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I watched this too when I was probably in Junior High.  I remember my mom and older sister wanting to watch it ---- even that young this movie left me with the chills.  I really need to watch it again tho’ because I’m sure I’ll understand much more now.  Thanks for the movie rec!

Okay, I take it back. This movie, too, continues to creep me out no matter how often I see it. FABULOUS choice, Terri.

I love Peter Weir.  Didn’t he also direct Witness?

Gallipoli is one of my all time favorite moives.  Many years ago I invited a bunch of my girlfriends over to watch Gallipoli.  I had already seen it and I told them they would love it.  I don’t think they hated the movie, but they hated me for a while.  The last moment of the movie takes my breath away every time I see it.  I guess my friends didn’t enjoy that breathless sensation.

All I remember about Picnic At Hanging Rock is the mood.  I couldn’t tell you the story if you tortured me, but I remember a mood of expecting something ominous to happen.

NcNan, “Gallipoli” is one of those movies that I carried with me for weeks after seeing it. It and “The Deer Hunter” both just cut me to the bone. EXTREMELY powerful movies both.

I read the book of this last year and that was atmospheric enough. I actually live not far away from Hanging Rock, and have nearly been on a picnic there a couple of times....but haven’t ever made it. Maybe I’m just a scaredy cat!

Oh, that would be so cool, Marg!  I’d go with you if I could

Teresa, who also enjoyed a visit to Lizzie Borden’s house the last time she was in Massachusetts

OOoh I live not too far from Hanging Rock too.  Every time I drive past I think of that movie and yup it creeped me out as well.  Other movies that continue to haunt me “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane” and this icky movie that I can’t remember the name for, but it had a severed hand that kept appearing around a grand piano. (It wasn’t nearly as cute as thing from the Addams family).  Black and white movies still manage to bring a type of suspense that seems to elude crop.