We all love to be frightened or even terrified by horror/monster/sci-fi films, or we wouldn't watch 'em. Let's hear what your favorite scary scene is (and you have to post a photo or video of the scene or film).
I'll start it off with the one of the very first "oh my God, the stalker isn't dead!!" scenes from the 1967 classic "Wait Until Dark"...
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eX40p3r0iLA/UIhBAFTFgLI/AAAAAAAADuo/X9RAE6PW9uY/s640/hep.jpeg)
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THIS scene from EXORCIST 3
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When Amy turns into a vampire in the original "Fright Night", her fangs were HUGE !!!!!!
Quote from: tylerh on May 21, 2013, 05:54:47 PM
THIS scene from EXORCIST 3
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This scene pictured, really scared me. The first time I saw the film. Exorcist 3.
Quote from: RabidChimp on May 21, 2013, 06:17:28 PM
When Amy turns into a vampire in the original "Fright Night", her fangs were HUGE !!!!!!
You mean like this...(http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120814192842/frightnight/images/thumb/9/91/FrightNight-Amy.jpg/1024px-FrightNight-Amy.jpg)
YIKES!
Quote from: McDougals House of Horror on May 21, 2013, 06:35:39 PM
You mean like this...
(http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120814192842/frightnight/images/thumb/9/91/FrightNight-Amy.jpg/1024px-FrightNight-Amy.jpg)
Not scary........super hot!!! Hubba, hubba!!
I have to admit that the scene depicted from "Exorcist III" is one of the best staged and paced "jump scares" I've ever seen. It gets me every time. Overall, I've always thought "Exorcist III" was underrated. George C. Scott really lifts the material.
Quote from: marsattacks666 on May 21, 2013, 07:39:06 PM
Not scary........super hot!!! Hubba, hubba!!
You WOULD think that, Michael! ;D
One of my favorites is from THE HAUNTING (1963). When the door starts breathing and the pounding begins! Then Nell says something about Theo holding her hand - and Theo replies that she wasn't holding her hand! Brrrr!
There are so many of them! Here is one!
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Sorry for some reason it came out small. I will try again!
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Remember David Naughton in "An American Werewolf in London" sleeping tranquilly in a meadow, thinking peaceful thoughts, and suddenly awakening to look like this!!....
(http://bluraymedia.ign.com/bluray/image/article/102/1024151/an-american-werewolf-in-london-full-moon-edition-20090917035422170.jpg)
Quote from: tylerh on May 21, 2013, 05:54:47 PM
THIS scene from EXORCIST 3
Holy crap, this is scary!!
Exorcist III 'Legion' - Nurse Station Scene (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH8ynu0jRvY#)
Quote from: Unknown Primate on May 22, 2013, 02:01:35 PM
One of my favorites is from THE HAUNTING (1963). When the door starts breathing and the pounding begins! Then Nell says something about Theo holding her hand - and Theo replies that she wasn't holding her hand! Brrrr!
Great film. Definitely a scary film, to this day.
Shower scene "Psycho"
Floating vampire kid "Salems Lot"
The spider crawl " The Exorcist"
Shark rising out of the ocean to eat some chum " Jaws"
Christopher Lee first revealing his fangs "Horror Of Dracula"
Just too name a few.
Quote from: tylerh on May 21, 2013, 05:54:47 PM
THIS scene from EXORCIST 3
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Easily, EASILY one of the scariest scenes of all time. This was what instantly came to mind. Well done, sir!
I always enjoyed this scene from House on Haunted Hill. To this day, it really stands up to a good scare. The witch floating out is very creepy, indeed!
Old Woman Ghost Scene in House on Haunted Hill (1959) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vBFvmC1KHI#)
Solitaire still gives me the creeps...
'The Evil Dead' card scene (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRfm8EZIYOw#)
my favorite s when DR.Loomis looks to see if Michael Myers is still there and he is gone. Gave me the creeps
It's a typical one, but the silhouette of Count Orlok walking up the stairs in the original Nosferatu ALWAYS gives me the creeps. It's such a great image.
