No, maybe because I had anticipated it so much & was expecting something better but personally I thought it wasn't even vaguely scary. That didn't detract from the over all creepy brilliance of the film though.
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It's scary if you're 10. It had me screaming and traumatized when I was 8, and I was afraid to watch it when I found the film again at 20.
However, once I did I laughed at myself. Her face looks completely human and very disappointing. Even her makeup sucks. They should have made her paler, older and more dead looking. She just looks like any other woman just with bigger eye bulbs.
If you don't know it's there, and don't think about it too much - hell yes!
A lot of emphasis is put on that scene on these message boards. But that's not what the film is about. It builds the tension up wonderfully, for her inevitable appearance in the conclusion.
No, not really. But it depends on what scares you. It didn't scare me.
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I thought it was easily the scariest bit of the whole thing. It's so well done: Kidd looking up in horror as this massive shadow arises before him and then THAT face being unrelentingly forced on the viewer for far longer than most "shock" moments on film. You get such a sense of her overwhelming rage and hatred - I practically fell off my chair!
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The builld-up to that scene is intensly scary, brilliantly done. However, I think they did a mistake in changing her appearance, she should have looked like in the other scenes. As it is, she looks like a halloween witch.
I find the scenes by the cemetaries and the nursery far more frightening.
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Like someone mentioned here before, I think the scene is very effective. However, I just think it's a little too long, agree? The first shot of her above him in the bed are stunning, but I think it all could do better without that close-up that follows, if I remember it right.
The unexpected and sudden is basically the key ingredient in delivering shock, and to this day, this scene could be one of the best shock-inducing scenes of all time.
/ Daniel (Sweden)
When you're 10? years old at the time, yes, it is scary, heh
But by todays standards, not so much.