Rusty85
Sr Member
I agree with this one, that one scene freaked me out big time!
What is your "Scariest Movie Moment" ever?!
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I agree with this one, that one scene freaked me out big time!
outlander
Sr Member
I find it hilarious when I read stories that echo my own personal experiences. Two anecdotes
The original release and original run of JAWS. Sitting in the darkness of the Jerry Lewis Theater - now the Flicker Palace - on Old Troy Pike in Huber Heights, Ohio. Happy as a clam my old man had defied my Mom's wishes and brought me along to a late evening show -- on a school night! That head pops out of the boat and I jerked in my seat so hard that people two rows back were cleaning TIC TACS out of their hair.
That damn Spielberg! Back then, he had a pair. The attack in the night in the opening... that beautiful nude young Flower Girl pulled underwater again and again, carried forward so hard she smacked face first into a buoy. Her terrified hyperventilation as she scrabbled desperately at the cold, slick metal....
Then one final dunk and the silence of the sea at night.
Well the hell with my second one... My lifelong dread of sharks is a legacy attribuutable to one man and one man
DAMN YOU SPIELBERG!!! DAMN YOU!!! :darnkids
The original release and original run of JAWS. Sitting in the darkness of the Jerry Lewis Theater - now the Flicker Palace - on Old Troy Pike in Huber Heights, Ohio. Happy as a clam my old man had defied my Mom's wishes and brought me along to a late evening show -- on a school night! That head pops out of the boat and I jerked in my seat so hard that people two rows back were cleaning TIC TACS out of their hair.
That damn Spielberg! Back then, he had a pair. The attack in the night in the opening... that beautiful nude young Flower Girl pulled underwater again and again, carried forward so hard she smacked face first into a buoy. Her terrified hyperventilation as she scrabbled desperately at the cold, slick metal....
Then one final dunk and the silence of the sea at night.
Well the hell with my second one... My lifelong dread of sharks is a legacy attribuutable to one man and one man
DAMN YOU SPIELBERG!!! DAMN YOU!!! :darnkids
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Flagg
Sr Member
The chestburster scene from ALIEN.
Jaws is up there for me as well, but its the scene where Quint is talking about the Indianapolis.
The fly over scene near the start of "Day of the Dead' where the whole city is littered with walkers. Something about this always creeps me the hell out.
Jaws is up there for me as well, but its the scene where Quint is talking about the Indianapolis.
The fly over scene near the start of "Day of the Dead' where the whole city is littered with walkers. Something about this always creeps me the hell out.
outlander
Sr Member
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.
"Conan! What is good in life?"
nick-a-tron
Well-Known Member
Mullholand Dr., the homeless guy behind the diner scene. I had a heart attack like that dude almost!
Nice eyes:love
Don't you mean homeless woman?
I'm a huge horror fan and love monsters, gore, zombies, critters, paranormal...all that creepy stuff. I'm the one usually laughing or snickering in the theater during a scary movie (...twisted? Of course! :love )
Anyways, I went to see "Insidious"...and "yes" it was lame, but no matter how lame it was, I am totally guilty of *screaming* when the demon popped his face out from behind the guys head in this scene
I just about jumped out of my seat, and covered my eyes! That's something I haven't done in years, and something my so called friends so kindly remind me about everytime we go to the movies now.
Embarrassed? Absolutely!! :lol
Well that makes 4 of us. YOU, ME, and my wife...wife and I saw it in the theater and both jumped. Well we liked the movie so much we bought it on blu ray.
My brother in law comes over to watch it with us. We are sitting on the couch and that part comes on and my wife (god bless her) grabs her brother's thigh just as that red faced freak pops up. Well he literally jumped over the arm of the couch and fell on to the floor screaming.
lol:lolmike
handler
Well-Known Member
Ditto on Ralphie Glick floating outside the window. It didn't help that it was just naturally scary, but what made it so bad for me is that my room was set up pretty much like that, so it was traumatic for me as a kid. Also, later on in the movie: "Look at me, teacher!"
Bizarro Lois
Sr Member
I don't want to tell what happens, but there's a moment toward the end of "Dead of Night" that really freaked me out. The movie starts out slowly, then picks up speed. There's kind of a payoff moment involving the Hugo dummy, that I was like, "OH SH******T!"
PHArchivist
Master Member
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.
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.
outlander
Sr Member
That's all you got? :lol
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! :lol
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! :lol
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.
Yeah.
patsmear
Sr Member
Myfriend knew one of the guys. Met him in L.A. he was dating Skully at the time!
SSgt Burton
Sr Member
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
IndyFanChuck
Sr Member
That's just nasty man. Sounds like something that would happen on *******, not X-Files.
hahahahaaha
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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.
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.
CelticRuins
Sr Member
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!
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