With Halloween here let’s discuss our favorite Horror movie moments:
Is it Frankenstien Crying out “It’s Alive! Its Alive!” In Frankenstien?
Jason’s first Kill?
How about the test they do to find out who is who in The Thing
For me it is In John Carpenter’s Halloween when Michael pins the guy to teh wall and sits there staring at him. There is a an eerrie moment where Michael cocks his head looking at his handywork. Just Bizzare.
So what’s yours?
I’m going to start out with the movie that everyone – except me – loves to hate: Flowers in the Attic.
Four kids, locked in an attic for several months by their mother. The young boy starts getting ill. The older girl begs the mother to take him to a hospital. She finally agrees. Cut to a scene where the groundskeeper is digging a hole in the yard. Cut back to the mother telling the three remaining children that the boy was very sick and “There was nothing the doctors could do.” Cut back to the groundskeeper filling in the hole. The camera pans out to reveal three more empty holes.
Chilling? Or silly? I say chilling, and I stand by my decision.
In **Dead-Alive ** - when the reanimated, disembodied intestines fart. Call me low-brow.
In Wait Until Dark when Alan Arkin jumps up in the dark room. No movie moment is scarier.
tdn, I like this movie, too! And the book. And I say this scene is chilling.
For my scary story, I’d have to go with…was it Stigmata? The one where (spoilers ahead, but it’s an old movie) the girl was raped and then suffocated by the plastic bag? Anyway, I am freaked out by suffocating to death as it is, but what got me was when he was sitting on the couch, he turns to watch TV, turns back and she’s there! Sitting next to him!
All of Sixth Sense scared me because it was a kid and a kid who could act. The whole scene at night…
And then the Ring. When she came out of the TV, I had to go watch Sesame Street for a while. :o
We seriously need an “I lust after you” smiley.
Although while I liked the movie, I hated the books. Every single one of them. From beginning to end.
Yeah. Very few scenes were actually scary, but the whole thing had a weird pall over it. Very creepy. One afternoon I had it playing on the DVD but I wasn’t watching. I was in the other room doing stuff. But I was in a really strange mood. I had this uneasy sense of doom. I was having premonitions that something terrible was going to happen. What it turned out to be was that the soundtrack to Sixth Sense was getting under my skin.
Near the end of Psycho, when Norman Bates has the nice raised above his head, and the male hero grabs him. Norman has this totally “pscho” look as we see him in the dress and wig of his mothers.
I actually didn’t know what was coming when I saw this movie and that disturbed me.
I am officially losing my mind. Yesterday, I wrote “spaghetti” when I meant “spinach” and toady I wrote “nice” when I obviously meant “knife”.
Anyone know a good psychologist?
The last scene in the original Friday the 13th. When the girl is in the canoe and the police are on the shore and you’re convinced that the horror has finally ended. Jason springs out of the water and grabs her in the canoe.
:eek:
One is reminded of Carrie. And Deliverance.
I just thought of another.
Day of the dead: The three heros (sort of) are sitting behind their trailer have drinks discussing the point of satying the mine studying the dead. (For those who haven’t seen the film, the trailer is also inside the mine. )
John calls out the line “This is one big, long 16-mile wide tombstone!” As the word Tombstone echoes in the dark caveren it is answered by the moan of a zombie out there in the dark (In a pen). A creepy reminder they are not alone down there.
Jaws.
Hey! That’s Ben Gardner’s boat! Hey! That’s Ben Gardner’s head!
Poltiergiest. When that blonde girl turns and says “There Here” is classic and scary.
The Prophecy - At the end when Viggo(the Devil) says “Keep the lights on” has always given me goose bumps.
The scene in The Ring where they flash to the girl’s corpse in the closet, and her head is slowly falling, and her jaw is in a strange position, like it’s unhinged… Creepy as FUCK. That bit send a jolt down my spine, and I cannot even remember the last time I felt something like that from a film. Maybe when I first saw The Exorcist.
The thing that ruined that scene for me was when they mention the Autopsy someone comments how it must have been a heart attack. I’m sorry but it is so fricken nonchalant considering how absolutely $%^#'ed up it looked.
C’mon…can you actually remember Jason’s first kill and why it should be classic? I certainly can’t.
However in Sixth Sense when the kid goes to hide in his makeshift tent in the bedroom only to find a dead girl under there…eep!
Or under the bed, at the funeral. What a curse, his skill was!
The ball bouncing down the stairs in The Changeling
Bravo just had a countdown on the 100 Scariest Movie Moments. I must have missed The Others on the list, but Jaws was number one.
For me, Angelheart had a ton of scary moments, but the end, when Johnny Angel finally realizes the truth about what’s been happening, had me screaming into a pillow.
I’m not into gore and jumping out to scare people, but the psychological horrors will keep me up at night.
Oh yes. I nominate Viggo as my favorite Satan ever. “I love you more than Jesus” is the one that stuck with me. Direct link to video here.