Scariest movie moment and how did you react?

[tblue]

For me it's this from The Ring:



I almost jumped behind the couch.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

1. I learned to avoid violent or scary movies.

This started when I was two years old and my older sister dragged me to Saturday matinees that I believe cost a quarter.

I saw
The Blob and The Incredible Shrinking Man & Mothra.

Got the stuffing scared out of me at that tender age. Later I saw movies like The Godfather and decided violence, at least fictional violence or pointless violence, messes me up and gives me nightmares. I have a pretty bad startle
reflex from a lifetime of verbal abuse and stress.

Schindler's List I could handle because it was history.

[trueblue2007]

47. ME TOO. A JERK I DATED TOOK ME TO SEE "THE THING":

the movie with Kurt Russell

i hated it all.

the monster erupting from those dogs was horrible. I hated it and could not stand the man who wanted me to see it. he kept nagging on me and I should have said HECK NO!!!!!!!

[olddots]

2. I am an ultra wimp

when it comes to shockers .We used to go en mass to cheap shows and hoot and holler but with the nature of mall plex pricing and vibes
we have to goof at home.'

last on I saw was a Will Smith end of the world film where it's just him and some cancer creature pops out of the dark and I ejected from my seat like a baby .

[a la izquierda]

6. I am Legend?

I had nightmares for a week.

[In_The_Wind]

9. IMO: "I am Legend" was very well done.

No nightmares for me.

[a la izquierda]

12. It was a great movie.

My husband, who is a horror/sci-fi buff, loved it. But he had nightmares too

[In_The_Wind]

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[Lil Missy]

3. "Have you checked the children"

[pipi_k]

18. OMG OMG

I saw the original back in the 80s.

All I have to do is think of that line, and then the other one where the cop says "The calls are coming from inside the house" and I still get the chills!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. There is a moment in "Wait Until Dark"...

When the bad guy (Alan Alda, I think) does something so totally unexpected and scary--everybody jumped.

We saw that movie back in the middle 60's, and I have never forgotten...

[Aristus]

19. Alan Arkin, not Alan Alda.

Alan Alda wouldn't start doing scary villain roles until the 90's, to shake off the genial Hawkeye image.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

22. Oh, of course! Thanks for the correction...

[tblue]

33. I can't imagine Alan Alda looking like this:

Just can't picture it. Haha!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

21. I remember it well.

I saw that movie in a theater with a bunch of friends in about 1969, and everybody screamed. It was when the bad guy (Alan Arkin) grabbed Audrey Hepburn's ankle after she's stabbed him and thinks he's dead.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

23. That was it!

And how did those moviemakers know that we would automatically assume he was dead after she'd stabbed him? But we did that.....setting up the scene to be really scary!

[Loryn]

28. My parents took me to see that as a kid

I can still remember jumping out of my seat.

[In_The_Wind]

5. I try to avoid watching scary movies.

[Dash87]

14. "So... Why did you let me think you were... computer chip...?"

Brilliant, Oscar worthy performances!

[In_The_Wind]

16. Don't know.

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[tblue]

41. Very cute. I don't like slasher films either

but the creepy ones can be even scarier to me. I don't like to be made to JUMP. I hate that.

[a la izquierda]

7. Ooh,I hate scary movies.

The Ring scared the hell out of me. Scream did too.

[Inkfreak]

8. Anything zombie will get me..

that scene in the ring was great too. Now if we're talking in a movie theater, id say Mama. It's the most recent I can remember. The whole movie gave me the creeps. I just feel super silly afterward too. My wife is never scared.

[tblue]

39. Mama?

Googled it and saw this:


I think I'll have to skip that one. Oh my gosh, what IS that? Is that 'Mama"???

[Inkfreak]

50. Yes!

Ghost who looks after 2 girls who are alone in the woods for a few years. Craaaazy movie. I kept averting my eyes during. Jumped a few times. Several actually.

[Bertha Venation]

10. The Silence of the Lambs (spoiler alert)*

When he's in the ambulance and he takes the other guy's face off, I said, very loudly, "oh, my god!". My fellow theater-goers were displeased.

That is the scariest movie I have ever seen. I loathe horror movies.

* I know the movie's 22 years old, but I'm sure there are people who haven't seen it yet.

