Top 5 Horror film moments
 

Title says it all:) I love horror films. I love good horror movies and I love some of the really bad horror movies. Deciding which ones I love the most is almost impossible. Sometimes a horror flick is just great all the way through, other times a really awful film will have a moment of pure genius, or just do something completely different that leaves me thinking, wow, how'd they think of that?

I'm curious to know what people rate as the top five moments in Horror.

For me, kind of difficult, and the list is likely to change according to current mood, but:

1) The morgue scene when West reanimates a corpse and all hell breaks loose. I love the humour in that scene....and the inevitability of the results.

2)Evil Dead: The cine film flickering on the screen.

3)Bodymelt: When a woman is terrorised by her own placenta (cool movie)

4)Tetsuo: When we see the creature he has become, in all its horror.

5)Trauma: When Brad Douriff's character is decapitated by a descending lift. It's just such an unusual way to kill off a character. As he is held with his head over the lift shaft, looking up at the descending lift coming towards him....awesome.

For me it is

1) Poltergheist: When a scary ghost monster blocks the mother from entering the children's room. That scared me to death!

2) The Entity: When she is running a bath and the doors to the bathroom slam shut. I think my mind was damaged from watching that movie! :(

3) Alien: When they are in the derelict ship and looking at the dead fossilized alien in the chair. For some reason that really scared me.

4) The Grudge: The part where the evil ghost is spreading across the ceiling and it looks like hair. :(

5) Jaws: At the beginning when the lady is swimming and the shark gets her.

That film is one of the very few horror films that actually scared me :P I watched it in bed, alone, with the light off, and my dog was spending the night at my ex's house.....The bit where the sister's phone rings and she hears that awful, awful sound....eww.

I need to change my number 2.

2. Still Evil Dead, but the bit where the rushing, roaring evil is racing towards the house.

Have you seen the original japanese versions? They didn't have the good special effects but they were scary. There were four of them I think.

Oh yeah. The orignal ring was awesome. The bit where the girl crawls out of the tv, has to be one of the most terriying pieces of cinema ever.

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (The original version): The scene at the dinner table when they zoom in on the girl - the look in her eyes is just....

There are others but that one creeps me out the most.

There are so many superb moments in that film. When carries her back inside and then puts her on the hook. That freaked me out a lot.

There were also four japanese movies called ju-on which is the grudge. Same director and everything.
The ring movies were good but only the first ones. The first japanese one was good and so was the american one. I didn't like the sequel and I didn't care much for the korean version called ring virus.

ahhh I haven't seen ju-on. I shall acquire copies.

I wasn't so keen on the second Ring either. The first was stylish though. Both versions

That sounds like something that warrants a visit to the doctor.

When Paris Hilton gets a pole through the face in House of Wax. She died on hers knees, an appropriate position for her.
And in one of the Freddy movies when a kid gets a giant cotton swab in one ear and out the other.
In terms of scaryness: when I watched The Exorcist at age 12, the girl spinning her head around freaked me the hell out!

After seeing that film you should see a doctor for depression because it was so bad. :(

hehehe then i may just give that one a miss:P

I just remembered another one that really scared me!

It was The Exorcism of Emily Rose. Her friend was staying the night with her to help her out and he woke up seeing her on the floor frozen in this bizarre contorted position and she was staring right at him unblinking!

I must see that film. You just reminded me of a film that scared me witless when I was a kid. Audrey Rose. Really affected me badly. I was terrified I might die in a fire :P When she is hammering her hands on the window and screaming and the palms are blistering. Woo.

Oh wow I have not seen that one.
You bring up fire and that reminds me of Carrie at the end when she gets her revenge.

No particular order:

Friday the 13th (original, I think) - the kid is in the bunk bed, and the arrow comes up from below, and comes out of his chest.

The Ring girl crawling out of the TV. The ring was the scariest movie I'd seen in a long time.

The Alien popping out of the guy's chest.

The Omen had several - the lightening rod and the plate glass decapitation, for instance.

Many in Jaws

The cemetery/dog chase scene in the original Omen.

Pretty much the whole Shining, but (if I have to pick) the elevator of blood/twin girls by a nose. Or the expressions on Shelly Duvall's face as Jack becomes more & more unstable. Or the "REDRUM" scene, or just the whole movie.


(watched late at night, by myself, lights out, windows & doors open, volume up with brown trowsers at the ready...)

I just remembered one.

The backward spider-walk scene in The Exorcist. They cut it from the movie thinking it was a little too scary.

Decide for yourself...

I'm pretty sure that was Kevin Bacon, and it was one of his first roles. Maybe his first.

Two scenes in "The Excorcist 111 (Legion) with George C Scot
1.Where a nurse is checking out a noise heard and as she walks out the room a figure comes out after her and decaptates her with a pair of chestbone openers like huge scissors what a fright.
2,Scene from the same movie George C is wondering how the old people are getting out of the hospital camera cuts to the ceiling and an old possessed person is crawling along above everyone like a spider to get out without being seen very scary..

You're right, glatt--it was his first role.