Crap. I can never get youtube videos to embed here right half the time, so you will have go there with me.
When I saw this in the theater, not so much scary as thrilling...
http://youtu.be/6WtdBKUnVkc (http://youtu.be/6WtdBKUnVkc)
'Room 237' at the overlook hotel! The old crone freaked me out as a kid. Can't post a pic/clip as I have yet to figure out how to do it on this bloody iPhone.
One of my all time fave scenes is the opening scene from The Mummy.
There are a number of scenes I love from Salems Lot - my favourite Vampire movie.
Alien jumps out and kills Dallas in airduct!!
(http://wallpoper.com/images/00/21/28/63/movie-alien_00212863.jpg)
Hard to pick just one, but the "We're gonna need a bigger boat!" seen from JAWS provided one of the biggest jump scares for me.
From Lord of the Rings...
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I'll never forget this scene from the original "Woman in Black."
The Woman in Black (1989) - "that" scene (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhuc-ot7Ryg#)
Jaws--when Quint tells the story of the USS Indianapolis
The Thing (1982)--When MacReady performs the test to find out who's the thing
Vacancy--While the couple are watching the snuff film, looking aournd their room.
And an honorable mention, not that the scen itself was all that scary, but what happened while I watched it. While looking for a movie to watch, I read the back for Cameron's Closet. The write up read about something in Cameron's closet and that his father gets beheaded with a machete in the closet (okay, you got me, I'll watch it), ordered a pizza, took a shower, popped the movie in the VCR and began watching. The part came up to where the father goes into the closet, and the machete is seen. The music begins rising, the scenes keep switching between the father and the machete, and it's at this time that my pizza arrived. At the time I lived in a security aprtament, and the gate buzzer made a make-you-jump-to-the-ceiling type noise under normal circumstances, but when getting into a tense scene in a movie... I'm sure the delivery guy wondered why I looked so white when I answered the door.
There is always a way to scare without being too cheap and ridiculous. My favorite scene will always be this one:
Cat People / La Féline (1942) - Effet-bus (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSou8Bv5__M#)
Meticulous and precise. Great art.
Ah yes, the screeching bus great scene! I remember they copied that exactly in Paul Schrader's 1982 remake, using one of New Orleans' trolleys instead of a bus.
I like in House of Dracula when Lon Chaney Jr. turns into The Wolf Man in the jail cell.
Pet Sematary - The Return of the Living Zelda (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oV4nwwgVEc4#)
If you watch A&E's "Bates Motel", then this scene had to make you jump and gasp when Jake popped up behind Norma...
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/6155ccf445d8f1647698d3bede1f904a/tumblr_mmscjaPhOW1ql2t3wo1_250.gif)
Quote from: McDougals House of Horror on May 25, 2013, 06:00:27 PM
If you watch A&E's "Bates Motel", then this scene had to make you jump and gasp when Jake popped up behind Norma...
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/6155ccf445d8f1647698d3bede1f904a/tumblr_mmscjaPhOW1ql2t3wo1_250.gif)
His eye glasses scare me way more than this scene. Wowsers!
Quote from: Radioactive Rod Whitenack on May 25, 2013, 08:43:44 AM
I'll never forget this scene from the original "Woman in Black."
The Woman in Black (1989) - "that" scene (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhuc-ot7Ryg#)
How could I forget? I change my answer!
Marsattacks - Zelda!! She gave me nightmares. I grew up watching 'The Shining' and A Nightmare On Elm Street and the likes, but Zelda truly disturbed me! Still find it hard to watch that film even now. (The Timmy Baterman scene was pretty scary too).
Quote from: long live kong on May 27, 2013, 02:02:11 PM
Marsattacks - Zelda!! She gave me nightmares. I grew up watching 'The Shining' and A Nightmare On Elm Street and the likes, but Zelda truly disturbed me! Still find it hard to watch that film even now. (The Timmy Baterman scene was pretty scary too).
Most definitely still a scary scene.
