Saturday, October 13, 2007

MD Poll: Halloween Rules

John Carpenter's iconic score to his film Halloween easily topped the "scary music" poll this week, scaring up 42% of the vote (33 votes out of 78 total). Bernard Herrmann's classic Psycho shrieks placed second (13 votes/16%) and John Williams' Oscar-winning Jaws theme came in third (9 votes/11%). Check the comments section below for the full run down.

From "Movie Music" to "Potent Quotables", the next MD Poll asks, "What is the creepiest quote?" The following movie lines are all classics, but which one is the most likely to send a shiver up your spine every time you hear it?
  • "I never drink ... wine." -- Count Dracula (Bela Lugosi), Dracula.
  • "It's alive! It's alive!" -- Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive), Frankenstein.
  • "Gooble goble, gooble goble. We accept her. One of us ..." -- The circus freaks, Freaks.
  • "I'll get you, my pretty ... and your little dog too!" -- The Wicked Witch of the West (Margaret Hamilton), The Wizard of Oz.
  • "They're here already! You're next! You're next ..." -- Miles Binnell (Kevin McCarthy), Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
  • "Help me! Help meeee!" -- Andre Delambre (David Hedison), The Fly.
  • "We all go a little mad sometimes." -- Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins), Psycho.
  • "He has his father's eyes." -- Roman Castevet (Sidney Blackmer), Rosemary's Baby.
  • "They're here." -- Carol Anne Freeling (Heather O'Rourke), Poltergeist.
  • "They mostly come at night ... mostly." -- Newt (Carrie Henn), Aliens.
  • "A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti. Fttt-ftt-ftt!" -- Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins), The Silence of the Lambs.
  • "I see dead people." -- Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment), The Sixth Sense.
Submit your vote in the poll located in the sidebar to your right (beneath my profile), and check back next week for the spine-tingling results!

UPDATE: This poll is now closed, click here to see the results, and click here to vote in the latest MD Poll.

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1 comment:

Kirby Holt said...

Results for "Which of These is the Scariest Movie Music?" (78 votes total):

1. "Halloween" Theme - 33 votes/42%
2. "Psycho" Shower Theme - 13/16%
3. "Jaws" Theme - 9/11%
4. "Tubular Bells", "The Exorcist" - 7/8%
5. "Ava Satani", "The Omen" and "One, Two, Freddy's Coming for You", "A Nightmare on Elm Street" - 4/5%
7. "Leaning on the Everlasting Arms", "The Night of the Hunter" - 3/3%
8. "Carrie" Psychic "Stings" - 2/2%
9. "Friday the 13th" Theme, "Dueling Banjos", "Deliverence" and "I've Written a Letter to Daddy", "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane" - 1/1%
12. "Carol Anne Theme", "Poltergeist" - 0/0%