The death of Pesci and his brother(?) is the scene that fucks me up from Casino.
I wish I could find a clip, there's a scene in The Witch Who Came From the Sea where the main character is flashing back to a traumatic scene which ends with her as a panicked child shouting the same thing over and over as the audio track degrades her voice to some weird and barely-audible rasp, and the effect is so uncanny and creepy. I can't think of another scene like it.
― Artisanal Personality Disorder (Old Lunch), Thursday, 9 May 2019 21:57 (four years ago) link
Scenes that creep me: Funny Games- when she is casually tossed off the boatThe Strangers- the stabbing and the one masked person standing quietly in the houseTwilight Zone (movie) - the monster on the airplane wingCrash- the scar fucking
― Yerac, Thursday, 9 May 2019 22:02 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ul-LwLX6Nk
― ... (Eazy), Thursday, 9 May 2019 22:03 (four years ago) link
The ending of In the Company of Men creeps me out in a similar fashion
― Simon H., Thursday, 9 May 2019 22:05 (four years ago) link
The dismemberment scene in Looper still freaks me out to this day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxqe8Xq6LBQ
doesn't make a lot of sense (like most time travel shit) but I'll give 'em this, it's a really clever scene
― frogbs, Thursday, 9 May 2019 22:13 (four years ago) link
Oh yeah, that Looper bit was rough. I had to turn away during the video in Annihilation.
― JoeStork, Thursday, 9 May 2019 22:17 (four years ago) link
The face slice in Pan's Labyrinth
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Thursday, 9 May 2019 22:26 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5le9sYdYkM
― del griffith, Thursday, 9 May 2019 22:35 (four years ago) link
Jesus christ, give a warning before you terrify me like that!
― Artisanal Personality Disorder (Old Lunch), Thursday, 9 May 2019 22:52 (four years ago) link
bean sí in darby o gill
tunnel in kill list
beach conversation in it follows
― deemsthelarker (darraghmac), Thursday, 9 May 2019 23:00 (four years ago) link
beach scene in Under the Skin. final scene with the coven in The Witch
― Dan S, Thursday, 9 May 2019 23:22 (four years ago) link
There's a slew of Lynch scenes that I'm sure I don't even have to specify.
Green Room is filled to the brim with intense and terrifying scenes but the one that burned itself in my brain is the girl slowly unzipping the dude with a box cutter. Blasé, offhanded violence in a movie probably unnerves me more than anything.
― Artisanal Personality Disorder (Old Lunch), Thursday, 9 May 2019 23:45 (four years ago) link
Large Marge is all-time. Probably aided by lunch table mythologizing from the kids who'd seen it and built it up into the biggest scare imaginable.
― Artisanal Personality Disorder (Old Lunch), Thursday, 9 May 2019 23:47 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2Y5tgCBAvQ
― jmm, Thursday, 9 May 2019 23:58 (four years ago) link
for referenceThe Haunt Of Fear: ILX Top 100 HORROR Movies Poll Results Thread
― piscesx, Friday, 10 May 2019 00:11 (four years ago) link
The blood testing scene in The Thing is up there with scariest of all time for me.
― One Eye Open, Friday, 10 May 2019 00:19 (four years ago) link
The scene I'd pick from Under the Skin would be this one where the two guys meet while floating in the void. One of the few times while watching a movie where I really felt like I was seeing something otherworldly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UCPwlNd3Js
― One Eye Open, Friday, 10 May 2019 00:23 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdIlLn52Oak
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 10 May 2019 00:26 (four years ago) link
Not really scary, but very, very creepy: Rosemary and Guy in bed when you hear the chanting next door for the first time. Can't find a clip, can't even find a still. The camera movement--a slow tilt up from Rosemary and Guy to the wall above--is beautiful.
