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  • The ghostly figure that materializes on stage left is really another scary-movie creeper: A zombie, covered with a white sheet.

    This Weekend: Ides of Texas and Weird Pancake | Missions Unknown 2010

  • I sit patiently through all the scary-movie essentials: 1 Girl gets creepy caller on telephone when her parents are away.

    The Fortunes of Indigo Skye Deb Caletti 2009

  • So I had fun, but yeah the twins were a nasty stereotype and humor, baseline for a scary-movie type flick.

    Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen Steven Barnes 2009

  • The scene where she knocks on the wall to play, and slowly finds the children getting closer was one of my favorite "scary-movie" scenes in the last few years alongside parts of Let the Right One In. lipslikeasukal

    The Orphanage Remake Needs a New Director | /Film 2009

  • I sit patiently through all the scary-movie essentials: 1 Girl gets creepy caller on telephone when her parents are away.

    The Fortunes of Indigo Skye Deb Caletti 2009

  • I sit patiently through all the scary-movie essentials: 1 Girl gets creepy caller on telephone when her parents are away.

    The Fortunes of Indigo Skye Deb Caletti 2009

  • I sit patiently through all the scary-movie essentials: 1 Girl gets creepy caller on telephone when her parents are away.

    The Fortunes of Indigo Skye Deb Caletti 2009

  • Second-worst scary-movie moment - first date where my date paid - she took me to see Fatal Attraction.

    Paging Dr. Drake Remore 2006

  • Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: Although not technically a horror film, Lady in the Watercontains a number of well-orchestrated jolts Shyamalan is a master atunsettling his audience, but there are not nearly enough of them tosatisfy the scary-movie crowd.

    Reviewing the Reviews: 'Lady in the Water' | EW.com 2006

  • Slated to be launched on All Hallow's Eve 2006--when, it is said, Hell opens its gates and demons and damned souls walk the earth--the scary-movie venue will be the first of many prospective cable channels to be created, under the terms of a Comcast deal with the Sony unit.

    Boo: Roberts' Comcast, Sony In Horror-Channel Deal 2006

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