October 25, 2005

Scary Stuff, Kids...

Sunday, 30 Gathring 2005

We're not particularly enamored of the horror movie as a film genre. We even had to avert our eyes when watching the movie Poltergeist.

Imagine our surprise when we found out that we ave seen eleven of Boston.com's Top 50 Scary Movies of all time. And, yes, for the record, we couldn't watch any of these in their entirety*, either:

Number 4 - Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Number 8 - Halloween (although we just caught a bit of it while channel surfing, and flipped away when we thought some of the gorier elements were going to show up on the screen...)

Number 17 - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (another one that we sorta saw a bit of - while in university - but then ducked out once things got a little too gory. We vaguely recall somebody sucking blood from somebody else just before we beat a hasty retreat)

Number 20 - Event Horizon. Now we know why Sam Neill was considered to be such a scary dude...

Number 23 - Seven

Number 24 - Videodrome

Number 28 - Altered States

Number 32 - Nightmare On Elm Street (we think we saw part of this one, but we're not sure. It might have been one of the sequels - but we saw enough to know that we don't want to see any more...)

Number 42 - 28 Days Later

Number 45 - Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory This is one of the scariest movies of all time? Seriously?? While we are in firm agreement that the montage that takes place on the freaky ferry boat was pretty scary, there is no frelling way that this should be in the list at all.

Number 50 - Arachnophobia We would like to add here that we have a serious problem with bugs in the first place. And a more serious problem with toxic bugs in the second place. And that we consider spiders to be bugs with an attitude in the third place. Although it was good for us to see Mimi and her hubby (who we couldn't help but recall was the psycho psychiatrist in Total Recall) get theirs towards the end of the movie.

It appears that we are not alone in our belief that this is a fairly crappy set of scary movies - read some of the comments that others have made in reaction to this list. A top 50 scary movies of all time list without any Hitchcock in it? It is interesting to see a number of Stephen King movies in the list, but not Carrie**.

How about you? Are there any scary movies that you think should be on this list? And any that should not be there?

* - the exception being Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory, which we don't think is very scary at all...

** - while watching this movie, someone got us to jump out of our skin when they grabbed us right at the end (when Carrie's hand comes up out of the grave to grab the heroine).

Posted by (: Tom :) at October 25, 2005 04:30 PM