― clemenza, Friday, 10 May 2019 00:40 (four years ago) link
a lot of the unremarkable domestic scenes in that movie are somehow terrifying
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 10 May 2019 00:43 (four years ago) link
Furry fellatio
― calstars, Friday, 10 May 2019 00:44 (four years ago) link
xxp yeah I just saw that, it was great
― Dan S, Friday, 10 May 2019 00:45 (four years ago) link
I hate to derail this early, but imo "scary scenes not in horror movies" should also be a thing we discuss here
Can't find a decent video of it, but one episode of Luther there's an extended opening of a woman coming home to her flat, brushing her teeth, taking off her shoes, getting into bed, drifting off to sleep. Then this man with a knife slides out from under her bed with this sort of stealthy wiggle. Absolutely horrible.
― And according to some websites, there were “sexcapades.” (James Morrison), Friday, 10 May 2019 01:14 (four years ago) link
If you have a fear of mannequins/dummies/dolls suddenly springing to life, Tourist Trap is riddled with effective instances of just that. Movie makes zero goddamn sense but it does what it does well.
― Artisanal Personality Disorder (Old Lunch), Friday, 10 May 2019 01:52 (four years ago) link
Plus these fuckers in old Doctor Whohttps://cdn-static.denofgeek.com/sites/denofgeek/files/styles/article_width/public/autons_1.jpghttps://cdn-static.denofgeek.com/sites/denofgeek/files/styles/article_width/public/daffodils.jpg
― And according to some websites, there were “sexcapades.” (James Morrison), Friday, 10 May 2019 02:34 (four years ago) link
Oh, the scene with the bag in Audition
Full body shivers the first time I saw that
― Number None, Friday, 10 May 2019 07:41 (four years ago) link
Co-sign the subway sequence from The Wiz. Total nightmare fuel for my 7-year-old self.
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Friday, 10 May 2019 14:34 (four years ago) link
yes to both under the skin scenes for sure
the b&w pictures of previous 'martyrs' in martyrs are haunting af, as is the entire last few minutes of body horror shading into cosmic nihilism and back again
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 10 May 2019 14:41 (four years ago) link
Martyrs is all time and relies on its cumulative build to that pay off
― call me cismale (Noodle Vague), Friday, 10 May 2019 14:45 (four years ago) link
That scene towards the end of Bone Tomahawk is the thing that's fucked me up the most recently. It's the audio track as much anything. Yeesh.
The ghost at the end of Personal Shopper is pretty extraordinary and had a huge effect on me - physically and emotionally.
The 'daylight stabbing' in Zodiac is horrible.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Friday, 10 May 2019 16:42 (four years ago) link
Yes, there's something about the overuse of darkness/nighttime as the setting for scary scenes that makes scary things happening in broad daylight even scarier.
― Artisanal Personality Disorder (Old Lunch), Friday, 10 May 2019 16:45 (four years ago) link
when Matthau kneels on broken glass proposing to Elaine May in A New Leaf
(people do scream)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 May 2019 17:04 (four years ago) link
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Friday, May 10, 2019 9:42 AM (twenty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
oh god zodiac is a very scary non-horror movie
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 10 May 2019 17:06 (four years ago) link
just the sight of the killer stepping out from behind a tree in a long, kinda indistinct shot is terrifying even before the methodical stabbing happens
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 10 May 2019 17:09 (four years ago) link
yeah cosign that scene, horrible
― deemsthelarker (darraghmac), Friday, 10 May 2019 17:13 (four years ago) link
the end of this scene from the eye never fails to literally raise the hairs on the back of my neck for some reasonhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIiVlAJ6FqwThe elevator scene in this movie is awesome too
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 10 May 2019 17:15 (four years ago) link
i'm not a horror buff, but i feel like that one scene in inland empire, a couple hours deep when things are getting almost nauseatingly dreamlike, where laura dern's face temporarily morphs into a digital doom mask, should be in this thread
― these are not all of the possible side effects (Karl Malone), Friday, 10 May 2019 17:16 (four years ago) link
the first appearance of BOB
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 10 May 2019 17:17 (four years ago) link
yes
and behind the cafe in Mulholland Drive
― deemsthelarker (darraghmac), Friday, 10 May 2019 17:18 (four years ago) link
Yes, I was alluding to those scenes and more in my earlier 'Lynch is the master of this' post. See also: Winkie's, Maddy's death, etc., etc.
