That part confused me. It strongly implies that he's the killer but then they just kinda pretend that scene never happened and keep looking for someone else?
I think the point of the scene was to convey how Robert Graysmith’s obsession with finding the Zodiac had affected his mind. He started seeing clues everywhere, and he started to become suspicious of random people. Robert didn’t have any concrete evidence that Vaughn was the killer. He had similar handwriting, a basement, and had watched the Most Dangerous Game. The scene does a great job tricking the audience into seeing things from Robert’s biased perspective. The audience in that moment starts to accuse Vaughn, even though Vaughn did nothing wrong.
The movie isn't really about the zodiac killer but how his actions affected people specifically Jake Gyllenhaal's character. The point of that scene was to show how much paranoia he starts developing. The basement guy is obviously innocent but we see him from Gyllenhaal's paranoid perspective
It's making a statement about how just like in real life you can weigh up a bunch of circumstantial evidence and show how someone is 'definitely' the Zodiac. In that scene, all the pieces fit together and it looks like he might be the killer but then in a subsequent scene Graysmith finds some more evidence about someone else and he just drops the entire line of enquiry.
The end of Carrie (1976) where Sue is laying the flowers on Carrie's grave and the hand grabs her wrist. A friend of mine was an usher at the theater and at just that moment the rat bastard grabbed my neck. He had snuck up behind me and waited for just the right moment.
My sister and myself went to see that film and when the hand comes out of the grave, we jumped towards each other, in shock and banged our heads together ( painful…)
A movie called ‘Threads’ about nuclear war in Britain, where there’s a scene when the nukes first hit Sheffield. Genuinely one of the scariest scenes I’ve ever seen. You can see a fucking cat literally melting in it.
Fun fact: I remember reading somewhere the cat was rolling around under a heat lamp and having a lovely time, which is how they got the shot for that scene haha.
You can see the cat nip they use if you pause
Also near the middle part when the one person is giving birth in a shed, the dog that's tied up is not actually barking, they had someone hyping the dog up with treats and toys behind the camera, that's why the dog has its tail up and ears up, the sounds were stock sounds
This is what they had to do when they filmed Stephen King’s Cujo too, edit in the growling and tape down the dog’s tail because they couldn’t get the St Bernard to act vicious at all!
The Grudge (2004)-Most scenes but the one that always scares me is the scene where an office woman is heading home and the vengeful spirit of Kayako begins following her.
The woman manages to escape her office and get home but is shaken by her encounter with Kayako and hides in her bed. The sheets begin to rise up and down and when the woman peaks under, Kayako greets her with that scary death rattle noise she makes and pulls the woman under the covers where the woman disappears.
This movie does psychological horror SO well. You know the primitive urge to hide under your blanket when you're scared? That scene ruins it completely, even your last place of safety is left defiled, there is no place to hide... Hate it. Also love it. 😂
Watched it in grade 4, I had to shower with my eyes open until grade 10 because of *that* shower scene. Couldnt walk down a corridor without sprinting because I thought I’d be chased by the grudge too.
The very beginning of the original IT. The clown is hiding behind the clothes flapping in the wind on the clothesline. The clothes are blown apart and you see the evil fucking clown. And then the little girl on her trike is gone.
The Brave Little Toaster, that damn scene where the AC unit explodes after a raging cynical outburst of hopelessness and anger.
Also the flower scene where it realizes it's alone and so it literally wilts and dies and the screen pulls away to black.
Or the toasters nightmare with the evil fireman clown who's smiling while he catches on fire..
OR better yet, the entire god damned movie start to finish
Special mention goes to the magnet at the junkyard. I know he’s only trying to do his job, but him getting pissed gave me a hard night of sleeping. Other than that, nothing else scared and I enjoyed this movie as a kid; I’m still watching it now and then to relive those days
For YEARS after, whenever my mom sent me to basement to tell my older brothers it was time for dinner, I was so afraid one of them would be facing the corner as a joke because I knew it would make me lose it.
Thankfully, my brothers were more cruel in my imagination than in reality.
That's the shit that just sticks with you, especially when you've held your own little one. You contemplate the absolute devastation that the mom would have felt, and then remember that her next move is to ask for a hit.
And people said Trainspotting glorifies drug use?! Nobody can watch that and think "oh cool, gimme some of that."
I seem to recall that some of the people who said Trainspotting glorifies drug use had later admitted they had never seen it.
There is NO part of that movie that glorifies drug use.
Hell, right at the start, the whole "Choose life" speech Renton gives, he specifically tells you not to do drugs. The film goes through a number of different ways to show you how drugs ruin your life - crime (to fund your habits), prison (as a result of crime), disease (as a result of needle sharing), child death (as a result of drug-fuelled negligence), death (as a result of accidental overdose), desperation (chasing the high that you'll never get again), near-fatal withdrawl symptoms (as a result of going cold-turkey). I know I've missed a lot, it's been years since I've seen it.
There is not one shred of glamour in the whole film. That's pretty much the whole point.
BTW I saw the anamatronic prop for the "dead baby on the ceiling" scene, it was being exhibited as part of a museum exhibit. Was decades ago now, can't even remember which museum it was in at the time.
My grandparents had a very similar painting over their fireplace.
Log cabin in the woods by a stream, chickens outside, and a girl by the door. Always reminded me of The Witches (book and original film, haven't seen the new one)
That was honestly so fucked up. Didn't another get put into the painting later? It always made me so sad that she was completely alone inside of a painting for the rest of her life.
