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Hi Dolly, I think that was Race With the Devil, with Warren Oates and Peter Fonda. I was too young to see it when it came out and eventually saw it on BBC2's Moviedrome programme with Alex Cox, which always showed cool films. The ending, like Easy Rider, is memorable.

Quote: Bad dog @ November 3 2008, 5:04 PM GMT

Hi Dolly, I think that was Race With the Devil, with Warren Oates and Peter Fonda. I was too young to see it when it came out and eventually saw it on BBC2's Moviedrome programme with Alex Cox, which always showed cool films. The ending, like Easy Rider, is memorable.

You're a star! That's the film! The MASH connection was Loretta Switt after all.

Can I just add that I was way too young to see it when it came out too :) - seeing as it was made in 1975!

Quote: Dolly Dagger @ November 3 2008, 9:35 AM GMT

I'm really surprised that the Empire list didn't include the scene from The Haunting (original version).

I grew up watching loads of horror and was fairly blase about it but I watched that film on my own, in the middle of the night when I was about 12 and found the scene where the 'haunting' is thumping down the corridor outside the girl's bedroom absolutely terrifying.

Forgot about that one but whole-heartedly agree. Scared the living shit out of me when I first saw it as a kid.

Top of my head...

Rosemary's Baby, when Mia Farrow's character realises what's going on.

Ditto Mikey's suggestion of Blair Witch Project - I thought it was great. Can't understand the flak that film got.

Arachnaphobia (most scenes). Why did I go and see that? I'm arachnaphobic.

Dead of Night (c.1948), sequence with the ventriloquist. And, even more so, the final sequence of the film that brings it all together. Totally chilling, and no gore involved.

Don't Look Now. The odd flash of red by the canals.

Night of the Demon. The paper blows away.

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