What is your "Scariest Movie Moment" ever?!

About the only time I remained genuinely scared and freaked out (hiding under a blanket) was when - at 11 or 12 - I watched The Exorcist for the first time. Edited for TV mind you...

Those final moments when she is rising off the bed and the figure of the demon appears in the room just had me swirling in freaked out fear.

That's all you got?

Man, I heard about the EXCORCIST for 30 years before I saw it. It's Linda Blair... she might puke on me... throw some toys at me telekinetically....

But Bruce?

Might have something to do with the age of traumatization. That Glick kid hung in my brain back in the 70s. Slept with a crucifix for weeks!

I was subjected to many a horror flick during my childhood on account of my parents, but the scariest thing i have ever seen on film was Willow. Yes. Willow. Namely the scene outside the castle walls where Bavmorda transforms the entire army into pigs. The imagery of a half pig half human form gave me nightmares for weeks. I saw this film in 1990, and to this day anthropomorphic pigs scare the hell out of me. Needless to say, the Doctor Who Episodes Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks , which featured anthropomorphic pig/humans was not particularly easy to watch.

That scene in an X Files episode about two deformed brothers who keep their armless and legless mother alive on a skateboard under their bed so that can repeatedly rape her.

Yeah.

thegreatgalling said:

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That scene in an X Files episode about two deformed brothers who keep their armless and legless mother alive on a skateboard under their bed so that can repeatedly rape her.

Yeah.

Myfriend knew one of the guys. Met him in L.A. he was dating Skully at the time!

thegreatgalling said:

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That scene in an X Files episode about two deformed brothers who keep their armless and legless mother alive on a skateboard under their bed so that can repeatedly rape her.

Yeah.

Well it was about incest to the extreme.

And that episode (Home) is probably the most horrific of all the X-Files stories.

I remember watching it with a girl I was dating and her uttering "Oh my God!" when one of the brothers discovers the woman hiding under the bed.

I had never heard her use that expression before.


Kevin

That's just nasty man. Sounds like something that would happen on JackAss, not X-Files.


hahahahaaha

thegreatgalling said:

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That scene in an X Files episode about two deformed brothers who keep their armless and legless mother alive on a skateboard under their bed so that can repeatedly rape her.

Yeah.

Scariest moment? Thinking my wife was going to kill me for taking her to see Rocketman in the theater.

And Darth Vader choking Captain Antilles at the beginning of Star Wars was almost too much for this guy when he was 6 years old.

Poltergeist, so many great moments in that movie that just....BLEAH!

The scariest Moment?

When i recognize that i am out of Popcorn!

0neiros said:

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Poltergeist, so many great moments in that movie that just....BLEAH!

The old guy will forever be frightening. Especially the tequila scene in Poltergeist 2 -_-. The fact that the old man was dying of cancer while he made this movie, made it that much creepier!

Speaking of X-Files, yes that was a scary episode, but the third episode in season 1....Stretch with Toomes....scared the absolute CRAP out of me. I remember staring at my ceiling air conditioning duct waiting for glowing yellow eyes to appear!

What is the one movie where the woman is raped by a ghost.... (wait for it)


IN FRONT OF HER KIDS?


Yeah. That was the scariest thing I've ever seen in a movie now that I think about it. Jeeze. Who writes crap like that? Answer: People who don't have kids.

Lady In White has a nice hackle-raising moment where the kids are at the bottom of the stairs and the door swings open above them.
another one is in Darkness Falls when the kid's listening to the thing move around his bedroom. the sound mix is phenomenal : something moves behind you and the kid looks right at it over your shoulder - it's pretty unsettling :-D

one of my favourite cattle prods is the couch scene in Stir Of Echoes. so unexpected you could hear chairs clatter all around the cinema when that happened :-D

IndyFanChuck said:

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What is the one movie where the woman is raped by a ghost.... (wait for it)


IN FRONT OF HER KIDS?


Yeah. That was the scariest thing I've ever seen in a movie now that I think about it. Jeeze. Who writes crap like that? Answer: People who don't have kids.

The Entity.
This film was based on a true story IIRC.

The Jaws head scene as many have mentioned already.
Saw it when I was no more than 8. Gave me nightmares for months.

Let your kid watch the 'The Exorcist" when he is 11, just because he insists he is old enough to see it. He'll then spend a month sleeping on the floor in your bedroom.

Thanks mom & dad


Sneak your kid into the theatre to see "Jaws" when he is 12. He won't swim that Summer.

Thanks grandpa, god rest your soul

I can't believe know one else mentioned this scene. The scene from Seven where they discover the drug addict guy and they think he is dead and he sits up in bed. I think it is the only time I jumped straight out of my seat in the theatre when that happened.

CHris

Texas chainsaw massacre when the steel door slides open, leatherface brings the cattle mallet down on the victims head, he falls to the floor seizing, and is dragged through the open door. Like 30 seconds tops. Still can't watch it.

Also, childhood memories stick. How about Linda Blair smiling after she destroys the Zuni statue in Trilogy of Terror?

Or in AI when you think the movies over but it's not and it just keeps going . . .

[QUOTE=Bobtherocker;2056524]The Entity.
This film was based on a true story IIRC.

Yeah, there's nothing like an invisible, floating, dead, rapist when it comes to movie scares.