The scariest part for me in Friday the 13th was the end, when slimy Jason pops up out of the water.

They put the spider walk scene back in the re-release of The Exorcist. I don't know if there's such a thing as too scary in a horror film, but it was really f'ing scary.

The scene in The Shining when Jack Nicholson embraces the nekid shower woman, and he notices in the mirror that she's rotting.

Phantasm - Right at the end when Billy get pulled through the mirror.

The Audition - When she's waiting for the producer to call and all of a sudden the bag in the background starts squirming around. That'll get your fucking attention REAL quick.

Saw - Right at the end, when "Jigsaw" reveals himself.

Circus Bizzarre - When the girl slumps down in front of the door, and she gets a spike driven through her head via the keyhole.

Hostel - When they realize that the other are missing. It only gets worse from there.

One scene that just shot shivers up my spine was from "The Exorcist", when the priest walks in the room for the second session and sees his old mother just sitting on the bed. I don't know why that freaked me out and non of the rest of the movie really did. Maybe it was the angle. Just really freaked me out.

Carrie's hand popping out of the grave.

No particular order
 

1) The first 15 minutes of Scream
2) Halloween (almost anytime Michael Myers appears or reappears; I like when JL Curtis is looking out the school window and he's by the car...then gone again)
3) Before it was ruined ,the first When a Stranger Calls when they first tell her on the phone the calls are coming from inside the house
4) Gotta agree with the Exorcist spider walk (shudders)
5) The end of Carrie, when Amy Irving is visiting the grave in her dream

I LOVE being scared!

lol...great minds Spexx! I didn't see your post before I mentioned that scene!

I am easily spooked, so it tends to be the shocks that get to me rather than the gore.

I'm lousy at remembering things unless I've seen them a couple of times, but once I've seen them a couple of times I'm de-sensitised....

These are those I can remember:
- The House on Haunted Hill - most people agree this was an incredibly lame film, but it struck a chord with me. Every time I saw the juddering thing (can't descccribe it better, you'll know if you saw it) I felt the skin crawl all over my body. It was just so unnatural and wrong. I've woken up screaming twice since when the effect has been replicated in my dreams.

- From Dusk Til Dawn - when a vampire holds up a severed head in silhouette. I have no idea why that tipped the scales for me, but I honestly thought I was going to have to leave the cinema. I would have, if I hadn't been in the centre of a row - it was the first 18 (age-rated) film I ever watched. I was about 24!

- Twilight Zone The Movie - I saw the trailer when we went to watch Octopussy with my parents. No idea how old I was - 10? 12? They show the giant eye at the door (a split second moment in the film) and it freaked me out so much I had to go into the toilets and press my face against the cold tiles in order to reassure myself I was real and the eye wasn't. When I watched the film on video I was terrified by the girl with no mouth.

- Bunny Lake is Missing. Apparantly this is being remade (WHYYYYYY?!) When I saw it, it was a lovely atmospheric film, dark and creepy. Not a horror, sorry - it's a thriller, but I remember I watched it with my best friend, sitting on her bed. We were both so creeped out by the end (by which time everything had been resolved I seem to remember) that we were too scared to go downstairs to her bathroom. In the end we made enough noise to wake her brother up so we'd have an excuse to turn all the lights on.

And yes, where the girl comes out of the television in the original Ring (Japanese version). The American one was still creepy, but it's the unrelenting strangeness that gets you, and that can only happen once. I lay in terror one night, believing that there was someone in the mirror at the bottom of my hall (it's a creepy mirror anyway, dark and spotted) and that they were coming out a la Ring. I heard them moving up the hall countless times. I was obviously half asleep, but at the time it seemed real and I honestly thought I was going to die of fear.

It's always the mirror with you, huh?

Oh yes! In fact I think there is a scene in Bunny Lake where the heroine sees someone behind her in the reflection of a darkened window...

Candyman has a whole mirror thing going on. He comes in through the mirror and slices you up with his hook when you say his name.

Nah, it didn't do it for me.
I avoided it for years for that very reason, then when I saw it I just found it blah.

That really freaked me out. Especially when my bf (at the time) stood behind me and chanted 'Candyman' whilst i was putting make up on in the mirror.

It wasn't a very good movie. But to be honest, I'd be a little nervous to chant "Candyman" 5 times in front of a mirror.

1. Jaws, when Hooper dives down to the sunken boat and that dude's head pops out at him.

2. Videodrome, when James Woods' belly starts itching him ...

3. Psycho, when Vera Miles goes down into the basement and meets Mother

4. The Birds, when they discover the body with the eyes pecked out

5. Nightmare on Elm Street, when Freddie's chasing the girl toward the end of the movie and his arms elongate. I find that awful in some indefinable, childhood nightmare residue kind of way.

Honorable mention to the cockroach scene in Creepshow and the transformation scene in American Werewolf in London

I can't remeber the name of it but there is a scene where the bad guy kills a lady by lifting her in the air with his mind and then spinning her around until her blook flew out of her body.

The original Titanic movie gave me nightmares.

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