Hits You Where it Hurts

Rating: 8/10 (19 February 2003)

One day in the mid-eighties, I was paying a visit to a dear friend of mine, and his girlfriend. I discovered there were quite a few other people there already, and they told me they had rented this movie, apparently a horror-movie on VHS. So, I joined in the watching - totally unprepared for what was in store for me. I sat there, in their sofa, surrounded by lots of people but in spite of that the film so affected me and wrenched me away from reality that I had to steel myself not to reveal the HORROR that gripped my whole body! I felt totally alone, exposed to that extreme terror that was shown in this film.
I have this 'condition', that when I see a truly good horror-movie, my body starts to tremble. And I mean tremble uncontrollably. It isn't that obvious and you can't really notice it if you aren't looking straight at me when it happens. But ooooh gawd, did this film make me tremble. The same happened when I, as a 14-year-old boy saw the first "Alien" film. This time though was absolutely the worst.
And as I was trying to get a hold of myself, the film just progressed and got even scarier.
Afterwards, I had to admit to being 100% scared out of my pants, even to my friends. We all were a bit shaken and had a hard time returning to this mundane world, as the thoughts of the film still haunted us.

This is the Numero Uno of all the horror movies I've ever seen. And I've seen quite a few, as I'm 38 years of age when writing this.

And the most important thing about this film is, that it's made long before the CGI graphics of today, and yet is even better than what they make today. Doesn't that say a lot about today's average horror-movie quality?

11 out of 10.
Dracopticon out.