I don't watch much Horror per se but the Ringu scene was the first properly unsettling scary thing I'd seen.plus the obvious Lynch stuff
― kinder, Wednesday, 15 May 2019 11:10 (five years ago) link
Oh yes Return to Oz machine, also the Wheelers
― kinder, Wednesday, 15 May 2019 11:11 (five years ago) link
can't remember the specific scene but House of Wax had something horrifying. also the first time we see the truck in Jeepers Creepers.
― kinder, Wednesday, 15 May 2019 11:13 (five years ago) link
I know I keep banging on about this show but Bodies *spoilers* has a scene I couldn't shake with a woman trying to cause herself to miscarriage and the foetus is born just alive the whole show is prolonged horror pretty much
― kinder, Wednesday, 15 May 2019 11:18 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS-PRypBdIM
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 11:41 (five years ago) link
the last ten minutes of BBC's Ghostwatch are the scariest ten minutes recorded anywhere ever imo
― imago, Wednesday, 15 May 2019 11:42 (five years ago) link
Otm. This is a good read about the making of and reaction afterwards. (How nice it was to be able to make this in a world without social media tbh)
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 11:46 (five years ago) link
Ha, was literally just coming to post that it was effective seeing Ghostwatch for the first time as an American adult. I cannot even imagine what it would've been like to see it as a kid and in its proper context.
― Have you ever had a dream that you um you had your you you could you (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 11:48 (five years ago) link
I watched it knowing everything about it and it was still some eye-boggling throat-cracking shit, can't even imagine what it was like to see it at the time
xp!! haha
― imago, Wednesday, 15 May 2019 11:49 (five years ago) link
The trailer for The Shining more than any moment in the film itself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANKdpe4J2h0
― ... (Eazy), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 11:54 (five years ago) link
I feel duty-bound to point out this related A+ UK-centric thread for those unaware of its existence: is there a name or a phrase for or anything much written about that distinctly British CREEPY VIBE prevalent in TV shows and movies of the '60s/'70s? (e.g. The Prisoner, Sapphire and Steel, Baker-era
― Have you ever had a dream that you um you had your you you could you (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 12:08 (five years ago) link
yeah I bumped it like yesterday :)
― imago, Wednesday, 15 May 2019 12:09 (five years ago) link
(with penda's fen. which isn't so much scary as lyrical, beautiful and inspiring. the edward elgar scene especially is one of the BEST if not scariest i've seen)
― imago, Wednesday, 15 May 2019 12:10 (five years ago) link
Ha, didn't even notice! I've had that thing bookmarked since its inception.
― Have you ever had a dream that you um you had your you you could you (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 12:11 (five years ago) link
oh god i love ghostwatch. another scene of a door slamming that absolutely ruins my ability to sleep
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 12:35 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJXvdTIBQMU
spoiler for the end of prince of darkness but: this is the scariest scene john carpenter ever filmed
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 12:38 (five years ago) link
this is not a dream
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 12:39 (five years ago) link
one particularly sadistic sequence I think of from time to time: JJL's demise in The Hitcher
― Simon H., Wednesday, 15 May 2019 12:39 (five years ago) link
Ghostwatch is significantly enhanced once you know to keep an eye out for the many 'blink and you'll miss it' appearances of Pipes throughout (a trope I was glad to see Hell House adopt). The split-second glimpse in the room beneath the staircase is my favorite.
― Have you ever had a dream that you um you had your you you could you (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 12:42 (five years ago) link
this shit may have damaged me for lifehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z4rQfV3Lo8
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 05:15 (four years ago) link
also i may be hella corny but the end of paranormal activity fucked with my head a bithttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCXmk4QAcUc
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 05:18 (four years ago) link
no that PA one got me too, and I usually am cool as a cucumber during horror flicks. something about watching it in my dark room with my face close to the laptop added to it
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 05:24 (four years ago) link
box cutter scene in breaking bad
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 05:36 (four years ago) link
christ that shining trailer is good. i wish i could have seen the shining for the first time without knowing every scare through decades of cultural osmosis.
― oiocha, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 15:28 (four years ago) link
- Mulholland Drive - 'Man Behind The Dumpster' - Kill List - 'Tunnels' / 'Hunchback' - Eyes Wide Shut - 'Orgy' (the music + masks combo freaks me out) - The Grudge - two scenes: one with the grandmother being tormented by an evil shadow spirit; another where someone is leaving work late and keeps getting phone calls on her mobile - Midsommar - ritual suicide scenes
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 15:29 (four years ago) link
I thought there were some genuinely frightening scenes in M Night's 'The Invitation', especially the grandmother hobbling around the house at night screaming and puking, and the bit where she chases the kids around the crawlspace under the house
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 15:32 (four years ago) link
The "wall of death" execution scene in the mostly-execrable Caligula (1979) really got to me, I had to turn it off after that because I was getting freaked out. In fact I just looked it up on YT and it freaked me out all over again.
― john cage fighter (Matt #2), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 16:16 (four years ago) link
haha oh man yeah that is an image that really sticks
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 16:21 (four years ago) link
I wonder if I would've found Paranormal Activity scarier if I didn't regularly wake up to find my insomnia-prone gf basically doing some variation of the immobile late-night starefest that I assume is meant to make the viewer's skin crawl.
