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Really deserves to be on the same line as Amityville and the Changeling


both are pretty bloodless and prove that you don't have to have blood and gore to make a film effective.

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I totally agree!!! We need more scary movies that are NOT gory or about people getting killed!

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Yeah, Changeling ALWAYS creeped me out as a kid, with that possessed wheelchair!

Is The Amityville Horror really bloodless?

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Is The Amityville Horror really bloodless?



No.

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The original Amityville Horror was not only bloodless, it was stupid and not very scary. The funniest part is when the nun comes to visit. She's carrying a plant and suddenly gets sick, makes her excuses, jumps in the car and vomits at a stop sign.

Rod Steiger was waaay over the top, especially in the scene where he goes blind.

And come on, to include Amityville Horror (both versions) and Watcher in the Woods in the same breath as The Changeling is heresy! The Changeling is actually a very frightening ghost story. Those other movies were cheap, made for TV-style crapola.



The original Amityville actually did have blood in it. George falls into a ton of it in the basement. And I agree that the Amityville Horror isn't a scary movie. Part 2 is an awesome horror flick though.

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Hey, I agree with your completely! "The Changeling" and "Watcher in the Woods" are two of my favorite scary movies and contain hardly any blood/gore.

I also like "Haunted" with Kate Beckensale.

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Totally agree. Gore doesn't scare me at all. In fact, nothing spelled out and made obvious scares me. Fear of the unknown is what it's all about for me. The Changeling scared the daylights out of me. It still gave me the creeps when I watched it for the first time since I was a kid around a month ago.

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