{"id":679,"date":"2004-04-30T16:40:57","date_gmt":"2004-04-30T20:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=679"},"modified":"2024-10-27T17:06:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T21:06:41","slug":"touch-of-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=679","title":{"rendered":"Three Scary Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dan lists the three scariest movies he has ever seen.<\/a> <\/p>\n

Sinister little girls are now on the list of Wrong Things Best Avoided right alongside clowns and mimes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And please read Dan’s terrifying description <\/a>of watching the COMMERCIAL for The Changeling<\/i>, as a 10 year old. He has never even seen the damn film, people, but the COMMERCIAL left such an imprint of terror that he has included it on his list of “scariest movies ever”. Now that’s one frightening-ass commercial!<\/p>\n

I remember that I was absolutely haunted by a commercial for “Magic” when I was a kid – the marionette’s eyes gleaming through the dark. I still, to this day, have never seen that film.<\/p>\n

Okay, so my 3 scariest movies ever? <\/p>\n

1. Rosemary’s Baby<\/b><\/i>. Believe it or not, I have put myself through the torturous experience of that film a COUPLE of times. Because it’s so damn good, and because it’s like needing to touch a hot stove or something. You WANT to be scared. This is # 1 on my list because the film is unpleasantly<\/i> frightening. It is agony<\/i>. There are so many levels to the scariness. Even the camera angles are designed to keep you on your edge.<\/p>\n

2. The Exorcist<\/b><\/i> Again with the scary devil theme. But I’ve seen The Omen<\/i> as well – and that’s just kind of cheesy and bad. The Exorcist<\/i> really seems to BELIEVE in the devil. The devil exists. Again, there is nothing pleasant about this film. It is like being locked in a tiny cobwebby basement, with no light, knowing that there’s some beast in the darkness. You cannot get away, you are trapped, you cease being a human being, and just become a racing heart-beat. This movie is an assault. One of the scariest movies ever made. (I’m sure it can’t hold a candle to The Changeling<\/i>, Dan.)<\/p>\n

3. The Ring<\/b><\/i> I know, I know, you could drive Mack trucks through the plot holes. Who WAS that woman on the phone?? It makes no sense. But this is the first “horror movie” I have seen in a long time which seemed to dedicate itself to the “art” of the horror movie – like Polanski did in “Rosemary’s Baby”. Not relying on special effects alone to get your screams – but to create terrifying camera angles, to use music sparingly, to go completely for atmosphere – which wraps your audience in a horrified blanket. I made the mistake of renting it by myself, and watching it alone. I had heard people say, “That is one damn scary movie” – but it made me curious to see it, rather than terrified. HUGE mistake. I had to turn the damn thing off, and take breaks, where I would breathe deeply, turn on all the lights, reassure myself: “It’s just a movie … it’s just a movie …” Even now, I am not sure what exactly I found so scary. I’ve already blocked the whole thing out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dan lists the three scariest movies he has ever seen. Sinister little girls are now on the list of Wrong Things Best Avoided right alongside clowns and mimes. And please read Dan’s terrifying description of watching the COMMERCIAL for The … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16612,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions\/16612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}