I remember liking Carnival of Souls but not getting as creeped out by it as I thought I would. Does it have a happy ending?
Nope. The movie ends as
the protagonist's corpse is being dragged out of the water, with the implication that she's been dead--or lingering in a limbo between the dead and the living--all along.
I have, like, deep psychological scarring from the vision of Herk Harvey's white ghoulish face grinning from the second story window. It's been a decade since I've seen the movie, and I still hesitate to look out the windows in the dark.
There was a freaky movie out awhile ago about a woman whose daughter gets yanked from a school play, I think, and a whole bit about an apple orchard and I think a cider mill.
Ring any bells for anyone?
ETA:
In Dreams.
That's it!
for some reason I don't remember Carnival of Souls AT ALL but I know I saw it. And now...
deep psychological scarring from the vision of Herk Harvey's white ghoulish face grinning from the second story window
I don't think I'll ever be able to rewatch it. Scary Faces + Windows = Major Wiggins!
That sounds like In Dreams. Annette Benning, Robert Downey Jr., lots and lots of apples.
Heh. I saw you got it while I was posting -- now you're just humoring me!
You're right again! Thanks!
runs away
I haven't seen The Uninvited, The Tenant, and Carnival of Souls. I think Robin's right, Don't Look Now may be the most under-your-skin creeptastic of all of them, but I find The Innocents, The Haunting, and The Others all to be good goose-bump movies. The Shining is brilliant, but not so much scary as disturbingly strange.
The director's cut of The Exorcist that was re-released a few years ago watered most of the scares down by having those CGI demon face flashes everywhere just as the slow quiet tension was ratcheting up. It was like playing a 2 hour game of "Where's Waldo" with Pazuzu.
Regan's spider crawl down the stairs remains one of the freakiest things I've ever seen, though.
I haven't seen a single movie on that list...shows ya how much I avoid the scary-for-its-own-sake flicks.
But In Dreams, A Stir of Echoes and Jacob's Ladder freaked me all the way out.