The demonic clown toy coming to life in Poltergeist and the third story in Bava's Black Sabbath with the horribly grinning woman; can't remember the exact title.
Another Exorcist III reference, when the old lady crawls across the ceiling, unbeknownst to those below her.
Quote from: jimm on June 09, 2013, 12:41:50 PM
Another Exorcist III reference, when the old lady crawls across the ceiling, unbeknownst to those below her.
I forgot about that scene.
A scene that sickened me years ago was where the corpse of Debbie Reynolds was propped up in dancing mode with a ladder in "What's the matter with Helen?", and the camera moved closer as Shelly Winters is playing the piano.
Sidney -- "Oh sh*t, not again!"
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When Danny was scratching at Mike's window in 'Salem's Lot.
The first 20 minutes in Castle Dracula. The Lugosi classic.
MRS. BATES?!
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LkGtSk3Kn1Q/TGxmUvuqagI/AAAAAAAAADw/c2zbh_bXCl0/s1600/Psycho-Mrs-Bates_l.jpg)
OPEN THE WINDOW---!
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"TRUE---TRUUUUUUUUUEEEEEE!!!!!!"
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GRAVITY AND A SLIPPERY DECK. THIS MAN IS SCREWED.
(http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb211/MF_GOAT/jaws_eating_captain_quint.jpg)
Quote from: Zackuth on May 25, 2013, 09:30:40 AM
Jaws--when Quint tells the story of the USS Indianapolis
The Thing (1982)--When MacReady performs the test to find out who's the thing
Vacancy--While the couple are watching the snuff film, looking aournd their room.
And an honorable mention, not that the scen itself was all that scary, but what happened while I watched it. While looking for a movie to watch, I read the back for Cameron's Closet. The write up read about something in Cameron's closet and that his father gets beheaded with a machete in the closet (okay, you got me, I'll watch it), ordered a pizza, took a shower, popped the movie in the VCR and began watching. The part came up to where the father goes into the closet, and the machete is seen. The music begins rising, the scenes keep switching between the father and the machete, and it's at this time that my pizza arrived. At the time I lived in a security aprtament, and the gate buzzer made a make-you-jump-to-the-ceiling type noise under normal circumstances, but when getting into a tense scene in a movie... I'm sure the delivery guy wondered why I looked so white when I answered the door.
Great story! Never saw Cameron's Closet but getting a jump scare from something in real life during a tense scene, that kind of thing has probably happened to us all. Just saw Vacancy earlier this year and thought it was Damn good. When I was young my family used to race motocross so we stayed at a lot of cheap motels, some would just have a strange vibe.
That Damn kid at the window windowing Salem' s Lot scared the crap out of me when I was a kid. It still creeps me out... gotta' go close the curtains. :)
I think it was kind of creepy seeing the Creature from the Black Lagoon's hand come up out of the water in the beginning when they found the fossil. All you saw was that hand and herd that music. That was creepy and suspenseful, making you kind of begin to picture what the creature is going to look like. Living in Hawaii, I find myself looking down when I walk along water, watching out for that hand!! ;)
I loved the sequences where Bette Davis brought Joan Crawford her meals in "Whatever happened to Baby Jane?".
I agree with Salem's Lot; as it a kid it scared the heck out of me:
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(http://www.stephantrain.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/salems-lot.jpg)
In terms of more vintage, the cave beast from Beast From Haunted Cave is a good choice:
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Favorite horror movie scene:
The examination scene in Son of Frankenstein- Which is still my favorite monster movie of all time.
Scariest scene: the final scene from Dawn of the Dead
Simply because we don't see it, the final scene of Island of Lost Souls is probably one of the scariest.
It's all part of the imaginary.
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Hard to pick just one, but I'm going with the end scene from Satan's Triangle, when Kim Novak wore that creepy smile just before turning into the priest. Still freaks me out to this day.
