Top 5 Horror film moments

[duck_duck]

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.

[Spexxvet]

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

[Hagar]

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...)

[Beestie]

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...

[glatt]

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

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.

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

[be-bop]

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..

[bluecuracao]

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.

[Crimson Ghost]

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.

[RellikLaerec]

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.

[Spexxvet]

Carrie's hand popping out of the grave.

[Shawnee123]

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!

[Shawnee123]

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

Carrie's hand popping out of the grave.

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

[Sundae]

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.

[glatt]

Originally Posted by Sundae Girl

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.

It's always the mirror with you, huh?

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by glatt

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...