Ed Morrisey’s Top 5 Scariest Films & Bruce Campbell.
Posted by Dirty Harry on Friday, October 31st, 2008
UPDATE: Ace jumps in with a list of his own but mocks Ed’s choices and then chooses …uhm, Halloween III. Do dig his choice of the remake of Dawn of the Dead, though. “All the right people” would poo-poo the remake and go for the original. Gotta respect Ace risking the poo-poo. END UPDATE
The artist formerly known as Captain Ed dashes off a list of Hollywood films that scared him most.
You know, I’ve never seen Silent Hill.
Just Netflix’d it.
I agree with Ed on Poltergeist. The movie scared the bejeezus out of me. Twenty-five years later and thanks to that freekin’ clown I still have no bejeezus. The reason it didn’t make my list, though, is because the scares don’t hold up. Terrific story, love that family, but not scary at all after the first run through.
Here’s my top-five list from last year:
1. The Exorcist (1973): Still the scariest film ever made. After twenty minutes its sense of dread and its terrifying sound design always make me wonder just why in the hell I’m watching it . Even the medical test scenes creep me out. But it’s when she levitates and rolls her eyes back that I cover my face, want my mommy, and wish the lights were on. But I’m too paralyzed to move.
2. Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974): From the moment that creep gets in the van, it begins and never relents. Leatherface’s first appearance still gives me nightmares and just the thought of that girl wriggling on the hook raises the hairs on the back of my neck.
3. Last House On The Left (1972): It’s hard to argue with those who criticize this as being nothing more than exploitative - and it’s violence as near pornographic. On that level, the film’s pretty reprehensible. But it’s also shattering to watch and stays with you for a very long time after. And that’s what a good horror film is supposed to do.
4. Near Dark (1987): It’s the scene in the bar that gets me. It’s Bill Paxton yee-hawwingggg! in that bar that keeps me up nights. Director Katheryn Bigelow grabbed the cast off the Aliens set and plunked them into the grittiest, most imaginative vampire flick ever. Its music and images haunt on so many different levels, and yet it has heart. A cult hit that deserved more.
5. The Changeling (1980): Terrifying haunted house film; the lack of gore or sex makes it perfect for kids who can handle its intensity.
Runners up in case those gems are rented: John Carpenter’s The Thing, The Hidden, Anaconda, Evil Dead 2, Night Of The Living Dead, The Exorcist III, Of Unknown Origin, and Wolfen.
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JimmyCon 31 Oct 2008 at 5:51 pm 1Silent Hill is pretty good- great creepy atmosphere throughout, rather than cheap scares. Only problem is an ending that makes no sense, but maybe it’s because I haven’t played the game.
DRHon 31 Oct 2008 at 5:58 pm 2Phantasm…Scared the hell out of me..
Kenn Christensonon 31 Oct 2008 at 6:03 pm 3“Emily Rose” is pretty creepy. Ever wake up at exactly 3am?
Scotton 31 Oct 2008 at 6:11 pm 4Anyone seen”Audition”?A Japanese film…I watched one night and slept with all my lights on
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The Ugly Americanon 31 Oct 2008 at 6:26 pm 6Anything to do with Satan scares the hell out of me.
Race With the Devil is one of my underrated favorites.
Jimbo2on 31 Oct 2008 at 6:27 pm 7What was truly great about “The Exorcist” was that it was canonically accurate regarding Roman Catholic ritual and practice.
Many a missionary has returned from Africa. A common problem while performing exorcisms is the demon wants to take possession of the priest conducting the exorcism.
misterdon 31 Oct 2008 at 6:29 pm 8Silent Hill is too much like a watching someone play a video game (and I consider myself an avid gamer) - lots of action, lots of action, meet the goal, and get rewarded with a cut scene that explains everything. Thing is in a game, you go forward from that point. In the movie, you just roll the credits after you get the reward.
That said, it remains (by a wide margin) the best video game movie ever made, and has some genuinely creepy moments in it. With a little reworking of the narrative, it could have been simply a good movie rather than a good video game adaptation.
As for the scariest movies, that’s really hard given the variables at play.
