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>>>More good additions to the list. Well, sort of. He was a bit overwhelmed by Katharine Hepburn in "The African Queen" (and who wouldn't want to be overwhelmed by Katharine Hepburn?). And "Key Largo" I didn't particularly care for despite the stellar cast.
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>>>When I first arrived in Madison, as a transfer, one of the first groups I joined was the film society. It was new student week and they were trying to recruit new members, so they brought out the big guns. One night it was "Psycho" -- which I had miraculously not seen to that point -- then "Casablanca", then "Key Largo".
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>>The shower scene in Psycho was a frightening moment. Amazing how Hitchcock could imply terror while not showing a morbid event. So unlike the special effects of today. Now the "splash" is more important than the "content".
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>Scariest thing I ever saw was when I was little. The Wizard of OZ at the cinema, gave me nightmares. I agree about whats scary though. Things that trigger you imagination (and leave you scared when you leave the cinema). I suggested once that we should watch scary films in a scary place (not on the sofa with a cup of tea) maybe hire an abandoned warehouse or old building. No proper lighting etc.


The head shooting out through the hole in the boat, in Jaws

Pennywise, in IT, when he "saw", from inside the moving photo, the kids watching the image of himself, disappeared for a wee while, then suddenly popped up right in front of the "camera", looked into their/my eyes and said summat like "I'M GOING TO KILL YOU ALL!".

These incidents particularly put the muckies up me. My back neck hair stands up just thinking of the latter :-)