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Thursday, October 23, 2008
What scary movie scares you most?
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I have to admit, I’m a big chicken when it comes to scary movies. Nowadays, I usually avoid them altogether. But I reluctantly agreed to watch “The Strangers,” which is now out on DVD on Tuesday. I thought it was pretty scary, but my 20-something nephew and niece had one word for it: “lame.” They didn’t see it on the big screen, but both predicted every “scary” turn from start to finish as we watched it on TV.
Now there are some classics I will watch — “Rosemary’s Baby,” “Amityville of Horror,” “Pyscho.” And others with seriously sharp or deadly instruments — “Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” “The Shining,” “Nightmare on Elm Street,” — that I could never be talked into watching. Nor anything with snakes — “Anaconda” or “Snakes on a Plane” (I know the latter is not a horror movie, but the title alone send chills up my spine.)
With Halloween next week, there are a lot of DVD releases this month — old and new titles — that will scare or entertain you. In addition to “The Strangers” and “Psycho,” here are a few others:
“The Happening,” “Touch of Evil: 50th Anniversary Edition,” “The Omen,” “Young Frankenstein,” “The Omen” (Blu Ray), “Hellboy,” “The Ray Harryhausen Collection: “It Came from Beneath the Sea,” “Earth vs. the Flying Saucers” and “20 Million Miles to Earth”)
So, what’s your all-time favorite scary movie?
