"A Vincent Price film called "Doctor Phibes" or something like that..He fed some fat guy a pie made of the guys poodle and gave some women a perm with an electric perm helmet, frying her brains in the process." I think this was actually "Theatre of Blood" with Vincent price and Dianna Riggs. (I'm a longtime Vincent Price fan) Scarey? As a kid I recall nightmares after an animated short that aired on the Ed Sullivan Show that showed effects of a nuclear war - One image of a Deer being incinerated to a skeleton in mid-leap stayed with me for years. As an adult, I recall feeling unsettled watching "The Changeling" alone one night in the 80's. I love splatter and monster movies, but I started doing those effects as a hobby and sometimes professionally in the early 70's, and I rarely see anything but an actor with latex and Karo Syrup when I watch them. The staging, story, and editing is what makes them work.