[Haunted]

I loved the film, personally. I think that Hitchcock made the pace slow for a purpose. He was leading us into the the darkness and through the darkness bit by bit. People had so many different reactions to Janet Leigh's death... either your heart stopped or it raced...

I remember being a kid and seeing the light swinging back and forth illuminating Ms. Bate's skull. That used to scare the shit out of me. It still really really creeps me out. Not to mention the end, when her skeletal face begins morphing with Perkin's own, and her voice begins blending with his. Creepy, but good stuff.

Also, I wanted to mention another interesting point in the creation of this film. I watched a really old documentary about this film or a "making of..." done by Hitchcock himself. He explained that they had a butcher knife and a table full of different types of melons, pumpkins, and other shit, and what he was doing was stabbing those things trying to produce the closest possible match to a body being stabbed. They either settled on a pumpkin or a very large watermelon.

Does anyone remember that?