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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.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
The Haunting is an adaptation of a Shirley Jackson story, right? Which one?
that last run through the house (with the bloody handprints on the walls) with the last image of Mike in the corner was completely mindblowing.
I remember that being extremely freaky, but now I have no memory of why. Anyone care to remind me?
The Haunting is an adaptation of a Shirley Jackson story, right? Which one?
The Haunting of Hill House. It's just as creepy in the book.
The Haunting is an adaptation of a Shirley Jackson story, right? Which one?
The Haunting of Hill House, one of the scariest novels ever. EVER. Do not read it after moving into a new place.
The Haunting is an adaptation of a Shirley Jackson story, right? Which one?
THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE. Everyone here is talking about the 1963 adaption, and not the craptastic recent one with Lili Taylor and Catherine Z-J.
Got it. I recently read We Have Always Lived in the Castle and couldn't remember if that was the right one, but clearly not.