What's the scariest movie scene?

What scene in a movie has scared you the most? For me, it was the scene in The Shining when the beautiful woman in the hotel room turned into a horrible corpse while making out with Jack Nicholson.

No particular scene - just scary.

That scared the crap out of me as a kid.

I like jump out of your seat surprise scares. Campy as they were, the Scream movie has a few of those that are effective, if cheesy.

Also on the cheesy front, in the movie Signs where the Joaquin Phoenix character is watching the news and they show the clip from the kids birthday party and the alien appears was also pretty spooky.

And speaking of Aliens, in that movie when one of the characters looks up in the air ducts above them and sees all the aliens coming towards him.

There was a pretty good list of the scariest scenes in movies, but I don't have a link.

Actually, lots of stuff in the Omen.

The poor woman.... oh my... :puke:

The last Presidential inauguration!

guy in the basement turned toward the wall, just like they heard about in the legend. Right then, I knew she was gonna get clunked, and she was, just a few seconds later. I held my breath the whole time.

Had a nightmare about it a few nights later.

That was a very subjective movie. You took out of it what you brought into it. I liked it a lot and thought the entire plot of the movie was creepy, and that final scene haunted me for days.

That ending was very creepy. I just wish they had more creepy nighttime scenes in it.

What do you mean in the legend? What did the legend say happens when you turn your back?

About how the Blair Witch makes her victims turn toward the wall in the basement while she's killing the others. Until finally she's down to one.......YOU!

The thing about this is, just like with all urban myths, if nobody survived, who got the story out to the world? Still, it made for a scary scene.

but I found the Sixth Sense to be terrifying. While he's using the bathroom, and that woman walks by...I jumped out of my skin.
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...or when he lifts up the blanket and she's vomiting all that stuff.......that really creeped me out

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Dreamy sequence and music made it work. And it wans't a jump up and scare movie to that point. Unexpected.

the red wolf/demon's eyes appear in the sky, the shipwreck, Dracula's castle when the shadow moves around apart from the body, so many - I love this movie!!

Spews blood all over them in the crypt scene. Right there int he theater all you hear is him ralphing all over the floor.

...and doing NOTHING while the 9/11 attacks were underway.

The Whole Movie!

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With Carol Kane I believe.

gave me nightmares :scared:

up until the point when Jon Voight sees Burt Reynolds in the distance with an arrow drawn.

.....When Kevin McCarthy kisses Dana Wynter and realizes that she has turned into a pod person. The look on his face is one of sheer horror! This movie still gives me the creeps.

I just got chills thinking about it now.

There's another scene that totally freaks me out...it's just a garden variety close-up of her when she's all wigged out but then it flashes this demon face...like super fast, but THAT, more than anything else in that movie made me nearly shit myself.

That is the only scary movie, EVER.

on the back of my neck stand up.

The kid picks up a hitchhiker, with a broken down station wagon seen just slightly off in the distance, off on the side of the road. Then, as they drive off, the guy calmly and casually explains to him why it is that the family in the station wagon isn't going for help.

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I can't believe nobody else has listed that one!! Maybe I'm showing my age. Go back and see the ORIGINAL Hitchcock version. I saw it over 35 years ago and it creeped me out so badly that TO THIS DAY if I'm taking a shower, I occasionally look outside the curtain or shower door to make sure nobody is coming in with a knife!!

Hitchcock was The Master!!

Bake

No need to explain--I could think of about a thousand better ways to die.

Primal as hell.

The female lead in this heartwarming tale spends the first half-hour of the film being gang-raped by four men and left for dead. She spends the last hour killing all of them in entertaining ways.

In the bathtub scene, she seduces one of her attackers...then, just when he's rock-hard, she pulls a butcher knife from under the bath mat and cuts his dick off.

Yeah, that's the ticket

in "Cape Fear." Robert De Niro coldy seduces a young Juliette Lewis while they are alone. The whole scene was creepy and the menace was just so overwhelming. Nothing happened, that was the scary point, that it easily could have and did not only because he did not want to.

The aliens are trying to get inside of the house. The frantic mother is running around trying to lock all the doors, windows, vents, etc. And the little boy, not thinking that he's in any danger, is opening up the door to let the aliens in.

I screamed out loud, and I rarely do that in a theater.

And everyone was screaming. It was the longest sustained scream I have ever heard during a film. We had a tough time getting to sleep that evening. :scared:


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where the birds have already pecked through the roof and ceiling and are oddly quiet... just waiting for the right moment to attack again.

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when Clarisse is in the dark and she can't see where she's going and Buffalo Bill is right behind her.

I was on the edge of my seat during that scene.

through the shower curtain

or the hands coming from under the bed and pulling the person down.

oooohhhh spooky!

The scene where the mother fell in the pool with the caskets.

Or the tree trying to swallow the boy.

The clown dragging the boy under the bed.

The closet that turned into some kind of portal to the "other world".

The exploding meat with maggots.

(I was a little kid then. Anything scared me.)

Themselves in the outlet. Freaked me out, caue I had braces at the time.

