Sadaka (I think that's her name) coming through the tv in Ring, definitely. I've never seen the American version though, so that could be creepier.

I think Sadako's emergence in Ringu is the creepier moment of the two, although overall the American version is scarier start to finish.

Back when Pet Semetary came out an aquaintance of mine had a little boy who looked and sounded like the Gage actor. One night when she and her husband were out having dinner, the toddler said "I want to play wif you" to his babysitter in exactly the same tone as from the movie and the halfwit locked herself in the bathroom until his parents came home. They were far more forgiving than I would have been, as the story would have ended—also like the movie—with a knife-wielding parent had it been my kid left frightened and unsupervised for over an hour.

And it ends with just a freeze before the credits.

Either that, or an abrupt cut to black before she makes contact. Then maybe a scream? But I think the Night of the Living Dead is a freeze. The freeze always gives me the wiggins. Likewise with a well used slow motion.

Have you guys seen the promo for the new Jennifer Anniston/Clive Owen movie?

Is that supposed to be an American accent? Because if so -- not very good.

GoF tickets are now on sale on Moviefone and Fandango.

I saw that ad this evening. I didn't hear anybody talk in it, just, broody glances and guns. I was not paying attention, clearly.

I am having trouble coming up with scariness moments. I can think of several startles, but that's sort of the cheap version of scariness. And for some reason when I was 11 I was terrified of Gremlins, but that's all I can muster.

Well, we had the shorter one earlier (say last week - when I was all surprised that there was a Jennifer Anniston/Clive Owen film at all) -- but now we're getting one that features more dialogue plus scenes of the local commuter trains etc.

Is that supposed to be an American accent? Because if so -- not very good.

It sounded to me as if he were just thinning his own British accent out a bit to make it less jarring.

Most of the scenes in Arachnophobia freak my shit right out.

Well, yeah.

I can no longer remember which scenes in particular from Poltergeist freak me out the worst. I haven't seen the movie in 20 or so years, and have no urge to change that. I didn't sleep for days after seeing it in the theatre.

Lots of the visuals in Jacob's Ladder freaked me out

The floppy-head thing for sure. I'd forgotten the ending - thanks for reminding me.

I think before Ringu and The Grudge, my scariest was the scene from Poltergeist where the mom's cleaning the kitchen, and the camera follows her past the kitchen table, and then looks back and suddenly all the chairs are stacked on the table.

Thinking about this, I realize I differentiate between "scary" and "disturbing." And that slasher flicks don't scare me, which is probably why I don't really like them.

I can no longer remember which scenes in particular from Poltergeist freak me out the worst.

I re-watched this recently, and found that it was annoyingly non-scary for about 7/8 of the movie (also, too long and overdramatic) and then suddenly totally rocked for the next, like, 3/32 of the movie, then had a really bad last 1/32. Or so.

The "chairs put on the table" scene was freaky, I guess, but immediately de-freakied by the mother-character's total acceptance of it, and experimentation with the ghost. Dude. Just be freaked.

And that slasher flicks don't scare me, which is probably why I don't really like them.

They don't scare me long term, but they make me jump sometimes. Also, I love them (at least really good ones) but not because of the scary - I just like the beautiful formula. Watching Halloween, Friday the Thirteenth, and Scream one after the other is like an exercise in cinematic consistency across three decades.