What the hell is that cell phone/palm pilot seashell thing?

I'm a journalist, too, and I'm sorry if you think we're unfit to be the subject of horror movies. We make much more believable protagonists than random people who just want to investigate spooky shit.

Beyond the Sea?

The harness got yanked so hard that she broke several ribs — so, no, she WASN'T acting.

People are afraid of strangers and basements and Charles Fleischer, too. If we're saying that a movie being scary is the only thing it needs to qualify as a horror movie, then of course "Zodiac" counts.

tell that to any child that watches it and has to go swimming

I also was going to point out how that scene and Fleischer's performance works on a Usual Suspects-type rewatch level—when you see it a second time he really does come across as simultaneously ominous and benign.

The pajamas and high heels is a nod to the panic. She'd been sleeping and grabbed the first shoes she saw as she started running out of the house.

i still can't go into the deep end of the swimming pool without hearing the "Love Theme from Jaws".

I don't think "It" wants to trick them at first. I think it wants them to know what it is and build terror. The longer it goes on the more innocuous the creature appears. Take the guy in the opening who sees a pretty girl in a yellow sundress. He's been dealing with it awhile and now it's being sneaky.

"Zodiac's too prestige for the genre"

I don't know what it is with people wanting so badly to pick apart It Follows. It's not like this is the only horror movie ever made that has characters making bizarre decisions, and it seems clear to me that a lot of the elements that people deride in this movie are deliberate storytelling decisions and not just…

"I guess I just don't know why its It Follows that everyone dislikes because of, and, knows all the broken rules."

I thought that It was trying to frighten its targets as much as it was trying to kill them, and the weird and terrifying guises it took on were part of that.

Does it cut right to her flagging down the next car? We don't see her jump out of the vehicle do we?

In episode 2F09, when Itchy plays Scratchy's skeleton like a xylophone,
he strikes the same rib in succession, yet he produces two clearly
different tones. I mean, what are we to believe, that this is a magic
xylophone, or something? Ha ha, boy, I really hope somebody got fired
for that blunder.

What

That's understandable- the older you get, the fear with Jaws simply transfers from fear for your own young'un life to fear for your kiddo's life.

Susan Backlinie wasn't just a great screamer but a great actor by conveying not only terror but awful pain and the sure knowledge of her own death with her blood-chilling screams.

I was probably around 9 or 10 when I first saw it (a t.v. edit at that), didn't live anywhere near the ocean or any big body of water, and yet I was still terrified the shark was going to somehow break through my bedroom floor and eat me.