All Time Scaries

[ellejir]

June wrote:
> 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.
> <snip> 
> So here's my point.  What's your scariest moment?
> 

For some reason I was absolutely terrified by the movie "Carrie"--the 
first one with Sissy Spacek.  I don't think that I slept a wink the 
night after I saw it.  Blood-drenched (and very pissed-off) Carrie 
was beside my bed on one side all night, while her earth-covered hand 
was snaking up to get me from the side toward the wall.  I have never 
chanced watching the movie again so I don't know if it is really 
*that* scary.  
I recently watched the movie "The Ring" and it was also the stuff of 
nightmares.  If the phone had actually rung right after I watched the 
movie I believe that I would have had a heart attack!  I am ashamed 
to say that I was rather relieved when the seven day anniversary 
passed without incident.  
"The Shining" was a very scary movie, but I thought that the part 
when his wife checks his desk and finds that *all* his papers are 
filled with the same phrase typed over and over again "All work and 
no play make Jack a dull boy", and realized that her husband was 
stark raving mad--*that* part was creepier than the "Here's Johnny" 
bit.  The latter actually made the audience laugh (although 
nervously.)

Elle (not going to ever watch "The Ring" again and giving it a big 
thumbs-down seal of disapproval)