Scariest movie you’ve ever seen

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So what has you shutting your eyes tight, or screaming for momma in the theater or in front of the tv set?

To be honest, gore fests don’t faze me at all. I could watch something like ‘The Exorcist’ or the more recent ‘The Crazies’ for example, and have a good chuckle.

Here’s one film I think that was pretty eerie. It’s a 1960’s movie I saw on tv called ‘The Haunting’.

Basically, a bunch of investigators stay over at a supposedly haunted house to test the truth of its reputation. In one scene (I’m typing this from memory so I hope I got it right) two women (actresses Julie Harris and Claire Bloom) are cowering in bed in the dark as they hear very loud banging noises on their door from outside made by some unknown force. Anyways, after it quiets down, one of the ladies tells the other that she feels safer with her friend holding her hand. The other woman has a look of puzzlement on her face and answers – “but that’s not my hand you’re holding!” Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!

‘The Haunting’ was later remade with Liam Neeson and Catherine Zeta Jones but it sucked. It was filled with special effects leaving nothing to the imagination. What’s scary is what you don’t see, like in the original version.

On that same note, ‘The Blair Witch Project’ was pretty creepy to me too. No gore or CGI at all, just the power of suggestion.