The Wizard of Oz has come up at least three times now....

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It's when Elenor says, "Theo, don't squeeze so! You're hurting my hand!" and then it's revealed that nobody was holding her hand.

Oh yeah. The way that the room is so dark that you can only see her face, and she's having this internal monologue about how Theo is so scared she's holding Elenor's hand and how strong Elenor's going to be for Theo. Then she sits up, realizing that she's in a bed across the room. Hey, I just gave myself the creeps thinking about it.

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Hey, I just gave myself the creeps thinking about it.

t shudder

I'm having a hard time coming up with moments. It may be because I consciously forget them, so I don't end up huddled in my bed, hiding under the covers, convinced that zombies are at the door.

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Claire Bloom. Philip Roth's longtime lover.

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For many, many years, the squickiest thing I could possibly bear to see was the way the toes of the Wicked Witch of the East coiled up and retracted under the foundation of Dorothy's house. Freaked my shit right out.

All I can remember from Poltergeist is the grinning clown doll with far too many teeth, which is more than enough to remember. Especially when my step-grandparents, all unawares, gave me a clown doll as a surprise present just two weeks after I'd seen the movie.

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A few weeks ago, a few of us were standing in the office when someone on the floor above us went running from one end of the floor to the other. Out of nowhere. We'd never heard them before. We were all looking up at the ceiling when I yelled, "Run to the light, Carol Ann!"

The running stopped and I said, "This house is clean."

My co-workers about died laughing.

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But werewolves freak my shit right out.

Does this have anything to do with an episode of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea? A friend has lycanthropy issues because of it.

For most horrifying, I would second Eraserhead. I don't remember the details of what happens when he... unwraps... the baby, I just remember three of us freaking right the fuck out. And then rewinding it and watching it again. And then freaking out again.

For making me jump a mile, I think I'd go with the scene when Jennifer goes for the phone in I Spit on Your Grave.

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and then that last run through the house (with the bloody handprints on the walls)

gaaaaah. Gaaaaaaaaaah.

You see, I used to suffer from a recurring nightmare that would be set wherever I was living at the time. I'd come home to find all the doors open and no one home, but the walls covered with bloody handprints. So that scene in BWP caused me to contract into a little ball and start rocking back and forth. Thankfully, that particular recurring nightmare stopped after Pete & I moved in together.

It's when Elenor says, "Theo, don't squeeze so! You're hurting my hand!" and then it's revealed that nobody was holding her hand.

Oooh, yes.

I'm not scared by gore or monsters. Suspense, things suggested but not seen, and a growing sense of tension and unease, however, will keep me awake long after the movie is over.

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"Jump a mile" moments (different from "freak my shit right out!" moments) include Harry Roat (Alan Arkin) jumping out at blind Audrey Hepburn in Wait Until Dark (I love showing that film to WUD newbies with the lights all out, and watching them leap from their seats at that point!), and Carrie's hand grabbing Amy Irving's in Carrie.

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I can't think of creepy visual reveals, but the single creepiest factual revelation in a movie remains for me Santa Sangre's revelation that his mother's been dead the whole time.

Just horrific.

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