SCARY

:o) don't mean to puff my chest out, but i never really was scared of this movie, and i've been watching it as long as i can remember, but yeah, the organ music is pretty darn spooky! i just can't work up the muster to be scared for the shakiest gun in the west! he can take care of himself! lol!

"Calm? Do "murder" and "calm" go together? Calm and murder? Murder?" Luther Heggs

I was only 8 years old when I saw TG&MC in the theatre in 1966. Loved it...still love it. I really wanted the Lazer-disk double feature with "The Reluctant Astronaut", but could'nt afford the 69$ price tag. NOW...I find 4 Knotts films on one dvd set, for under 15$.

Chainsaw Massacre? crap...

The BEST horror movies were made in the 1930's. My favorite is still "The Bride of Frankenstein"

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When I was a kid my parents took me to a drive in movie to watch this movie, thinking it was all fun and games. The haunted house was like a lot of houses in our small town. Old victorians. I couldn't sleep for days after seeing this. The organ scenes spooked me badly, along with the garden shears. When I see this movie now, as an adult, the music still raises the hair on my neck.

Saw this on the big screen in '66 when I was 10 and, yes, those scenes in the old house WERE scary. The way the older people descibed the murderous happenings that took place long ago and then seeing and hearing the organ playing- I can say it really got to me at the time! Always thought this was Don Knotts best feature film by far.

I've been asked if this movie is scary. What is "scary"? Let me clarify this.

Sometimes in life, there are things that make us "scared." But does that mean we can't also enjoy them? Let me clarify this.

Thank you.

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I was about 6 years old, and saw this with my grandmother and my two cousins. I knew it was funny, but parts of it also scared me so much that I don't think I slept alone for a week. The organ tocatta is masterful, but it did creep me out (we had a large console organ in our living room, which I later spent many years learning to play)

I saw this movie on tv in the late sixties. My sister had seen it before, and persuaded me to watch it. I was about fourteen at the time and was skeptical that it would be worth watching, but I loved it! She would explain details and funny bits to watch for, like the first time the occult society ladies went into their mystical chant. That just kept getting funnier as the movie progressed.

The part I found genuinely spooky and mysterious was when Luther returns to the house, after the disillusioned townspeople have left him, and sees a man hunched over the organ, playing wildly. That was a genuinely hair-raising moment, because it was so unexpected. I felt that it was entirely possible that the ghost of Old Man Simmons had returned, and when we saw the closeup of Mr. Kelsey looking sort of maniacal, and Luther's astonished recognition of him, it was truly surprising and fascinating to find out the truth of the mystery. All in all, a very enjoyable and satisfying movie that adults can thoroughly enjoy, as well as kids.

And when he crossed the bridge, the phantoms came to meet him