[David]

Originally Posted by Gypsy-Rhiannon

From the Changeling. Has anyone else seen this movie?

It's one of the greatest, most moving ghost stories ever filmed.

In the early '70s, BBC adapted Dickens's "The Signal Man." It stars Denholm Elliott.



I also think the Hoichi the Earless segment of Kobayashi's Kwaidan is freaky & chilling, as is the scene in The Innocents when Deborah Kerr sees the spectre Quint at the window.



And don't forget (or have you forgotten already?) the burial scenes in Dreyer's Vampyr.



I love scary movies that capture some of what Freud discussed in his essay on the uncanny -- images & sounds that seem to stir early memories & disrupt deep-seated psychological fissures. Some of the scariest scenes in films are those that make us think "I used to have that same nightmare as a child!"