#PhantomOfTheScreen

[spectrasgothiccinema]

What Scene From a Movie Traumatised You When You Were Younger?

For me, it was this. Nosferatu’s elongated shadow creeping up the staircase in Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror. The way it seemed alive, more terrifying than the figure casting it, haunted me for weeks. I couldn’t walk past a staircase without feeling those spectral fingers reaching for me.

Movies have a way of lodging fear in the corners of your mind, don’t they?