# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scene-that-freaked-you-out-the-most/424258/81 "2007-10-29T22:21:10Z")
In “Bug” the guy pulling out his own teeth to stave of the “infestation.” GAH! ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scene-that-freaked-you-out-the-most/424258/82 "2007-10-29T22:40:20Z")
Melting Nazis and the screaming angel of vengeance in **Raiders of the Lost Ark** (I was 7 at the time). Sloth in **Se7en**. The guy getting a significant compound fracture in the arm wrestling scene in **The Fly** remake. ---
**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 29, 2007, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scene-that-freaked-you-out-the-most/424258/83 "2007-10-29T23:43:33Z")
[QUOTE=lobstermobster] 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. [/QUOTE] Ugh, yeah I’ll second that scene, and also in **Mulholland Drive** when the homeless guy pops out from behind the wall in back of the restaurant. _shudder_ ---
**Author:** ![carlb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carlb/32/5930_2.png) [@carlb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carlb)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scene-that-freaked-you-out-the-most/424258/84 "2007-10-30T01:40:21Z")
The arm wrestling scene in David Conenberg’s _The Fly_. There’s a lot of gross stuff in that movie, but I’m able to detach from it; it becomes almost cartoonish. But the scene where newly strong Jeff Goldblum breaks a guy’s arm (and a compound fracture, no less) was so sudden and so…real, that it really freaked me out. I would watch that movie many times, but always turn away during that scene. Stephen Colbert showed that scene recently as an example of Hollywood’s role in glorifying wrist violence. I was able to watch it, but it still gave me that weird feeling in the base of my spine that indicates I’m right on the verge of getting completely skeeved out. ---
**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 30, 2007, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scene-that-freaked-you-out-the-most/424258/85 "2007-10-30T01:54:55Z")
[QUOTE=Eyebrows 0f Doom] Ugh, yeah I’ll second that scene, and also in **Mulholland Drive** when the homeless guy pops out from behind the wall in back of the restaurant. _shudder_ [/QUOTE] Oh shit sometimes when I’m going around a corner that doesn’t have one of those round mirror ball things that shows you if someone is coming, I think about that scene and scare myself really badly. ---
**Author:** ![SCSimmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@SCSimmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCSimmons)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scene-that-freaked-you-out-the-most/424258/86 "2007-10-30T02:58:49Z")
[QUOTE=Batsinma Belfry] This is going to sound really silly compared to some mentioned. But, 1) I was 5 at the time, and 2) my mom collected antique furniture that she kept in the basement. In _Psycho_, where Vera Miles is in the basement and she sees the old lady sitting in a chair from the back. She slowly reaches out and turns her around and it’s the skeletal remains of Norman’s mom. We had the exact same chair!!! [/QUOTE] Now, do you mean a chair of that same model, as it were; or that individual chair? Because if my parents kept horror movie props in the basement, that would freak me out too. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scene-that-freaked-you-out-the-most/424258/87 "2007-10-30T03:52:36Z")
The scene in Casino where Joe Pesci’s character turns on some smart ass at the bar and stabs him repeatedly in the neck with a ballpoint pen. GAAAH! ---
**Author:** ![Anduinel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Anduinel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anduinel)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scene-that-freaked-you-out-the-most/424258/88 "2007-10-30T04:22:11Z")
Thirding the wine bottle scene in Pan’s Labyrinth. I was too stunned to even look away. Also, it meant that I was constantly leaving the room during the film because I didn’t want to get caught like that again. ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scene-that-freaked-you-out-the-most/424258/89 "2007-10-30T04:25:58Z")
Just caught a bit of _Hannibal_ a couple nights ago. I was unprepared (since I joined as the scene was just starting) for the scene were Hannibal Lector was serving Ray Liotta’s character his own brains. And this was as I snapped on the TV to occupy my mind while I ate supper… Ack!! :smack: I didnt read the whole OP. Sorry… ---
**Author:** ![Cyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@Cyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyn)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scene-that-freaked-you-out-the-most/424258/90 "2007-10-30T04:49:20Z")
\*\*Pulp Fiction \*\* rape scene—the geek and that guy sweating, waiting his turn… **Rudolp the RedNosed Reindeer** —that Abominable Snowman’s teeth yanked out by that unnatural Herbie elf! He was standing between his furry snowman legs with pliers! Did he pull those teeth out through his furry Snowman ass!!! I was seriously freaked out about that for days and years! I still hate that freaky Christmas movie! ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scene-that-freaked-you-out-the-most/424258/91 "2007-10-30T05:05:05Z")
