- September 4th, 2019, 2:47 pm#4923693
Hands down to me this has to be by far the scariest and most eerie moment of the entire GB series. I'll never forget how this scene used to terrify me as a child and it was the only time as a kid I can recall the GB films ever frightening me (well that and the zombie cabbie from the first film). Everything about this sequence, from the unsettling, isolated ambience of it to the eerie dismebodied voice that bellows "Winston!" and the build-up to the ghastly-looking severed heads impaled on the spikes.... this was total nightmare fuel as a kid. I remember as a kid I'd either fast forward through this scene on the VHS (I feel old remembering that) or flat-out leaving the room and waiting for this scene to pass, as it was just too much for me to take even as a small kid who loved Horror. This scene is far scarier than a lot of what one sees in graphically violent R-rated Horror films. I'm still perplexed to this day as to how the film got a PG rating with this scene in it as there's just no way it would receive that rating today. People can rag on GB2 as much as they want, but this is undeniably a powerful and haunting sequence, and for those of us who were kids back then, it was likely a source of some childhood trauma. I bet more than a few GB fans as kids must've been terrified senseless by this sequence back then.