# Movie scenes which almost gave you a heart attack (spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 20, 2003, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-which-almost-gave-you-a-heart-attack-spoilers/162934 "2003-03-20T23:33:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![big\_alex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e56c9b/32.png) [@big\_alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/big_alex)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-which-almost-gave-you-a-heart-attack-spoilers/162934/21 "2003-03-21T14:41:55Z")
Independance Day, when the alien grabs the man and slams him against the glass ( or something) Shocked me the first time, and was getting ready for seeing it the second time, but jumped in exactly the same way, which amused my friend! ---
**Author:** ![Alias](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@Alias](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alias)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-which-almost-gave-you-a-heart-attack-spoilers/162934/22 "2003-03-21T15:03:33Z")
Again, the Katie-corpse shot in The Ring. Holy Crap!!! That entire movie traumatized me a little. It was just so disturbing on so many levels. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-which-almost-gave-you-a-heart-attack-spoilers/162934/23 "2003-03-21T17:22:24Z")
A lot of _Alien_ got me jumping first time I saw it. Bear in mind, this was released when _Star Wars_ was popular, and no one expected a Sci Fi movie to actually be a horror movie. The famous scene where the baby alien gets born shocked me of course, as well as several other moments, like when the captain is looking for alien in the ducts, and gets jumped by a fully grown monster. Last time we saw it 5 minutes ago, it was a little shrimp, now it’s HUGE! When I saw _L.A. Confidential_ for the 2nd time, the theatre was packed because word spread around. In the scene where Guy Pierce is exploring the old woman’s basement and finds a corpse, then attempts to move it and a rat jumps out, a teenage girl in the audience squeaked out a high pitched squeal and caused the entire theatre to bust out laughing. This is a post heart-attack that occurred after the movie was over. After seeing _Blair Witch Project_ and discussing it with my friends over dinner, one of us pointed out the final scene had Mike standing in the corner, unresponsive to Heather. That reflected the story one of the natives told earlier in the film about the child killer who brought children into his room by pairs, then made one stand in the corner so that the child could not see the other one get butchered. THAT got the OMIGOD! out of me at top volume. ---
**Author:** ![Judith\_Prietht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@Judith\_Prietht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Judith_Prietht)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-which-almost-gave-you-a-heart-attack-spoilers/162934/24 "2003-03-21T17:45:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dragon Phoenix \* > \*\*The scene near the end of Carrie, hands down! \*\* 😃 Good choices, all; most of mine have already been mentioned here and in that other thread. I must offer again the buttface twins in the hallway in **The Shining**. "Come and play with us Danny . . . " **Nightmare on Elm Street** : when Freddy’s claw bursts through the bed and sucks Johnny Depp down into it. The spewing blood fountain, however, was just cool. **The Sixth Sense** : HJO wakes up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom. We see the shape pass behind him (my first shiver). He goes to the kitchen and sees the woman in the pink bathrobe standing at the counter. When she turned around I very nearly pissed and shat myself. I am still seriously uncomfortable doing the dishes because I fear something coming up behind me. **The Others** : Anne and Nicholas are hiding in the cabinet. Hearing sounds outside she opens it and the creepy milky-eyed lady is there. I saw that in the theater and the whole place went beserk. ---
**Author:** ![Strohm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Strohm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strohm)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-which-almost-gave-you-a-heart-attack-spoilers/162934/25 "2003-03-21T18:57:54Z")
The last scene in Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry. Completely unexpected. The scene in Psycho where the detective is climbing the stairs and “Mother” suddenly runs out on the landing and slashes him. I still think the shot Hitchcock did while he was falling down the stairs is one of the most amazing I have ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-which-almost-gave-you-a-heart-attack-spoilers/162934/26 "2003-03-21T19:07:10Z")
In **The Texas Chainsaw Massacre** I nearly fainted during the scene when the supposedly dead girl jumps out of the freezer. I did **not** see that one coming. ---
**Author:** ![Caesar\_s\_Ghost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/73ab20/32.png) [@Caesar\_s\_Ghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caesar_s_Ghost)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-which-almost-gave-you-a-heart-attack-spoilers/162934/27 "2003-03-21T19:48:23Z")
The birthday party scene in _Signs_. I saw _Congo_ when I was 9. You know the scene in the beginning with the eyeball? After seeing that I promptly closed my eyes and refused to watch any more of the movie. And I saw _Jurassic Park_ when I was 7 or 8. It was the first ‘scary’ movie my mom and dad let me watch. No scene, and I repeat, no scene\* freaked me out at all…except when the kids are hiding in the kitchen and the raptors chase them. My god. I sometimes get shivers when I see that scene again. \*not the T-Rex, not anything. Apparently I was a hardy kid. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-which-almost-gave-you-a-heart-attack-spoilers/162934/28 "2003-03-21T20:21:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Strohm \* > **The last scene in Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry. Completely unexpected.** That is **so** cool. Welcome aboard. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-which-almost-gave-you-a-heart-attack-spoilers/162934/29 "2003-03-21T21:30:16Z")
