What makes House of Leaves so creepy is the way that Danielewski knows that it isn't the idea of seeing a monster or a ghost that terrifies you. It's the idea of thinking or knowing that the monster is behind you, but you can't bring yourself to turn round and see it. That uneasy limbo between knowing and not knowing…

Oh man, the Brooklyn Nighthawk is one of the finest cinemas I've ever been to, and I didn't even watch a movie there! I just spent a night chilling out at the bar, ordering bloody marys and talking to the barman about the music he was playing. Really great atmosphere. Hopefully, I'll get to see something there next…

Yeah, I thought that watching Sex & The City would offer me some sort of insight as well. I learned nothing. Not making the same mistake with Girls. i find that most television series tend to fall flat if approached as some sort of anthropological study. Unless it's The Wire. But not if you're actually a journalist,…

Who was the artist and writer on the Tootsie spoof, out of interest?

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Well, obviously emotional responses are subjective.

It's the editing which makes the scene. It's so disorienting. So fractured, and yet things start falling into place. Those briefly glimpsed images begin to make sense, but by the time they do, it's far too late.

Was hoping somebody would mention "Don't Look Now". The reveal is terrifying and the film goes from horror to sadness in a matter of seconds.

The way he cries for his mother added to the fact that none of those donkeys are changed back at the end of the film… man, Pinnochio is one fucked up film.

The use of music in The Shining is just incredible. All these atonal, dissonant pieces by Bela Bartok, Krysztof Penderecki and Gyorgy Ligeti.

The piles of shoes and children's clothes… *shudder*

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Oh yeah. Also when the scene suddenly jump cut to Regan undergoing tests and we just get the grind and shriek of machinery on the soundtrack. That whole spinal tap sequence genuinely unsettled me. Science. Relgion. Doesn't matter. It's all there to make this blameless little girl suffer.

I watched Eraserhead on my own at about midnight in an empty house when i was about 17. i had to keep pausing the VCR in order to make it through the whole film, just taking a moment to take a breather. I must have paused the last ten minutes of the film at least 12 times.

The scene that always got me was when Bill Pullman is in bed with Patricia Arquette in bed, her face is in shadow. And then you realise that it isn't Patricia Arquette.

That's a good one. The Haunting is such a great movie. I remember watching it with my cousin, who was initially sceptical ("It's black and white. How scary can it be?") We both screamed and jumped when the face appeared in the attic.

Between the use of "Hurdy Gurdy Man" in Zodiac and Enya's "Orinoco Flow" in "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo", I think David Fincher missed his calling compiling mixtapes for serial killers.

The ending of Threads… oh fucking hell, that ending.

Yes, but how does Ridley Scott visualize McCarthy's aversion to punctuation?