What was the one movie that had a particular scene that freaked you out

gave you nightmares, had people tease you about it for years....for me it was Salem's Lot, and it was the scene when the kid ( Danny Glick ) came for Mark Petrie scratching at his window to let him in. My brother used to torment me with this shit quite often ( my name is Mark ) and he would scratch at our bedroom window and whisper " Let me in Mark, HE commands it"! and then duck under the bunk-beds.

I've forgiven him for it, but believe me I've gotten him back for it...on numerous occasions..so sorry about that girlfriend, bro

Something about someone taking those pods out of the back of a truck. And there was some foamy soapy stuff.

Gave me nightmares for years and years. Always identical. Always terrifying.

I've been trying to find a youtube clip for a while, just to see if it was really that bad.

Back then, it was that bad.

creepy, indeed

Ew.

Oh man, that bothered me. :scared:

That still makes me uncomfortable sometimes....
The first time I saw poltergeist I had a TV in my bedroom that night was NOT turned on but I stared at it in terror for most of that night...

fucked up my head for a while...I'm going to have to tie this with #1

thank you...the clown gave me nightmares as well

in the bathroom...I still can only peek at that scene through my fingers. :scared:

I was afraid even to tell anyone about it for a while.

Plus a couple of others in that movie. I have tried watching KING's t.v. version a couple of times and not made it through, and do NOT get why he doesn't like the movie.

was more true to the book than the original Stanley Kubrick version....but the remake SUCKED

I believe it starred Steven Weber and Rebecca DeMornay but forget about those names, the movie sucked

The original still creeped the hell out of me...especially when Shelley Duvall and the kid were on the run towards the end

I loved the book and hated that the original film was Kubrickized. Funny how people see things so differently. :)

of many people...what with Jack Nicholson's portrayal of the character

What I don't get is with all the terrible movies made from King's books, why he seems to have such a huge dislike of The Shining. Maybe he just doesn't like being upstaged.

first aired (hard to stay scared when "dancing hotdog" commercials are interrupting), it is terrifying (to me) without the breaks.

The Stand could have been made into an epic, in my opinion...had they the cast and proper resources to pull from, it could have been great. It seems every Steven King movie is made for T.V and it sucks ( except for Salems Lot with Rob Lowe...I happen to like that one )

Aren't as creative as King. I would love to see Steven Spielberg make a King film. Spielberg is highly underrated as a horror/suspense filmmaker.

Those creepy corridors with the frenzy-pattern carpet and the sudden river of blood surging through has stayed with me though I've only seen the film once. A couple of years later I stayed in the Lexington Hotel in Manhattan for a night. Stepped out of the lift into an upper-floor corridor that was almost identical - wide, empty, white-walled and carpeted in a similar pattern ... brrrr! Then the hotel attendant undid about fifty-million locks on the door to our room and went in first, checking the wardrobe and bathroom for intruders. Me: swallowing the Get-Me-Out-of-Here! reflex that surged up my throat.

I found King's TV version very dull.

and you're right, it's a HORRIFYING scene. :o

but Ouija boards freak me out because of The Exorcist. I won't have anything to do with them.

Happens about 50 seconds into this clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szwvjXo_sHQ

that whole scene was a bit creepy, yeah

by humming the Cantina Band theme from Star Wars every time the aliens showed up. Try it, it will have you in stitches!

Where Dracula is standing over Harker while Harker is eating dinner in the castle, and the way Kinski is holding his hands makes my blood run cold.

It freaks me all the way out.

Marathon Man freaked me out without nightmares & teasing friends.

about visiting their dentist

That scene had me pulling the blinds shut before dark for many many years.

Also the scene in The Birds, that one where Tippi Hedren is trapped in the phone booth watching the birds attacking the town, and the guy runs up to the booth, trying to get in. I was about 6 when I saw that movie, and slept with the covers over my head for about 2 years after that.

