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.
Two words:
Seven. Sloth.
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!”
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.
Robocop 2? http://robocoparchive.com/archive/r2wide2.htm# (rows seven and eight. Nasty!)
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.
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.
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That was from 20th Century Fox, not Disney.
same movie … but when Begbie shoves the glass into the guy’s face
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.
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.
That was ‘Spoorloos’, ** Athena**. Directed by George Sluizer, who also made the American version "The Vanishing’.
Pretty scary, huh.
Just want y’all to know… I now have a great list of flicks to watch this Halloween weekend!
Muchas grossias, senores!
The hobbling scene from *Misery *
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.
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. 
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 .
Marathon Man – “Is it safe?”
Scared the hell out of me, and still creeps me out.
Oddly enough, Stephen King has said that this scene scares the hell outta him, and he KNEW it was coming.
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.