Jeri - I agree about Jacob's Ladder - that film haunted me for years.

For me, one of the scariest movie moments ever was in The Shining - the bit where the little girls appear without warning in the looooong, deserted hotel corridor. It's the whole build up as well - the brilliantly directed sounds - tricycle over wood, then silence when it crosses the carpet, then wheels on wood, then silence again - arrrgh! I watched it one night on my own and went upstairs half way through and made my boyfriend get out of bed and watch it with me.

Peter T - that Sargasso Sea scenario reminds me of a tale that freaked me out as a child. Someone told me a story about someone who got a barnacle on their foot at the beach, and it started spreading, and barnacles were quickly growing up their leg, and then as the person tried to run for help the weight of the barnacles weighed them down, and they fell, and still the barnacles spread, and lastly they opened their mouth to scream and the barnacles got inside them... ugh.