OK since most of us on here are pretty much desensitized...

[loyal1]

Is there any movie that you have seen recently or have seen many times and just still gives you the creeps?  Why?

I would like to add some on my "To see" list.  Thanks!

[daveblackeye15]

John Carpenter's the Thing gives me a few chills just because of it's impressive special effects and sounds of the Thing. So does "The Blair Witch Project" which uses simple camera tricks and darkness to draw the viewer in.

*spoilers*
 I especially love with glee how the the trio come across a bunch of wooden figures tied to tree branchs and they switch from the black and white camera to the color one. I've slept in the woods before in a tent, at least with other people around and even then I would be freaked if I heard "cackling" out in the woods, and that I wasn't at a Boy Scout camp where that happens normally.



And the The Exorcist is currently the only movie that still scares me. I'm agnostic but the idea of posseion just terrifies me, especially the tranformation of sweet young girl Regan into that creature.

[Andrew]

"The Thing" is a great horror film.  I think it might well be my favorite in the genre.  Not only is there a heavy sense of being isolated and utterly on your own, but the movie also had that paranoia that came from not knowing who had been taken.

"The Blair Witch Project" also impressed me, for many of the same reasons.  Despite spending what must be many months if not years of time in the field, normal wilderness sounds can be very creepy when some mystery is introduced.  It is like being a kid again, not knowing what made that sound as it moved through the dry leaves just ten yards away in the darkness.

I found "Ringu" fairly frightening at points the first time I watched it.  Part of the scary enjoyment was not understanding what the rules were, because it kept me guessing.  The unknown is always a good source of fear.

[Neville]

I re-watched "Prince of drakness" (the one by Carpenter) a few months ago and was surprised at how scary it was. Of course, I was watching it alone in the dark, and that always helps. Of newer movies, I found "High tension" and "Wolf creek" very scary.

[plan9superfan]

To this day, I cannot watch "The People Under the Stairs", because it scares me too much.

[loyal1]

Surprisingly I have not seen People Under the Stairs or Wolf Creek yet...I will be sure to add them to my list.  Thanks!

[Shadowphile]

I found 'People Under the Stairs' to be funny, rather than scary.

For me, the one that creeps me out is 'The Serpent and the Rainbow'...

[Ed, Ego and Superego]

The creepiest I have is "Requiem for a Dream".  I have never seen a movie that hates its main characters so much.  
-Ed

[trekgeezer]

I agree Ed, Requiem is one of the most degrading and depressing movies I've ever seen. I can never look  at Jennifer Connelly the same way anymore.

[peter johnson]

I answered this on another post --
If you haven't seen "The Innocents"(1962 -- Deborah Kerr), then you're missing some of the scariest footage ever shot.  By Robert Wise.
I still get a thrill, goddamnit, when Chris Lee first comes forth as you-know-who in Horror of Dracula.  I just saw it again recently, and it weren't "nostalgia" made me jump!!
Speaking of Dracula, get a good, clean copy of Murnau's Nosferatu and watch it.  Alone.  At night.  With the lights out.  Then, you too can look with bewilderment at those who contend silent film can't be scary --
peter johnson/denny crane

[Mr_Vindictive]

The only film to actually creep me out, and make me feel dirty, sick, and utterly scarred for life was Session 9.  It's an amazing film, and then the ending hits....wow.  Really painful ending on that one.  I still cannot watch the film without getting goosebumps, eventhough I know what's coming.

As for "scenes" that have creeped me out.  The main one is the 'nurse' scene in Excorcist 3.  See, the original is a great film but it never scared me.  There is one scene in the third film involving a nurse doing her rounds.  It's a very quiet scene...and then BAM!  You are thrust into pure evil in a split second.  That film had a lot of creepy scenes.  Watching an elderly lady crawl on the ceiling was quite disturbing.


Shadowphile - Serpent And The Rainbow eh?  Great film.  Look up some info about it, and you'll find that the screenwriter had a real life experience w/ voodoo while doing the film.  To my knowledge, the story is that they started shooting the film on location.  A real witchdoctor asked the screenwriter if he believed in voodoo, and if he would like to see a real voodoo ritual.  Of course he did.  He went to one, and was poisioned by the witchdoctor.  He disappeared for days, and eventually ended up at the director's door a few days later, covered in dirt and such.  The man had been put through the "zombie" process.  He went home, and the story is that he was never the same again.  Take this story with a grain of salt, but I did hear it from Wes Craven's mouth during an interview a few years back.  Interesting stuff.

[plan9superfan]

I'm also terrifyed of "House of 1000 Corpses".

[Ash]

The only one I can think of is the original "Evil Dead".

It left me with a sick feeling in my gut.
Unlike Evil Dead 2, the first one had zero humor.  (unless you count the tree rape scene which was unintentionally funny)

You really get that sense of pure evil all around and inside that cabin.

[plan9superfan]

Unintentionally funny, and strangely erotic...

[The Burgomaster]

For me, it would have to be AUDITION.  The scene with the acupuncture needles and the piano wire is pretty disturbing.