That's freaky as hell, even if it was spoiled by the trailer.
Yeah, that was a creep-out moment.
When we watched
The Others,
Pete paused the DVD about 2/3rds of the way through, looked over at me huddled on the couch, hiding behind Clovis, and said "Do you want me to spoil the ending for you? I figured it out, and it might make you less creeped out." Sadly, being spoiled didn't make me less twitchy.
Oh, another truly creepifying moment is the end of The Haunting of Julia with Mia Farrow.
Frank the white fonted pact is what freaked me out.
Also, I wasn't scared by but just reacted very weirdly to was the movie with J Lo and Vince Vaughn (?) she's a psychatrist and he's a law enforcement person and there's a serial killer.
At one point there's this weird light show thing, I remember wanting to crawl out of my seat and into the colors. Very weird.
See, this is what I get for multi-tasking.
I'm trying to think of my favorite horror films. I liked
Ravenous,
but I don't think it's a horror movie (although it's filed with horror on the shelf).
The Others, The Exorcist, 28 Days Later, Suspiria, The Haunting, The Fog, The Thing,
and
Gothic
are all on the list.
Oh yeah, The Others. Easily the deep-down scariest movie made in the last 20 years.
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.
Aw yeah! I'd forgotten about that. You know I was part of a music discussion group for years called I Spit On Your Groove, right?
Oh god, I hated
The Cell
with a blinding passion. Ugh.
Oooh, I just remembered! The last scene in
Nomads.
Another great one that just leapt to mind: The Night Of The Hunter.
Lots of people have mentioned my biggest scare moments, but the one moment that freaked my shit out more than any other came from watching Carpenter's The Thing at the age of maybe twelve or so, late one night on cable.
It was scary and all, with many shit-freaking moments, but the worst was at the end, when Kurt Russel and
Keith David decide to just sit among the dying embers of the destroyed arctic station and drink whisky while waiting to see if either of them turned into the thing.
It was the first
WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE GOOD GUY DOESN'T LIVE????????
moment for me. Fucked me up for days life.