MINE, though, is from Aliens. The movie worked so well on me... I was SO wound up with tension and suspense that the biggest jump I felt, watching a movie, EVER, is when Ripley and Newt, who are about to be killed by the queen, back up against the landing platform rail... AND THE DROPSHIP RISES UP BEHIND THEM... I shook with a jolt of fear... damn near hurt my neck...

Good times.

outlander said:

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That is where I learned about that tragic piece of American History. Robert Shaw should have won the Oscar for that monologue alone.


Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss): You were on the Indianapolis?
Brody (Roy Scheider): What happened?
Quint: Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, chief. It was comin' back, from the island of Tinian to Laytee, just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in twelve minutes. Didn't see the first shark for about a half an hour. Tiger. Thirteen footer. You know how you know that when you're in the water, chief? You tell by lookin' from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn't know... was our bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent. Huh huh. They didn't even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, chief. The sharks come cruisin'. So we formed ourselves into tight groups. You know it's... kinda like ol' squares in battle like a, you see on a calendar, like the battle of Waterloo. And the idea was, the shark comes to the nearest man and that man, he'd start poundin' and hollerin' and screamin' and sometimes the shark would go away. Sometimes he wouldn't go away. Sometimes that shark, he looks right into you. Right into your eyes. You know the thing about a shark, he's got...lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eye. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be livin'. Until he bites ya and those black eyes roll over white. And then, ah then you hear that terrible high pitch screamin' and the ocean turns red and spite of all the poundin' and the hollerin' they all come in and rip you to pieces.
Y'know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men! I don't know how many sharks, maybe a thousand! I don't know how many men, they averaged six an hour. On Thursday mornin' chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player, boson's mate. I thought he was asleep, reached over to wake him up. Bobbed up and down in the water, just like a kinda top. Up ended. Well... he'd been bitten in half below the waist. Noon the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us, he swung in low and he saw us. He's a young pilot, a lot younger than Mr. Hooper, anyway he saw us and come in low. And three hours later a big fat PBY comes down and start to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened? Waitin' for my turn. I'll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went in the water, three hundred and sixteen men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb."

That monologue was written by three men, Shaw himself and also
Milius.

That's *two* men. Who's the third? Amazing monologue and acting, indeed.

As for my "Scariest Movie Moment Ever", I'm gonna have to go with...

...when the demonic nanny jumped on Gregory Peck in The Omen. I was just a kid when my parents took me to see that picture on the big screen, and I nearly jumped outta my seat when she came at him outta the dark!

So that would be the "moment". But the scariest "scene" for me had to be the demonic Rottie-patrolled Italian graveyard in that same picture. It scared the daylights outta my Dad, too! I'm sure my Mom was scared also, but she internalized things, so I don't remember her reaction. But my Dad, when Peck and the photographer were running and climbing for their lives, cussed out loud, "Oh Jesus Christ...run...get the Hell outta there!". We saw the film early in its release, and my parents didn't know how scary and graphic it was gonna be. They were like, oh Gregory Peck!, Lee Remick!, let's go see that picture!

The Wook

When I went to see "Whats the worst that can happen" and the theatre had to evacuate due to a gas leak.

Scariest moment:

I was in 3rd grade, and we lived in Andover Massachusetts, with a TV room that was on a wing detached from the rest of the house, out over an old carriage house garage. The wind would make low moaning noises through the eves, and it was super dark outside. It was a sunroom type thing, windows all around, so in the dead of night in the back country, it was just pitch black with scary noises all around.

My dad let me watch Close Encounters of the Third Kind by myself in that room one night, and during the part where the aliens are trying to break into the house (and eventually steal the little boy), my dad snuck into that room & crept up behind me, and grabbed me from behind while simultaneously making some "muahahahahaaaa!" sound.
O. M. G.

I nearly died. Pretty sure my heart came within a fraction of its max pressure tolerance & nearly exploded. Never been so scared in my life, before or since.

When I was young I had a traumatic experience with baby Godzilla. But hey, now I'm a Godzilla fan!

JediG60racer said:

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Scariest moment:

I was in 3rd grade, and we lived in Andover Massachusetts, with a TV room that was on a wing detached from the rest of the house, out over an old carriage house garage. The wind would make low moaning noises through the eves, and it was super dark outside. It was a sunroom type thing, windows all around, so in the dead of night in the back country, it was just pitch black with scary noises all around.

My dad let me watch Close Encounters of the Third Kind by myself in that room one night, and during the part where the aliens are trying to break into the house (and eventually steal the little boy), my dad snuck into that room & crept up behind me, and grabbed me from behind while simultaneously making some "muahahahahaaaa!" sound.
O. M. G.

I nearly died. Pretty sure my heart came within a fraction of its max pressure tolerance & nearly exploded. Never been so scared in my life, before or since.

That's rich, man!
Such a **** of a thing to do to a kid, but so very funny at the same time.

This scene from American Werewolf in London... it's in the comdey section now, but it dead-set stopped me from sleeping for 6-8 weeks.

I snuck in underage...

When I was four, my dad let me watch "Mars Attacks!" with him. I was horrified! Looking back on it the film was hilarious, but as a kid it terrified me!

Another one was the 1986 film "From Beyond". I watched it when I was eight and I'm fairly certian that scene where Crawford Tillinghast is eating the brian and then kills that doctor to eat her brain (or at least that's what I think he was trying to do) scarred me for life!