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My personal favorite of the Friday the 13th films, Part IV was when Friday the 13th took the biggest step forward yet with the Jason character.
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Not your typical format, The Omen more about what is going to happen later than what happens in the actual film. The boy, Damien, is the son of Satan & Anti-Christ (hardly a spoiler) but he himself doesn't directly do anything evil. At one point he knocks his adoptive mother over a railing, but this seems to be more influenced by Damien's Satanic nanny. Mostly he's just a kid whose never caught a cold and for some reason can't get near a church.
It's what we discover about Damien and how he came to be that makes him scary. The rest of the films scares come from a sense of helplessness to stop any of this from happening. Anyone who gets in the way soon dies. Damien's nanny is particularly terrifying in her manipulative ways of protecting Damien from any danger, including his adoptive parents.
Also of note, Gregory Peck gives a dedicated performance and brings credibility to the sense of horror over the impending danger. Though not perfect, every horror fan should watch this film and form their own opinion.
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A Roger Corman film, the primary reason to see this is the ranging performance of Vincent Price, at first a man left broken and skittish by a life of horrors, and later in a more familiar madman role when he starts to believe he is his own father, an executioner. Cheesy, but fun. The scariest part is probably the corpse. You'll see...
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Brutal, disturbing, and not for everyone. *Trigger Warnings* Sexual assault, rape, necrophilia, to name a few. What makes this film the most horrifying is that it keeps a sense of realism, making it all seem possible, because these crimes do happen. Michael Rooker does a great job as the mass-murdering simpleton Henry, though the most repulsive character is his roommate and eventual sidekick Otis, whose acts of sexual perversion somewhat lessens the impact of Henry's murders on the audience.
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