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We have a few pairs of tickets to a rare theatrical screening of the extended director’s cut of Robert Rodriguez’s Planet Terror at Screamfest 07 this Monday at Mann's Chinese.
In many people's minds Planet Terror was the better of the two Grindhouse films that came through town as a double-feature. Not even Quentin could compete with the zombies vs the hot one-legged babe w/ machine gun attachment.
That babe, by the way, one Ms. Rose Macgowan, has decided to marry the Planet Terror director, if People are to be trusted.
For details on how to win tickets to see this screening on Monday at the Chinese Theater, continue reading after the jump.
To enter, type in the title of your favorite scary movie into the comments below, and if you remember tell us what theater you saw it at - or if you rented it.
Registered users will be the only ones considered. It takes seconds to register and we will be emailing winners based on the email address you provide, so make sure it's real and one that you check often.
Contest ends Monday at noon. Winners will be contacted Monday afternoon and - like life itself - will only have a limited time to reply to the email, so beware humans.
Planet Terror
Screamfest
Mann's Chinese
Monday, 10/15/07
7pm
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The Scariest Movie I've ever seen was when I was a kid - I was babysitting my (many) brothers and sisters when "Halloween" came on Channel 7. I watched it, terrified - and when Michael Myers started heading towards the closet where Jamie was hiding, there was a loud noise outside the front door. I freaked out and called 911. They sent firetrucks. Parents weren't at all happy. (Second place would be on a trip to Disneyworld and my Aunt and Mom thought all us kids were asleep in the hotel room. They watched Exorcist. I wasn't asleep. As a matter of fact, I didn't sleep for quite a few days.)
Why would we "win" free tickets, when the screening itself is free?
Black Christmas, the 1974 variety. i'm 23 now so this was a a rental at the time. Watched this back in high school at my parent's house. RIP Bob Clark.
because, anonymous whiner, as we know in LA, just because things are free doesnt mean you will necessarily get in.
the people who win this contest will get in.
keep looking gift horses in the mouth!
I was flipping through the TV channels when I was in 3rd grade and I came across The Exorcist. The good part, where the chicks head is spinning around and she's cursing and sticking a crucifix in her who-ha. It changed my life man.
The Shining. And I love it so, so much that I wrote a paper about it in college.
The first time I saw Poltergeist I was home alone and saw it on TV. I had to get up and close the sliding glass door when the son got attacked by the tree. I'm not too big on clowns either! The Shining scared the shit out of me also the first time I saw it and it still holds up with the creepiness whereas Poltergeist kinda makes me laugh now.
Scary Movie 3. I think the title hints to its spine-chilling scenes that the Wayans brothers have so carefully weaved into this epic tale of death and deceit. Scared the hell outta me!
Ah, the Shining. I was probably about 14 when I rented that. I was so freaked out by that guy in the dog costume in the room with the woman towards the end - you only see him for a couple seconds, but it was way creepier to me than Jack swinging an axe. So jarring and strange.
Saw the original Night of the Living Dead on TV as a kid. Probably the first movie I ever saw without a happy ending and with a black lead. I thought it was relentlessly terrifying.
John Carpenter's, THE THING. It is still my favorite film EVER. Not only was it the "scariest movie of all time" when it came out (I was 12), but there were PSAs on morning radio shows warning pregnant mothers and children not to go see this movie. Ennio Morricone's score, the perfect "cat and mouse" set-up, dark humor; it has everything a perfect horror film could ever need. I was not allowed (by my very Christian parents) to see it with my uncle who offered to take me, so I had to wait until it came to HBO (I stayed up late at my aunt's house). I had nightmares for a month. So worth it.
The Exorcist is my favorite scary movie. I actually think the restored version that came out a few years ago is scarier.
Runners up: The Shining and 28 Days Later
The Shining - I actually think the remake was scarier though.
The scariest movie i ever saw was "Children of Men". I can't even remember the theatre i saw it in, because I was so shaken.
I found it scary because it was realistic... not the sf likelyhood of widespread infertility... but the way the people were herded, whipped into this fearful frenzy by a government that meant no good. A distracted population that went along quietly all the way to a fascist military occupation of their own lives.
The scariest movie I ever saw would have to be "The Shining". It scared the crap out of me when I first saw it on HBO when I was 9 years old, and it still creeps me out now.
REDRUM!!!
Star 80. I watched it on the old Z Channel at a slumber party. (We thought, hey, naked women!) Very disturbing, particularly in light of how young I was.
my fav is the Exorcist. the DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN soundtrack still give me the goosebumps!
PS I saw it in a theater in Hong Kong
Evil Dead!
I saw the movie Arachnophobia once.
I was a meek seven year old child then.
I don't know who the f*ck thought that was a good idea.
The Host. Saw it at Arclight Cinemas.
Children of the Corn!! That crap terrified me! Damn you He Who Walks Behind the Rows.
I remember as a kid running up the stairs terrified that the Body Snatchers were coming.