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!
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Aims - Apr 18, 2006 7:45:32 am PDT #1370 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
lisah - Apr 18, 2006 7:46:25 am PDT #1371 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
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!
Strega - Apr 18, 2006 7:49:55 am PDT #1372 of 10001
That sounds like In Dreams. Annette Benning, Robert Downey Jr., lots and lots of apples.
Aims - Apr 18, 2006 7:50:56 am PDT #1373 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Thanks, Strega.
Strega - Apr 18, 2006 7:56:38 am PDT #1374 of 10001
Heh. I saw you got it while I was posting -- now you're just humoring me!
Aims - Apr 18, 2006 8:10:31 am PDT #1375 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
You're right again! Thanks!
runs away
Hayden - Apr 18, 2006 8:35:28 am PDT #1376 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
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.
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 18, 2006 8:37:40 am PDT #1377 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
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.
beekaytee - Apr 18, 2006 11:10:46 am PDT #1378 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
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.
Cashmere - Apr 18, 2006 2:26:18 pm PDT #1379 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
LOVELOVELOVE The Univited. Creepy and lovely.