# 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:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![fallapart](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fallapart/32/3018_2.png) [@fallapart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fallapart)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-gave-you-the-heeebie-jeeebies-willies/231178/41 "2004-02-27T09:05:16Z")
Man Bites Dog The MOST DISTURBING film I have ever seen. Its a “Mockumentory” about a psycho killer. The way he casualy murders old women for their pensions, and kills an entire family infront of a child (and then proceeds to chase the kid down and smother him in his own bed) still creeps me out. That being said, it does have its lighter moments. ---
**Author:** ![Burrido](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Burrido](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Burrido)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2004, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-gave-you-the-heeebie-jeeebies-willies/231178/42 "2004-02-28T21:38:52Z")
The Ring gave me some serious willies. Something about the walk of that chick that just plain seems unnatural. If I saw anyone walking towards me like that in real life, I would shit in my pants and run the other way. ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2004, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-gave-you-the-heeebie-jeeebies-willies/231178/43 "2004-02-28T23:33:01Z")
> [@Small Clanger](#): > > I’m with **ColonelDax** Alien still works on me. But the first time I saw it geezus! > As for Eraserhead - _This film won’t just scare you it will fuck you up for life_. Especially if the first time you see it is on TV at 1:30 in the morning with all the lights out after you’ve already fried your sensory input having watched four other rentals. I will remember for th rest of my life where every dust particle in the room was when the film went to black after the last shot. By the way, the ultimate creepyfest is the original “Haunting” from 1960. ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2004, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-gave-you-the-heeebie-jeeebies-willies/231178/44 "2004-02-28T23:35:14Z")
> [@AerynSun](#): > > 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. The creepiest thing about that scene is that one of the asylum inmates is the actor who played Chef Brockett on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2004, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-gave-you-the-heeebie-jeeebies-willies/231178/45 "2004-02-28T23:38:54Z")
> [@scotandrsn](#): > > The creepiest thing about that scene is that one of the asylum inmates is the actor who played Chef Brockett on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood Got his name: [Don Brockett](http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0110667/) ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2004, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-gave-you-the-heeebie-jeeebies-willies/231178/46 "2004-03-02T19:36:28Z")
most horror movies dont bother me, per se … i can deal with undead / aliens / things that go bump in the night. what does bother me is realisms … like ‘misery’ or ‘geralds game’/‘rose madder’[i know, it isnt a movie, yet] because that stuff can and does happen. i will admit that there are some absolutely killer horror movies out there, and some scenes that are absolutely enthralling, like in Mario Bava’s ‘maschera del demonio’/‘black sunday’ where this unearthly fog is murking around, and a black coach and four moves through it like something demonic…incredible on a large screen in a dark room! ---
**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:** [March 2, 2004, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-gave-you-the-heeebie-jeeebies-willies/231178/47 "2004-03-02T19:40:54Z")
I’ve yet to see a Bava or Fulci film. : B ---
**Author:** ![Eman\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Eman\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eman_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2004, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-gave-you-the-heeebie-jeeebies-willies/231178/48 "2004-03-02T19:47:44Z")
I rented **The Exorcist** the other day. Now THAT’S a creepy movie… ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2004, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-gave-you-the-heeebie-jeeebies-willies/231178/49 "2004-03-02T20:48:40Z")
> [@drm](#): > > **Arachnephobia** , for me, nothing else comes anywhere close. Seconded. The sleeping bag scene still gives me nightmares. Also, the close-up of The General’s eyes reflecting the fire in the basement…yeeeeesh!! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-gave-you-the-heeebie-jeeebies-willies/231178.md?page=2)