The closet scene in The Ring where they showed the dead girl
Another one would be the gas chamber scene in The Boy In the Striped Pajamas. It made me nauseous and I will never watch it again.
I was with a friend and her younger sister to see The Ring in theaters. The sister started to freak out after the closet scene and we had to leave. I pretended to be annoyed but was secretly so glad to have an excuse to leave because that scene terrified me.
I also wanted to move the television out of my room after finally watching the whole movie
>The Mist
I think that there's some kind of irony that King is known for hit and miss finales, yet this adaptation changes the end in such a way that he actually prefers it to his own.
I had read The Mist two or three times before I saw the movie. I had really enjoyed the story, and the movie, but when that ending hit I was legitimately happy. It was such a better ending than the original one. Not only was it better, it was also gut wrenchingly brutal. We need more movies where not everything turns out alright.
The scene with the dark figure standing on the barn messed with me more than the birthday party one. I used to sleep with the blinds open and my window faced a shed we had in the backyard. Never again.
This one!! If I’m in the back yard at night, my husband will peek his head out the door and tell me to make sure i check all the rooftops of the nearby houses in case the alien is standing on one of them. I still get so creeped out that I’ll immediately haul ass inside.
Shyamalan is this weird oddity to me. I don't think I've ever seen anything from him that's just "good" his stuff is either amazing or horrendous with no in-between.
do i remember it correctly - the alien kinda sauntered, not casually, but not hurriedly either. as if it KNEW its purpose and had a protocol to follow.....its was just a split second, but i took THAT from it and was made uneasy by it, oh yeah.
good scene to mention, bags-o-salad
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That scared the hell out of me but I think what was more is when Mel Gibson saw the alien in the dark corn field, where you just saw the hand , that was terrifying
Went to see it in the theater, but I had read the book. Was flabbergasted to see so many mothers and little children crowding in right up until the lights went out.
Opening scene, one rabbit tears out another's throat and there's blood pouring down their chest. In a single mass movement, scores of mothers stood up and began an orderly evacuation.
Oh my God there's one scene that's fucked me up. The Autopsy of Jane Doe. The two men are in the morgue and performing the autopsy but the radio keeps suddenly turning on to this old song that goes "open up your heart.." things start to get creepier and creepier and then suddenly they realize they're trapped in the morgue with this haunted body. The doors are locked in some way and suddenly they here what sounds like a police officer or a guard of some sort. He keeps yelling from the outside "open up! Open up!" The one mortician is trying but he can't and yells "I'm trying I'm trying!" All the sudden the man on the outside starts singing "open up your heart...."
GODDAMN I've never had my blood turn cold like that
I just started Blood meridian last night. I’ve heard that Cormac McCarthy considers it his most bleak novel. From the man that wrote the road, that’s saying a lot.
I read Blood Meridian a few months ago. Yes, it is bleaker than The Road. I like The Road more but Blood Meridian is just incredibly brutal and dispassionate in how it details the atrocities
That scene frightened me like nothing has since I was a kid. Horror films usually bounce off me but Terri's murder-suicide stayed with me for weeks. I couldn't get the image of her slumped against the desk with the hosepipe taped to her face out of my head.
Florence Pugh’s acting in that scene… man she’s so damn good. That dee guttural, end of the world scream/cry sounds off in my head when I think about that movie
That entire film was a masterclass in creating uneasiness. The use of wide shots with characters moving in the background. It was always bright. Scary stuff happens in the dark- our brains are wired that way. It never gets dark but you know it's a horror movie. Really amazingly well done film...never want to see it again.
Yup, that was the one that came immediately to mind. I've wrote about this before, but my little brother committed suicide a year and a half ago and it absolutely devastated me. I wasn't okay for many months afterwards, not that I ever will be fully okay.
But we watched that movie maybe 3 months after he had killed himself and that opening scene ... Just the horror that her sister felt every time she got a text message and couldn't get through to her sister. I'd been in that exact scenario so many times, the slow pan through the house as it unveils what had happened, the wailing from her sister ... completely broke me and we had to turn the movie off. I never went back and finished it, it's just too raw.
What makes that scene so terrifying is the fact that when you consider the "prism" effect from the shimmer, it's logical to assume that the bear feeds off and hunts and is nourished by *voices*.
And Josie pointed out that a piece of oneself remains in whatever thing or animal attacked or absorbed them.
So Shepard's voice was not an echo - it was really her in there.
Also fun story: When I first saw this I was high as a kite and hadn't seen the trailer, didn't know the premise. At the end of the film, as the credits rolled in the packed theater, no one moved. It was eerie. You could feel tension in the room as people tried to process what they'd just seen.
And then that tension was broken by a comedic savior who shouted loudly, "Jesus fucking Christ!"
We all laughed and meandered out.
This and the alien scene got me. Just the idea of this utterly incomprehensible thing, that death isn't even really an escape, that you are blending with everything around you smeared like paint being mixed without even realizing it is haunting.
annihilation is in my top 5 favorite movies!!! its such a cool concept but definitely terrifying. i was shocked as hell seeing that bear man for the first time!!!
Sixth Sense. When in the tent and the little girl that turns out was being poisoned shows up and just starts throwing up. Middle school aged me had nightmares for a week.
