LONDON (Reuters Life!) – “The Exorcist” was voted the scariest movie of all time in a Halloween poll published on Wednesday.
The 1973 horror classic, starring Linda Blair as a possessed child, came out ahead of the Jack Nicholson movie “The Shining” in a survey conducted online among 6,500 customers of British music retailer HMV.
John Carpenter’s “Halloween” took third place ahead of “A Nightmare on Elm Street.”
HMV executive Mark Frampton said: “The horror genre was not really taken seriously for a long time but it’s moved on from the slightly camp Hammer stereotypes that many of us remember and now enjoys the respect it fully deserves.”
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Noelle d'Estries, an early GO employee who took on the varied roles of Community Manager, green celebrity blogger, and more. She currently runs worstcookever.com GO entered Noelle's life in February 2007 while she was burning tires in her backyard. A phone call from the green gods at GO, burnt out the fires. Now, Noelle happily wears her GO sweatshirt while eating organic veggies and asking for paper, not plastic. A regular at the local farmer's market, Noelle shuns raking leaves and lawn maintenance, while making gourmet foods constantly. When not staring at her computer screen, she spends time with her equally attractive dog, Tessa, cat, Tim and lover Paul. She currently holds all three point records at RIT and could eat avocados and drink wine for the rest of her life.
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