Your favourite scary movie scene

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Inspired by this being spooky movie month, a topic for your favourite scary movie scene(s).

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To kick things off:

the way the mutant bear wails with a human voice is soo incredibly off-putting.

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Doesn’t get much scarier than this.

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Mom and I lived in a big old shared house w/a buncha hippies when I was 3. We had (what was then!) a big color tv in the living room.

Late one night, I was downstairs watching TV. No one else was up, and all the lights were off - I was watching in the dark.

The silent version of Phantom of the Opera was on.

When it came to this scene

my little tiny ass freaked TF out, reached out and shut off the TV, realized I was now in Total Darkness, and all but flew up the stairs! tophat-wow
I watched it in its entirety on Turner Classic a couple decades ago, and really enjoyed it. My BF was amused when I told him, “Wow! The Phantom’s horse is a Tennessee Walker!” I could tell by his size and build. [When you’ve seen enough Walkers, in pictures, on film, or IRL, you realize no other breed of horse looks anything like them.]

My BF and I watched William Castle’s House on Haunted Hill when I was in my 30s at least, and what a hoot it is! I’d never seen it, or not the whole thing before.

“Do you remember the fun we had when you poisoned me?”

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When this scene happened

I jumped and yelled, and my BF started laughing at me before I had the chance to do so myself tophat-biggrin

That weird old lady on a skateboard scared fuck out of a lotta folks over the decades!

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Um… this…

“be sure to tell 'em LARGE MARGE sent ya!!! AHAHAHAH!!!”

Scared Horror GIF by SpongeBob SquarePants

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psycho classic film GIF

scared janet leigh GIF

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Disturbing The Ring GIF
still the scariest for me!

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Watched this far too young and noped out right at this scene, i think the superb bit of acting by Jed (the bestest boy) makes it extra creepy.

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There’s the jump scare in the hospital in “Exorcist III,” and the slow-mo jump scare of the tramp in the alley in “Mulholland Drive.”

And pretty much everything in the '60s versions of “The Haunting” and “The Innocents.”

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I was too young when I saw Looking for Mr. Goodbar. I think the murder scene traumatized me for a long time. :grimacing:

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When you’re watching Alien with someone who hasn’t already seen it, you only get one chance to grab their shoulder during that scene.

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Maybe I should buy one of these?

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Original for me!

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For real… the American remake is was fine, but the TV scene in the original was just… Almost as scary as Large Marge…

Scared Classic Film GIF by Shudder

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https://media1.tenor.com/m/XwqzJndCg4QAAAAC/screaming-scared.gif(image larger than 4 MB)

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It’s hard to nail it down to a specific scene, but when I realized that Mr. Goody Goody was headed to The Wicker Man, it was sublime.

rock on play GIF

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Oh, that reminds me…

(Kinda nsfw)

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Oh right, we’re doing favorite horror scenes. Oops!

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Firstly, I don’t go in for jump-scares; they’re cheap and short lasting. My favorite scary movie scene? This one from J-horror film “Pulse” (“Kairo” in Japan) truly gave me the willies, which may have had something to do with the otherness and unknowability of what was shown. Below and out of context (and a proper venue for viewing) the scene shouldn’t affect anyone, but here it is, nonetheless. (If the vid below doesn’t link from here, try the one above):

The vast majority of horror films I’ve watched don’t have scenes eerie (key word, that) enough to leave me with a genuine chill – one that lingers, has me peeking with unease into shadows later on, and (perhaps obsessively) pondering on much later. Robert Wise’s The Haunting has a few scenes that come close to it for me. A near to perfect ghost movie – yet you never see any ghosts! I watched that at the suggestion of sci-fi author, Greg Bear (passed away a couple of years ago), after I noted on his website how his novel of hi-tech-revealed ghosts, Dead Lines (very eerie!) followed the same effective ‘commonplace-ness’ portrayal of ghosts in Lewis Allen’s The Uninvited. Bear confirmed that his approach in Dead Lines was based on his enjoyment of both aforementioned films. Thanks, Greg, and if ghosts are real, I hope you’ll be a friendly one and visit me DURING DAYLIGHT HOURS ONLY.

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Whenever one of us says, “Christ!” the other is quite likely to say, “Oh, Jesus Christ!” in imitation of poor Mr Sacrifice.

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