Really horrible! (Horror)

Member Name: jacobite

Product:	Horror
Date:	24/09/00 (96 review reads)
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My top ten horror films are not so much horror in the same way as Scream, they are more horrific and really have bothered me since I saw them.

1. The Exorcist. When I saw it in the pictures many, many years ago and the St John's Ambulance were there in case people fainted I thought that was OTT and couldn't see what all the fuss was about. Some time later, as a dental nurse, someone had a fit after having many teeth out and it really spooked me...they turned their head as though it was going to go all the way around and was spitting blood and making awful noises. Since I have got older and have watched the film again I realise the psychological depth of it and do not like it, it is the only film I will not let my young children see, even though we have it on DVD.

2. And Johnny Got his Gun. The real life story of a man who, in the First World War, lost his sight, his speech, his hearing, his arms and his legs. It is the story of what he was thinking about lying in a hospital bed and how, using morse code with his head against a pillow, he begs for someone to kill him but, no, he is kept alive. When I heard that there were still people alive in a nearby hospital just like that character I really got bothered by what I had seen in the film.

3. Carry on Screaming...I just love the corny old Carry On team.

4. Poltergeist. I find that film disturbing but, at the same time, interesting. I am a great believer in the paranormal so found some elements of the film quite good.

5. Midnight Express. Another real life horror film. Watch it and see if you agree. Being held prisoner in a Turkish prison is some horror.

6. The Omen. This was quite a good and disturbing film until they made more and more. I was at quite an impressionable age when I first saw it.

7. One Flew over The Cuckoo's Nest. Another real life horror. Being locked in a hospital ward with people suffering from severe mental hea
lth problems then ending up with a labotomy...true horror.

8. Silence of the Lambs. Probably the only modern horror film that really has made me feel the horror, great acting by a fellow Welshie...our dog was called Precious!

9. Children of the Damned. That film never bothered me until someone I knew had a baby who had eyes that seemed to bore right through people and made you shudder. Do possessed children exist?

10.All Hammer Horror films...tacky, dated but quite entertaining and scary in their day.

This is just my list, you don't have to like them. I watched Scream 2 the other day and it's okay but I think the films that stay with me the most are those I watched when I was younger. I remember watching the Carpetbaggers when I was a very young girl. In it someone pulls back the bedclothes and, writhing around on the bed, was a big black snake. Do you know, for a long, long time I would never go to bed without first totally pulling back the bedclothes. Where I thought a snake would come from in south Wales I can't imagine...but it certainly disturbed me. Being older, I find that nothing in the way of modern horror films, blood, guts and gore, bothers me any more. Give me a good psychological horror anytime.

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