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Post by dirtypillows on Aug 21, 2018 20:35:04 GMT
Which death do you think is the scariest. For me it's a toss up between the nanny's hanging and the little priest (oh my god, that horrified look in his eyes is soooo intense). But I think I have to go with the nanny. It was just soooo creepy the way she was smiling the whole time.
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Post by movielover on Aug 21, 2018 20:45:34 GMT
The nanny hanging herself.
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Post by Archelaus on Aug 21, 2018 22:41:14 GMT
David Warner getting decapitated
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Aug 21, 2018 22:55:39 GMT
The nanny hanging herself
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2018 23:07:47 GMT
The impaling.
The glass scene was awesomely silly, not scary at all.
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Post by moviemouth on Aug 21, 2018 23:20:37 GMT
The nanny hanging herself is one of the few scary moments in the entire film.
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Post by politicidal on Aug 21, 2018 23:25:38 GMT
Suicide with a smile on your face is always unsettling.
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Post by marth on Aug 21, 2018 23:30:42 GMT
My #1 scariest scene in this movie is Damien and Mom at the Zoo, with the animals reaction.
#2 Nanny hanging.
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Post by Dramatic Look Gopher on Aug 22, 2018 1:11:04 GMT
The impaling of the priest. All that spine-tingling suspense that led up to it, plus the way the thunderstorm suddenly stops after.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Aug 22, 2018 1:15:59 GMT
David Warner's head chop.
Most disturbing for sure.
Maybe in 1976 Jack Palance's daughter hanging herself like that was unusual though.
Not even a one armed push up from her beforehand.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Aug 22, 2018 1:16:36 GMT
His other daughter was in EMPIRE OF THE ANTS.
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Post by moviemouth on Aug 22, 2018 1:19:35 GMT
My #1 scariest scene in this movie is Damien and Mom at the Zoo, with the animals reaction.
#2 Nanny hanging. That is not a death scene though, but I agree about it being the scariest scene in the movie. |
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Post by dirtypillows on Aug 22, 2018 5:22:01 GMT
The impaling of the priest. All that spine-tingling suspense that led up to it, plus the way the thunderstorm suddenly stops after.Yes, that was such a grisly and disturbing touch. It's like the Satanic force had finished with its task and now it could resume its restful and unagitated state. |
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Post by jamesbamesy on Aug 22, 2018 12:18:37 GMT
The nanny's hanging, but the decapitation is a very close second.
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Post by dirtypillows on Aug 22, 2018 17:48:37 GMT
Now we're with 18 votes, and the nanny has garnered 12 - or, 66.6% - of them!  |
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Post by marth on Aug 22, 2018 17:53:38 GMT
Now we're with 18 votes, and the nanny has garnered 12 - or, 66.6 % - of them! LOL |
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Post by WarrenPeace on Aug 22, 2018 18:59:04 GMT
Now we're with 18 votes, and the nanny has garnered 12 - or, 66.6% - of them! Time to hang up this poll? Or leave it flapping in the wind a bit more? Naw, cut it down. Then again never mind. I'm outta here and I got other places to hang around instead. |
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Post by dirtypillows on Aug 22, 2018 19:01:12 GMT
Now we're with 18 votes, and the nanny has garnered 12 - or, 66.6% - of them! Time to hang up this poll? Or leave it flapping in the wind a bit more? Naw, cut it down. Then again never mind. I'm outta here and I got other places to hang around instead. That was cute. |
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Post by Toasted Cheese on Aug 23, 2018 1:58:03 GMT
I find little about this film scary, in spite of it being well made. Overly sensàtionalized, when compared to something like Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby
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Post by dirtypillows on Aug 23, 2018 3:08:51 GMT
I find little about this film scary, in spite of it being well made. Overly sensàtionalized, when compared to something like Roman Polanski's Rosemary's BabyI have a friend who feels the same way as you, doesn't find it scary, does find it cheesy. I usually don't fall so hard for something that sensitive and perceptive people call commercial, well-made, slick and silly, but there is just something about this movie that terrifies me. Maybe it's kind of like the thing we talked about with Chrissie's death in JAWS. Fear of seeing the victim's fear. (Though I admit the deaths in The Omen were more fantastical and in Jaws, Chrissie's death was very primal) But I was so scared for Father Brennan, and the way he says to Gregory Peck: "I want to help you so Christ will forgive me." (and, like the other poster, how the raging storm suddenly quiets down after the little priest is impaled.) And the look Billie Whitelaw has on her face practically the whole time. And the eerie, ominous "defects" that show up on those photographs. And Lee Remick's vague, creepy intuition that something is not right. And how things just start coming true to where Gregory Peck can no longer ignore what is happening. The movie is just creepy. Ominous is the perfect word. And all those upside down crucifixes that show up throughout, and how the Hortons just pick up and leave one day. I just realized that I've never read the book of Revelations and do not know if that business about 666 being the number of the beast is legit or not. I don't know if it's because the movie is just very clever, or if it's because the movie takes itself so seriously (and it really does take itself very seriously), and Jerry Goldsmith's petrifying score (which does kind of underscore the grim horror of the concept of evil/Satan), but I guess the movie just hits all the right notes for me. And it's odd to me because "The Exorcist" had the opposite effect. There were some things I liked about that movie, like some of the acting and the cool Georgetown house, but not the movie itself plus I didn't find "The Exorcist" to be remotely scary. And unlike "The Omen", I couldn't take it seriously for one moment. It was about as scary as an episode of Scooby-Doo. If you were to compare and contrast these two movies, what would you have to say, Toasted Cheese? In what ways do you think The Omen works better than The Exorcist, and vice versa. I am genuinely curious. More interesting yet, how do you feel Rosemary's Baby compares and contrasts to the other two devil movies? I know RB is one of your all-time favorite movies. "Rosemary's Baby" is a masterpiece, and is definitely in my top ten all time favorite movies, a place it will never leave. This movie is the ultimate realization of paranoia and slowly seeing it all coming true ("This is no dream! This is really happening!"), and Polanski is the master. |
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