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Picky picky picky. The original one that was about the cold war paranoia, not the one simply made during the cold war that was about the malaise, distrust and fear in domestic politics post Watergate...need I go on ;-P.


Sadly the recent one, for a new generation ripe for a political statement, was, predictably, about well, about zombies...err that's it.

Have to agree with Keef, Don't Look Now has it's moments. It builds a sinister tension throughout until it's unexpected (for me at least) climax.


Must also mention Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. It made me feel particularly uneasy all the way through and David Lynch is a master of imagery and tension. It's not horror so much as horrific.


*Note to self to dig out TPFWWM from the collection*

On that line, the first film to really freak me out as a youngster was Un Chien Andalou which is pretty damn grotesque, and that eye slitting moment has basically scarred me for life.

Has anyone else seen that Spanish film about the guy trapped in a phonebox. That's pure brilliant horror as at first you don't know it's a horror, and then it catches you off guard.



Ooh, and Boneyard, I'm happy to stand corrected apparently

"In his autobiography, "I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History", Walter Mirisch writes: "People began to read meanings into pictures that were never intended. The Invasion of the Body Snatchers is an example of that. I remember reading a magazine article arguing that the picture was intended as an allegory about the communist infiltration of America. From personal knowledge, neither Walter Wanger nor Don Siegel, who directed it, nor Dan Mainwaring, who wrote the script nor the original author Jack Finney, nor myself saw it as anything other than a thriller, pure and simple.""

I saw psycho and had nightmares for years.

I was working in some cranky womans house rather too close to her tv set and she had texas chainsaw on which was hideously frightening, I could not wait to get out.

I also walked out on a film which started off normal, and then suddenly became a terrifying horror half an hour later.

I will never knowingly choose to watch a horror movie.

I remember (like Peckhamgatecrasher) the scene in Great Expectations, when the convict grabbed Pip it turned my stomach, and it was classed as a 'U' I dont remember what age I was, but definitely far too young.

I went to watch the first LOTR film with Huguenot in Peckham. I seem to recall it was PG with extra caveats about some gore, violence and scenes upsetting to younger children and was quite specific in its advice not to bring children under 9.


That didn't stop every parent of a six year old in Peckham bringing them to the film, which they all enjoyed while it was cutesy fireworks. Come the rolling heads and slavering orcs later though and it was a different story.

I have to say the cacophony of bawling tears rather made us laugh, despite the din, but I'm sure there may be some psychological trauma tucked away in more than one or two of those children in years to come.

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