Ever been scared of opening/closing credits?

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I was never really scared of any, but the opening/closing credits to "Tales From The Darkside" always kinda creeps me out a little bit.

most famous opening credits were from superman.
i remember watching it, and getting all excited seeing the opening credits and the opening score, all impressive and i was really excited, then there was an advertisement, followed by more opening credits.
i couldnt believe there was an opening seqience of opening credits that were so long that they had to be interrupted by an add break.
still cant get over it to this day.

I think it's really neat how the relatively new "Superman Returns" did the opening credits like the old Christopher Reeve movies with the same music.

Some opening/closing credits can be kinda creepy, but I've never been scared of them. MY fave opening credits sequence would have to be Batman (1989). The music was just awesome!

When I was very young nothing did it so well as Dr Who that music and the strange rocket trail pattens just freaked me right out.

Believe it or not, I have heard the original Dr. Who theme. Just plain creepy.

I love the Dr. Who theme. Love it.
X-Files theme gives me the creeps, but I think it's supposed to. Well done, X-Files theme song composer!

i dont htink the ability of sound to evoke emotions can be ever underestimated.
when i was young and saw a scary movie i closed my eyes and was still scared.
when i started to close my ears, i could watch without fear.

dialogue and sound, music score is as important as script, story acting and special effects, but it is so subtle that is is often forgotten.

Really dating myself here, but the Outer Limits openings always creeped me out when I was a kid. The Twilight Zone (original version) was another program that had a creepy opening too.

I still love the opening credits for the first Star Wars, I also love the opening for A Clockwork Orange.
The only opening credit the would scare me was for Rod Serling's Night Gallery

Anything that had that "In Associated With" byline used to creep me out when I was little. I used to be creeped out by the 1990 Viacom "Wigga-Wigga" logo (that's what closing logo fans know it as), the Gracie Films logo at the end of The Simpsons, and while I idolized him, those Stephen J. Cannell logos. Stephen seemed creepy too me.

Today, I don't get creeped out by old logos. I like watching them. And new logos are too modern or boring. Except for the Mohawk Production logo. I get chills watching that!

The most memorable opening credits I remember seeing was from Werner Herzog's Nosferatu: The Vampyre (Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht, West Germany 1979). I wouldn't say I was scared, as I wasn't. I can imagine some people could be.

The credits feature mummies (children, men, women, young and old) lined up in front of a wall, with spooky music playing in the background. The first time I saw it, I wondered how the makers managed to get their mummies look so realistic. Later I found out that the mummies were actually real, from a mummy museum in Mexico.

Actually the credits are available in YouTube. Just search for nosferatu-herzog opening credits, and it should be the first one on the list. I wouldn't recommend it for children or sensitive people, though, for a good reason, and thus I'm not posting a direct link.

The opening credits of Psycho scared me to death.
Extremely stylish.
When I first watched the movie, I was scared crapless.

I haven't been scared by too many recently...my favorite credits sequence is from "Running Scared":

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-hdl8t-uKQ[/youtube]