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I got to thinking about all the horror flicks i've seen my life and the Exorcist had to be the creepiest. I'm a tall & strong dude and it creeps me out...lol...
I saw it when it was released, I was 13 at one point I had to get up and leave. Years later when I was in the Navy I bought some beer and had some buddies come over on an off day to watch it on cable. It still had me freaked out and did for years.
I just remember how gross it was when she spewed the green vomit and how her head turned around! When did that movie come out? I know I was rather young.
Me, no. The Exorcist was a decent film, but I never really got the hype. It didn't scare me in the least. The only flick to genuinly creep me out was 'Black Christmas' (the original, not the god-awful remake!)
The one film that truly scared me and still scares me to this day is the British docudrama 'Threads', about nuclear war and the after effects on a community. Goes into detail about the social, cultural, and environmental devastation up until thirteen years after the attack. Mushroom clouds, children suffocating, soldiers killing people for food, a women urinating herself in the street, milk bottles melting, looters, survivors eating raw sheep meat, nuclear winter, rape, the destruction of language into a primitive caveman-like murmur. The scene in the hospital is the single most terrifying moment in film (IMO). It truly captures utter chaos. No electricity, no medicine, no anesthesia, no means to practice modern medicine as we know it and take for granted. The amputation scene is real freaky. If you want to see SCARY, this film beats Reagen puking up split-pea soup hands-down.
'Threads' is available for download on youtube. It's not available in any videostores. Hell, Netflix doesn't even carry it.
Type in 'Threads 1984'-there are 13 parts (but part 2 is missing). It's from CossieKid
The only other place that I know where it's available is Googlevideo, but it's horribly edited and I don't recommend it.
I think 'Threads' should be required viewing seeing as how there are still thousands of nuclear warhead missiles all over the world. This movie is real-far more real than any one becoming possessed by the devil!
If you decide to watch it, I'd be curious to know your thoughts on it!
The book creeped me out.
The movie, not so much.
Also, IMHO the movie has not stood the test of time all that well.
I remember reading the book as a young teenager prior to seeing the movie. My brother, who had seen the movie (and ran home afterward), sneaked into my bedroom, while I was reading it, and started shaking my bed. I nearly sh*t myself!
I think being raised RC had a major influence on how I viewed the movie. I do feel it has stood the test of time and it creeps me out to this day.
As an aside, I love the SNL take on it from the mid 70s with Richard Pryor. "Your mother sews socks that smell" is probably my favorite SNL line of all time!
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Nah...I've got a suggestion
