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Very True!!

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I would have to disagree with your assessment of Alien. There still "less is more" in this film. The real reason that didn't scare you years later is the expectation. You already knew what's gonna happen before the alien infant busted out of John Hurt's chest. The first time I saw that was unexpected. That's what made it scary later on. We didn't see much of the alien when it lurked in dark corners of the starship. The characters would know it's there right in front of them until it's too late. We're not seeing too much. Same goes for Aliens. Same went for Predator. There's also Blair Witch Project. That too is "less is more" bit. This harkens back to the Val Lewton classics like The Seventh Victim, Cat People, and I Married a Zombie. Big screens haven't killed Horror one way or the other. The first Halloween will always be a classic. Same with the original The Haunting. That includes the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre. If you want Less is more films, there's The Ring, Ringu, The Grudge series and Juon series. Lot of Asian horror films out there that are effective in the Less Is More bit.

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Great article there...and you are of course right on the money. Really enjoyed that.

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Okay Tom... Clearly you and I are of the same mind. My favorite horror movies are often not found on anyone's top 100 list because they are the old classics (well, maybe not "classics"...) that I remember watching at home on those rainy days and nights. To this day my fondest horror memories of fright are those nights when I crept to the TV in the middle of the night to watch the horror that I was not supposed to be watching. I talk about Terror Train on the homepage for crissake... I hadn't thought about it, but I too felt that something was missing when I put my DVD into the player and watched TT on the big screen as an adult. Sure, I liked it still... but it didn't scare me as much as dredge up fond memories of terror. Was the fact that I was alone in the living room, in the dark, with the volume low and and my face about 4 inches from the screen part of the experience that prompted nightmares for weeks? I think many of us Horror Freaks spend a lot of our time trying to recapture the feeling of impending doom that we felt in the early years. Amazing article Tom. Thanks. Don

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