody make horror movies anymore? Turns out, of the top 10 list, only one film, The Hostel, was even made in this century. All the rest are from the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s.
So, despite all the advances in special effects, computer generated images, trick photography, animation and all the rest of it, the top honor goes to to a 34-year-old movie using pea soup as barf. Kind of makes you think, doesn’t it?
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Psycho still scares the bejabbers out of me.
Then again, so does Nixon’s inauguration speech.
- Posted by Charlene