I’ve always loved horror movies, and to this day it remains my favorite genre. The irony (as with many horror fans) is that after a while, it becomes very, very, very hard to get scared again. This, I think, is why films like Saw and Hostel worked for some horror fans - they pushed the limits and brought back that unsettling feeling (for the record, I liked Hostel - I think it actuallydid have an interesting thing to say - but not Saw).
As a kid, I was scared to death by The Blob, Trilogy of Terror, The Birds, The Omen, Burnt Offering, and, I swear to God, one scene in Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy. The Sleestaks from Land of the Lost, too. I adored the Universal films, though I can’t say they scared me outside of that one scene from Abbot and Costello.
A little older, and it was Jack in the Shining, Carpenter’s The Thing, Poltergeist all really stood out for me, along with some moments in Creepshow, and, for some reason, the Tarman in Return of the Living Dead. Of course there were lots of great horror movies in the 80s (American Werewolf in London, Near Dark, Fright Night, the Howling, etc), but I can’t recall many giving me real frights.
In college, I finally saw the Exorcist, and as established as it was, it still worked for me, and I would still rank it as the greatest horror film ever (though Carpenter’s The Thing and Jaws will always be my favorites). I also caught up on some other classics: Psycho, which just didn’t work for me because I already knew it so well; Alien was similarly too familiar to be effective as a horror film, though I greatly admired the artistry behind it; Texas Chainsaw Massacre remains untouched among the great “slasher” films; Night of the Living Dead is similarly unmatched in the zombie genre; Evil Dead, which on a grainy old video that hid the budget managed to give me creepy moments (far less so now that it has shiny new DVD transfers); Last House on the Left was more unsettling than scary.
Otherwise its mostly a moment or two in films that get me scared - the nurse scene in Exorcist III, the ball on the stais in the Changeling, the hobbling in Misery, the last scene in Them, the ending of Audition, the “birth” in Inside, the parking garage scare in the remake of Dawn of the Dead, the politics of Land of the Dead, and I’m sure countless others I’m forgetting right now.
misterdon 31 Oct 2008 at 6:31 pm 9Aw, crap.
I didn’t give props to The Ring. That’s probably the last film to really scare me beginning to end, and that’s as an adult and fully immersed in the horror genre.
RWAon 31 Oct 2008 at 6:36 pm 101. Island of Lost Souls
2. The Thing (1951)
3. Repulsion
4. Wait Until Dark
5. Alien
sauropodon 31 Oct 2008 at 6:38 pm 11Though not a horror film, “Open Water” creeped me out more than any movie I’ve seen.
It’s an ultra-low budget indie about two scuba divers accidentally left behind in the middle of the ocean.
PerfectTommyon 31 Oct 2008 at 6:45 pm 12I had great fun working as an usher at a theater when “Poltergeist” played. When people I knew came in, I would sometimes watch to see where they sat. And I would try to sneak up behind when the toy clown scene came on. I would then put my hand on the person’s neck when the clown tried to choke. Good fun.
(I also enjoyed watching audiences during the chest burster in Alien and the snake coming out of the skeleton mouth in Raiders.)
Tommy Von 31 Oct 2008 at 6:48 pm 13I still find the end of John Carpenter’s The Prince of Darkness when of the creepiest moments of cinema.
I’m not sure the whole film holds up, though it is worth seeing, but the ending still creeps me out.
I agree with, Ace, the remake of Dawn of the Dead is superior, though it falls apart the last 45 minutes.
Carpenter’s The Thing. That’s got to be there.
I haven’t watched Halloween in a while, but the first time I saw it it was terrifying. I wonder if it holds up. Anyone seen it recently?
Davidon 31 Oct 2008 at 6:58 pm 14Halloween is still a great scary mythology, with Michael Myers in the film being the ultimate boogeyman. This is disregarding the “story” of the sequels and keeping it just the first film alone - just pure evil, and for no apparent reason, something sets off inside of him and he goes home. He has no connection to Laurie Strode at all, but she walks up to his door one day… and that’s all it takes.
Now THAT’S scary.
The Dawn of the Dead remake was good, but you guys are crazy if you think it compares to the original.
