# Brief scenes in films that FREAKED YOU OUT **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 24, 2004, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841 "2004-10-24T01:52:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841/21 "2004-10-24T07:41:21Z")
Train spotting Where the guy jumps into the toilet to retrieve what ever it was Ugggh Declan ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841/22 "2004-10-24T07:56:14Z")
> [@RikWriter](#): > > The scene in Exorcist III when the killer suddenly appears in the darkened hospital corridor with the king-sized shears right behind the nurse. Bingo. ---
**Author:** ![Chastain86](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Chastain86](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chastain86)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841/23 "2004-10-24T08:00:01Z")
> [@RikWriter](#): > > The scene in Exorcist III when the killer suddenly appears in the darkened hospital corridor with the king-sized shears right behind the nurse. Funny, that was the movie I thought of, but not that scene. The one that does it for me was the scene when the wooden Jesus-on-the-cross **opens his farking eyes, holy crap.** :eek: I still see that in my dreams some nights. Blech. Creepy wooden Jesus. Die. ---
**Author:** ![Freejooky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ba8739/32.png) [@Freejooky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freejooky)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841/24 "2004-10-24T08:51:43Z")
> [@Nvme77](#): > > In **The Ring** , at the funeral when they flash back to how they found the first dead girl, the look on her face, OMG! :eek: I felt all the blood drain from my face and my body went cold. Me too! This is the one that immediately jumped into my mind. I’m not easily scared, and I’ve seen a jillion horror movies, but the way they so unexpectedly flash to that shot, and that there’s that screaming, high-pitched sound when they do it startled the **shit** out of me. I actually started having an anxiety attack and had to go take xanax to calm down. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841/25 "2004-10-24T09:07:15Z")
> [@Declan](#): > > Train spotting > > Where the guy jumps into the toilet to retrieve what ever it was > > Ugggh > > Declan Similarly, in Schindler’s List when the boy jumps into the outhouse’s pit to escape the Nazis only to find three or four other boys already down there. I don’t think I could ever do that. ---
**Author:** ![Roland\_Orzabal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841/26 "2004-10-24T09:07:26Z")
> [@Freejooky](#): > > Me too! This is the one that immediately jumped into my mind. I’m not easily scared, and I’ve seen a jillion horror movies, but the way they so unexpectedly flash to that shot, and that there’s that screaming, high-pitched sound when they do it startled the **shit** out of me. I actually started having an anxiety attack and had to go take xanax to calm down. Ah yes. The dead girl. Also known as The Nastiest Thing Ever Made. I first watched the movie on DVD. I saw that thing, recoiled in abject horror, and then, for reasons that are even now unclear to me, picked up the remote, rewound, and freeze-framed on that thing for a good five slack-jawed, terror-filled seconds. Let me assure you, staring at it for a longer period of time does not make it any less The Nastiest Thing Ever Made. Holy crap…why did you people have to make me think about that thing? Aaaaeeeeewwwwggggh. Bbbbbrrrrr. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841/27 "2004-10-24T09:50:06Z")
The rape scene in _Prince of Tides_, especially after Barbara Streisand said, “What happened to the third man, Tom?” Any movie where people rip out their fingernails and/or toenails. I’m not usually bothered by dismembered body parts, but I have a peculiar weakness for cuticles, God only knows why. (Cronenberg’s _The Fly_ was particularly nasty in this regard.) And I don’t remember the name of the movie for this one – some guy gets kidnapped by the bad guy, and winds up with his brain floating in a jar with the eyes and spinal cord attached, still alive & awake. All I remember about the movie is that it was dumb and silly and not meant to be taken seriously, but all I could think in that scene was, “How in hell is he going to get HIS BRAIN BACK INTO HIS BODY???” That would really suck! ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Death](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecccb3/32.png) [@Evil\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Death)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841/28 "2004-10-24T10:09:09Z")
> [@Roland Orzabal](#): > > Ah yes. The dead girl. Also known as The Nastiest Thing Ever Made. I first watched the movie on DVD. I saw that thing, recoiled in abject horror, and then, for reasons that are even now unclear to me, picked up the remote, rewound, and freeze-framed on that thing for a good five slack-jawed, terror-filled seconds. > > Let me assure you, staring at it for a longer period of time does not make it any less The Nastiest Thing Ever Made. Holy crap…why did you people have to make me think about that thing? Aaaaeeeeewwwwggggh. Bbbbbrrrrr. :mad: I presume you’re all talking about the remake? You are pathetic and weak! I get nastier things than that free with my breakfast cereal! 😛 Aesiron’s “bite the curb” scene is up there, though I’m still figuring out how that killed the guy rather than breaking all his teeth and his jaw. A nod to The Mothman Prophecies, now. The shot where you briefly see Indrid Cold reflected in the mirror gets 9.5 out of 10 "Wah - mother_fucker_"s from me. ---
