# Movie scenes that scared the shite out of you (Spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 14, 2003, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-scared-the-shite-out-of-you-spoilers/161435 "2003-03-14T21:07:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-scared-the-shite-out-of-you-spoilers/161435/61 "2003-03-17T02:02:41Z")
Magic with a young Anthony Hopkins was creepy. ---
**Author:** ![Tommyturtle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@Tommyturtle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tommyturtle)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-scared-the-shite-out-of-you-spoilers/161435/62 "2003-03-17T03:00:24Z")
No one has mentioned this one yet so I guess it’s up to me…The Evil Dead It was more of a grossout movie than scary but the scene where Bruce Campbells’ fiance has changed into a demon and is sitting crosslegged in a doorway licking the blade of a knife and softly singing “We’re gonna get you!” over and over grinning at him. Jeez that was creepy! ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-scared-the-shite-out-of-you-spoilers/161435/63 "2003-03-17T05:19:44Z")
The remake of _The House on Haunted Hill_ had many scenes that really creeped me out, however the ending sucked. _Poltergeist_. I begged my parents for weeks to let me watch it at the tender age of six or seven. Finally, worn down they relented. I know my parents did not have sex for at least three months atferwards, as I was in the room, every night. I still won’t watch the part with the clown. _The Shining_, those damn girls! ---
**Author:** ![Dragon\_Phoenix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Dragon\_Phoenix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragon_Phoenix)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-scared-the-shite-out-of-you-spoilers/161435/64 "2003-03-17T06:12:58Z")
Carrie, definitely. I recently saw it again with my wife - it was the first time for her. Of course she jumped up and screamed… but so did I even though I knew it was coming. ---
**Author:** ![Drastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Drastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drastic)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-scared-the-shite-out-of-you-spoilers/161435/65 "2003-03-17T06:54:22Z")
_The Ring_: when she plucks the fly out of the video; just a beautiful bit of surreal horror, plus non-bludgeoning foreshadowing. _Hellraiser II_: In an otherwise silly film, there’s a bit early on when a mad doctor arranges a blood sacrifice to bring back one of the people from the first movie. He does this by placing a mental patient with severe bug hallucinations on a blood-spattered mattress where she died, giving him a razor blade, and stepping back as he begins stabbing and scraping it through his flesh to get the bugs out. Just shudder. _Way of the Gun_: even more of a shudder moment, when “Parker” dives for cover into a large stone fountain–and there’s the resounding sound of glass crunching under him and his scream of pain–said fountain was dry, and full of empty broken bottles. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-scared-the-shite-out-of-you-spoilers/161435/66 "2003-03-17T07:03:05Z")
“shite”??? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![JKilez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e5b9ba/32.png) [@JKilez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKilez)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-scared-the-shite-out-of-you-spoilers/161435/67 "2003-03-17T07:27:37Z")
_The Shining_: When Shelley Duvall slowly looks at what Jack has been typing and sees “All work and no play…” over and over. Just thinking about that scene sends chills up my spine. And those creepy sisters. _Poltergeist_: The tree, the clown, the TV, the face tearing scene–all-in-all one scary movie. I believe that this movie was one of the motivators for the PG-13 rating. I thought _The Ring_ was well made, but it just did not have the scare factor for me. ---
**Author:** ![Largo62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@Largo62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Largo62)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-scared-the-shite-out-of-you-spoilers/161435/68 "2003-03-17T08:03:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Stellablue \* > \*\*An oldie but a goodie. > Wait Until Dark- you think he is dead and the apartment is dark except for the light from the fridge- when he jumps out and grabs her leg! And that sound, Wow. > Any one else see that one way back when? > > And who can forget Psycho? I was scared to take a shower for weeks. \*\* Another vote here for _Wait Until Dark_. I saw it in a theater when it first came out. When Alan Arkin lunged out of the shadows at Audrey Hepburn about half the audience literally came out of their seats. I was one of them. That was a great movie. The late Richard Crenna was also in that film. A good actor. I still remember him as a teenager in the TV show _Our Miss Brooks_ with Eve Arden. ---
**Author:** ![Jervoise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d2c977/32.png) [@Jervoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jervoise)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-scared-the-shite-out-of-you-spoilers/161435/69 "2003-03-17T08:31:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Walloon \* > \*\*“shite”??? 😕 \*\* It’s a colloquialism. Of British origin, I believe. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-scared-the-shite-out-of-you-spoilers/161435/70 "2003-03-17T11:18:41Z")
Gee, no votes yet for the little African doll in _Trilogy of Terror_? ---
**Author:** ![Archergal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Archergal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archergal)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-scared-the-shite-out-of-you-spoilers/161435/71 "2003-03-17T15:34:46Z")
For me **Wait Until Dark** got me when I was in high school. I saw it with my best friend in a little theatre in a little town with a small military school. The cadets screamed as loud as we did. The last scene in **Carrie** too really got me. The Scariest Movie I _Never_ Saw was **The Tingler**. A friend of mine told me about it in great detail when I was a little kid. The very idea of it scared me so bad that for YEARS I would NOT get in the bed until I’d checked under every piece of furniture and under the bed covers, just to be sure that The Tingler wasn’t hiding there, waiting to get me. Hey, I was young. And impressionable. The last scene in **Carrie** too really got me. The last scene in **Carrie** too really got me. ---