Killers".

my dad was watching it when I was young, scared the shit out of me. There's a scene where a couple is getting it on in the bed and the girl hears a noise under the bed and of course checks it out only to get impaled by a puppet with a drill on his head. I couldn't let my feet get near the bottom of the bed for months, lol!

Extremely disturbing to me when I first saw it over fifty years ago. Even today it bothers me.

I'll have to give this one a thumbs up :thumbsup:

at the time I was a huge monster movie fan with posters and models in my room, but those monkeys...

After the first time I saw it, each year it came on I would leave the room when that part came on.

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I would have to agree on this one. I had to leave the room when I was a kid. That movie still holds up so well.

Peace

that still freaks me out a little because I think of my childhood reactions to it. Good stuff - especially for the 1930s!

Our family's first color television.

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Was terrified to look in the mirror or have my picture taken for weeks.

More recently, The Ring. No nightmares or anything, though.

by the same director, Pier Pasolini, but that particular one I can't bring myself to watch. I have a lower tolerance for violent and gross cruelty in movies as i get older, even if it is just fiction/theater.

There were about 30 people in there. After twenty minutes into the movie, the firsts start to leave, and then more and more. In the end, I had the whole theater for myself.

I've heard there are scenes of real animal abuse and/or killing. Is this true?

Still recovering from Apocalypse Now (great movie, but did we really have to see the actual ox decapitation?!)

You know, that one scene, with the girl...yikes...*shudders*

More the horror of "Oh my god, look at the depths these people have sunk to."

now it seems cheesy, but as a child that tornado freaked the heck outta me, every time a rain cloud would build I would be freaking out.

As a teen that nuclear disaster movie "the day after" freaked me out. Again, now as an adult it seems so cheesy, but at the time it freaked me out.

As an adult, I found the Heath Ledger's joker role disturbing in Batman.

The part with the footprints. And the ending. :scared:

were those parts where she just stood there, staring at him.

I don't think I've ever experienced that many chills watching a movie as I did during the last five or so minutes of Paranormal Activity.

That whole thing freaked me out!!! David Soul!!!

There's also a scene in Rambo, First Blood that just gored me out, too. It's where Sylvester is trying to escape from the lawmen chasing him and he jumps off a cliff onto a large tree. The branches literally break one at a time as he falls downward. I do not know what about that really got to me, but it was just really gross!!!

bar scene where the guy gets dragged out of the window. Whole room full of people freaked out over that one. :D :scared:

where father merrin is talking to mom outside the room and the beast yells "MEEERRRRRIIIIIINNNNNN!"

and several other scenes from that movie...

the ear cutting scene from reservoir dogs

the frigging WINDOWS in the amityville horror house. i told myself i could never buy a house with windows like the ones depicted in the movie.

This was made in the early 1930s with Boris Karloff. There is a scene near the beginning when the young archeaologist is sitting at a desk reading some sort of payrus and the mummy comes out of the casket behind him. He doesn't see it and then its all in silhouette. I saw this when I was about 8 years old and I had nightmares for weeks.

and I was 17 or 18 at the time!

and I was saying not an hour ago that the BEST scene is when Danny rides his big wheels past the door, stops, gets up, tries the door, find the door is locked, and gets back on his big wheels and rides the hell out of there.

Nothing happens in the scene, but HOLY SHIT the suspense is thick.

To me, at least.

I thought the opening scenes of "Lost Highway" were FREAKY. :o

where the dying Martian opens the hatch and crawls his fingers towards the opening, and dies. It totally freaked me out, far more than the farm scene where you actually see the Martian.

It's possibly the first TV movie I saw in color on my grandpa's big new set in the mid to late 60s, and I would jump out of my bed far enough so the Martian under it couldn't grab my ankles for like months. :)

I only saw the movie once but the horse's head and the eels...yuck!:puke:

You wore the ghost viewer glasses that would let you see the ghosts. We lived in a 100 year old house and I would be so scared after seeing that movie that I couldn't bring myself to walk through the house to use the bathroom with predictable and embarrassing results.

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pull the shower curtain close.