Could’ve sworn I already posted in this thread. Anyway: - Another vote for the end of “Carrie”; scared the bejesus out of me. - The head dropping out of the boat in “Jaws” made me spill my beer _even though I knew it was coming and I was waiting for it_. - And what about the adrenaline-needle scene in “Pulp Fiction”? Some of you may recall that before that movie was released, there were publicity-generating stories circulating about someone actually having a heart attack in the theater during a screening. Probably not true, but not entirely unbelievable, either. The “Pulp Fiction” scene wasn’t really a “something jumping out at you” scene, but it was brilliant filmmaking to build tension that way. And to release the tension afterward with Patricia Arquette’s stupid joke. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-which-almost-gave-you-a-heart-attack-spoilers/162934/30 "2003-03-21T21:38:33Z")
Maybe because I just saw it recently and it reminded me. _Romancing the Stone_, where Joan Wilder comes back from her publisher to find her apartment trashed. She’s walking around, stunned, and that damn cat comes flying out of nowhere with a “MEERRRROWWWW” that scared the s— out of me. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-which-almost-gave-you-a-heart-attack-spoilers/162934/31 "2003-03-21T22:39:58Z")
Not a heart attack moment, but a freaky one none the less- in _Alien_ when one crew member (Harry Dean Stanton?) is being torn apart, and Jonesy the cat is calmly watching without blinking, and we are hearing the scene but seeing the attack only via the shadows and reflections in the cat’s eyes. ---
**Author:** ![Fingolfin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eada6e/32.png) [@Fingolfin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fingolfin)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-which-almost-gave-you-a-heart-attack-spoilers/162934/32 "2003-03-21T23:16:49Z")
**Bilbo…Rivendell…Sharp Teeth…Dark Eyes** Yikes! I didn’t see that coming! ---
**Author:** ![chigger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@chigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chigger)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-which-almost-gave-you-a-heart-attack-spoilers/162934/33 "2003-03-21T23:36:19Z")
Halloween (first one) when Jamie Lee Curtis just discovers the girl on the bed and Michael Meyers emerges from the shadow. (I saw that movie when it first came out in '78 and I still have nightmares about it Saw (first one) when Leatherface jumps out of the walk-in Not-so-scary but so disturbing that after watching the movie a dozen times I still cover my eyes or look away: The suicide in the bathroom in Full Metal Jacket. ---
**Author:** ![Giselle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@Giselle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giselle)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-which-almost-gave-you-a-heart-attack-spoilers/162934/34 "2003-03-21T23:36:19Z")
I saw **The Ring** with my friend Cassie and after the Katie-Corpse scene we held hands through the whole thing. Gaaaah. I thought I was going to die. ---
**Author:** ![chigger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@chigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chigger)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-which-almost-gave-you-a-heart-attack-spoilers/162934/35 "2003-03-21T23:41:15Z")
Creepy/Disturbing The car wreck scene in “Wild at Heart”, Dennis Hopper with gas mask in “Blue Velvet”, Laura Palmer being killed in “Fire Walk With Me” (all David Lynch movies of course) ---
**Author:** ![Looking\_Land](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Looking\_Land](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Looking_Land)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2003, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-which-almost-gave-you-a-heart-attack-spoilers/162934/36 "2003-03-22T03:45:55Z")
The Changling: Little Boy coming up from a watery grave through the floorboards of the house…ewwww… The Innocents: The nurse maid standing out in the marsh in a black dress after drowning…gehhhhh… Walt Disney Film the name of which I can’t remember and don’t want to: Little girl is chased by her evil step father and flls down a well to her death…brrrrr… See the drowning theme going here? That’ll do it for me. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![TheCheshireCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@TheCheshireCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheCheshireCat)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2003, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-which-almost-gave-you-a-heart-attack-spoilers/162934/37 "2003-03-22T03:52:22Z")
Jurassic Park: The T-Rex grabbing the Jeep with the kids in it. Sleeping with the Enemy: The cans all back in order, labels forward … towels hung straight … chilling. ---
**Author:** ![BuckleberryFerry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f9b8f/32.png) [@BuckleberryFerry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuckleberryFerry)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2003, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-which-almost-gave-you-a-heart-attack-spoilers/162934/38 "2003-03-22T03:59:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fingolfin \* > \*\ ***Bilbo…Rivendell…Sharp Teeth…Dark Eyes** > > Yikes! I didn’t see that coming! \*\* AMEN, my friend! ---
**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:** [March 22, 2003, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-which-almost-gave-you-a-heart-attack-spoilers/162934/39 "2003-03-22T06:03:08Z")
I think you’ll like it, **samarm** , at least on the first viewing. It doesn’t really retain appeal the second time, (sad to say, it’s no “Fargo”) but it’s quite a flick! Oh yeah, I’ll third that sloth scene in Se7en. I didn’t see it coming at all… ---
**Author:** ![lilbtagna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4491bb/32.png) [@lilbtagna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lilbtagna)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2003, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-which-almost-gave-you-a-heart-attack-spoilers/162934/40 "2003-03-22T08:32:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fingolfin \* > \*\ ***Bilbo…Rivendell…Sharp Teeth…Dark Eyes** > > Yikes! I didn’t see that coming! \*\* Oh my gosh, that was almost as scary as the ringwraiths. I **still** jump at that one, even though I’ve watched the movie countless times. _shudder_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-which-almost-gave-you-a-heart-attack-spoilers/162934.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-which-almost-gave-you-a-heart-attack-spoilers/162934.md?page=3)