Reply #56: The Sixth Sense is by FAR my scariest movie...

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I used to think it was the Shining until I saw Sixth Sense.

It really creeped me out with the temperature going down on the thermostat and seeing people's breaths and ghosts popping up from rooms down the hall. The ghost who was the kid who killed himself with his dad's gun had me jumping up out of my seat - that scared the hell out of me. Also the little girl who grabbed Haley Joel Osmond's ankles under the bed - I just about peed my pants. Also the other things like the dead people hanging in the school, the dead teacher from the fire, the dead bicyclist..the kid knowing things from soldiers he had no way of knowing - it really freaked me out.

The ending freaked me out too but I don't want to discuss it in case someone here hasn't seen it yet.

The Shining creeped me out for similar reasons like the little girls down the hall and "redrum" and the way Nicholson descended into homocidal madness with the axe.

Southern Comfort was scary because they had no bullets for their guns and were being hunted by the Cajuns they pissed off through the swamps of Louisiana. Really this is the classic high school horror flick transformed to an unusual setting (Louisiana swamp) and an unusual cast (National Guard soldiers instead of teenagers)

The Silence of the Lambs was totally scary in the last few minutes when Jodie Foster was in the dark with the psycho with the night vision goggles and the build up to that moment put you in just the right spot to be scared.

Aliens was particularly scary the first time as the aliens kept getting the upper hand, the soldiers lost their gear, etc. In some ways similar to SC.

I originally forgot about Angelheart and Jaws.

Doug D.