Favorite scenes

This month when they start playing horror movies there are two things I want to see.
Even though I like the two movies themselves, what I like most is their opening scenes. First, The Exorcist. It's not the story in the Iraq sequence I like but the way it's shot. It's so clear, and not just on DVD. All those people swinging pickaxes, that kid running along the ruins. I don't know how they got the picture so clear; I guess it has something to do with recording using more frames per second or something like that.
And the shot at the end of the sequence where Merin is turning around and the camera pulls back, so perfect.
When The Shining is gonna be on, all I wanna see is 30 seconds of it. I had seen The Shining a few times since I was a kid, but it wasn't till a few years ago that I noticed the opening shot and how great it is.
I love when it goes from the old Warner Bros. logo to that shot of the island and its reflection in the lake. Again, the picture is so clear as the camera goes over it and the music plays. Creepy, but mostly just beautiful. It's a good movie but I don't think anything in it tops that opening shot.

I won't always stop and watch The Shining, but I'll almost always watch The Exorcist when it's on.