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Popcorn & Prejudice: A Movie Blog

Seattle Times writer Moira Macdonald muses on moviegoing

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October 21, 2009 at 9:28 AM

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Scary Movie Week continues: What's new?

Posted by Moira Macdonald

Great conversation yesterday, even if you all reminded me of a few scary movies I'd rather forget. (I thought I'd succeeded in erasing "Audition" from my mind -- not because it's bad, but because it's too good at what it does -- but it's baaaack. Thanks a bunch.) A few favorites of mine, from among those named: "The Innocents" (the wonderful 1960s version of "The Turn of the Screw," with Deborah Kerr); "The Birds" (which gets overshadowed by "Psycho," but has some scenes as scary as anything I've ever seen, particularly when the birds get really quiet); and the Nicole Kidman thriller "The Others" (very influenced by "The Innocents," and very scary). A few that weren't mentioned: "Rosemary's Baby," anyone? "The Omega Man" (suggested by my editor)?

So, let's take a poll. Here are the most mentioned classic scary movies from yesterday; vote for your favorite:


And let's consider this: Nearly every movie named yesterday was at least five years old. What do you think are the best recent scary movies -- let's say, from the past three years? I'm having trouble coming with many; so many are scary-silly, like "Orphan" or "The Uninvited." My vote goes to the Spanish film "Orphanage," which scared the daylights out of me last year, and I also remember with shivers a someone's-in-the-house French film called "Them," which was in theaters for about three seconds not long ago and had me losing sleep for a while. But you tell me: What's scared you recently? I don't think anyone mentioned "Paranormal Activity" yesterday; how's that movie holding up? (I haven't seen it yet.) What else?

Belen Rueda, getting scared (so will you) in "Orphanage." (Photo courtesy Picturehouse.)

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The Orphanage was wonderful; more shades (pun intended) of The Innocents? Another fantastic foreign thriller was Let the Right One In, a Swedish...  Posted on October 21, 2009 at 11:02 AM by arbor-guy. Jump to comment
Let the Right One In- A scary 12yr old "girl" vampire licking up spilled blood off the ground was chilling Wizard of Oz- Scary...  Posted on October 21, 2009 at 6:10 PM by reverb. Jump to comment
personally, Believers and Exorcist are the two scariest movies of all time. I've seen posessed persons in real life so these movies are too...  Posted on October 21, 2009 at 9:27 PM by joe2. Jump to comment
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