What Scares You?

So you're under the covers, terrified to let even one toe escape. You're absolutely certain that if you were to stick your arm out, or your leg, it would instantly become prey to whatever horror you just know is waiting for the opportune moment to strike. You're totally safe beneath the force field that is your Care Bears comforter. (You don't have a Care Bears comforter?! WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU!?) ;)

On the other hand, it's really fucking hot under here and the logical part of your brain is kicking in to remind you that if you don't go up for air soon, you may just die there in the heat of your own fumes.

My question to you today is, what movie or book put you there in the first place? Everyone has different Scary Buttons. Was it a ghost story? A serial killer slasher? A bug infested corpse? An exorcism gone bad? (And is it just me, or do they ALL go bad?)

I am an absolute horror addict, and I love hearing about what scares other people, because everybody is different. The person who laughs at me for wanting to cry and hide away forever when Samara from The Ring crawls out of the television set could be the same person who screamed in the theatre when she found out the call was coming from inside the house.

For me, it's:

-Witches (the Blair Witch kind, not the Witch Mountain kind. Teeth in a rag, anybody?)

-Curses (You're completely and utterly fucked and chances are there is absolutely nothing you can do about it, even though you'll try desperately and lose some friends along the way.)

-Haunted forests (Ever since I went camping one time and looked, I mean really looked at what a dense forest looks like at night. SO open, and so horrifyingly quiet, except for the occasional crunch of leaves or twigs or branches out there in the dark)

-Indian, Native American, or old English ghosts/legends (Did you ever read that story about the Wendigo in Scary Stories to Tell In the Dark? OMG.)

-Voodoo (I'm not talking sticking-a-pin-in-a-doll here. I'm talking a bird skull wrapped with a piece of bloody cloth with a chunk of hair inside.)

-Things returning from the dead (Pet Semetary by Stephen King is the most terrifying book I have ever, ever read.)

-Twisted, dark fairy tales (Grimm style, of course.)

-What I call "quiet gore." (Gore that is as raw as it gets, without being too showy and covered in obnoxious amounts of fake or CG blood. Examples: The dude that gets his eyes pecked out in The Birds, almost all the gore in Schindler's List, and pretty much the entire movie 28 Days Later.)

I could go on for days. We've all got our thing, so what's yours?