@LilMirth...great story
The recollection of your grandmother's outrage is very similar to the outrage and disdain by all religious groups at the the time of its' release. As I can recall, no other movie in film history was picketed and battered in the media more than "The Exorcist". The media attention at the time of its' release was astoundingly pervasive and only fueled the gross revenue of the movie for years.
Watching it today, the movie seems tame compared to what is now acceptable subject matter. It was clearly a groundbreaking movie.
LilMirth wrote:Excluding slasher movies (I don't think those movies are really scary-- they just have gore & shock value), what's the scariest movie of all time? I mean, truly & exquisitely terrifying?
"Dawn of the Dead", the original version. I think that was out back in 1979 or so.
I brought my girlfriend to see it in the theatre one night, and when it was over, some of the crowd walked through the foggy parking lot as if they were the flesh-eating zombies. She was absolutely terrified, but I had to leave her to go to work on the night shift, beginning only a couple of hours later.
She went to work with me that night rather than stay alone...she was that scared. And it took her several more weeks to get over that.
I'd go zombie on her every once in a while after that, just for laughs. Usually during severe thunderstorms, w/power outages.
(Yes, I know. I really am evil!) 
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