# movies that gave you the heeebie jeeebies/willies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 25, 2004, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-gave-you-the-heeebie-jeeebies-willies/231178 "2004-02-25T21:43:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mal\_Adroit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@Mal\_Adroit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mal_Adroit)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2004, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-gave-you-the-heeebie-jeeebies-willies/231178/21 "2004-02-26T18:27:33Z")
Doh. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2004, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-gave-you-the-heeebie-jeeebies-willies/231178/22 "2004-02-26T18:41:41Z")
**Arachnephobia** , for me, nothing else comes anywhere close. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2004, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-gave-you-the-heeebie-jeeebies-willies/231178/23 "2004-02-26T18:45:05Z")
**The Wicker Man** always creeps me out. Don’t really know why… ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2004, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-gave-you-the-heeebie-jeeebies-willies/231178/24 "2004-02-26T18:47:24Z")
That would be Arachn **o** phobia ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2004, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-gave-you-the-heeebie-jeeebies-willies/231178/25 "2004-02-26T18:50:17Z")
[Funny Games](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=116204&highlight=funny). Or if you prefer: Lustige Spiele ---
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2004, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-gave-you-the-heeebie-jeeebies-willies/231178/26 "2004-02-26T19:20:29Z")
Ooh yes, _The Ring_ and _Session 9_ definitely. Both have a wonderful creepy atmosphere that just gets under your skin. I think good horror movies tap into deeper psychological issues, and I doubt it’s an accident that I was so affected by these movies, which I saw just before and few months after becoming a parent, respectively. I also think _The Silence of the Lambs_ quickly built and maintained a general atmosphere of creepy impending doom, with occasional bursts of extra creepiness, like Starling’s walk down the hallway to meet Lechter. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2004, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-gave-you-the-heeebie-jeeebies-willies/231178/27 "2004-02-26T19:46:57Z")
“The Others.” I don’t know what I was afraid of, but I was afraid. My husband still has finger imprints on his arm. Julie ---
**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2004, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-gave-you-the-heeebie-jeeebies-willies/231178/28 "2004-02-26T20:04:17Z")
**quiltguy154** said… > [@](#): > > For me it was reading “Salem’s Lot,” and seeing the movie based on it. Floating ghouls, oblivious townspeople, satanic emissaries, etc. What more does it take to make your hair stand on end? If you’re talking about the [1979 release](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079844/), the sleepy little town where the film was shot on location (complete with multiple authentic hillside cemetaries) is back in my neck of the woods in Humboldt Co., California, [The Victorian Village of Ferndale](http://www.victorianferndale.org/chamber/). I lived there through high school and half of college. I can assure you that the obliviousness was not an act. 😃 [Outbreak](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114069/) and [The Majestic](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0268995/) were also filmed there. ---
**Author:** ![TelcontarStorm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3ab097/32.png) [@TelcontarStorm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TelcontarStorm)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2004, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-gave-you-the-heeebie-jeeebies-willies/231178/29 "2004-02-26T23:54:26Z")
The first movie to ever give me a straight case of the HeebieJeebies was **A Clockwork Orange**. So lasting is the impression that the mere thought of a mascaraed eye and a bowler hat make me shutter. Funnily, another movie which disturbed me at first viewing is **A Boy and his Dog** Now, I see it as almost a comedy. A young Don Johnson is pretty easy on the eyes, and somehow hard to take so seriously now. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-gave-you-the-heeebie-jeeebies-willies/231178/30 "2004-02-27T00:07:57Z")
Hands down, its gotta be [Blue Velvet](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090756/). Dennis Hopper still gives me the creeps, based solely on his performance in this movie. ---
**Author:** ![Club\_33](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@Club\_33](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Club_33)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-gave-you-the-heeebie-jeeebies-willies/231178/31 "2004-02-27T00:46:31Z")
**One Hour Photo** - I still think about it every time I walk into a Wal-Mart and see the one hour photo sign. Robin was pretty creepy. **Silence of the Lambs** - Between Buffalo Bill and Hannibal Lector, this movie kept me nicely creeped out. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-gave-you-the-heeebie-jeeebies-willies/231178/32 "2004-02-27T00:49:28Z")
[Recent thread on the subject](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=169689). ---
