What horror/thriller/suspense scene totally freaked you out as a kid?

PoolMan: One of the Critters movies, I'm not sure which one. There's the young guy trying to get it on with the good looking girl, he reaches back to turn the stereo on, and a Critter bites straight through his fingers and the radio. This of course leads to the gratuitous screaming while looking at what's left of his hand before he's offed. I've got a real thing about amputation, it always freaks me out. Clare: Any scene featuring Mrs. Baylock from The Omen. That chick was creepy nuts. DnaError: Gremlins. Don't laugh, that scene with the microwave gave me the creeps as a kid. Justin: The opening scene of Jaws, when the girl swimming at night is grabbed by the Great White out in the deep water. My babysitter allowed us to see this, and several things about the scene still freak me out to this day (even if the rest of the film is hilarious): we never see the shark, her little bobs that turn into full-fledged shark frenzy, the drunk guy on the shore unable to help, and just the sensation of that dark water hosting all sorts of nightmares. Yay. Gotta love childhood neurosis! Kyle: As a kid i snuck into the living room at my grandparents' house while my uncles were watching a Friday the 13th movie. i walked in just at the end of Friday the 13th Part 3 when a girl is sitting in a boat in shock but happy that she survived, when suddenly she looks to the house and sees the horrible face of Jason Vorhees! and then something jumps out of the water to grab her and pull her under! oh my dear lord! i didn't scream, but i ran the heck out of there! Andie: I saw the last ten minutes of Jaws when I was 5 years old and it scared me so badly I had nightmares for months. I wouldn't go anywhere near a pool or a lake and I was convinced that there was a shark swimming under my bed and that it would surface and skewer me with its dorsel fin. Seriously.

Who is the all-time baddest, biggest, toughest, strongest, smurfiest horror villain of them all?

PoolMan: Hmm.. if "villain" is the term, this may seem off, but I always liked the Queen Alien. Man, she was huge, tough, nasty... but no match for Sigourney Weaver, of course. Clare: I'm gonna go with Michael Myers from the Halloween series. That dude was creepy nuts. DnaError: Oh! So many horrors upon horrors to choose from! I'd say Satan ala "the exorcist" is a pretty Big Bad...prince of darkness and all that. Death, Dead Relatives and unseen witches get pretty high on the list. Justin: Evil Camera from the Evil Dead series. It had no rules or limitations, no set behavior or even physical manifestation, yet always made the good guys run or turn into zombies. Plus, gotta love that low growling noise that sounded like an radio-controlled car zipping along at 10mph. Kyle: As a kid, i would have said Jason from Friday the 13th because those films seemed "neater" (they were out in the country, lots of skinnydipping opportunities) and Jason seemed like an angry evil version of MacGuyver. but now having "grown up" i would have to say Michael Myers from Halloween, because he's smart enough to stalk the kids from the shadows and he uses a modified William Shatner mask to do it. what's scarier than that? Andie: Jason Voorhees from Friday the 13th.

What underdog horror movie title do you fight for?

PoolMan: I don't really. Horror movies aren't my strong point. Even the cheesiest one manages to drag me in, and I don't enjoy it. So I guess "Attack of the Really Nice Fuzzy Teddy Bears Who Bring Beer and Don't Disembowel You" would be my underdog favourite. Clare: Santa Sangre (Saint Blood) Kind of the Spanish version of Psycho only WAY more disturbing, far more bizarre and a whole lot more nightmare inducing. It might be hard to find, but well worth the effort to look for. Makes an extremely great double feature along side 1932 horror classic Freaks. DnaError: Elvira: Mistress of the Dark. What!? it's good! Just let me show you. Come back! Justin: In The Mouth of Madness, which is not only bloody and creepy in high amounts, but also brings to life the Cthulu mythos, Stephen King novels and demon children. Gotta love demon children! Kyle: At the moment, Ring, only because when the American remake comes out (though maybe Dreamworks can pull it off) it will probably be garbage. But of all time I'd have to say Prince of Darkness, because this has some of the best characters, a really cool premise and and an excellent setting (they're all locked in an abandoned church with liquid Satan in the basement!). check it out! Andie: April Fool's Day. I know it sounds dumb, but this is actually a scary horror movie that keeps you guessing and has a totally great ending.

If you could dress up as one horror movie victim (post-mortem), who would it be?

PoolMan: Glen from Nightmare on Elm Street... again, I'm not sure which one (funny how they all blend together) But you remember him as the boy who was lying in bed with a TV on his stomach. He gets pulled in, and explodes all over the room. It's an easy costume, all you have to do is stand around the corner and squeeze a bottle of ketchup into the next room as hard as you can! (for added effect, yell "ow") Clare: Zombies are cool. That's not really an answer, it's more just a matter of fact. DnaError: Tatum in Scream. Cat Door death! I woudn't like having to wear the fuzzy angora sweater and skirt tho. Justin: The DJ from Hellraiser 3 who gets his head impaled by three or five CDs. It would be a cool costume, and I could look like some sort of modern dinosaur to boot. Gotta love death by CDs! Kyle: I'd dress as the dude from Phantasm that gets the flying metal ball stuck in the middle of his forehead, which proceeds to spray his entire blood supply all over the floor. that way i could go up to doors for candy and up to girls for dates and if i didn't get the correct answer ("here's tons of candy!" or "why, yes, i love captain kirk and i'll go out with you!") i'd hit a hidden switch and 10 pints of red fluid (possibly syrup mixed with cherry cola) would spray all over the offender. how cool is that? Andie: This sounds kinda weird, but I would find a guy and dress up as Sandra and Jeff from Friday the 13th Part 2. They're the couple who is in the middle of getting it on when Jason skewers them with a spear. It goes thru both of them and comes out under the bed, so I would make it look like my guy and I were attached by a spear going thru our mid-sections.