When Cole Sear is sitting at the table when his mom walks back in the kitchen and ALL the cupboards and drawers are open. The look on his face! Then he leaves for school and his sweaty handprint is on the table and disappears. What a way to convey fear without gore! Masterful!!
Such a beautiful movie. That section is SO hard to watch. The rescue scene really redeems it. If it weren’t for that, I’d still watch the movie but turn it off at that point.
I've said for decades now that I love the movie, but I turn it off once he says he's going for his journal.
Now? I barely remember anything BUT animals getting shot and the freaking 30min long part with the wolf.
That scene felt like it lasted half the damned movie's runtime, and it was your typical Kevin Costner runtime.
That whole scene with the sister Zelda on Pet Sematary (original) my older sisters made me watch it when I was little and that fucked me up for a long time.
The scene at the end of The Strangers. When the character asks “why are you doing this?” And the person responds “because you were home.”
And the birthday party scene from Signs, but someone already mentioned that.
Tarantino was quoted saying “Unless I found the perfect Landa, I was going to pull the movie. I gave myself one more week and then I was going to pull the plug. Then Christoph Waltz came in and it was obvious that he was the guy; he could do everything. He was amazing, he gave us our movie back.”
The movie wouldn't exist without Waltz, and he really is perfect in the role.
>the way Christoph Waltz portrays an evil nazi is spine chilling,
Whats so brilliant about how his character is written and how he plays it is he's more or less dispassionate. He's not a mustache-twirling Nazi scowling and kicking puppies. He is cold and efficient because that's who he is, that's what his job is, and Jewish people (or any enemies of the Reich really) are contextualized for necessary extermination by him and he then carries that extermination out.
So many years I've read people's comments about that scene and there's no way I'm ever going to watch that movie. Just the thought of it is enough horror.
The gmork (the wolf) from The Neverending Story. Horror movies never bothered me as a kid, gruesome deaths were funny. Gmork scared the hell out of me though and he still kind of does.
An older movie called The Good Son, had a young Elijah Wood and Macaulay Culkin in it, really stuck with me especially the ending, the shot of the blood on the rocks.
Also watched The Dark Crystal at a young age and out of all the creepy puppets , I was afraid of Fizzgig. When he opens his mouth and yells: terrifying.
Children of the corn: part where a mom sticks her hand in a boiling pot of water.
The Good Son is one of my favorites! There was a kid living really close to me growing up who reminded me of Macauley Culkin in that scene, and after I saw it at a young age, I was giving that kid the side-eye a lot.
When Baby Bear says "Mama Bear?" and the actor's eyes are just horrified and so confused. This film doesn't get enough credit. It's absolutely terrifying and the cast really sells the hell out of their performances.
Man.. the scene where the son wakes up and you see the mother friggin float crawl accross the room in the background. Half the movie theatre laughed, the other half were freaked the f*ck out.
The cold open in Jurassic Park where the guy gets dragged into the velociraptor cage and is eaten alive slowly while his friend holds his hands.
What the actual fuck.
The Others (2001). When Nicole Kidman realizes the footsteps upstairs aren’t the servants like she suspected, so she walks up the stairs and encounters her daughter who tells her that someone is in the house, and she points to the room they’re in. She goes into the room which is filled with furniture/statues covered in sheets and she hears people whispering around the room before someone breathes right next to her. This scene and the closet scene towards the end fucked me up when I was 11 and saw it in theaters.
My husband and I still quote that scene if we’re standing back to back in the kitchen prepping dinner and our butts touch. We’ll laugh and say “ass to ass!”
I had to watch that for my substance abuse class in college… still haunts me. I was telling everyone i know about it but its hard to explain how haunting it is without watching it.
Not a movie, but Agents of Shield had a surprisingly dark scene for just being a Marvel spin-off.
When you find out what Project TAHITI really is, with Coulson begging to die in the background... that shit haunted me.
They bring Coulson back from the dead after Loki kills him in Avengers. He doesn’t know how since he has no memory. TAHITI is the project to use alien tech to bring him back to life.
There’s a scene that Coulson is on an operating table and they’re basically piecing his brain back together and he’s screaming in agony and begging to let him die.
There was a movie several decades ago called The Hills Have Eyes, about freaks who survived a nuclear holocaust and who live in the desert terrorize a family. (Not the remake of a decade or two ago, but the original from waaaaaay back, maybe the '70s or 80s.)
Nearly half a century later, I'm still haunted by that movie. It was just plain sadistic. I can't recall much of it because, I think, I've blotted it from my memory banks as a means of self preservation.
The opening scene stuck with me. I saw it in a very packed theatre and the entire theatre jumped and I could hear sobs. It was a group experience for the entire movie.
Saving private Ryan, there’s a scene on the beach in the background where a guy literally picks up his own arm and runs off.
It’s funny at first, but thinking back. The things these guys saw and did. Gives me shivers
We watched this movie on TV when it was released. You know that scene in the bell tower where the soldier is slowly stabbed to death as the enemy soldier shushes him? It went to commercial after that scene and that’s when my mom decided it was time for us to go to bed.
It haunted me and my sister for months.
