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Paul Daugherty
Paul Daugherty has been an Enquirer sports columnist since 1994 and has been chronicling Cincinnati sports since 1988. He has covered almost every major sporting event in America, as well as five Summer Olympics. Along the way, he has been named one of the country's top-5 sports columnists four times, and Ohio columnist of the year on seven different occasions. Last year, he was voted 2nd-best sports columnist in the country, by the Associated Press Sports Editors.

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Tuesday, October 31, 2006

scary movies maybe you missed

anything w/Jessica Simpson, trying to act... any Bond movie w/o Sean Connery... any movie featuring an ex-jock... oh, man, Brian Bosworth was absolutely frightening... any sports movie that doesnt have Kevin Costner in it... and, oh by the way, a few hidden gems that were, you know, intentionally scary:

(1) Wait Until Dark: Audrey Hepburn is blind and living in a basement flat in Manhattan... she has something bad guys want. Alan Arkin is very, very bad.

(2) Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte: Classic, over-the-top Bette Davis schtick. Follow the bouncing head...

(3) Halloween: Saw the original on AMC the other night. Great music, great fright, great chills w/o a ton of blood.

(4) The Mothman Prophecy

(5) Seven

Of course, the classic isn't obscure. The Exorcist was flat-out the scariest movie ever made. I was 17 and a high school senior living in DC when it opened. We went to the midnight show. After it ended, we went to what became known as the "Exorcist steps'' where the priest heaves himself out Regan McNeil's window. We just stood there, too scared to move. Outstanding.


5 Comments:

at 8:16 AM Anonymous Anonymous said...

"The Nanny" with Bette Davis... OMG this will absolutely petrify any die-hard scary movie fan. My teenage son (veteran of many so-called "slasher" movies) was totally creeped out. "How can it be a scary movie , it's in black & white and it's old". "Just watch" I replied. I rest my case. Enjoy!!

 
at 10:32 AM Anonymous Anonymous said...

Word is Big Brother Gannett judges successful blogs as those getting 5 comments per post, so if you like what Doc's doing, drop in a comment now and then.

I guess this is more thriller than scary, but the dentist scene in "The Marathon Man" no doubt prompted many cleanings to be cancelled.

The original "Alien" when the critter busts out of dude's chest. I even knew it was coming and still freaked.

 
at 10:50 AM Anonymous Anonymous said...

Kevin Costner's "acting" is always pretty frightening.

 
at 1:14 PM Anonymous Anonymous said...

can't believe nightmare on elm st. (the first one) isn't on your list, Doc...along with the original friday the 13th...you livin' in a cave or sumthin???

seven's a great choice...freaked my butt out...kevin spacey, weird, dark camera work at times, gwynneth paltrow as the slightly off wife of b. pitt...the way each dude died (seven deadly sins..)...and that ending...whoah...it's stuck with me too long!

 
at 6:38 PM Anonymous Anonymous said...

Two extremely suspensful and scary movies with no blood or gore are The Changeling with George C. Scott (I've never had a red ball scare the crap out of me before)and Don't Look Now with Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie, an outstanding psychological thriller.

 
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