I was about 13 when I saw it - all my homes have had either glass shower doors or clear plastic shower curtains. If I'm in a hotel or similar - I still don't pull the shower curtain.

So, I guess that's my movie scene - it changed my behavior forever.

The scene where one spaceship is approached by the priest and it hovers over him and looks at him with it's big vacuum cleaner head and then spews green light on him and kills him. I knew he was going to get killed and I just wanted to scream at him to stop and get back. I was maybe 8 or 9 at the time. That movie scared the living daylights out of me. I loved it!

When they were doing the procedure to trade faces. I was laying in bed and had to turn over so I couldn't see what was going on...so I don't know what the scene actually looked like, but I was really freaking out just thinking about it. And it wasn't because of the surgery, because I can watch that all day long. I had to stop watching it because I knew from then on I was going to be all anxious about the rest of the movie.

Thought the movie was almost over, chugged the last of my beer (underage drinking in movie theaters wasn't all that frowned upon back then) and then that hand came out of the ground which sent me leaping up out of my seat. No beer was spilled as I had just finished it.

There's a scene where there's this totally creepy sort of radio transmission from the future or something, and for some reason it just scared the bejeebers out of me.

Oh, yeah... and "Eraserhead." The baby. :scared:

And when you see the woman in the river with her throat cut in "Night of the Hunter."


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I only saw that movie once. Never again...

What a weird thing to be so freaky!

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I agree that phone call scene was wonderfully unsettling.

I never bothered to see Mothman Prophecies before because I'd heard it sucked - but it turns out, I was misled. Maybe not a masterpiece, but I quite enjoyed it and it definitely had a nice creepy vibe.

cannot watch it, still.

That was one scene in a movie that left me permanently affected.

I realize that not everyone likes Tarantino's films, but I have got to hand it to him, that one scene did exactly what it was intended to--it creeped the hell out of a viewer!



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Laura

I saw that same scene in 1979 and have been freaked out ever since. I am a 38 year old male, and even now if I venture into the woods at night this scene immediately comes to mind. When I was a kid I actually glued wood sticks into crosses and taped them to my windows, thinking if the vampire boy showed up they would drive him off.

It just goes to show how something you see as a kid can stay with you your whole life, and influence you, and become part of who you are. Even though I know fully well the vampire kid was an actor in makeup and someone who was coached in his role, to act scary, etc. it's still too overwhelming to fully contemplate.

First time I saw it, I was up all night.

never again for me. Thank God I never hear "Stuck in the Middle With You." I have to add the scene in The Deer Hunter when the Christoper Walken character has the gun to his head. That movie still haunts me and it's been years.:scared:

...where the girl (I think her name was Samara or something) finally came out of the tv in the end.

EDIT: Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03668oTEoIQ

Now that I look at it, it's not that scary to me. But back then, the lights in my room stayed on for three nights straight.

especially when she will suddenly "jump" 4 or 5 feet forward

The J version was not as scary as the English version. But, maybe that's cuz I knew that chick was gonna crawl out of the tv. I almost jumped on the other side of the couch the first time I saw it.

The J version was not as scary as the English version. But, maybe that's cuz I knew that chick was gonna crawl out of the tv. I almost jumped on the other side of the couch the first time I saw it.

"Colors" that chilled me to the bone. I can't remember anything other than the victim was shot, and we watched him struggle and die. Ugh, I'm getting the feeling now.

This is not a film I'd recommend most people watch. I wouldn't have watched it myself, but a friend lent me the movie to me saying it was worth watching. I hadn't heard about the movie beforehand, and had NO IDEA what I was getting into.

There is one scene in particular that still horrifies me to think about, enough so that I'd rather not even describe it. Nothing in any slickly produced Hollywood horror movie comes anywhere close to the gruesome and disturbing quality of this film, which sadly comes from being a very realistic account of Japanese atrocities committed against the Chinese during WW2, done in the name of biological warfare research.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mummy%27s_Hand

I don't know how old he was when he saw it, but as a result he slept with his dog in his bed for years after!