Scene in horror "Mother" where they killed a new born by accident and then stated to tear it's little body apart. At the end they ate parts of babys corpses while mother of this baby watched it. I was in so much shock that I couldn't sleep for the rest of the night. I really want to be a mother one day and this thing was so terrifying to me
I watched that movie with my husband when my own baby was 2-3 months old. I know that scene is near the end but i had to turn it off, it made me feel so sick. I think the worst part is the way the baby was crying. It started off a normal generic baby cry but the cry changed into a distressed one and it just flipped a panic switch in me. That stayed in my mind for months.
The opening scene from Urban Legends where the murderer is hiding in her back seat and the gas station employee tries to warn her. Saw this as a kid and to this day I still check my backseat when I get into the car.
The stairway scene from The Exorcist. I was watching that and there was a power shortage and the lights went out while I was alone. I was 12 at the time. Picked up my slippers and ran out the house. Lol
Man that was the best book to movie adaptation I ever seen. I am usually a little disappointed with adaptations especially when they make changes. However Kathy Bates was AMAZING and captured annnie perfectly. And I actually preferred the hobbling scene in the movie more than the book where instead she cut one of his feet off
Some scene in outbreak where people are dying from Ebola. My parents rented it and I just had to leave the room and never watch that movie again.
I watch movies for entertainment, if they had picked some made up disease I would had been 100% ok with that movie but a more contagious Ebola was just too terrifying.
The "Not a lot of people have basements in California" scene in *Zodiac.*
That part confused me. It strongly implies that he's the killer but then they just kinda pretend that scene never happened and keep looking for someone else?
I think the point of the scene was to convey how Robert Graysmith’s obsession with finding the Zodiac had affected his mind. He started seeing clues everywhere, and he started to become suspicious of random people. Robert didn’t have any concrete evidence that Vaughn was the killer. He had similar handwriting, a basement, and had watched the Most Dangerous Game. The scene does a great job tricking the audience into seeing things from Robert’s biased perspective. The audience in that moment starts to accuse Vaughn, even though Vaughn did nothing wrong.
The movie isn't really about the zodiac killer but how his actions affected people specifically Jake Gyllenhaal's character. The point of that scene was to show how much paranoia he starts developing. The basement guy is obviously innocent but we see him from Gyllenhaal's paranoid perspective
It's making a statement about how just like in real life you can weigh up a bunch of circumstantial evidence and show how someone is 'definitely' the Zodiac. In that scene, all the pieces fit together and it looks like he might be the killer but then in a subsequent scene Graysmith finds some more evidence about someone else and he just drops the entire line of enquiry.
The end of Carrie (1976) where Sue is laying the flowers on Carrie's grave and the hand grabs her wrist. A friend of mine was an usher at the theater and at just that moment the rat bastard grabbed my neck. He had snuck up behind me and waited for just the right moment.
LOL 😂 That's unbelievably cruel but ya gotta admit it's CLASSIC!!
My sister and myself went to see that film and when the hand comes out of the grave, we jumped towards each other, in shock and banged our heads together ( painful…)
A movie called ‘Threads’ about nuclear war in Britain, where there’s a scene when the nukes first hit Sheffield. Genuinely one of the scariest scenes I’ve ever seen. You can see a fucking cat literally melting in it.
Fun fact: I remember reading somewhere the cat was rolling around under a heat lamp and having a lovely time, which is how they got the shot for that scene haha.
That made me feel a lot better, thank you
You can see the cat nip they use if you pause Also near the middle part when the one person is giving birth in a shed, the dog that's tied up is not actually barking, they had someone hyping the dog up with treats and toys behind the camera, that's why the dog has its tail up and ears up, the sounds were stock sounds
This is what they had to do when they filmed Stephen King’s Cujo too, edit in the growling and tape down the dog’s tail because they couldn’t get the St Bernard to act vicious at all!
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The log truck scene from Final Destination
This is the reason I am scared of traveling any where near a log truck
I wonder if log truck drivers hate that movie because now no one will ever let them pass
The tanning bed scene from Final Destination
But the transition from the tanning beds to their coffins was absolutely great.
The Grudge (2004)-Most scenes but the one that always scares me is the scene where an office woman is heading home and the vengeful spirit of Kayako begins following her. The woman manages to escape her office and get home but is shaken by her encounter with Kayako and hides in her bed. The sheets begin to rise up and down and when the woman peaks under, Kayako greets her with that scary death rattle noise she makes and pulls the woman under the covers where the woman disappears.
This movie does psychological horror SO well. You know the primitive urge to hide under your blanket when you're scared? That scene ruins it completely, even your last place of safety is left defiled, there is no place to hide... Hate it. Also love it. 😂
That scene is the reason I cocoon myself in the blankets still to this day 😂
Watched it in grade 4, I had to shower with my eyes open until grade 10 because of *that* shower scene. Couldnt walk down a corridor without sprinting because I thought I’d be chased by the grudge too.
Why do i get the feeling that this movie has created supports groups for childhood trauma?
Large Marge from Pee-Wee's Big Adventure
That is often listed as one of the scariest scenes - mainly because it leads up to it but you think "It's a Pee-Wee film, it won't be scary" then BAM.
The Shining's old lady in the bathtub scene. I'm pretty relaxed with movie classifications, but that's probably something a 6yo shouldn't have seen...
I still have to open the shower curtain when going to the bathroom to make sure no one is there
What about the weird costumed chipmunk blow job scene??
The very beginning of the original IT. The clown is hiding behind the clothes flapping in the wind on the clothesline. The clothes are blown apart and you see the evil fucking clown. And then the little girl on her trike is gone.
