Well, Peg, I agree on Blair Witch, it's brilliant and out-classes all the cheesy scriptless techno-schlock that passes for horror these days by many miles. The city kids may be annoying, but they are utterly convincing--something you don't see in many movies of any sort. And for trembling snotty noses there's always John Malkovitch in Death of a Salesman, setting the standard.

    Scary movies don't scare me, so I don't know about that. The ring, the others, the sixth sense, the screams--all that stuff seems just halfway all right, to me, none really better than any other, some a little more clever, I guess. For example, The Others might've been a little better than sixth sense if it had come out first, but instead, it goes the other way. It's all about the same.

It scares me when Oliver Stone wins directing awards, or worse, his writing credits--Scarface seriously frightens me. Not the content, just when people don't think it's hilariously awful. The Michael Douglas part of Traffic scares me. People thinking Tobey McGuire is miscast for Spiderman is scarey. Adrian Lynne's Lolita is scary. And so on.