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Watching Alice, Sweet Alice the other day got the creaky gears in my brain turning - what was it with the Seventies being so afraid of inclement weather apparel? Was it the start of the awareness of the environment as a social issue that suddenly turned rain slickers and snowsuits into symbols of existential terror?
Watching Alice, Sweet Alice the other day got the creaky gears in my brain turning - what was it with the Seventies being so afraid of inclement weather apparel? Was it the start of the awareness of the environment as a social issue that suddenly turned rain slickers and snowsuits into symbols of existential terror?
Okay, okay, I'm kidding (mostly) - I get that they were just precursors to the blank-slate worker jumpsuits of Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees - underneath these body-encompassing suits there could be anyone... or anything! You can't really see any of their humanness showing; no skin, no musculature. Just an eerie inhuman void coming at you.
Still, of the three examples that I'm thinking of, the most important question vexes me: which one is the scariest? Because I think there are fewer of you out there that've seen all three of these films than there should be, here are visuals of the three choices to help you decide:
If there are any that you can think of that I am missing, tell me of them in the comments. And help me decide which wins the crown of the freakiest by voting in that poll in the right-hand column! I think it should be a three-way tie, to be honest.
Also of interest: all of these murderous monsters are of tiny stature. What was with the Seventies and killer kids? Or... kid-sized people, really, in these examples. So many questions!
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Those Brood babies win for me. Those little guys always freaked me out. I remember seeing them kill gramdma in the kitchen for the first time and being creeped out! Homicidal little person in a tiny coat from DLN is a close second, though...
The Brood babies win, of course, but Adelina Poerio is frikkin creeepy in Don't Look Now
When I was little I had a nightmare where a dwarf-like creature attacked me. Years later when I first saw DLN in a theater that scene had me had screaming. I was unprepared for it and it was like reliving the nightmare all over again! ---Walter, Minneapolis
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