Davidon 31 Oct 2008 at 7:02 pm 15Near Dark is a wonderful film, but it has a big achilles heel in my book…
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The ending… how two of the characters “get out” of their vampirism is a real letdown. Far too easy. It really undercuts the fatalistic, ironic tragedy of the eternal scuzzy existence of these vampires when all they have to do is have their blood changed out in a procedure simple enough for a farmer to do it.
Talk about destroying the entire “stakes” of the idea of these vampires that the movie so expertly shows us up until that point. It turns something scary into something you can “fix” almost as easy as running down the drugstore and popping an aspirin.
But up until that terrible resolution, Near Dark is a classic - but oh how that resolution undercuts all that came before…
Johnny Ed's Babyon 31 Oct 2008 at 7:15 pm 16The Exorcist really is the best scary movie.
Exorcist II is probably the worst scary movie.
Similar to going from the great Caddyshack to abysmal Caddyshack II.
What are the odds?
misterdon 31 Oct 2008 at 7:17 pm 17I wouldn’t call the remake of Dawn superior to the original, simply because it forgoes too much character development. I love the original Dead trilogy, but find Dawn terribly overrated precisely because it drags in the middle to spend time with the characters. However, that film had only 3 charatcers. The remake had what? A dozen? It needed more time to flesh them out so I would care when some of them end up as zombie food. Then again, I could be wrong. It is certainly one of the better studio horror films of the last decade, and I can remember when it seemed everyone hated Carpenter’s The Thing.
Carolynon 31 Oct 2008 at 7:18 pm 18‘Silence of the Lambs’. A movie is the ultimate scary when I can’t get up the nerve to see it a second time. (Heard an anecdote that Sir Anthony Hopkins scared the crew on the set so badly that they were too nervous to go into his cell to adjust the lights.)
‘I am Legend’. This film embarrasses me because it’s months later and I STILL sleep with the night light on. (I wish I were joking but I’m not - which is why I’m so embarrassed.)
‘The Exorcist’. This film is a classic on how to make a scary film. Truly brilliant.
‘Psycho’. Damn! You knew Hitch was a master when he could scare the living daylights out of you by simply watching Vera Miles open a closet door in an old woman’s bedroom.
misterdon 31 Oct 2008 at 7:21 pm 19David -
That’s actually a problem I have with many vampire and werewolf movies of the last 20 years. Far, far too many treat them as diseases, not as curses (I am not against either approach, per se, I’d just prefer to see more balance between them), and almost always give a happy ending “out” to the characters.
Johnny Ed -
Haven’t seen Exorcist II in a long time, but I remember it was horrid. Still, I have to toss in Romero’s Diary of the Dead for consideration as worst sequel ever (even if, technically, it wasn’t a sequel).
Johnny Ed's Babyon 31 Oct 2008 at 7:30 pm 20misterd
Another weird thing about the Exorcist series is after II, Exorcist III was a really good movie. I hesitated for a long time seeing it because II was such a waste of film and time.
The Exorcist is Mt. McKinley.
Exorcist II is Death Valley.
Exorcist III is Pikes Peak.
The series is like a Dave Kingman linescore. He either hit a home run or struck out.
Bennett Marcoon 31 Oct 2008 at 7:48 pm 21JEB:
Did you see the “prequel”? I didn’t, but I heard it was pretty bad.
Exorcist II was truly amazing. Richard Burton was by then a boozy has-been and Linda Blair’s brilliant star turn in “Roller Boogie” wouldn’t come for another 2 years.
The piece of the puzzle that doesn’t fit is John Boorman, who is an otherwise competent, even talented, director (he made some excellent pictures). I can’t think of another good director who has churned out such an awful, awful mess. I mean, this was like a big-budget Ed Wood movie.
(BTW, I like III a lot.)
Luthienon 31 Oct 2008 at 7:54 pm 22Not all of these scared me, but are some of my favorites:
The Fly
28 Days Later
The Shining
The Orphanage (Spanish Horror Movie)
Rec. (Spanish Horror Movie) Great movie too
Hellraiser
Nightmare on Elm Street 1
Jacobs Ladder
Seven (Not necessarily a horror, but disturbing as hell)
Audition (Asian Horror Movie)
Alien
The Ring
The Thing (with Kurl Russel)
The Descent
Dog Soldiers
Dawn of the Dead (one with Ving Rhames in it)
The Exorcism of Emily Rose (loved Jennifer Carpenter in this movie)
Johnny Ed's Babyon 31 Oct 2008 at 8:04 pm 23Bennett:
I did not see the prequel. I think my daughter saw it and told me not to bother.
