I kid you not....that organ music up in the loft gave me the creeps the first time Luther went up that staircase....
No way, no how would I have gone up there....
Watched this at a 75-cent Saturday Matinee, and was thankful we came out in sunlight....
It was the opposite for me. I saw this when I was about 8 or 9, so that would have made it 1976. I was pleasantly spooked by it. Kinda like the feeling you get when you visit the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland.
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At age 7 and coal chute/basement frightened me as well. The organ playing with the blood stained keys was pretty scary too. I must have closed my eyes when Luther got to the bloody painting of Mrs. Simmons.
The Ghost and Mr Chicken is required viewing at my house on Halloween.
What a great film!
Really?
this was hilarious more than anythingWhen there's no more room in hell, The dead will walk the earth...
As a little kid, seeing it on TV, even with other people around watching it too, it still scared me a little, especially the organ music, and seeing the organ play by itself (even though we now know it was Kelsey doing it with the tuning keyboard!). But now I just love it for the classic that it is. This movie's in my all time Top 10.
shareWhen I was little (like around six years old or so) the part with the "blood" (ketchup) dripping down the mirror absolutely, positively terrified me! I refused to watch the rest of this movie and actually couldn't sleep for a couple of nights after that. Funny that.
shareI was 8 when this came out and I saw it with my family at one of those big-old movie palaces in NYC as a second billing. I was fine through-out the picture, but when the organ begans to play by itself at the end I was so shocked it has stayed with me to this day. I brought the organ music on Itunes about a month ago and it still gives me a thrill. Atta Boy Luther !
shareBeginthebeguine, what is the title of the organ music? I have a playlist that features scary music (among some of the tunes I have are the themes from Halloween and The Shining along with "(Don't Fear) The Reaper", "Spooky", and "Mars-The Bringer of War") and this should go great with it. I, too, was 8 when I first saw this. Two years after its original release, and it did scare me a bit too. Especially the bloody portrait.
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A remake would be great - don't know if I'd be as scared though
shareI saw it for the first time now as an adult, but I'm sure it would have scared me quite a bit as a kid.
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