December 14, 2007
Ask SFist -- Scary Movie Scenes?
Well this isn't very timely. But still, another bit of inquisitive Friday fun!
Although there are 8549027869056725 sites out there that ask and answer the same thing -- i.e., the shower scene in Psycho -- a (sort of) friend writes to SFist asking:
What do you think is the scariest scene in movie history?
Eh, why not? East: the scene in Cinderella where her stepsisters tear apart her pink gown right before the ball. Awful. Just terrible. Walt's rape fantasies spilled over into his work this time, with gruesome results. (Watch it here. If you dare.)
And yours?
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Julie Andrews singing on top of a mountain.
But...but... the hills, they are alive.
That movie "When a Stranger Calls" when the cop calls and tells the babysitter the call is coming FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE.
That is the scariest movie EVER.
I changed my vote. It's the climatic scene in the 1930's film "The Black Cat" with Karloff and Lugosi.
AT the end there is a very S&M scene involving someone stripped naked, chained up on a cross and
mutilation. REALLY creepy. A great film with suberb deco sets.
If you have not seen it, it's worth the effort to hunt it down.
i vote for the last frame of Blair Witch, or any number of creepy scenes in The Ring. and as lame as it is, i also vote for the trailer for the grudge, which i heard was cheesy and lame, but the trailer scared me so much that i used to change the station every time it came on.
Scene in Blair Witch Project when Heather comes out of the tent and realizes Josh is missing. Her screaming for Josh at the empty forest was enough to make me want to leave the theatre and never think about that damn fake witch from Maryland.
There were about five of them in "No Country for Old Men." I've never been so legitimately, realistically scared during a movie.
I have to agree with the Blair Witch scenes. Growing up in SF one of my worst fears is getting lost in the woods...that and chuds(but I think those might be an east coast thing)
the little girls in the hallway in the shining.
Oh! I just rememberd one. There's this scene in High Tension where this woman is hiding in a gas station bathroom and she think the killer is there with her, but doesn't know where and she makes a run for it.
That clown in Poltergeist sure freaked me the hell out when I was younger.
Blair Witch? All I could think about during that movie while all those losers whined about missing their smokes, is "where is the monster, to tear their still-beating slacker hearts out already?"
I vote for "The Exorcist". Just when you think it's getting campy and cheesy, the rip-roaring hell raising starts again!
the curbing in american history-x.
As a confirmed and total wuss, I'm not able to stomach any scary movies and therefor any and all scenes of said genre get my vote.
@jportillo - I'm pretty sure I've seen chuds in fremont, so not just an east coast problem anymore.
oh also - that scene in twin peaks fire walk with me, where bob is in the room, hiding. or in lost highway, the first scene where the main character meets the scary devil guy played by beretta. david lynch movies aren't scary so much as unnerving, and disturbing.
Ooh, gba you are right, that curbing scene was gruesome.
Good thing I don't go to the east bay very often.
When Bambi's Mom dies.
The scene when all of the astronauts invade Elliot's house in order to get to ET.
matty, that scene made me sick to my stomach as a kid -- more so ET's face, i think. but, yeah, very scary.
In the original 1963 The Haunting, the scene where Eleanor is holding Theo's hand in the darkness while the eyes in the wallpaper pattern glare down..
And then Theo comes out of the bathroom and the light reveals that Eleanor is clutching empty air.
Brrrr.
Several scenes in "Audition" freaked me out, but the worst was when the guy who was tied up in the bag is finally revealed.
My sister tells me that I screamed so loud during "The Last Unicorn" when the loser-wizard guy changes the unicorn into the girl, that we had to leave the theatre. Wow. I was a lame kid.
But now I give mad props to my dad for making us leave instead of bothering our fellow movie-goers.
The jacuzzi scene from Showgirls.
That bootleg take from I ♥ Huckabees when David O. Russell goes apeshit on Lily Tomlin.
she doesn't like it in the barn. the horses keep her up at night.
Reagan's backwards crab walk down the stairs in the 1999 edit of The Exorcist. I'm not a big horror guy, but remember vividly seeing that scene in the theater on opening night, standing up in my seat, and saying, "What the f*ck??"
Reagan's backwards crab walk down the stairs in the 1999 edit of The Exorcist. I'm not a big horror guy, but remember vividly seeing that scene in the theater on opening night, standing up in my seat, and saying, "What the f*ck??"
the scene in "fantastic invasion of planet earth" where all these crazy faces come shooting out of the wacky meteorite. or when the hovering zookeeper ship shows up.
i don't really remember much about this movie, it was one of the first films i ever saw without parental supervision. my sister and i were dropped off and i think my mom figured it was some silly g-rated spaceship b-movie (it was a re-release of a flick from 1966 called 'the bubble') that happened to be in 3-d and would be a good way to keep us occupied for a few hours. i think we were like 6 or 7.
anyway, it turns out it was some creepy twilight zone type of thing which we weren't really prepared for. my sister spent the majority of the film with her 3-d glasses off, sobbing. i refused to admit that i was scared shitless just because i thought it would freak her out even more, and of course because i was putting on airs of being a manly dude. nonetheless, i had nightmares for months about waking up, trapped in a giant plastic bubble, waiting for this strange craft to arrive and steal me away. and i still vividly remember that freaky-ass meteor with the faces, almost 30 years later.
gba, yes, that scares the stuffing right out of me. I think that came from the Tookie playbook, RIP.
Pier Paolo Pasolini's "Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom". Fascists, nubile teens, poop.
And, yeah, the kerb-stomping in American History X. Eesh!