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Post by Danno on Oct 27, 2021 19:06:00 GMT
Definitely the final scene in Blair Witch Not sure if it counts as a film scene but the end of Ghostwatch where the studio is in disarray is another one that got me as a child. I was genuinely frightened The bit that fucked me up as a kid with Ghostwatch was when the girl starts speaking with his voice randomly. Watching it today it's camp as fuck, but as an 11 year old it terrified me. And even younger than that, probably 6 or 7, I trace my general unease of dark woods back to the scene in the Cosgrove Hall Wind in the Willows where Mole is wandering through the woods. youtu.be/YXGfCKNa_9E?t=1717I was done in from the point they noticed the curtains had a man in them and spiralled from there, and was hysterical by the end. If my parents had, at ANY fucking point, deigned to mention that this was not real, I may have been a somewhat better adjusted human today |
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Post by 😎 on Oct 27, 2021 19:18:16 GMT
I watched it alone in my room while my parents were out.
I legitimately refused to be alone in the house at any time for like a month afterwards.
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Post by Humperfunk on Oct 27, 2021 19:23:34 GMT
'tis the season for scares and such, so here's another thread! We're talking individual scenes here, not whole films. So, expect spoilers I guess. Mine is still the diner scene from Mulholland Drive. I still can't rewatch the fucking thing, it freaks me out like nothing before or since. I'm almost glad Lynch has never done a straight horror movie. I don't know if I'd be able to take it. Hahaha came in here to post this and it's the OP, superb! Easily the most unsettling thing I've ever seen, terrified me. |
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Post by harrypalmer on Oct 27, 2021 19:27:00 GMT
All great ones been mentioned already. I’ll add the bit with the big scissors from EXORCIST 3
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Post by anephric on Oct 27, 2021 19:31:37 GMT
I'm too dead inside and jaded to find things unnerving these days, but as a kid the scene in the endlessly cheesy The Amityville Horror where Rod Steiger gets assaulted by FLIES used to shit me up. youtu.be/adFRKm9ezw4When the voice shrieks GETTTT OUTTTTT! ah, couldn't watch it. I suppose for genuine creepiness, the ending of Dario Argento's Inferno when the mirror shatters and Mater Tenebrarum lurches forth (some great optical trickery courtesy of Mario Bava here) is very memorable. youtu.be/0G35ioSj1Sc |
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Post by cubby on Oct 27, 2021 19:46:27 GMT
*That* moment in Hereditary. Where a moment in a film suddenly and completely upends what you think this film is going to be about, and you're fully on edge for the rest of it.
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Post by stuz359 on Oct 27, 2021 19:47:53 GMT
Two lesbians one cup was pretty harrowing.
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Post by simple on Oct 27, 2021 20:14:09 GMT
I’m normally pretty immune to body horror but the fate of the mother in Color Out of Space made me squirm
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Post by Rodderz on Oct 27, 2021 20:32:10 GMT
The scene from Hellraiser with the heroine Kirsty in the hospital, where she unwittingly solves and unlocks the Lament Configuration... That crying baby monster, those bloody Cenobites... It's enough to put you off Rubik's cubes for life 😀:
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Post by Aunt Alison on Oct 27, 2021 20:33:09 GMT
The bit that fucked me up as a kid with Ghostwatch was when the girl starts speaking with his voice randomly. Watching it today it's camp as fuck, but as an 11 year old it terrified me. And even younger than that, probably 6 or 7, I trace my general unease of dark woods back to the scene in the Cosgrove Hall Wind in the Willows where Mole is wandering through the woods. youtu.be/YXGfCKNa_9E?t=1717I was done in from the point they noticed the curtains had a man in them and spiralled from there, and was hysterical by the end. If my parents had, at ANY fucking point, deigned to mention that this was not real, I may have been a somewhat better adjusted human today Yeah, it's weird that I watched it with my dad but at no point did he reassure me or turn it off despite the fact I was clearly really upset
Saying that, I was once home alone while my parents were shopping and my own mother phoned the house and said some scary shit down the phone in a horrible voice. I went straight outside and sat on the wall until they got home
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Post by Kay on Oct 27, 2021 20:36:30 GMT
*That* moment in Hereditary. Where a moment in a film suddenly and completely upends what you think this film is going to be about, and you're fully on edge for the rest of it. The car scene (and the aftermath)? |
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Post by cubby on Oct 27, 2021 20:38:11 GMT
*That* moment in Hereditary. Where a moment in a film suddenly and completely upends what you think this film is going to be about, and you're fully on edge for the rest of it. The car scene (and the aftermath)? Yup. Fucked. Me. Up. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2021 20:38:40 GMT
The Alien vent scene used to scare the fucking shit out of me when I was a kid. Also the Husky scene in The Thing still gets under my skin.
