All Time Scaries

[Shirley]

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June: 
> According to Speilberg, he decided he could do better than this and 
> went back and put the bit in where the severed head floats out of 
> the sunken boat.  He said, not only the popcorn flew but most of 
the 
> audience flew into the air at that.  
> 
> I can avow to the truth of that.  I saw Jaws the year of its 
release 
> in 1976.  When that head appeared, the entire cinema - as one 
> person, shrieked and did indeed jump out of their seats.  

Shirley:
Ditto on that!!  I was so tensed right before that scene, I was 
leaning forward in my seat.  So when the head appeared, I grabbed 
(what I thought was) the back of the seat in front of me.  Turned out 
it was the *shoulders* of the guy in front of me.  Poor thing - no 
telling what he tells people about that moment nowadays.....

June, continued:
And I 
> still think the reverse tracking shot of Roy Scheider on the beach 
> when the little kid's lilo goes up in a fountain of blood may be 
one 
> of the most stomach dropping moments ever.  Often imitated - never 
> duplicated.
> 
> June

Shirley:
Okay, stupid question (guess I don't remember the entire movie, after 
all), but what's "lilo"?

My childhood scary was from a movie I don't even remember, except it 
was about vampires, I was at a slumber party, and we were all 
sleeping in tents in the backyard.  When the movie was over, everyone 
went peacefully to sleep, and I don't think I slept properly for 
*weeks* afterward.  I kept pulling the covers *all the way* up to my 
chin, even though it was summer and very hot - as if that would 
really protect me from being bitten....

Shirley, who has, at the edge of her memory, an all-time scary, but 
can't remember.... and maybe that's a good thing  ;-)