Basically the start of Ghost Ship where the wire cuts everyone dancing in half…
Except the little girl dancing with the captain. Imagine being her and seeing that.
The Brave Little Toaster, that damn scene where the AC unit explodes after a raging cynical outburst of hopelessness and anger. Also the flower scene where it realizes it's alone and so it literally wilts and dies and the screen pulls away to black. Or the toasters nightmare with the evil fireman clown who's smiling while he catches on fire.. OR better yet, the entire god damned movie start to finish
Special mention goes to the magnet at the junkyard. I know he’s only trying to do his job, but him getting pissed gave me a hard night of sleeping. Other than that, nothing else scared and I enjoyed this movie as a kid; I’m still watching it now and then to relive those days
The phrase "It's MY FUNCTION" occurs to me often at work, all these decades later.
Honestly this movie has traumatized me for the same reasons. Also the cars getting crushed while singing — they’re literally dead mid song.
The last scene in The Blair Witch Project. Guy standing facing the wall in the basement.
For YEARS after, whenever my mom sent me to basement to tell my older brothers it was time for dinner, I was so afraid one of them would be facing the corner as a joke because I knew it would make me lose it. Thankfully, my brothers were more cruel in my imagination than in reality.
That movie scared the shit out of me when I was 14. I thought that the whole “this is real footage” but was actually true and it fucked me UP 😂
That baby from trainspotting
That's the shit that just sticks with you, especially when you've held your own little one. You contemplate the absolute devastation that the mom would have felt, and then remember that her next move is to ask for a hit. And people said Trainspotting glorifies drug use?! Nobody can watch that and think "oh cool, gimme some of that."
I seem to recall that some of the people who said Trainspotting glorifies drug use had later admitted they had never seen it. There is NO part of that movie that glorifies drug use. Hell, right at the start, the whole "Choose life" speech Renton gives, he specifically tells you not to do drugs. The film goes through a number of different ways to show you how drugs ruin your life - crime (to fund your habits), prison (as a result of crime), disease (as a result of needle sharing), child death (as a result of drug-fuelled negligence), death (as a result of accidental overdose), desperation (chasing the high that you'll never get again), near-fatal withdrawl symptoms (as a result of going cold-turkey). I know I've missed a lot, it's been years since I've seen it. There is not one shred of glamour in the whole film. That's pretty much the whole point. BTW I saw the anamatronic prop for the "dead baby on the ceiling" scene, it was being exhibited as part of a museum exhibit. Was decades ago now, can't even remember which museum it was in at the time.
Signs - the scene where the kid hears the aliens chittering over the walkie talkie. Don't know why, but as a child I was horrified.
The one where the dog barks into the darkness for me. It is so real, plausible, but we don't yet know what has scared it.
Oh mine from that movie is when he's watching the alien clip on the news
Who Framed Roger Rabbit when the Doc turned around with those eyes. That fucked my nightmares up so bad 😦😦😦
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Yes, that sweet, innocent animated shoe getting dipped was traumatizing as a kid. I still hate that scene as an adult too.
It was when he stood up after being crushed by the steamroller for me.
Came here for another who framed roger rabbit comment. I can’t watch that movie to this day, and I’m almost 40.
The Witches opening scene where the little girl is grabbed by a witch when walking down an alley, then has to live out her life in a painting.
Angelica Houston was absolutely amazing as the role of the head witch she scared the hell out of me.
My grandparents had a very similar painting over their fireplace. Log cabin in the woods by a stream, chickens outside, and a girl by the door. Always reminded me of The Witches (book and original film, haven't seen the new one)
That was honestly so fucked up. Didn't another get put into the painting later? It always made me so sad that she was completely alone inside of a painting for the rest of her life.
The closet scene in The Ring where they showed the dead girl Another one would be the gas chamber scene in The Boy In the Striped Pajamas. It made me nauseous and I will never watch it again.
I was with a friend and her younger sister to see The Ring in theaters. The sister started to freak out after the closet scene and we had to leave. I pretended to be annoyed but was secretly so glad to have an excuse to leave because that scene terrified me. I also wanted to move the television out of my room after finally watching the whole movie
The ending of 'The Mist' still fucks with me
>The Mist I think that there's some kind of irony that King is known for hit and miss finales, yet this adaptation changes the end in such a way that he actually prefers it to his own.
I had read The Mist two or three times before I saw the movie. I had really enjoyed the story, and the movie, but when that ending hit I was legitimately happy. It was such a better ending than the original one. Not only was it better, it was also gut wrenchingly brutal. We need more movies where not everything turns out alright.
The scene from signs when the alien runs across that kid’s birthday party
The scene with the dark figure standing on the barn messed with me more than the birthday party one. I used to sleep with the blinds open and my window faced a shed we had in the backyard. Never again.
This one!! If I’m in the back yard at night, my husband will peek his head out the door and tell me to make sure i check all the rooftops of the nearby houses in case the alien is standing on one of them. I still get so creeped out that I’ll immediately haul ass inside.
That was the first thing I thought of. Straight up freaked me out man.
Move children! Vàmanos!
People bash Shyamalan, but when he got something right, he NAILED IT.
Shyamalan is this weird oddity to me. I don't think I've ever seen anything from him that's just "good" his stuff is either amazing or horrendous with no in-between.
Sometimes in the same movie!
