# Movie scene that freaked you out the most? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 27, 2007, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scene-that-freaked-you-out-the-most/424258 "2007-10-27T19:58:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scene-that-freaked-you-out-the-most/424258/61 "2007-10-29T16:32:56Z")
**Pulp Fiction** , when Uma gets a shot in the heart. ---
**Author:** ![Daniel\_Sug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9f8e36/32.png) [@Daniel\_Sug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daniel_Sug)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scene-that-freaked-you-out-the-most/424258/62 "2007-10-29T16:59:42Z")
I’ll have to agree with _The Ring/Ringu_, and the 1982 _The Thing_(what a great movie!) My contributions are any of the vampire scenes in the 1979 _Salem’s Lot_. Saw it with the babysitter when it first aired on tv, and have loved it since. In south TX, there used to be (maybe still is) a car dealership called The Glick Twins. When I first saw those signs, I almost peed my pants. A scene in _Something Wicked This Way Comes_, when the father reaches for The Bad Guy to stop him–the hand! THE HAND!!! It’s pretty low on the gross-out, but I still can’t watch that shot. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scene-that-freaked-you-out-the-most/424258/63 "2007-10-29T17:03:16Z")
Aside from scenes already mentioned, these moments did a number on me when I saw them - [Blade Runner](http://imdb.com/title/tt0083658/) - When Rutger Hauer crushes a man’s head with his bare hands. [Rosemary’s Baby](http://imdb.com/title/tt0063522/) - Rosemary’s dream sequence when she’s drugged and subjected to the satanic ritual. (Roman Polanski has said that this was heavily influenced by a bad acid trip he took once.) [Murder on the Orient Express](http://imdb.com/title/tt0071877/) - The opening montage scene, showing the events of a (fictional) kidnapping based very closely on the Lindbergh kidnapping. A little bit of an odd one I know, but I was a wee young lad when I saw it, and the music was really creepy and kept me up for days. ---
**Author:** ![yellowval](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scene-that-freaked-you-out-the-most/424258/64 "2007-10-29T18:21:18Z")
The Shining—“Come play with us, Danny.” Those little girls kept me up at night for a week after I watched that movie for the first time. ---
**Author:** ![Carnacki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b5e925/32.png) [@Carnacki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carnacki)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scene-that-freaked-you-out-the-most/424258/65 "2007-10-29T18:29:57Z")
I generally have a hard time watching gore, but the scene in [Pan’s Labryinth](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan's_Labyrinth) where the rabbit hunter’s son gets stabbed repeatedly in the face by a fairly blunt object disturbs me still. ---
**Author:** ![fessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scene-that-freaked-you-out-the-most/424258/66 "2007-10-29T18:41:34Z")
Two words: [Flying Monkeys](http://retrocrush.buzznet.com/100monsters/94.html) ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scene-that-freaked-you-out-the-most/424258/67 "2007-10-29T18:52:32Z")
Another that is (surprisingly) unmentioned: **Friday the 13th**. It’s over. Our mentally and physically exhausted heroine has survived. She floats along in a canoe on a placid lake. Then sun is up. Birds are singing. But then…_Jason attacks!!!_ Sent the entire theater into paroxysms of terror. ---
**Author:** ![Qazzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/aeb1de/32.png) [@Qazzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qazzz)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scene-that-freaked-you-out-the-most/424258/68 "2007-10-29T19:14:56Z")
Hands down for me is the “peeking-around-the-dresser” scene towards the beginning of Whitley Strieber’s _Communion._ The most terrifying, horrific two seconds of my childhood (repeated over and over, of course). ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scene-that-freaked-you-out-the-most/424258/69 "2007-10-29T19:15:51Z")
[QUOTE=The New and Improved Superman] Aside from scenes already mentioned, these moments did a number on me when I saw them - [Blade Runner](http://imdb.com/title/tt0083658/) - When Rutger Hauer crushes a man’s head with his bare hands. [/QUOTE] Even worse - at the end, when Roy Baty is chasing Deckard around, and Roy starts having some kind of pre-death convulsions, and sticks a roofing nail through his hand to control them. They did it perfectly - he starts the nail in his palm, and the skin on the back of his hand tents up around the nail until it’s finally taut enough to puncture. ---
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scene-that-freaked-you-out-the-most/424258/70 "2007-10-29T19:18:32Z")
[QUOTE=TripleTee] I am surprised I am the first person to mention this one. The scene in Misery with the sledgehammer. I really can’t even write the rest. It freaked me out so badly I turned the TV off immediately (the movie was on HBO or something) and could not go to sleep for probably 4 hours after that. I still will never watch that movie again. [/QUOTE] I came in to post this very scene. Had me riveted to the screen - I could not move. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scene-that-freaked-you-out-the-most/424258/71 "2007-10-29T19:25:41Z")
I’m not easily freaked out. I’ve seem most of the movies or scenes mentioned already in the thread and not too many of them really scared me, but the scene in the Exorcist III where the statue of Jesus opens it’s eyes still scares the whimpering shit out of me to this day. ---
