Red Road, thanks for that info. Thank heavens they got rid of that. How lame would that have been? The sequel only really had one great scene (the bit in the well at the end, which made the noisy girls sitting on the other side of the cinema I saw it in shut up right quick), but I like that the hint is that Watts has…

I get really scared by recordings, either well-done fake found footage or audio of distorted voices, so the final scene of Prince of Darkness totally fucks me up.

Licky_Kicky, the final moments of Fail Safe have been burned into my brain with terror. "I'M THE MATADOR! I'M THE MATADOR!" Then those crash zooms on still photos and then white? Fuckfuckfuckfuckfuck!

The final scenes build to a really terrifying pitch. Needs to be reappraised: it's definitely in the same class as The Haunting.

Very late night UK TV would show Twilight Zone and Outer Limits, and the theme tunes and title sequences of both were guaranteed to mess me up. Even now the Twilight Zone theme makes me anxious.

The scene where one of the spelunkers gets her arms trapped as she's crawling through a tunnel nearly made me switch the film off. I wasn't claustrophobic before, but I sure am now. Thanks, Neil Marshall.

The Matrix got to me too. I knew what the movie was about, but that scene, and the bit later on where Morpheus explains how the humans are harvested, hit me on a gut level. It's one of the main reasons it's still my favourite movie.

Vadim Rizov's comment about remaining in Lynch's world after seeing Lost Highway made me smile. The same thing happened to me after seeing Mulholland Drive. People laughed at the tiny people? That's one of the ten scariest and most upsetting things I've seen in a movie. I stumbled out of the cinema in a really bad…

When I first saw Ringu, the moment Sadako climbed out of the TV fucked me up so bad I tried to climb over the back of my chair to get away from it. I reckon it works just fine.

Thrilled everyone has taken against it
Means I'll be sure to get a good seat, first day, first performance, at the IMAX in Waterloo, you haters.

There's one reason why the Aliens director's cut doesn't work. In the original, from the moment the aliens are spotted in the crawlspace above the lab to the moment Ripley finally blasts the queen alien out of the airlock, Cameron constructs the most perfect and sustained piece of action-suspense I think I've ever…

I'll wager that gentleman imagined things far more graphic than what Von Trier put on screen, and then got all confused when he found it exciting to have a transgressive thought. "Lock me up, guv'nor! I committed a thought crime… and I enjoyed it!!!"

Sadly I missed that, Mik Duffy. As long as it is based around the specific conventions of UK TV, I can't see why something like that couldn't work well. With the Bob Mills stuff, it just seemed alien.

Look, you're missing the point. Babies that don't act gay are straight, so if they are gay later, it's a lifestyle choice. Moms and dads, watch out for gay signs in your babies. If they're not there, don't take any guff when they grow up and tell you they're gay. They're just doing it to rebel.

I thought we were 5, and the Devil was 6. Can't remember what God was.

UK comedians love Garry Shandling
It's Garry Shandling's Show ran from 1986 to 1990, and was sporadically shown on BBC2 around that time (BBC treats its US acquisitions with amazing disregard: any other UK fans of Seinfeld will know what I'm talking about). In 1992 the comedian Sean Hughes launched a show on Channel 4…

O'Quinn's look of glee when his plane model glides through the hangar is one of the highlights of the movie.

@Warren Oates, you've just made me realise Peary's the reason I've still not seen R&RHS, and one of the reasons I didn't bother listening to The Ramones for years (until I heard Blitzkrieg Bop by accident). Man, *fuck* Danny Peary. (Though he did introduce me to dozens of awesome movies.)

The Indisputable Brilliance of O'Quinn
"O'Quinn isn't supported by the masterful atmosphere and suspense that elevated Mitchum in The Night Of The Hunter, or Joseph Cotten in Shadow Of A Doubt, but there are few more memorable performances from the '80s, and even fewer that comment so unmistakably on that era."

Love that book too, but in my stupid youth took it for gospel, which meant discounting a few movies that he wasn't keen on. If I hadn't my own critical balls hadn't dropped, I would've missed out on some of my favouriite movies (such as Altered States).