# Movie scenes which almost gave you a heart attack (spoilers)

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**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")\
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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-which-almost-gave-you-a-heart-attack-spoilers/162934/81 "2003-04-28T12:32:53Z")

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\*\* Wait Until Dark \*\*: The scene where Alan Arkin does the leap across the room. Perfect lighting, completely unexpected, didn’t depend on guts and gore. True shocker.

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**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-which-almost-gave-you-a-heart-attack-spoilers/162934/82 "2003-04-28T13:07:22Z")

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SPOILERS  
This seems stupid but **One Hour Photo** , when Robin Williams’ character (Sy Parrish) is having that nightmare where the red coloring fluid for photos gushes out of his eyes and he screams. At first it’s just a trickle, and then he removes his hands and screams suddenly. Ack!

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