**Author:** ![Slypork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc29f/32.png) [@Slypork](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slypork)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scene-that-freaked-you-out-the-most/424258/72 "2007-10-29T19:33:56Z")
**Friday the 13th** where Kevin Bacon is laying in the bed and the hand reaches out from under the bed, holds his head down and the arrow comes up through his neck. The little girls in **The Shining**. My wife’s cousin has twin girls who look just like them. The stand next to each other when they are talking to you and sometimes finish each others sentences. They give me the creeps. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scene-that-freaked-you-out-the-most/424258/73 "2007-10-29T19:34:18Z")
Oompa-Loompas. ---
**Author:** ![shy\_guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@shy\_guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shy_guy)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scene-that-freaked-you-out-the-most/424258/74 "2007-10-29T19:35:21Z")
[QUOTE=KidScruffy] I generally have a hard time watching gore, but the scene in [Pan’s Labryinth](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan's_Labyrinth) where the rabbit hunter’s son gets stabbed repeatedly in the face by a fairly blunt object disturbs me still. [/QUOTE] That’s an incredibly difficult scene for me to watch, particularly because it’s so surprising (it’s the first really violent thing you see in the movie), direct, and _cruel_. The victim is still alive after having his face completely smashed in. It perfectly sets up the character of the Capitan, but it really bothered me for a long time after first seeing it. \*Edit: Also horrible is when the doctor comes across the tortured rebel, whose hand has basically been cut in two. Someone mentioned the curbing scene in American History X, and I’ll agree and add the later rape scene. The rape itself is bad enough, but there’s something about the large inmate smashing Ed Norton’s bald head against the tile of the bathroom wall that just about made me ill. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scene-that-freaked-you-out-the-most/424258/75 "2007-10-29T19:50:12Z")
The twin girls from _The Shin_ing stuck with me for years as being just so… creepy. And the sound effects that coincide with their appearance makes it that much worse. Or better. But the one scene that freaked me out like no other in my life, including many slasher/gorey/horror type movies, wasn’t from that type of movie at all. It was in _Babel_. The scene in which the nanny is wandering scared through the desert with the two kids. It had me hyperventilating, so frightened with fear for those kids, I had to leave the room. I’m not usually affected by movies to that extent, and even ‘child in peril’ type movies don’t typically bother me as I’m able to separate the fiction from reality. But that scene nearly turned me into a basket case. ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scene-that-freaked-you-out-the-most/424258/76 "2007-10-29T20:02:08Z")
This will seem tame to the more horror-related or gory examples above, but the moment when Pink (Bob Geldof) appears at the fogged glass after having shaved his eyebrows in _Pink Floyd The Wall_ always gives me shivers. Love it! ---
**Author:** ![lobstermobster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobstermobster/32/10033_2.png) [@lobstermobster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobstermobster)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scene-that-freaked-you-out-the-most/424258/77 "2007-10-29T20:02:53Z")
The guy in the bag that suddenly jolts in _Audition_ All of the scary parts of _The Ring_ especially at the beginning when they flash back really fast to what that teenage girl looked like in the closet when they found her. Also the tape of Samara at the mental hospital was really creepy. The worst for me is the footage of what happened 7 years before to the crew on the _Event Horizion_ The constant screaming is so scary. The blood down the faces and just ahhhhhh. No one screams that consistently in horror movies. I feel like in real life you would just keep on shrieking. Horrible. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scene-that-freaked-you-out-the-most/424258/78 "2007-10-29T20:03:21Z")
Excluding everything I saw on _The X-Files_: 1. The scene with the General stitching up his own face in _Pan’s Labyrinth_ (nobody in that entire theatre could watch it), 2. The scalping scene in _Nurse Betty_. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scene-that-freaked-you-out-the-most/424258/79 "2007-10-29T20:06:26Z")
[QUOTE=lobstermobster] The worst for me is the footage of what happened 7 years before to the crew on the _Event Horizion_ The constant screaming is so scary. The blood down the faces and just ahhhhhh. No one screams that consistently in horror movies. I feel like in real life you would just keep on shrieking. Horrible. [/QUOTE] Liberate…tutame…ex…inferis ---
**Author:** ![Ol\_Gaffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Ol\_Gaffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ol_Gaffer)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scene-that-freaked-you-out-the-most/424258/80 "2007-10-29T22:14:42Z")
Maid Marian’s “ass to ass” scene in **Requiem for a Dream**. Jennifer Connelly is my one and only celebrity crush and that scene just killed me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scene-that-freaked-you-out-the-most/424258.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scene-that-freaked-you-out-the-most/424258.md?page=5)