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Post by Kay on Oct 27, 2021 20:44:45 GMT
The car scene (and the aftermath)? Yup. Fucked. Me. Up. That scene was really well shot, which just made it even more chilling. |
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Post by Nanocrystal on Oct 27, 2021 20:48:57 GMT
The Alien vent scene used to scare the fucking shit out of me when I was a kid. Xeno clearly just wants a hug in that scene. |
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Post by britesparc on Oct 27, 2021 20:56:45 GMT
Anyone seen The Changelling? Not the Angelina Jolie one, the 1980 horror. It's about a bereaved bloke who buys one of those massive gothic houses you only ever see in horror movies, and it's haunted (natch). I first saw it when I was about ten and it shit me right up. Of all the sorts of horrors, the ones that get me are ghost stories (I was terrified by The Sixth Sense first time round), and this has it all: spooky noises, objects being moved, a REALLY excellent and creepy seance scene... which is what I'm going to highlight as the scene. I found some of it on YouTube but it's not the whole scene, with the setup, and this really does spoil a bit of the film so I recommend you just watch the whole movie. And I've also written it out below. Spoiler tagged! www.youtube.com/watch?v=40ckJbYEmn8 So they have a seance, and the way it's done is a medium is "comuning" with the ghost and just scribbling any old rubbish on a piece of paper. When the ghost "speaks" to her, she'll write what the ghost says. And she's got a kind of helper, who's pulling the paper away when she's done so she's always got a clean sheet. And she's asking questions - "Were you the child killed by the coal kart?" - and then writing, and then her helper dude reads out what she's written - "No" - and pulls the paper away. Blah blah blah, fairly creepy. But then afterwards, our hero - the main guy, can't remember who plays him - is listening back to a recording of the seance, done on one of those old-fashioned reel-to-reel recorders (rather than a tape or what have you). So every time he's rewinding it there's great sound design of the tape spooling back and the click of the buttons. And he's playing it over and over, and then he starts to turn up the volume, and then you realise that when the medium asks a question - "Were you the child killed by the coal kart?" - you hear a really spooky as fuck voice reply "Nooooo" before she scribbles. Honestly, it doesn't sound like much, but it freaked me right out, and still does tbh. |
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Post by Danno on Oct 27, 2021 20:56:52 GMT
The Alien vent scene used to scare the fucking shit out of me when I was a kid. Also the Husky scene in The Thing still gets under my skin. Understandable |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2021 21:14:37 GMT
It's been parodied to the point where it's lost most of the impact, but I can still get the willies thinking about this scene
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Post by jono62 on Oct 27, 2021 21:29:27 GMT
Jason and the Argonauts Skeleton fight freaked me out as kid
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Post by anephric on Oct 27, 2021 22:20:15 GMT
Another creepy bit in a kid's cartoon that I used to think was scary, DOT AND THE KANGAROO. youtu.be/WtrYO-Mog60Watching it now, it's still pretty creepy. How is that fun for kids? THE BUNYIP'S GOING TO GET YOU. |
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Post by Bill in the rain on Oct 27, 2021 22:20:22 GMT
I agree with hedben that I really dislike scenes where people are begging for their life. (Possibly why The Sand Pebbles f-ed me up so bad, though he was begging for death). Though those aren't exactly 'scary'. Another scary/dread scene would be the beginning of Inglorious Basterds, when Christoph Waltz is interrogating the family. Not that I particularly like the film as a whole. I don't really care that much about jump scares anymore, because I basically know when to expect them. I'm much more scared by atmosphere, general wrongness, or things being where they're not supposed to be. There's something that happens in the corner of a frame in Hereditary, and that personally freaked me out more than most jump scares. I can still find them scary if they're well done. At the very least they serve to put your nerves on edge and unsettle you. Several points in The Thing are good examples, and I always found the scariest moment in Nightmare on Elm Street to be the bit where Johnny Depp pops out. But yeah, in general I agree with you. Most of the films I've found properly scary have been more about a building atmosphere of dread. But most of those films don't have 'a scene' that's scary. I thought It Follows was great, but I couldn't really point to one scene that was individually especially scary. I had to turn off The Babadook half way through because of a feeling of dread about where it was going. I have no idea if it actually went there or not. But again there wasn't really one standout scary scene. |
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Post by Bill in the rain on Oct 27, 2021 22:28:36 GMT
Oh, and the Boat Tunnel scene in the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
You know, where, in the middle of a kids movie, they go into a hallucinogenic tunnel filled with weird images while Gene Wilder chants an ever increasing chant and they show you things like chickens getting their heads cut off. WTF?!
I actually have the move for my kids, and I went to the trouble of editing out the chicken slaughter myself.
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Post by cubby on Oct 27, 2021 22:30:57 GMT
The Babadook is just unrelentingly harrowing. If you've ever experienced shitty parents who abuse their kids in any way it hits a raw nerve.
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Post by Aunt Alison on Oct 27, 2021 22:33:30 GMT
I thought It Follows was great, but I couldn't really point to one scene that was individually especially scary. The opening scene with the girl when you have no idea what's going on is a good one
I think there's also a scene (I think it's when they're at the school) where there's someone walking towards them outside and they don't even notice it
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Post by anephric on Oct 27, 2021 22:36:18 GMT
The naked guy on the roof. Or the really tall guy.
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Post by Aunt Alison on Oct 27, 2021 22:36:50 GMT
The final scene in The Borderlands is pretty scary if you're claustrophobic
Also the bit in The Descent where one of the characters gets stuck
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2021 22:38:19 GMT
The ending of The Wicker Man still haunts me to this day.
The Nic Cage remake does also, but for different reasons.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2021 22:39:23 GMT
Oh shit yeah. End of Borderlands was terrifying. I really didn't expect that.
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Post by One_Vurfed_Gwrx on Oct 27, 2021 22:39:28 GMT
There's a scene in one of the old Superman films where a woman is pulled into a machine and covered in wires and stuff, then comes out as a robot thing. Terrified me as a child Superman 3 and yes, me too. Fucking gave me nightmares for months. Yeah, that scene freaked me out a bit as a kid too, I seem to recall the sound effects being part of the issue too but haven't actually researched the film as an adult so don't fully remember the scene. |
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Post by Aunt Alison on Oct 27, 2021 22:45:53 GMT
I should post in the Brave Little Soldier thread for this
Still horrible
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