Don't I just know it..
The scene where NC goes into the room with all the sheets over everything nearly made me crap myself. Lost of quiet whipsering voices behind you & then someone speaks loudly just behind you left shoulder. Brilliant use of 5.1. I can't remeber hearing any of this when watching the film in stereo at a mates house either.
ok you'll laugh at me a LOT when you see this but...
my scariest film of all time is
Jurassic Park
I KNOW SHHHHH
another scary movie is probably the ring - seen it? well its quite scary just like the sixth sense - it comes out feb 21st in England but i downloaded it
I watched a prebanned copy of The Exorcist on VHS back in around 1990, having no idea what the film was about and had never heard of it before. I have to say this film terrified me. I thought it was a drama the first hour about a girl and her single mum and a helpful priest. I also thought she had emotional problems and this was a film about depression. Little did I know she would turn into the Devil the second hour. It's only not scary when you have heard so much about the plot.
I think you have to judge a lot of the films for what they were at the time. The Exorcist and Suspiria at the time did the trick, but effects have moved on. Mind you listen to suspiria on a r1 disc with a full blown dts decoder and you'll be jumping. And anyone who has heard The Haunting on dts will never forget it. There is not a dvd for sound to match that
First time I saw The Thing there were good scary moments. Texas Chainsaw Massacre was just horrible - probably the first really gory film I saw.
Most of the rest are just moments - ghosts/movements in background in Sixth Sense, and a film - might be exorcist 3 - where you see the badguy/maniac dash across a hospital corridor behind a nurse to finish off someone in the opposite room - no background music or any sound - just a great shock!