― Yul, Tied: A Celebration of Brynner in Bondage (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 16:23 (four years ago) link
I don't know how I failed to mention it before itt but so many small, quiet moments in Testament are among the most dread-inducing things I've ever seen on film. Most especially the scene of a young Lucas Haas being bathed in the sink, which I saw when I wasn't much older and probably did permanent damage to my brain.
― Yul, Tied: A Celebration of Brynner in Bondage (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 16:33 (four years ago) link
The overhead shot when Martin Balsam gets offed in Psycho freaks me out every single time
― The Man Who Was Thirsty (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 17:42 (four years ago) link
Yea that one was underrated
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 17:42 (four years ago) link
Shower scene overshadows some other mega legit scares
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 17:43 (four years ago) link
My dad, who saw it in the early sixties but wasn't what you'd called a cineaste, always said that the reveal mother scared him way more than the shower scene. That doesn't really do it for me but the framing of the stair murder and the way Perkins moves is just incredibly shocking still.
― The Man Who Was Thirsty (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 17:56 (four years ago) link
Tarman in Return of the Living Dead is half played for laughs but I dunno, that guy kinda freaks my shit out tbrr.
― Yul, Tied: A Celebration of Brynner in Bondage (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 18:05 (four years ago) link
that's a good one. it's deffo the way it's framed, i was ready for the attack but not from that direction. the bare bulb swinging on the norman reveal is disturbing too mind you, that wig!! and the i wouldn't even harm a fly nonsense.
the only horror scene that had an effect on my actual behaviour was whichever hammer dracula film that had the count entering a bedroom as a bat via the window, i must have seen it on tv aged 8 or so and legit did not open any windows in my room for at least 3 years, even in the height of Summer. lol.
xp
― oscar bravo, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 18:07 (four years ago) link
After i saw Psycho i didn't shower for sixteen years
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 18:16 (four years ago) link
There's a Tintin comic (Cigars of the Pharoah maybe?) where someone blows a bold dart through a window into a sleeping person's neck and I slept with the covers right up past my jugular for years after reading that as a kid
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 18:16 (four years ago) link
In all seriousness tho my showers were very fast for the week after that. As fast as they could be for a nine year old at least
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 18:17 (four years ago) link
I was convinced that one of our friends mothers was standing in the bathroom one night with her back to me and i was afraid to come out and it turned out to be a misleading sihlouette of the mirror and sink through our frosted shower door
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 18:18 (four years ago) link
Watched Beware! The Blob recently (which is basically just a head film directed by Larry Hagman) and it had an amusing riff on the Psycho shower scene (wherein a husband keeps dramatically ripping back the shower curtain to ask his wife completely banal questions).
― Yul, Tied: A Celebration of Brynner in Bondage (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 18:26 (four years ago) link
I wonder whether the bathing woman in the Shining might itself have been a play on a role-reversed version of the Psycho shower scene
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 18:42 (four years ago) link
there are probably loads of 'hiding behind the shower curtain' scenes through cinema though
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 18:43 (four years ago) link
Yeah, it immediately occurred to me after posting that riffing on the Psycho shower scene is probably among the most played-out tropes in cinema.
― Yul, Tied: A Celebration of Brynner in Bondage (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 18:55 (four years ago) link
I've got mixed feelings about when people bring in types of disturbing that are too mundane for my tastes (as I'm always hoping for something on the eerie, awesome, pleasing terror side) but here I go...(I think I talked about a few of these recently, most are from childhood)…
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 20:21 (four years ago) link
Since when has doubleclicking the return button meant "post"?
Fantasy films like The Labyrinth, Willow and Dark Crystal depressed the hell out of me when I was a child. Legend has some awesomely creepy imagery but it also fell into depressing for me too. I found these films deeply ugly in a way I just couldn't deal with and I just hated that it was so easy to slip into a hole or chasm and die. I was painfully aware how often characters survived by luck. And the bog in Labyrinth with just too much. I could never find it funny, the idea of smelling like especially foul shit for the rest of your life was some of the rawest horror I'd seen from a film. I remember vividly a sleepless night thinking about Dark Crystal and just feeling nauseated and hopeless about it.
More in a minute...
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 20:30 (four years ago) link
I had a similar sleepless night after watching the John Cleese comedy Clockwise. Maybe I thought it was an overpoweringly bleak vision of adult life.
The Mighty Max cartoon had a bit where the deformed clown Freako magically turned Max into a severely deformed person. Extremely disturbing.
3D cartoon Reboot when Dot is cornered in the streets and has her hair shaved off by the police robots of a new dystopia. Feels like a rape scene. Really troubled me.
Two things that seemed especially horrible because they were played for laughs: In the sitcom Frasier, Roz getting full-on kissed by a creepy friend and she clearly wasn't okay with it. The old ladies in Harry Enfield raping young men.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 20:47 (four years ago) link
my favorite riff on the shower scenehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uPdZTiGoGc(that's Barry Levinson as the bellhop)
― I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 23:16 (four years ago) link
There’s a harrowing scene in the (otherwise rather tame) Stephen King adaptation Doctor Sleep where a cadre of serial killers/psychic vampires ritually sacrifice a kidnapped young boy to harvest his suffering.
I’m not easily disturbed by horror movies, but the scene was surprisingly effective and harrowing.
― Conceptualize Wyverns (latebloomer), Wednesday, 20 November 2019 22:14 (four years ago) link
Harrowing enough to use the word “harrowing” twice, even
― Conceptualize Wyverns (latebloomer), Wednesday, 20 November 2019 22:16 (four years ago) link