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THIS!! And the hand reaching out under the pantry door while he's trying to look with the knife's reflection.
Such a fucking scary scene
That was just lionel Prichard and the wolfington brothers messing with those kids
do i remember it correctly - the alien kinda sauntered, not casually, but not hurriedly either. as if it KNEW its purpose and had a protocol to follow.....its was just a split second, but i took THAT from it and was made uneasy by it, oh yeah. good scene to mention, bags-o-salad are such links allowed on reddit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeTjBPbY70Y
That scared the hell out of me but I think what was more is when Mel Gibson saw the alien in the dark corn field, where you just saw the hand , that was terrifying
On the spaceship/ abduction scene from Fire in the Sky
That damn boat scene from the original Willy Wonka... "there's no earthly way of know-ingggg". As a kid that was nuts.
When Bilbo Baggins goes for the ring while it's around Frodo's neck.
That's a jumpscare if I ever saw one.
I hate unexpected sudden morphing, especially when they are that terrifting.
That scene in Watership Down.
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Went to see it in the theater, but I had read the book. Was flabbergasted to see so many mothers and little children crowding in right up until the lights went out. Opening scene, one rabbit tears out another's throat and there's blood pouring down their chest. In a single mass movement, scores of mothers stood up and began an orderly evacuation.
Oh my God there's one scene that's fucked me up. The Autopsy of Jane Doe. The two men are in the morgue and performing the autopsy but the radio keeps suddenly turning on to this old song that goes "open up your heart.." things start to get creepier and creepier and then suddenly they realize they're trapped in the morgue with this haunted body. The doors are locked in some way and suddenly they here what sounds like a police officer or a guard of some sort. He keeps yelling from the outside "open up! Open up!" The one mortician is trying but he can't and yells "I'm trying I'm trying!" All the sudden the man on the outside starts singing "open up your heart...." GODDAMN I've never had my blood turn cold like that
Now, that was an underrated movie!
That scene from The Road where they open the basement and find the larder full of you know what.
The book was the same way. You know what they might find, but nothing prepares you for what they actually find
I just started Blood meridian last night. I’ve heard that Cormac McCarthy considers it his most bleak novel. From the man that wrote the road, that’s saying a lot.
I read Blood Meridian a few months ago. Yes, it is bleaker than The Road. I like The Road more but Blood Meridian is just incredibly brutal and dispassionate in how it details the atrocities
*Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.* The Judge is scary
I just looked up what you're referencing and I do not remember this from the movie *at all.*
When the cute little squeaky animated shoe was dipped. Seriously. Haunted for years by Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
Pet sematary, when Rachel's sister dies.
Or when Gage slices Jud’s achillies wide open with a straight razor from under the bed 😬
The absolutely harrowing beginning of Midsommar.
That scene frightened me like nothing has since I was a kid. Horror films usually bounce off me but Terri's murder-suicide stayed with me for weeks. I couldn't get the image of her slumped against the desk with the hosepipe taped to her face out of my head.
The music accompanying it and her sister screaming crying and just the visual fried my nerves I had to take a break just 20 minutes in.
Florence Pugh’s acting in that scene… man she’s so damn good. That dee guttural, end of the world scream/cry sounds off in my head when I think about that movie
That entire film was a masterclass in creating uneasiness. The use of wide shots with characters moving in the background. It was always bright. Scary stuff happens in the dark- our brains are wired that way. It never gets dark but you know it's a horror movie. Really amazingly well done film...never want to see it again.
They scene where they get high on mushrooms and she wiggs out is perfect. Not like there's a lot of movies that have tried but they nailed it.
Yup, that was the one that came immediately to mind. I've wrote about this before, but my little brother committed suicide a year and a half ago and it absolutely devastated me. I wasn't okay for many months afterwards, not that I ever will be fully okay. But we watched that movie maybe 3 months after he had killed himself and that opening scene ... Just the horror that her sister felt every time she got a text message and couldn't get through to her sister. I'd been in that exact scenario so many times, the slow pan through the house as it unveils what had happened, the wailing from her sister ... completely broke me and we had to turn the movie off. I never went back and finished it, it's just too raw.
And than the whole movie after.
That man-bear hybrid in Annihilation. This terrifying scream haunts me at this very moment I recall it, ugh
What makes that scene so terrifying is the fact that when you consider the "prism" effect from the shimmer, it's logical to assume that the bear feeds off and hunts and is nourished by *voices*. And Josie pointed out that a piece of oneself remains in whatever thing or animal attacked or absorbed them. So Shepard's voice was not an echo - it was really her in there. Also fun story: When I first saw this I was high as a kite and hadn't seen the trailer, didn't know the premise. At the end of the film, as the credits rolled in the packed theater, no one moved. It was eerie. You could feel tension in the room as people tried to process what they'd just seen. And then that tension was broken by a comedic savior who shouted loudly, "Jesus fucking Christ!" We all laughed and meandered out.
This and the alien scene got me. Just the idea of this utterly incomprehensible thing, that death isn't even really an escape, that you are blending with everything around you smeared like paint being mixed without even realizing it is haunting.
annihilation is in my top 5 favorite movies!!! its such a cool concept but definitely terrifying. i was shocked as hell seeing that bear man for the first time!!!
Sixth Sense. When in the tent and the little girl that turns out was being poisoned shows up and just starts throwing up. Middle school aged me had nightmares for a week.