[tblue]

40. The very first scene of Hannibal Lecter

when she walks down the corridor and he's just standing there, that creeped me out.

[Helen Reddy]

11. At a tender age,

went to see "Halloween" by myself at the theater. The usher tapped me on the shoulder during a completely silent scene (cello music) SUPER scary.

I really jumped out of my skin. Bad usher Bad.

[tblue]

38. BWAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!

Was really NOT nice of that usher. I would have SCREAMED. (I am a screamer.) Wonder if he did that on purpose.

[Dash87]

13. That recent one with Daniel Ratcliff, when the dead boy was walking towards the house.

I ran and cried myself to sleep.

[LWolf]

17. I don't like scary movies.

I can't remember the scariest moment, because I probably didn't see many scary movies.

Even during NON-scary action movies, if it's an intense scene, or just violent, I can't watch. My family, usually my son or grandson, will reach over, uncover my eyes, and say, "Okay, it's okay to open them now."

[tblue]

42. I can't watch torture scenes.

Just can't bear it. I cover my eyes.

[pipi_k]

20. Totally cannot

watch scary movies anymore, but when I was younger I saw quite a few.

Anyway, the earliest trauma I can remember from a scary movie was when I saw the original "The Fly".

The movie theater was only a few blocks from my house, and by the time I got home I was still white as a ghost, so my mother said.


The other movie that scared the shit out of me was "The Day After", which is not the same movie as "The Day After Tomorrow".

"The Day After" involves nuclear war, something that traumatized me from a very early age, during the Cold War days, and having to do the "duck and cover" drills in school. That movie, plus "Fail Safe" and "On The Beach".

They gave me nightmares for a long time.

[NV Whino]

24. I tend to avoid scary movies

But the one that I did see and scared the bejesus out of me was Jaws. I, and everyone in the theatre knew what was coming. We screamed anyway. And I'm not a screamer. Never watched the sequels.

[tblue]

37. Classic moment.

I think everybody in the world jumped when they say that.

[Sekhmets Daughter]

25. Yes!

I love truly scary movies.... The Ring was amazingly frightening!

[alfredo]

26. This from "Wait Until Dark." Video

I had a big crush on Audrey Hepburn. She said the way she played the role of a blind person was not to allow her eyes to focus on anything.

[tblue]

36. Love that movie.

I remember seeing it on campus in college and I think everybody screamed.

[alfredo]

49. Great movie.

[mainer]

27. "Alien" When the worm thing pops out of the guy's chest

That was pretty horrifying.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

29. The toy clown scene in Poltergeist

was kind of scary. The slow build up to the horror got to me the first time I saw it. I'm a big fan of horror movies. The scene in The Ring that you describe definitely belongs on the list.

[tblue]

34. AGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

That's some scary shit. I hate clowns anyway, but !

[EvilAL]

30. When I was 12, me and a friend

rented the Evil Dead and all was well until the card scene.. when that fucker turned around with the white eyes we shut the thing off and it took about a half hour before we started it up again.. After that the movie wasn't too bad, but we weren't expecting that at all..

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[riderinthestorm]

31. When Sgt Elias is being run down by the Viet Cong in Platoon

I was literally shaking from the fear and stress as that helicopter lifted off and the shot widened to show the hordes running after him.

I left the theater at that precise moment and I've never seen a war movie since. They terrify me.

So yeah, I also avoid zombies, aliens, horror and other assorted scary movies. Real life shit scares me enough!

[RebelOne]

32. The shower scene in Psycho.

Was so freaked out that I only took baths for a long while.

[tblue]

44. After I saw Straitjacket I could not brush my teeth

without making sure there wasn't someone with an axe standing behind me.

[Blue_In_AK]

54. Yes.

I saw it at the drive-in and dove under the dashboard at that point.

[BlueJazz]

35. Country Music Awards

[tblue]

43. BWAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!

[BlueJazz]

46. Thank you. I couldn''t think of anything more scary.

[jpak]

45. LOLOLOLOL!!1111

[Stuart G]

48. House of Wax...3d..l953 and..Psycho...and...........Night and Fog...real death...

It was early on in House of wax..I was 7..and there was this fire scene and the person was emerging from the fire..with this hedious
look...and out of the show I went...So....Pshcho....7 years later....well.....2/3 of the way thru, they were walking up the stairs for something..with this music and lite..and out I went...into the waiting area...not me...did nnot see the end for 25 years..
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.Most scary and hedious moment ever in a film....which I showed in class......

