Movies that gave you Nightmares

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Bunch of vampire movies. The House of Dark Shadows, The Return of Count Yorga, Christopher Lee Dracula movies, even that Roman Polanski vampire comedy. Salem's Lot, the old t.v. movie.

Usually it has to be something that creates a paranoid atmosphere where the horror develops gradually and you suddenly realize what horrible deep poop you're in as the horror unfolds close up from ordinary things.

That's why vampires work for me and werewolves don't, at least on my deep subconscious. You can see a werewolf coming a mile a way -- he's a werewolf, after all. And if you have a second floor or a tree to climb up, you're fine. But a vampire could be the guy or girl you're talking to any place, any time, even one of the people you trust most in the world, and as you realize they're a vampire and about to make a snack out of you, it kind of slowly, by at first imperceptible degrees, morphs the whole world into an inescapable horror, because it turns your feelings of trust and safety and simple reality upside down. A straight out regular monster doesn't do that; he doesn't attack your reality from the inside. It's not monsters jumping out at you that's scary to me so much as people turning into monsters before you can realize it or really believe it's happening, right before your eyes. That little frisson of paranoia, and paranoid fears realized, is the best. Vampires all the way.