Uh what. What part of Blair Witch Project didn't have Heather Donahue in tears in the woods? How about a more specific moment, like the guy standing in the corner or something, but I can't say there's really a super scary moment in that movie (of course I was jaded by hype).

As I've said before late night bathroom break with the innocent belief of a ghostly woman being your mother scene from The Sixth Sense. Or how about Urban Legends with the killer in the backseat of the car. I've never actually seen the movie but I'll be damned if I didn't double check my backseat before driving after just seeing those previews with that scene.

thanks Vis, with all the comment activity around sary movies I'm surprised people haven't taken up the opportunity to address specific moments of particularly effective fright rather than entire films - it changes the dynamic.

Oh and I don't know if Psycho made the general over all list but I think the shower scene should make the top 10. That made me, and other people I'm sure, afraid of taking a shower.

And I can't forget the scene in Evil Dead (2) where Bruce Campbell cuts off his hand and hysterically yells "Who's laughing now?! Who's laughing now?!" Oh wait, that was the funniest moment in scary movie history.

Having been an audience to those "dumps" let me tell you, they are DAMN scary.

I was hoping you would stumble across that - mwaaaa haa haa haah h

I know Signs wasn't scary at all, but wasn't it a little freaky when that alien walks across the alley? I watched that part 4 times in a row and still was freaked out.

haven't seen Signs, we're a couple of years behind.

they did a really good job at building suspence, but killed it all in the end w/ the "beat the alien w/ a baseball bat" crap.

everyone knows alleys, aliens and bats go hand-in-hand