Magic with a young Anthony Hopkins was creepy.
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!
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!
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.
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.
“shite”??? 
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.
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.
It’s a colloquialism. Of British origin, I believe.
Gee, no votes yet for the little African doll in Trilogy of Terror?
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.
Oops, sorry for the Carrie redundancy in my last post. It scared me, but not THAT bad.:smack:
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.
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.
FWIW, Stephen King, who WROTE Carrie, said it scared the hell outta him, and he knew it was coming.
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.
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.
‘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.
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!
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.