I'm surprised no one has mentioned a fairly recent horror film, "The Ring". That scene in the beginning where they show the corpse of that girl who watched the video scared the hell out of me.
Also, what about the original "Psycho", not that recent remake crap. Anyone who says that shower scene didn't make them a bit edgy about taking showers after watching that is lyin. The scene where "mother" (ka Norman Bates) runs out and stabs that private investigator wasn't so much scary as it was just surprising. Makes ya jump, but only cuz you didn't expect it.
And how about Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining"? I don't think that the movie had scary scenes like "Exorcist", but what made that one so scary was that you can imagine being isolated in the middle of nowhere with virtually no way out, and having a family member turn on you like that and try to kill you. That whole movie made me feel that way, not just one scene. Although, the sudden glimpse of Jack frozen at the end of the movie in the maze made me jump first time I saw it; that expression and just the way Kubrick pulled it off made it good.
Some also consider the ending scene of the basic training part of "Full Metal Jacket" to be scary. The look on Private Pyle's face when he says "I am...in a world of shit" just freaked me out. Again, it was another one of those "imagine if this happened to you" moments like "The Shining".
Sometimes I amaze at how people can say Quentin Terentino (spelling?) is better than Stanley Kubrick..so, he made "Kill Bill". They sucked. Screw Quentin. Hail Kubrick!
Kev
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