In the scene toward the end when the irrational man locks himself and his family in the cellar. Unknowingly, his child has died and has become re-animated. She takes a trowel and kills her family, backing her mother into a corner of the cellar under a hanging single light bulb. You hear the trowel enter the body and see the death in the shadow of the swinging bulb. Great scene.

Scared the ca-ca out of me.

in the basement. The only lighting is by flashlights. Truly disturbing.

definitely has to be the window scene with the vampire of Danny Glick coming to the window and scraping on it trying to get Mark to open up the window so he can bite his neck.

Jeepers Creepers:all of it



Night Flyer:everything


Suspira:the part at the beginning where the girl puts the lamp to the window and those yellow eyes glow.

The final scene, as the camera slooooowly pushes in towards the cryo tubes...

When the guy turns into a zombie and gnaws his way through the wall to where the humans are.

where all of Kurt Russell's colleagues are tied to a couch, and he is testing everyone's blood with a hot wire to see if it turns into a Thing. Even if you've never seen the movie, you know what's coming, and it's worse than you think (or remember).

I've seen this movie a half dozen times, and I almost can't watch this scene, it's so messed up.

it's a coincidence that the 2 most frightning movies i ever saw i saw at a drive in during a double feature....those were john carpenters "the thing" and "phantasm"....

the final scene in phantasm, where everything seems to be over and the tall man is no more, and the boy and the friend are packing to go away for a while...then the boy hears the tall mans voice say "Booooooyyyyyy!!!!!", looks in the mirror in front of him, sees the tall man in the mirror, turns around to face him, then gets taken by arms coming through the mirror...still spooks me to this day.


the 1st "nightmare on elm street was pretty damn scarey too...i loved the part where freddies tounge came out of the phone, kissed her, and said "i'm your boyfriend now nancy"....then hydro-mulched jonnie depp across the street....that was pretty disturbing....

It has a couple of Angus Scrimm interviews, and he comes off as being the nicest, coolest, most good-humored guy you could ever meet! Plus he looks about 30 years younger in person. He's everything the Tall Man isn't.

BOYYYYYYY! I love that, too.

I saw it when I was four or five and it was really scary! Generally, I refuse to spend money to watch a movie that is going to scare me.

...the transmission from the future/dreams sequences.

...I couldn't even look in a freakin' mirror 2 weeks after seeing that movie...let alone touch a mirror!

...towards the end when they show that scene of Pazuzu and that mummy looking thing in the corner of the room.....that really freaked me out when I was a little kid...




Also...in the new re-released Exorcist, when Linda Blair walks down the stairs upside down....that was fucked up......that really freaked me out when I was a grown-up.



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While it was a great scene -- used to great effect in Exorcist III -- I agreed with Friedkin that it brought the horror quotient up too soon and disturbed the horrific flow of the film that is, IMO, the scariest movie of all time.

It doesn't make me scared when I watch it. It makes me scared three days later, when I want to turn the lights off.

...I heard they were pretty bad.

I liked it in the re-released version....because I had seen the original so many times...it just came as sort of a shock. And the reaction in the theater was great! Everyone was screaming/laughing....LOL.....I'll never forget that.

When you're all alone and there's a thunderhead moving in.

Is it as good as the original? Not even close. Still pretty good for what it is, though. Also, it was written and directed by William Peter Blatty, the guy who wrote the novel the first one was based on.

If you've never seen any "making of" documentaries about The Exorcist, go out and buy the DVD or video or whatever. INCREDIBLE. One of the scenes which builds suspense is when the phone rings while the priest is translating the backward-English tapes. Friedkin, the director, just couldn't get the appropriate level of shock on his face, so he fired a .38 revolver behind him instead of the phone ringing.

I could go on, but the whole "making of" thing is fillled with examples like that.

Oh, and number two is one of the worst movies ever made. We're talking "Manos: Hands of Fate" and "Battlefield Earth" bead.

...the only reason I've seen Manos is because of MST3K!

Yeah...that backwards english scene is freakin' awesome. That was actually one of the most disturbing scenes i've ever seen. It was just him sitting alone in that room listening to those tapes.......I mean...the sounds on that tape were enough to scare the living shit out of you! I get goosebumps just thinking about that....when he reverses the tape...."I am no one! I AM NO ONE!!!!" :scared:

...when they find that "Sloth" guy....and they think he's dead....and then he starts flailing around.....That was the only time I ever screamed in a theater.

The Ring: When the creepy girl walks out of the TV

The Others: "Are you mad? I _am_ your daughter!"

Stir of Echoes: When Bacon sits on the couch and sees the ghost the first time

The 6th Sense: A lot of scenes creeped me out... especially when he's listening to the casettes and hears "De Profundis Clamavi Ad Te Domine", making him first realize that ghosts are real.

The Exorcist: The spider walk down the stairs

Nightmare on Elm Street I: The whole thing gave me bigtime wiggins.

the remake, when it pans out at the beginning and there is just mass fucking chaos going on. i loved it.

when the squad is asleep and the NVA patrol slowly parts the jungle and is coming towards them.