SFist: Ask SFist -- Scary Movie Scenes?

Incandenza

Mon, 24 Dec 2007 12:25:16 -0800

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!

rroseselavy

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 12:45:27 -0800

gba, yes, that scares the stuffing right out of me. I think that came from the Tookie playbook, RIP.

andyc

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 15:36:51 -0800

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.

thejosephboys

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 12:36:04 -0800

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??"

thejosephboys

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 12:35:31 -0800

jnice

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 20:13:53 -0800

she doesn't like it in the barn. the horses keep her up at night.

sangfroid826

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 20:03:36 -0800

That bootleg take from I ♥ Huckabees when David O. Russell goes apeshit on Lily Tomlin.

mpantone

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 19:39:56 -0800

The jacuzzi scene from Showgirls.

iris

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 18:19:06 -0800

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.

randomness

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 18:06:27 -0800

Several scenes in "Audition" freaked me out, but the worst was when the guy who was tied up in the bag is finally revealed.

brokenlogin

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:30:29 -0800

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.

Brock Keeling

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:46:43 -0800

matty, that scene made me sick to my stomach as a kid -- more so ET's face, i think. but, yeah, very scary.

mattymatt

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:44:57 -0800

The scene when all of the astronauts invade Elliot's house in order to get to ET.

Sniffy

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:13:20 -0800

When Bambi's Mom dies.

jportillo

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:04:08 -0800

Good thing I don't go to the east bay very often.

bluecanary

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:02:14 -0800

Ooh, gba you are right, that curbing scene was gruesome.

miss mess

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:00:54 -0800

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.

jt

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:58:31 -0800

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.

gba

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:52:25 -0800

the curbing in american history-x.

wsanders

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:51:37 -0800

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!

yatdave

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:50:10 -0800

That clown in Poltergeist sure freaked me the hell out when I was younger.

jportillo

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:46:27 -0800

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.

Jas

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:41:49 -0800

the little girls in the hallway in the shining.

jportillo

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:35:26 -0800

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)

mossmanjake

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:32:41 -0800

There were about five of them in "No Country for Old Men." I've never been so legitimately, realistically scared during a movie.

FiascoRodriguez

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:24:58 -0800

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.

miss mess

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:21:30 -0800

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.

mariconsoy

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:16:48 -0800

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.

bluecanary

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:08:04 -0800

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.

Brock Keeling

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:03:57 -0800

But...but... the hills, they are alive.

mariconsoy

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:59:25 -0800

Julie Andrews singing on top of a mountain.