The one with Ray Liotta. :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

But when I saw it in the theater, the entire audience freaked out!

that was disgusting to me. I couldn't watch it and would NEVER ever watch that movie again b/c of that scene.

the original s=o-t-l is good, but that one just sucked in so many ways in comparison.

It just really crossed a line IMHO.

think about it. Catherine Deneuve's character closes a closet door with a mirror on it, and sees the reflection of a man standing in the corner of the room. When she turns around, no one is there. Of course no one is there. She is going mad. But that bit is scary because it is the most believable of all the things that happen to her as her mind slips away.

There are two or three movies that came out about the same time with this meme and it creeped me out for life.

One is a Star Trek Movie (the third one? where the thing crawls in Chekhov's ear). I think another was Buckaroo Banzai (which I was way too young to see... also disturbed by the chompers going after that guys balls).

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Awful!

Not a film, but pretty bad.

Pig eyes.

in which these pathetic scumbags rip the mask off John Merrick's deformed face to expose the "freak" for all to see.

I cried, cried and then cried some more. To watch that mind-numbing combination of cruelty and ignorance. And to this day, that scene remains in my mind.

The movie came out in 1980 or so. For all of you who haven't had the chance to see it... please try to.

I remember seeing that scene featured on That's Incredible! and being horrified by the sight of him. I didn't see the film until a few years later, when I finally got some context for it, though I was still fairly young.


Great film with a great cast and superb performances throughout. And Mel Brooks as producer? Who'd have thunk it?!?

An outstanding movie that touched my heart. Like I said, I cried and cried, but I also wanted to kick and scream with rage about what was done to Merrick.

Both of them were magnificent.

I've seen Hopkins mocked here in the Lounge for being cartoonish and over-rated. Anyone who thinks so should watch The Elephant Man to see an utterly fantastic performance.

Thanks, Orrex!

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Even though we own the DVD, I still find myself watching parts of it when they air it.

..a movie about nothing very coherent or great. That was a long time ago and I've been somewhat turned off to Hollywood ever since. It just seems pointless to me. I think it was The Patriot where there was another major immersion in senseless human cruelty that kind of confirmed it for me. Now I just watch docs and try to learn stuff from video that turns be back into the literature. It's funner.

I read the book, and I disagree to the extent that I feel that Kuberick did an excellent gob of bringing the book to the screen. Anthony Burgess (whose own wife was raped and murdered during the London blitz) did tell a very good story about senseless youth violence and government incompetence. That said -- I agree it was traumatic.

I thought The Dark Knight was a complete and totally depressing waste of time. Nothing but people threatening and killing each other, bank robbers, bombings, Joker sounding like a very methodical serial killer, and no reason for it -- just pointless violence with no plot or moral answer for anything. And nowadays people go see that stuff and can't understand why I think it's pointless and certainly not artistic. Technically, sure, it's had millions spent on it -- but it's depressing as hell. Why should we spend our time going to depressing movies when we got enough reality that is depressing to deal with?

We're easier to control when we live in fear. I'm looking at you: Hellfire and brimstone Christians who worry about other peoples' sex lives, and right wing Tea Party nuts who are afraid of black and brown people, and bosses who think the world will come to an end if you get there at 8:02 am.

I can watch something violent if it has to do with history like Schindler's List. And Schindler is himself redeemed at the end when the employees make him a ring with "He who saves one life saves the world entire" from The Talmud. And he starts ranting about how many more people he could have saved with his possessions.

My daughter made me watch Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs and Kill Bill. I remember nothing about them except that they were really gross and violent and pointless. So call me square.

I couldn't watch Million Dollar Baby on TV because I could not identify with a person who injures and sometimes kills people for a living -- a professional boxer. I could not sympathise with her. I also could not watch the Alien movies on TV and refused to watch any of the Hannibal movies because I figured I could not handle it.

I saw Body Double on TV and was grossed out by the woman being killed by the guy with the power drill.