**Author:** ![Archergal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Archergal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archergal)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-scared-the-shite-out-of-you-spoilers/161435/72 "2003-03-17T15:36:24Z")
Oops, sorry for the **Carrie** redundancy in my last post. It scared me, but not THAT bad.:smack: ---
**Author:** ![Alias](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@Alias](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alias)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-scared-the-shite-out-of-you-spoilers/161435/73 "2003-03-17T16:24:49Z")
Another vote for the American version of The Ring. Jesus Christ, that movie scared the crap out of me! Not just the “famous” scene at the end, but the entire cursed video screwed with my head. Jesus, what a mindfuck!!! I’ve got to see it again. . . Poltergeist also scared me. I saw it when I was 3, and the scene where the guy pukes and pulls his face off haunted me for years! Also, when I was a kid, I saw this weird movie called “The Hearse” on Sunday afternoon television. I don’t remember much about it, but it creeped me out for days. I just remember this woman in a big house she had inheritied, being haunted by this hearse and its driver. I know it sounds dumb, but it was really scary when I was 10. ---
**Author:** ![Bomzaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@Bomzaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bomzaway)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-scared-the-shite-out-of-you-spoilers/161435/74 "2003-03-17T17:13:46Z")
I get more freaked out by weird little nuances. **Blair Witch** : The guy in the corner was scary, but what bugged me afterwards was the interview with the slightly crazy woman at the beginning. As a young girl, she had seen the witch and described her as being covered in something like horse hair. For some reason, that freaked me out. **Exorcist** : Lots of scary parts, but what stuck with me was a very brief shot near the beginning during the younger preists nightmare. It was just a shot of a pale white face with pointed teeth. Only slightly less creepy was the shot of his mother coming up from the subway, and then going back down again. **The Shining** : The twins. And then the bear/dog fellatio scene. And then the “nude” scene. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-scared-the-shite-out-of-you-spoilers/161435/75 "2003-03-17T17:30:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dooku \* > \*\*I finally decided that it was the scene in _Carrie_ where the arm came out and grabbed Amy Irving. I was pretty young at the time, which didn’t help matters. > > \*\* FWIW, Stephen King, who _WROTE Carrie_, said it scared the hell outta him, and he _knew_ it was coming. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-scared-the-shite-out-of-you-spoilers/161435/76 "2003-03-17T17:33:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by elfkin477 \* > **…and the reason I’m afraid of clowns…** Me, too. Ugh. Ick. [Dr Scratchensniff] The clown is my friend…the clown will not bite me and throw me in the basement…the clown will not turn into a big hairy spider. [/Dr Scratchensniff] Okay, that was more _It_ than _Poltergeist_, but you get the idea. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-scared-the-shite-out-of-you-spoilers/161435/77 "2003-03-17T17:38:34Z")
Exorcist III—In an otherwise mediocre movie, the scene with the old lady crawling like a roach across the ceiling while George C Scott and the other guy talk on without seeing her made my skin crawl. The Thing (Carpenter version)–when the doctor is trying to defibrulate the old guy thinking he’s having a heart attack and his chest opens up like a mouth and bites off the doc’s arms. ---
**Author:** ![pcarney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ea5d25/32.png) [@pcarney](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pcarney)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-scared-the-shite-out-of-you-spoilers/161435/78 "2003-03-17T17:48:26Z")
‘Frailty’ - The scene in which the father brings home the first ‘demon’ to kill. Its a fantastic movie, but it seemed to slip under the radar last year. (while XXX makes millions!) Extremely creepy movie… As far as Blair Witch goes, I had a hard time breathing those last few minutes. I haven’t watched the film since, simply because I don’t think I’ll have the same reaction to it I did the first time. I hadn’t been that scared by a movie since watching Creature Double Feature as a wee lad. ---
**Author:** ![minega](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@minega](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minega)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-scared-the-shite-out-of-you-spoilers/161435/79 "2003-03-17T18:16:08Z")
I agree with the guy above me…‘frailty’ was amazing and creepy…pity it made only $12 million. As for creepy scenes, what about the scene in ‘jeepers creepers’ when the creature jumps through the glass to grab the brother…still freaks me out everytime. And id also pick the scene in ‘The faculty’ when Clea Duvall is being chased by the creature in the swimming pool while she is running on the side then it grabs her…dammn! ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2003, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-scared-the-shite-out-of-you-spoilers/161435/80 "2003-03-18T17:13:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RikWriter \* > \*\*Exorcist III—In an otherwise mediocre movie, the scene with the old lady crawling like a roach across the ceiling while George C Scott and the other guy talk on without seeing her made my skin crawl. \*\* Same movie, different scene: The part in the hospital, where the camera is at one end of a hallway. A nurse (I think…it’s been a while) walks away from the camera, and turns right. A man in a sheet crosses the hallway from the _left_ (right behind her) with a pair of hedgetrimmers. Freaky. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-scared-the-shite-out-of-you-spoilers/161435.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-that-scared-the-shite-out-of-you-spoilers/161435.md?page=5)