**Author:** ![hanza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/eb8c5e/32.png) [@hanza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hanza)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-gave-you-the-heeebie-jeeebies-willies/231178/33 "2004-02-27T00:58:57Z")
Another vote for Jacob’s Ladder. There’s something about seeing such weird, horrific images, which are NOT part of a dream, and NOT meant to be in a horror film-type universe, but in the"real" world that really freaks me out something rotten. There’s s a scene in a Clive Barker book (can’t remember which one), when the main character gets up and has a long conversation with a fox, or something obviously not real, all the time kind of assuming that he’s dreaming. He says something to the fox about wanting to wake up now, and the fox replies “You’ve been wide awake for the last 10 minutes”. It really gave me the creeps even though the scene wasn’t otherwise that scary. ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-gave-you-the-heeebie-jeeebies-willies/231178/34 "2004-02-27T02:03:36Z")
There was a British movie that was everything [The Day After](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085404/) should have been and wasn’t, [Threads](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090163/). ---
**Author:** ![Beauty\_Personified](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@Beauty\_Personified](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beauty_Personified)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-gave-you-the-heeebie-jeeebies-willies/231178/35 "2004-02-27T02:48:34Z")
I found _The Mothman Prophecies_ (2002) to be one of the most atmospheric films I’ve ever seen. Spooky from start to finish, and I don’t think I relaxed even a moment throughout. I was very pleasantly surprised… ---
**Author:** ![Flowerchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/858c86/32.png) [@Flowerchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flowerchild)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-gave-you-the-heeebie-jeeebies-willies/231178/36 "2004-02-27T02:49:05Z")
Its weird that Telcontarstorm posted that. As soon as I read the thread title the first thing that popped into my head was A clockwork Orange. Psycho (even the sequels) left me scarred for life thanks to my dad who thought it was hilarious to show me that movie when I was like 8 or 9. I remember another movie that bothered me quite alot, but I dont remember what it was called. It was a popular movie too. The one where all the zombie type people are taking over (Like in night of the living dead) So a few people run into this mall, and they like live there as the world is being taken over by zombies, at least I think thats how it went, the part about being alone in the mall while the world was dying is what really scared me. ---
**Author:** ![Beauty\_Personified](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@Beauty\_Personified](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beauty_Personified)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-gave-you-the-heeebie-jeeebies-willies/231178/37 "2004-02-27T02:55:24Z")
> [@Flowerchild](#): > > I remember another movie that bothered me quite alot, but I dont remember what it was called. It was a popular movie too. The one where all the zombie type people are taking over (Like in night of the living dead) So a few people run into this mall, and they like live there as the world is being taken over by zombies, at least I think thats how it went, the part about being alone in the mall while the world was dying is what really scared me. Sounds like the sequel _Dawn of the Dead_, which is currently being remade. Unfortunately, I’ve yet to see the whole thing, yet I’ve seen the inferior third film - _Day of the Dead_ a few times. (And, of course, the first a few times as well. Like _Night of the Living Dead_, _Dawn_ is another great example of horror-as-social commentary… ---
**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-gave-you-the-heeebie-jeeebies-willies/231178/38 "2004-02-27T02:58:40Z")
> [@Flowerchild](#): > > I remember another movie that bothered me quite alot, but I dont remember what it was called. It was a popular movie too. The one where all the zombie type people are taking over (Like in night of the living dead) So a few people run into this mall, and they like live there as the world is being taken over by zombies, at least I think thats how it went, the part about being alone in the mall while the world was dying is what really scared me. I believe you’re referring to [Dawn of the Dead (1978)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077402/). There’s also a new remake slated to come out [this year](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363547/). ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-gave-you-the-heeebie-jeeebies-willies/231178/39 "2004-02-27T03:04:03Z")
The original **The Fly**. It has become a pop-cultural icon (and cliche) but “Help me. Help meee!” still give me the willies. ---
**Author:** ![Flowerchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/858c86/32.png) [@Flowerchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flowerchild)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-gave-you-the-heeebie-jeeebies-willies/231178/40 "2004-02-27T04:09:33Z")
Dawn of the Dead!! Thank you, for the life of me I could not think of that name. Thank you very much. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-gave-you-the-heeebie-jeeebies-willies/231178.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-gave-you-the-heeebie-jeeebies-willies/231178.md?page=3)