JP
Quote from: Cerebus on July 19, 2013, 11:41:25 PM
That Damn kid at the window windowing Salem' s Lot scared the crap out of me when I was a kid. It still creeps me out... gotta' go close the curtains. :)
I agree. Creepy.
Quote from: McDougals House of Horror on May 21, 2013, 06:35:39 PM
You mean like this...
The oversized mouth was a little unnerving, then later turning into Marcy Darcy on Married With Children.... the horror...
I got a few quick ones for ya'
Freddy 'long arms' - Nightmare on Elm Street
(http://parlorofhorror.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/elm_street_1.jpg)
Ash's possessed sister - Evil Dead
(http://parlorofhorror.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/evildead3541.jpg)
"Barbara, he's coming for you Barbara" NotLD
(http://parlorofhorror.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/nold-pic-3.jpg)
Danny spots 'The Twins' - The Shining
(http://parlorofhorror.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/the-shining-twins-pic-1.jpg)
We have guests - The Fog
(http://parlorofhorror.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/the-fog-pic-9.jpg)
Something is not right with my wife - Gravedancers
(http://parlorofhorror.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/gravedancers-jilted-lover-pic-1.jpg)
Creepy dead woman - Black Sabbath
(http://parlorofhorror.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/black-sabbath-3.jpg)
Whad'a'ya' think? :D
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This famous scene still works pretty well.
The Fly (1958)
Nice, "help me...help me..." and then Vincent Price gets the big rock :)
Quote from: Caveman on August 24, 2013, 05:27:06 PM
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This famous scene still works pretty well.
The Fly (1958)
Classic.
That scene from "The Fly" stuck in my head like a Lawn Jart when I was a kid. VERY effective and creepy!
Quote from: scott_of_smeg on May 22, 2013, 11:02:18 PM
I always enjoyed this scene from House on Haunted Hill. To this day, it really stands up to a good scare. The witch floating out is very creepy, indeed!
Old Woman Ghost Scene in House on Haunted Hill (1959) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vBFvmC1KHI#)
It shook a few bowls of popcorn for sure. Still very effective.
Quote from: Cerebus on August 03, 2013, 06:06:12 PM
Creepy dead woman - Black Sabbath
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Whad'a'ya' think? :D
This one for sure!! The dead psychic from the "Drop Of Water" segment of BLACK SABBATH..this gave me the creeps for years!! I had a Halloween mask at one time that looked very much like her and when it wasnt being used, I had to made sure that it was locked away in the closet because it reminded me of this. :P
How about that witch in the basement in the original House on Haunted Hill? That was a great scene.
Quote from: Memphremagog on September 01, 2013, 10:52:13 AM
This one for sure!! The dead psychic from the "Drop Of Water" segment of BLACK SABBATH..this gave me the creeps for years!! I had a Halloween mask at one time that looked very much like her and when it wasnt being used, I had to made sure that it was locked away in the closet because it reminded me of this. :P
This scene also creeped me out.
The Paris Hilton "acting" scenes in "House of Wax".
The look on Tom Conway's face as Irena starts to transform after he's kissed her. THE CAT PEOPLE
The CREAK of the back gate at Ingston Towers....when even the insects go silent. NIGHT MONSTER
Bramwell Fletcher's reaction to the sight of Imhotep....who "went for a little walk" THE MUMMY
The paranoia of Dr. Kemp, as he prepares to drive away....not knowing that Griffin has been beside him the whole time. THE INVISIBLE MAN.
Stephen King said it best: "It's not what you see, it's what you THINK you see."
The Terror of the UNSEEN
"E"...who was scared by all of these films, and prefers to watch them in broad daylight.
I recall a few of us attempting to watch Black Sabbath at a very young age. Didn't make it too far LOL
Quote from: marsattacks666 on September 01, 2013, 06:05:50 PM
This scene also creeped me out.
Watched Black Sabbath a few months ago and it still creeps me out... the lighting, the atmosphere, the dripping water...
The scene in a House on Haunted Hill was jarring, really freaked me out when I was a kid. Both are in my list of Creepiest Ol' Ladies in Film on my blog :)