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Slightly related, and no way for me to check on it as I don't know any meth users….
Is someone out there making blue meth nowadays, in real life? That would be … oh, I don't know. Weird.

Sno-cones for breakfast? Even Walt Jr. has his standards.

A bonus creepiness factor to that scene (SPOILER, if anyone hasn't seen Alien, but come on)—
At that point in the film we have NO idea that Ripley is the one who'll live. Dallas is the fucking CAPTAIN, he's the hero of the spaceship, how could he not be?
It's that same unbalancing of the traditional narrative that…

I liked The Last Wave a lot, but have been (still am, I guess) mildly obsessed with Picnic at Hanging Rock for decades. Scariest scene in that one, to me? The simple, well-lit, sort-of slow motion look at the the girls walking up to… whatever… on the rock.
Brillian film, and I'm reminded that I've got to see it, and…

Pretty sure Friedkin pointed to THAT scene (the spinal tap) as the one that was making people leave the theatre and throw up and stuff. (Contrary to the William Castle-like publicity the studio was putting out on first release.) Incredibly queasy-making, and goddamn, Linda Blair in scared-little-girl mode makes it…

One scary thing about Nosferatu is… how does Orlok fasten all those buttons on that coat with such long fingernails???

Oh, yeah! Nosferatu is amazing. I told my daughter it was scary, and she didn't believe me. She's okay with black and white, she's okay with old movies, but she'd seen a still of Max Schrek and laughed out loud at it.
She watched the thing, on youtube or somesuch, on a tiny laptop in the living room during the day,…

I've never seen the movie of Communion, but it is flat-out one of the scariest books I've ever read. Now, I didn't believe a word of it (and have lost track — does Whitley Strieber still claim it's all true?) but it was incredibly scary, and low- to high-level creepy throughout. (Streiber is a decent horror writer,…

Nice to know someone else likes Legion… I think it's a more effective book than The Exorcist, actually (though it couldn't exist without it, obviously), and the movie was wonderful. (And, in my opinion, a better adaptation than The Exorcist was..)
Blatty's take on evil (and on faith, I suppose) can be kinda…

Flight didn't make me stop drinking; just made me promise myself never to pilot a jetliner. So I can keep drinking.

Ah… for me it's that very first glimpse of one of the creatures, with its head lolling back…
At least I think that's the first glimpse. I have literally not been able to watch The Descent twice — nor The Orphanage. But I think that's partly because of those movies' profound sadness as much as scariness.

A lot of Donovan songs have an underlying disturbing vibe to them. I doubt you could get a creepy scene out of "Atlantis" but I'd like to see it tried. "Way downnnnn, below the ocean…."

We don't know for sure that Fincher doesn't compile mixtapes for serial killers. Not the kind of thing he'd mention on a press junket probably.

The "Hurdy Gurdy Man" scene in Zodiac….!

Kyle, you're right about that scene (and others) in Blair Witch. With all the "found-footage" horror that's come out since then it's difficult to get perspective, but it's got an unbalanced, out-of-proportion level of scariness to it. Once when Heather Donahue was dissed for her acting skill, she said "I've got news…

I think it would be funny if when you click on "load more comments" it would load comments from an entirely different article.
Not that funny, but a little funny.

I think Whedon and his helpers used Cap really well in The Avengers - nicely illustrating his general combat command with those cops and his crowd-and-fire-control orders, then organizing the team, culminating in the "Hulk… smash!" order.
They were the kinds of scenes I wanted and was afraid they wouldn't have time…

I thought it was perfect, that "there's only one god, ma'am" line. Both for the character and for the "ma'am" part.

Okay. Well, *I'M* gonna see this.