I've had a few good scares in my time - used to love the horror stuff when I was a kid. Now I haven't got the stomach.
Was an absolute nut for anything with Vincent Price, Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. But even then they were pretty tame.
Biggest scares I got were: from a 1960's B+W version of The Haunting - where the play of shadows on just about any surface was turned to terrifying effect; from the Zuni Doll short horror film where an African doll came to life and chased a woman around her apartment; from - as already mentioned - the bike down the corridor scene in The Shining - the sound of the wheels over the carpet runners built the suspense like nothing else and; from the basement scene in The Silence of the Lambs (I was alone and completely stoned for one of the few times in my life when I saw the movie - cannot tell you how sacred I was).
Last scary film I ever saw was The Blair Witch Project. That was enough for me.
Was an absolute nut for anything with Vincent Price, Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. But even then they were pretty tame.
Biggest scares I got were: from a 1960's B+W version of The Haunting - where the play of shadows on just about any surface was turned to terrifying effect; from the Zuni Doll short horror film where an African doll came to life and chased a woman around her apartment; from - as already mentioned - the bike down the corridor scene in The Shining - the sound of the wheels over the carpet runners built the suspense like nothing else and; from the basement scene in The Silence of the Lambs (I was alone and completely stoned for one of the few times in my life when I saw the movie - cannot tell you how sacred I was).
Last scary film I ever saw was The Blair Witch Project. That was enough for me.