From the Nicole Kidman flic The Others when the kids are hiding inside the cabinet. They’re panicked and the little boy is breathing hard and the older sister sshs him. He stops and then they can hear breathing just outside the cabinet door. Door flings open and I about drop dead
Poltergeist…when the clown comes to life under the bed…scares me to death to this day.
LMAO
That’s me and my husband. He’s 5’10’ big boy and he screams like a little girl every time that scene comes up. I’m no help, of course, I’m cowering and gibbering in the corner!
. . . but I’m guessing from your user name that you’re pulling for the other side in the whole Darby O’Gill thing.
RR
The end of the original version of The Vanishing (the Dutch version, not the remake), where (if my hazy recollection is right)…
…the hero, having voluntarily been drugged to find out what happened to his girlfriend, wakes up in the dark, strikes his lighter, and realises he’s in a coffin…and then the camera pans up, to the villain, happily having food with his family at the picnic table several feet above…
This is what I came in to say. See about 1:10 in this trailer.
The Exorcist III clip was also a huge jumper. I wish all horror movies could do that. I love being that scared.
Ayup!
Feels slightly sick and wishes he hadn’t read that
Tangentally related Malcolm Mcdowell had an almost shat himself moment when he walked passed a (apparently reflective) window at night and saw ALEX STARING BACK AT HIM!!!
I think that’s hysterical.
And speaking of Malcolm, there was that moment in If… where he’s walking around the hospital at night and comes across a guy in bed in obvious distress, pulls back the sheet, to fine the guy’s head has been grafted on to a sheep.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!
The shower scene in Psycho
The screaming sorta soundtrack made me cower, I was only a sprog, a very timid one at that
Oh, yeah, that scared the CRAP outta me! I was like one of those cartoons where the character’s frightened and you can see his heart pounding about six inches out of his chest!
It’s not as if that movie was short on “Holy bleep!” moments anyway, but that scene was in a class by itself!
OMG! There was a guy who I imagined was a vet in the theater when I saw the film and during the sniper scene, he started yelling, “shoot her, shoot her”.
There was so much pain in his voice that it made me cry.
Accidentally posted here first:
American Werewolf In London.
There’s a scene where the protagonist is in the bathroom, looking in the mirror.
You know his dead, chewed-up and bloody pal is going to appear in the mirror behind him. It’s too cliche, but you know it’s going to happen.
And yet, when it does, even though you know it and are expecting it? Yep, time for new undies! (I think that’s the point where we walked out, we just couldn’t deal with it any more).
In Jurassic Park when the woman goes into that outbuilding to turn the power back on and the dude’s arm falls on her shoulder…and then you see that it’s only an arm…
Can someone contextualize that Exorcist III scene for me? I have never seen the movie (or any Exorcist film…I’m not a horror fan), but I had to go and watch the YouTube clip, of course. I think part of what disturbs me so much about it is that it seems so gratuitous, from a standpoint of not having any context for it. It almost reminds me of one of those “screamer” videos that were so popular a couple of years ago, with no purpose for the sudden “jump” moment.
Who is the guy with the sheet and scissors? Is he a possessed person? Or just a murderous psychopath? Is that a regular hospital or a mental hospital? Did the sheet guy do that to the statue with autopsy scissors after he killed the nurse? How does this scene fit in to the rest of the movie?
Some of the lead-up is in this link, and from the summary on Wiki it sounds like murders are being committed by the spirit of a dead serial killer (or perhaps a demon who had committed the previous murders via the killer’s body), and the investigation leads to this asylum. Cue the nurse making rounds, a fake scare dissipating some of the tension, and then out of nowhere… :eek:
I only saw the original, and the stories revolve around demonic possession, so my WAG until someone sets the story straight is that the man in the sheet was either a possessed person or some other manifestation of a demon.
Raiders of the Lost Ark: when Karen Allen and Harrison Ford are left to die in the tomb…she thinks she’s clinging to him but the reveal shows she was holding onto a skeleton. And the snake comes through the mouth.
I maybe mixing up the book and the movie, but I think:
A demon who has previously possessed a ‘serial killer’ (loosely based on the Zodiac) has possessed another person, over a decade later. The forensic evidence points to two different ‘impossible’ suspects, who are residents in a locked psychiatric ward in a hospital.
The detective, a pragmatic but spiritual man, is slowly forced to face and address the question and the source of evil in this world.
The movie is not a teen-slasher film. The gore and violence exists primarily in the audience’s imagination. The head-less statue was shown to indicate that the nurse had been be-headed, rather than showing the be-heading.
Creeped the hell out of me.
The original Child’s Play, when she open’s the battery lid and…no batteries!
oh, and dude in the corner at the end of Blair Witch is pretty creepy