Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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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.
The last scene in Nomads.
Ooooh! Nomads! Love it.
Something that freaked me as a kid, in the '70s remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers at the very end, when one of the two survivors runs into the other survivor, and discovers that the other survivor has become a pod person.
Oh, and there was a bulldog with the head of a human.
SEANIE! Get thee on IM
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).
RAVENOUS is way too funny to be considered a straightforward horror movie, but I do love it.
Oh, and there was a bulldog with the head of a human.
Oh man, even when you know it's coming it's freaky.
It was scary and all, with many shit-freaking moments
Heh, one of the few times they let you off the hook in that movie is the end of the (deeply fucked up)
defribulator scene and "You've gotta be fucking kidding me!"
Actually, that one's got a few good tension break lines:
"I don't know what's down here but it's pissed off and weird!" and "Yeah, well FUCK YOU, TOO!"
In somewhat less scary news, Where the Wild Things Are and The Life of Pi have both been greenlighted: [link]