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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-04 01:25 PM
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Poll: 'Psycho' is best movie death ever
May 20, 2004 | LONDON (AP) -- -- In the gore stakes, Janet Leigh's shower scene in "Psycho" is the "best movie death" of all time, according to a critics' poll published Thursday.

The 44-year-old Hitchcock thriller beat other iconic movies such as "The Godfather" (22nd) and Quentin Tarantino's "Reservoir Dogs" (23rd) in the poll by Total Film magazine.

http://www.salon.com/ent/wire/2004/05/20/poll_psycho_best_movie_death/index.html

agree or disagree?
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Servo300 Donating Member (653 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-04 01:27 PM
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1. agree
Psycho (the original) was one of the creepiest movies of all time.

Hitchcock was a master.
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Raenelle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-04 01:28 PM
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2. I'd go with the opening death in Jaws.
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FarmerOak Donating Member (528 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-04 01:30 PM
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3. What are the criteria?
I'm just asking.
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-04 01:31 PM
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4. psycho
then jaws.you don`t have to have a blood bath to scare the shit out of ya....
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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-04 01:32 PM
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5. my thoughts exactly
Edited on Thu May-20-04 01:33 PM by CatWoman
and I must be the only person on planet Earth who was scared by The Blair Witch Project ;-)
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Gildor Inglorion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-04 01:39 PM
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7. It scared me to death!
Everyone makes fun of me for it, but I really thought it was scary.
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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-04 01:40 PM
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8. ahhhhhhhhh, a kindred spirit
:D

thanks!!!!!!!
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Archae Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-04 01:49 PM
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9. Blair Witch scared the crap out of me too.
:scared:

(BTW, I saw it on video, not in the theaters.)

After I finish watching it, I'm just sitting there, and my cat Salem jumps into my lap without me seeing her until she's on my lap.

AAAAGHHHHH!!!

I levitated 5 feet straight up. :-)
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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-04 01:56 PM
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10. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
When I saw it we had just had an ice storm.

And all night all I could hear was the limbs breaking off trees from the weight of the ice -- sounded just like the movements in the woods.

:scared:
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Archae Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-04 02:03 PM
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11. And if your SO had decided to "have a little fun..."
As in sneaking up behind you, those would have been grounds for justifiable homicide, right? :D
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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-04 02:18 PM
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14. damn right!!!
tho the cats really, really took advantage of me during that time :D
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-04 01:34 PM
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6. Suspiria....
I've never seen it. Only read about it and seen stills. Looks pretty spectacular to me.
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-04 02:17 PM
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13. SECOND FOR SUSPIRIA!!!!
Argento is a genius, simply put.

The beginning death scene is so operatic, so amazing....it makes an otherwise mediocre giallo a classic.
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flowomo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-04 02:04 PM
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12. What??? You're forgetting Jennifer Cavalieri in "Love Story"?????
just kidding
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HornBuckler Donating Member (978 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-04 02:29 PM
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15. Oh There Are So Many Good Ones!
I Think The All Time Winner (After Some Careful Consideration) Is Brother Frank (From Hellraiser) Getting Obliterated By Pinhead's Chains Saying The Timeless Phrase "Jesus Wept"

FRIGGIN' BEAUTIFUL!
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damnraddem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-04 03:19 PM
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16. No way. Good flick, but hardly the best ever. I don't even own it ...
nor do I want to.

Films I like better are many, including (in no particular order): Black Orpheus, Spirited Away, Casablanca, The Wicker Man, The Triplets of Belleville, The Good The Bad and the Ugly, The Life of Brian, and many others.
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sundog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-04 03:37 PM
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17. angie dickinson
in depalma's "dressed to kill" is also a pretty good sequence
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bigwillq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-04 03:43 PM
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18. What about Scarface *spoiler*
when Pacino gets blasted by tons of bullets with cocaine smeared all over his face and then he falls off the balcony. That's right up there.

I think Pyscho is cool but there are so many. I just offered one that I think is pretty cool.

I put the spoiler just in case people haven't seen the movie.
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sundog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-04 04:52 PM
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19. hmmm...
interesting... i was thinking horror movies, but nothing in the original post says the death needs to stricktly be a horror movie-- so this now requires some re-thought
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bigwillq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-04 05:11 PM
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20. Who knows maybe the intent was horror
but I don't think so since Resevoir Dogs and the Godfather also made the list. I stand by my choice as one of the best death scenes ever in Scarface.
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