- The opening sequence with the kids tormenting and killing Robin is a must-see. The repeated intonations of, "The Killer is Coming… The Killer is Coming," is downright creepy
- Jude's death in the back of her date's super-awesome raper van
- The protracted chase scene of super-bitch Wendy by the mysterious killer
- The disco floor, complete with sunken lighting, in the Hamilton High auditorium
- JAMIE LEE's show-stopping dance routine, with obligatory close-up as her partner Nick twirls her like a pizza
- The decapitated head tumbling down the prom catwalk
- The prom's signature song:
Ghostwatch
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 INDELIBLE SCENE(S):
- Pipes by the bedroom curtain. (All of pipes' nearly subliminal appearances can be viewed HERE )
- Playing the audio tape of Pipes' voice
- Daughter Suzanne possessed by Pipes
- Reporter SARAH GREENE trapped in the "Glory Hole" while the cats howl and the transmission fails.
- Stalwart host MICHAEL PARKINSON succumbs to Pipes' will
Official Traumatot :: Michael Stephenson
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TRAUMAFESSIONS :: Todd G. on JAWS
The first time I can remember ever being scared was seeing JAWS at a drive-in theater in a packed station-wagon. I remember hiding behind the seat closing my eyes and all us kids screaming whenever the shark jumped out. I remember one part where they're under the water beneath a boat and and all the sudden a dead guy's face appears in a hole. That stayed with me more than the shark, at the time it was really sick! On the ride home we all pretended the station-wagon was a boat and we were being chased by JAWS.
Official Traumatizer :: Louise Fletcher
Ghosthouse
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   INDELIBLE SCENE(S):
- Whenever the ghost girl and her evil clown dolly appear, they are accompanied by what is referred to in the movie as a nursery rhyme like song. In fact, it sounds neither like a song nor a rhyme, and more closely resembles a robotic voiced child in the back of a car asking over and over again, "Are we here? Are we there yet?"
- Someone please explain Pepe the hitchhiker to me.
- Not scared of kids and dolls? The handyman is a maniac who will kill you with a cleaver that is for some reason referred to as an axe
- Not scared of handymen? There's also a ghostly Doberman Pinscher to contend with
- Not scared of dogs? Don't worry an unexplained maggoty-faced grim reaper stops by!
- Head in a washing machine!
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Official Traumatot: Ann Carter
Curse of the Cat People
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- Irena's first ethereal appearance
- The magic tree mailbox is on the fritz!
- Irena's picture burning in the fireplace
- As with all VAL LEWTON's films, the cinematography through out is uniformly exquisite but Amy's flight from imagined danger through a snowstorm is especially breathtaking
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The Changeling
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INDELIBLE SCENE(S):
- The infamous rubber ball that returns from the river to bounce the stairs and scare the shit out of John
- The monotone voice and spastic penmanship of the medium conducting the séance
- The little girl sees the apparition of a drowned boy in the floor of her bedroom
- Claire tumbles down the stairs after being mercilessly terrorized by the wicker wheelchair
Suspiria
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INDELIBLE SCENE(S):Â
- Make sure there are seatbelts in that taxicab HARPER, the symphony that is the opening to SUSPIRIA is a real head rocker
- The M.C. ESCHER wallpaper
- Close up of knife in heart
- Maggot rain
- Landing safely in a pile of…barbed wire!
- The missing gargoyle and the blind man's dog
- The creepy kid and the maid
- Don't knock over that peacock lamp!
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