Buffy ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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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.
Thanks, Strega.
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.
LOVELOVELOVE The Univited. Creepy and lovely.
I love In Dreams. Both creepy and dark and vengeful. Plus Neil Jordan does great with fairy tale dreaminess (in this instance gone horribly awry).
Halloween scared me more than any other horror movie. But I saw it on its first run and before its impact had been watered down by endless slasher rehashes.
Don't Look Now is just a great movie. And, like In Dreams plays on parental loss.
I love The Haunting but generally didn't find it that scary - excepting the aforementioned scene.