What are some of the scariest parts of movies you've seen?

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What are some of the freakiest things you've seen in a "horror" movie? For me, I guess it's more about what I heard. While the Blair Witch Project wasn't a terribly great film, "Josh" screaming off in the distance while they were looking for him was rather chilling.

Also, what do you think really makes for a good, intelligent, scary movie?
 
Okay, ppl are gonna laugh, but what the hell.

The mannequin scene in I Know What You Did Last Summer. I could tell exactly what's coming, and when it happened, it still scared the bejeesus out of me.
 
Worst ever?

I Spit on Your Grave when
she goes from handjob to severing penis with a big knife, then locks the guy in the bathroom while he bleeds to death, and plays opera music really loud to drown out his screams... then stuffs his dead body in a cabinet

He had it coming, but man... :shudder:
 
The part of the original "Psycho" where the woman manages to get down into Norman's basement, and then the door shuts and Bates is standing there dressed as his mother holding the knife with this absolutely crazed look/smile on his face and runs at her. Scary as all hell. :(


When "she" comes running out of her room to throw the private detective down the stairs was also pretty creepy when I first saw it.
 
For me,

as a kid, the scene with the wolf puppet in The Neverending Story.

as an early teen, with the woman in The Sixth Sense who had been abused starts yelling/screaming at Haley Joel Osment.

when I first saw it, the scene in Alien where Dallas goes looking for the alien.

Hmm... Can't think of too many more, but there are more.
 
Oh, when I was very little and first watched Ghostbusters (1987... I was 2- one of my very first memories), the scene at the beginning with the ghost librarian, and then later when the demon dogs come to life.
 
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When I first saw the Evil Dead when I was 10, over at a Neighbours. Deadite Linda scared the living shit out of me.
 
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also in ghostbusters 2 when the vigon...vigor whatever dude started goin nuts
that and bobby brown's cameo

TOO HOT TO HANDLE TOO COLD TO HOLD UH UH UH
 
In Poltergeist when one of the paranormal investigators goes to the kitchen to get something to eat and puts a steak on the counter. The stake very slowly starts moving around and when he sees it he shines his flashlight on it and it starts ripping apart.

Poltergeist had a few scenes like that, that totally scared the shit out of me.
 
iamthevillain said:
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also in ghostbusters 2 when the vigon...vigor whatever dude started goin nuts
that and bobby brown's cameo

TOO HOT TO HANDLE TOO COLD TO HOLD UH UH UH
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"Vigo the Carpathian. Also known as Vigo the Cruel, Vigo the Torturer, Vigo the Despised, and Vigo the Unholy."

"Vigo the Carpathian. Born 1505. Died 1610. He didn't die of old age, either. He was poisoned, stabbed, shot, hung, stretched, disemboweled, drawn and quartered."

His last words, before he died, were "Death is but a door, time is but a window. I'll be back."
 
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"Vigo the Carpathian. Also known as Vigo the Cruel, Vigo the Torturer, Vigo the Despised, and Vigo the Unholy."

"Vigo the Carpathian. Born 1505. Died 1610. He didn't die of old age, either. He was poisoned, stabbed, shot, hung, stretched, disemboweled, drawn and quartered."

His last words, before he died, were "Death is but a door, time is but a window. I'll be back."
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"Viggy, Viggy, Viggy... You've been a very BAD MONKEY!"
 
I don't know the movie, but when I was about 7-years-old, my parents were watching some kind of horror flick about a netherworld in some house. It was bizarre, but I remember something scary coming out of the cabinet and to me, that was pretty scary.
 
Exorcist 3 - scene in the hospital with the nurse doing her rounds

The Ring - The ending!

Prince of Darkness - the weird news broadcast dream they all have of the future

Lost Highway - All the creepy stuff in the house at the beginning
 
I have a plan...

shhhh.

GET HER!!

(those who know what I'm on about... i nearly shit my pants)




Those who mentioned the Ring... I thought it was pretty good the way Sadako would lurch around a corner suddenly, her bones cracking as she moves. That was freaky.

I'm usually not scared easily by graphic gore or imagery, or traditionally "scary" concepts really. But things that suddenly make me jolt out of my seat seem to get me every time! I'm quite uncomfortable watching a movie that uses it well.... films that try it every 3 seconds make you start to expect it. If a film has subtle well timed use of the jolt-effect, I remember it!

One set of films that had an impact: I never looked at mirrors the same way since the Poltergeist movies.

Things that could apply in real life would probably scare me but you rarely see it in movies. Not done in a way that would creep me out anyway. I can think of a few ideas that you could shoot, making them look like every day acts or scenarios before you start throwing in the horror element. I think they should really strive to terrify the home owner, or child living at home:

For example... you know when it's dark outside and you have the lights on inside? And whats outside is obsured by both the darkness outside, and the reflection of indoors upon the glass? I had this recurring nightmare where I'd turn out the light ready to go up to bed and see some psycho(s) outside, unafraid to stand in full view to let me know they're coming in... similar things.. lying in bed, passified - arms at your side or with one under your head/pillow, when someone could come in and bludgeon you to death... that'd be horrible to watch. I like stuff like the shower scene in Hitchcock's Psyho. There's literally nothing she could do. The act she partakes in removes any hope of her sensing danger until it's too late - and her surroundings are as such she's helpless when it comes. And the dagger wounds somehow seem palpable. It might be tame violence by todays standards -- but I think it has a much better effect than Freddy's knife fingers reaching out from some mystical void, ripping someone's insides out while they lay in bed -- when he's already killed about 10 people with the knives before. But then: that's what slasher movies are all about I guess.

I also like twilight zone esque scenarios were people you know and trust with all your heart for the majority of your life mean you or others harm. Conspiratory thrillers where people in power that could make you disappear too. Another good scenario which is candidate for more horror movies is the war film... there have been ones made before of course. I watched a good one recently where a bunch of German troops go mad... but the very basics of war: invasion by a military power, with undiscriminate deadly violence occuring, with no-one to tell or get help from, and no repurcussions for the murderers. That could be scary shit on a more regular basis also.

These kind of flicks were Zombies or Monsters come from beyond, are still some of my favourite movies - but they're only so because I find them funny or just highly entertaining.
 
Every damn scene from the Shining, especially the twin girls in the hallway. I saw that movie when I was 13 and have not watched it since, pretty much because of those two creepy girls.
 
jetjevons said:
Exorcist 3 - scene in the hospital with the nurse doing her rounds
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Do you mean when the patient dressed in all blankets or something just comes out into the hallway and goes to stab her really fast? Yeah, that freaked me out too for some reason. Just how unexpected and quickly it occurred.
 
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When I first saw the Evil Dead when I was 10, over at a Neighbours. Deadite Linda scared the living shit out of me.
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The pencil in the ankle. > <

I don't know the movie, but when I was about 7-years-old, my parents were watching some kind of horror flick about a netherworld in some house. It was bizarre, but I remember something scary coming out of the cabinet and to me, that was pretty scary.
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