**Author:** ![Malodorous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47774/32.png) [@Malodorous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malodorous)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841/29 "2004-10-24T10:34:23Z")
> [@Roland Orzabal](#): > > Ah yes. The dead girl. Also known as The Nastiest Thing Ever Made. I first watched the movie on DVD. I saw that thing, recoiled in abject horror, and then, for reasons that are even now unclear to me, picked up the remote, rewound, and freeze-framed on that thing for a good five slack-jawed, terror-filled seconds. Ack. No way this could be as horrible in a freeze frame, thought I. So I did a google search for the image. Jesus thats nasty. Now it’ll take the rest of the morning for me to work up the courage to open my closet so I can get dressed. > [@Evil Death](#): > > A nod to The Mothman Prophecies, now. The shot where you briefly see Indrid Cold reflected in the mirror gets 9.5 out of 10 "Wah - motherfucker"s from me. I hated this movie, but the one part where they’re driving along the road and see the two red lights in the distance, and then all of a sudden you see for maybe a frame or two that the redlights are the eyes of the mothman was pretty freaky. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841/30 "2004-10-24T11:10:46Z")
There is a French movie called [Irreversible](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290673/) that has two of the most intense and disturbing scenes ever captured IMO. Monica Bellucci is viciously analy raped and beaten. It is so realistic that I nearly got sick while looking at it. There is a scene early on (the movie is told backwards ala Memento) were a guy gets his head caved by being continually hit with a fire extinguisher. This is the most horribly strong act of violence I have ever seen in a movie. Watch movie at your peril if you are anyway easily disturbed. ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841/31 "2004-10-24T13:21:00Z")
> [@Nvme77](#): > > In **The Ring** , at the funeral when they flash back to how they found the first dead girl, the look on her face, OMG! :eek: I felt all the blood drain from my face and my body went cold. > > My husband said he happened to look at me at that point and was scared at the look on **my** face because he had never seen me that way. Gotta second this one. I yelped uncontrollably when her head flopped forward. ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841/32 "2004-10-24T13:26:29Z")
And then of course there’s… Large Marge. ---
**Author:** ![mike1dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@mike1dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mike1dog)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841/33 "2004-10-24T13:44:33Z")
In [Romper Stomper,](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105275/) when the kid gets shot in the forehead. ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841/34 "2004-10-24T13:48:50Z")
The Elephants on Parade scene in “Dumbo”. ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841/35 "2004-10-24T14:43:15Z")
> [@divemaster](#): > > Several scenes in **Jacob’s Ladder**. Especially the one where Jezzy, for a split moment, turns into a demon-face with big dark eyes and pointy teeth. It’s very quick and fairly subtle, but boy it dropped my body temp about 10 degrees! For me it’s where Robbins freaks out in the bathtub. A real flesh-crawler of a film. **Angel Heart** : De Niro eats a hard-boiled egg. Ugh. **Sunset Blvrd** : “I vos her first husband.” **The Third Man** : the little boy with the ball. ---
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841/36 "2004-10-24T14:55:21Z")
In _The Quick and the Dead_, (Gene Hackman/Sharon Stone version), the scene where Hackman kills the black gunslinger that the town hired. You see the shot from behind the gunslinger and there’s a large hole _completely_ through his head that you see the sky through. It was so sudden and unexpected that I sat frozen in shock for a few seconds. It was like…“Whoa!” And this one isn’t a film, but the pilot for a TV show–_The Greatest American Hero_. This guy gets electrocuted and is lying there dead. His coworker runs off and all of a damn _sudden_ the corpse sits up. Not a casual “yawn, stretch, sit up” sort of thing. He just jerks upright as if he were a puppet on a string (which, of course, he was, being controlled by aliens), with a deadpan expression and open eyes. I jumped sky high and it took a few minutes to get my heart rate back to normal. It was just–_ooky_! ---
**Author:** ![Sample\_the\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Sample\_the\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sample_the_Dog)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841/37 "2004-10-24T15:05:06Z")
> [@Aesiron](#): > > the scene in _American History X_ when Edward Norton’s character makes the guy … bite the curb Yeah. Very disturbing. For some reason, when the dead twins appear in the hallway of the Overlook in the Nicholson version of **The Shining** it just sends chills through me. Freaks me out more than the Tub Lady. Then there’s the scene in **The Sixth Sense** when the boy invites Cole to see his dad’s gun, and as he turns to go into the room, you see… I don’t wanna talk about it. ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841/38 "2004-10-24T15:08:49Z")
> [@scotandrsn](#): > > And then of course there’s… > Large Marge. Ahhhhhhhhhh maaaaaaaaaaan. I forgot about Large Marge. Yikes! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sample\_the\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Sample\_the\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sample_the_Dog)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841/39 "2004-10-24T15:14:57Z")
1975, on vacation in Florida, still just a kid (not even a teenager yet), and my folks decide we should all go see… you guessed it… Jaws. It was one of those “rocking-chair theaters” that were hip back then. I was sitting forward in my seat during the diving scene when THE FREAKIN’ HEAD COMES THROUGH THE HOLE IN THE BOAT! I flew back so hard in my chair that my seat-back smacked into the dude behind me. ---
**Author:** ![TJdude825](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@TJdude825](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJdude825)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841/40 "2004-10-24T15:15:56Z")
> [@Sample\_the\_Dog](#): > > Then there’s the scene in **The Sixth Sense** when the boy invites Cole to see his dad’s gun, and as he turns to go into the room, you see… > > I don’t wanna talk about it. That’s the first thing I thought of. I love the rhythm of that scene. The sound (music? I don’t remember now) effect on that just punctuates the phrase so well. “Come on, I’ll show you where my dad keeps is guns… Bwaaaaah!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841.md?page=3)