# Best Horror Movie Moments **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 31, 2005, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-horror-movie-moments/328717 "2005-10-31T14:30:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-horror-movie-moments/328717/41 "2005-10-31T20:22:29Z")
In _Below_, When the guys are exploring the area where the firestorm has crispy-fried everyone else, and the one guy is looking in the mirror and his reflection starts lagging behind…and then on the way back, he checks it again, and he turns around to face the camera, but the reflection just keeps staring straight ahead… ---
**Author:** ![priapus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@priapus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/priapus)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-horror-movie-moments/328717/42 "2005-10-31T20:36:10Z")
The door bending scene in The Haunting(the original) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-horror-movie-moments/328717/43 "2005-10-31T20:36:35Z")
[This](http://www.chrisgenoa.com/archives/The_Shining_bear.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-horror-movie-moments/328717/44 "2005-10-31T20:37:28Z")
IMHO, the greatest of all time is still the end of **Carrie**. By far, it was the most unainimous scream I’ve ever heard from a movie audience! **Land of the Dead** : The zombie with the apparently severed head–suddenly, the head (just barely attached) whips forward and bites! My faves are still the older films:[ul] [li] **Beast From 20,000 Fathoms** –The beast picks the cop up by his head, swings him around, and swallows him.[/li][li] **Island of Terror** –The silicate attacks Peter Cushing’s arm and he begs Edward Judd to cut it off: “I can’t!” “Must!”[/li][li] **Day of the Dead** –Steel crosses himself, then puts the gun in his mouth and fires just before the zombies get him.[/li][li]The unmasking of Erique in the original **Phantom of the Opera**.[/li][li]A close second in **Carrie** –Carrie kills her psycho mother.[/li][li] **The Monster of Piedras Blancas** –The first appearance of the monster coming out of the meat locker holding his victim’s head. As I stated in a previous thread, that first cinematic severed head is a treasured moment in a horror film fan’s memory![/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![missbunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@missbunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missbunny)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-horror-movie-moments/328717/45 "2005-10-31T20:39:11Z")
I just saw The Fly for the first time and was blown away by Jeff Goldblum’s performance. It’s a crime he didn’t win the Oscar for that. Anyhoo, the last scene where the telepod opens and he tumbles out with a horrifying shriek at the realization of what he has become - he never could have imagined there would be something WORSE than turning into a fly - and then the look in his eyes when he begs to be killed, is just amazing. Another horror movie with a really creepy scene is The Reincarnation of Peter Proud. Again, the last scene - where he’s beaten over the head with an oar until he falls slowly through the murky pond water to rest gently on the bottom - just as it had happened to him in his “previous” life - way creepy. I still have nightmares about Karen Black in Trilogy of Terror and it is because of that movie alone that I do not keep a rack of knives out in the open in my kitchen. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-horror-movie-moments/328717/46 "2005-10-31T20:46:45Z")
> [@missbunny](#): > > I just saw The Fly for the first time and was blown away by Jeff Goldblum’s performance. It’s a crime he didn’t win the Oscar for that. > > Anyhoo, the last scene where the telepod opens and he tumbles out with a horrifying shriek at the realization of what he has become - he never could have imagined there would be something WORSE than turning into a fly - and then the look in his eyes when he begs to be killed, is just amazing. Oh, yes, that has a horrifying movie. The black & white version was so innocent and almost charming that I thought this one wouldn’t frighten me - boy, was I wrong. Ew. Ew. EEEEEWWW! ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-horror-movie-moments/328717/47 "2005-10-31T20:57:15Z")
> [@missbunny](#): > > - he never could have imagined there would be something WORSE than turning into a fly - . What was worse? In the Bravo countdown there was a horrible movie scene where a man holds a decapitated head so it can rape a woman tied to a table. He holds the head over the breasts to it can lick them, then the head was moved down her body etc. I was horrified at that brief scene. What was the movie? I’ve also heard nasty things about _The Last House on the Left_. ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-horror-movie-moments/328717/48 "2005-10-31T21:02:12Z")
**ivylass** , I think that’s _Reanimator_. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-horror-movie-moments/328717/49 "2005-10-31T21:03:21Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Oh, yes, that has a horrifying movie. The black & white version was so innocent and almost charming that I thought this one wouldn’t frighten me - boy, was I wrong. Ew. Ew. EEEEEWWW! If I might offer an alternative view… I thought it was moderately scary, but mostly meh. On a level of gross, however, it excelled. As a (cheap horror movie level) drama is where it really shone. The man/machine scene at the end did not frighten me, nor did it gross me out, it made me sad. Even though the movie featured technology and insects and grossout visuals, it was a very human movie. It was a human morality tale. After many repeated viewings, however, the abortion scene still makes me squeem like a schoolgirl. ---
**Author:** ![missbunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@missbunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missbunny)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-horror-movie-moments/328717/50 "2005-10-31T21:05:47Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > What was worse? After turning into a fly, he wants to reverse the process somehow but things get fouled up and he turns not back into a man, but into a fusion of fly and the telepod itself. So the top half of his body is a fly, and his back and back legs are now a mangled lump of steel, wires, and cables. But his brain is all human. It’s just horrifying to think about. Then Geena Davis blows his head off after he looks at her with pleading fly eyes and the movie ends right then with her sobbing uncontrollably. It’s really an amazing scene. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-horror-movie-moments/328717/51 "2005-10-31T21:06:14Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > In the Bravo countdown there was a horrible movie scene where a man holds a decapitated head (snip) I don’t remember the movie, but worse than that for me was the scene where the woman was licking her own baby. A newborn, at that. _shudder_ ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-horror-movie-moments/328717/52 "2005-10-31T21:12:05Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > I don’t remember the movie, but worse than that for me was the scene where the woman was licking her own baby. A newborn, at that. > > _shudder_ I believe that’s **The Brood** with Samantha Eggar playing the mother. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-horror-movie-moments/328717/53 "2005-10-31T21:26:21Z")
> [@cbawlmer](#): > > **ivylass** , I think that’s _Reanimator_. That was probably it, but I can tell you, I will gladly go to my grave without seeing that movie. **missbunny** , that’s rather sad, actually. But I thought the ending was Geena Davis giving birth to a larva ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-horror-movie-moments/328717/54 "2005-10-31T21:28:31Z")
> [@missbunny](#): > > It’s really an amazing scene. It is. Thing is, in those days, every horror movie was little more than some bad dude hacking up teenagers. Suspense, killing, suspense, killing. Boring! Halloween and Friday the 13th, while both good, killed, in addition to scores of horny teens, any semblance of plot line. The Fly harkened back to a time when horror movies had characters you could care about, and were as much human tragedy as grossout-fests. Even Shore’s score had an old-fashioned feel to it. That said, it’s a little surprising that in a thread about horror movies, started on Halloween, nobody has mentioned Halloween yet. After Jamie Lee stabs Michael Myers to death, she sits there exhausted and bewildered. The monster is dead. The movie is all over. All is well. Then Michael sits up. Yikes! I’m not sure, but I believe that was a movie first, the monster that can’t be killed. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-horror-movie-moments/328717/55 "2005-10-31T21:29:43Z")
> [@cbawlmer](#): > > **ivylass** , I think that’s _Reanimator_. Someone on the board wrote that when the actor who played “the head” saw this with his wife, his wife was so disturbed by it that she divorced him. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-horror-movie-moments/328717/56 "2005-10-31T21:30:07Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > But I thought the ending was Oh no. There was much footage to follow. ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-horror-movie-moments/328717/57 "2005-10-31T21:31:40Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > It is. Thing is, in those days, every horror movie was little more than some bad dude hacking up teenagers. Suspense, killing, suspense, killing. Boring! Halloween and Friday the 13th, while both good, killed, in addition to scores of horny teens, any semblance of plot line. The Fly harkened back to a time when horror movies had characters you could care about, and were as much human tragedy as grossout-fests. Even Shore’s score had an old-fashioned feel to it. > > That said, it’s a little surprising that in a thread about horror movies, started on Halloween, nobody has mentioned Halloween yet. > > After Jamie Lee stabs Michael Myers to death, she sits there exhausted and bewildered. The monster is dead. The movie is all over. All is well. Then Michael sits up. Yikes! I’m not sure, but I believe that was a movie first, the monster that can’t be killed. Does the name **Frankenstein** ring a bell? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-horror-movie-moments/328717/58 "2005-10-31T21:33:48Z")
> [@want2know](#): > > Does the name **Frankenstein** ring a bell? :dubious: The monster lived on in sequels, but was he truly immortal, in a Michael/Jason sense? I haven’t seen enough Frankenstein movies to really know. ---
**Author:** ![Corporate\_Hippie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/65b543/32.png) [@Corporate\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corporate_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-horror-movie-moments/328717/59 "2005-10-31T21:55:34Z")
The twin girls in the hallway in _The Shining._ Actually all the scenes that just had Danny playing alone in the hotel had a real creepy vibe to them. Especially when he was riding around on the Big Wheel with the camera followed him with that ground level perspective and when he’s playing with some toy cars and a ball just rolls up to him out of nowhere. Creepy! ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-horror-movie-moments/328717/60 "2005-10-31T22:03:04Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > The monster lived on in sequels, but was he truly immortal, in a Michael/Jason sense? I haven’t seen enough Frankenstein movies to really know. The Universal Studios “Frankenstein Monster” lived through 7 sequels; Michael Myers to date has been in 5. I think that qualifies as “immortal”. Of course, using that criteria, Jason would win, being in something like 10. 🆒 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-horror-movie-moments/328717.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-horror-movie-moments/328717.md?page=4)