NO IT'S NOT SCARY . . . RIGHT

Rating: 9/10 (30 August 2002)

For those people who saw this movie 35 years after it was made it may not be "scary". You have heard all the stories and have many preconceptions. You have seen the parodies and saw bits and pieces before you ever really sat and watched the movie. So I'm going to sound like the geezer that I am... buuut... In 1973 - - in the dark - - in a spectacular theater in New York City after waiting 2 hours . . .this movie scared the living ( expletive deleted ) out of me and my friends. Nobody slept right for days. It was groundbreaking for it's time. There had never been anything like this movie. You children who pan this movie and then say that "The Perfect Storm " was scary - - -HUH! What's scary about computer generated waves? GET CAUGHT IN A REAL OCEAN STORM - NOW THAT'S SCARY! And the person who said it didn't scare him in daylight... scary movies are to be watched in the dark . . . alone . . when it's raining out and when there's a nice wind slamming up against the house.Most of these computer generated effects are fascinating but hardly scary and pretty boring. Live and learn kids.