Exorcist II could not have been worse if they had tried. And besides Boorman and Burton there was a lot of real talent there with Ned Beatty, J E Jones, von Sydow, Paul Henreid. The cinematographer was William Fraker who was very good.
As usual the I think the blame has to go to the script which was mainly written by the underwhelming William Goodhart.
Stosh from da Stickson 31 Oct 2008 at 8:04 pm 24Kinda glad I’m not one of Perfect Tommy’s friends.
Bennett Marcoon 31 Oct 2008 at 8:08 pm 25JEB:
Boorman’s involvement really bothers me — I loved “Excalibur” and “Hope and Glory.”
But you’re right — “script problems from day one” — it really made no sense.
Hey, if you’ve got the FLIX channel, one of the very best horror films is starting right now (2310 Eastern): “The Wicker Man.”
misterdon 31 Oct 2008 at 8:25 pm 26My wife is a huge Exorcist fan (got her an autographed poster for her 40th), so we did see the Exorcist prequel, both of them. They were… interesting, I guess is the nice way to put it. A germ of an idea was there, but it’s still trying to build on to a story that doesn’t need building on. But it was fascinating to see how two different directors made the same movie in two very different ways (though you can get a similar, and far more enjoyable, experience, by watching the Lester and Donner cuts of Superman II).
misterdon 31 Oct 2008 at 8:27 pm 27Luthien,
Have The Orphanage on BluRay but haven’t had a chance to watch it yet. Come to think, I haven’t gotten my wife to watch Devil’s Backbone either…
As for Rec, its killing me that they haven’t put the damn thing on DVD in the US yet. I really would like to see Rec before seeing the remake.
Bennett Marcoon 31 Oct 2008 at 8:29 pm 28misterd,
I remember reading that the studio fired Schrader because his version wasn’t gory enough. I remember thinking, “how could that be?”
chrison 31 Oct 2008 at 8:49 pm 29The Exorcist is not a horror movie or a scary movie. It is simply an incredibly good movie. It’s not about scaring you. It’s about its subject. It’s just that the subject happens to be scary. None of the other movies on the list fit this profile. In those other movies, the subject was chosen not because it was fit to be explored by a film, but instead because they were scary.
Johnny Ed's Babyon 31 Oct 2008 at 8:52 pm 30misterd
Were either of the prequels worthy of the original? Did they add anything to the story or have anything that did not conform to what happened in the original?
From what I heard they were not really worth seeing except for those that are completists.
That’s why I have every Allman Brothers or Emmylou Harris album I can find. I just want to have as complete a collection as I can.
TruthHoundon 31 Oct 2008 at 11:29 pm 31What??? No H.P. Lovecraft???
“From Beyond” was mega frightening, gory as hell and erotic, too.
Also “Re-Animator” — cult classic.
Aligned on “Exorcist” (just the clip shown on the Oscars gave me nightmares and I only saw the whole film 5 years after release) and especially Carpenter’s “The Thing”, the most horrifying movie ever!
“House of 1000 Corpses” pushed me over the edge. WAY too disturbing. I made it all the way through, but decided I can’t do this to myself any more. No more Rob Zombie. No “Saw”, no “Hostel”.
Other classics not mentioned yet: “The Incredible Melting Man,” “Carrie,” “Manhunter,” “Pet Sematary,” “Fiend Without a Face,” “Theater of Blood,” and my guilty pleasure, “Ghost Ship.”
wfon 01 Nov 2008 at 12:24 am 32The scariest thing I ever saw?
Keith Olbermann in Plan 9 from Outer Space (link)
Luke Hon 01 Nov 2008 at 5:52 am 33@Scott,
Audition is hands down the creepiest thing that I’ve ever seen.
@JEB,
I’ll agree that The Exorcist II was an extraordinarily bad movie but I have to hold out for Cujo as the worst horror movie of all toy. Great googly moogly did it stink.
