All Time Scaries

junediamanti june.diamanti at blueyonder.co.uk
Mon Oct 27 08:32:46 UTC 2003


Following a mention in a previous post, and taking the childhood fear 
theme in a different direction, especially since Halloween is getting 
closer.

On Saturday night and last Night a TV channel in the UK broadcast a 
programme called the 100 scariest moments.

The full results can be seen here.

http://www.channel4.com/film/newsfeatures/microsites/S/scary/results_1
00-91_1.html

I watched it (in between hiding behind my hands, a newspaper, running 
into the kitchen to make coffee) and while I didn't entirely agree 
with the order, I generally agreed they'd made a good job of rounding 
up some of the scariest moments in film and tv ever.  

The winner was  "Here's Johnny!" from the Shining.

My two eeeeeek moments were:

1.  Saturday - Lawrence Olivier about to get seriously mediaeval with 
a dentists drill in Dustin Hoffman in Marathon Man

2.  A bit from "The Thing" involving surgery and sudden teeth.  No I 
won't go into any further detail, but eeeeeeeeeeew!  Had me running 
for the bathroom.

So here's my point.  What's your scariest moment?

Interesting informational point that I never knew - the scary guy in 
Halloween was wearing a Captain Kirk mask cut about a bit because 
they couldn't afford to make anything!  Probably most people knew 
that but I didn't.

June







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