I remember that scene too sharke. It sticks in the memory doesn't it. Another one is in Blue Velvet where he finds the room with the yellow jacket detective and the hostage in it. 
 
I haven't watched a scary film in about 15 years because I do not watch sadistic type movies.

The last scene in "Angel Heart" when washed-up private eye Mickey Rourke, after investigating and coming to the realization that he himself murdered his own daughter (among others) finds himself locked in a metal elevator cage slowly descending into hell ..................down,down,down.

savageopera
The last scene in "Angel Heart" when washed-up private eye Mickey Rourke, after investigating and coming to the realization that he himself murdered his own daughter (among others) finds himself locked in a metal elevator cage slowly descending into hell ..................down,down,down.

For that matter ... Claude Berri's dual film (Jean de Florette and Manon of the Spring) is also an insane mind blower ... and you really do not know/understand the story until that last 15 minutes ... in 2 films, in what appears to be separate stories but aren't.
 
Yep, he had also done the same thing .... beautiful cinematography all the way through, and outstanding acting ... and a total kaboom in the end.

Mesh
My father said the scariest movie he saw in the theatre was the original Dracula with Bela Lugosi......I've yet to see it, but his description of it always made me think twice (when I was younger).

We have been so desensitized to the "classical' bela legosi style vampire from decades of parody that i doubt it can even scare small children anymore. Still an enjoyable movie.

jamesg1213

Moshkito
 
 
"Alien"
 Is not that great a film, since it degenerates to a just plain horror film and gore.
 

 
I disagree. It's a masterclass in building suspense with a few well placed shocks. It's a 'haunted house in space' film really, and along with 'Silent Running' it revolutionized the sci-fi genre.

I have to agree with james.  there is a difference between gore that advances and compliments the story and gratuitous effects for the sake of shock value. It would be very difficult to project the invasive violation these creatures place upon human hosts via description alone. Without the visual representation, description and implied type shots would likely come across as a bad tape worm. As james pointed out, the film is far more reliant on suspense than gore.

As a child i found most religious themed horror movies the scariest because I was told these things could or will happen.  The Omen was presented to me as a fictionalized account of what's to come and was similar in nature to the scary films they used to show us in sunday school about the rapture and such. It was easy to dismiss ghost, vampires, zombies, etc, but being told ,matter of factly that "Damien" was probably alive and could be one of my classmates kept me up many a night.

dubdisciple

jamesg1213

Moshkito
 
 
"Alien"
 Is not that great a film, since it degenerates to a just plain horror film and gore.
 

 
I disagree. It's a masterclass in building suspense with a few well placed shocks. It's a 'haunted house in space' film really, and along with 'Silent Running' it revolutionized the sci-fi genre.

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As james pointed out, the film is far more reliant on suspense than gore.
 

There are very few "horror" films that are not based on suspense, even photographed Hitchcock style.
 
I don't think "Alien" is a bad film. I simply think that its technical expertise and definition is what separates it from all others.