The Undisputed Champion

Rating: 10/10 (10 September 1999)

These kids who rave on about how great modern horror films like Scream are, really have missed the boat.
Films that desecrate my undies are so few and far between these days, I can't remember the last film to scare me or chill the blood. Candyman in 92 possibly?
But in the 70's and 80's my pants were soiled almost weekly - you should have seen my launderette bill. Carrie, Halloween, Don't Look Now, Suspiria, Tenebrae, Hellraiser, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Evil Dead, The Hills Have Eyes and on and on.
And then there is The Exorcist. The true champion. Yes it is slowly paced, but deliberately so. It turns the screw slowly, like a slow rollercoaster up a very long incline...and then.....whoosh....diaper time!
Today's horror flicks lack that sense of evil that pervades every scene in the Exorcist, the sense of impending and eternal doom that so many of these earlier films gave us.
I'm gonna find it hard looking back on the 90's to find FIVE such films.
Scream - a horror classic? Don't make me laugh!