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Question of the Week: What's your favorite scary movie?

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Attendees at the 2023 Ely Film Festival watching a film.

With Halloween this week, we are asking about your favorite scary movie. Do you like them? Do you avoid them at all costs?

This week, we are asking about scary movies. Some people seem to love them, some people, like KAXE's Development Director Chris Walker, say "HARD PASS!"

Here's what we heard

LeAnn from Baxter texted, "Shaun of the Dead! Our first intro to Simon Pegg. Scary, but with comic relief and heart!"

"The Silence of the Lambs," Elaine from Chisholm said. "I saw it in the theater with a boyfriend."

We had dozens of responses to our Facebook post, including several people who said The Exorcist.

Zach said, "Jaws, because it's JAWS!"

"The Wizard of Oz," Michelle said. "Those flying monkeys were horrifying!"

Several people mentioned Young Frankenstein, especially with the passing of actress Teri Garr this week.

"Not a favorite because I'm too chicken to watch scary movies, but The Mothman Prophecies did me in," Rachel wrote. "I watched it in my late teens, and that was it. No more scary movies. That was terrifying!"

"I like scary/horror movies a lot, especially if they have a good cast and a healthy dose of dark humor," said Heather Johnson, KAXE's Member Services Coordinator.

"Two of my favorites are from the zombie sub-genre: Night of the Living Dead and Zac Snyder's Dawn of the Dead remake. The crazy scenarios in horror movies don't scare me; real life is scarier in many ways. But, thanks to my extensive "research," I feel like I know what to do — or what not to do — if I ever found myself in a zombie situation."

This week's question was the brainchild of KAXE Producer Andrew Dziengel.

"I LOVE horror movies, especially in October. I try to watch as many as I can. I got into them because Bravo aired this special called 100 Scariest Movie Moments and would show a clip for each movie and had talking head interviews with all sorts of horror people like Stephen King, John Carpenter, Wes Craven, and even Alfred Hitchcock's daughter Patricia," Andrew said.

"As for my all-time favorite horror movie, it's got to be John Carpenter's The Thing. Carpenter said the horror movie rule was always show less when it came to monster. With The Thing, they decided what if we show the monster all the time? Love practical effects and the movie is loaded with them."

Andrew's other horror favorites include Audition, The Ring, Demons and The Blair Witch Project.


What are your thoughts on scary movies? Let us know!

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