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‘Psycho’ Music For Sale

Posted by DFO

March 4, 2009 9:57 a.m. • 13 comments

This undated photo shows actress Janet Leigh in the shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 classic thriller “Psycho.” A British auction house says it is selling the heart-stopping score to Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho.” (AP Photo/File, HO)

Question: What type of horror scared you most — the graphic type of today or the subtle horror of Hitchcock and yesterday?

13 comments on this post so far. Add yours!

Liz on March 04 at 10:32 a.m.
two words: Stephen King. ‘nuf said….
Frum Helen Back on March 04 at 10:35 a.m.
I quit watching horror flicks after The Birds and Psycho.
Lynne on March 04 at 10:40 a.m.
Watching the news or picking up a paper is more than enough horror for me these days. It’s absolutely abhorrent what human beings do to each other (and animals). Makes me want to resign from the human race.
JeanC on March 04 at 10:41 a.m.
As much as I like most of today’s horror flicks, Hitchcock’s are the ones that cause me to sleep with the lights on. One that makes me leave ALL the lights on in the house is “The Haunting”, the original, not the crappy remake.
toadman on March 04 at 10:44 a.m.
Today’s horror flicks are lame. They’re not even horror, they’re slasher films.

Me? I dig creepy stuff. Like Mulholland Drive kind of head game creepy stuff…mental horror is always more terrifying than physical horror.
marmitetoasty on March 04 at 10:44 a.m.
I do NOT do horror films………. end of

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zelda on March 04 at 1:05 p.m.
JeanC — wow, I was going to say that the original “The Haunting” was the movie that scared me most. Glad to know that someone out there thinks so, too.

A movie of more recent vintage that scared the daylights out of me was “The Others” with Nicole Kidman.

Both movies depended more on psychology than gore for horror. As ToadMan said, the mind is the most effective conjurer of fright.