@Anybody that saw The Mist,
Is it just me or was that dumbest horror film ending ever?
I’d also like to second The Exorcism of Emily Rose and The Changeling and throw in the original The Haunting.
Luke
Johnny Ed's Babyon 01 Nov 2008 at 6:22 am 34Luke:
A friend said Cujo was the only movie he walked out of and demanded his money back from the theater. Saved me the trouble of watching it.
But of course it was not the sequel to the scariest movie ever. From the sublime to the ridiculous understates how bad II is.
NeoConJedion 01 Nov 2008 at 8:29 am 35I never get scared in a film, but only two have genuinely creeped me out:
1. Bran Stoker’s Dracula
2. The Shining
Horror films, or films with strong horror threads I enjoyed:
- Devil’s Rejects
- Dawn of the Dead (2004)
- 28 Days/28 Weeks Later
- Alien
- Halloween
- Underworld films
- Resident Evil trilogy
Luke Hon 01 Nov 2008 at 10:08 am 36@JEB,
But of course it was not the sequel to the scariest movie ever. From the sublime to the ridiculous understates how bad II is.
You’ve got me there.
And as I I’m sure you figured out the original message should have read “worst horror movie of all time”
@NeoConJedi,
Did you see there’s a new Underworld movie coming out:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0834001/
Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like we’ll be treated to Ms. Beckinsale in that tight leather costume.
Luke
misterdon 01 Nov 2008 at 12:11 pm 37Johnny Ed,
I really didn’t see the point of the films. I can be generous when it comes to horror films, and could pick out things here and there that I liked, and add some background to Father Merrin (though whether that is good or bad is another argument) but truth be told neither really stuck in my memory. These are very forgettable films. If you have any interest in them, catch them on cable or NetFlix.
…
I neglected to include “The Omega Man” as a film that creeped me out as a child.
Speaking of House of 1000 Corpses, I would highly recommend The Devil’s Rejects, which clearly supplants The Godfather II and Empire Strikes Back as best evidence a sequel can be better than the original.
Corpses was a fun flick, a clear homage to the 70s and early 80s horror flicks. But it never rises above its Texas Chainsaw Massacre/Toursist Trap origins, and really never gets to be more than, at best, a fun homage.
Devil’s Rejects is the sequel we never see, and that’s the great thing about it. It is, essentially, what happens the next day, when the cops come haul in the Firefly family. The Firefly’s hit the road, going on a brutal crime spree, while being persued by a revenge minded cop. The horror is more grounded, more human, and more believable than in Corpses (Dr. Satan is seen only in a deleted scene), and the time spent with the villains fleshes them out without making them sympathetic. And I’ve not been able to hear “Midnight Rider” or “Free Bird” without flashing back to this film.
It’s a crying shame that Zombie went from this to a tired retread of Halloween. Hell, if he had taken this same novel approach to Myers in a sequel (if possible, a Superman Returns “those other sequels never happened” type sequel), he might have been far more successful.
I’ll be curious to see whether it is Rejects or Halloween that ends up being the exception to Zombie’s film career.
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Luke,
Nope. I definately liked The Mists ending. Even though I’m a hard core agnostic, The Mist, up until that point, had been giving a thorough shitkicking to those of faith, and even I was pretty insulted by it. By having that ending, in which we see what a lack of faith brings, it adds some gray back to the black and white, and should make the viewer wonder who was really right (assuming you follow the ending to its logical conclusion).
And speaking of The Mist, I highly, highly recommend watching Darabont’s director’s cut. Exactly the same footage, edited the same way, but its in black and white. I think it is far more effective. Not only does it make the effects more convincing, but it readily evokes the feel of a 50s monster movie. Wonderful stuff for those who appreciate it.
misterdon 01 Nov 2008 at 12:14 pm 38Marco,
Apparantly the studio wanted a less thoughtful, more action oriented Exorcist sequel. And that’s what Harlin gave them.
Why they wanted it I have no idea, but I can say that the original version wasn’t particularly scary, so they were right in recognizing that something was wrong. I really can’t say which is better, but I can say neither one was right.
