I’ve experienced this moment countless times: It’s close to Halloween and being a “pop culture guy,” I’m asked for horror movie suggestions. Being the nice pop culture guy that I am, I’ll throw a few titles their way only to receive ungrateful, pointing fingers that say “that wasn’t scary.” But that’s the thing about “scary,” it’s entirely subjective. You’re sitting in a theater, watching a scary scene and you’re holding your breath, but meanwhile, the guy to your left is yawning his ass off.
Great horror has a way of sneaking into the darkest and deepest part of our psyches, but it’s dependent on individual traumas and dogmas. Some may not like the dark, others will be fearful of the unknown, and in the case of myself, it’s the unnaturally calm that gets me. In an effort to give my final stamp on suggestions, I’ve put together a long list of 50 moments from several films (in no particular order); some from horror, others from thrillers, all of which I think will satisfy even the toughest horror critic.
Zodiac, “I do the posters myself”
Actors: Dale Midkiff, Denise Crosby, Fred Gwynne
Director: Mary Lambert
You know the deal: Doctor Louis moves his family to a house near an old burial ground. Some bad things happen and his two year old son is run over by a nearby speeding truck several months later. Once Louis gets the idea that he can bring his son back through an ancient ritual, things pop off. What’s perhaps the most scariest moment in Pet Sematary comes in wife Rachel’s sister Zelda. It has nothing to do with an intentional scare because we know that she’s ill and deformed in the most non-PC 80s way, but it comes in the fact that she was played by a man (Andrew Hubatsek).
What’s scary?
It’s the wild and crazed through performance in which Andrew Hubatsek plays Zelda. She’s unpredictable, to the point of spinning her head around when fed before choking herself to death. Than it’s Zelda in one sequence standing hunched before springing to the camera with a sinister smile on her face.
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