What is your "Scariest Movie Moment" ever?!

Had to share mine, one's from TV. In the Greatest American Hero, there's a scene where 2 soldiers are working on a fence or something. One of them gets electrocuted & the other one radios back to base, says Jenkins is dead & heads back & right as the tail lights from the jeep are about to fade away, The dead guy sits up into the frame. The aliens had resurrected him to communicate with Ralph.

I was about 10 & I swear I thought I was having a heart attack. I could hear my pulse in my ears for over an hour.

The other was from the Exorcist & happened about 15 years after I saw it. I was driving down the road & started thinking about it & realized that Regan was the one who broke the sitter's neck & threw him out the window. I just remembered the mom walking in & closing the window & it all came together in my head. Can't watch it to this day.
 
The scene in The exorcist when she climbs down the stairs backwards. I had nightmares for years when I was a kid haha.

But I recently watched the movie and that part wasn't in it. Maybe it's not part of the theatrical cut, or something?
 
I'll give you guys a couple. I never saw Jaws when I was young, but I did get freaked out when I saw Jaws II on television and ole Bruce was munching on some teenage boaters. I couldn't scream worth a dang, I just jumped up and down like a scared dog. And yes, I also remember how creeped out I was by the transporter malfunction scene in TMP (I tend to put that scene out of my head and have to be reminded of it from time to time).

The one scene I clearly remember that scared the heck out of me though was the alien creature scenes in the Space 1999 episode "Dragon's Domain". That was a classic example of doing a lot with a relatively limited budget as it had all the classic haunted house bits with a darkened room, smoke obscuring things and a darkly lit creature. What really terrified me though was how this creature hypnotized people to walk up to it, then it would eat them and spew out half digested skeletal remains a few seconds later... GROSS!!! It gave me some nightmares, although thankfully the eye candy known as the Ultra Probe Ship attracted my attention more (which I guess is why I like ship models more than monster models).

Probably the most recent scene that scared me emotionally was the shuttle launch and destruction scene in "Transformers: Dark of the Moon". It affected me more than I thought it would when the ship launched with the Autobots onboard and Starscream blew it up. I guess the reason why it did that had to do with repressed emotions from Challenger combined with heading down to KSC in a couple weeks to watch STS-135 lift off (my third shuttle launch out of four attempts). So I guess in the back of my head, my sub-conscious rebelled because on every shuttle launch I attended, I always tended to say a prayer that a worst case situation wouldn't happen (loss of vehicle and crew). Armageddon didn't affect me like that, but that was years before Columbia was lost.

At the same time I was mad because I wanted to deck Michael Bay for getting NASA access to a KSC launch pad with a shuttle on it (Discovery, preparing for STS-133) just to show one of his over used dip s*** explosions and senseless destruction scenes. Great, the final appearance of a real space shuttle in a major motion picture and the overrated MTV video hack has to use it as an excuse to just blow it up. Thanks a lot jackhole!
 
The Japanese version of The Grudge (Ju-On?) when the lady leaves the bathroom stall and the ghost thing comes out of the next stall, except horizontally and from the top of the door. To this day that movie (and the remake one) creep me out very badly.
 
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The Ring remake scares me, when the girl (Samara?) crawls out of the tv it freaked me out so bad that I've tried watching the original and can't bring myself to watch it because I imagine it's going to be even more scary.
 
Imagine how scarey that scene in the original Ring would have been if he flipped over to a channel showing anime? ;)
 
Usagi Pilgrim said:
Had to share mine, one's from TV. In the Greatest American Hero, there's a scene where 2 soldiers are working on a fence or something. One of them gets electrocuted & the other one radios back to base, says Jenkins is dead & heads back & right as the tail lights from the jeep are about to fade away, The dead guy sits up into the frame. The aliens had resurrected him to communicate with Ralph.
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+1 for this moment. Thanks for the reminder.
 
Here's a couple where I jumped pretty good.

Japanese film - Audition - when the bag behind her lurches. You knew something was wrong with her and then you really knew something was wrong with her.

Deep Blue Sea-Samuel Jackson hero speech death. No one ever dies when they're giving the "we need to get our act together" speech.

Jaws-bigger boat

Exorcist III-for some reason when I was watching it the cat lunged off my lap at the same time making it just slightly below a heart attack. My friends and I still talk about this.
 
I Just remembered a few. The first time I saw the original The Thing, the 1950s one, there's a scene where they're gathered around a locked wooden cabinet. They open it and a dead dog tumbles out. Well my Dad was behind me and grabbed my shoulder and went "RRRAAAGGGGHH" right when the dog tumbled out. I must have jumped 3 feet off the couch.

Also the first time I saw Psycho, BESIDES the shower scene, when The girl sees Norman's mother in the chair, and turns the chair and it's a dried out corpse, the hairs on the back of my neck stood straight up.

Both versions of "The Blob" Creep me out, as well as parts of Altered States. For a while I had nightmares of waking up as my body is trying to De-evolve.
 
not a movie, but the weeping angels episodes in doctor who, when the characters turn away and the weeping angel changes position instantly. terrifies me.
 
captain avenger said:
not a movie, but the weeping angels episodes in doctor who, when the characters turn away and the weeping angel changes position instantly. terrifies me.
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Shoot yeah!!! Blink is THE episode I show to people to show why I love the show. The ironic part is that the Doctor is hardly in it.
 
When I was a kid, my parents were out for the night, I was home alone, and I watched the first Halloween movie.

When they came home, I had every light in the entire house on.
 
rodneyfaile said:
When I was a kid, my parents were out for the night, I was home alone, and I watched the first Halloween movie.

When they came home, I had every light in the entire house on.
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Did you set the couch on fire and spread Jello all over the floor?
 
Yes, the original Halloween movie from 1978

When Jamie Lee Curtis finally discovers the killer and she runs across the street trying to unlock her front door. And you see the killer walking across the street coming after her.

Scared the hell out of me
 
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