yeah, it is bad. i am not afraid of clowns, and that scared the piss outta me. "We all float down here..."
Believe it or not, the director's cut of the Exorcist made me afraid to look at the friggin hood over my stover for a while, due to an added flicker of the death face on one in a particular scene...
http://scaredyet.net/pics/exorcist/exorcist13.jpg
And one night, after watching the Ring, i got up to take a piss, and there was a dark towel hanging from a rack on the door, that was over my wife's light colored robe. for a split second, Samara was standing in my bathroom door way. I have never before or since experienced a level of panic quite that intense.....