# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841/61 "2004-10-24T23:14:03Z")
Another vote for the The Ring’s gross closet girl. I’ve seen grosser things, but it was the sudden unexpectedness of it along with the music that totally unnerved me. Another scene was from David Lynch’s **Mulholland Drive**. That _THING_ behind the diner!! :eek: :eek: Holy crap, when I first saw that, I don’t think my heart stopped racing for the whole film! See, it was the way it was filmed, how the camera slowly approaches the corner, and you just know something is behind it, but then the spooky music stops and the camera moves a bit more forward so you think, ‘aha I was tricked and there really isn’t anything there’, and _that’s_ when BAM out it pops!! ---
**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, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841/62 "2004-10-24T23:15:13Z")
Every time I fly, I get this ridiculous urge to press my face to the window and yell “There’s a man on the wing!” But I don’t, because 1. everyone knows that line now, and 2. they might decide to lock me up 😃 ---
**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, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841/63 "2004-10-24T23:24:57Z")
The end of _Prince of Darkness_ with the dead thingy in the bed (It’s been a long time, I don’t remember it well). My wife was\* pissed\* at me 'cause I knew it was coming and didn’t warn her. ---
**Author:** ![Leonard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a6a055/32.png) [@Leonard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leonard)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841/64 "2004-10-24T23:30:15Z")
The quick shot in _Them_ where the girl gets some of the black goop on her hand and the more she tries to get it off the more her hand sticks to itself. Didn’t exactly scare me, but the “ick” factor was off the chart. ---
**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, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841/65 "2004-10-24T23:33:55Z")
> [@Leonard](#): > > The quick shot in _Them_ where the girl gets some of the black goop on her hand and the more she tries to get it off the more her hand sticks to itself. Didn’t exactly scare me, but the “ick” factor was off the chart. Even worse, the Goldblum version of he Fly. The BrundleFly pukes on someone’s arm and it starts digesting. Cookie tossing time. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841/66 "2004-10-24T23:43:01Z")
The “jump shot” from **Wait Until Dark**. Adam Arkin was _evil_! ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841/67 "2004-10-25T03:19:35Z")
Un chien andalu (An Andalusion Dog). If you’ve seen it, you know what I mean (though there are many scenes to chose from). ---
**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 25, 2004, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841/68 "2004-10-25T03:34:41Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Un chien andalu Why, oh why, did I read this thread before going to bed? :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841/69 "2004-10-25T03:55:30Z")
SPOOFE, try this: [Creepy dead girl from The Ring](http://www.mandiapple.com/snowblood/images/thering/katiecloset.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841/70 "2004-10-25T04:00:45Z")
I almost forgot a childhood trauma worthy (homage to another thread) brief scene that _really_ freaked me out: The vampire boy at the window in the original _Salem’s Lot_. And then there was Bill Murray “You wanna see something _really_ scary…” scene in _Twilight Zone_. ---
**Author:** ![chorpler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chorpler/32/2888_2.png) [@chorpler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chorpler)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841/71 "2004-10-25T04:17:22Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > SPOILERS! > > The mutilated Latin American whore sequence from _Kill Bill 2_- it wasn’t particularly graphic but it was freakier than anything else in the movies. Wait, what? I don’t remember that, and I just watched the movie the other day. Was it when she went to visit the pimp guy? ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841/72 "2004-10-25T04:34:34Z")
Movie: **A Tale of Two Sisters.** In the beginning where one sister is in bed by herself. The closet door slowly creaks open. She gets scared and turns to the side and covers her head up with the blanket facing the camera. We hear what came out of the closet slow scratch itself across the floor and then see the sheets slowly get pulled off the girl. DAMMIT! Under the sheets is a protected zone!!! TV: **Millenium**. Remember this show by Chris Carter? There was one episode where guys were getting buried alive in a park. But before they were buried, they had their hands, mouth and eyes SEWN SHUT! They rescued one person and we saw him sewn up but still alive. Short Clip/Animation: **Lloyd’s Lunchbox**. If you’ve ever been to a “Spike and Mike’s Sick and Twisted Animation Festival” you’ll know what I’m talking about. These are hideous little snippets. The one that gets me everytime is where Lloyd looks at a piece of paper and then looks at the webbing between his fingers. Paper. Webbing. He then gives his webbing a paper cut splitting it open. I think I’m gonna have a some coffee and sleep next weekend. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841/73 "2004-10-25T04:46:14Z")
Alien-the original, when the critter bursts out of the guys chest and scampers across the dinner table. Poltergeist-the fellow takes a bite of chicken, sees maggots in the meat, rushes to the bathroom, and imagines he’s clawing his face off. OK-who wants stromboli? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Talon\_Karrde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Talon\_Karrde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Talon_Karrde)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841/74 "2004-10-25T04:52:57Z")
> [@](#): > > DAMMIT! Under the sheets is a protected zone!!! 😃 Like everyone else, I would hide under the sheets when I was scared. Monsters never got me, so it is definitely true. Those bastard filmmakers. For me: The part in Kill Bill part 2 where she plucks out the eye and steps on it, and you can see it squishing between her toes :eek: EWW EWW EWW!!! Imagine having to clean out the squished eye from there. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841/75 "2004-10-25T05:05:14Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > And then there was Bill Murray “You wanna see something _really_ scary…” scene in _Twilight Zone_. [nitpick]Dan Ackroyd.[/nitpick] In Robocop 2, the video footage of the failed prototypes each going berserk and killing themselves was extremely disturbing. ---
**Author:** ![PaulFitzroy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/2acd7d/32.png) [@PaulFitzroy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PaulFitzroy)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841/76 "2004-10-25T05:17:45Z")
Pretty much the whole movie “Lost Highway” by David Lynch is one big creep-out. Especially when the viewers first encounter Robert Blake’s character. I found the execution of Johnny Marbles in “Knockaround Guys” pretty disturbing as well; the hopelessness of the character’s last moments, the quiet, anticlimactic sound of the gunshot, and the music all contribute to a pretty depressing scene. In “Swimming Pool,” the part where Julie’s face changes from happiness to fear and then rage during her argument with Sarah. (You’ll remember it if you’ve seen this, or at least you should.) ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841/77 "2004-10-25T05:19:24Z")
The hospital scene in **Spider-Man 2** freaks me out just _thinking_ about it. ---
**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841/78 "2004-10-25T05:43:49Z")
In _The Serpent and the Rainbow_, there’s a part where the main character is dosed with the zombie drug, and then buried. He fades out of consciousness, as I recall - and then the screen is dark for a time. After a few moments, you hear him scream… _shudder_ ---
**Author:** ![Skott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Skott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skott)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841/79 "2004-10-25T05:54:32Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > Marathon Man – “Is it safe?” Is that the reference for that opening intro to one of the Clerks:TAS episodes? Score another for **The Forbidden Planet** … _and it’s rated “G”_. Call me silly, but the scenes in **Watcher in the Woods** that dealt with mirrors (mirror splits into several parts, haunting blindfolded figure in the hall of mirrors) had me frightened to walk past or even look at them at night. There was also a TV episode… maybe the **Twilight Zone** … where if a guy touched you, all of your flesh would evaporate leaving only your bones. ---
**Author:** ![Talon\_Karrde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Talon\_Karrde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Talon_Karrde)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841/80 "2004-10-25T05:56:55Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > Marathon Man – “Is it safe?” > Scared the hell out of me, and still creeps me out. I see this one mentioned all the time. Can somebody spoil it for me? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brief-scenes-in-films-that-freaked-you-out/270841.md?page=5)