[QUOTE=fessie] Two words: [Flying Monkeys](http://retrocrush.buzznet.com/100monsters/94.html) [/QUOTE] When I was little, the Flying Monkeys freaked me out. I loved _The Wizard of Oz_, but those damn flying monkeys scared me silly. The one that really got to me was at the end of _Poltergeist_, when the little boys is in his room, trying to go to sleep. He hears a noise, looks over at the clown doll on the chair, looks away for a moment, and then looks back. The clown doll is gone. He leans over and sloooowly looks under the bed. No clown. He sits back up and the (now-evil) clown doll leaps up from the side of the bed and drags him under. I never really liked clowns to start with, and that scene just cemented my dislike even further. Clowns are scary! ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scene-that-freaked-you-out-the-most/424258/92 "2007-10-30T08:38:23Z")
I’ll watch the nastiest, goriest movies, but any scene with eye violence reduces me to a gibbering puddle. Take the Kill Bill movies. Chopping off appendages left and right? Fine. Being strangled with a ball and chain? Fine. Being buried alive? Well, it’s be mighty unpleasant, but I can watch it. Being raped by a doctor when you’re in a coma? Well, a guy’s gotta do what a guy’s gotta do. Plucking someone’s eye out and stepping on it, allowing the jelly to go between your toes? **NO! OH MY GOD NO! WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?** Also, the great thing about The Ring television scene was that it was a “BOO” with the object of terror in full view. Most movies will do a boo scene suddenly, like from around the corner or something. At least for me, the image of her crawling out of the television was definitely creepy but I was simultaneously saying to myself “Wow, that looks amazing. Good special effects” and “So that’s how she gets you.” And then she’s just standing there and Noah is staring at her from across the room, the water is soaking into the floor and I’m thinking “Wow, he could probably get aw-” **ZAP!** She fucking teleports across the room in a static blink. He gets knocked on his ass and furniture goes flying and clanging all over the place from the force of her sudden movement and she just looms over him, her hair hanging. That was the moment which caused my sphincter to go into hysterics. It didn’t help I was watching the entire movie at 1AM during a thunderstorm either. When I was younger: the Blob remake. The idea of a giant mass of acidic goo which just melts you is messed up. Especially when that lady was in the telephone booth. Also, at the beginning when the girl tries to save her boyfriend and she grabs his arm and…and…sizzle. ---
**Author:** ![Slypork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc29f/32.png) [@Slypork](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slypork)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scene-that-freaked-you-out-the-most/424258/93 "2007-10-30T12:42:28Z")
[QUOTE=BiblioCat] When I was little, the Flying Monkeys freaked me out. I loved _The Wizard of Oz_, but those damn flying monkeys scared me silly. The one that really got to me was at the end of _Poltergeist_, when the little boys is in his room, trying to go to sleep. He hears a noise, looks over at the clown doll on the chair, looks away for a moment, and then looks back. The clown doll is gone. He leans over and sloooowly looks under the bed. No clown. He sits back up and the (now-evil) clown doll leaps up from the side of the bed and drags him under. I never really liked clowns to start with, and that scene just cemented my dislike even further. Clowns are scary! [/QUOTE] Shit. I forgot about that fucking clown doll. I had a clown doll as a kid that just creeped me out. That scene terrorized me. ---
**Author:** ![Grossbottom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ba8739/32.png) [@Grossbottom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grossbottom)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scene-that-freaked-you-out-the-most/424258/94 "2007-10-30T13:22:12Z")
Crap, someone took _Event Horizon_. I’ll pick _Communion_ with Christopher Walken. There’s this part when he’s in bed next to his sleeping wife and suddenly he knows he’s not alone. He looks over at a piece of furniture and there’s this classic bighead alien just sort of watching him from behind it. Walken’s like, “Who is that. Is that someone there?” The thing doesn’t say anything, it just keeps watching him. That gave me a nightmare. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scene-that-freaked-you-out-the-most/424258/95 "2007-10-30T13:28:24Z")