.last 5 minutes of "Night and Fog" a link...:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048434/?ref_=sr_1

Read the reviews...this is the most horrific film ever made..period....beyond fear, numbing...awful...real.. stupifying..
read the user reviews and they... will make this true horror film come alive.
......................although it is more about real death than life..

[Marrah_G]

51. First scene in Jaws

I was 7 and convinced my older brother to take me with his friends.

I've never recovered. To this day anytime I am in water over my head (and I am an excellent swimmer) that scene pops into my head....even in a pool!

[First Speaker]

52. Robert Mitchum, as the "Reverend" Harry Powell, chasing the children...

...I saw that on TV when I was ten, and had nightmares for a week...

[Skip Intro]

53. Scariest moments are in the theater. Halloween made me jump.

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I'm dating myself by saying that, but that one made me jump.

There's a scene in Jaws where a human head falls out of some ship wreckage that made me jump as well.

And a few scenes in Alien that made me jump.

Recent movies, not so much.

I gotta be forgetting something.

[Demo_Chris]

55. HUGE Horror movie fan...

Sadly, I am no longer easy to scare -- because of my earlier work doing horror makeup I spend most of my time admiring the effects. That, and I have seen so many they start to blur a bit. Let me think...

The Ring did scare me a bit, it was legitimate horror. I liked the TV scene, but what I really liked was that (SPOILER...)

..they made the audience a participant by showing them the (exceptional) video that causes the demon to come. When the movie ended I actually had a second's thought that I better show the movie to someone else and pass the curse along. That's true horror there.

Others scenes / movies that impressed me...

Hostel. I loved the pacing, and the sheer filth of the set design was something else.

In the Mouth of Madness. Too many great scenes to list.

Event Horizon. Again, exceptional pacing and fantastic effects. Lots of great scares.

The Shining. I could (and have) literally talk for days about this movie. There are so many layers of meaning here that it would be time well spent. I consider it perhaps the greatest horror movie ever made

Frailty. I am gonna call this horror because in my mind that's what it is. A masterpiece in every respect, and a real throwback to the old school Hitchcock style.

Sixth Sense. I am including this largely because the ending is so good people forget just how scary most of the movie actually is.

FREAKS. If you have never seen this you should. Or maybe you shouldn't. It is without a doubt one of the most disturbing films ever made. You will NEVER forget it.

I am gonna stop there...

[tblue]

56. You've got a strong constitution.

The pure horror films, like Halloween and Scream, really are more than I can handle. You must be one tough cookie. I don't like slashers because I hate being startled. But some horror movies I've just bit the bullet and watched because the movie was good in other ways. In The Sixth Sense, the scene where the kid's in the bathroom and the woman passes through the hall always makes me jump. And the girl in the tent scares me too. Yeah, lots of scary moments in that one. And a real tender story at the same time. That was sooo good!

[Demo_Chris]

57. It's not a strong constitution, it's a state of mind

When you have spent years figuring out HOW something works, or doing it yourself, or studying real photos of death and carnage, you reach a point where you cannot simply turn that part of your brain off and enjoy the movie on that level. It's just not scary or gross.

If you are interested here's some of my work. This is an in progress shot so it's not finished (needs an hour or so to finish). You can see we still needed to do her hands and juice her up with plenty of blood and ozzing pus, and of course this is under the wrong lighting, but she's starting to come together. I can't find a finished picture but she looked pretty good under show lighting:

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

58. Two more famous scary scenes

The first one is from the 1963 Italian horror movie "Black Sabbath" (aka The Three Faces Of Fear) directed by Mario Bava (who also directed Black Sunday, one of the greatest black and white vampire movies of the 60s). It's an anthology horror movie and this is from the last of three stories, The Drop Of Water. When I lived in San Francisco in 1969, I turned the TV on late one night and this very scene was playing. I shut the TV off right afterwards because it creeped me out so much. By the way, the title of this movie was borrowed by the rock group Black Sabbath who were fans of the film.

The second scene is from the 1943 classic horror film The Leopard Man directed by the genius of atmospheric horror, Jacques Tourneur (who also directed Cat People, I Walked With A Zombie, and Night Of The Demon).