― Artisanal Personality Disorder (Old Lunch), Friday, 10 May 2019 17:19 (four years ago) link
deems knows
BOB terrified me the first time i saw it when it aired originally and didn't happen long after i watched Bedroom Window (mentioned upthread)i guess i am terrified of creepy men hiding behind things and then revealing their faces
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 10 May 2019 17:19 (four years ago) link
I want to include haunting and uncanny scenes in this list, as well! Even if they aren't (finger quotes) SCAAARY.
Like I'm thinking of Kwaidan atm. The scenes of Hoichi singing as the camera slow pans across his spectral audience...nothing like it. And the freeze frame at the end of 'The Black Hair'. Movie is dope, yo.
― Artisanal Personality Disorder (Old Lunch), Friday, 10 May 2019 17:21 (four years ago) link
as i said in the Stephen King thread i think Lynch is underrated by a lot of folks for his mastery of dread-including atmosphere and framing. the original Twin Peaks was a tough show to watch at night as a kid living in a rural somewhat desolate town with a couple of lonely intersections and a road traveling into town covered by a tunnel of thick trees for a mile-plus. the woods and traffic lights swaying in the wind at night, no thank you for some reason!
― omar little, Friday, 10 May 2019 17:24 (four years ago) link
the end of this scene from the eye never fails to literally raise the hairs on the back of my neck for some reasonbecause it's 100% nightmare fuel, jesus! though i think this scene from the 1989 woman in black just about tops it:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhuc-ot7Ryg
― The Pingularity (ledge), Friday, 10 May 2019 17:29 (four years ago) link
linus roache’s face slowly, almost imperceptibly morphing into andrea riseborough’s and back again in mandy is very effectively creepy/trippy, while we’re on the topic of weird face stuff
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 10 May 2019 17:30 (four years ago) link
^^^ almost brought up this scene
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 10 May 2019 17:32 (four years ago) link
That diner scene in MD is so fucking terrifying. I've only seen it once but it's imprinted on my mind's eye. Lynch is master of the uncanny.
Re that stabbing scene in Zodiac, there's a documentary with the extended edition that details just how forensically rebuilt the park so it fitted the descriptions just so - to the point that he dug up and replanted a tree. That obsessiveness makes its way into the scene, somehow.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Friday, 10 May 2019 17:32 (four years ago) link
And god yes, that scene from Woman in Black is shriek-inducing. The stage version of WiB is one of the best scary experiences of my life. Had to sleep with the light on for a week the first time I saw it.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Friday, 10 May 2019 17:33 (four years ago) link
*xp just how forensically *Fincher* rebuilt the park
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Friday, 10 May 2019 17:34 (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
THE HARROWINGPrepare...to be harrowed.
― Yul, Tied: A Celebration of Brynner in Bondage (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 20 November 2019 22:18 (four years ago) link
if we're talking about creepy stuff in generally non-creepy media: there is a lot of low-key terrifying stuff in both avatar and legend of korra, cf. bloodbending
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 20 November 2019 22:28 (four years ago) link
It's not generally thought of as a scary film, but the first abduction scene in Communion used to freak the hell out out of me, and still kinda does. I dreaded the alien on the book cover as a child, so maybe watching it was never the best idea.
But I do like the somewhat surreal, dream-like approach is takes in regard to the experience, which is a nice contrast to the literal-mindedness of most UFO/abduction depictions on film and TV. There's the sense of intrusion from some "other", akin to the Diner monster in Mulholland Drive and the subway/passing car people in Jacob's Ladder.
― Duane Barry, Thursday, 21 November 2019 12:53 (four years ago) link
The scene in Paul Schrader's "Blue Collar" where Yaphet Kotto is slowly asphyxiated by spray paint
― Hongro Hongro Hippies (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 21 November 2019 18:00 (four years ago) link
The scene where Peter Weller gets shot at the beginning of Robocop made me queasy at age 14 in the theater, especially when his hand gets blown apart by the shotgun. Ugh!