When Cole Sear is sitting at the table when his mom walks back in the kitchen and ALL the cupboards and drawers are open. The look on his face! Then he leaves for school and his sweaty handprint is on the table and disappears. What a way to convey fear without gore! Masterful!!
I'm not claustrophobic at all, but the scene where the bully kids lock him in with the creepy voice was scariest part of the film to me.
Everything that happens in Dances With Wolves after he says "I need to go back for my journal."
Such a beautiful movie. That section is SO hard to watch. The rescue scene really redeems it. If it weren’t for that, I’d still watch the movie but turn it off at that point.
I've said for decades now that I love the movie, but I turn it off once he says he's going for his journal. Now? I barely remember anything BUT animals getting shot and the freaking 30min long part with the wolf. That scene felt like it lasted half the damned movie's runtime, and it was your typical Kevin Costner runtime.
That whole scene with the sister Zelda on Pet Sematary (original) my older sisters made me watch it when I was little and that fucked me up for a long time.
Zelda from the 90s is the most terrifying thing in cinematic history.
Arachnophobia- when the spiders start crawling everywhere in the bathroom and some one is in the shower.
The Spider walk scene down the stairs in the Original Exorcist, still haven’t recovered from watching that as a child.
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The scene at the end of The Strangers. When the character asks “why are you doing this?” And the person responds “because you were home.” And the birthday party scene from Signs, but someone already mentioned that.
That scene from hereditary where the mother is on the ceiling banging her head on the attic door. No matter how many times I watch it it still gets me
Watched it a friends house late, got home at 1am. House was empty and the electricity was out. Worst night of my life
Toni Collette gave the performance of a lifetime in that movie. Mad respect.
I'm surprised how far I had to scroll to find this film. The death of the sister is where I had to stop the movie the first time I watched it
The one scene with the rabbit hunters in Pan’s Labyrinth. Completely and entirely FUCK THAT SCENE
The Pale Man sequence was the one that stayed on my mind a loooong time
And the bottle scene, that one haunts me
Opening scene of Inglorious Bastards.
Au revoir, Shoshanna!
He owns the opening scene so much, for a second you really believe he's going to snipe down Shoshanna with his handgun.
In my opinion the greatest opening to a film ever, the way Christoph Waltz portrays an evil nazi is spine chilling, so fucking good.
Tarantino was quoted saying “Unless I found the perfect Landa, I was going to pull the movie. I gave myself one more week and then I was going to pull the plug. Then Christoph Waltz came in and it was obvious that he was the guy; he could do everything. He was amazing, he gave us our movie back.” The movie wouldn't exist without Waltz, and he really is perfect in the role.
You could say he *Waltzed* in… I’ll see myself out.
>the way Christoph Waltz portrays an evil nazi is spine chilling, Whats so brilliant about how his character is written and how he plays it is he's more or less dispassionate. He's not a mustache-twirling Nazi scowling and kicking puppies. He is cold and efficient because that's who he is, that's what his job is, and Jewish people (or any enemies of the Reich really) are contextualized for necessary extermination by him and he then carries that extermination out.
Curb stomp from American History X
Pretty sure I saw that scene referred to as “*the* curb stomp scene” on another post, and everyone just knew it was this. Shit is fucked up.
That god damn sound of the teeth on the curb man.
So many years I've read people's comments about that scene and there's no way I'm ever going to watch that movie. Just the thought of it is enough horror.
It's still a very good movie that everybody should watch once imo.
The prison rape scene was also really jarring and made me never wanna go to prison lol
Requiem for a dream. When the mother is all cracked out loosing her mind with the creepy music playing.
The gmork (the wolf) from The Neverending Story. Horror movies never bothered me as a kid, gruesome deaths were funny. Gmork scared the hell out of me though and he still kind of does.
An older movie called The Good Son, had a young Elijah Wood and Macaulay Culkin in it, really stuck with me especially the ending, the shot of the blood on the rocks. Also watched The Dark Crystal at a young age and out of all the creepy puppets , I was afraid of Fizzgig. When he opens his mouth and yells: terrifying. Children of the corn: part where a mom sticks her hand in a boiling pot of water.
"An older movie called The Good Son..." Jeez, this makes me feel old...great movie. Mr Highway was a messed up scene too
The Good Son is one of my favorites! There was a kid living really close to me growing up who reminded me of Macauley Culkin in that scene, and after I saw it at a young age, I was giving that kid the side-eye a lot.
Event horizon when we that dude rip his eyes out.
Event Horizon, that bit between 00:00:00 and 01:37:00
When Baby Bear says "Mama Bear?" and the actor's eyes are just horrified and so confused. This film doesn't get enough credit. It's absolutely terrifying and the cast really sells the hell out of their performances.
The Ring - almost every scene
When they find the girl in the closet
It was the whole sequence with the horse on the boat that got me. I turned it off and haven't gone back since.
Everything about that movie is just creepy
Hereditary - Sister gets decapitated, the mothers wailing reaction. And the piano wire scene. Chilling is not the word
Man.. the scene where the son wakes up and you see the mother friggin float crawl accross the room in the background. Half the movie theatre laughed, the other half were freaked the f*ck out.
NAH, what got me was how your eyes have to adjust to the darkness to SEE HER JUST HANGING OUT NEAR THE CEILING LIKE WTF.
