# Getting Near Halloween: Scariest Films/Scariest Scenes?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-near-halloween-scariest-films-scariest-scenes/467847
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [October 14, 2008, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-near-halloween-scariest-films-scariest-scenes/467847 "2008-10-14T09:48:29Z")
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### Author:  [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2008, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-near-halloween-scariest-films-scariest-scenes/467847/21 "2008-10-14T20:38:20Z")
I saw The Silence of the Lambs in the theater right when it came out, and pretty much the entire movie scared the living shit out of me. That scene where …
… Hannibal Lector is breaking out of the cage and they’re stuck on the elevator trying to get to him
had me in a knotted-up ball in my seat. And of course the whole ending scene in …
Jame Gumb’s basement … I can still barely talk about.
This, from someone mostly impervious to scary scenes in movies. Well, The Exorcist notwithstanding.
Oh, remembered another one … The Others, with Nicole Kidman. The whole thing was so creepy I was prepared for anything horrible at any moment. Still, when …
Nicole goes up to her daughter, whose back is to her, and when she turns around it’s a hideous old lady …
Gah. Nightmare central.
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### Author:  [@Shawn1767](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shawn1767)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2008, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-near-halloween-scariest-films-scariest-scenes/467847/22 "2008-10-14T21:29:43Z")
_Poltergeist_. The son looks over at the chair and the clown doll is no longer there. He slowly looks under the bed. Nothing. He sits up. AHHHH!!! POSSESSED CLOWN DOLL!!
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