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When Shawn and I challenged our readers to submit their top 5 all-time scariest movies, we never expected such a great response! Our friend Captain Black really took-on the challenge and sent in this great review below. Thanks Cap'n!
You guys keep 'em coming and we'll be sure to post them on our site! Now, on to Captain Black's TOP 5 SCARIEST MOVIES OF ALL TIME:
I’m not one who considers myself a “Big Fan” of horror movies. Perhaps this is because some of the “Big Horror Fans” I know tend to take it a little over-the-top. They have the Vincent Prince décor and DVD collections that looks like a Jeffery Dalmar training series. I mean it’s like Halloween to these freaks all year long. When you hear yourself saying “So, what’s with the black lipstick… dude?” to your friend a lot then you know what type movie he’d most likely be frequenting.
Anyway, I do like a good scare every now and then. I mean there’s nothing like the feel of panic as you’re hanging off the edge of your seat about to have a coronary while trying to be cool and not whip out and cover-up your eyes. Are all the mental scars worth it? I sincerely doubt it but that is a topic for later review. Since I can only choose five horror flicks I going choose some that have really had some type of lasting effect on me, be it as profound as it a new psychosis or minor as a few missed hours of sleep. And here they are in no particular order…
1.) The Abominable Dr. Phibes – I saw this one when I was a child. I guess the ratings system weren’t in place then or my stepfather just assumed that every kid needed to see some creepy guy running around in a mask fiendishly exacting revenge on the doctors to whom he entrusted his wife life. When the operations fails the gruesome ways in with he exacts his revenge using bees, bats, crushing mask, draining blood, and infinitely more twisted and horrible of be tortured to death are still are unrivaled in the hack-n-slash films today.
2.) Amityville Horror – What can I say. A possessed house where the walls bleed, flies swarm, and disembodied voices tell you to “Get out”. OK! That’s enough for me! I’d have moved in the first box, heard that crap, dropped the box and hauled ass. The moving truck? Screw that! it’s a rental. They’ll come get it. How do you spell foreclosure? G-H-O-S-T. All that combined with the fact that this movie is based on a true story makes this one film that has cost me more than a few peaceful nights sleep… at home… all alone.
3.) Frailty – I missed this movie at the box office and don’t remember ever seeing a trailer. By chance I picked it up at a rental store and a good pick it was. There are some seriously evil wrong doers throughout the film. The extent of their evil is hidden from everyone, including themselves. Everyone that is except Bill Paxton, he’s son, and his axe. The conviction and blind faith Bill’s character has is awe inspiring. And the conviction and blind faith his children must have in him is perhaps even more inspiring. The definition of frailty is physical or moral weakness. To me the scariest part of this movie is asking yourself in this situation… would I be frail?
4.) The Howling – Unleash your inner beast. A gruesome, brain-eating, smorgasbord and a werewolf movie done right! This movie is the reason I feel the hairs crawl down my back when I hear something rousing around in the dark while out in the woods alone at night.
5.) Invasion of the Body Snatchers – (All I can say is welcome to my world) Well let’s see. You begin to notices all your friends, relatives, and in fact everyone around you is suddenly acting strange. They seem distant, detached, and all alike. Blank and bland huddled masses moving through their day to day routines oblivious and unmoved by the world around them. Then you wake one night to find the plant your “friend” had given you was trying to copy you then suck out your essence and replace you. You discover all your friends are just superficial freaks wanting nothing more out of you than to use your body for the own purpose. And if you’re not down for being just like them then you’re wrong and their going to gang up on you and force you to change into a POD person. It’s like an intervention gone nuts! And is that scary of what?