― Mazzy Tsar (PBKR), Thursday, 21 November 2019 18:13 (four years ago) link
Yeah, that scene has stayed with me too. The 'knife across the chest' in First Blood had a similar, visceral impact.
― Life is a meaningless nightmare of suffering...save string (Chinaski), Thursday, 21 November 2019 18:25 (four years ago) link
Midsommar - ritual suicide scenes
This piqued my interest, as I somehow hadn't heard of Midsommar. I took myself over to YouTube, where someone has helpfully uploaded an edit titled "All the deaths in Midsommar".
I really wish I hadn't watched it.
― Vast Halo, Thursday, 21 November 2019 21:47 (four years ago) link
child-catcher scene in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 21 November 2019 21:50 (four years ago) link
There's a scene in The Exorcist that terrified me, no pea soup vomit, no head spinning, just the expression on Regan's face watching the priest walk across the room. Still haunts me, and I haven't seen the movie since 1974.
― A breezy pop-rock feel fairly typical of the mid-'80s (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 21 November 2019 21:54 (four years ago) link
Hardly original but the Wheelers and the creepy statue setting is just perfectly terrifying (Return to Oz)
― kinder, Thursday, 21 November 2019 22:44 (four years ago) link
I mean hardly original in that it's probably been suggested already
isn't Midsommer the movie with the cliff diving scene
remember being like..."uh you're supposed to cut away from that"
― frogbs, Thursday, 21 November 2019 23:04 (four years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_Catcher
the character does not appear in Fleming's book itself. In fact, Roald Dahl, co-author of the film version's screenplay, originated the Child Catcher (as well as almost all of the Vulgarian scenes).
The Child Catcher is very very Roald Dahl.
― john cage fighter (Matt #2), Thursday, 21 November 2019 23:16 (four years ago) link
uh i am apparently only now learning that chitty chitty bang bang is roald dahl's second film adaptation of an ian fleming novel, the first being you only live twice? which is very off-topic but blowing my mind regardless
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 21 November 2019 23:30 (four years ago) link
A tiny moment that gave me a chill--Richard Gere's face hitting the water in Days of Heaven.
― Hideous Lump, Friday, 22 November 2019 05:26 (four years ago) link
Re The Exorcist, the scene where they're doing tests on Regan & put something into her neck and blood spurts out always makes me shudder. Realism/physicality I guess. The sound in that scene also plays a role.
― lilcraigyboi (Craigo Boingo), Saturday, 23 November 2019 08:52 (four years ago) link
thread just reminded be about ghostwatch
i think it did genuine fuckin damage to me for a while, that did. i was put to bed screaming, and woke up the same way, for about a week.
― deems of internment (darraghmac), Sunday, 24 November 2019 02:08 (four years ago) link
― Duane Barry, Thursday, 21 November 2019 12:53 (three days ago) link
Totally. “IS THAT SOMEONE THERE?”
Underrated movie.
Christopher Walken giving the most Christopher Walken performance ever only compounds the strangeness further.
Perhaps not as surreal but certainly justc as scary is the alien abduction flashback from Fire in the Sky. The movie itself is mediocre but that sequence could stand on its own as one of the greatest sci-fi horror shorts ever made. It masterfully captures the pure animal terror of being treated like a lab rat by beings with unfathomable motives.
― Conceptualize Wyverns (latebloomer), Sunday, 24 November 2019 03:05 (four years ago) link
Forgotten to mention the scary bits in Beyond The Black Rainbow
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 7 August 2020 18:11 (three years ago) link
As this thread seemed to expand to include 'disturbing or upsetting' I'm going to nominate the beating dished out to Ray Liotta in Killing Them Softly. Brilliantly acted and really quite horrible.
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Monday, 10 October 2022 17:32 (one year ago) link