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Amityville 2 I find very scary - it was repeated recently on UK TV and reminded me it was one of the pivotal films that fascinated me with horror as a kid.
The jumps and scares may be rather mechanical, but having said that, compared to today's post-modern efforts they aren't too bad at all: what about the unseen force lurching out from that dark, dank hole in the basement? The uncompromising shotgun-blasting of the whole family? The priest's creepy exploration of the house near the end, searching for the posessed boy? His own posession by the demon in the downbeat finale?
Alien3 is really love-it-or-hate it; I like it a lot - so long as you don't try and compare to the others in the series there's a really dark story here and the violence is particularly ugly and nasty. Alien Resurrection is loads of fun, if only for Brad Douriff's head-puncturing demise!
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