When I was really little (2, 3, 4) my sister took me to the 25c Saturday matinee and I saw lots of movies that scared the hell outta me. I should not have seen them at that age. The ones I remember: The Blob, the Incredible Shrinking Man, Godzilla, Mothra.

I don't think that it gave me nightmares, but it was certainly an image that stayed with me.

...to avoid. I never watched the whole thing even tho it was James Caan, I think. I liked what-her-name from Primary Colors, actually.

I found that movie to be pretty disturbing.

When that "corpse" suddenly started writhing I about _____!!

I can see most supposed gotcha shocks coming a mile away...not that one though.

from Fahrenheit 9/11.

but you're right... maybe nobody on DU even remembers that film. We're all so wrapped up in the current scandal of the moment whatever it is each day.

The scene that made my stomach flip over was where Bush is in his tuxedo, talking to the very wealthy: "Some call you the elite. I call you my base." It was seriously, seriously creepy, and just to see Bush on the screen larger than real life was very traumatic for me. :scared:

That was beyond creepy. Yikes.

Just reading about it makes me want to bleach my brain. I don't understand how this movie was funded or allowed to be made.

If you Google it or watch the trailer... Remember, you can't un-see or un-read what you discover.

Scott Baio AND a clip of Cujo 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVKVChpSRUI

Scareeeee...... ;)

There's a scene in Cronenberg's Scanners in which the female psychic works her mojo on a security guard, making him think that she's his mother and that he was, in essence, trying to shoot his mom.

His reaction, and in particular his seeming mental disintegration as a result, really freaked me out when I was in fifth grade or so.

A fabulously cheesy horror flick from 1976 starring Karen Black, Bette Davis, and Oliver Reed.

The thing that freaked me out the most was the hearse driver, who would appear to Reed's character (he was the driver at his father's funeral) as he was going insane (because, of course, the house was trying to kill him).

Oddly, much later on, I had a boyfriend who looked kinda like him, and had similar sunglasses, and he took great pleasure in turning around slowly, while he was driving, with that same creepy smile on his face just to freak me out.

This fear went on way too long for just how bad that movie was. And here he doesn't even look that creepy at all, but I swear...

Three most horrible parts: the spider-head, the neck stretching thingy, and worst of all for me, the poor dog. That really upset me!!

hrmmm, might have to watch it tonight..... :P

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When the girl walks through the dark to the detached garage, finds the car locked, and goes all the way back to the house for her keys. Then all the way back to the garage, realizing too late that the car is no longer locked.

But the scene where Jamie Lee Curtis goes up to the house to put the key under the mat for her realtor mother. The POV switches from her friends on the sidewalk to the inside of the house, looking out the front door window. Curtis gingerly slides the key under the mat, looks up at the door a little apprehensively, then trots back to rejoin her friends just as Mike Myers moves into frame behind the door with the ominous chord sounding.

The first time that scene almost scared the pee-doodle out of me, and still gets me even though I know it's coming.

Here's a description, along with an image which thankfully comes just before the blood starts flowing: http://www.ugo.com/therush/character/francine/15/

In short, a cute-but-stupid little redhead stuck in the woods gets grabbed from behind by barbed wire; the person gripping the wire pulls it tight and tears her mouth to shreds.

I didn't sleep well for a few weeks, maybe a few months.

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I don't even know why. The first time I watched it I didn't even get what had happened, so I replayed it on VHS (remember those?) until I did. I thought "Heh, cool ending," and went to bed. I remember laying there thinking "I like that idea, of a human who has become a supernatural force who can control nature and events without even being seen," and went to sleep mostly just thinking it was a neat premise.

I woke up a few hours later more terrified than I've been otherwise. I was shaking and curled in a ball, and was afraid that if I reached out to turn on the light, something would grab my hand. It was like being a child again, afraid of the monster under the bed.

Just some psychological switch flip, I guess. I literally had to sleep with the lights on for about two weeks, then it just went away.

I'm not even the scared type, normally. I keep my cool, don't panic even when others are. This one just did something weird to me.

