Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site h-sc1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!h-sc1!wilson_3 From: wilson_3@h-sc1.UUCP (bradford wilson) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: Scariest Movies Nominations Message-ID: <635@h-sc1.UUCP> Date: Fri, 25-Oct-85 01:08:35 EDT Article-I.D.: h-sc1.635 Posted: Fri Oct 25 01:08:35 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 26-Oct-85 05:33:11 EDT References: <625@h-sc1.UUCP> <1584@bbncca.ARPA> Organization: Harvard Univ. Science Center Lines: 25 > Sorry - but I Love horror films and am always on the lookout for a good > one (I hate films that resort to the "jump out" stuff - like cats jumping > on garbage cans.) I rented "The Evil Dead" with VERY high expectations > and laughed throughout - it was too ludicrous. > > Laura Clifford I think that your laughter was actually a reaction to the intense anxiety you unconsciously felt while watching THE EVIL DEAD. Although I think that the film had (intentionally?) funny moments, it was also somewhat scary. My nominations for scariest movies are: HALLOWEEN NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET THE THING (Carpenter's) DIE, MONSTER, DIE (starring B. Karloff) WAIT UNTIL DARK CARRIE BURNT OFFERINGS (the car escape, the house falling apart) THE EVIL DEAD ('nuf said) The Wombat .:. "You bastards! Why are you torturing me like this?" - E. Dead