> [@](#): > > Also, the great thing about The Ring television scene was that it was a “BOO” with the object of terror in full view. Most movies will do a boo scene suddenly, like from around the corner or something. At least for me, the image of her crawling out of the television was definitely creepy but I was simultaneously saying to myself “Wow, that looks amazing. Good special effects” and “So that’s how she gets you.” And then she’s just standing there and Noah is staring at her from across the room, the water is soaking into the floor and I’m thinking “Wow, he could probably get aw-” ZAP! She fucking teleports across the room in a static blink. He gets knocked on his ass and furniture goes flying and clanging all over the place from the force of her sudden movement and she just looms over him, her hair hanging. That was the moment which caused my sphincter to go into hysterics. It didn’t help I was watching the entire movie at 1AM during a thunderstorm either. This scene simply does not work for me at all. When Pepper Mill and I saw it, we burst out laughing. It’s arguably because we’ve seen the “coming out of the Television” scene done many times in the past, and never as a scary scene (The 1967 **Casino Royale** , the musical **Flower Drum Song** , **The Time Travelers** , and many more). My thoughts omn watching this scene: 1.) So how did she come out of a TV and kill those people in the car? Were they watching a portable TV? 2.) But a portable TV is small! Does a 6-inch girl Samara come out and attack your hand? What if you’re watching on one of those wristwatch TVs? 3.) What if you kicked the screen in while she’s in mid-transmission? Or pushed the TV out of your oversized window? So, sorry, but there’s no way I can view the Samara Emerging from the TV Set of Doom as at all scary , let alone something that Freaked Me Out the Most. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scene-that-freaked-you-out-the-most/424258/96 "2007-10-30T13:39:01Z")
I think it was also **Pet Sematary** , but for me, that scene where a guy is standing next to a bed, and whatever is under the bed slashes his achilles tendon with a razor blade. I was leaping away from my bed for a week after that. ---
**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scene-that-freaked-you-out-the-most/424258/97 "2007-10-30T13:43:15Z")
[QUOTE=CalMeacham] This scene simply does not work for me at all. When Pepper Mill and I saw it, we burst out laughing. It’s arguably because we’ve seen the “coming out of the Television” scene done many times in the past, and never as a scary scene (The 1967 **Casino Royale** , the musical **Flower Drum Song** , **The Time Travelers** , and many more). My thoughts omn watching this scene: 1.) So how did she come out of a TV and kill those people in the car? Were they watching a portable TV? 2.) But a portable TV is small! Does a 6-inch girl Samara come out and attack your hand? What if you’re watching on one of those wristwatch TVs? 3.) What if you kicked the screen in while she’s in mid-transmission? Or pushed the TV out of your oversized window? So, sorry, but there’s no way I can view the Samara Emerging from the TV Set of Doom as at all scary , let alone something that Freaked Me Out the Most. [/QUOTE] The whole idea was that she was relentless - at the very start of the film when she was attempting to come out of one of the TVs the girl turned it off and she just moved to one upstairs. Also, one of the themes of the film was the all pervasinvess of technology and TVs - the scene where Naomi Watts is on the balcony looking at all the people with their TVs on, some not even watching them, also reflects that. So in answer to your question you could kick the TV in, but she’ll get you eventually (you have to sleep sometime…) ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scene-that-freaked-you-out-the-most/424258/98 "2007-10-30T13:57:41Z")
Richard wooing the widow in the morgue, as her newly-dead husband lies there, in Ian McKellen’s 1930s British Fascist remake of _Richard III_. Dennis Hopper sucking laughing gas in _Blue Velvet_. The Ceti eels crawling into Chekov’s and Terrell’s ears in _Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan_ (hey, I was just a kid). The chestburster scene from _Alien_. ::shudder:: The head in the box and Kevin Spacey’s look of devilishly blissful fulfillment at the very end of _Se7en_. During the rooftop chase, Booth suddenly reappears over the roof’s edge and grabs Eastwood’s character’s hand in _In the Line of Fire_. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scene-that-freaked-you-out-the-most/424258/99 "2007-10-30T16:57:26Z")
[QUOTE=freckafree] The scene in Casino where Joe Pesci’s character turns on some smart ass at the bar and stabs him repeatedly in the neck with a ballpoint pen. GAAAH! [/QUOTE] I _think_ this was GoodFellas - however Casino has another squicky scene - when he and his brother are beaten almost to death with bats and then buried - while you can hear them making little helpless sounds. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scene-that-freaked-you-out-the-most/424258/100 "2007-10-30T17:03:24Z")
The pen thing was definitely “Casino,” not “Goodfellas.” Still squicky. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scene-that-freaked-you-out-the-most/424258.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scene-that-freaked-you-out-the-most/424258.md?page=6)