alright horror fans...it's time to fess up and admit that The Drop of Water and the dead lady therin is witout a doubt the scariest thing in the history of cinema!
You got it. By far one of the scariest things I have ever seen in horror cinema. Bava was great and every story on this one is great, even the Telephone (has some awsome lesbian undertones, or maybe overtone depending on the person).
shareDrop of Water scared the heck out me when I was a kid watching it on Creature Feature. The last time I saw it was back in college and I had to sleep with the lights on! :) Forget gore and all that other modern crap. The dead witch and her creepy eyes are the scariest things that I have ever seen in the movies. If I hear water dripping at night, I just lock the door and don't check on it. :)
shareI agree with you
shareI ordinarily don't get scared by movies, but this is the one I watched from under the covers. I never missed it when it came on TV, and the nothing has ever scared me like "The Drop of Water." I just checked out the trailer to see if that woman was as scary as I remember, and sure enough. Great shock scenes.
Wars not make one great.
Pity they don't make horror movies like this anymore, at least not here in America. "A Drop of Water" ranks with "Burnt Offerings" and "Ju-On" as a truly frightening bit of film. Great for late nights by yourself.
shareMy brother and I saw "A Drop of Water" in about 1970, when I was about 10, on what we referred to as simply "Chiller" (Los Angeles area). I can fully identify with most of the previous posts. The old woman's face gave me nightmares for months. I was terrified the closet door would creep open and the "old bag" (as my brother and I called her) would emerge.
I remember watching this late one night when I was little in the early '70's and "Drop of Water" scared the crap out of me. Years later(now a husband and father),a friend and I were talking about movies that really scared us and we both found out we were both freaked out by this segment. Not long after this discussion,Black Sabbath just happened to be showing on a late night horror host's show. I watched it and it still delvered the chills just like it did all those years before. I have this movie on video now so if I want a scare I can just pop it in and turn out the lights,of course!
shareI didn't get a chance to see Black Sabbath until Image released their DVD in the late nineties. I had read something by Tim Lucas where he had stated that 'The Drop of Water' was the scariest horror short that has ever been made. Praise indeed. However, after finally seeing it for myself I am inclined to agree that it has to be up there somewhere along with Antonio Mercero's La Cabina (1972). Boy, was this scary! The expression on that corpse's face is something that I don't think I will ever be able to forget as long as there is breath in my body. Bava was a true master of horror with a unique genius for terror.
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Thank goodness I'm not the only person who got nightmares (and still gets them 30 years later) after seeing that face. I am now 40+yrs old and still cannot watch that portion of the film. There was just something about those big bugged out eyes and that grimace with the shock of white hair that scares the bejeebers out of me. Also the way the way she floated after the nurse and never made a sound(her feet never touched the floor!) Good call jargonaut!
shareGod damn!
I've seen many horror movies and thought that they were no longer able to scare me but wow the last portion of this movie was terrifying. Just amazing, it was brilliant to be scared again.
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Wow, I used to think I was the only little kid that got the crap scared out of them by that Drop Of Water segment. That image of that dead lady still is etched in my brain 40+ years later. After watching numerous times growing up SPOILER---I was usually so shocked by the time the ending rolled around, that I was convinced that the dead lady(fly) came back and reclaimed her ring. It wasn't until watching as an adult, that my older brother helped me realize that the pesky neighbor that found the nurse dead, has stolen the ring from her before the police arrived. It's clear to me now, but I was so shocked on all those earlier views that that part of the plot didn't even matter. For me, it was and still is the SCARIEST thing I've ever seen!
shareIt's funny - we all relate to this movie the same way. I saw this as a young child (about six), and 39 years later it's STILL stuck with me as the scariest movie I've watched. I have the DVD, and every now and then I'll put it in - I still get the chills when then pull the bed curtain open and reveal the witch. GREAT scary movie.
shareME NEITHER!! As in I embarrassingly kept closing my eyes whenever that beastly monstrosity was shown - oh man! Embarrassing, (as I say) but still, for 1964? That thing was really well done! (and I too am in my 40's).
shareI have to agree that this is one of the most terrifying segments in any horror movie. I first saw this movie on the Creepy Creature Feature way back in the early 1970's. I was around 10 years old and that dead witch floating around was scary enough, but when she popped into the rocking chair I nearly crapped myself. She looked so evil and determined to scare that nurse to death for swiping her ring. All it was was a puppet, but the face and weird movements conveyed an evil that still frightens me to this day if I think of it on a dark and stormy night.
It came on one afternoon on the Movie Channel about 4-5 years ago, I was about 40 then and that dang puppet brought back all the fear I felt wehn I was 10 years old. The other parts of the movie are dull to me in comparison to "A Drop of Water".
I saw this in the show with my best friend in 1968 (we are still best friends now)
and "A Drop of Water" scared both of us out of our 14 year old minds. During the scene where she is "floating" toward the nurse we were both laughing hysterically just to relieve the tension and fear we were being subjected to. I've never been that scared by a film since. I was lucky enough to obtain a VHS copy of it which I converted to DVD and everyone who has seen it agrees that she is the most hideous
character in the history of film. Even if she does look somewhat fake, the way the prop is used it truly terrifying even today.
Incidentally, this movie is where Ozzy, Tony, Geezer & Bill got the idea for the name of their band from. They were known as "Earth" before that, but didn't like that name to begin with. It was playing in a cinema across the street from where they were rehearsing and that gave them the idea of switching from Blues/Rock to an "evil" kind of music. The rest is history as they all but created that style of
heavy metal. And no one after them quite duplicated their success.
It is indeed one of the scariest things ever filmed. Mario's father, who amongst other things was a doll maker, made the prop for the film.
I see in this and other threads that many American posters sadly prefer the bastardized version of the film, the sanitized version with the lesbian undertones of the first episode cut out of the film, amongst other things.
Apparantly their reasoning is Boris Karlof's voice!? I hope they never release that awfull version, that part of the story was way ahead of it's time; how dare AIP cut it out!
One should judge a man mainly from his depravities.Virtues can be faked.Depravities are real.Kinski
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