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« Reply #45 on: March 31, 2006, 07:16:13 AM »

daveblackeye15 Wrote:
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> I agree with you on the kennel scene from the
> thing, and also the whole Physco thing, but I
> disagree with you on the Exorcist.
>
> Like people have said, everyone's list is similar
> and or different.


Believe it or not, I saw the Exorcist when I was little, around five, and it didn't scare me one bit.  Years later, when I was 19 or 20, I thought that maybe I just didn't understand it enough at that age to be frightened of it.  So, I watched it again and, nope, not scary.  For one thing, I think it goes too far.  Come on, now ... she pukes chunks of crap that wiggle like frogs' legs!  That's not scary, that's funny!  The makeup looked like lime jellow slimed on her face!  The crucifix masturbation/self abuse thing was pure exploitation on the level of a naughty nun flick.  And the crabwalk ... my friend Daniel could crabwalk *just* like that.  He used to do it and say, "Look at me, I'm Linda Blair!"

I dunno, it just never worked on me.  One of the main reasons may be that I don't have, don't want, and plain don't like children.  (Whether they realize it or not, I think a lot of the horror people get from this movie is that the *director* - rather than the devil - did all that to a little kid.)  Secondly, the depiction of Satan (or Pazuzu, or whatever) the movie puts forth is a real wuss.  The extent of his powers seems to be making kids turn green and throw up -- hell, they do that on their own!  (Yeah, yeah, he can toss stuff around the room, too.)

Poltergeist, on the other hand, played right into my fears as a small child.  Scary trees outside the window ... scary things under the bed ... a monster in the closet ... not being safe in your own house ...

I haven't seen it in twenty or more years and I doubt it would scare me at all today.  Hey!  I ought to watch them both on a double bill!
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