Khandu, I lived near the house owned by a lawyer/doctor where they filmed Ghost Story (or at least part of the movie.) My mom drove me past it one night. Hadn't seen the movie yet, though.

The Exorcist scared me but mainly because of the projectile pea-soup puking. I just never knew when to expect it after the first time. It's the suspenseful build-up and big 'boo' that gets me. Fake blood and guts isn't scary. I was also in the right mood to be scared. I remember watching Night of the Living Dead in a movie theater. My friend was getting sick and couldn't eat her popcorn, so she gave it to me. At the time, there was this hit song. I sat there singing "Yummy, yummy, yummy, I've got mom in my tummy..."

You know what I've found very scary in recent years? (Probably not.) Anybody seen (Oh jeez - I forgot the name of the movie. It stars Tim Robbins, and he keeps seeing things and is convinced somebody's out to get him and his chiropractor is, like, talking like a supernatural guide and at the end we find he really never came home from Viet Nam and he's been having an "Owl Creek" moment is hallucinating all this as he's dying in a military field hospital. Anyway, one of the things he sees is people with heads bouncing around really fast. Easy to film, but it's scary, and I don't quite know why.

The Twilight Zone episode Rick talks about was re-made for The Movie. I wasn't all that impressed. I used to watch TZ when it was new, but I don't remember seeing that particular episode. I've seen it since, though. I don't think it's particularly scary, but these days I usually try to figure out how they did the special effects or predict things. I think I saw the commercial quite a while ago...maybe.