A Terrorble Top 10 List of fave fright flicks from McCartney

June 24, 6:18 PMHorror Happenings ExaminerCharles F. Rosenay aka Cryptmaster Chiller Chucky

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What is it with these Top 10 lists? We love gathering them, and it appears that you love reading them --because we keep getting the most emails every time we run one. And we've got a lot of them already lined up -- from movie stars, TV personalities, athletes, rock stars, authors, scream queens, people in the haunt field and other notables, some very famous and some not as well know.

We continue the series with a friend whose name is well know worldwide, and someone that some Beatles fans may know. No, it's not Paul McCartney or Jesse McCartney. It's not even Stella McCartney. It's Angie McCartney, who was the wife of Paul McCartney's father, Jim. She is an international entrepeneur based in California, but she's also a true appreciator of monster movies and a huge Vincent Price fan. Additionally, she was a Production Assistant on the Fox set of the Oscar-nominated "Aliens 3" (remember the film's tagline: "In 1979, we discovered in space no one can hear you scream. In 1992, we will discover, on Earth, EVERYONE can hear you scream").

Angie McCartney's Terrorble Top List of Favorite Fright Flicks:

1. Steven King's The Shining (original with Jack Nicholson). Jack Nicholson's performance still haunts me.
2. The Lost Boys I still like to watch this and follow through on the careers of the boys and Diane Wiest. A classic.
3. The Omen. I prefer the l976 version to the more recent one.
4. The Raven with Vincent Price. In addition to the classic Vincent Price movie, I have listened with great pleasure to James Earl Jones & Christopher Walken's spoken versions.
5. M with Peter Lorre. This 1931 Fritz Lang-directed movie still holds its spell with the amazingly creepy Peter Lorre holding viewers spellbound. Speakking of Spellbound, we need to include a Hitchcock classic...
6. Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds Tippi Hedren's performance was brilliant, and she is still as beautiful today. She runs Shambala, a wild life preserve in Acton, California.
7.  Rosemary's Baby Roman Polanski's direction of this movie showed all aspects of horror, romance and mystery.
8. Alien (all versions) I worked as a Production Assistant on the third installment of the Alien series, which was the only one I watched at the rushes and the premiere. Shooting even started without a finished script. Upon completion, the studio dismantled and reworked it without Director David Fincher's consent.
9. The Exorcist This great movie, based on an actual exorcism of a 14 year old boy in 1949, garnered 10 Academy Award nominations. It had the tremendous cast of Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Lee J. Cobb, and of course, Linda Blair as the demonically inhabited girl. An interesting note is that two cast members, Reverend O'Malley and Reverend Bermingham, played themselves.
10. Psycho I saw this with my first husband, Eddie Williams, on my first outing after the birth of my daughter Ruth. That night, after we had gone to bed, we heard screaming, and someone pounding on our front door. Eddie ran downstairs, opened the door to a distraught young girl who had been attacked by a man behind our house. We brought her in and rang for the Police who took over. It was a night when we slept with all the lights on!                                                           And all the other Vincent Price Movies!

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