Robon 01 Nov 2008 at 12:42 pm 39No offense, I know I’m in a very small minority, but I don’t see why everyone loves The Exorcist so much. I admit I didn’t watch it until my early 20’s and practically everything had been spoiled by pop culture. That may be the reason, but I didn’t find it scary at all. I really didn’t like it much, it was slow and plodding and while I thought the ending was cool, I didn’t find much else of interest.
I’m also one of those who likes the Dawn of the Dead remake more than the original. I had seen the original before I watched the remake, so it’s not that. I just thought the original was pretty slow, with not the greatest acting. Plus I don’t really see the much-vaunted Romero “social commentary” that everyone talks about with Dawn in particular. Can anyone explain what commentary there is? Shaun of the Dead had some social commentary. I’m not so sure about Dawn.
For those of you who are zombie flick fans, by the way, I recommend “Dead Set”, a miniseries that just finished airing on BBC4 I believe. Its setting is silly and kind of pointless, but despite setting itself up with the expectation of parody it plays it straight as soon as the zombies show up. Pretty enjoyable.
I’d also recommend the Orphanage highly, fantastic tense flick. And for once it had a good ending; horror movies tend to be bad at that. I agree that Return of the Living Dead’s Tarman was very creepy. It’s not as serious as other zombie flicks but I found it just as creepy because of the creativity of some of its ideas. The Exorcism of Emily Rose was also excellent, and made me think about my faith a bit too. Quite creepy, plus thought-provoking.
Luke Hon 01 Nov 2008 at 4:21 pm 40@mistred,
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I get where your coming from but the car had barely come to a stop before they pulled out the pistol. They had two sacks of groceries!
They could have lasted a week or two in the car. That’s not lack of faith. That’s lack of brains.
Luke
misterdon 01 Nov 2008 at 10:00 pm 41May I also recommend The Ruins for a good horror flick? Classic set up - small group in middle of nowhere trapped by “a monster” (to avoid spoilers)- that is well executed. The characters mostly behave reasonably, and there are suspenseful moments.
Now, back to Luke and “The Mist”…
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While the timing may have been bad, they went as far as they could. Given all they had seen, there was no reason to believe they could go anywhere on foot, there was no visible shelter, and, I’m guessing, someone was going to have to step out soon to use the toilet. And the groceries weren’t going to be an issue - you can survive weeks without food, but only days without water. If they evaluated the situation as hopeless, and logically one can see why they would, what is the point to hanging out to slowly die of dehydration?And part of the reason for making their choice was the fact that they WERE “safe” - there were no creatures immediately about. That’s why they did what they did - to avoid death in one of the various horrific ways that they had seen. Wait, and they risk a terrible death. Do it now, and they get… well, I guess, a “clean and easy” death. One could certainly argue whether it was the right choice or not, but I would suspect that it is not coincicence that this echoes the debate over euthanasia, in which the sides also tend to be drawn between the secular and the faithful.
Luke Hon 02 Nov 2008 at 8:39 am 42misterd,
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I think I had a different take on the whole movie. I saw it more as a war on terror metaphor with fear of the outside evil making the people in the grocery store turn against each other.
In that light ,the suicides at the end don’t fit but now I see your point too.
My view was probably colored by remembering some of King’s anti-Bush rants that were in the press last year.
Luke
Kailahon 20 Nov 2008 at 5:00 pm 43I think the Descent was probably one of the scariest movies ever. And the Mist was a terrible movie, the ending ruined the whole thing. However, I’m not one for the old scary movies they are really overacted. Like all the Halloweens. But the newest Halloween was really scary. I also thought that the Texas Chainsaw Massacre was really stupid, and not scary at all, I stopped it about 45 minutes through, because I couldn’t stand to watch it anymore. Here are some more great scary movies.
- The Signal
- The Haunting of Molly Hartley
- Silent Hill (really confusing but good)
- The Grudge 1 (better than the first)
- The Hills Have Eyes 1 and 2
- Quarantine
- 28 Weeks Later
- Crywolf (great movie, not so scary though)
- Three
- Hostel 2
- The Hitcher (the newest one)
- The Rest Stop
- House of 9 (one of my favorites)
- Stay Alive
- Wrong Turn to Dead End 2
- Wolf Creek