For those who haven't seen it, essentially there is a new piece of technology that allows people to record what they see and experience. Those recording can then be transfered to others for "viewing".

At any rate, the evil guy in the film breaks into a woman's house, ties her up in the bathroom and then makes a connection between his headset and the victim. He then rapes her and strangles her to death while she watches through his viewpoint.

Even still I get weirded out by the idea of watching myself die from the POV of the attacker while simultaneously feeling myself get strangled.

Not a pleasant scene for me.

First time seeing that movie made a lasting impression, for sure.

school and had to face a gauntlet of dogs (they were allowed to roam free in our neighbourhood). They never bit me but I was always afraid. Just remember not to run. Let them come up to you and sniff you otherwise you will get bitten.

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Those little twin girls. The whole "red rum"...

I saw this in the 1970's when I was a tot and they terrified me!

I was a little too young to see it, but my mother made me watch it anyway. I still have nightmares about it, and although I love horror, I can't stand anything involving nuclear war or anything where people are wiped out, such as I Am Legend or The Omega Man (but I repeat myself)

When they put him in the sarcophagus and all the needles plunge in and the snakes and the skeleton. This was about the first gory thing I'd ever seen as a kid, and it was pretty intense. I don't think I've seen it since, although I've sort of been meaning to watch it and probably laugh at how lame and cheesy it must be by today's standards.

That's the one Ken Russell movie I've seen. If you weren't stoned when you went in, you were stoned when you got out, and it was not a contact high either. You were stoned from the weirdness of the movie.

Tina Turner looked literally like a cartoon character as the Acid Queen. Cheesy, yeah. But Tina and some of the other people in it were awesome (Like Elton John, and the church scene with the processional down the aisle with Eric Clapton as the minister, and Pete and John crossing guitar necks to form a gate -- and the communion with Johnnie Walker and pills).

I think there must have been some serious social commentary in that church scene -- that we are addicted to celebrity worship (Marilyn statue), pills, and alcohol as our sacraments.

And the scene in "Pan's Labyrinth" where the stepfather sews up his own wound. Come to think of it, several scenes in both those movies scared the fertilizer out of me. I love Guillermo del Toro, but the dude really knows how to give you nightmares.

And thank goodness there are no basements in Florida, 'cuz I haven't been able to go into one alone since "Psycho".

I don't remember the name of this particular movie-- it was just a preview that was shown at the local theater, probably sometime in 1966 or 1967, that showed some freaky green zombie or rotten corpse slowly descending a staircase in someone's home.

Then there were several scenes from The Magic Sword that freaked me out-- like the knights coming out of the wall, the two-headed guy, and I think there was a giant crab in the picture as well that gave me shivers.

Then there was some movie about a giant tarantula that was terrorizing some small town, particularly one scene where a mother was feeding her baby and the spider's legs come crashing through the roof.

The part that most freaked me out in the Wizard of Oz was not the flying monkeys, but the part where the legs and feet of the witch who was crushed by Dorothy's house curl up.

for years!

Also, that scene in Something about Mary where the frank & beans get caught in the zipper. I'd never seen so many grown people wince and shirk in sympathetic pain!

An American mother takes her preschool daughter to London, where the child ends up missing. Soon Scotland Yard is wondering if the child ever really existed.

Finally the mother remembers that she and Bunny took Bunny's doll to a London doll hospital to be repaired. She goes there even though it is after hours, hoping to retrieve the doll and prove that Bunny was really there.

But her brother gets there first. The doll shop is creepy, dark, lined with shelves of watching dolls, and he takes Bunny's doll and sets fire to it. His face, and the fire lighting up those doll faces. I had nightmares for weeks.

This is followed by a deeply disturbing ending in a playground. It is night, very dark, and we see Olivier take the still alive little girl out of the trunk of his car. Her mother follows them around the dark playground, desperately trying to talk to him and understand him and reason with him in order to save her daughter's life. I think they end up on a swingset. There are undertones of incest and it is all just creepy and horrible.

I think I saw this film just once when I was still in elementary school, and I still have those images in my head today.