# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![peri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/67e7ee/32.png) [@peri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peri)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841/41 "2004-10-24T15:16:27Z")
In **Batman Returns** , when Michelle Pfeiffer’s character falls to the ground all the cats come running to _chew on her fingers_. Squicks me right out every time I see that scene. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841/42 "2004-10-24T15:18:54Z")
Two words: Seven. Sloth. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841/43 "2004-10-24T15:27:25Z")
Twin Peaks: When Maddie has her last encounter with Leland/Bob. He’s “dancing” with her and proceeds to slam her face into a picture frame while screaming, “YOU’RE GOING BACK TO MISSOULA, MONTANA!” ---
**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, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841/44 "2004-10-24T15:35:34Z")
Oh, and… this didn’t FREAK ME OUT. Freaked me out, perhaps, but not in capital letters. In _Kill Bill, Vol. 1_, when she takes a knife to the back of that guy’s ankles. Come to think of it, I don’t remember the context of that scene at all, but the image has stuck in my mind. My dance teacher has always warned that if that snaps, it’ll roll up like a window shade. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841/45 "2004-10-24T15:54:05Z")
> [@KGS](#): > > 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! Robocop 2? [http://robocoparchive.com/archive/r2wide2.htm#](http://robocoparchive.com/archive/r2wide2.htm#) (rows seven and eight. Nasty!) ---
**Author:** ![kung\_fu\_lola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f4b2a3/32.png) [@kung\_fu\_lola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kung_fu_lola)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841/46 "2004-10-24T16:12:26Z")
> [@Evil Death](#): > > 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! 😛 I’ve seen both, and the remake was scarier to me. I think it was the eerie greenish tint everywhere. The girl in the closet and the kids falling out of the car in _Ringu_ did not freak me out nearly as much, actually I thought they looked kind of funny. I couldn’t watch _The Ring_ all in one piece. I watched it in about seven chunks, and yes I am a big baby. The trailer for _The Ring 2_ kept me from getting to sleep the other night. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841/47 "2004-10-24T16:13:35Z")
_ **Forbidden Planet** _ The “Monsters from the Id,” before we could see it. Mystrious footprints appear in the sand, the steps up to the space ship bend under the unseen unatural weight of whatever this invisible monster is, then we hear the death cries of some unlucky crewman. When we finally get to see the invisible beast, it isn’t half as scary as that one scene. I was pretty young, possibly in Kindergarten. Dad was a Sci-Fi nut and our local theatre ran reruns of classic movies periodically. [cross posted from the other thread cause I thought I was posting in THIS one] ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841/48 "2004-10-24T16:15:41Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > There’s an older animated version of _Anastasia_, I forget from what era (not the newer Disney one, though)… That was from 20th Century Fox, not Disney. ---
**Author:** ![aaslatten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f14d63/32.png) [@aaslatten](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aaslatten)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841/49 "2004-10-24T16:16:02Z")
> [@Declan](#): > > Train spotting > > Where the guy jumps into the toilet to retrieve what ever it was > > Ugggh > > Declan same movie … but when Begbie shoves the glass into the guy’s face ---
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841/50 "2004-10-24T17:38:25Z")
**Jacob’s Ladder** had too many for me to keep count; but the biggest one was when that horn came out of Jezzy’s mouth at the party. Eeew. **The Exorcist** : First time I saw this movie, it was the edition with “never seen before” scenes. The part where the little girl did the spider-walk down the stairs, blood streaming from her mouth, freaked me the FUCK out. ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841/51 "2004-10-24T17:46:06Z")
That Dutch (I think) movie where the chick is buried alive and never found… they did an American version of it that supposedly has her saved, but I never saw it. The original version freaked me out so much that I’ve apparantly erased as much of it from my memory as I can, since for the life of me I can’t remember the name of the film. ---
**Author:** ![gum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbe5ce/32.png) [@gum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gum)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841/52 "2004-10-24T17:57:42Z")
That was _‘Spoorloos’_, \*\* Athena\*\*. Directed by George Sluizer, who also made the American version "The Vanishing’. Pretty scary, huh. ---
**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, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841/53 "2004-10-24T19:10:20Z")
Just want y’all to know… I now have a great list of flicks to watch this Halloween weekend! Muchas grossias, senores! ---
**Author:** ![Roadwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@Roadwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadwalker)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841/54 "2004-10-24T20:45:47Z")
The hobbling scene from \*Misery \* ---
**Author:** ![freakstasy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c57346/32.png) [@freakstasy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freakstasy)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841/55 "2004-10-24T21:36:48Z")
In _Life is Beautiful_, the look on Guido’s face when he realizes the Nazi Dr. Lessing (played by Horst Buchholz) has no interest in the plight of those in the camp, that all he really wants is help solving riddles. Some say the the film belittles the Holocaust, which is astounding to me because this scene, despite its apparent innocuousness, left me in tears. And the detachment with which the Nazis push a handicapped man off a balcony in _The Pianist_ marks the only time I’ve been too terrified to continue watching a movie. I did see the rest of the film, thankfully, otherwise I wouldn’t have been able to get the image out of my mind. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841/56 "2004-10-24T22:26:30Z")
Hey, someone got a link to a screenshot of The Ring’s freaky flashback girl? I love seeing disturbingly freakish stuff… puts my own in a more tolerable context. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![sleeepy2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@sleeepy2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleeepy2)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841/57 "2004-10-24T22:44:31Z")
_The Ring, Exorcist III_ , & _Sixth Sense_ are all great examples. When I was around 9, I saw _Carrie_ on tv. When the hand came out of the grave I almost had to change my underwear. Jan-Michael Vincent was in a movie called _Shadow Of The Hawk_, and whenever they showed the evil indian spirit with the giant mask, I almost screamed. I haven’t seen this movie since I was a kid, so I don’t know how it holds up . ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841/58 "2004-10-24T22:49:29Z")
Marathon Man – “Is it safe?” Scared the hell out of me, and still creeps me out. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841/59 "2004-10-24T23:02:27Z")
> [@sleeepy2](#): > > _The Ring, Exorcist III_ , & _Sixth Sense_ are all great examples. > > When I was around 9, I saw _Carrie_ on tv. When the hand came out of the grave I almost had to change my underwear. Oddly enough, Stephen King has said that this scene scares the hell outta him, and he KNEW it was coming. ---
**Author:** ![Roseworm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df788c/32.png) [@Roseworm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roseworm)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841/60 "2004-10-24T23:05:23Z")
When I was young I took great bloodthirsty glee from films like \*Gunga Din \* (1939) in which the bad guys get mowed down by the score. In this I do not believe I was different from any other child. But then, when I was still quite young, I watched \*Sergeant York \* (1941). In the climactic battle Gary Cooper’s unit charges headlong into heavy German machinegun fire. Now I was watching the \*good guys \* get mowed down. That was no fun at all. I was so upset I started to sniffle. There may be a lesson here, somewhere. Also, like **NoClueBoy** , I was badly frightened by the “Id Monster” in \*Forbidden Planet \* (1956). The fact that it was invisible (but manifesting itself through clever special effects) made it that much more terrifying. And finally, I was scared half out of my wits by an episode of the “Twilight Zone.” When William Shatner pulls the window curtain back _and that goddamn gremlin has its face jammed right up against the glass_… My heart practically hammered its way out of my chest. I refer, of course, to the classic Episode 123 (Season 5), “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet”, written by Richard Matheson. Shatner never had a better moment. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841.md?page=4)