February 4, 2006

• While watching a dissection of the Battle of Hastings on the History Channel, we saw a commercial for 50 Horror Classics
  on five DVDs (a steal at a mere $19.95).  The voice-over promised
  the viewer would enjoy hours perched on the edge of their seat as they
  tried to muffle their screams, these classic horror flicks are so
  frightening.

  Edge of my seat?  Try to keep from screaming?

  I doubt that.  I seriously
  doubt that.  The monsters and effects simply look silly by today's
  standards.  When it comes to terrorizing an audience, I don't see
  how Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi can hope to compete with the movies
  filmed within the past ten or twenty years.

  With one salient exception......Alfred Hitchcock.  The only scary movies with legs are probably his.....The Birds; Psycho; Rear Window.  They
  didn't rely upon monsters or special effects or anything of the sort;
  instead they relied upon first-rate camera work and storyline.

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