Top 5 Horror film moments

[Sundae]

I am easily spooked, so it tends to be the shocks that get to me rather than the gore.

I'm lousy at remembering things unless I've seen them a couple of times, but once I've seen them a couple of times I'm de-sensitised....

These are those I can remember:
- The House on Haunted Hill - most people agree this was an incredibly lame film, but it struck a chord with me. Every time I saw the juddering thing (can't descccribe it better, you'll know if you saw it) I felt the skin crawl all over my body. It was just so unnatural and wrong. I've woken up screaming twice since when the effect has been replicated in my dreams.

- From Dusk Til Dawn - when a vampire holds up a severed head in silhouette. I have no idea why that tipped the scales for me, but I honestly thought I was going to have to leave the cinema. I would have, if I hadn't been in the centre of a row - it was the first 18 (age-rated) film I ever watched. I was about 24!

- Twilight Zone The Movie - I saw the trailer when we went to watch Octopussy with my parents. No idea how old I was - 10? 12? They show the giant eye at the door (a split second moment in the film) and it freaked me out so much I had to go into the toilets and press my face against the cold tiles in order to reassure myself I was real and the eye wasn't. When I watched the film on video I was terrified by the girl with no mouth.

- Bunny Lake is Missing. Apparantly this is being remade (WHYYYYYY?!) When I saw it, it was a lovely atmospheric film, dark and creepy. Not a horror, sorry - it's a thriller, but I remember I watched it with my best friend, sitting on her bed. We were both so creeped out by the end (by which time everything had been resolved I seem to remember) that we were too scared to go downstairs to her bathroom. In the end we made enough noise to wake her brother up so we'd have an excuse to turn all the lights on.

And yes, where the girl comes out of the television in the original Ring (Japanese version). The American one was still creepy, but it's the unrelenting strangeness that gets you, and that can only happen once. I lay in terror one night, believing that there was someone in the mirror at the bottom of my hall (it's a creepy mirror anyway, dark and spotted) and that they were coming out a la Ring. I heard them moving up the hall countless times. I was obviously half asleep, but at the time it seemed real and I honestly thought I was going to die of fear.