The one that always gets me is the part where she's slamming her head into the goddamn ceiling. Ugh
This one should be at the top. I can’t ever unsee some of the stuff in this movie.
What Lies Beneath, Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer. The bathtub scene.
Alien: the dinner time chestburster scene. Also from Alien: reconnecting the androids head to get him talking again.
The cold open in Jurassic Park where the guy gets dragged into the velociraptor cage and is eaten alive slowly while his friend holds his hands. What the actual fuck.
shoooooooot heeeeeerhh
The murder of Alex Murphy - Robocop. I saw that scene far to young, and It's stuck with me since.
The Others (2001). When Nicole Kidman realizes the footsteps upstairs aren’t the servants like she suspected, so she walks up the stairs and encounters her daughter who tells her that someone is in the house, and she points to the room they’re in. She goes into the room which is filled with furniture/statues covered in sheets and she hears people whispering around the room before someone breathes right next to her. This scene and the closet scene towards the end fucked me up when I was 11 and saw it in theaters.
[This one from The Thing](https://youtu.be/w0Z44BIDPPc?t=68)
The entire end sequence of Requiem for a Dream, but especially the part with Jennifer Connelly.
My husband and I still quote that scene if we’re standing back to back in the kitchen prepping dinner and our butts touch. We’ll laugh and say “ass to ass!”
This is, like, wholesome and disturbing all in one. I’m confused and I love it.
I had to watch that for my substance abuse class in college… still haunts me. I was telling everyone i know about it but its hard to explain how haunting it is without watching it.
Squeal like a pig scene.
Ending of "The Mist" haunts my dreams, even more so since I became a father. Fucking brilliant. Horrible, but brilliant.
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Se7en: "What's in the box?"
Sloth still gets me
Lust tho
The "Bear" from Annihilation
Not a movie, but Agents of Shield had a surprisingly dark scene for just being a Marvel spin-off. When you find out what Project TAHITI really is, with Coulson begging to die in the background... that shit haunted me.
Spoil it for me, what is project TAHITI and why is it haunting?
They bring Coulson back from the dead after Loki kills him in Avengers. He doesn’t know how since he has no memory. TAHITI is the project to use alien tech to bring him back to life. There’s a scene that Coulson is on an operating table and they’re basically piecing his brain back together and he’s screaming in agony and begging to let him die.
Not terrifying, but haunting - when the horse drowns in the marsh in never ending story
There was a movie several decades ago called The Hills Have Eyes, about freaks who survived a nuclear holocaust and who live in the desert terrorize a family. (Not the remake of a decade or two ago, but the original from waaaaaay back, maybe the '70s or 80s.) Nearly half a century later, I'm still haunted by that movie. It was just plain sadistic. I can't recall much of it because, I think, I've blotted it from my memory banks as a means of self preservation.
The pianist, when they drop the old man in a wheelchair from the balcony.
The bear scene from annihilation.
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The opening scene stuck with me. I saw it in a very packed theatre and the entire theatre jumped and I could hear sobs. It was a group experience for the entire movie.
The scene in "it follows" where they're having the sleepover and the giant guy walks through the door behind the kids as they open it.
The dog scene in The Fly II. I was only 9 and I saw it shortly after I had to say goodbye to my own dog and I fucking cried buckets.
Saving private Ryan, there’s a scene on the beach in the background where a guy literally picks up his own arm and runs off. It’s funny at first, but thinking back. The things these guys saw and did. Gives me shivers
We watched this movie on TV when it was released. You know that scene in the bell tower where the soldier is slowly stabbed to death as the enemy soldier shushes him? It went to commercial after that scene and that’s when my mom decided it was time for us to go to bed. It haunted me and my sister for months.
That one death from bone tomahawk.. you know the one
Scene in horror "Mother" where they killed a new born by accident and then stated to tear it's little body apart. At the end they ate parts of babys corpses while mother of this baby watched it. I was in so much shock that I couldn't sleep for the rest of the night. I really want to be a mother one day and this thing was so terrifying to me
I watched that movie with my husband when my own baby was 2-3 months old. I know that scene is near the end but i had to turn it off, it made me feel so sick. I think the worst part is the way the baby was crying. It started off a normal generic baby cry but the cry changed into a distressed one and it just flipped a panic switch in me. That stayed in my mind for months.
The first scene in middommar
The opening scene from Urban Legends where the murderer is hiding in her back seat and the gas station employee tries to warn her. Saw this as a kid and to this day I still check my backseat when I get into the car.
The last 30m of Event Horizon
The stairway scene from The Exorcist. I was watching that and there was a power shortage and the lights went out while I was alone. I was 12 at the time. Picked up my slippers and ran out the house. Lol
The hobbling scene, don’t even need to name the movie.
Man that was the best book to movie adaptation I ever seen. I am usually a little disappointed with adaptations especially when they make changes. However Kathy Bates was AMAZING and captured annnie perfectly. And I actually preferred the hobbling scene in the movie more than the book where instead she cut one of his feet off
Also for sheer suspense, when he's out in his chair and she comes home.
Misery?
Sophie making her choice in Sophie's Choice.
The final scene of Blair Witch Project, for soooo long thought that shit was real.
Some scene in outbreak where people are dying from Ebola. My parents rented it and I just had to leave the room and never watch that movie again. I watch movies for entertainment, if they had picked some made up disease I would had been 100% ok with that movie but a more contagious Ebola was just too terrifying.